Some Documentary Sites
2010 Winter Olympic Images From the L.A. Times
Foto 8
This is an online and gallery community celebrating documentary work with an edge.
Magnum
The iconic cooperative agency shares a collection of key documentary projects from its archives.
MediaStorm
Brian Storm and his team have established themselves as leaders in online, multimedia storytelling.
Sports Illustrated Photos of the Decade
Soul of Athens
A student project to document the town and region that host Ohio University.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
National Geographic Magazine Photography
This is how most Americans see documentary photography, and it has long been a staple, increasingly artful source.
The Digital Journalist
Dirck Halstead’s online magazine of modern photojournalism and documentary projects, most involving multimedia and/or video.
Bruce Strong
This is the very slick site of my documentary instructor in graduate school. But Bruce has far greater achievements than that, which he is expanding on as an associate professor at Syracuse University, with ongoing projects both domestically and overseas.
Fotos Oaxaca
Pictures of life in southern Mexico, with links to pictures from Cuba and China, by Jorge Luis Santiago. These are new to me, but I was impressed.
The Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Institute
Part of the George Soros Foundation’s efforts.
The Blue Earth Alliance
Started by Natalie Fobes and Phil Borges, this foundation helps share non-profit status so photographers can raise funds for stories from the heart about endangered peoples and places.
100 Eyes
An interesting set of pictures and ideas from some emerging photographers. Search out the pictures from Bangladesh. Amazing.
Stephen Shames
As the site states: “Stephen Shames creates award winning photo essays on social issues for foundations, advocacy organizations, the media, and museums.”
The Photography Channel
My friend David Snider has made it his life’s work to create a space for still photography on television. Here are some of the projects along that road.
photojournale
Calls itself “photo stories and documentary from around the world.”
Storytelling as Explained by Dave LaBelle
Ohio University graduate student Francis Gardler has produced a series of 10 short interviews with Dave LaBelle, whom I met early in my career as three of us tried to assemble entries for the annual Pictures of the Year competition. Dave was runner-up Photographer of the Year (1980) with the portfolio assembled before me. His reputation as an almost mystical photo guru has spread through years of both teaching and preaching, at several schools and workshops, and in quite a few churches.
