I truly believe that most of us create work from some thread of our childhood, drawing upon references and influences and events. David Ellingsen was raised on Cortes Island, a remote community of 1000 residents in Canada’s Pacific Northwest, on a s…

Photojournalism Links turned 4 years in the end 2011, but let’s begin the fifth by looking back at the past year, shall well… Features and Essays New York Times Pictures of the Year…. Cover* by Moises Saman….   (*at least online. Don’t know how the selection was printed in the paper.) New York Times: 2011: The [...]

The authenticity of government-released photographs from North Korea has been questioned for years but not until this week, during the funeral of Kim Jong Il, was the issue as widely discussed and analyzed.

The romantic notion is that photojournalists bare unique witness to the events of the world as they unfold around them. In reality, due to circumstance, comfort and organizational requirements, photographers often find themselves in the company of fellow photojournalists, working side by side, when covering the news.