Contents of this page:

• PHOTOJOURNALIST SITES
• OTHER GRAPHIC AND DESIGN MEDIA
• INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHER'S SITES

AltaVista PhotoFinder:

• AltaVista, previously owned by Compaq computers but now operating independently, has installed a specific photo search engine. Simply put the subject in the search and a selection of photos on the WWW will be presented.

NPPA (National Press Photographers Association):

• One of the first journalists' organizations to get on the Web, the NPPA actively promotes photographic Web sites. Their home page will take you to lots of other interesting sites.

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University of Missouri News Photo Collection:

• One of many fine links at the U. Missouri site.

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Michigan Press Photographers Association (MPPA):

• I've only glanced at this site, but it comes with strong recommendations from E&P and from Netscape's "What's Cool" references.

American Museum of Photography:

• A tour de force of exhibits representing the history of photography in the United States. An excellent and beautifully executed site.
• Geared more to fine art photography than to photojournalism, but check its set of links.

Global Photographers Search:

• Almost everything one could ask for about photography -- including video and cinema -- can be tracked from here.

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Royal Photographic Society (British):

• Not of much value to American photojournalists, perhaps, but a fine site for photographers. It links to the society's journal, The Photographic Journal.

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Black Star: 

• One of the premier stock photo agencies is online.

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World Press Photo:

• Jim Nachtwey's page also will bring you to this page in the Netherlands. It features prize-winning photographs.

Palm Beach Photographic Center:

• One of many sites on the Web touting photography as a hobby and a profession. This is a good source of photo workshop information, though they're trying to sell themselves, of course.

National Association of Freelance Photographers:

• A self-explanatory organizational site, not necessarily leading to a large number of photojournalists.

Life magazine:

• Life in its heyday was the greatest photo magazine publishing weekly. It's trying to recapture some of that glory with a monthly and a lot of nostalgia.
• It now offers some good features and a good sense of the history of photojournalism.

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar:

• They've got the address on the Web to attract lots of attention.

Digital Journalist:

• Maintained by photogrpaher Dirck Halstead, this smorgasbord of multimedia presentations should attract lots of photojournalists.
• Halstead also is pretty articulate and passionate about photographer's rights, so his site is a valuable reference in matters thereto appertaining.
• This site operates not only as a showcase but like a photographer's news magazine with regular updates.

International Center of Photography:

• Good search site for photographers.

American Memory:

• This site is listed under references, but its a wonderful connection to the Library of Congress's photographic collection.

Photographers on the 'Net:

• One photographer's attempt to gather his colleagues into a Web listing. I may be wrong, but I think I detected a Southeastern bias in the listing.

PhotoMann:

• PhotoMann -- aka Douglas S. Mann -- does travel photography, but his site's links are invaluable leads to other photographers on the Web and other photo sites on the Web.

Military Photographer of the Year (MILPHOG):

• There was a time when military photojournalists were discounted as serious image journalists. Thanks in large part to the NPPA's recognition, this is no longer the case. Some of the finest work in photojournalism is being done by military photographers. As an aside, it's been my observation that the military does a better job of training photojournalists than it does in training print journalists.
• This site of the American Forces Information Service, which operates the military's visual information training at Fort Meade in Maryland, links to most military media and multimedia sites.
• To go directly to the latest winners of the Military Photographer of the Year awards, known in typical military acronym shorthand as Milphog, click here.

Other Graphic and Design Media in Newspapers:

Society of Newspaper Design:

• After separating from Northwestern University's Web server, the SND has been absent from the Web for a while, but now it's back at its own site.

National Cartoonists Society:

• Not exactly photographs, but very much a part of journalism's graphic traditions. More than cartoons, however, this site is a helpful advice page on taxes and other issues.

GlobalDesignOnline:

The site of a British organization operated by the British Design Initiative that is attempting to be all things to all designers.

Those interested in news about design should check out the site's "Online Newsletter."

"Dilbert"

• The comic strip made for cyberspace -- or offices running in cyberspace. Here's the place to discover "Dilbert" has become a consumer industry. Navigation will get you to the daily and Sunday strips.

"The Far Side" *Read the sad letter from Gary Larson here.

• This site had a good collection going, but it had to be nixed.
• The site provides a letter from Gary Larson concerning why his cartoons can no longer be displayed.

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"The Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall":

• Dare I point to Gary Larson's discontinued cartoon and not mention Doonesbury? Garry Trudeau has intimidated so many editors and politicians that many newspapers display his comic strip on the editorial or op-editorial pages. In that sense, despite journalism's existence largely on the "far side," as it were, "Doonesbury" is probably more relevant to journalists. Comic strips may take even longer than cartoons to download.

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The Cartoon Web:

http://www.CartoonWeb.com

• This site claims 350 cartoonists, some of them international, and highlights a cartoon of the day.

Official "Peanuts" home page (Charles Schulz):

http://www.snoopy.com/

• In addition to some fine samples of Charles Schulz's comic strip, which he retired at the end of 1999, one can find some biographical information and a decent archive.
• Keep in mind that the site has a commercial end.

Toonville:

http://www.toonville.com

• Among the recent additions to Toonville are the cartoons of Jeff McNelly.

Cagle's Art Page:

http://www.cagle.com/art

• Cagle's appears to want to exhaust the Web's offerings on cartoons. Not a pretty site, but a comprehensive one.
• Cagle offers a free-wheeling collection of political cartoons and others freely solicited from anywhere.
• Cagle's wife, a Los Angeles school teacher, offers a Teacher's Guide to using cartoons in the classroom.

Uncle Fred's Cartoon Site (Fred Lasswell)

• Lasswell, the cartoonist of "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" has been with "Snuffy" since 1934.
• "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" turned 80 on June 17.
• The comic, which King Features Syndicate still distributes to over 900 papers, was created by Billy DeBeck in 1919.
• Lasswell started working on the strip as a 17-year-old in 1934.

World Wide Web Artists Consortium:

• Defenders of the Internet as a place for education, collaboration and entrenpreneurship. This group wants the Internet to grow and succeed, and welcomes like-minded journalists.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

• The "second voices" page here provides a series of national cartoons. An entertaining stop.

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Designs by Mario Garcia:

• The guru of newspaper design puts his ideas and his "books for sale" into this site.
• Some editors think Mario a little fickle on design and that he changes his philosophy about every 12 or 18 months.

BrassTacks Design:
(formerly Publication Design Group):

• A Virginia-based newspaper design group headed by Alan Jacobsen, who has designed among other newspapers, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Pacific Stars and Stripes.
• Jacobsen's newest offering for Stars and Stripes debuted sometime this fall when the newspapers in Germany and Japan consolidated into a single publication.
• For a look at Jacobsen's design for Stars and Stripes, go here.

Viscom (Visual Communications):

• Teachers of visual communication should get some ideas at this site set up by a division of AEJMC.

Neal Ulevich

Jim Nachtwey /Site not working (Dec. 99).

• (This site provides an interview with the photographer and a teasing selection of his photos.)

Jack Kustron

• Kustron is a freelance photojournalist from Columbus, Ohio, who runs a cyberwire service from his site.

Ted Salois

• Chief Petty Officer Salois is a former photography chief at Pacific Stars and Stripes and a two-time winner of the Military Photographer of the Year honors. Salois's Web site has been highlighted in Tom Mangan's column in E&P Interactive.
• Last I heard, Salois was working on a Master's at Syracuse U. and teaching part-time in the School of Journalism.

ElBridge Workshop:

• A photo workshop under the auspices of Syracuse University. Salois (above), is a participant. A good "parade" of photojournalism.

Christian Fuchs

• Fuchs, like Salois, is a former Pacific Stars and Stripes photographer. Fuchs got out of the Navy, went back to school at the U. of Southern Florida, and latched on with the Sun Herald. Many of his photos at this site were taken while he was stationed overseas.
• Fuchs is now working in New York.

Sean McManus

British photographer and freelance journalist McManus also serves as an Internet consultant.

He seems to spend much energy on music images and writing about music.

His site also contains some links to journalism sites.

Roman Grinev

• Here's a Boston photographer looking for jobs through his site on the Web. He's freelanced for the Middlesex News.

John Decker: The Photojournalist's Coffee House:

• In addition to exhibiting his own photo essays, John Decker has compiled an impressive set of links to other photojournalism sites.
• Unfortunately, it appears several years have passed since Decker's site has been updated.

Jock Fistick: Photography & Digital Publishing:

• A Florida photojournalist who shoots for the Tampa Tribune and has a Web site that is both photographically and graphically outstanding.
• Some poignant shots of China, Nepal, Haiti and Cuba, among others.

allan.andrews@reporters.net

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