Hello

First of all by reliable I mean making a little extra money, not by any means paying bills or something.

Secondly by part time, I mean to choose myself when to go to work, public events,marches ext.

I have experience with photojournaling, but haven't developed my skills to 100% yet, but I think I can pass.

How difficult is it to start, is it worth it trying to do it for money or I should stick it beign my hobby and photograph whatever interests me.

Thanks for your time!

We had a pretty scary wild fire up the road from my place this week. It's pretty much under control now, but I did manage to get some snaps. https://davidbuzzard.com/pemberton-wildfire/

I know most press credentials are only issued to people who work for actual media organizations, but are there any viable paths towards getting permission to shoot and sell for events without a full pass? For example, we have a AA baseball team in our town. I’d love to be able to go to a game, take photos from regularly accessible areas, and upload as editorial images to stock sites. I don’t care about getting actual press access or privileges. Has anyone had luck getting permission for something like this?

I shoot in high-contrast black and white to define the world around me. Becoming visually impaired at 18 didn’t stop me from looking; it just changed how I see. ​People often ask how a blind photographer works. For me, it’s about finding the contrast, chasing the light, and catching the moments that matter most. Loss of sight doesn't mean a loss of vision. 📷✨ Shot with the amazing, talking #sonyA7CII watch the full video on my reels gallery which was produced for 'World Sight Day' . . .

​#SwirlyMagnolia #BlindPhotographer #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dan_g1Qtneh/?igsh=bDVudDZxOHVvbXhn

Hei all.

I am an amateur and use photos together with text to tell stories. I would love to do it as a professional but I can not.

I am struggling with building a website and keeping it up. I am not interested in hitting huge traffic, but I want to have my website where I can redirect the people I meet in real life if they want to see my work/what I do.

The thing I am struggling most is the build of the website. I would like a website that can hold some tematic portfolios (could be also just one) and a drop down menu or a section with all the stories, so that the visitor can see the story title, click on it, and access the story, maybe being also able to write a comment. The stories are a roll down page with both text and photos. Does this make sense?

How can I achieve something like this? I tried to play around with wordpress but it seems more complicated that it should.

Anyone could give me some advice? I am based in the eu if it matters. I had a website with comments but I had to turn the comments off for constant spam.

I spoke to a Lockton Affinity agent about their policy offered through NPPA. She told me that while the coverage is worldwide, including conflict areas like Ukraine, I have to be US based. I asked her how many months constitutes "living" in another country if I'm maintaining a US address, but she couldn't give me a clear answer.

We eventually agreed that I should email them a list of questions, so they can refer to a senior agent and an overwriter.

I'm prepping for a months-long project overseas, so protecting my gear is pretty important to me.

TIA any insight you might have.

Hi everyone! We Animals, founded by award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, is accepting story pitches this July.

We invite photojournalists to submit photo and/or video story pitches that tell compelling stories and help raise awareness of the plight of farmed animals.

We are currently soliciting pitches for stories on the following themes:

• Environmental Impacts of Industrial Animal Agriculture: Stories documenting the environmental consequences of industrial animal agriculture, including impacts on land, water, air quality, biodiversity, wildlife, and climate.
• Public Health, Communities, and Human Rights: Stories exploring the connections between industrial animal agriculture and human well-being, including impacts on workers, local communities, Indigenous Peoples, public health, labour conditions, and human rights.
• Animal Sentience and Behaviour: Stories that reveal the emotional, cognitive, and social lives of animals used in food production, research and testing, entertainment, traditions, and other human-controlled systems. We are particularly interested in stories highlighting the individuality, relationships, and lived experiences of animals whose lives are rarely seen by the public.
• Change and Progress for Animals: Stories documenting meaningful efforts to improve the lives of animals, including policy reform, legal developments, shifts in industry practices, advocacy campaigns, community initiatives, and technological innovation. Priority will be given to stories focused on systemic change rather than sanctuary life.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here, and I am happy to respond!

https://weanimals.org/2026/06/30/pitch-a-story-to-we-animals/

Hi folks, I'm looking for an app or service i can use on an android device that will put metadata into the images that is compliant with common news agency standards. Like what Photo Mechanic does, though obviously that only works on windows.

From what I can gather my most likely option is to use a web based service that will do it but that's not ideal as i expect its a bit slower work-flow wise. But I will cope if its my only option.

Keen to hear recommendations from anyone who uses such a service or app on Android.

TIA

Hello good folks!
I am a beginner photographer and I enjoy learning about it and practicing as much as possible.
I am also graphic designer currently working in digital space and I miss designing for print.

I had an idea to start a small photography zine on bi-monthly basis.
Every issue would held a competition on a theme.
Top 3 winners would get a small interview section on it and a copy of the zine. There also would be sections for honorables mentions photos and a small essay that would follow the theme of volume.

First two issues I would print in my own expense and see it there’s any interest and see if I can get the word out.
The zine would be aimed to celebrate hobbiest, students, beginners and enthusiasts of photography.

I am looking for any thoughts, advice or feedback from the community!

I already have out-of-home property insurance thru my renters insurance, but I want to research insurance that's specific to photographers. Especially for travel outside the US.

I'm an NPPA member, I would think a company vetted by them should be reliable?

any input much appreciated.

I was twenty years old, living in an informal, transient space in Allapattah, a neighborhood in Miami that doesn’t show up on postcards, and I was photographing people who hadn’t asked for it.

I moved around by bike, didn’t speak Spanish very well, had no assignment, no editor. Just a vague idea that I wanted to see something real, without really knowing what that meant.

What I came to understand pretty quickly is that wanting to see something “authentic” doesn’t give you the legitimacy to approach it or show it. Every time you raise a camera, you’re making a decision about who gets to be seen, and who gets to look.

I didn’t belong there. I knew it. The people I was photographing knew it too.

What I’ve never fully resolved is whether that changes anything in practice.

This question can easily become a reason not to go at all, a kind of paralysis dressed up as ethics. Or it can be ignored completely, as if the desire to document or share justifies everything.

I’ve tried to sit somewhere in between. I go, but I stay long enough for my presence to stop feeling like an intrusion. I try to make the distance visible and honest, rather than pretending it isn’t there.

For those of you working in photojournalism or documentary contexts: how do you navigate this? Does the question of legitimacy actually change how you work, or is it something we just learn to live with?

I’ve been looking for a compact camera to carry with me. I have my R5 mkII and R6. But want to small compact camera for certain situations. What’s your favorite?

Here’s a good photojournalist look at the popular fujifilm x100VI

https://insidephotojournalism.com/fujifilm-x100vi-for-photojournalism-the-good-and-the-bad/

Last year I more or less accidentally ended up in the middle of this Republican parade down Shankill Street West Belfast remembering the 1981 IRA prison hunger strikes. Finally getting a change to blog it now.

https://davidbuzzard.com/belfast-republican-parade/

I’m attending the Eddie Adams Workshop this year. For those who have attended - did it help propel your career to the “next level”? I currently get random work from the likes of AP, Washington Post, the Guardian, etc., but it’s not as consistent as I’d like. Some local and state outlets are pretty consistent with me though. I’ve never been hired by NYT (thought they’ve licensed my photos before) or Time or NPR - they tend to always hire the same people in my area. My work straddles the reportage and editorial sides of things.

I’m hoping EAW opens some doors for me. Did it for you? Did you have to leverage your attendance with photo editors? If so, how did you market it in a way to attract new publications or clients? I’ve alway been more of an artist first, I’m generally not as good at marketing myself.

Has anyone here ever had to come to terms with their skill level and either accepted that they will work in a small market for the rest of their career, or left altogether?

When did you know? And have you regretted it since?

I’m going on my first assignment to a high risk country and looking for camera insurance that will cover my equipment as my current insurance does not, does anyone have any recommendations?

(I am UK based)

Hi everyone, I was recently covering Colombia’s election for the AFP, and one of its editors lent me a WT-5 to be used in my Nikon D4; the issue I came across constantly was that the WT-5 wasn’t being recognized by my Nikon D4, and when I spoke with the editor who gave me the transmitter, he said his D4 wasn’t reading it either.

During Election Day, I came across a Nikon D4s and asked if I could test the WT-5 on it, and it worked without an issue. Have you ever experienced this error? Is there a way to fix it? It seems that the D4’s are not communicating with the transmitter

I've spent the last year building a tool that indexes the EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata embedded in images across the web — currently sitting at around 720 million + images indexed.

The use cases that seem most relevant to photojournalists:

- Search by author name to find images credited to you (or miscredited)

- Search by camera serial number to track stolen gear or link images to a specific device

- Search by rights/copyright field to find unauthorized use of your work

- Verify image provenance — when and where a photo was taken, what software touched it

https://image-meta.com

Some of my photos from the Whistler Magazine, the resort magazine that goes into all the hotel rooms. https://davidbuzzard.com/whistler-magazine-photos-w25-and-s26/

Hi y'all, I'm a sports/event photographer and aspiring photojournalist going into my senior year of high school and I'm looking at all the big programs that are out there (I'm from Massachusetts so it's going to be far away anyways). I'm primarily considering WKU for its top PJ program but it being in the South isn't my favorite, much as I've been promised sanctuary since the program is mostly blue. My second option is Ithaca which sounds promising but they don't seem the absolute best or most likely to land me a PJ job at a well-paying newspaper. Of course, I am not the best photojournalist so I also want to take into account faculty and opportunities around the university as well. Any recommendations on where I would be best suited? Opinions on my choices? Thanks in advance

Hi! I am a photojournalist from Norway. For the last six months (maybe longer, don't exactly remember), I've been working on an app (vibe-coding) to solve what I consider workflow issues with Photo Mechanic and Adobe Bridge when it comes to enter metadata.

The app is called Aagedal Photo Agent.

The problem with previous apps is that Adobe Bridge doesn't support metadata variables, which makes entering proper archival metadata slow. Photo Mechanic has been the king here, but it isn't very user friendly for non-tech people. Essentially its fantastic efficiency tools become too complicated for many people to use.

What I've attempted to do with Aagedal Photo Agent is to get the simplicity of Adobe Bridge (and possibly even Apple Photos), with a lot of, but not all, the power of Photo Mechanic. Like metadata variables, structured keyword lists, reverse Geocoding.

At the same time I felt that both of these tools lacked the power of modern AI tools. NOT for editing the image, but for assisting in writing metadata. That's why Aagedal Photo Agent includes a per folder face grouping feature, with an optional global face database. This makes it much faster to tag Person Shown IPTC metadata.
I also really liked the idea of structured keywords, so much so that I also added structured People Names, for including both legal name and artist name as a synonym. Both Person Shown and the Keywords metadata field will automatically suggest keywords/names as you write, and if you select a structured keyword the entire keyword tree will be added, like in Photo Mechanic.
Note that not all IPTC metadata fields are supported. Currently only what my close collegues considers essential + a few more.

You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to templates, so that Control + 1 could be your news preset. Control + 2 could be your sports preset. Control + 3 could be your private photos preset. Applied to the selected photos.

The app also comes with some basic editing tools. WB, Tint, Exposure, Contrast, Curves, Saturation, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks. And only a basic ellipse mask for secondary adjustments. We are photojournalists after all, and shouldn't change the image too much anyway. It is supposed to be fast and only include what I feel are essential... well, essential + some niche features that I just wanted to have, like HDR image editing, scopes: waveform, parade, vectorscope. Histogram is not included because I personally think it is a stupid scope. (Waveform basically tells you the same, but also a lot more with more precision.)

If you don't like my editing tools you can change to open photos in an external editor instead, and only use this app for metadata.

Again, the app is free and open source. Written in Swift with some Metal shaders. Not even asking for donations (at least not currently). Sharing because in a world being filled with AI images, we need better and more accessible tools do document real photos from real events.

NOTE: Photo Mechanic is still a great tool and will probably still be the best tool for many use cases. Both Photo Mechanic and Adobe Bridge has been tested by professional users for many years. While I am a professional and I've begun replacing Photo Mechanic + Photoshop with Aagedal Photo Agent, I am only one person and have limited time for testing different scenarios. While it has worked great for me, there may be other workflows that will break something. I will continue to test and update the app, as there are more improvements I want to add, to ease my own work, but progress will be inconsistent. And there is no warranty here.

I'm interested in learning about people's recent experience with PWB, specially with their Expedition trips. Prior Reddit posts are outdated however the CEO is still the same and I'm concerned that a toxic workplace will filter down to a customer's experience. If you've been on an Expedition post-Covid please DM me. Wondering if you felt supported emotionally and professionally? Did they adhere to the ethics they tout? Did the trip go as your expected? TYIA!