Author: Trent
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But is it photography?
Link: Would it make sense to rebrand the Deutsche Börse Prize as a conceptual photography prize given the variety of photographers shortlisted over the past years? You decide
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Competition: The photographs of the year
Link: The APPPF (Agency for the Promotion of Professional Photography in France) has organized the third edition of the photographic prize called “Photographs of the Year”. A competition reserved for European professional photographers meant to promote their know-how.
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2011 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship
Link: I was ecstatic to find out that I am the recipient of the Houston Center for Photography’s 2011 Juried Fellowship for my ongoing Sun City: Life After Life essay. My talented colleague Matt Eich won the same honor in 2010 for his “Carry Me Ohio” essay.
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Photographer #264: Paul D'Amato
Photographer #264: Paul D’Amato Paul D’Amato, 1956, USA, could be called a “creative non-fiction” photographer. His photographic practice has always inhabited a space betwe… Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/04/photographer-264-paul-damato.html Paul D’Amato, 1956, USA, could be called a “creative non-fiction” photographer. His photographic practice has always inhabited a space between two contradictory truths.
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D*Face Comes to L.A.: British Street Artist Talks Advertising, Skating and Punk Rock
Link: It’s not so much important that you don’t know who I am. I don’t find that it’s necessarily relevant that you know who I am regarding my work. The work speaks for itself and if it doesn’t speak for itself, then I like people to reinterpret it for their own views. I don’t know…
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finally…the finals
Link: After photographing the Chicago Golden Gloves for what seems like months, the first of three nights of finals finally arrived Thursday night.
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Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Getting Comfortable With Contracts
Link: When Erika Hall and I started Mule 10 years ago, we were excited to be able to take on our own clients, make our own decisions, and most of all, to do what we loved to do. One task that didn’t break our top ten was negotiating contracts. And while it still isn’t our…
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A Few Thoughts on Black & White Conversion… Past and Present
Link: As I was working through scripting for the Black & White segment of my new Adobe Camera Raw series, it just kept getting longer, and longer and longer. Which, uhhhh…. might be a problem. But as I dug into it, it also just kept getting more and more interesting! So I decided to spin…
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Conversations about Photobooks: Lesley Martin
Link: Aperture has long been a – maybe the – beacon of American photobook publishing. It’s pretty much impossible to talk about photobooks without at some stage running into a book that was done by Aperture. Lesley Martin, Publisher of the Aperture Book Program, has worked on a huge number of those books, often pushing…
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If you are a student, apply for Luceo's grant
Link: I too am developing a real love / hate relationship with this camera. There’s so much to enjoy, yet also so much to frustrate one.
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Associated Press photographer found "unharmed" in Libya
Link: Altaf Qadri, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who had gone missing in Libya on Saturday, has been found “unharmed”
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David Guttenfelder's Black-And-White Japan Quake Photo Essay
AP photojournalist David Guttenfelder has been documenting life in the evacuation zone surrounding t
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Why the Leica M9 is a better camera (video)
Link: Mr. McConnell’s story, which includes 50 images, won a World Press Photo award this year but has yet to be exhibited outside Spain. Mr. McConnell, who is represented by Panos Pictures, worked for three years as a press photographer in Northern Ireland before traveling through Australia, Asia and Africa, where he is based. He…
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Two American journalists held in Libya for two weeks without word
Link: James Foley, a correspondent for GlobalPost, and Clare Morgana Gillis, a journalist working for The Atlantic and USA Today
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The Pulitzer Prizes
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
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What Buyers Want from Photographers
Link: Our free e-book “What Buyers Want from Photographers” is a compilation of information gleaned from our survey of 500 photo buyers and editors that we created in conjunction with our friends at Agency Access. The 40-page PDF is deigned to help photographers fine tune their marketing efforts and portfolio website with direct guidance from…
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Pencil: BREAKING NEWS
Link: For the record, this was billed as: World Extreme Pencil Fighting Championships WXPFL VIII: Hard Wood. ”The Schoolyard Sport of Pencil Fighting goes Pro! Pencil vs. Pencil Until Somebody Breaks!”
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Tim Hetherington
Two years ago I was working as a Sundance producer for Park City’s KPCW radio station. One of my pri
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei
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Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post
Link: These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.