The tiles in the floor of the pre-press room at Al-Haram newspaper offices in Cairo, Egypt.
I spent four hours last night documenting and filming at the offices of Al-Haram shadowing the deputy editor as he closes the paper and edits the front page between editions with his night crew. I left at 1 a.m., the editor in charge left two hours later.
I have shot video clips to also let you see what it is like to work on the front page at Egypt’s largest-circulation paid daily newspaper. So stay tuned . . . I am flying back to Chicago in a few hours and it may take a week or so to recalibrate my senses. I have been living many time zones ahead of normal since 31 January.
Here are some other street scene images I documented today while traveling between Cairo University and the Al-Akbar newspaper offices for on-site consultation visits.
One of the things I have enjoyed about subscribing to a Flickr RSS feed on media are the occasional ’serendipitous’ encounters with fantastic new images that lead you to discovery. Take Flickr uploader “Lemoox” for example. Lemoox is the screen name for Bertrand Eberhard.
Eberhard’s “les maux se font entendre” is but one example of this French artist’s prolific output. He often draws paints and sketches on the pages of local editions. In this set he posted on Flickr, Bertrand inks on the pages french and chinese newspapers. Most of them are done on the pages of “Libération”
If you have a few minutes (and are not offended by pen and ink studies of the nude female form) then you will be amazed how quickly he can transform ordinary news pages into works of art. He has a stunning range of skill and you can’t help but fall in love with the women he portrays.
Oleg is a Moscow-born artist who has a background in computer science and web design. He says he only recently discovered photography and is interested in exploring how design and photography can merge.
This image was pulled from his stream that shows an incredible command for photographic vision and inspiring design concepts. Creepy, but cool.
“A picture with every story” - Photography ethics and how to identify and develop the visual components of stories (not just photographs) to get stories in the paper that will get read.
Who should attend: Reporters and assigning editors (30 minute lecture plus one hour exercise)
Robb Montgomery is the CEO of Visual Editors and eduction consultant. He has worked as a visual editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and partners with media groups and journalism associations in more than 16 countries to design training curriculum for video journalism, newspaper design and multimedia reporting.
