Category: Asides
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The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: The Herald
Link: It was then that I lost the sense of guilt that used to come from making pictures that didn’t have an actual narrative. I started to become more comfortable with ambiguity and with the sort of timelessness.
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Conscientious | Klaus Pichler
Link: We’re thrilled to present the winners of the 2010 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards.
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Revamped NPPA Student Quarterly Clip Contest Opens Next Week
Link: the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself. You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Mac OS X 10.6.5 improves Aperture processing, extends RAW format support
Link: the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself. You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to…
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Inside CPOY: In & Out with Leah Beane
Link: In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret…
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Paul Ripke: That ‘Leica Feel’ « The Leica Camera
Link: Norway is my favorite country on Earth, but life near a warm sea with fresh octopus hanging on racks has its perks as well
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DxOMark tests the Nikon D7000 | Nikon Rumors
DxOMark tests the Nikon D7000 – Nikon Rumors DxOMark released their test results of the Nikon D7000. The overall score of the D7000 is 80, which puts it on second place in the APS-C category after the Pentax K-5 with 82 scores: From all measured sensors (full frame, medium format), the D7000 is currently ranked…
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Kuwait bans DSLR use by non-journalists | dvafoto
Link: I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There,…
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PDN Pulse » Davide Monteleone Wins 2011 Aftermath Grant
Link: The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film development.
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Friendly contest deadline reminder – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
Link: There’s a lot of good work at the recently published 30Under30 Women Photographers online exhibition. The site showcases the diverse work of 30 young female photographers.
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PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA: "Philip-Lorca diCorcia – Portfolio" (2001)
Link: Roman Meffre and Yves Marchand are two young French men who spent five years taking pictures of the city of Detroit, the world’s now abandoned car construction capital.
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NPPA Humanitarian Award Presented To John David Mercer
Link: We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims…
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Photo Mechanic for $60! 15th Anniversary Sale – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: Russell Frederick has been documenting the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn as part of an ongoing project since 1999. Mr. Frederick, 40, is a member of Kamoinge, a New York-based collective and is working on his first solo exhibition “Black.” Mr. Frederick spoke with me this week in New York.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon announces development of 200-400mm with integrated 1.4X teleconverter, new Speedlites and refreshed Rebel digital SLRs
Link: Today, I decided to concentrate on the chairs that people put out by the curb. In an hour of driving around the streets in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, I photographed well over 50 different types of chairs.
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Egyptian army cracks down on photographers [update] – British Journal of Photography
Link: Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early…
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The Woman in the 'Family of Man' Family: Misha Erwitt on His Mother – NYTimes.com
The Woman in the ‘Family of Man’ Family A lot has been said about this photograph, but Misha Erwitt (whose mother and sister are shown) says its greatest meaning comes from its place in his family. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/the-woman-in-the-family-of-man-family/ “I make fewer than 50 photographs a year. For every exposure I make, I spend…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: ShutterSnitch updated to v2.0.2
Link: What Fernando Brito (a photojournalist from Mexico) seeks with his images, is that the next time someone sees a photo of a human being who has perished, they would cease looking at violent deaths as a normal, everyday occurance.
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Miami Heat owner sues blogger over photo
Miami Heat owner sues blogger over photo Miami Heat stakeholder Ranaan Katz is suing a blogger over an “unflattering” photo published online, reports Tim Elfrink in The Miami New Times. In the lawsuit, Katz claims copyright vi… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/06/26/miami-heat-owner-sues-blogger.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Miami Heat stakeholder Ranaan Katz is suing a blogger over an “unflattering” photo published…
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First Successful Descent Abiqua Falls – lucas gilman
Jesse Coombs, dropped the 94 foot tall Abiqua Falls in Oregon’s Willamette Valley
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A Photo Editor – I Didn’t Choose My Gender- But I Have Chosen To Be A Photojournalist
I Didn’t Choose My Gender- But I Have Chosen To Be A Photojournalist – A Photo Editor Harry Benson responds to the Laura Logan assault in Egypt by writing “the last place for a young, attractive woman to be is in the middle of an extremely dangerous situation” (here) prompting this response from photojournalist Julie…