I think being an artist is not so much something you choose as something that you are born being. You are an artist and then you work around or with that. There are a lot of people in medicine in my family and I have often envied them for the logical progression of their careers: medical school, residency, patient care. It’ s not like that with art.
“An estimated 20,000 children were born of rapes that occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Fifteen years later, the mothers of these children still face enormous challenges, not least of which is the stigma of bearing and raising a child fathered by a Hutu militiaman. Over the past three years, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik has made repeated visits to Rwanda to document the stories of these women.
While most of us have an instinctive reaction to run from danger, Los Angeles Times staff photographer Carolyn Cole more often than not runs toward it, camera in hand.
At just 25 years of age Jonathan Hyams is beginning to establish a very solid reputation in the world of photojournalism. In 2008 he won the Hello! magazine Young Photographer of the Year award and the ‘Ctrl.Alt.Shift’ prize that was run by Vice magazine on behalf of Christian Aid. CPN editor Steve Fairclough spoke to him about his burgeoning career and his work in Africa
Back for its second year, the New York Photo Festival (NYPH’09) has just announced a call for entries for the New York Photo Awards 2009.
The Hyena Man, who looks like he roams “the wastes, scavenging for what scarce little water remains in that desolate landscape, fending off marauding bands of Junk Raiders.”
Talk about results! Just the other day I dinged Panasonic for not having a movie mode in the Micro-4/3rds-system G1, and today they fixed the issue with the new DMC-GH1. Kidding — we knew it was coming — but the good news is that this new camera combines videos and stills in ways that Nikon and Canon should pay attention to.
We are pleased to announce special limited edition offerings of four great contemporary photographs. American photographers Dan Nelken and Juliana Beasley have both agreed to offer editions of their original photos at very affordable prices, exclusively available for Lens Culture readers.
some of us rock journos were invited to a press conference at the House of Blues at the ungodly hour of 11 a.m. on Monday to listen….shhhh….to Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer announce an upcoming album of new and old Tap material, as well as a spring tour commemorating the 25th anniversary release of This Is Spinal Tap.
Why haven’t video game boxes ever gotten much respect? Because most are seriously ugly.
What more could you have done? You could have competed more effectively. Owens complains about “substitute home pages,” where the Boston.com was trying to take away GateHouse’s readers. There’s a pretty straightforward response to that: if that’s all it takes to take away your community, you’ve failed your community. If the entire value of your site was in providing the headlines and ledes, and someone else copying those headlines and leads causes you to lose the community, you haven’t been providing enough value to that community, and you deserve to lose it. Newspapers have neglected their biggest asset, their own communities, for way too long, and this is another example of that. If GateHouse provided a better service where the value went beyond the headline and the lede, there wouldn’t be concerns about how such “copying” would take away from GateHouse.
Note: I’ve had some people ask me to put this on the website, so here it is… please keep in mind that this was written over a decade ago, so some of it is a bit dated..
B.H.’s Tao of War Photography
subtitled: “Never Ride an Asian Elephant While Wearing Shorts”
Ira Glass who we all know to be a master storyteller breaks down a few things in this 30 minute speech he gave at the Gel Conference.
In the Sunna, the other major holy Muslim book together with the Quran, the pictures of living beings are condemned. “Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah. He (the picture maker) will be ordered to breathe life into the picture, but he will not be able to do so”. This is a piece that explores the relationship between photography and Islam.
It’s a common misconception amongst photographers that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) means that when you type in your name into Google, your own website comes up at the top of the results. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The goal of SEO is to increase unsolicited traffic to your website.
Justin Newhall is a Minnesota-based photographer and educator. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (BFA, 1994) and the University of Minnesota (MFA, 1998).
