In March, we asked photographers to “Show Us Your PhotoShelter” by blogging about how you’re using our service. We hoped to learn a little bit more about they ways we’re helping you and your business. So many of your responses blew us away, and now we’re handing out a few gifts for some of our favorites. With so many fantastic stories, and so few gifts to share, we had to seriously battle it out to decide which ones came out on top. You’re each using PhotoShelter in so many different ways, we also learned a thing or two! Have a look at some of the responses, and you just may pick up some tricks or even a little inspiration…
This afternoon VII Photo Agency announced the launch of their latest venture, VII The Magazine, a syndicated online magazine that features photo stories and interviews with VII photographers. The beta version of VII The Magazine, which is subtitled “How photographers see the world,” is being presented in partnership with the Herald Scotland newspaper and the photography blog Lens Culture, with further partners to be added and announced in the coming months. VII Photo is offering the magazine as a widget that can be inserted into the Web pages of its syndication partners.
The assignment facing Adam Nadel was to take photographs for an exhibition by the Malaria Consortium. That meant going beyond pictures of patients ravaged by malaria.
Mr. Nadel knew that he would need to deliver more than just a series of heart-rending portraits. “If you have a bunch of great pictures but they don’t communicate the complexity and the important aspects of what you’re documenting, then what you have are powerful emotional photographs,” he said.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a taker of great photographs. Some three hundred of them make for an almost unendurably majestic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, from his famous portly puddle-jumper of 1932 (“Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris”) to views of Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1971, one of his last visual essays as the globe-trotting heavyweight champion of photojournalism. Nearly every picture displays the classical panache—the fullness, the economy—of a painting by Poussin. Any half-dozen of them would have engraved their author’s name in history. Resistance to the work is futile, if quality is our criterion, but inevitable, I think, on other grounds.
A.K. Kimoto, a Japanese photographer born in the U.S. in 1977, passed away unexpectedly in the last week in March while preparing to visit FotoFreo Photo Festival in Australia. The following are eulogies by his closest friends celebrating his life and work, published alongside his images of opium addiction in Badakshan, Afghanistan.
The fees, the latest introduced by American Airlines in a continuing effort to combat its financial woes, will take effect on Monday. According to company officials, these charges will include a $25 tax on citizens traveling with any other airline, as well as a mandatory $30 surcharge for passengers who decide to just stay home for the holidays instead.
I couldn’t be happier in saying that Photoshop CS5 has been announced, along with the entire Creative Suite 5 family of products! Check out what’s new in Photoshop (images & quick v…
[slidepress gallery=’manjarisharma_theshowerseries’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Manjari Sharma The Shower Series play this essay For the …
Somali doctors and nurses have expressed shock at the conduct of film crews in hospitals. They rush through crowded corridors, leaping over stretchers, dashing to film the agony before it passes. They hold bedside vigils to record the moment of death. When the Italian actress Sophia Loren visited Somalia, the paparazzi trampled on children as they scrambled to film her feeding a little girl-three times. This is disaster pornography.
With the annual Burning Man celebration of art and self-expression four months away, its organizers are taking a second look at their Draconian photo and video policies. As it is now, the Burning Man Organization requires ticket purchasers to assign to th
“A lot of my friends are in that video. After watching the video, I would definitely say that that is, nine times out of ten, the way things ended up. Killing was following military protocol.…
Full details on the new Leica Cinema lenses can be found at bandpro. The price is not publicly announced, but you can get a quote (I just did). I am sure it will be a 5 digit number (for one lens, in US$). Here is the actual size of one of the Leica Cinem
We have a first look at this cool new PocketWizard accessory, which has an expected street price of US$69.95 in the U.S. and is tentatively scheduled for release late next month. We’ve been testing a near-final ZoneController for some time and it’s great. If you value being able to work quickly with multiple Speedlites on location in particular, the arrival of the ZoneController can’t come soon enough.
Here we have it folks, the winners of the 2009 Sports Shooter Annual Contest! The judging was held Wednesday evening at Sports Shooter Academy VII in Orange County, CA.
PART FIFTEEN IN A SERIES OF POSTS DISCUSSING PHOTOGRAPHERS’ ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF FABIENNE CHERISMA IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2010. The aftermath of the H…