Allowing Flowers by Alec Soth
With the economic crisis and the toll on the housing market we saw and heard hundreds of stories about families facing foreclosure, evicti…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/allowing-flowers-by-alec-soth.html
With the economic crisis and the toll on the housing market we saw and heard hundreds of stories about families facing foreclosure, evicti…
Link: http://5b4.blogspot.com/2010/01/allowing-flowers-by-alec-soth.html
You’ll notice the overall visual changes first. While the old site (image 2 in the slideshow above) was good enough, it was a stock wordpress template and has been popping up all over the place of late. It was cluttered, didn’t utilize the full width of modern computers, and was beginning to look dated. Mostly, I was just tired of it and thought I could do something that fit our visual content better. We also wanted a way to highlight posts from our archive.
Newspaper articles are too long.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/short-writing
too much chocolate Announces Winners of the First Ever TMC + Kodak Film Grant:
– Murray Ballard
– Anna Beeke
– Magda Biernat
– Phil Jung
– Collin LaFleche
– Molly Landreth
– Caitlin Price
– Andy Spyra
– Leah Tepper-Byrne
– Susan Worsham
another offering from Dokument and Hello Press… Like Lipstick Traces is a coffee-table collection of 600 polaroids taken specifically for this project over the course of two years by 13 mostly European graffiti artists.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine –
In much of the world men and women remain economic refugees, whether they be in Israel, South Africa, Russia, China, Bengladesh, or in the United States. With an growing world population and an increased competition for limited resources, the exploitation will inevitably increase, just as the backlash against them will become more severe.
The best opinions, comments and analysis from The Telegraph.
via The Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucydavies/100005959/pictures-of-the-year-the-photographers-choice/
Tortuga Travel Photography Adventure Workshops formed in the summer of 2009 with a common goal of sharing our knowledge of great still photography and love for the amazing diversity and similarities of cultures and people around the world.
Link: Tortuga Photo Workshops
I have a feeling we will be hearing a lot more about Alex Kisilevich in the future. His website reveals a number of smart and interesting projects, and I’m quite sure that’s the tip of the soon-to-be iceberg.
Can you work hard and have fun at the same time? Are you looking for a workshop you can afford? Would you like to work elbow to-elbow with some of the best
via MediaStorm Blog: http://mediastorm.org/blog/?p=1563
Hearst Corporation’s history of working with photography’s pioneers and rule breakers continues with the 2nd Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial – an international competition saluting the next generation of talent, which will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the web, design and photography.
Link: Hearst 8×10
On Christmas Day, police in the U.K. rounded up tourists taking photos of the royal family at Sandringham church and confiscated their cameras. At The Independent, Dominic Lawson’s dismay sub…
a new option called Endless Memory that enables the card to automatically delete the oldest photos and video from the card once it has confirmed they’ve been successfully transferred to their destination.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: 8GB Eye-Fi Pro X2 wireless memory card introduced
Photograph Elaine Huguenin was challenging a 2008 ruling by New Mexico’s Human Rights Commission(NMHRC).
Link: Photographer Loses Bid to Refuse Same-Sex Wedding Jobs
This has been a momentous year for media. In my previous four posts on the revolutions in the media economy, I have used the present uncertainty to take a fresh look at the past many now view nostalgically. This critical view demonstrated that newspapers have always been commercial enterprises rather than altruistic associations, they were in decline many years before the Internet restructured the conditions of publishing, and that the practice of investigative journalism is something we need to create as much as we need to protect. In this context, photographers who believe that their practice is defined by an editorial paymaster committed to documentary work are going to have a very hard time.
Link: dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers
In a way, this completes a full circle for McSweeney’s founder and editor Dave Eggers, who, in his 2000 book A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, recalled doing freelance design for the San Francisco Chronicle to pay rent. While journalism struggles to redefine itself on the Internet, Eggers maintains that “print is a more calm, and maybe even civilized, delivery vehicle,” and wants the Panorama to demonstrate things print can do that web content can’t. The day after the Panorama’s release, The A.V. Club called up Eggers to find out what his favorite things are about newspapers.
Link: Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers | Books | Interview |
The A.V. Club
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/01/pov-gulf-photo-plus-dubai.html