Before anything, here's our Holidays messages to you:

from Evan: All I Want For Christmas....

from Eloisa: Season of Extra-Care







Photojournalism on deviantART has been defined greatly this 2008, where constant re-education of the subject matter have been constantly made to ensure the understanding of this genre be made known to the masses, i.e. you, the community.

Articles written by ^estudio thus far include:

[CR]: 2008 In Photojournalism
[CR]: DD-ing Photojournalism
AR: Extreme Journalism [NC17]
AR: Political Comments
AR: Your Miscat Reports
AR: Photojourna-WUT?

...and more to come.

Top 5 Daily Deviations of EACH month for January through August 2008 as compiled by ^estudio:

Top 5 Daily Deviations of EACH month for September through December 2008 as compiled by ^Helewidis:

Contests

We decided not to hold any Photojournalism contests for 2008 to see the trend of the gallery between ^estudio and ^Helewidis and we are proud to announce we're ready to host one for the community for 2009! Keep your eyes and ears peeled for the announcement this January!!

ABCs

^Helewidis and ^estudio will be collaborating together alongside other community professionals for the upcoming Project Educate PHOTOJOURNALISM '09 featuring EACH of the subcategories from Concerts, Public Gatherings, Military, Politics, to Weddings!!! To know how the ABCs work, check out 2007 - The ABCs of PHOTOJOURNALISM. Each category will be featured each month starting January 2009, and as there's 12 subcategories in Photojournalism, there'll be ample articles to go about to educate you guys!

Interviews

We'll also be picking up your favorite photojournalists both professionals and even aspiring wanabes to be interviewed each month too! If you know anybody worth interviewing who does photojournalism professionally, let us know!!

Awesomesauces

Announcement of the 2008 World Press Photo (WPP) Award will be made soon. We'll also be on the look out for contests for you to join in your local areas, so if you see any, let us know and we'll pimp it for ya! Other foreign wires and press photo agencies are also compiling their yearly top best photographs, so watch out for their announcements soon on who are the winners! Announcements should be out either late January or early February 2009! Awards to look out for out there aside from the WPP: The Press Photographer's Year, Pictures of the Year International, Pulitzer Prize for Photography, TIME and NY Times photo of the year, and MANY MANY MORE!

Be a contributor

If you wish to contribute your ideas, resources, DD suggestions, etc, to the photojournalism community of deviantART, do send ^estudio a note, with Subject Header: "PJ Contribute"

Where we are heading for 2009:

The objective of the Photojournalism Gallery of DeviantART for 2009 will be to make this gallery similar to CNN's iReporters' portal... or even BETTER. As the time comes, we will reveal more to you!!



Now that some of our plans were revealed to you, I wanted to remember you about some projects that have been born recently. You can find them in the "Get Involved!" box. In the "Get entertainted!" one you'll find some Photojournalism-related links that can be found in dA - consider it as a special CR update treat! As for the last box, with features, intitled "Great Photojournalism", it is part of one of the projects that were born recently; I hope you enjoy it!

Before you go dwell into the above mentioned sections, I have a message for you...

What inspires me:

What inspired me to do photojournalism in the first place? I think it was only natural that I would do it one day. I have always had a familiarity with photography and in my teens I discovered the love for journalism in a summer where I had a workshop on journalism. It was very amusing and I was thrilled to write a news article and making pictures to go with it.

After that summer I began writing for the school newspaper in every edition. First with a theme, as in a chronicle, and afterwards it was freestyle, I could write on what I wanted, I just had a due date. Some years after I began to take photography more seriously, and when I entered university I had the amazing opportunities in front of me, both photographic and journalistic, having the pleasure to be the editor of a journal and photographing many events.

I confess, I have been being extremely lucky: all the things I did so far have always sort of fallen on me: invites to do this and that, from sports to theater. And then my own initiatives, like shooting events to which you don’t need accreditation; but most of the times I go shoot something is because someone knows about my work and asked me if I wanted to shoot it. Almost the same thing for getting things published.

Don’t ask me why, but ever since I started it I always felt compelled to do it even more. I think part of it is because I’m some kind of a voyeur, and I like to keep souvenirs of what I witness, like the smile of that athlete after getting an award or the dramatic mood of an actress during a monologue; and another part is because people have always pushed me this way, ever since that workshop in my mid-teens, but more strongly after my first sports shooting in 2005.

So, when people ask me what inspires me in my art and what inspired me particularly to pursue photojournalism I usually answer with the same reply (unless I’m tired of it and chose other wordings): life!

Today, after being asked by Evan to write on the subject, I wanted to add something to it, a sort of explanation on what in life inspires me!

Towards photojournalism, people in life, and people in my life have inspired me. Towards photography it was a conglomerate of many things in life, people being the first, but also my life itself, my experiences, and other’s people’s shared experiences, that I get to know through music, reading, cinema and fieldwork (I'm an Anthropology student). But there is more to life than just that... And because I never like to forget something I prefer to sum it up in a sentence or in a word or two, like Life and People.. or You!

Regarding dA and Photojournalism in dA, ^estudio inspired me lots without knowing. Ever since I've read his ABCS on Photojournalism that I wanted to be more involved with this gallery: Photojournalism; a gallery to which – statistically – most of my works belong to (after that its Street) thus making it much more easier to me to pertain, walk around it and write about it (read: I’ll always love ArtNudes, but P.J. is what I do the most).

To be the partner in crime of a gallery moderator (Evan) with whom I was already planning to collab on articles before I made this choice (oh yeah!) is the icing on the cake! To realize afterwards we think alike a lot, and that he's crazier than I thought: PRICELESS!!!

And that’s the main word regarding inspiration for this move that I want to hold on: collaboration!
working together towards a common goal; do something with another person…

_{Read: nag the hell out of Evan with a dozen projects and work with him towards out goals! <3}

I hope you’ll enjoy our doings for 2009. We are very much excited to work together in this wonderful community and are always eager to hear about you and your feedback!

So, let’s hear it!

YOUR FEEDBACK!

What is Photojournalism to you?
Who is your favourite Photojournalism deviant?
Photojournalism: Do you make it?

Thank you!

GET INVOLVED!

GET ENTERTAINED!

Great PhotoJournalism

TO-DO and TO-READ