Czech Photographer Miroslav Tichy passed away this past April 12, 2011, at the age of 85. He was born in Netcice, Moravia on November 20th, 1926.
Link: Death of Miroslav Tichy | La Lettre de la Photographie
Category: Obituaries
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Death of Miroslav Tichy
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The death of Yves Debraine
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.
Link: The death of Yves Debraine | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Many Thanks To You, Brian Lanker
“What would you do if I told you these were some of the greatest pictures I’d ever seen?” he said. I thought, “Oh great, he likes my pictures!”
“I’d drop dead,” I responded. “Then I’m about to save your life!” Lanker bellowed, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
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Mexico's drug war claims young photographer – Committee to Protect Journalists
Mexico’s drug war claims young photographer
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. …
Link: http://www.cpj.org/2011/03/mexicos-drug-war-claims-young-photographer.php
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.
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Reuters Freelancer Killed in Iraq
Ten Photojournalists Win the $10K 2016 Yunghi Grant
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.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/16476.html
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Parting Glance: Michael L. Abramson, 62
Brouhaha in Sweden following Award to Paul Hansen for his Image of Fabienne Cherisma
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…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/brouhaha-in-sweden-following-award-to-paul-hansen-for-his-image-of-fabienne-cherisma/
Weber’s image has unsettled many it seems. Judging by garbled Google translations here, here, and here it seems there are a few issues:
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Photojournalist Killed in Yemen, CPJ Says
Photojournalist Killed in Yemen, CPJ Says | PDNPulse
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
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/03/photojournalist-killed-in-yemen-cpj-says.html
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.
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Parting Glance: Brian Lanker, 1947-2011
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”?
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Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Libya, in government ambush of news crew – Boing Boing
Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Libya, in government ambush of news crew
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.
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Tom Herde, Award-Winning Boston Globe Photographer, 62
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.
Link: Tom Herde, Award-Winning Boston Globe Photographer, 62
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RIP LeRoy "Granny" Grannis, surf photography pioneer – Boing Boing
RIP LeRoy “Granny” Grannis, surf photography pioneer
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…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/04/rip-leroy-granny-gra.html
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.
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Photography curator Keith Cavanagh dies, aged 58 – British Journal of Photography
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
Link: Photography curator Keith Cavanagh dies, aged 58 – British Journal of Photography
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The death of Gita Lenz Thursday, January 20th | La Lettre de la Photographie
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
Link: The death of Gita Lenz Thursday, January 20th | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Penny Tweedie obituary | The Guardian
Penny Tweedie obituary
Intrepid photographer who documented wars around the world and Aboriginal life
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/20/penny-tweedie-obituary
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.
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Injured French photographer "clinically dead" [update 5] – British Journal of Photography
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.
Link: Injured French photographer “clinically dead” [update 5] – British Journal of Photography
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Journalists Killed in 2010 – Committee to Protect Journalists
Explore CPJ’s database of attacks on the press
Link: http://cpj.org/killed/2010/
44 Journalists Killed in 2010/Motive Confirmed
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Mickey Pfleger – 'He was always smiling!'
Brad Mangin:
Mickey Pfleger enjoys a wonderful Saturday afternoon photographing the Redskins @ 49ers game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in December of 2004.
After a long illness, Mickey Pfleger, a freelance sports photographer, friend and mentor to many photographers around the country, died Friday morning in Carmichael (near Sacramento), CA. He was 61.Many people remember Mickey from the stories published during the past 10-years on SportsShooter.com. In November, 2000, he was crushed out of bounds by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez during a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park, and was rushed to the hospital, where an MRI revealed he had a brain tumor. After this Mickey’s life was never the same.
Link: ‘He was always smiling!’
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Former BJP editor, photographic inventor, author, and the man who uncovered the world's longest-running photographic hoax has died – British Journal of Photography
Geoffrey Crawley, the world-esteemed former editor of British Journal of Photography, has died.
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Chris Gulker: Mar. 10, 1951 – Oct. 27, 2010 — InMenlo
InMenlo founder Chris Gulker: Mar. 10, 1951 – Oct. 27, 2010
InMenlo.com – Daily News and Features about Menlo Park and Atherton California
via InMenlo.com: http://inmenlo.com/2010/10/28/inmenlo-founder-chris-gulker-mar-10-1951-oct-27-2010
When I started at the Herald, it was a news-driven paper, focusing on freeway crashes and house fires. I kept a police and fire scanner in my car and in my house and pretty much worked ’round the clock without needing to be compensated for the extra time, I loved the job so much.
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Jay Colton: A Celebration Of Life Planned
Saturday, November 6, at The Bath House Studios in New York City