(Originally published in MEDIUM) No. It was not Photoshop, nor going digital. Not iPhone, nor touch devices in general. And it was no apple from a tree someone ate a long time ago. But there was a definite, decisive moment. It was the moment we turned the camera from the world into ourselves. When we lost the curiosity and …
Feb. 23rd, 2014 I started writing my blog from Sochi when opening ceremony was going on in Adler. There is some symmetry in the fact that I am writing this last chapter (from here) as the fireworks light the sky during the closing ceremonies. This was my seventh Olympics and I simply love doing them. For numerous reasons. …
Silmiini osui tällainen uutinen eilen. Pohjolan Sanomat vähentää seitsemän toimittajaa, yhdeksän kaikkiaan saa lähteä lehden palveluksesta. Lehti siirtyy viisipäiväiseksi — eli ei ilmesty maanantaisin ja torstaisin — ja menee osittain maksumuurin taakse. Matti Nikkilä, Posarin pääluottamusmies, toteaa tämän päivän Lapin Kansassa, että “aika lyöty olo on koko henkilöstöllä, kun kolmannes väestä irtisanotaan.” Seitsemän toimittajaa lähtee ja …
Came to think about this after a FB discussion I had with somebody. The argument was about the need for speed in todays media. An argument I have heard so many times. Basically: How speed is of the essence and the winners of that battle will be the ones to survive in this game. I don’t remember how often I have had …
(Kuva yllä tänään ilmestyvästä Kamera-lehdestä 12/2012, jossa pieni haastettelu). Kirjoitan tänään englanniksi — toisella kotimaisella kuten aina sanon. Perustelen tämän jutun lopussa. Remember Jaws? “Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water again…?” I think this was the opening line of the trailer… Anyway, what can I say? I wrote in the beginning of …
Days just fly by. Covered wrestling the other day, yesterday did kayak for the first time — I will be doing that now for several days towards the end of the week. Finland got the first medal yesterday (windsurfing), but as it was in Weymouth I was not shooting it. Bummer… Friend of mine sent me a real …
(Kuvan lapset eivät liity tähän juttuun © Kari Kuukka 2010) Kirjoitin pari viikkoa sitten jutun “Koulukiusaamista vai kolonialismia?” Suomeksi, sillä halusin, että sen lukee maassamme mahdollisimman moni. Koen aiheen erittäin tärkeäksi. Ja noin 40 000 lukijaa sen löysikin. Se poiki suuren määrän hyvää keskustelua ja kommentteja (joista suuri kiitos), aiheutti ilmeisesti koko joukon lehtien peruutuksia protestiksi SMF:n toiminnsta, …
Excuse me my French in the headline — but that is literally the last line of the comic strip above. I know the majority of readers can read Finnish, but those who cannot: the reference here is to the deals Sanoma Magazines Finland is trying to push thru. Loyal to the spirit of doing business in …
We — professional press photographers — do know that what we have been doing for decades as a profession is dying. Along with the daily print — but that’s another matter — I’ve been talking about it in this blog ad nauseam. Yet the stunt LA Times et al. just pulled leaves me totally without words. …