Month: April 2009
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Miami Herald Photographer Patrick Farrell: Pulitzer for Haiti Coverage
From 100 Eyes:
Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell has won a Pulitzer for his news coverage of the storms that ravaged Haiti in August and September of last year
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Astonishing Combat Photography by Tyler Hicks
From State of the Art:
In the past couple of weeks, New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks has been publishing a series of astonishing war pictures from Afghanistan.
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Getting gallery representation — you can do it
From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
As a follow up to his recent posts about transitioning from advertising and editorial to fine-art landscape photography, Brian Kosoff wanted to share the story of his first in-person presentation to a gallery from which he was seeking representation. That first meeting can be intimidating, no matter where you are in your career, so we hope you’ll gain some courage from seeing how one photographer weathered it successfully.
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18 USC 2257 Concerns for Photographers
From Photo Attorney:
Some photographers shoot nudes, sexually explicit, and/or erotic photographs. If so, your work may come under the purview of a law known as “section 2257.” This law imposes some strict obligations that must be followed to avoid fines and penalties, including prison.
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liveBooks Opens Low-Cost Web Portfolio Service to All Photojournalists
From PDNPulse:
The pre-release of liveBooks photojournalist websites is over! Now any photojournalist is qualified to take advantage of this special offer.
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All My Enemies by Ron Haviv
From The 37th Frame:
VII Photo has a feature about the battles between rival gangs and ethnic groups that are resulting in a movement of people and in a new formation of the old problem of gang violence.
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Damon Winter Pulitzer Winner
From The New York Times:
A reflection in a puddle on an airport tarmac or in a mirrorlike teleprompter. Silhouetted shadows on a chain-link fence. A cascade of empty metal bleachers. Not the stuff of ordinary political coverage. But Damon Winter, 34, had never before covered a presidential campaign. So maybe he didn’t know how many rules he was breaking as he followed Senator Barack Obama. But that approach worked, and he received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
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Pulitzer Prizes Go to Damon Winter and Patrick Farrell
From State of the Art:
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. In the Feature Photography category, Damon Winter of the New York Times won for his “memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.”
In the Breaking News category, the award went to Patrick Farrell of the Miami Herald for coverage of Haiti in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The jury called Farrell’s work “impeccably composed images of despair.” The photo below shows four-year old Veronica Lonis, malnourished and weighing 16 pounds.
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Ed Kashi – Three
From Visura Magazine:
It came to me in a dream… I was laying in bed one morning and three images from a story in Brazil flowed through my mind’s eye like a cinematic strip. This idea of three images… seeing in threes… became a focal point for combing through my more than twenty years of images, looking for the visual connections, visual language and visual poetry of three.
via DuckRabbit.
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Brian Ulrich can’t believe he’s alive…
From dvafoto:
Brian Ulrich can’t believe he’s alive because he’s just been named a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. Other photographers awarded the fellowship this year, most previously unknown to me: Thomas Joshua Cooper (examples), Osamu James Nakagawa, Suzanne Opton (you may have seen her Soldier Billboard Project), Anna Shteynshleyger, Cheryle St. Onge, and Byron Glen Wolfe (can’t find anything online for Wolfe…).
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Mark Tucker
From lenscratch:
Mark recently shot the images featured below for the book cover repackaging of the Little House on the Prarie series for Harper-Collins
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Why We Should Get Rid of the White House Press Corps
washingtonpost.com:
Name a major political story broken by a White House correspondent. A thorough debunking of the Bush case for Iraqi WMD? McClatchy Newspapers’ State Department and national security correspondents. Bush’s abuse of signing statements? The Boston Globe’s legal affairs correspondent. Even Watergate came off The Washington Post’s Metro desk.
Here are some stories that reporters working the White House beat have produced in the past few months: Pocket squares are back! The president is popular in Europe. Vegetable garden! Joe Biden occasionally says things he probably regrets. Puppy!
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A Long-Ago Bay Shore, and the Man Who Captured It
From NYTimes.com:
He worked in what would now be labeled as virtual anonymity, unknown beyond his tight-knit circle of family, friends and clients. His lack of fame and fortune did not seem to inhibit him; he was a big and unusual fish in this small pond. He thrived. It was enough.
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The Disturbing Beauty Of Oversaturated Pictures and Lomography
From Smashing Magazine:
“Lomography” is a term quite unknown to most of us, but many practice it. The name was inspired and derived from the Russian “LOMO” cameras. Lomography not only refers to photographs taken with the LOMO camera, but can also apply to casual photography taken with any ordinary camera.
The characteristics of Lomo photographs are oversaturated colors, extreme optical distortions, rainbow-colored subjects, off-kilter exposure, blurring and alternative film processing, all things usually considered bad in photography. In short, Lomography is the act of taking photographs without thinking, and ignoring the established rules of “good” photography. -
Nikon DSLR Rumors Surface, Again: What to Expect Next | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
From Gadget Lab from Wired.com:
But will we see a D700-level camera with video? To compete with Canon, the answer would have to be “yes”. But as the D700 currently shares the exact same image chain as the flagship D3, the whole lineup would have to change. This would make the camera more expensive (Nikon likes to share electronics and even body-shells between different models to bring down costs). This makes it seem like the answer is “no”.
More likely is a D400 with 1080p video, which is exactly the guess that Digital Rev is making. It would also get a 16-18 MP sensor, although in smaller DX-dimensions. To us this seems plausible.
