Photography competitions are everywhere. A quick Google search will reveal hundreds of them across the world in any given month. Fabulous, you might think. I’ll enter a few and hopefully get some recognition, win a prize, be able to call myself an award-winning photographer… So I’m preparing to send off some of my very best images when the terms and conditions catch my eye. Hold on a minute, what does, “you grant a perpetual and irrevocable right to use your images worldwide and in all media without further recompense to you” actually mean?
Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all its grit and glory, was what the photographer Arthur Fellig – aka Weegee – lived for. But he wasn’t exactly a stickler for realism, writes Lucy Davies
You could be forgiven for thinking Heat magazine is all sweat patches, cellulite and beer bellies. But it has also published some of the most inventive celebrity portraits of the past decade
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What we are seeing is the disappearance of knowledge. Most of the photo editors being let go from magazines, newspapers, websites are those who have spent many years building the foundations of our industry withtalent. They are the ones who knew a great image from a bad one, who could spot a talented photographer from the masses of mediums ones. They are the ones who created “names” by publishing their work. They are the ones who did look at photo books, went out to exhibits and photo festivals, no only to see and discover new talents but to personally connect with those they already knew.
I don’t think that I’m going to pay up $800 just yet for the new Drobo, but it looks like the previous model (which has FireWire 800) has dropped in price and is now offering a $30 rebate. At $319.95, after rebate, this is the cheapest I’ve seen this model yet. If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Drobo, now might be the time to do it.
If one hears ghostlike murmurs while looking through Christopher Payne’s photographs in “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” it may be because the people who once occupied these imposing and forbidding places are still among us. But they no longer dwell within the fortresses — or were they sanctuaries? — into which Mr. Payne now guides the reader.
[slidepress gallery=’aaronjoelsantos-orphansofagentorange’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Aaron Joel Santos Orphans of Agent Orange play this essay …
Strobist reports about a new TTL remote for Nikon and Canon DSLRs. The “speculations” came from the Strobist flickr group. Here are specs: TR-331 is using FSK 2.4GHz frequency channel, 15 specific channels . Operating distance range is 65M or above. The d
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fai…
Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a lack of words being generated in this space over the last month. Or not! I’ve been overwhelmed with the various projects we are pursuing. Regardless, it has been a pleasure to share my stories, thoughts and experiences with younger photographers making there way, and with the veteran shooters with whom I can commiserate. I have learned a lot from both groups. And that is one clear benefit of all this social media: a community has truly been created and is communicating big time. So even if my missives are more random in the coming year, I will continue to try to engage. Here are some random notes from my recent travels and projects:
Matt Logue says: I just completed a self-published book depicting an uninhabited Los Angeles, and it got an honorable mention in the photography.book.now competition at blurb.com! The photos were …
Frank Ockenfels is the kind of photographer who does everything well. From his black and white to his color; from passport photos to 4 x 5; photographing men and photographing women; it’s all equally good. He’s also the kind of guy you throw a really diff
Jean-François Rauzier is a French photographer who has developed the concept of ‘hyperphotos’ – ‘stitching’ together hundreds of enormous high-resolution images. Citadelle 2, which measures 180cm x 300cm, was created from a total of 1,500 images, endless
Roger Ballen’s style may bring to mind painters like Jean Dubuffet and Francis Bacon rather than the work of other photographers. His haunting, cramped images, as Kristen Joy Watts reports, thwart any expectations of a clear narrative.