Category: Video & Multimedia
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behind the scenes – the rio book edit
Link: Along with doing my own work, my number one priority, is to mentor those who seek to marry art, craft, and daily life into one holistic experience
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Leica & Magnum: Photographs from the Streets of Chicago by Alex Webb
Link: This photo essay, part of our collaboration with Magnum Photos, documents Alex Webb’s exploration of Chicago and the Loop. Inspired in part by one of his early influences, Ray Metzker’s “My Camera and I in the Loop,” he explores the streets of the US’s “Second City.”
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Mary Ellen Mark on Iconic Images
Link: It’s not every day you get to hang out with a living legend of the photographic world and watch her do what she does best. That’s exactly what we were fortunate enough to do when we spent a day in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park with an icon of documentary photography, Mary Ellen…
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Chimping – A documentary of photojournalists
Link: Featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Preston Gannaway and Rick Loomis, Emmy Award winner Paula Lerner, along with Todd Maisel, Chris Usher, Angela Rowlings, Edward Greenberg, Stan Wolfson, and Rita Reed.
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Video: 34 Award-winning photographers & multimedia makers
Link: A 22-minute presentation of the winners of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011 — some of the best in global photography and multimedia today.
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Setting up your Canon 5D mkII (and mkIII?)
Link: The 5D MKII came out nearly 4 years ago – but this is still one of the single most common questions I get to this day as new people are continually entering the HDSLR world. I also find that many professionals aren’t aware of many of these settings themselves and I thought: “Better late…
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Video + photobook review: Burke + Norfolk on Afghanistan Wars
Link: Already an award-winning photographer of contemporary Afghanistan, Simon Norfolk returned this time to follow the footsteps of a relatively unknown Irish war photographer, John Burke, who had documented the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880). An immensely engaging book presents the works of both photographers, as well as compelling essays that offer context to this subtle…
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IN BED WITH INVADER
Link: Shot in winter 2011, this movie invite you to spend one night in Paris with the street artist Invader.
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Anatomy of an iconic photograph
Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment – Chicago Tribune via Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/70064061/Community/Anatomy-of-an-iconic-photograph#pl-70054208 James Janega interviews the Tribune’s Brian Cassella, who is the photographer behind the photo of a Chicago police officer punching a protester during the NATO summit.
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Nine pros talk about the present and future economics of a photography career
Link: The photographers interviewed include photojournalists such as Ed Kashi of the VII Agency and Peter Van Agtmael of Magnum, fashion photographer Peter Stigter, Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian, and others
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World Press Photo embarks on multimedia fact-finding mission
Link: World Press Photo has commissioned researcher David Campbell to lead an international survey on multimedia productions within photojournalism. He speaks with Olivier Laurent about his goals
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David Turnley’s Documentary, ‘Shenandoah’
Link: It was a tragedy that touched upon several great national themes — the dislocation wrought by fading industry, the turmoil of immigration, the endurance of sports — and David C. Turnley, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, was there to grapple with them all. He turned the story of the murder and how it shook the…
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Christopher Anderson
Link: In this episode of Picture Perfect, VICE visits Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson at his studio in Brooklyn to talk about some of his past work and the life-changing experience of boarding a handmade boat that sank in the Caribbean. He tells us that his current project of photographing New York is part of his…
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Make Videos, Get Money: Vimeo’s CEO on Why Creators Should Get Paid
Link: “Tip Jar,” is exactly what it sounds like. Vimeo users can invite viewers to make donations and get 85 percent of the cash (Vimeo takes 15 percent, in part to cover transaction costs. In comparison, Kickstarter takes five percent). The second and more exciting feature is a “pay-to-view” setup which will allow users to charge…
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A Conversation With Carlos Javier Ortiz on Facing Change: Documenting America
Link: Sara T’Rula, the interviewer, is a photographer working on cultural and political issues, and is based in Liverpool, England. In addition to shooting her own projects, she assists John Davies and Ed Clark. At photokina 2012, she grabbed ten minutes to talk with Carlos Javier Ortiz about FCDA where he delves into what the project…
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A Conversation with Danny Wilcox Frazier on Facing Change: Documenting America
Link: This video showcases Danny Wilcox Frazier’s work documenting rural issues across the United States for the Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA) project. FCDA is a non-profit collective of prominent photographers and writers who have come together to explore the United States during one of the most enduring times in the nation’s history.
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Fred R. Conrad Captures Joel Meyerowitz
On Assignment: Photographing the Photographer Would Rembrandt tell Picasso how to pose? What happens when one photographer — Fred R. Conrad — is sent on assignment to do do a portrait of not just any photographer, but Joel Meyerowitz, whose color work changed contemporary photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/photographing-the-photographer/ “Most of us are much more…