Have I mentioned how much I love the Camerabag iPhone app? The “helga” filter is modeled after my favorite cheap, plastic toy camera – the Holga. It crops the photo into a square, bumps the contrast a little and vignettes it. And it’s what I use for 99% of the stuff I shoot with my iPhone.
As a street photographer, Anthony Hernandez learned how to become invisible. He did it by teaching himself how to take a photograph so smoothly no one realized what was going on.
My only memory of the Great Salt Lake is when my mother bought me a big chunk of rock salt that I licked all the way back to Los Angeles on a summer road trip (a treat that would not be sanctioned these days). So I was happy to revisit the lake through Utah photographer, Michael Slade’s, interpretive images. These rich black and white prints are part of an extensive photographic survey of not only the Great Salt Lake, but the life and lifestyles that surround it.
Prix Pictet winning photographer Munem Wasif talked with us about the ecological and personal disasters in Bangladesh caused by a vast influx of shrimp farming. He also provided some insight into his evolving philosophy as a concerned photographer.
The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town.
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Asim Rafiqui: Portraits of Survival:
Asim Rafiqui is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and started his career in 2003 by focusing on stories from Afghanistan and Pakistan while pursuing personal projects on issues related to the aftermath of conflict. He has since produced stories from Iraqi Kurdistan, Haiti, Israel, and the tribal areas of Pakistan. He was awarded the 2009 Aftermath Grant for his project The Idea of India. He contributes regularly to National Geographic (France), Stern (Germany), Newsweek, and Time (Asia).
photo-eye | Magazine – French photographer wins European Publishers Award:
As reported by the British Journal of Photography, Klavdij Sluban, a French photographer, has been selected for the 2009 European Publisher’s Award for Photography. The announcement was made earlier today at the Rencontres d’Arles.
TALENT + AMBITION + INTELLIGENCE + HARD WORK = SUCCESS
Any one of those four ingredients comes in stale or a few grams short of a buzz and you’re done. Get ‘em right and you’re going to Disneyland. In the meantime there are things you can do to protect yourself from the Great Newspaper Crisis of 2009.
Showcase: Life Behind Glass – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Michael Wolf composed his photographs, eliminating any horizon by cutting off the tops and bottoms of the buildings in his frame. There are no visual paths out of his images, making them feel claustrophobic. He calls this “no-exit photography.”
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies – Drawger.com:
Welcome to The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies… where tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.
Due to severe government budget cuts to the arts, our little museum’s acquisition funds are frankly, well, bupkus. So, we welcome Drawgerers to submit images of any artistic tools, machinery, gadgets, etc. that they feel have bitten the dust.
I was recently invited to speak to the Art Director’s Club of Denver and the ASMP about creativity, and subsequently delivered that keynote two weeks ago. This video is a recording of that talk. Hope it strikes a chord with you.
It was so easy, I laughed. Caught a trolly to the border, went through the lab maze and was spat out in Mexico. Jumped into a cab and there I was, taking photos of all the folks dressed in Lucha Libre masks. My face hurt that night from all the smiling.
Running a photo agency used to be a gentleman sport. You represented photographers and if, for some reason, the relationship did not work out, regardless the contract, everyone would gently part their own way . These days, contracts are like hammers, mostly used to crush a photographer into the ground.