Link: Photographic essays – Inside Magazine
via: dvafoto
On Sunday May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.), we hope you’ll be taking a picture that will help us build a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world. We extend the invitation to everyone, everywhere. Amateurs. Students.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/about-3/
Andrew Kaufman took a long look at religion in America during the Bush presidency. His multi-story project is irreverently titled The United States of God and the Jesus Freaks. One chapter is in th…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/andrew-kaufman-and-the-incarcerated-jesus-freaks/
Meeting is bid to improve relations.
via POLITICO: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35944.html
This is the official response I received from BandPro on the price and availability of the Leica cinema lenses: “They will originally come in a set of 8 lenses and will begin delivering in the last quarter of 2010. The price for the set of 8 is $178,000 a
A Q. & A. with the Polish photographer Adam Lach, who has been on assignment for The Times capturing images of this week’s events after a plane crash in Russia killed his country’s president and 95 others.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/poland-grieves-but-with-few-tears/
Former Art Buyers and current photography consultants Amanda Sosa Stone and Suzanne Sease have agreed to take anonymous questions from photographers and not only give their expert advice but put it out to a wide range of photographers, reps and art buyers
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/04/16/ask-anything-editorial-late-fees-mailer-response-rates-and-pursuing-animal-photography/
Fazal Sheikh is an artist and activist based in Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been widely exhibited, in institutions ranging from the Tate Modern to the Princeton University Art Museum to small huts in rural India. He has collaborated with numerous foundations and non-governmental-organizations, and he has won, among many other awards, a MacArthur Prize.
I asked him to do an interview with the PhotoPhilanthropy blog because he approaches collaboration, strategic partnerships and accessibility in a way that I find very inspiring.
Link: Fazal Sheikh: fear, vulnerability and openness – PhotoPhilanthropy’s Blog, written by Eliza Gregory
I came here to understand the primal drive of the modern hunter, writes photographer Erica Larsen, and to find a people who, when the land speaks, can interpret its language.
“MY NAME IS MICHAEL. I TOOK A PHOTO CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL. I DID NOT OWN A CAMERA. I FAILED THE CLASS.”
Christian Als contacted me recently, to let me know of his project A Childhood Behind Bars. Als visited Cesis Correctional Facility for Juveniles, Latvia’s only juvenile prison. A quick inter…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/latvian-juvenile-prisons-by-christian-als/
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs are on show in New York until June 28th
via The Economist: http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905863&fsrc=rss
Catalonia-based Ricardo Garcia Vilanova has been working on a long term project in Afghanistan about the victims of the Afghan war, both civil and military.
via The Photo Brigade: http://www.thephotobrigade.com/2010/04/afghanistan-by-ricardo-garcia-vilanova/
In a very personal interview with VII The Magazine, photographer Ashley Gilbertson, opens up about the effects of war on soldiers and their families, himself, and the country.
Link: VII The Magazine
My latest Guardian column, “Digital Economy Act: This means war,” explains how the latest round of dirty tricks from the entertainment industry — perverting British law, proposing…
I can definitely tell that the rumors chatter started to pick up in the last few days after it was dead for a month. Something is definitely coming – I already started to see the first signs of an imminent announcement (Nikon AF-S 200-400mm f/4G IF-ED VR
James Fee: Darkroom Odyssey I’ve decided to take this blog in a little different direction with this post. A bit further back in the past, …
Link: http://photographyinterviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/james-fee-darkroom-odyssey-ive-decided.html
Also included in the acquisition are 40,000 rolls of film spanning Friedlander’s work since the mid-1950s.
Link: PDNPulse: Gallery and Library Buy Make Yale Largest Holder of Lee Friedlander’s Work
Love trashy, low-contrast photographs taken through a plastic lens, but find them a little flat? What you need is the Holga 120 3D Stereo Camera, Lomo’s medium format stereo-shooter that grabs two shots side-by-side for some photographic 3D action. The pl
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/stereo-holga-camera-lowers-3d-production-values/