Author: Trent

  • Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud

    Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud

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    Photobook Review: Vers l’Orient by Marc Riboud via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/riboud-vers-lorient/ Thirty years old, Henri Cartier-Bresson became a mentor during that time. “I often found letters from Henri waiting for me at General Delivery in Kabul, in Jaipur, in Madras, in Ahmedabad, or in some Indonesian city whose name I forget

  • Holy Mash Potatoes Batman! Flickr to Offer All Users 1 Terabyte of Free High Res Photo Storage!

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    via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2013/05/holy-mash-potatoes-batman-flickr-to-offer-all-users-1-terabyte-of-free-photo-storage.html In my opinion, this is a game changer. Just last week at Google I/O, Google upgraded everyone from 5GB of free, high res storage to 15GB of free, high res storage, but upgrading from 15GB to 1TB is quite a leap from there.

  • Philippe Monges: Following the Slave Trade

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    Link: Trans Photographic Press has just published « MéMWA », a photography book by Philippe Monges, which explores slavery and the slave trade

  • PhotoShelter – Introducing a new platform for your portfolio website.

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    Link: On Tuesday, the world awoke to the photographs of Sue Ogrocki. Based in Oklahoma City as a staff photographer for the Associated Press, Ogrocki’s images of rescue workers carrying injured children from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School appeared on the cover of many of the world’s leading newspapers, including The New York…

  • In Memoriam: Wayne Miller (1918 – 2013)

    In Memoriam: Wayne Miller (1918 – 2013)

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ To photograph mankind and explain man to man — that was how legendary photographer Wayne Miller described his decades-long drive to document the myriad subjects gracing his work. Miller passed away Wednesday at the age of 94 at his home in California.

  • $1 billion worth of stolen content

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    Link: While Tumblr always had a policy of abiding to the DMCA and would take down any flagged images not properly licensed, it is however a fact that out of the 107.8 million blogs and 50.6 billion posts, the majority are made of images stolen from other sources.

  • Maggie Steber: Seeing Past the Veil, Part 1

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    Link: When I applied for my first job at a small Texas daily paper, the managing editor told me the position would go to a male applicant. I talked him into giving me 24 hours to prove myself. I went out, found a story, photographed it, interviewed people, wrote the story, printed the pictures and…

  • Gamma-Sygma: Hubert Henrotte répond

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    Link: On May 13 you published an investigation by Michel Puech into the history of Gamma/Sygma. According to my European rights of reply, I ask that you publish this letter within 48 hours. Grave mistakes were made by the people interviewed, and by Michel Puech. I cannot allow them to stand because some of them…

  • Maggie Steber: Seeing Past the Veil, Part 2

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    Link: Here, is the second and final installment on her amazing career, including her thoughtful views on her personal goals and achievements and her observations on the role and relevance of photography in today’s rapidly changing world of digital imaging

  • Tomorrow’s Sun-Times cover?

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/05/30/tomorrows-sun-times-cover/ “It’s shocking that the remnants of the group that once had photographers like Scott Strazzante and Todd Heisler and Jon Lowenstein and Rob Finch, just to name a few of the Pulitzer-winners and Photographers of the Year that once worked at Copley Chicago, believes it no longer needs any…

  • How the Internet Killed Photojournalism

    How the Internet Killed Photojournalism

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    How the Internet Killed Photojournalism – PhotoShelter Blog “The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news. We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements. The Chicago Sun-Times continues to evolve…

  • How to ensure your extinction: look at what newspapers are doing

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    Link: This week the Chicago Sun Times made what might just be one of the most clearly shorsighted decisions in its history:  they let go of all of their photography staff. Keep in mind that were are in the HEYDAY of photography.  

  • Don’t Mourn, Organize!

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    Link: Why do photographers just take all the indignities that have befallen the industry in these past few years? This isn’t the first example of a publication letting go of staff photographers

  • The Leica X Vario – previously known as Paula

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    Link: it seems to me that at the very least Leica have produced an interesting modern take on a popular design strategy

  • 1000x – Leica Monochrom

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    Home via Nick Frank: http://www.iso72.de/?p=498&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1000x-leica-monochrom One thing I noticed while using the monochrom is that I don‘t shoot that much inflationary anymore I am even more focussed on the subject now. I also noticed that I am taking pictures of subjects I wouldnt have shot before, thats an interesting side effect. It takes time to…

  • Narbonne Sportfolio 2013

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    Link: By bringing together the best is sports photography, the Festival Sportfolio, the first of its kind, aims to pay tribute to the neglected talent of sports photographers.

  • Sayed Asif Mahmud – Tobacco Tale

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    Link: Tobacco Tale depicts the cycle of destruction, a bizarre reality of tobacco industry in Bangladesh—documentation of disposing people to unfortunate death and decay.

  • Happy Father’s Day: Portraits from America’s Purity Balls

    Happy Father’s Day: Portraits from America’s Purity Balls

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ When the Swedish photographer David Magnusson created the pictures for his series Purity — now on view at the Malmö Museer as part of his first solo show — he followed the same procedure every time. One hour with a large-format…

  • Grazia Neri: The Lady of Photography

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    Link: Avoid cliché, wonder if the photo has a real meaning before presenting it to a magazine or to a gallery. Live your life, especially when young in the middle of photography (exhibitions, festivals, conference and web where you have many contents for free). Learn about copyright laws. Be friend with other photographers: they could…

  • Ethics Matters » Chicago Sun-Times lays off photo staff

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    Link: Is the demise of a staff of photojournalists an ethical issue? Usually we deal with lying and the other aspects of our Code of Ethics, but we all felt (very deeply) that this is probably one of the most basic ethical issues we face today. It is the ethics of survival; the survival of…