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Sports Shooter Contest – Chris Detrick

Posted on April 21, 2008 — No Comments ↓
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PICTURE OF THE YEAR: Pepperdine’s Jason Walberg, #12, gouges the eyes of Brigham Young University’s Jonathan Tavernari, #45, during the first half of the game. No foul was called on the play. Photo by Chris Detrick

If you’re not in the insular world of photojournalism, you may not be aware that Tribune photographer Chris Detrick is one of the most talented photojournalists in the world. Really. This spring’s award season has brought Chris a wheelbarrow of awards including a third place for his sports portfolio in the international World Press Photo competition. Chris’s photo above took first place just about everywhere, and today took top honors in Sports Shooter’s Annual Contest. From their site:

“It was a unanimous decision by the judges because it has everything that a winning sports action photo should have – peak action, impact, interesting subject matter, and good composition…” said contest judge Donald Miralle about Detrick’s photograph.

Chris will be representing us at this summer’s Olympics in Beijing.

Another Tribune award in the Sports Shooter contest was an Award of Excellence given to my “Run Forrest Run” photo:

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The winners gallery is quite impressive, with many friends of the blog also winning. You can see the rest of the winning photos by clicking here.

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2007 Best of Tribune Photography Slideshows

Posted on January 12, 2008 — 1 Comment ↓

I previously linked to my Best of 2007 slideshow that Jeremy Harmon put together. Since then, the slideshows for the rest of the Tribune photo staff have gone online. This is the first time you can hear the voices of our photojournalists, talking about their work and what it means to them.

Much thanks to Jeremy, our #2, the ADOP, APE, or DDOP (whatever his title really is). Without him these would not exist.

Here are the links:

Paul Fraughton – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/fraughton_2007/index.html

Al Hartmann – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/hartmann_2007/index.html

Rick Egan – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/egan_2007/index.html

Steve Griffin – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2008/01082008griffin_2007/

Leah Hogsten – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/hogsten_2007/index.html

Francisco Kjolseth – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2008/01082008_kjolseth_2007/

Scott Sommerdorf – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2008/01112008_sommerdorf_2007/

Chris Detrick- http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2008/0104_detrick_2007/

Jim Urquhart – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2008/01082008_urquhart_2007/

If you missed mine, it’s here:

Trent – http://166.70.44.68/multimedia/2007/1231_nelson_2007/

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Posted on December 2, 2007 — No Comments ↓

 

This is the best stuff I’ve seen, read, or listened to this week. Everything here is worth checking out and taking note of. Here we go…

Photography

1. Single Category Winners – 2007 Atlanta Photojournalism Contest.

A gallery of powerful photojournalism. Kudos to my man Chris Detrick, whose image above took a first place.

2. Philip Jones Griffiths, Photo Histories.

Philip Jones Griffiths, who’s seminal work Vietnam Inc. publised in 1971, defines goals for the thinking photojournalist. As he says, “There are millions and billions of sheets of paper in the world and millions and billions of ball point pens and pencils, but there’s only a handful of poets, great poets”.

3. Did Not, Did Too, Redlights and Redeyes.

An amazing set of images from Chip Litherland, who photographed “the Republican CNN YouTube Debate for The New York Times the other day up in St. Petersburg…I think I’m a little hungover too much Giuliani & Huckabee because something about the oversaturation of red, white, and blue in these photos just got to me.”

4. Nicolai Howalt “Boxer”, Galerie Poller.

From the page: “Throughout the years of 2000-03 the award-winning photographer Nicolai Howalt followed young Danish boys boxing in Denmark and abroad. The result is the book ‘Boxer’. The book portrays a series of young boxers in the moment before and after the match.”

I personally had this idea back in ’03 and tried it out at a Toughman competition. The problem was that the guys were so bashed up they wouldn’t sit for the “after” photo. The one guy I got to agree looked exactly the same before and after. Sucked.

News & Journalism

The Man From Fallujah – PDN

A thorough look at the short career of Bilal Hussein, the Iraqi photographer held by the U.S. military without charges for the past 19 months. I can’t tell you he’s innocent or guilty, but there are so many troubling pieces to this puzzle.

Polygamy

What Warren Said to William – The Polygamy Files

On my colleague Brooke Adams’ blog, The transcript of a call from a jailed Warren Jeffs to William E. Jessop.

Books

My review of Locas, by Jaime Hernandez, [rating:5/5]

Video

Thanks to Wooster Collective for pointing out this video, Chocolade Haas, by Sander Plug:

MusicBusy week, but this counts: Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest Of Times

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