Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:
There was not just one “tank man” photo. Four photographers captured the encounter that day from the Beijing Hotel, overlooking Changan Avenue (the Avenue of Eternal Peace), their lives forever linked by a single moment in time. They shared their recollections with The Times through e-mail.
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says:
The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop began in 2008 when Eric Beecroft, a teacher and photographer, discovered a blank spot in the array of workshops being offered to photojournalists — one that emerging and international shooters could afford. He and his team organized the first Foundry in Mexico City and got an impressive array of instructors to sign on, including Paula Bronstein, Stanley Green, Ron Haviv, and Stephanie Sinclair. We talked with Eric about this year’s workshop, in Manali, India, from July 26 to August 1, why it is important to include local photographers (South Asian shooters get a 50% discount) and how students can get the most out of the workshop — or any workshop, for that matter.
Prison Photography says:
When working with the incarcerated youth of Washington State, Steve Davis used the camera in different ways and to different ends. He conducted his own long-term portrait project concurrently with workshops offered to the detained youth.
Parker Eshelman just put up a bunch of new photos in several posts. This one rules. Check out the others, too.
David Burnett says:
There is a story, probably true, about two well known Magnum photographers, a story going back a couple of decades, I’m sure. Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum, was greeting Bruno Barbey, just five years older than myself, at one of the meetings in Paris. The two embraced in that modern European manner, hands about each other’s torso, when suddenly Cartier’s hands went from a gentle touch to something more akin to a frisk. And within a few seconds, he pushed back from Bruno, and exhorted, “But where is your CAMERA?!”
dispatches says:
Stephen Mayes introduces the discussion topics, including the motive and the intent of photographers who cover war, and the responsibility of the audience viewing the resulting images to learn, react, and engage. Tim Hetherington and Gary Knight continue by debating the crisis in photojournalism — is there one, and if so, what is it?
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:
Tim Hetherington is a British photographer, writer, filmmaker and television journalist who has captured the chaos and tragedy of the Liberian civil war in his new book, “Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold” (Umbrage Editions, 2009). He has combined reflective, square-format documentary photography with oral testimony and memoir.
KOKOGIAK says:
Hello blog folks, it’s been a while. One year to be exact… one long crazy year. This time last year, I announced my project called The Big Picture, hoping, of course, that it would do well. It has really blown me away how well it has done. I will happily take some of the credit, but much of the success belongs to the photographers who consistently deliver amazing imagery that makes choosing and editing both a pleasure and a difficult task.
Rob Galbraith says:
Canon has released a firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II that enables manual control of ISO, aperture and shutter speed while the camera is set to capture video. Firmware v1.1.0 also disables the depth of field preview button when playing back photos or accessing the on-screen menus and corrects various bugs.
lenscratch says:
I could probably do about 1,000 blog posts on Juliana Beasley and still have more material to share. She is a person who seems to be so completely comfortable with herself, without pretention, without worry about how people with react to her unwavering stare into worlds the most of us haven’t entered. She does it all with enthusiasm, sensitivity, and grace. And she has made me her champion. Juliana has recently been selected as a receipient of the Aaron Siskind Individual Fellowship.
panos.co.uk says:
Adopting the persona of a Belgian chocolate magnate, complete with disguise and funny accent, Tomas van Houtryve made his second trip to North Korea in February 2008. Despite his credentials as a foreign businessman keen to invest in the country, he faced hours of interrogation, was threatened by apparatchiks, and at one point was almost exposed as a journalist. His bold tactics gave him access to factories, hospitals and government offices, some of which had never before been seen by a Western photographer. He was also able to catch a fleeting glimpse of the lives of ordinary people.
Via dvafoto
The Media Equation – NYTimes.com says:
“It’s amazing,” he said. “We just kept updating the story as it went along, and it was there instantly, for everyone to read.”
And he didn’t seem to mind that he was paid exactly nothing for his lifetime of experience and the article. It’s a tough time to be a journalist but, hey, it beats working for a living.
Steve McCurry says:
When people ask me how they can become a photographer, I almost never mention cameras, lenses, or technique.
I say, ‘If you want to be a photographer, first leave home.’ As Paul Theroux, a great writer and friend, further advises, “Go as far as you can. Become a stranger in a strange land. Acquire humility.
Via APAD.
ERIC PFANNER – NYTimes.com says:
One of the most interesting aspects of the scandal is the revelation that old-fashioned scoops can still sell papers. Many publishers have assumed that in the Internet era, “exclusives” stay that way for about three seconds, so they are not worth pursuing. Instead, they have shifted the emphasis of their papers toward analysis or opinion.
JORI FINKEL – NYTimes.com says:
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO sounds as if he’s slightly allergic to Los Angeles. It’s not just that this celebrated Brazilian photojournalist has been sniffling since he arrived in the city, explaining: “I was born in a tropical ecosystem. I’m not used to these plants.” It’s also that he peppers his description of the city with words like strange and crazy, noting that he was mesmerized by the sight of the endless stream of automobile traffic as his plane made its descent.
Gizmodo says:
You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn’t insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don’t walk fast enough.
Chip Litherland says:
This one game provided a few outs for me…luckily my chance of shooting with a wider lens from directly behind home helped me land the home plate leap. He was called safe. It was one of those moments where I felt the lens snap out of focus for a brief milli-second – spurring a frantic chimping session.
