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.
BRIAN STELTER – NYTimes.com:
As the journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee complete their third month of detainment in North Korea, it remains rather astonishing that they were there in the first place to report for a fledgling cable channel. But their path there may explain in part why they remain in custody.
Netflix:
Both breathtaking and unsettling, this fascinating array of extreme images gathered by photojournalist James Balog paints a startling portrait of climate change using time-lapse photography shot over the course of two years. Thanks to cameras that recorded pictures once an hour during daylight, you’ll see glaciers rapidly melt and shrink and sea levels rise ominously higher right before your eyes.
doug menuez:
With the invention of Innova FibaGloss paper the doors opened and Hanemuhle, Ilford, Epson and others got the religion and all today now distribute similar papers, creating choices and competition. I’m mentioning Innova because they were first, remain my favorite and now thankfully sponsor my projects. But I do this also from pure self-interest: I hope photographers will buy this extraordinary paper so I get to keep printing with it.
burn magazine:
The recipient of the Emerging Photographer Grant 2009 is
Alejandro Chaskielberg
The High Tide
CORY DOCTOROW – Boing Boing:
In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a “sensitive” area, but they won’t tell you which areas are “sensitive,” because they’re so “sensitive.”
PDN Photo of the Day:
Here are 14 photographs from Benjamin Lowy’s ongoing Iraq | Perspectives project which he began in 2005. Shot from the confines of a Humvee, Lowy creates a tableau vivant of life in Iraq offering a glimpse into the bleakness and desolation of a country ravaged by war.
PDNPulse:
Photojournalist Ricardo Rangel, an influential Mozambican photographer whose work was part of several international exhibitions in recent years, died Thursday at age 85, according to press reports.
5B4:
Fischli and Weiss’ Visible World (Sichtbare Weld) published in 2001 by Walther Konig is another worthwhile exploration of the book as mass of information.
No text and with 8 photographs per page, Visible World is a globetrotting description of landscape and cityscape contained in a few hundred pages.
Feature Shoot:
Bob O’Connor studied photography and architecture at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He was named one of PDN’s “30 Emerging Photographers to Watch” in 2006. His recent clients include Technology Review, Fast Company, ReadyMade, IEEE Spectrum, and Boston Magazine, among others.
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Sean Gallagher, a photojournalist living and working in China, won a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in February for his work on the country’s desertification. After a whirlwind trip to complete his coverage, Sean returned with several photo stories, posted on the Pulitzer Center’s blog, that tell a complex story of climate change’s impact and how China is dealing with it. We asked Sean to talk about how he tackled such a long, complicated photo essay. In this post he talks about identifying the story, and he’ll follow up with posts about research, logistics, and maintaining momentum.
JAMES ESTRIN – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Nina Berman is not an objective photojournalist. And she doesn’t want to be.
“I don’t believe in the notion of the objective photographer, that somehow a photo is balanced and you’re dispassionate,” she said. “I don’t think that would have value. That’s like a security camera.”
Cristina Faramo:
My project, “In the Mood for Love,” examines the celebration of love through the intimacy of couples. I recently started making photos of couples during their daily life: when they are working, sharing private moments, experiencing pain, anger or joy, and when they are passionate.
