Category: Editor’s Choice

Innovator: Brad Mangin

Innovator: Brad Mangin

Freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin has many claims to fame: one, according to him, is being the last photographer on earth to get an iPhone. While that claim may be hard to prove, another will be substantiated when Instant Baseball is published thi

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/27177

Freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin has many claims to fame: one, according to him, is being the last photographer on earth to get an iPhone. While that claim may be hard to prove, another will be substantiated when Instant Baseball is published this April. The book chronicles the 2012 Major League Baseball season with images shot on Mangin’s iPhone and posted to the image sharing Web site Instagram. It may be the first non-self published book comprised entirely of Instagram images shot on an iPhone.

January 11, 2013
go irish and/or roll tide

Link: go irish and/or roll tide | Redlights and Redeyes

I sat there after the first half with Alabama up several touchdowns up on Notre Dame and ate a terrible hot dog in a media room where all the photographers just looked depressed. All of the excitement, the adrenaline, and preparedness was sucked right out of everyone. No hopes of a comeback. There were just a lot of shocked Notre Dame faces and chants of “Roll Tide!” Over. And over. And over

January 9, 2013
Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

Alex Webb: Rendering a Complex World, in Color and Black-and-White

For the Magnum photographer Alex Webb, how a picture turns out isn’t always up to him.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/alex-webb-rendering-a-complex-world-in-color-and-black-and-white/

For someone who says 99 percent of street photography is about failure, Alex Webb has had a notably successful career. From his early work in Haiti and along the United States-Mexico border, to recent projects in the United States Rust Belt, Mr. Webb, a member of Magnum Photos, had produced a deep archive of images rich in color and complexity. James Estrin recently discussed with him how his work has evolved over the last four decades

January 8, 2013
Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012

Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/winners-of-the-national-geographic-photo-contest-2012/100434/

The winners have just been announced of this year’s National Geographic photo contest. The Society received more than 22,000 entries from over 150 countries. Presented here are the winners from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, captions provided by the photographers

January 7, 2013
366: The Year in Photographs, 2012

LightBox | Time

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/01/366-the-year-in-photographs-2012/#1

“Hundreds of photographers sent in images and there are 5 pages of posts….at the end of each page click on ‘Older Posts’ to keep going. I hope you are inspired by today’s offerings and look forward to what next year will bring. Happy Happy 2013!
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January 1, 2013
2012: The Year in Pictures

2012: The Year in Pictures

Colum McCann reflects on the images — disturbing, inspired and absurd — that shaped our collective consciousness this year.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/sunday-review/2012-year-in-pictures.html?hp

Here are 20 unforgettable moments I experienced as a photographer for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2012.

December 30, 2012
Alan Laboile’s Family Photos, Thrown Before the World

Link: Alan Laboile’s Family Photos, Thrown Before the World – NYTimes.com

In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.

December 27, 2012
North Korea photographs by David Guttenfelder

Snapshots from a secret state: Panoramic pictures of North Koreans at work and play give an extraordinary glimpse of everyday life

Award-winning photographer David Guttenfelder, has made a dozen trips into North Korea since 2000, trying to capture the country as accurately as possible for outsiders.

via Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252102/North-Korea-photographs-David-Guttenfelder.html

“For this project, I used a Hasselblad XPAN, a panoramic-view film camera that is no longer manufactured.

Throughout the year, I wore it around my neck and shot several dozen rolls of color negative film in between my normal coverage of news and daily life with my AP-issued digital cameras.

The XPAN is quiet, discrete, manual and simple. Because it has a wide panoramic format, it literally gives me a different view of North Korea.

The film also reflects how I feel when I’m in North Korea, wandering among the muted or gritty colors, and the fashions and styles that often seem to come from a past generation. “

December 23, 2012
Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

“One of the truly great things about war … is that all you have to do is survive.”

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/overexposed-a-photographers-war-with-ptsd/266468/1/

“‘I don’t think you can go into the most traumatic situations that arise on earth, voluntarily, and come back unchanged,’ said Ashley Gilbertson, who admits that his experience in Iraq is never far from thought.

Eight years after Gilbertson and Dexter Filkins climbed those steps, those perilous moments on the step have followed Gilbertson.

‘A 22-year-old kid was killed because Ashley needed a photograph,’ Filkins said. ‘He’s tormented by that.’”

December 20, 2012
Prix AFD : Photo Story, Patrick Willocq

Link: Prix AFD : Photo Story, Patrick Willocq | Le Journal de la Photographie

This project came together over several trips to a dozen villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It depicts a day in the life of the Bantu villages and Batwa Pygmies in what was once known as French Equatorial Africa. I photograph the villagers standing before their huts, which I treat as a kind of stage . The result is a series of “African tableaux.”

December 12, 2012
The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012

Link: The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012 | Poynter.

If my annual tally of plagiarism and fabrication incidents is the depressing part of “Regret the Error”‘s year-end coverage, then this annual collection of the best of the worst in errors and corrections is the highlight.

December 12, 2012
TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2012

LightBox | Time

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/11/times-best-photojournalism-of-2012/#1

Throughout 2012, TIME’s unparalleled photojournalists were there. We stood within the tumult of Tahrir Square and shared moments of quiet with the world’s most powerful President. We documented both the ravages of war on Syria’s blasted cities and the devastation nature wrought on our own backyard in New York. At a time when so much hangs in the balance, bearing witness can be the most essential act — and that’s what we do.

December 11, 2012
Rashid Talukder’s Largely Unknown Conflict Photography

Images of Independence, Finally Free

During Bangladesh’s 1971 struggle for independence, the newspaper photographer Rashid Talukder covered many dramatic and violent clashes but didn’t dare publish some of his pictures in his homeland for more than two decades.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/images-of-independence-finally-free/

But there was another photojournalist there, whom the others didn’t know: Rashid Talukder, who worked for a Bangladeshi newspaper. Though he also made dramatic images, he did not publish them. He couldn’t. Mr. Talukder knew that — unlike the foreign photographers — he would not leave Bangladesh and dash to the next overseas hot spot. He would be staying. And the men behind the executions were among the most powerful in the country.

December 5, 2012
Syria in Ruins

Syria in Ruins

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/syria-in-ruins/100402/

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains defiant, stating in an interview with Russia Today that he planned “live and die in Syria,” adding, “I am tougher than Gaddafi.” Collected here are images of this bloody conflict from just the past few weeks

November 8, 2012
Surveillance Camera Man wants to know why we accept CCTVs but not a creepy guy with a camcorder

Link: Surveillance Camera Man wants to know why we accept CCTVs but not a creepy guy with a camcorder – Boing Boing

“Surveillance Camera Man” is an anonymous fellow who wanders the streets and malls of Seattle with a handheld camcorder, walking up to people and recording them — in particular, recording their reactions to being recorded. He answers their questions with bland, deadpan statements (“It’s OK, I’m just recording video”), and sometimes mentions that there are lots of other (non-human-carried) cameras recording his subjects.

November 2, 2012
massimo berruti – pakistan: fade into dust

Massimo Berruti – Pakistan: Fade Into Dust

Massimo Berruti Pakistan: Fade Into Dust [ ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT ] Pakistan is considered to have had a key role in the start of the war on terrorism, as probably it will have a main role…

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The purpose of this project is to look through the changing society of Pakistan and the upward spiral of violence this country has fallen into since September 2001. A spyral that is driven by something invisible, its first target being the people. Something that risks to invest us all.

October 30, 2012
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2012/100392/

The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, founded in 1964, is an annual international showcase for the very best nature photography

October 24, 2012
Nadav Kander’s Photos of ‘Yangtze — The Long River’

Link: Nadav Kander’s Photos of ‘Yangtze — The Long River’ – NYTimes.com

Finishing “Yangtze – The Long River” required three years and five trips to China, “a place that is moving and changing so fast that it can only be unnatural,” he said.

October 17, 2012
kadir van lohuizen – vía panam

Kadir Van Lohuizen – Vía PanAm

Kadir Van Lohuizen Vía PanAm In 2011, Kadir started a visual investigation on migration in the Americas. In 12 months, he traveled along the Pan-American Highway from Terra del Fuego in Patagonia t…

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In 12 months, he traveled along the Pan-American Highway from Terra del Fuego in Patagonia to Deadhorse in Northern Alaska.

October 12, 2012
Matt Black’s “After the Fall”

Weighed Down by History, a Town Slides in Mexico

The photographer Matt Black shot a remote town in southern Mexico that’s sliding down a mountain — a heart-wrenching story that illustrates the consequences of colonialism and modernity.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/a-dust-bowl-for-columbus-day/

The photographer Matt Black has been seeking stories of the indigenous tribes of southern Mexico and the migrants to the Central Valley of California for 10 years, traveling back and forth and documenting the effects on these changing cultures and economies

October 9, 2012