Category: Photography
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A photographer on the creative solace of sketchbooks
A photographer on the creative solace of sketchbooks ‘A beautiful mess’ — For Michael Todd, working in sketchbooks has become a ritual to him – a space to escape and be at one with his images. via Huck: https://www.huckmag.com/article/a-photographer-on-the-creative-solace-of-sketchbooks For Michael Todd, working in sketchbooks has become a ritual to him – a space to…
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A Search for Something Fresh – Photographs by Samantha Cooper | Interview by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture
A Search for Something Fresh – Photographs by Samantha Cooper | Interview by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture Photo editor of WIRED Samantha Cooper shares all the necessary ingredients for a bold, fresh and arresting portrait via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/samantha-cooper-a-search-for-something-fresh Photo editor of WIRED Samantha Cooper shares all the necessary ingredients for a bold, fresh and…
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Why can’t we pay freelancers in days, not months? – Columbia Journalism Review
Why can’t we pay freelancers in days, not months? OutVoice dares publishers to pay freelancers promptly via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/outvoice-invoices.php OutVoice dares publishers to pay freelancers promptly
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Any Answers: Chris Boot – British Journal of Photography
Any Answers: Chris Boot This month, editor, publisher, and executive director at Aperture Foundation Chris Boot reflects on his life and career via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/any-answers-chris-boot/ This month, editor, publisher, and executive director at Aperture Foundation Chris Boot reflects on his life and career
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Into the Unknown: How I Reinvented Myself After 25 Years at Sports Illustrated
Into the Unknown: How I Reinvented Myself After 25 Years at Sports Illustrated Over the years I’ve been contacted through social media, emails and in person by young photographers seeking advice on being a sports photographer. I via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/20/into-the-unknown-reinventing-yourself-as-a-photographer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 But after many years on contract, then on staff, I realized it was time for…
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Balancing Excellence – Photographs by various artists | Interview by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture
Balancing Excellence – Photographs by various artists | Interview by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture How do you define excellence when so much of photography is constantly changing and reinventing itself? Manolis Moresopoulos, Director of the Athens Photo Festival, shares his insights via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/manolis-moresopoulos-balancing-excellence How do you define excellence when so much of photography…
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No Picture Needed. An Open Letter to Unseen from Felicity Hammond – AMERICAN SUBURB X
No Picture Needed. An Open Letter to Unseen from Felicity Hammond Open letter to Unseen. February 11, 2020 I am writing to retract my payment request for the artworks sold, expenses incurred and the commission realised as part of your art fair in 2019. You have no intention of paying me or the countless other…
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Friday Inspiration: PDN 30 All Grown Up – PhotoShelter Blog
Friday Inspiration: PDN 30 All Grown Up – PhotoShelter Blog What happens when a major photo magazine shuts down? That question has reverberated throughout our office ever since Emerald Expositions, the owner of Photo District News (PDN), announced that the beloved magazine was ceasing publication. The decision to via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/02/friday-inspiration-pdn-30-all-grown-up/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 We’ve been big…
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2019 CIPA Figures Reveal a Rough End to a Terrible Decade for Camera Makers
2019 CIPA Figures Reveal a Rough End to a Terrible Decade for Camera Makers CIPA—the Camera & Imaging Products Association—has released their December 2019 sales breakdown, rounding out a devastating decade for the camera industry via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/03/2019-cipa-figures-reveal-a-rough-end-to-a-terrible-decade-for-camera-makers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 CIPA—the Camera & Imaging Products Association—has released their December 2019 sales breakdown, rounding out a devastating decade…
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What Happens When a Major Photo Magazine Shuts Down?
What Happens When a Major Photo Magazine Shuts Down? Last week, Emerald Expositions, the owner of Photo District News (PDN), announced that PDN would no longer publish new content online or in print. The via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/03/what-happens-when-a-major-photo-magazine-shuts-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Like a local newspaper shutting its doors, I can’t help but wonder what we are losing when niche…
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Own Your Workflow and Goals (and don’t get too distracted by the mantras of others) – 35mmc
Own Your Workflow and Goals (and don’t get too distracted by the mantras of others) – 35mmc One of the wonderful things about photography is how broad it is as a pastime. The options are absolutely endless, from capture media, camera type, process to display. In fact, with the revival of film photography, combined with…
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The things that kill themselves – Thoughts of a Bohemian
The things that kill themselves – Thoughts of a Bohemian The particularity of the photo industry is its deathwish. At its core, everything and everyone in this industry seems hell-bent into destroying itself and, along with it, the whole industry. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/the-things-that-kill-themselves/ The particularity of the photo industry is its death…
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Astonishing Photos of Soviet Village Life Found In Abandoned House
Astonishing Photos of Soviet Village Life Found In Abandoned House In the spring of 2016, film student Victor Galusca was exploring a sleepy village in his native Moldova when the 23-year-old noticed some photographic via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/21/the-village-genius-astonishing-photos-of-soviet-life-found-in-an-abandoned-house/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The discarded pictures were the life’s work of Zaharia Cusnir, an unknown amateur photographer who died in 1993.
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50 Artists Donate to Support the Australian Bushfire Photo Appeal, Launching Today – Feature Shoot
50 Artists Donate to Support the Australian Bushfire Photo Appeal, Launching Today – Feature Shoot All across Australia, bushfires are burning at an unprecedented scale. On January 14, the Australian government announced that the fires have devastated estimated 46 million acres (72,000 square miles), killing… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/50-artists-donate-to-support-the-australian-bushfire-photo-appeal-launching-today/ Laurence Watts, a photographic artist currently…
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How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town – The New York Times
How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town Newnan, Ga., decided to use art to help the community celebrate diversity and embrace change. Not everyone was ready for what they saw. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/us/newnan-art-georgia-race.html But it turned out that only a few dozen white nationalists attended the rally, and the Newnan they had imagined no…
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Female in Focus: championing a gender-equal photography industry – British Journal of Photography
Female in Focus: championing a gender-equal photography industry Female in Focus is a platform purposed to discover, promote and reward a new generation of women-identifying photographers around the world In 1985, feminist art collective the Guerilla Girls famously posed the question on a public billboard: “Do women ha via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/01/female-in-focus-championing-a-gender-equal-photography-industry/ As…
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In Youth Sports Photography, It’s Pros Vs. Parents – PDN
Link: Harte says fans with DSLR cameras are offering photos for a much lower price than he can charge, or giving them away. “People in this age are just used to having pictures handed to them for free,” he says.
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Homage to Abu Ghraib? « Prison Photography
Homage to Abu Ghraib? It may not be wise to question a photography project that was conceived of, and produced, in honour of the photographer’s father who was tortured in Stalinist labour camps. But, is not Anton … via Prison Photography: https://prisonphotography.org/2009/10/26/homage-to-abu-ghraib/ It may not be wise to question a photography project that was conceived…
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CNN.com's Attrocious Use of Photography – A Picture's Worth
Link: CNN.com is my browser homepage, and I don’t know why.
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PDNPulse: Boosting Your Income With Strategic Estimating
Link: Advertising photographer Jeff Sedlik’s seminar, Strategic Estimating, was about how NOT to be a starving artist. And it boiled down to this: protect your copyright, negotiate strategically, communicate clearly, and get all of your agreements in writing.