José Luis Rodriguez accused of using tame, ‘model’ animal for close-up that won him prestigious £10,000 award
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/21/wolf-picture-rodriguez-wildlife-photographer
José Luis Rodriguez accused of using tame, ‘model’ animal for close-up that won him prestigious £10,000 award
Press photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski took top honors for his series “Hades?” depicting how the economic crisis is affecting manual labor in heavy industry in Poland.
Link: PDNPulse: Tomaszewski Wins SocialDocumentary.net Photo Contest
I finally found some time to look at the 2009 Photography Book Now winning publication, Black Sea of Concrete, by Polish photographer, Rafal Milach. Rafal won $25,000 for his grand prize winning submission about the Black Sea. He works as an editorial photographer and is the co-founder of SPUTNIK, the collective of photographers from Central-Eastern European region, but he continues to work on fine art projects and essays.
Link: lenscratch: Rafal Milach
Since FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams and I put out our call for posts on the Future of Photobooks a few weeks ago, more than 40 bloggers have shared their insights. You can find them all in our original post, plus lots of additional comments, and two new posts, about DIY book printers and the Future of Photobooks Twitter chat.
Link: 12 Hot Thoughts on the Future of Photobooks | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
You and Me and the Art of Give and Take by Allen Ruppersberg (Santa Monica Museum of Art) Holy information overload. One of the coolest exhibition catalogues I’ve ever seen. Greater Atlanta by Mark…
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/alec-soth’s-top-10-photobooks-of-2009/
dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for an…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2009/12/a-collectors-edition/
the dummy cover above is such a possibility….well, a bit more than a possibility, and much more of a reality….hard copy….to be published as an on-demand collectors’ print magazine within the next few weeks….Anton Kusters and i are both working to make this happen….again, the above cover is dummy copy…the final edition could be a bit different than what appears above, but this gives you an idea…..yes sure, there will be hurdles as usual…but, while the major print publications are scaling down hard copy production and moving to the net, we have already our presence on the net and will move now towards some hard copy production in both magazine and book formats….
I recently talked about this with a friend of mine who has been taking photographs for thirty years now (incl. large-format). I asked him why so many photographers formerly well known for their beautiful analog prints end up with bad, oversharpened digital prints, which often even have colours bordering on the gaudy. My friend suggested it was because these photographers typically hand off the work to be done by the various professional digital labs, and they accept what they get back, thinking that that’s just as good as it gets.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won gold in the Large Group Multimedia Project in the College Photographer of the Year Competition. The project, called Powering A Nation, is a News21 project. UNC also won silver, bronze and the award of excellence in the same category. Ashley Zammitt and Sara Peach were both involved in the project.
Link: The Visual Student » Powering A Nation: UNC at Chapel Hill
Through the generosity of the Rocky Mountain regional Leica rep, I had the chance to take Leica’s new full-frame, 18 megapixel rangefinder with me to Southeast Asia this month. It was a great chance to really use a camera thoroughly for evaluation. They loaned it to me mostly because I have one on order, and it wouldn’t be delivered before the trip.
Link: A Working Photojournalist’s Review of the Leica M9 « Perfesser Kev
Garry Winogrand’s one of my biggest personal heroes. The ultimate street photographer, Garry was a non-stop photographic machine. His were the pre-digital days. He devoured film with an appetite previously unmatched. He shot film like many photographers shoot digital today. Frenetic, non-stop, with only an occasional break to reload. He shot almost every day and while he crisscrossed the country shooting the best of America, he always remained a quintessential New Yorker at heart.
Link: Thinking About Garry Winogrand | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
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via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/12/charlie-mahoney-a-troubled-paradise/
Climate change is a difficult subject to treat visually, because much of the expected damage is still yet to come. We just haven’t seen many direct victims of climate change…at least not yet. As a result, I wanted to find a story that had a human element to it. After extensive research, I decided to go to the Maldives because, if scientists are correct, it will likely be the scene of one of first humanitarian disasters due to climate change. The story also ties in to an interesting social-political situation. I hope you find it interesting.
At OU he received the university’s highest academic rank, the David Ross Boyd Professor of Journalism chair. Hockman was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. He also received the state’s Governor’s Arts In Education Award. At OU’s football stadium, a bronze plaque names the “photo deck” in Hockman’s honor. He retired from OU in 1987.
These images (or any others you want from Pangea photographers) are available in high-quality archival prints.
Mt Kebnekaise, the highest mountain of Sweden, in Lappland Recently, the results of the UK Landscape Photographer of the Year Award were published. BBC News made an announcement on theirwebsite, and a very interesting thing happened. Most of thereaders co
via Luminous Landscape: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/hdr-plea.shtml
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and refers to a post-processing method which allows to dramatically increase the dynamic range of a photograph (duh!) by merging different exposures of a same scene. Though the idea is not new, the technique has quickly caught on after new algorithms for the critical tone mapping operation (cramming the increased brightness range into something that a screen or a print can display) were developed a few years ago. HDR is also used a lot in video games as they allow to render a same scene under a variety of lighting conditions, but we will here only discuss the applications to photography.
While the economic situation for photojournalism in 2009 was miserable, the work produced was amazing. Here are some of my favorite stories, sites, and essays, listed chronologically through 2009.
UPDATE: According to Leica US, the X1 camera will be on time for the scheduled January 2010 delivery. This rumor is busted for now. Arlingtoncamera just confirmed the news to LR: their Leica rep has told them that the Leica X1 will be delayed until Februa
By Gary Miller for SportsShooter
Yes, the changes in our industry are monumental but it will be the love of our craft and the understanding that photojournalism, on all levels, has the ability to change lives.
By Andy Rogers for SportsShooter
With the closure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in May though, my goal of retiring as a newspaper photographer took a hit. My colleagues and I were faced with the challenge of being laid off in the worst economy of our lifetimes. We would all have to consider the question of how to get our careers back on track or whether to continue a career in photojournalism at all.
By Matthew McClain, for SportsShooter
What I have learned in the following months of the paper closing is there’s no right or wrong way to be a freelance photographer. The majority of my fellow Rocky Mountain News photographers are still working here in Denver. None of our paths have been quite the same. Some are pursuing video production while others are breaking into the wedding market. The other portion is seeking primarily editorial and commercial gigs.