lens culture says:
Photographer Laura Domela, who often works in fashion photography, found a new project when she visited her brother Jason in a small gold-mining town in Alaska. Domela was delighted to encounter his large extended group of fun friends living there in Girdwood: roughnecks, eccentrics, pioneers, rugged individualists and a few misfits.
Steve Russell says:
I have to give a little credit to the people who edit my file. Believe me sometimes I get angry with them for making me look a little less than perfect. Sometimes I even let them know it. Sometimes I use bad words to describe them.
NYTimes.com says:
On YouTube, though, where the segment was viewed by more people than could ever have witnessed it on TV in Britain, there were no commercials. The tens of millions of views swiftly brought YouTube and the producers back to the negotiating table, according to the people with knowledge of the talks, and soon they reached a deal for video clips.
Daniel Alabrah of The Sun News On-line says:
“Will you be willing to tell me your name?” I asked politely, smiling warmly. He responded almost immediately in pidgin English, laced with heavy Ijaw accent.
“They call me Two-minute Fighter.”
What a name, I muttered to myself, ready with the next question.
“Why Two-minute Fighter?” I threw another one, as I tried to settle down.
“It is because of the way I operate,” he retorted.
Somehow, this reporter sensed that his initial suspicion had subsided and the following encounter ensued.
City Limits says:
Collective Vision, the new photo blog by the staff of the Austin American-Statesman, was featured in a two-page spread in Sunday’s Statesman. We are really excited about our photo blog, and we invite you to check it out.
PDN says:
We proudly present the winners of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual. The images in this gallery were submitted from an international group of exceptional photographers. Even though we’re in the daily business of pictures, the entries we receive for the Photo Annual never cease to amaze us. We at PDN applaud this group of professional photographers—both new and seasoned—on the work they’ve submitted. Despite hardships in this industry, you’re traveling, finding inspiration, producing work that is fresh and exciting, and continuing to contribute at a level that is at the pinnacle of professional photography. After all, if there is any group that can find solutions to challenges, it’s the creative contributors we’ve come to know over the years, and the newcomers we’re eager to support.
NYTimes.com says:
It is impossible to know war if you do not stand with the mass of the powerless caught in its maw. All narratives of war told through the lens of the com batants carry with them the seduction of violence. But once you cross to the other side, to stand in fear with the helpless and the weak, you confront the moral depravity of industrial slaughter and the scourge that is war itself. Few books achieve this clarity. “The Photographer” is one.
L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times says:
The union representing Los Angeles police officers is pressuring the owner of San Diego’s main newspaper to change the paper’s editorial stance on labor issues or to fire its editorial writers.
The feud is rooted in the recent purchase of the San Diego Union-Tribune by Platinum Equity, a private Beverly Hills firm.
Josh Spear, Trendspotting says:
For the past year, the urban vinyl community has relied on Face Your Manga for all our avatar needs. But now one of our own has stepped up with an app that renders our likenesses in Kidrobocolor. That would be the awesome Tristan Eaton, whose Thunderdog Studios just released the B-BOT app for iPhone. B-BOT is the closest you will ever get your mug to a Munny. You can create your own B-BOT and also customize your contacts. When you receive a call from them, their B-BOTs will show up on the caller ID (and vice versa).
Conscientious says:
Roger Ballen’s work is often deemed to be disturbing. I don’t think is actually is (my idea of “disturbing” might be different from yours), but we can probably easily agree on calling him one of the most creative photographers currently producing work.
burn magazine says:
The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go.
America’s Finest News Source says:
“It’s so convenient. You get a photo in your mailbox, look at it for a while, and then drop it in the prepaid envelope and send it back,” Houston resident Jonathan Collins said. “I’ll never look at pictures the same way again.”
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:
Finding the right camera to express one’s vision is a challenge that every photographer must deal with at some point. When conventional cameras proved unsatisfactory for Susan Burnstine, however, she simply decided to build her own in order to channel the haunting, dreamlike imagery that has won her widespread critical acclaim over the past several years.
NYTimes.com says:
Over the next decade or so he printed negatives salvaged from trash cans, took up Kodalith and Polaroid film, experimented with the Thermofax (an early photocopier) and made montages and collages. He mounted sequential prints of landscapes on the diagonal and linked their horizon lines. (These vertiginous images, Mr. Wood has said, came out of his experience as a wartime pilot.)
World Press Photo says:
On 2 May, the first of the 2009 Awards Days, Nan Goldin delivered the World Press Photo Sem Presser Lecture. Art and documentary photographer Goldin, who became known for her participatory work on subcultures and gender, broke new ground in photography and inspired a generation of artists.
Kitsune Noir says:
Mr. Lamarca has an absolutely uncanny eye for taking photos, making images that are almost magical. His Forest Defenders series is beautiful, featuring people from both sides of the issues, the loggers and the people desperate to stop them
dvafoto says:
The photo was removed from the Times website, but since the initial report of the ethical breach, the photographer’s identity was ferreted out, as was the photo in question. PDNPulse’s report included this line to readers, “Do you think this is over the line?” and others online have argued that this isn’t a big issue. This is wrong.
