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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/20/in-memory-of-photographers-we-lost-in-2011/#1
We lost great photographers this year. They photographed Presidents and popes, rock stars and rebels. They risked their lives, and some of them gave their lives, so that we can better understand our own, the place we inhabit, and more importantly, the areas of the world we would otherwise never see. —Nate Rawlings
Jose Gaytan was the consummate salesman. How good was he?
He could persuade jaded Brooklynites to see the beauty of the Gowanus Canal. When he wasn’t selling high-end photo gear in Manhattan, he and his dogs Lola and Rudy explored Brooklyn’s decrepit urban waterway and shot lyrical pictures full of color, clouds, light and even love
Atherton retired from The Washington Post in 1990 after a career that included two decades as a staffer with United Press International before he joined the Post in 1970. During his 40-year career he covered every U.S. President from Truman to Nixon and was a major influence on photographers and news photography in the nation’s capitol
Michael Sypniewski, an award-winning staff photographer at the Asbury Park Press, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 47.
Bruce Kellman, who spent 42 years as a staff photographer for The News Tribune, died Monday. He was 66. Kellman shot photos of everything from soldiers shipping out to Vietnam, to the construction of the Tacoma Dome, to the Puyallup Tribe storming the Cushman Hospital building. He also shot the small moments of life that build a community’s visual history.
Renowned photojournalist Rashid Talukder, the first Bangladeshi to win prestigious Pioneer Photographer Award, has passed away at a hospital in the city. He was 72. Talukder died at Square Hospital…
via MONIRUL ALAM: http://monirul.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/rashid-talukder-1939-2011/
Renowned photojournalist Rashid Talukder, the first Bangladeshi to win prestigious Pioneer Photographer Award, has passed away at a hospital in the city. He was 72
Tim Hetherington changed lives and journalism. A friend reflects on that enduring legacy, and how it inspired an exhibition opening this weekend in New York.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/a-show-of-respect-for-a-fallen-friend/?pagewanted=all
His effect on people was profound.
Yet one of Tim’s most lasting legacies will be the changes he almost single-handedly wrought in the worlds of photojournalism and multimedia. This weekend, we’re opening an exhibit of his work at the Bronx Documentary Center, a gallery inspired by Tim’s vision and friendship
“It is a very sad day for journalism,” Santiago Lyon wrote to AP colleagues. “He will be deeply missed by all who ever had the pleasure of meeting him. Ed was a first-rate professional
Rarely do you see such an in-depth tribute to one we’ve lost. Here are the pieces posted by La Lettre today in honor of Göksin Sipahioglu…
La Lettre
On Wednesday morning, photography became an orphan. Göksin Sipahioglu passed away at the American Hospital in Neuilly. He was an explorer, mentor, the ‘papa’ of photography, friend, and adviser to a number of impressive photogaphers, including Abbas, Barthélémy, Patrick Chauvel, Marc Charuel, Françoise Demulder, Catherine Leroy, Thomas Haley, Jean-François Leroy, Lasky, Reza, Manoucher, Yan Morvan, Alain Mingam, Alfred Yaghobzadeh, Alexandra Boulat, Olivier Jobard and Facelly, to name but a few.
Today we pay him homage. We are sharing work from his early years as a photographer along with tributes from his friends.
Göksin photographer
His great reportage – Mai 68
Prostitutes and red light districts
The city of Split: video of his last exhibition
Christian Caujolle
Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
Guillaume Clavières
Sylvie Rebbot
Thomas Haley
Ferit Düzyol
Eliane Laffont
François Hébel
John Echave
Jean-Pierre Pappis
Jean-Gabriel Barthélemy
Jean-Lou Bersuder
Alain Mingam
Michel Philippot
Interview by Michel Puech
Yan Morvan My Sipa years
Biography
Paris, Boulevard Murat, the last stop
Bayeux pays a brief homage to Sipahioglu
Gökşin Sipahioğlu, the celebrated photojournalist and founder of the Sipa Press agency has died, BJP can confirm. He was 84.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/14/banding-together-for-a-fallen-colleague-the-friends-of-anton/#1
Last week, a fundraising website, Friends of Anton, was launched in an effort to raise money for Hammerl’s family
Friends and colleagues of Anton Hammerl, the South African photojournalist who was killed in Libya in April, have launched an online benefit in aid of his children
Sports Illustrated photographer Lou Capozzola, seen here with Kevin Durant, passed away at age 61 on Aug. 18. Lou began his career at SI in 1980 and shot countless hockey games, among other sports, for the brand. Here’s a sample of some of his most memorable photographs.
Jerome Liebling’s photo classes often seemed to be about everything but photography, James Estrin recalls. And that, it turns out, was exactly the point.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/parting-glance-jerome-liebling-1924-2011/
Jerome Liebling, a photographer, filmmaker and teacher, died Wednesday at 87. Obituaries appear on the Web sites of The New York Times, The Daily Hampshire Gazette and Hampshire College, where his students included James Estrin, now a staff photographer at The Times and a co-editor of Lens.
Today, another reporter was murdered in Mexico: Yolanda Ordaz, a crime reporter who was investigating the murder of her boss at Notiver, the daily newspaper where she worked. Her body “was fo…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/07/26/mexico-mapping-attacks-on-journalists.html
Today, another reporter was murdered in Mexico: Yolanda Ordaz, a crime reporter who was investigating the murder of her boss
Three months after the disappearance and death of South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, his family have announced plans for a September London memorial service
‘He came out of Winnipeg and saw the world with his camera.’
via www.montrealgazette.com: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Montreal+media+rocked+death+photographer+Shaun+Best/4934725/story.html
“He loved what he did,” Duguay said. “He was incredibly generous. He taught himself photography and computers and then taught anybody else who wanted to know, and that included me and colleagues all over the world.”
When Fay Godwin died in 2005 at the age of 74, we lost one of the most sensitive and accomplished photographers of several generations. If you haven’t seen her book Land, you’ve missed one of the great quiet landscape books of all time.
Link: Landmarks by Fay Godwin – LensWork Vision of the Heart
