Ben Syverson’s Mattebox
Link: The Online Photographer:
iPhone camera app, called Mattebox. The camera interface is based on the Konica Hexar
The Veterans of Evgueniy Ivanov
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
The 360-degree panoramas of Evgueniy Ivanov tell the private life of the Great Patrioic War at the beginning of this century. These tracking shots of life depict a nation and its heroes.
Emma Kisiel
Even as a child, Emma was drawn to dead birds that would appear on her front lawn and roadkill she spotted while walking to the bus stop. She realized that the immobility and lifelessness of these animals allowed her an intimacy that she couldn’t achieve with a living wild animal.
Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required
A new Twitter policy which goes into effect today allows the social network “to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country,” so that Twitter can further expand globally and “enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression.”
Attorney details backlash against photojournalists
A “perfect storm” of repression has raged against photojournalists in the United States in recent years, according to an accomplished news photographer who has become an attorney representing his former colleagues, Mickey H. Osterreicher
Portraits of the Homeless by Lee Jeffries
He didn’t want to exploit these people or steal photographs of them like so many other photographers who had seen the homeless as an easy target. In an effort to make intimate portraits, Jeffries would try to connect with each person on an individual basis first
Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide
Pieter Hugo resolved to visit, ‘photographing and contemplating’ the sites of Rwanda’s carnage. The results of that journey are now published as Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide offering, he writes, “a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place.”
Still Images In Great Advertising – Bryce Boyer
In today’s feature, I reached out to Bryce Boyer, because the ads he shot show great lighting, clever concepts and the importance of showing your talent to an agency and creative person using a pro-bono campaign to establish a working relationship
Gary Wang: Rangefinder Singapore
Gary Wang is a street photographer based in Singapore and is well regarded for his work shot on his Leica camera and super-wide 21mm lens. He is the founding member & head of Rangefinder Singapore, a community dedicated to further knowledge of photography and rangefinder cameras. He has also been recently nominated to the 2011 Platform Ten project. Eric Kim had the chance to sit down with Gary recently and ask him a few questions.
A by Greg Halpern
A few weeks ago I went to Dashwood books for the first time to pick up three books that I’d eventually giveaway to our 2011 subscribers. While browsing the inventory I found Halpern’s A. There was no way I couldn’t page through it. After I closed the book I decided to buy it. Not for the giveaway, but for myself.