Black and White Photojournalism - 2013

[brainwood]

I spotted this photo essay on 'The Guardian' website shot by Jeff J Mitchell on the Liberal Party Conference.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/gallery/2013/sep/15/liberal-democrat-conference-2013-liberaldemocrats#/?picture=417333005&index=11

 

[Rodchenko]

Interesting. Thanks for the link. There were some interesting effects applied - vignetting etc - which I'm not sure added anything, but there are some good images in that set.

I'd be interested to know what gear he used.

 

[brainwood]

I must admit I really like the way he had done it and thought it worked well

 

[Roger Hicks]

Interesting: thanks. Some really great shots and some really rotten ones.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Snapper_uk]

Yes some good stuff there - but why was picture 3 taken with a Holga?!

 

[John Bragg]

These things tend to go in cycles. I for one always enjoy decent mono photojournalism. Thanks for posting.

 

[someonenameddavid]

There are a lot of photojournalists who take picture to an agenda, either their own or their newspaper. The Guardian, for all its faults, at least does not pretend to be politically neutral: if you want to present a picture of someone being out of touch/ anachronistic/ weird/looney, use a Holga. It was Time or Newsweek that had an entire photoessay on a Republican candidate that was done by Holga. You can always tell when someone is out of favour from either the photographer or the editor because you get the " nostril shot" :- low angle, up the nostril to make the person as unappealing as possible. It has been this way since the 1930-s

David

 

[Rodchenko]

I don't think it's that. The Guardian is quite fond of the Lib Dems mostly, and Paddy Ashdown enjoyed a lot of support from the paper.

But the photos aren't from a Guardian staffer; they're from an independent PJ.

 

[newspaperguy]

Shots #7 and #11 would be winners in anyones' book.

 

[kuvvy]

Some nice shots there. The Tory Party Conference is being held in Manchester very soon and Im hoping to get there and maybe get a decent image or too. May I add Im not a Tory Party member, just going for picture opps.

Paul

 

[rscheffler]

You can see more of Jeff Mitchell's photos from the event on the Getty Images site: http://www.gettyimages.ca/Search/Search.aspx?assettype=image&artist=Jeff+J+Mitchell

I also noted he was not the only Getty photographer covering the event. The other filed in colour, as I'm sure some publications/clients would prefer.