Cliff Cheney's Blog

A video about journalism in Iraq that everyone should see.

Found Via Hardliner Blog

Jams Nachtwey wins at TED conference.

Found via BoingBoing

Nachtwey's TED award and statements made afterwards triggered photographer and development advocate Damon Lee Perry to publish a criticism entitled The Fallacy of Empowerment. He makes some intelligent points as well as some emotional attacks on the avocation of social documentary photography. His main complaint is that the biggest celebrity photojournalists don't do enough to actually help those they document.

Addendum: Perry has been posting on this issue for some time.

The BBC has some excellent converage of the photograph from the Israel-Lebanon war by Spencer Platt that won the World Press Photo of the Year 2006. They go into the back-story and truth behind what many incorrectly saw as a telling image of Lebanese cultural division.

The latest issue of time will have a new look and a photoshopped photo of Ronald Reagan with a tear added.

The most humorous aspect of this cover is that the photo of Reagan and the Tear get seperate attributions.

Photograph by David Hume Kennerly. Tear by Tim O'Brien.

Found via BoingBoing

Update: PopPhoto.com: Ronald Reagan Cries a Big Fat Tear: A Q&A With Illustrator Tim O'Brien

This is an audio slideshow I made from images I shot for the Austin American-Statesman story on Dragon Boating in Austin.

The races are today on Lady Bird Lake.