My name is Robin Roots and I’m a photojournalist for Õhtuleht, one of the largest newspapers in the small country of Estonia. Our team of five photographers has to write down every trip we do with a company car. I was looking over our trips from last month and thought that perhaps others would like to know what we newspaper photojournalists do on a daily basis.
This list is only a small part of the assignments we were given, but it’s a good snapshot of what we get to shoot over the course of just one month.
- Interview with tree huggers
- Music festival
- Somebody got shot
- Song festival
- Press conference after song festival
- Deadly car crash
- Football match
- Pictures of an intersection
- A USA 4th of July party
- Traffic jam pictures
- Football press conference
- Theater
- Video of a local celebrity
- Interview with a soccer player
- Traffic jam pictures
- Portraits of an actor
- Beer festival
- Pictures of a shooting suspect
- City mayor candidate
- Tennis
- Stray dog getting a new home
- Photos of church
- Police station from inside
- Dead bees on a field
- Car on fire
- Hockey
- Local historian interview
- Music festival
- Football match
- School on fire
- Local writer portrait
- School construction
- Photos of cafeterias
- Building a wind generator
- Search for a rapist
- Somebody got bitten by a dog
- Theater
- Long lines in a police station
- Yoga festival
- Street performer portrait
- Chess player portrait
- Fire on a harbor
- Basketball match
- Searching a drunk driver
- Walking on hot ashes
- Rugby match
- Businessman portrait
- Local celebrity arriving to airport
- Smoking fish
- Carwash
- Witchcraft enthusiasts gathering
- Self-driving buses
- Basketball match
- Searching a bear
- Videos of a food
- Syrian refugee living conditions
- Abandoned prison from inside
- Beach football
- Train traffic
- White wedding pigeons
- Music festival
- Courthouse
- Tennis match
- WRC rally
Again, these are just some of the assignments we drove to in the company car — mainly the things that translate easily to English. Hopefully you got a taste of what work looks like for our small team of photojournalists working for a large newspaper in a small country.
About the author: Robin Roots is a 25-year-old newspaper photojournalist who has been doing photography for a decade. You can find his (and his fellow photographers’) work on the Õhtuleht website.
Image credits: Header photo by Miha Jan Strehovec
from PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2017/08/18/newspaper-photojournalists-get-shoot-course-month/
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