The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded my photo essay on the Whitehorse High School girls basketball team an honorable mention last month. The project included amazing work from writers Lya Wodraska and Phil Miller and…
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From the Heading East blog: There are some photographers whose work doesn’t translate well to the web. Robbert Flick is one of them. His photographic murals are often 7 or 8 feet long and consist of hundreds of stills taken…
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NYT, on the book The Cult of the Amateur: Andrew Keen argues that “what the Web 2.0 revolution is really delivering is superficial observations of the world around us rather than deep analysis, shrill opinion rather than considered judgment.” In…
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Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan. [rating:5/5] I’ve been spending a lot of time this week with the Navy SEALs in Afghanistan. This book by Malcom MacPherson, is another look at the events…
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The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living, by Courtney Angela Brkic. [rating:4/5] Brkic spent time in Bosnia working for the UN, digging up mass graves. I remember this same feeling as I entered the Republika Srpska: When we passed…
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Saturday night I was assigned to the Real Salt Lake game. On our schedule was another assignment that was marked as a “no go.” We just didn’t have enough photographers to staff it. The assignment was the Deftones concert. I…
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Showing up at an assignment this month, the reporter’s first words to me were, “Now, what’s your name again?” This really ticked me off. Because it wasn’t one of the new people. This was a reporter that I’ve worked with…
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Whether you believe him to be a prophet of God or not, you’ve got to be impressed with LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley’s stamina. At the age of 96, he leads a worldwide religion. And retirement is not an…
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PDN: Conflict photojournalist Alexandra Boulat suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm and was in a medically induced coma Friday, according to her agency. “We’re all praying for her at this point and hoping for a full recovery,” said Frank Evers, managing…
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Wooster Collective: By taking his desire for attention to a new level, has the “Splasher” actually been caught tonight while trying to sabotage Shepard Fairey’s high profile opening in Brooklyn? Here’s what went down a few minutes ago: Two young…
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This story illustrates the challenges media organizations face when accepting user-generated content. If you’ve sat next to me eating dinner before a Jazz game this year, you know where I think user-generated content is going. If you haven’t, I think…
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As contest season winds down a couple more awards appeared on my desk at the Tribune. My work covering polygamy last year was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists Utah Headliners Chapter. The judges said, “The photographer overcame so…
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The assignment was to photograph the Juneteenth Festival a week or so ago. Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery. And while Utah is mostly populated by whites, Salt Lake City has what seems like a festival every…
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From PDN, an interesting story from Magnum’s 60th Anniversary festival. Four Magnum members (Philip Jones Griffiths, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peress, and Larry Towell) talk about the new era of digital. A snippet: Griffiths concluded his remarks with a rather pessimistic…
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From the muse-ings blog: I love this selection of photographic grids by Mark Luthringer – his Ridgemont Typologies – typologies of our mundane world. In a way they also make me rather angry as they highlight so strongly the generic…
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From Squint: Michael Wolf’s photographs offer a glimpse of daily life within Hong Kong’s “Architecture of Density” (Wolf’s earlier series) and present an alternate and more human perspective on the socio-economic state of Hong Kong. The repetition of each resident’s…
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An issue any photographer can relate to, covered by New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt. Here’s a snippet: I called Murphy to ask what he thought of the picture and all the attention it has received. “I feel sorry…
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From LA Weekly, an interview with legendary photographer Sebastiao Salgado. A clip: A person who creates something, he has a way to do it, he has not two ways to do it. As a writer when he writes — he…
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As promised, my second place sports feature photo, awarded by the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association. Box Elder softball players celebrate their 4A high school softball championship win over Murray. At center facing camera is shortstop Bricki Asay.
From Glamour, the story of Kathy Jo Nicholson, who grew up in the FLDS faith: My siblings and I attended the private Alta Academy in Sandy, Utah. The school was led by the Prophet’s son, a tall lanky man named…
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