Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is to host the conference ‘Blogging Images: Photojournalism and Public Commentary’ on Saturday, April 30th. Robert Hariman explains why here: …
Calling Tichý a recluse would be a drastic understatement. He was a notoriously private man, much to the chagrin of gallery owners in the mid-aughts whom he spurned by not attending his first solo exhibitions. So we were ecstatic when, last November, we made arrangements with his neighbor and caretaker, Mrs. Hebnarova, to stop by for a chat.
The photographer-reporter Yves Debraine passed away last Thursday in Lausanne, at the age of 85. Based in Switzerland since 1948, the Parisian-born Debraine worked for decades for diverse titles such as L’Illustré, the Schweizer Illustrierte and L’Hebdo.
New York, March 29, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the shooting death of Mexican photographer Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo on Friday and calls on Mexican authorities to launch a thorough investigation into his killing. …
The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the shooting death of Mexican photographer Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo on Friday and calls on Mexican authorities to launch a thorough investigation into his killing.
Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration.
I knew something was going on when my blog stats spiked over the weekend. Prison Photography interviews with those who photographed Fabienne Cherisma’s body in Haiti were drawing readers R…
Photographer Jamal al-Sharaabi of Yemen’s independent weekly Al-Masdar was killed today when security forces in Yemen opened fire on anti-government demonstrators, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported. Al-Shaarabi was among 44 people killed i
Photographer Jamal al-Sharaabi of Yemen’s independent weekly Al-Masdar was killed today when security forces in Yemen opened fire on anti-government demonstrators, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported.
It’s hard to say for which image Brian Lanker may have been most renowned. Was it the Pulitzer-winning photo of an ebullient Lynda Coburn with her couldn’t-be-more-newly born upon her belly? Or was it the elegant portrait of Septima Poinsette Clark, looking every bit the “queen mother” of the civil rights movement, that graced the cover of his book, “I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America”?
Al Jazeera has announced that one of its cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, was killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghaz…
Al Jazeera has announced that one of its cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, was killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghazi.
A master of feature photography, his images were clean, dramatically lit, and well composed. No one made a better group portrait. In a world of motor-driven cameras, Herde shot frugally, thinking before he pushed the button. And his captions were always impeccably neat. Photographers usually have bad handwriting. Tom Herde was an exception to the rule.
Iconic images by Gannis: Mike Doyle surfing Waimea in 1967 and “Midget” Farrelly surfing Shore Break, Makaha 1968. Gannis was a master of using light to convey emotion. LeRoy Grannis, w…
LeRoy Grannis, who along with “Doc” Ball helped revolutionize the field of surf photography, has died. He also co-founded what’s now Surfing Magazine. A lifelong surfer himself, Grannis didn’t take up photography until 1959, when he was 42. That was the year surfing hit mainstream consciousness through the film Gidget.
Simon James pays tribute to a man who was a tireless supporter of photography in the UK, best known for championing new talent and establishing the Tom Blau Gallery in London
Gita Lenz created a body of work that withstands comparison to many of the better-known photographers. She spent much of her time making images of the people and the city around her
While covering that war, she was summoned to a victory celebration outside Dhaka. Penny realised that some very frightened prisoners, accused of collaboration, were about to be bayoneted to death for the benefit of the foreign press. She and a small group of other photographers refused to participate. Others stayed, arguing that they had a duty to record the event, and won prizes for their work.
French photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, is said to be clinically dead, three days after he was shot, in the face, by a tear gas canister while covering the civil unrest in Tunisia, BJP has been told.
