Category: Editor’s Choice
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Interview: BEN LOWY
Benjamin Lowy received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, and Libya among others. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass and was nominated for the ICP Infinity Award. He was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, POYi, PDN, Communication Arts, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Design. Benjamin’s work from Iraq and Darfur have been collected into several gallery and museum shows, and his work from Darfur appeared in the SAVE DARFUR media campaign. In 2008 Benjamin joined the VII Network.
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MARK RYDEN SIGNS “THE TREE SHOW” BOOK THIS WEEKEND AT MOCA
Worshipers of the formerly ultra-hairy beast known as MARK RYDEN can get their stalk-on up close and personal at MOCA this Saturday between 3—5pm when the reclusive artist will be onsite signing copies of his brand spankin new “The Tree Show” book. For the uninitiated unfamiliar with former Ryden appearances, prepare yourself for an epic line of otaku fanboys and girls all patiently waiting their turn to have the master sign all manner of objects and flesh. In short, it’s the people-watching event of the weekend bar none.
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The Inauguration: A Tale of Two Photos
By Scott Strazzante, Chicago TribuneOf the 8000 photos I took during my six day stay in Washington DC for the Inauguration of Barack Obama, I made two images that I believe resonate. Two images that rise above the type of photos that I normally take.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris
The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence-France Press) and Thompson Reuters. During the last week of the George W. Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures — of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way. (The photos are reproduced here with their original captions, unedited.)
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My LIfe at f/22: Best of '08: Sports
Photos by Chris DetrickHere are my favorite sport-related pictures from 2008. The first ten pictures are what I included in my sports portfolio for various contests this year.
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The Inauguration of Barack Obama by Mustafah Abdulaziz
The Inauguration of Barack Obama photographed by Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal on 01/20/09
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Living at the edge of life
Dying patients navigate the end of life with the help of the Baylor University Medical Center palliative care team. Photos and video by Sonya N. Hebert
Check it out here. Via APAD.
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Looking Through Some Pictures
Many of you will know MURRAY BOWLES as the GILMAN STREET photographer. He’s no longer in attendance at every show the way he once was, but during the first few years the club was in operation, he turned out enough photos – invariably black and white – to start his own Gilman museum.
I mean, he could start his own Gilman museum; he hasn’t actually done so as far as I know, but my one-time business partner and LOOKOUT RECORDS co-founder DAVID HAYES has compiled a nice little collection that’s well worth having a look at if you’re at all interested in the early Gilman scene.
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NatGeo Best of 2008
Editor in Chief Chris Johns selects some of his favorite photos published in National Geographic magazine in 2008.
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James Whitlow Delano – From the "Train of Death" to the "Wall of Shame"
Much has been made of the perils undocumented workers face crossing the southern border of the United States in search of work and a better life. For Central Americans, the U.S. border marks the end of one of the longest, most treacherous migrations on the planet. Still there has been a rise of 50 percent of undocumented Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras living in the U.S. since 2000.
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My Top 5 Cool Things for 2008
CLICK NOTE: It’s only appropriate that The Click’s best of the year list be something posted on another site and we just link to it. Here is our list, tailored for the photojournalism crowd, at SportsShooter.com:So Bert asks me to avoid the gloom and doom of the industry and list five cool things from the previous year. FIVE?! By my count, there were more than 3,000 cool things in 2008. Let me narrow it down to some that are worth your time. We’ll go chronologically.
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Regret the Error » The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
The Eastern Daily Press has apologised after confusing the Bishop of Norwich with serial killer Steve Wright, known as the “Suffolk strangler”.
