Visual Journalism

Eli Reed

A girl poses at the Benaco refugee camp, Tanzania, 1994.The Benaco refugee camp was set up in Tanzania in late April or early May of 1994, one of the first…

Feminine Touch

Growing Number of Women Photographers Are Making a Difference

The Best Picture I Never Took

I was in Alaska on a Time assignment on the building of the Trans-Alaska pipeline and had been working like a dog in terrible conditions for a few weeks. I…

Roy DeCarava Retrospective

“Bill & Son, 1962,” from ”Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective.”Roy DeCarava doesn’t occupy a space, he blends with it. But to say that his approach to photography is stealth-like is to…

The Best Picture I Never Took

In the mid-70’s there was a big press conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York to announce that Raquel Welch was named an honorary spokesperson for the American Cancer…

The Web Waits for the Photographer, Too

The World Wide Web has been heralded as a medium that provides new ways to explore the world and communicate what one finds. Unfortunately, very little of the anticipated paradigm…

Summer 1998: Photojournalism Introduction

It's Just Changing With the Times In the next 50 pages Nieman Reports take stock of photojournalism today. While problems are noted, the report is positive. The articles and the…

Frank Van Riper

RELATED ARTICLE“The Best Picture I Never Took”– Frank Van RiperIn combining my talents as both a writer and photographer I am doing something unusual and, I think, important in the…

Stanley Forman

I was on vacation from my job at WCVB-TV Boston in September 1986 and had spent the early evening playing cards. At 11:30 I quit to pick up a friend…

Steve Northup

These pictures were made in November of l972, about the time Nixon was getting re-elected. The Indians, marching as part of the American Indian Movement, went to Washington and simply…