Topic: Photojournalism

Afghans Learn How to Tell Visual Stories
Founded by a photojournalist, a school and photo agency offer Afghans the opportunity to show their country through their eyes.
By Travis Beard

When What War Is About Becomes Invisible
‘If it wasn’t for people like you, people over here would not know what was really going on.’
By Steve Northup

Going to War With a Camera as Artillery
With war photography, ‘similar themes emerge; even the fields and faces can start to appear to be the same.’
By David Leeson

Peering Deep Into the Essence of Small-Town Life
A photographer returns to Oxford, Iowa after 20 years to take pictures of its residents again, and his images share space with their words.
By Madeleine Blais

‘Photo Vero’—A Modest Proposal
A photographer, worried about digital manipulation of images, suggests a way to protect the veracity of what the camera captures.
By Frank Van Riper

Collective Power—Photographs From the War in Iraq
In two books by photojournalists, words and images explore various dimensions of the experience of being a witness to war.
By Molly Bingham

A Tragedy Illuminates the Ethical Dimensions of Picture Taking
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Ted Jackson

Telling a Tough Story in Your Own Backyard
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Bill Haber

Reminding Readers of What Is No Longer There
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By John Fitzhugh

Digital Media Push Images to the Foreground
In the midst of big changes in the working lives of photojournalists, a former news photographer looks at how journalism schools and programs should respond.
By Lester Sloan

Tracing Photographic Roots Brings Work Into Perspective
‘A good photograph to me is one that combines something of the past, the present, and the possible future.’
By Eli Reed

Emotions Speak Through Images
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Anja Niedringhaus

Visual Contours of Middle Eastern Life
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Katharina Eglau

The Sights, Sounds and Smells of Afghanistan
A reporter and photographer from a midsized newspaper in Arkansas spent a month in Afghanistan so their readers would know what was happening there.
By Bob Wigginton

Foreign Reporting: Adding Layers to What Goes in the Notebook
Using the tools of digital media, a reporter and photojournalist create a narrative multimedia account of what's happening in Afghanistan.
By Charles M. Sennott

Photo Gallery
By Najibullah Musafer

Photo Gallery
By Safya Saify

Photo Gallery
By Fardin Waezi

Photo Gallery
By Gulbuddin Elham

Migrations: The Story of Humanity on the Move
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Sebastião Salgado

Documenting Migration's Revolving Door
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Donna DeCesare

Immigration to El Norte: Eight Stories of Hope and Peril
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Don Bartletti

Immigrants Grapple With Man and ‘The Beast’
By Heather Stone

Reporting on the Deaths of Those Who Make the Journey North
‘With the mounting anti-illegal immigration backlash, readers have complained more and more about the stories we do about the deaths.’
By Susan Carroll

Rescue and Death Along the Border
By Pat Shannahan

Partnership and Perseverance Result in a Story Rarely Told
Though news coverage of illegal immigration often lacks the essential voices and images of migrant workers, journalists at The Sacramento Bee included both.
By Tom Knudson

The Work of the Undocumented
By Hector Amezcua

Photojournalism Students Cover Hurricane Katrina in Their First Leap Into a Real-World Crisis
‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’
By Eli Reed

War Teaches Lessons About Fear and Courage
‘In war zones, I would learn about another feeling, one I have yet to define but seems the opposite of fear ….’
By Cheryl Diaz Meyer

Witnessing War to Send Its Images Home
‘What of our colleagues who have trauma engraved on their psyches?’
By Santiago Lyon

Seeing Is Believing
‘There was so much destruction that I couldn’t put down my camera.’
By Nuri Vallbona

Witness to the Tragedy
A veteran photojournalist observes that ‘… even during war the deceased are treated with some respect ….’
By Carolyn Cole

A Long Journey Home
A photojournalist on assignment uncovers dormant feelings about his past and the South.
By Lester Sloan

The Unchanging Essence of War Photography
The image’s power rests ‘in the hands of intrepid, artistically gifted photojournalists who travel to trouble and assemble what they find without written commentary.’
By Peter Osnos

‘Baghdad Blues: A War Diary’
A photojournalist documents daily life during war.
By David Turnley

Observing Those Who Observe
A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’
By Daniel Grossman

A Photojournalist Immerses Himself in the Story Being Told
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Iason Athanasiadis

Women and Islam: Bearing Witness to Their Daily Lives
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Alexandra Boulat

A Visual Witness to Iran’s Revolution
By Reza

Peering Inside Contemporary Iran
By Iason Athanasiadis

A Photojournalist in the Middle East — Images and Memories
By Robert Azzi

Iraqis: Making Visible the Scars of Exile
By Lori Grinker

Election Night in Chicago–Capturing the Moment
By Eli Reed

Images Evoke Memories and Emotions
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Alex Brandon

Visual Testimony About War
By Peter van Agtmael

A Photographer’s Journey: From Newspapers to Social Media
An Essay in Words and Photographs
By Jim MacMillan