2The Uncertain Future of Photojournalism
After the all discussion of the state of photojournalism that also has been reinforced by the controversial World Press Photo Award here is another take on this topic.
Photojournalism was Donald R. Winslow’s sole focus as the editor of the National Press Photographers Association’s News Photographer magazine and website. Recently, he left N.P.P.A. to become managing editor of content creation at the Amarillo Globe-News, a family-owned daily newspaper in Texas. James Estrin spoke with him about the state of photojournalism while Mr. Winslow was waiting to close the paper’s front page on Super Bowl Sunday. Their conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
3Photo Series Documents The Life Of Some Of China’s ‘Left Behind’ Children
What happens to the children of the more than 60 million workers that leave their home to work in urban areas?
Kevin Frey captures the life of the children in China that are raised by their grandparents.
China-based Getty Images photojournalist Kevin Frayer followed the four Luo siblings, who live with their elderly grandparents in Anshun, China. Frayer photographed the children while attending school, in the playground and on the family farm.
Frayer explained that it is China’s hukou documentation system, which dictates that education and health care are accessible only in the district where a child is born and registered, that forces many children to stay behind in rural areas. Local schools, educators and community charities often struggle to fill the gaps the parents’ absence causes.
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4World Press Photo 2017
This year’s world press photo award goes to the turkish photographer Burhan Ozbilici for his image of the assassination of russian ambassador Andrey Karlov.
About Burhan Ozbilici
Burhan Ozbilici (59) was born in Erzurum in eastern Turkey.
The son of a Turkish intellectual and a hero of Turkey’s War of Independence, Burhan had a classical high school education in different Turkish cities. He studied French at an institute in Ankara and then studied media journalism in French. He studied French literature and history at the same institute while working as an editor with a group publishing literary works, novels, weekly and monthly magazines.
He has worked as a reporter for several Turkish newspapers, including a Turkish newspaper in English (Turkish Daily News), before joining The Associated Press (AP) as a full-time photo stringer in 1989. He has been an AP staff photographer since 1996.
