Pro Photo April - Christian Blanchard

My feature on Christian Blanchard is the cover story for April Pro Photo.

To read the story please visit Christian Blanchard Pro Photo

Visa pour l'Image 2011 France

Visa pour l'Image International Festival of Photojournalism - programme

Visa pour l'Image Perpignan

11th annual Canon Female Photojournalist Award Open

The French Association des Femmes Journalistes (AFJ) and Canon France, in association with Images-Evidence, have announced that the 11th annual Canon Female Photojournalist Award is open until 31 May 2001 for submissions from female photojournalists of any age and nationality. Award Information

New articles in Pro Photo

Please check out my recent articles in Pro Photo magazine

- Sydney's Reportage Festival Turns Ten (Summer issue)

Sydney's Reportage Festival Turns Ten

And in March Pro Photo

The Wonderfully Chaotic World of Philip Blenkinsop

Also to come features on Australian photographers Christian Blanchard, Nick Moir and Michael Coyne.

Nikon-Walkley Photographic Awards 2010 and the winner is....

The who's who of Australian journalism turned out for the 55th Walkley Awards held in Melbourne at the Crown Casino Ballroom on Thursday 9th December. In a double celebration - it was also the centenary of the Australian Journalists' Association - the 'elite' of the journalism world were rewarded for their coverage in categories spanning online news to magazine feature writing, documentary broadcast and radio, and everything in between. Yours truly joined the Nikon table (thanks Kylie and Jools) for the evening. Obviously the Nikon crew were most interested in the photography awards with rousing applause given to Jason South who took out Press Photographer of the Year.

To see the full list of winners (photography) visit this link.

Using an iPad for photography portfolios

Photoshelter has an interesting article about using the iPad as a photography portfolio. Thanks for sharing Wayne.

Check it out Photoshelter iPad Story

The significance of stills photography in news reportage

Check out this link, more evidence of the import, and power, of the still photograph

Shanghai Apartment Fire

Robert Pledge interview

Spent an hour on the phone this morning with photo editor and co-founder of Contact Press Images (New York) Robert Pledge, one of the most knowledgeable, generous and enlightened people working in photojournalism anywhere in the world. Now my brain is literally exploding with ideas (again)!  Robert's interview will feature in an upcoming issue of Pro Photo with an extended article to follow . . . Thanks Robert.

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Interview of the year

I'm interviewing Robert Pledge tomorrow. For anyone interested in photojournalism Robert is the go-to man with 40 years in the field. Co-founder and President of Contact Press Images (New York) Robert has edited many highly-acclaimed books and curated exhibitions throughout the world, in Amsterdam, Bamako, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dhaka, Lausanne, London, Madrid, Mexico City, New Dehli, New York, Paris, and Tokyo. A major presence in the photographic community, he received the Overseas Press Club's "Olivier Rebbot Award" for the book Red-Color News Soldier, in 2004, which he authored with Li Zhensheng. He commutes between Paris and New York and is in Australia for the Reportage 2010 Retrospective . Am one very happy journalist!

Photojournalism isn't dead yet

Neil Burgess may have been premature in calling the time of death on photojournalism. In my feature for Pro Photo on Reportage 2010 the co-founding photojournalists of this groundbreaking festival - David Dare Parker, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone and Michael Amendolia - share their thoughts on the future directions of social documentary photography and photojournalism.

Reportage 2010 Retrospective on show in Sydney at the National Arts School Darlinghurst until 21 November View program here 

Reportage Festival Sydney - Opens tonight

In the midst of a typical Sydney spring deluge, yesterday I visited the Australian Centre for Photography in Paddington to view some of the exhibitions that form this year's Reportage Festival. Stephen Dupont's ongoing essay on Afghanistan is a brilliant body of work. Writer Jacques Menasche, who collaborates with Stephen, sums up the work - "staring life in the eye and in the tripping shutter of the camera life blinks first". Check out the program - Reportage 2010

copyright Stephen Dupont - Axe Me Biggie - on show at ACP Paddington