CLICK NOTE: Love to see a great photo site improved by design. This one really needed it. The old site was like a maze, though one well worth wandering.
Bryan Derballa:
Welcome to the new Lovebryan. I didn’t realize the site was so sprawling until I tried to redesign everything. It was a exhausting task, but I’m very happy to present the new site.
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
we were all there to scope out some great photography. Here are 10 awesome things from LOOK3 that I might otherwise have missed (they’re in no particular order, so I’m not even numbering them).
Editorial Photographers UK:
Solicitors acting for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) are to make a formal complaint to the Data Commissioner over the failure of the Met police to provide details under the Data Protection Act of their surveillance of journalists.
Xark!: The betrayal of the Fourth Estate:
The tarnish on the halo newspaper execs have spent so much time polishing isn’t just their unwillingness to acknowledge their own limitations and failures. It’s how they treat their people. The betrayal of the Fourth Estate contract by newspaper management has played a huge role in their impending doom. It may be the one thing that guarantees their slide into irrelevancy.
Why? Because when the companies need their best and brightest to pull together, to help work smarter and better, they’ve got … nothing. Many of the best and brightest have moved on because they can. Or they were the first out the door in layoffs. Those left feel trapped, bitter and betrayed. No pay raises. Furloughs. “Doing more with less.” Not exactly a prescription for an ailing industry.
Wooster Collective: Preview Video For Invader’s TOP 10 Coming Later This Month To Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
a conversation among the photo staff about the photography of human suffering and the nature of art. I thought we should involve the larger photo community in our discussion, because it is a profound and timeless question.
Marina Black – versts | burn magazine:
I came to Canada at the age of 28, not knowing a word of English. I never felt comfortable expressing myself in this language. However, photography has given me a voice. The camera has allowed me to “listen to” and re-examine, in their photographic retelling, my Russian memories, to sail back into the world that had seemed lost to me while I struggled with my new life and new identity in Canada.
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Few photographers will find themselves in as dangerous a setting as Somalia. But some of the lessons learned there by Michael Kamber, who is at work on a book about photojournalism and war photography, can be applied to many challenging situations.
Digital Photography Review:
Mamiya has announced three new M series digital backs for its 645AFDIII medium-format camera.
The Big Picture:
Following up from last Friday’s entry about Iran’s Presidential Election, Tehran and other cities have seen the largest street protests and rioting since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Supporters of reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, upset at their announced loss and suspicions of voter fraud, took to the streets both peacefully and, in some cases, violently to vent their frustrations. Iranian security forces and hardline volunteer militia members responded with force and arrests, attempting to stamp out the protests – meanwhile, thousands of Iranians who were happy with the election outcome staged their own victory demonstrations. Mousavi himself has been encouraging peaceful demonstrations, and called for calm at a large demonstration today (held in defiance of an official ban), as Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has just called for an official inquiry into accusations of election irregularities.
Rob Galbraith:
Starting next month, camera bag maker Think Tank Photo will begin shipping a line of bags aimed at the growing number of editorial photographers whose work includes capturing audio along with still photos, plus photographers of all stripes who are flocking to the new breed of digital SLRs capable of capturing high-quality video.
The Observer:
A Spanish academic has revived the row over ‘The Falling Soldier’, arguing that natural features do not match its claimed site
NYTimes.com:
“There’s a lot of concern that newspapers and all of print is becoming a bit of an endangered species,” said Brian Stauffer, an illustrator based in Miami whose work has appeared in publications including Rolling Stone, Esquire and Entertainment Weekly, and who also rejected Google’s offer. “When a company like Google comes out very publicly and expects that the market would just give them free artwork, it sets a very dangerous precedent.”
Google, though rebuffed by more than a dozen illustrators, said in its statement that it had plenty of takers.
