Alex de Carvalho


Twitter updates for 2008-09-30

by Alex. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

  • @briansolis Kudos for your state of social media report http://tinyurl.com/4qkyj3 #
  • That’s me in the cor­ner / That’s me in the spot­light, I’m / Los­ing my reli­gion” –R.E.M., on Flickr http://flickr.com/photos/adc/2902328740/ #
  • At visual jour­nal­ism panel at U Miami for pho­tog­ra­pher Pablo Cor­ral Vega http://twitpic.com/dzgn #
  • No won­der no one reads the news­pa­per: jour­nal­ists never ask new ques­tions #
  • When power struc­tures are skewed, to remain neu­tral or objec­tive means sup­port­ing the pre­vail­ing power struc­ture #
  • To under­stand pho­to­jour­nal­is­tic ethics, have some­one pho­to­graph you naked to get a sense of how vul­ner­a­ble you feel #
  • The pho­to­graph itself does not mat­ter; under­stand that you will learn from your sub­ject #
  • The sen­sa­tion­al­ist image is but a tiny part of the truth. More often than not, it serves to fur­ther polar­ize pop­u­la­tions #
  • The sub­ject has the most knowl­edge of the story, yet the least power in the sto­ry­telling #