Category: Editor’s Choice
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Munem Wasif | 100Eyes
Link: Rippling sea waves, dried river skeletons and endless fields. Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Each family needs about six pitchers of water a day, and they have to walk seven miles to get it. Ignoring knee-deep mud in rainy season, braving the biting cold of winter. In the seventeen sub-districts of…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: ED TEMPLETON: "Deformer and the Will to Not Be F-cked…"
Link: Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California is a much-anticipated book. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand's Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World?" (1991)
Standing on the Corner – Reflections Upon Garry Winogrand’s Photographic Gaze – Mirror of Self or World? Part II (1991) Whenever I see it, I immediately hear a voice singing, “Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.” Yes, it is a sexist work. But that is a fact about Winogrand we must…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Monkeys Make the Problem More Difficult – A Collective Interview with Garry Winogrand" (1970)
Link: Garry Winogrand (1928- ) spent two days in Rochester, New York, in October, 1970. On Friday, the 9th, he was the guest of the Rochester Institute of Technology. On Saturday, the 10th, he visited the Visual Studies Workshop, also in Rochester. The format was identical on both occasions: Winogrand, without comment, showed slides of…
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Marian Drew, Brisbane, Australia
Link: In order to create this series, Every Living Thing, Drew photographed local roadkill in a dark studio by torchlight. She exposed the film for 15 minutes against backdrops of previously photographed landscapes printed onto large sheets. After shooting, the animals were given a proper burial in her large backyard.
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Imagine: Journalist for Nintendo DS
Rakuten UK: Shop Cashback deals on the best offers & savings Rakuten Link: http://www.play.com/Games/DS/4-/10537828/Imagine-Journalist/Product.html?source=9593 Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as an international reporter, heading your own TV show Get your own press pass Have fun with the full range of journalists’ accessories: notepad, handheld recorder, mic, camera Catch your…
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How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FDEATH_OF_NEWSPAPERS_ARTICLE_2_26.jpg&videoid=101088&title=How%20Will%20The%20End%20Of%20Print%20Journalism%
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Modern Sublime: The World of Josef Koudelka"
Link: “I try to be a photographer. I cannot talk. I am not interested in talking. If I have anything to say, it may be found in my images. I am not interested in talking about things, explaining about the whys and the hows. I do not mind showing my images, but not so much…
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Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FBULLSHIT_STORY_ARTICLE_3_5_10.jpg&videoid=101180&title=Breaking%20News%3A%20Some%20Bullshit%20Happening%20S Under the terms of the debt takeover, Colony Capital will help Leibovitz market her photographs, the Financial Times reported.
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How To Take Photos Of Africa Or Where Intent And Ideas Collide « The Spinning Head
Link: So many questions were left answered that I could not help but feel that there was more to this story than just a bunch of Africans attacking a dead elephant as maggots would.
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Week 56: Daniel Puissant
Link: For as long as I can remember I have always noticed the small shifts in reality, things that don’t readily register as incongruous or shocking, but rather the things that make me smile or think about how people function. I would constantly tell whomever is standing next to me: did you see this? there,…
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l e n s c r a t c h: Ashley Gilbertson
Link: Ashley Gilberston is a name you will be hearing a lot of in the future. In case you missed it in the NY Times Magazine on Sunday, Ashley had a series of heartbreaking images that accompanied the article, The Shrine Down the Hall, written by Dexter Filkins, about the bedrooms of America’s young war…
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52 Selects | Collect Great PhotoJournalism
Link: 52 Selects is a unique photography gallery specializing in signed, original photojournalistic and documentary prints. Our contributors include some of the finest photojournalists in the magazine and newspaper business today.
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professional tourist | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job. A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story. In general, that is all…
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The Motorbike Diaries: Rethink | Luceo Images
Link: A photographer once told me that a picture is not art unless you create exactly what you intended from start to finish. I fought him on this statement. It’s about the unknown, the surprise. The extra lens flare that you didn’t expect. The roll of film that didn’t advance all the way. The bird…
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A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise – NYTimes.com
A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise (Published 2010) This case pitted Mr. Gore and Current TV against Ken Light, a photojournalist and an outspoken advocate for fair compensation for journalists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23sfmetro.html The art, a photograph, belonged to a Berkeley professor, and Mr. Gore and Current TV had used it without…
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Talking to…Photographer Daniele Tamagni
Talking to…Photographer Daniele Tamagni Milan-based photographer Daniele Tamagni’s book “Gentlemen of Bacongo” features the pageantry of Congalese sapeurs, or dandies – a subculture of men who pay extreme attention to, and take great pri… Link: https://boywithgrenade.org/2010/05/06/talking-to-photographer-daniele-tamagni/ Milan-based photographer Daniele Tamagni’s book “Gentlemen of Bacongo” features the pageantry of Congalese sapeurs, or dandies – a subculture of men who pay extreme attention…
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matt eich – carry me ohio | burn magazine
matt eich – carry me ohio [slidepress gallery=’matteich-carrymeohio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Matt Eich Carry Me Ohio play this essay Once known for … via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/matt-eich-carry-me-ohio/ In this series of images I show the isolated and trapped residents of Southeastern Ohio. From Hercules…