A collection of photos seized by the Pakistani military offers a glimpse into life in the rugged terrain in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The military suspect the men are Taliban members, but intelligence officials have yet to analyze the photos and confirm th
An obituary published in The Boston Globe on September 18 noted the artistic quality of his black-and-white photos of Boston buildings: “Brightness and energy invade photographs that, in other hands, might be static.”
Roy Scully was a longtime fixture in a newspaper universe that doesn’t exist anymore outside of old movies. He got his foot in the door of The Seattle Times as a copy boy in the 1940s, learned his craft from staff photographers and was assistant chief photographer when he retired after a 44-year career at the paper, in 1986.
Update: story updated here on December 28, 2009, to include a response from legal representatives for Ms. Moore, and W Magazine. Click here for higher-rez image. Anthony Citrano says, Being an obse…
Professional photographers are quickly turning the iPhone into standard camera equipment, using it not only as a visual notebook and a method to free their minds from creative stumbling blocks, but also for their commercial work. Below are three pros who have integrated their cameraphones into their daily routine.
When the Yankees won the World Series, Robert Caplin photographed the action 12,000 times. The result, Kristen Joy Watts says, is a captivating time-lapse piece.
For some insight into the commercial photography book market, PDN recently obtained data from Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks retail book sales, to see which new titles are among the bestselling photography books this year.
Photographer Toni Greaves was born and raised in Australia, lived in the UK and now splits her time between Portland and New York. Her career as an Art and Creative Director has helped shaped her design sense, and recently, Toni was named one of the “30 Emerging Photographers to Watch” by PDN Magazine. She has an extensive list of editorial clients and is known for creating exceptional documentary work that sees beyond what is immediately apparent.
Her Critical Mass Finalist series is titled, Radical Love, and it explores life within a cloistered monastic community.
Prankster/artist Jason Eppink threw “Print After Parties” inside newspaper boxes in honor of the the death of print. Very clever. From Eppink’s project description: Abandoned by f…
The small Texas towns of Gordon and Strawn, midway between Fort Worth and Abilene, are only eight miles apart. Their schools are so tiny they play six-man football because they don’t have enough boys to field regular 11-man teams. The townsfolk are crazy about football. For decades the two teams have played each other in one of the greatest rivalries in Texas sports.
Focus will still be manual, but now “these new Zeiss lenses support all- important operations such as the automatic mechanisms for time, aperture setting and program. The CPU also supports manual exposure settings, including those for camera casings that
OU students dominated the contest with first place wins in multiple categories. OU’s Brad Vest won gold in the Spot News category, and Yanina Manolova of OU won gold in the feature category. OU’s Drew Angerer won gold in sports action, while OU’s Diego James Robles won gold in sports feature. OU’s Andrew Burkle won first place in the illustration category, and OU’s Dan Krauss won gold in the domestic picture story category.
I’m quite happy with my work as a commercial location photographer the last 18 years and thought I would add my two cents on the new Leaf Aptus II 10 back and my experiences and how I came to my decision. I went back and forth trying to rationalize the purchase of a high-end digital back the last several years. In the film days, I enjoyed shooting with my Leica Ms, Canon F1s and Eos 1’s, Hasselblad 203’s, Mamiya 7’s, Fuji GX617’s, Fuji 6×9 rangefinders, and Contax 645. I enjoyed shooting with all of these cameras for different reasons and I grabbed the best tool suited for different jobs. Plus I like variety.