What Newspaper Photojournalists Get to Shoot in the Course of a Month

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