SUMMARY:From a book binder in Bulgaria to a key maker in Beijing to gas lamp lighters in London, people whose jobs have become increasingly rare in the digital age are the focus of “The Disappearing Jobs of Yesterday,” a series by more than 50 photographers at Agence France-Presse. The photographers also turn the lens on their own profession in the era of the smartphone. Hari Sreenivasan reports.
SUMMARY: Photographer Finbarr O'Reilly and former U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Thomas Brennan both went through the intensity of combat, and the loneliness and doubt that follows. Now they’ve written a dual memoir, "Shooting Ghosts," a story of two lives that came together in war. The co-authors join special correspondent Nick Schifrin for a conversation.
SUMMARY: A New York exhibit chronicles prominent cases of images altered by journalists and asks: If seeing is believing, how often are you, the viewer or reader, being misled? Saskia de Melker reports.
SASKIA DE MELKER (NewsHour): When you don’t like those people or objects in the background, you just remove them.
Using a filter, after the snap, to make a regular photo look vintage, is as easy as a mouse click. So is removing a light post that seems to be shooting out of someone’s head by using Photoshop.
But in the world of photojournalism, these alterations are the subject of intense debate. And using Photoshop can land you in hot water. Like it did for The Economist when it removed people from this beach photo of President Obama.
Or for an Orthodox Israeli newspaper when it cut out the female leaders in this photo.
MICHAEL KAMBER: People do that all the time on their Facebook page. That’s fine. We’re the [photojournalist] professionals. We have to maintain standards and ethics. We have to make sure that these photos are an accurate representation.
SASKIA DE MELKER: Photographer Michael Kamber has covered conflicts around the world for the New York Times. His latest project, though, is curating an exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center called “Altered Images”, which explores news and documentary photos that have been manipulated.
SUMMARY: In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, 26-year-old aspiring photographer Devin Allen shares what it feels like to see his image of Baltimore turmoil on the cover of TIME magazine.
In our NewsHour Shares series, we show you things that caught our eye recently on the web. What about you? Leave your suggestions in the comments below, or tweet to @NewsHour using #NewsHourShares. We might share it on air.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Finally, to our NewsHour Shares of the Day, something that caught our eye that might be of interest to you, too.
A view of Baltimore, from the lens of a young, local photographer.
The latest issue of TIME Magazine features a dramatic picture shot by 26-year-old freelancer Devin Allen.
We spoke to him today about some of the other images he captured.
DEVIN ALLEN: I’m from Baltimore, born and raised, my whole family’s here, so it kind of sparked something in me and I felt obligated to get out there and take pictures because this is my city. I wanted to show the city, I did show some negative stuff, I showed some rowdy, some destruction of cars, but I also wanted to show the strong black men that were cleaning their neighborhoods, you know, I wanted to show the family support that we had here. You know, a lot of the kids that were out marching and protesting, I tried to show every angle. I have seen more pain than anger. You know, some people have lost their jobs, some people have lost their homes. People are being locked up. Some people feel like their rights have been violated. And it’s really hard to explain all the emotions that I’ve been around. I’m just trying to tell their story a little bit about how I saw it.
GWEN IFILL: You can see more of Allen’s story in the latest issue of TIME magazine at time.com.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Joining me now to talk about James Foley and the threat that reporters like him face covering conflicts today is Global Post co-founder and journalist Charles Sennott and Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the committee to protect journalists.
Charles Sennott, first of all, our condolences to you and your colleagues on the loss of James Foley. What’s can you tell us about him and how he came to be held?
CHARLES SENNOTT, Co-Founder, Global Post: Thanks, Gwen.
You know, the best way to start to describe who is James Foley is probably to start with the way his parents talked about him today. Anyone who saw how much faith they have, how strong they are, they know where James came from. And that’s really important to understanding him.
Jim had strong faith in himself, but his parents had tremendous faith in what he did as a journalist. They understood that Jim wanted to do work that mattered. He wanted to do work that made a difference. They understood his motivations. And they were unwaveringly supportive of it.
And that really is who Jim Foley was. He was a courageous reporter who took great risks to bring the story home.
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