118 — Manipulating Photojournalism — Interview with Carl Neustaedter

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #118 is the first of two episodes ded­i­cated to manip­u­la­tion in pho­to­jour­nal­ism. This first episode fea­tures an inter­view with Carl Neustaedter who is the deputy edi­tor of the Ottawa Cit­i­zen, the largest daily news­pa­per in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carl is one of the peo­ple who decides on a daily basis what images make it into the newspaper.

In this inter­view we dis­cuss how much manip­u­la­tion is too much manip­u­la­tion when it comes to news photography.

In par­tic­u­lar, we talk about this year’s win­ning world press photo by Paul Hansen. We also talk about using Insta­gram and Hip­st­matic style fil­ters in news pho­tog­ra­phy. We dis­cuss some famously ‘over’ manip­u­lated news images like the O.J. Simp­son Cover on Time Mag­a­zine back in 1994.  We also dis­cuss more sub­tle mod­ern ways in which dig­i­tal news images are manip­u­lated. Finally, we dis­cuss the fir­ing of the pho­to­jour­nal­ism staff at the Chicago Sun-Times.

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In 1994 Time and Newsweek used the same image of O.J. Simp­son on their cover. Our eyes can see that Time over-processed the image. Image from Wikipedia.

A Grunt’s Life by Damon Win­ter — An award win­ning photo essay doc­u­ment­ing a soldier’s life taken using the Hip­sta­matic App on an iphone. The essay was orig­i­nally pub­lished in The New York Times.

Alex Rodriguez — Insta­gram photo by Nick Laham pub­lished in The New York Times.

World Press Photo of the year 2012 — City Bur­ial by Paul Hansen

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
World Press Photo of the year (Large)
A Grunt’s Life — Damon Win­ter — The New York Times
From iPhone to printed page: The rise of Insta­gram in major pub­li­ca­tions
We Need Pho­to­jour­nal­ists — Arti­cle by SND.org
Carl Neustaedter on LinkedIN
A pet’s per­spec­tive — Low angled images — Photography.ca forum’s reg­u­lar assign­ment — June 2013
f/16 or smaller — Photography.ca forum’s level 2 assign­ment — June 2013

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