12.19.2007

After examining reports of journalists killed in direct connection to their work, the committee found that 64 journalists were killed in 2007, up from 56 last year.

official notice – formal apology

Robert Wright delivered part 3 (here) on the “business” of editorial photography and we both agree that corporate greed is the source of the problems we face in photography and generally in business today.

Just when you thought film was dead the good people over at File and Flak Photo are keeping it old school and have launched the 36 Exposures Challenge

I like what Taj Forer is doing with his photographs so I decided to talk to him about it.

Keith Arnatt’s “Notes from Jo” (1990 – 94) record his wife’s Post-It note messages usually left in their kitchen. The work irreverently plays on the conceptual concerns of image and text through the irritations and communications of daily life

Cool people I met this year on assignment. by usa today photog robert hanashiro

I’ve always thought of shooting downhill skiing as one of the hardest sports to shoot. – Mike Blake, Reuters

On Oct. 18, the life of a fellow Sports Shooter member ended tragically when Bridget O’Brien, only 26 years old, was killed in a car accident in Ohio.

The D300 reminds me more of the traditional professional camera before the motor drive was built-in. Think Canon F-1, or Nikon F, F2, or F3.

Ever since I began covering major sporting events, the frenzy to obtain a press pin became the center of conversation

My intention was to provoke thought and debate about the sane and the insane in current business practices. I am copping the standoffish attitude as an affect. The THEM is definitely corporate GREED.

We’ve found the key to…Time Travel.

So after 8 days on embed I had been out on two patrols and one useless operation, transmitted 18 photos and was developing an ulcer.

I’m getting to a point where I only want to shoot sports with a wide angle lens.

Now the photographer’s estate has presented this intimate chronicle of Arbus’s life — her complete archives — to the Met as a gift

For the past year or so I’ve been taking photos of the reporters I work with out in the field and posting them on the wall next to my desk.

while Nikon may have been late to the party with its new D3, I think it employed a much smarter approach to a lens compatibility issue.

Shooting the Leica is like going out with Pamela Anderson.

Maybe the real reason for looking through the year’s work is because contest season has officially began. I used to put so much energy into winning. Thought it was so important. But I’ve seen contests ruin people.

here are my Photographers of the Year 2007, as always in alphabetical order.