The June issue of the Digital Journalist is now online. Featured this month is a selection of pictures and personal commentary from Bill Eppridge: "A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties". Barbara Baker Burrows gives a terrific introduction to both Bill and the images. Also of note, a firsthand account and gallery by James Whitlow Delano, "In the Eye of the Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone" covering the recent devastation.
The 2008 edition of Soul of Athens has launched. Produced by the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University, this year's group looked at Wellness within the Athens County, Ohio, community. 30 stories are grouped into the categories Mind, Body, Spirit, and Place. It's well worth the time spent to go through the site, there are quite a few excellent projects in here. If you somehow missed the amazing (and multiple award-winning) compilation of stories last year, be sure to check the 2007 project out, too.
World Press Photo interviewed the 2008 winning photographers about their images, and has posted the interviews on their site. You can hear Tim Hetherington discuss his World Press Photo of the Year, listen to Platon speak about photographing Putin, and check out over 20 additional interviews. The 2007 Interviews are also online if you missed them last year.
If you're in NYC, take some time this weekend to head over to DUMBO for the inaugural New York Photo Festival. You can see the schedule of events, check out the nominees for the New York Photo Awards (winners to be announced tomorrow night), and check out the exhibition map.
The May issue of The Digital Journalist is now online. This month features a slideshow from the four photographers- Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of The Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek- who were killed over Laos in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down by North Vietnamese gunfire. The remains of the four were recently interred in the new Newseum in Washington, D.C. If you don't have time to read anything else on the site this month, definitely check out the exceptional work of these four men.