Category: Editor’s Choice

  • Photo Essay Grozny – Then and Now – Eric Bouvet

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    Eric Bouvet covered the Second Chechen War from October to December of 1999, and returned in February 2000. Bouvet traveled with three Russian officers during his second visit to the region and witnessed up-close the destruction and decay of a country ravaged by war. In Grozny, Chechnya’s capital city, buildings were all but leveled, tens of thousands were dead, and radioactive material polluted the area in the wake of storage facility bombings. “Nothing remained,” Bouvet recounted, “just a huge, imposing void.” When he returned in March 2008, Bouvet found Grozny as a city in the process of rebirth. Civilians, totaling only about 5,000 in number, were carrying on with daily life and were starting the task of rebuilding a once magnificent city. As he revisited places he had photographed in his earlier trips to the region, Bouvet not only documented the modernization of a city, but the will and determination of a people rising from the ashes of war. 

    Check it out here.

  • Interviews With Photographers- Pixchannel – A Photo Editor

    I stumbled upon this treasure trove of photographer interviews that Randi Lynn Beach produced and I can’t believe I’d never heard of it before.

    Check it out here.

  • The Exposure Project: Brandon Pavan

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    I got an e-mail from Brandon Pavan yesterday with a link to his website. His series Breakfast At Grandma’s is quite nice and deserves a more thorough examination.

    Check it out here.

  • Battered – Photos by Harri Pälviranta

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    Like a modern-day Weegee, Harri Palviranta cruises the night streets of Finland, armed with his Hasselblad camera and a big flash, looking for a fight to photograph, or the bloodied face of a drunken party-goer, or the scene of a recent brawl.

    Check it out here.

  • A Photo Editor – Can Visa pour l’Image Remain Relevant?

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    For the past 19 years photographers and photo editors have gathered near the Spanish border in Perpignan, France for a grand festival to celebrate photojournalism. This years festival from August 30th to September 14th will mark the 20th such meeting and I have been handed an interview with Jean-François Leroy the festivals founding and current director, where he tackles a few of the hard questions facing photojournalism and acknowledges completely missing the boat on the internet.

    Check it out here.

  • Results for 2008 | The Press Photographer's Year 2008

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    With a 25% increase in the entries this year, the jury spent two long days working through the 7,500 photographs, both in slideshow form, and as C-type prints, laid out on the huge Olivier foyer floor at the National Theatre.
    A final edit of 146 photographs has been made and 13 prizes have been awarded. What follows is the winners list and a web gallery of the complete edit that will feature in the book and exhibition. This is “The Press Photographer’s Year 2008”.

    Check it out here.

  • NYC Street Photographer Bruce Gilden

    Bruce Gilden is an in your face sort of street photographer who specializes in street portraits. Watch him work in the video above.

    Check it out here.

  • The Astonishing Li Wei

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    Everyone knows I love a floater, so when M. Scott Brauer commented on the Chinese photography post and said he wished I’d included Li Wei, I grabbed the folder of Wei’s work that’s been burning a hole on my desktop and uploaded it with glee.

    Wei is a photographer and performance artist who puts himself in gravity-defying poses, often with the use of harnesses. Thirty-seven-year-old Wei intentionally seeks to surprise and shock the viewer

    Check it out here.

  • Inner city snail – a slow-moving street art project

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    Check it out here.

  • Little People – a tiny street art project

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    Check it out here.

  • MikeSacks » photos of TV

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    Check it out here. Via Eyeteeth.

  • My Winnipeg – Trailer

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    Have you ever wanted to relive your childhood and do things differently? Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) casts B-movie icon Ann Savage as his domineering mother in attempt to answer that question in MY WINNPEG, a hilariously wacky and profoundly touching goodbye letter to his childhood hometown. A documentary (or “docu-fantasia” as Maddin proclaims) that inventively blends local and personal history with surrealist images and metaphorical myths, the film covers everything from the fire at the local park which lead to a frozen lake of distressed horse heads to pivotal and factually heightened scenes from Maddin’s own childhood, all laced with a startling emotional honesty. MY WINNIPEG is Maddin’s most personal film and a truly unique cinematic experience, winning the best Canadian film at the Toronto International Film Festival and the opening night selection of the Berlin Film Festival’s Forum.

    Check it out here.

  • James Whitlow Delano | Photographer | Japan | Raw Take

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    Deb and I had the good fortune to cross paths with James Whitlow Delano because of the Blue Planet Run book and Redux Pictures. His images of China’s desertification caught our eye for the book (They didn’t make the final edit). But more than the subject of the photographs, it was the tone, the feeling and what they convey that held our interest.
    I’ve always thought that the highest standard for photojournalism is to create images that serve the publishing environment for the day but that remain relevant beyond the day. Another way of saying this is to make images that are as at home on a museum wall as they are on a page.
    James’ photos linger in the mind and the eye.
    We were able to catch up with James just before he traveled from his home in Japan.

    Check it out here.

  • World Press Photo Interviews

    The Story Behind the Photographs

    Each image awarded by World Press Photo tells its own story. But there is much more to tell. About what it was like to work in a war zone, or what restrictions were placed on a photographer at a major sports event. Or about what happened before and after a winning image was made. In our interviews with prize-winners you can hear the full story, first-hand.

    Check it out here. Thanks to Chris for the tip.

  • PDN Photo Annual 2008 Gallery

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    PDN welcomes you to another year in pictures. This year, the judges for PDN’s Photo Annual had the opportunity to choose from a vast array of entries from all over the world. The following pages showcase work from a diverse range of photographic talent, both new and seasoned.

    Check it out here.

  • ManBabies.com – DAD?

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    Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.

  • Elevation Student Contest 2008 and Matt Lutton – Shoot The Blog

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    I am especially impressed with the breadth and quality of Matt Lutton’s work. Lutton has yet to receive his BA, and has made some incredible work about Seattle, the Balkans, and Kosovo. Check out his site. Moakley says he would already “definitely think about putting him on assignment. He seems excited to shoot anywhere.”

    Check it out here.

  • MATT STUART | PHOTOGRAPHER | SNAPS LEGS

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    Check it out here.

  • What better mentor for a 10-year-old than Charles Manson? Little Billy seeks life advice, and America's most notorious killers are happy to oblige

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    In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.

    Check it out here.

  • Raymond Depardon – Magnum Photos

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    Quote: “The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.”

    Raymond Depardon joined Magnum Photos in 1978 and became a full Member in 1979.

    Check it out here.