Ron Reason, Chicago-based designer, educator, consultant and currently serving as Creative Director of Garcia Media Group has collated a short list of things not to say to or about a photojournalist.

Sebastiao Salgado is presumably a very patient man. His project documenting refugees in the Sahel, south of the Sahara, has finally been published after a 20-year wait.

“The book [Sahel: The End Of The Road] was finally published last month through the intercession of Ken Light, a professor at the University of California who directs its Center for Photography, which publicizes important but forgotten works of documentary photographers.”

I do hope you will honor this important work and buy the book.

Washington Post photojournalist Andrea Bruce Woodall narrates her experiences working in Iraq. [The link may require you to register.]

Just about every decision we make, I am learning quickly, has a cost-benefit ratio that we must also consider. The ease and instant gratification of digital photography is countered by the simple fact that a few years from now your images on CD's, DVD's or even your hard drives can be nothing more than digital detritus. Poof! Gone.

Sorry to be such a Luddite about this, but check off reason #237 to continue using film. Any rebuttals?

Via Melanie Light

“At PixelPress our intent is to encourage documentary photographers, writers, filmmakers, artists, human rights workers and students to explore the world in ways that take advantage of the new possibilities provided by digital media. We seek a new paradigm of journalism, one that encourages an active dialogue between the author and reader and, also, the subject.”

Fred Ritchin's PixelPress is a gold mine for documentary photographers. Touching photo essays such as this one by photographer Theo Rigby bring poignant context to a war gone bad. If you have a body of work that you want to see published, send Prof. Ritchin a note.