The award-winning documentary website 360 Kurdistan recently won a $200,000 Knight News Challenge grant for its journalistic efforts to foster understanding of life, culture and news in present-day Kurdistan.

The site is the work of the Tiziano Project of Los Angeles, which supports...

Getty Images photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket while covering the forefront of Libyan rebel combat this past April. He was 41 years old.

Throughout his career, Hondros was often entrenched in the center of international conflicts, working at sites in...

Brian Lanker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his black-and-white photo essay on childbirth in 1973, passed away on March 13 at the age of 63.

Lanker’s photojournalism career began with small-town newspapers, including The Phoenix Gazette, which he joined at the age of 18, and The Topeka Capital-Journal...

Fighting between the military backed by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and rebel forces in Libya recently took the lives of two photojournalists: Tim Hetherington, co-director of the Afghanistan-war documentary “Restrepo,” and Chris Hondros, a photographer for Getty Images.

Hetherington and Hondros were known for their work documenting human rights issues by photographing images of war and suffering, so their presence...

Photographer Jim Marshall, the man who famously captured Jimi Hendrix as he set his guitar on fire at a live concert, passed away in March at the age of 74.

Throughout his nearly 50-year career as a music photographer, Marshall captured decades of iconic rock images of artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. Marshall also photographed momentous events in rock 'n' roll history, such as the Woodstock Festival in 1969, the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 and the final Beatles concert at...

Through new distribution platforms, multimedia formats and teamwork, today's photojournalists are trying to resurrect a moribund industry.

BREAKING NEWS — Photojournalism, the use of images to tell stories and convey information about topical events, from the Crimean War to this year's health-care reform debate, has died following a long and gradual illness.

The profession was approximately 150 years old...

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis always remembers to put people first when telling his visual stories.

"I might die.”

That was the thought running through the head of Rick Loomis, photojournalist with The Los Angeles Times, while he was embedded with a company of U.S. Marines during the pivotal Battle of Fallujah in Iraq on April 26, 2004.

The day started out as a search for insurgents, but it quickly became a fight for their lives as scores of armed militiamen massed around them, nearly surrounding the house they were in. The insurgents used everything at their disposal to level the building and kill the Marines – machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Loomis had never been in a more dangerous...

Seven students and alumni of the Brooks Institute will attend the elite Eddie Adams Workshop in Jeffersonville, N.Y., Oct. 10-13. Brooks' Visual Journalism program students taking part include Afton Almaraz, Cole Eberle, Troy Harvey, Justin Wagner and Brett Ziegler; alumni Ramsay deGive and Dylan Isbell also will participate in the event.
The Adams workshop accepted 100 individuals out of 1,500 applicants, including...

A photo by Grant Morris, a Brooks Institute visual journalism student, appeared on a two-page spread in the Nov. 25, 2007, issue of Time magazine. The photo, depicting the devastating Malibu, Calif., fires of October 2007, was also picked up by MSNBC for broadcast.

Award-winning photographer Burt Glinn, whose images of Fidel Castro's takeover of Cuba won him international renown, died April 9 at age 82 in Southampton, N.Y., after suffering from kidney failure and pneumonia.

Glinn was born Burton Samuel Glinn in Pittsburgh in 1925 and later served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. He earned degrees in history and literature from Harvard University in 1949 and went on to work for Life magazine as a photo assistant from 1949 to 1950.

He became one of the first American members of Magnum Photo in 1951, along with...