Category: Editor’s Choice
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Findings – Hiroshi Watanabe « Eat The Darkness
I recently received Hiroshi Watanabe’s new book “Findings” in the mail. It’s been a while since a body of work has moved me and inspired me so much. Enough to at least write about it here, not as a review, but as a brief ramble to celebrate Watanabe’s vision and to hopefully inspire a few of you reading this…
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The Exposure Project: Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga
Polish photographic duo Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga’s bird’s eye view images macroscopically investigate domestic space. Check it out here.
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. Check it out here.
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, Works
Photo by Adrees Latif of Reuters. A wounded Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai, lay before a Burmese soldier yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar, as troops attacked protesters. Mr. Nagai later died. Published September 28, 2007. Check it out here.
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Not a Moment Without Comedy – Shoot The Blog
So our person-in-the-know this week is Åsk Wäppling. She is the Art Director (in addition to main muse and CEO) of Adland the commercial archive. So she looks at ads all day. In fact, she originally suggested a totally different ad campaign for this column, but couldn’t stop talking about this photographer Arthur Mebius; she…
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Tim Clayton, Sydney Morning Herald | Raw Take
What has actually happened is many photographers have evolved beyond the wants and needs of the newspaper. We are shooting stories that don’t get published and shooting personal projects to keep our brains stimulated. The ‘cat sat on the mat’ images pay the bills. In many ways it is a sad reflection of photojournalism today,…
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A great digital imaging project honors the fallen
Photographer Peter Krogh (author of the excellent The DAM Book, the Rapid Fixer extension for Bridge, and more) recently completed an ambitious & enormous digital imaging project: photographing all 58,256 names listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, enabling the creation of an interactive online version of the wall. By stitching together some 1,494 digital images…
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Photography in China: 1934-2008 – lens culture
Photo by WU Jialin, Yibin, Sichuan Province, 1989 The world’s most comprehensive collection and overview of photography from China is currently on display in a mammoth city-wide exhibition in Houston, Texas, as part of FotoFest 2008. This is a tremendously ambitious and successful presentation of the important roles that photography has played in the dramatic…
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Pablo Zuleta Zahr :: Studio La Città
Spotted in the New York Times Magazine Pablo Zuleta Zahr was born in Chile in 1978. He lives and works in Berlin Somewhere in a subway under neutral lighting Pablo Zuleta Zahr has set up his video camera in front of a monochrome wall and held out for ten hours. In such places, one can’t…
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Photographer Plans To Burn Pictures In Protest At Awards Snub (Sunday Herald)
Freelance photographer Roddy Mackay was told he was shortlisted for the Young Photographer of the Year category in the prestigious national awards at the end of February – only to be told soon after that judges had decided to withdraw the prize because the overall standard of entries in the category was “not good enough”.…
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Standard Operating Procedure – Trailer
New from director Errol Morris. Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or…
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This one is worth a thousand words | Blogs | Reuters.co.uk
Hats off to Luis Vasconcelos for this powerful picture. The caption says, “An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the…
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AEVUM
New photo collective with photographers Elyse Butler, Matt Eich, Yoon S Byun, Andrew Henderson, Chris Capozziello, Matt Mallams. Check it out here. Via MultiMediaShooter.
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The World From My Front Porch – Larry Towell
A mid-career retrospective, this exhibition explores the issues of land and landlessness in two parts. The first section reveals Larry Towell’s family and their relationship to their land in Ontario. Most of the photographs in this section were taken within 100 yards of his front porch. The second section reviews Towell’s work over the past…
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PDN's 30 2008
Nearly ten years ago, towards the end of 1998, we here at Photo District News embarked on an endeavor we called PDN’s “30 Under 30.” Sitting in a small room in our then Times Square offices, Holly Stuart Hughes, Darren Ching, former photo editor Mackenzie Green and myself gathered together a large pile of promising…
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scott campbell: Great Showdowns.
hey, diary and others. i did these nine paintings for the Crazy 4 Cult show at Gallery 1988 in LA tomorrow night. They depict nine great movie showdowns. you might remember these great moments in movie history. Check it out here.
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A Bloody Stalemate In Afghanistan – Korengal Valley – New York Times
Photo by Lynsey Addario for The New York Times As I went to get some hot chocolate in the dining tent, the peaceful night was shattered by mortars, rockets and machine-gun fire banging and bursting around us. It was a coordinated attack on all the fire bases. It didn’t take long to understand why so…
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SPACE INVADERS | Guillaume Reymond | video performance
SPACE INVADERS is the second video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). 67 extras 4 hours of shooting 390 pictures Check it out here.
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Eddie Adams Applications & Audio – APhotoADay News
And while looking at their site for the first time in a while, I realized that they finally got around to putting up some amazing audio from the past 20 years of the workshop. It’s kind of like having your own personal workshop experience right in your home. Legends like Gordon Parks, Bill Eppridge, David…