Personal work is important. Just ask Stephen Alvarez (essay on Lens blog).
“So what do we get instead? The future, which is not a bad deal if you ignore all the collateral gore.” The Fall and Rise of Media (NY Times).
The NY Times blog Baghdad Bureau has this piece about what it’s like to work as a photojournalist in Iraq. I was particularly interested in what Max Becherer had to say, if just because he’s the uncle of a friend of mine from school. I don’t like to miss a chance to give a nod to a fellow native of Bakersfield, California.