Author: Trent
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Viviane Dalles Wins the Canon Female Photojournalist Award – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Canon Female Photojournalist Award has just been awarded to the 36-year old French photographer Viviane Dalles
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Embracing Change: Magnum Photos in the Age of Instagram – Feature Shoot
Embracing Change: Magnum Photos in the Age of Instagram On June 17th, photography fans can collect a piece of Magnum history for the bargain price of $100. Tagged #MAGNUMSquare on Instagram, the flash, two-day sale will offer 44 museum quality (6×6) prints from Magnum’s famous photographers, all signed, at a price affordable to a wide…
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Crimson on White: Hunting the Polar Bear | TIME
Images of a Polar Bear Hunt Poverty drives Inuit in Canada to hunt and kill polar bears via Time: https://time.com/2891891/hunting-the-polar-bear/ Ed Ou spent four months in 2013 photographing Inuit communities in Nunavut, the northernmost territory of Canada
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» Storm chaser defends his photo of young Nebraska tornado victim JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/06/18/photojournalist-defends-his-photo-of-young-tornado-victim/ Storm chaser/photographer Mark Farnik has been criticized for his photo of a young tornado victim from Nebraska – what he calls “the most powerful, yet most difficult to make and look at image of my photojournalism career
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Picture Editor Mike Davis On Clarity of Voice in Today’s Media Landscape
Link: “I think now there is a greater need for picture editors and people who can craft visual narratives [to] help photographers develop [their work],” Davis says, “at a time when there are fewer of us than there have [historically] been.”
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‘A Bad Day’: Powerful Photographs Document the Daily Life of a Woman with Bulimia – Feature Shoot
Link: photographer Laia Abril catalogs the day-to-day life of a 21-year-old named Jo, a woman suffering from bulimia, an eating disorder that has consumed her thoughts and dictated her behaviors
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Worth a look: Offside Brazil by Magnum and local photographers | dvafoto
Link: Following in the footsteps of the ongoing Postcards from America tumblr project, five Magnum photographers and five Brazilian photographers are posting daily photos to Offside Brazil.
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Should I Take a Low-Paying Photo Assignment from a Major Publication?PhotoShelter Blog
Should I Take a Low-Paying Photo Assignment from a Major Publication? – PhotoShelter Blog Getting a break, a big break, in photography is challenging. When you finally get a call from a major publication to photograph for them, you might run into a situation where the editorial fee is much lower than you expected. John…
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Guillem Valle: The Sea Inside « The Leica Camera
Link: LFI spoke to photographer Guillem Valle about the concepts of states, identity, freedom and a magical underwater world
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The Worst Demo Tape Compilation in the World – Ever
Link: In the late 1980′s, my cousin gave me a cassette that instantly became an obsession of mine. It was a tape, compiled by a UK record company – and made purely for internal use – featuring the worst songs they’d ever been sent from the thousands of demo tapes they received each year.
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A New Age of Analog at New York’s Most Historic Camera Club – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ the increasing cost of darkroom supplies and the astronomical rent the non-profit pays for its space in Midtown Manhattan has forced the organization to shut down its darkrooms.
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155. BANKSY: Taking the piss (explicit)
Link: http://www.zenpencils.com/comic/155-banksy-taking-the-piss-explicit/ These photographers, including Chip Litherland, Brad Mangin and Ami Vitale are continuing to amaze us, churning out fantastic work and staying on top of their game.
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Kenny Braun photographs surfing in Texas in his book, Surf Texas.
Texas’ Hidden Surf Scene Texas isn’t generally considered a great place to surf, but there are good waves to be found if you know when and where to look. Photographer Kenny… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2014/07/kenny-braun-photographs-surfing-in-texas-in-his-book-surf-texas.html Texas isn’t generally considered a great place to surf, but there are good waves to be found if you know…
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Freelance Jun14: How I paid my mortgage by chasing internet sites that stole my work – meeting report
Link: A bizarre number of people John contacts about their use of his images tell him, “we found it on Google, it was free”, and when pushed, then say, “You forgot to put that it was copyrighted, it’s all your fault”.
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A Familiar Destiny to Photograph the New China
A Familiar Destiny to Photograph the New China Sim Chi Yin walked away form a comfortable reporting job to become a photographer with an interest in social issues. Her gamble paid off. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/vii-sim-chi-yin-china-photos-family-destiny-to-photograph-the-new-china/ Sim Chi Yin had a cushy expat life in Beijing working as a reporter for The Singapore Straits Times,…
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Amy Toensing on Hunger in America: Iowa’s Breadbasket | PROOF
Link: Amy Toensing traveled to Osage, Iowa, to photograph people who are classified as “food insecure”—meaning they need assistance, either from government programs and/or food banks to get the food they need. Toensing talks about some of her experiences in the featured video and the conversation below.
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I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or…. — BagNews
Link: I don’t want to talk about iconic photos. It’s too easy to distance oneself by turning the photo into an object. Of course, that’s unavoidable here in our daily exploration of the role and the meaning of pictures in our visual culture and our visual media. Just not this time.
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Death sentence given in AP photographer’s killing
Link: A Kabul court announced Wednesday that the Afghan police officer charged with killing Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding veteran AP correspondent Kathy Gannon has been convicted and sentenced to death.
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Kitra Cahana on Hunger in America: The Suburbs | PROOF
Link: Kitra Cahana travelled to the suburbs of Houston, Texas, to photograph people who get by with the assistance of food pantries—meaning they often don’t have enough food, or don’t have a enough nutritious food to keep them healthy. She talks about some of her experiences in the featured video and the conversation below.
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Shooting from the Hip SF Style – SF: The Hip
Link: Just like in Chicago, SF: The Hip will consist of a heavy dose of iPhone street photography mixed with my daily work at the San Francisco Chronicle and some occasional musings about the state of photojournalism.