Category: Editor’s Choice

  • Innovator: Brad Mangin

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    Innovator: Brad Mangin Freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin has many claims to fame: one, according to him, is being the last photographer on earth to get an iPhone. While that claim may be hard to prove, another will be substantiated when Instant Baseball is published thi via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/27177 Freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin has…

  • go irish and/or roll tide

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    Link: go irish and/or roll tide | Redlights and Redeyes  I sat there after the first half with Alabama up several touchdowns up on Notre Dame and ate a terrible hot dog in a media room where all the photographers just looked depressed.  All of the excitement, the adrenaline, and preparedness was sucked right out…

  • Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

    Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

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    Alex Webb: Rendering a Complex World, in Color and Black-and-White For the Magnum photographer Alex Webb, how a picture turns out isn’t always up to him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/alex-webb-rendering-a-complex-world-in-color-and-black-and-white/ For someone who says 99 percent of street photography is about failure, Alex Webb has had a notably successful career. From his early work in…

  • Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012

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    Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/winners-of-the-national-geographic-photo-contest-2012/100434/ The winners have just been announced of this year’s National Geographic photo contest. The Society received more than 22,000 entries from over 150 countries. Presented here are the winners from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, captions provided by the photographers

  • 366: The Year in Photographs, 2012

    366: The Year in Photographs, 2012

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/01/366-the-year-in-photographs-2012/#1 “Hundreds of photographers sent in images and there are 5 pages of posts….at the end of each page click on ‘Older Posts’ to keep going. I hope you are inspired by today’s offerings and look forward to what next year will…

  • 2012: The Year in Pictures

    2012: The Year in Pictures

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    2012: The Year in Pictures Colum McCann reflects on the images — disturbing, inspired and absurd — that shaped our collective consciousness this year. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/sunday-review/2012-year-in-pictures.html?hp Here are 20 unforgettable moments I experienced as a photographer for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2012.

  • Alan Laboile’s Family Photos, Thrown Before the World

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    Link: Alan Laboile’s Family Photos, Thrown Before the World – NYTimes.com In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.

  • North Korea photographs by David Guttenfelder

    North Korea photographs by David Guttenfelder

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    Snapshots from a secret state: Panoramic pictures of North Koreans at work and play give an extraordinary glimpse of everyday life Award-winning photographer David Guttenfelder, has made a dozen trips into North Korea since 2000, trying to capture the country as accurately as possible for outsiders. via Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252102/North-Korea-photographs-David-Guttenfelder.html “For this project, I used…

  • Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

    Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

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    Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD “One of the truly great things about war … is that all you have to do is survive.” via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/overexposed-a-photographers-war-with-ptsd/266468/1/ “‘I don’t think you can go into the most traumatic situations that arise on earth, voluntarily, and come back unchanged,’ said Ashley Gilbertson, who admits that his…

  • Prix AFD : Photo Story, Patrick Willocq

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    Link: Prix AFD : Photo Story, Patrick Willocq | Le Journal de la Photographie This project came together over several trips to a dozen villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It depicts a day in the life of the Bantu villages and Batwa Pygmies in what was once known as French Equatorial Africa. I…

  • The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012

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    Link: The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012 | Poynter. If my annual tally of plagiarism and fabrication incidents is the depressing part of “Regret the Error”‘s year-end coverage, then this annual collection of the best of the worst in errors and corrections is the highlight.

  • TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2012

    TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2012

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/11/times-best-photojournalism-of-2012/#1 Throughout 2012, TIME’s unparalleled photojournalists were there. We stood within the tumult of Tahrir Square and shared moments of quiet with the world’s most powerful President. We documented both the ravages of war on Syria’s blasted cities and the devastation nature…

  • Rashid Talukder’s Largely Unknown Conflict Photography

    Rashid Talukder’s Largely Unknown Conflict Photography

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    Images of Independence, Finally Free During Bangladesh’s 1971 struggle for independence, the newspaper photographer Rashid Talukder covered many dramatic and violent clashes but didn’t dare publish some of his pictures in his homeland for more than two decades. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/images-of-independence-finally-free/ But there was another photojournalist there, whom the others didn’t know: Rashid Talukder,…

  • Syria in Ruins

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    Syria in Ruins via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/ Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains defiant, stating in an interview with Russia Today that he planned “live and die in Syria,” adding, “I am tougher than Gaddafi.” Collected here are images of this bloody conflict from just the past few weeks

  • Surveillance Camera Man wants to know why we accept CCTVs but not a creepy guy with a camcorder

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    Link: Surveillance Camera Man wants to know why we accept CCTVs but not a creepy guy with a camcorder – Boing Boing “Surveillance Camera Man” is an anonymous fellow who wanders the streets and malls of Seattle with a handheld camcorder, walking up to people and recording them — in particular, recording their reactions to…

  • massimo berruti – pakistan: fade into dust

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    Massimo Berruti – Pakistan: Fade Into Dust Massimo Berruti Pakistan: Fade Into Dust [ ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT ] Pakistan is considered to have had a key role in the start of the war on terrorism, as probably it will have a main role… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/10/massimo-berruti-pakistan-fade-into-dust/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 The purpose of this project is to…

  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012

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    Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2012/100392/ The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, founded in 1964, is an annual international showcase for the very best nature photography

  • Nadav Kander’s Photos of ‘Yangtze — The Long River’

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    Link: Nadav Kander’s Photos of ‘Yangtze — The Long River’ – NYTimes.com Finishing “Yangtze – The Long River” required three years and five trips to China, “a place that is moving and changing so fast that it can only be unnatural,” he said.

  • kadir van lohuizen – vía panam

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    Kadir Van Lohuizen – Vía PanAm Kadir Van Lohuizen Vía PanAm In 2011, Kadir started a visual investigation on migration in the Americas. In 12 months, he traveled along the Pan-American Highway from Terra del Fuego in Patagonia t… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/10/kadir-van-lohuizen-via-panam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 In 12 months, he traveled along the Pan-American Highway from Terra del…

  • Matt Black’s “After the Fall”

    Matt Black’s “After the Fall”

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    Weighed Down by History, a Town Slides in Mexico The photographer Matt Black shot a remote town in southern Mexico that’s sliding down a mountain — a heart-wrenching story that illustrates the consequences of colonialism and modernity. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/a-dust-bowl-for-columbus-day/ The photographer Matt Black has been seeking stories of the indigenous tribes of southern…