by Chip
Did a little “In My Bag” feature for Robert Caplin and The Photo Brigade – check it out! Yes, I carry red paint. Tweet
Categories: chip litherland, in print, news, photography, photojournalism industry • Tags: camera bag, camera gear, Chip Litherland, nikon, photojournalism, thinktank photo, Travel
by chip
You know what, Instagram? I’m sorry. I cursed you and your buddy Hipstamatic for the last couple years. You were destroying our industry, flooding our market with imagery, and making the construction and process of image-making too easy and less intellectual. I was one of, if not the guy who wrote the blog post that started the whole Damon Winter/POYi mess. I cursed iPhoneography, Holgaroids, and Urban Outphittography™. Oooooh, I like that – Urban Outphittography. Note the ™. I’m big [...]
Categories: accidental rothko, chip litherland, news, photography, photojournalism industry, photos, sprawlscapes • Tags: Chip Litherland, damon winter, ethics, Hipstamatic, Holga, Instagram, Lomo, photojournalism, poyi, public apology, urban outfitters
by chip
I’m convinced most of my most exciting ideas come from Starbucks-stained napkins…most of which get crumpled up into a pocket and forgotten about. This one stuck for some reason…and now this little napkin is reality. FOCUSED came out of an idea to rejuvenate some film I had. I had no idea how that would happen, but all I knew is I wanted it to be a shared effort amongst my favorite photographers. On a three hour trip to Miami to [...]
Categories: FOCUSED, photojournalism industry, photos, promo, Uncategorized • Tags: analog, Chip Litherland, film, FOCUSED, manual, photojournalism, photojournalists, project
by chip
Had a nice chat with Holly Stuart Hughes over at Photo District News for an article in their September Education Issue about what I’ve learned so far freelancing with a much wider net (wedding, magazine, newspaper, pr, sport, commercial, etc.) this go-round after falling flat on my face a few years back. Go check it out in their digital edition (here). I’m the opening act for Zack Arias. Tweet
Categories: in print, news, PDN, photojournalism industry, promo, shout outs, wedding • Tags: Chip Litherland, freelance transition, newspapers, PDN, photojournalism, school of hard knocks, wedding
by chip
If you don’t like the assignments you are given, make your own. Shooting for free is the kiss of death in this industry, but there’s a time for everything. Sometimes, a self-assignment is worth it. If you are a staffer, the daily grind of assignments can beat you down with every building mug and press conference. If you are a freelancer, the times when the phone doesn’t ring can seem like an eternity. I suggest one of two things: either [...]
Categories: archive, photojournalism industry, photos, promo, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: beer, belly flop, camo, Chip Litherland, confederate, east dublin, Georgia, mud, photojournalism, red, redneck summer games, rednecks, self-assignments
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Ah, red…how I missed thee. I don’t hang my camera around my shoulder everywhere I go anymore. It’s not the fact that I don’t enjoy shooting, because I love it more than anything other vice I have, but I just don’t feel like everything needs to be photographed at every moment. There’s too much of that going on right now. I have an iPhone like everyone else just in case a Pulitzer happens to fall in my lap. I want [...]
Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes, travel • Tags: business blitz, chinatown, Chip Litherland, color, food, lunch, nppa, photojournalism, primary color, red, south beach, street shooting, Travel, washington d.c.
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Just got featured on The Image, Deconstructed, which is a wonderful new platform run by Ross Taylor that breaks down a photograph and the thought process into making that single image. There has been some wonderful talent featured as of late, so I’m in great company. Check it. Here. Tweet
Categories: archive, in print, news, photojournalism industry, photos, promo • Tags: Chip Litherland, contact sheet, fire, mennonite, photojournalism, ross taylor, the image deconstructed
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Got asked to do a little guest blog post for Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider blog…check it out! Here. Tweet
Categories: in print, news, photojournalism industry, promo, shout outs • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, freelance, personal vision, photojournalism, photoshop insider, print is dead and/or dying, scott kelby, staff photographer
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Wow. No other words can describe the imagery and devastation coming out of Japan right now following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami Friday. Whenever anyone asked where I always wanted to go in the world if I had my choice, the answer has always been Japan. I never got the chance to see it - I hope the Japanese people recover from this sooner than later, but I can’t even imaging the amount of lives lost and destruction in the [...]
Categories: Big Picture, news, photojournalism industry, photos, shout outs, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal • Tags: Chip Litherland, disaster, Earthquake, Japan, photo blogs, photojournalism, tsunami
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So do you think this is photojournalism? If the answer is yes, then what we knew as photojournalism at it’s purest form is over and POYi just killed it. Well, they didn’t kill it so much as just dig another knife deeper into the back of its decaying corpse. It’s time to really address the crossroads we’re at in photojournalism and figure out where it’s headed versus what it was. I think it’s fair to say I’ve made my thoughts [...]
Categories: photojournalism industry, photos, shout outs, The New York Times • Tags: apps, Chip Litherland, contests, damon winter, Hipstamatic, photojournalism, poyi, world press photo