What a relief it is to move from Steve McCurry’s work to that of someone like Raghubir Singh. Singh worked from the late ’60s until his untimely death in 1999, traveling all over India to create a series of powerful books about his homeland. His work shares formal content with McCurry’s: the subcontinental terrain, the eye-popping color, the human presence. Within these shared parameters, however, Singh gives us photographs charged with life: not only beautiful experiences or painful scenes but also those in-between moments of drift that make up most of our days.
On December 10th, 2015, Feature Shoot hosted the third edition of The BlowUp, a quarterly event in which we ask a selected group of photographers to each tell the stories behind one of their favorite images. This time, the theme was Viral Images, and phot
When Nina Berman attending the wedding of US Marine Sergeant Ty Ziegel and his high school sweetheart Renée Kline, she had no idea that the picture she took of a private moment in the lives of two traumatized young people would be co-opted and corrupted by the back alleys of the internet
Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land, the debut documentary film of Israeli-born photographer Gilad Baram, offers a unique and intimate look into the creative process of world-renowned Czech photographer Josef Koudelka.
“Token women are wheeled out constantly, but just because there is some female presence doesn’t mean we’ve got equality,” writes Alex Holder, executive creative director at Anomaly London, who recently teamed up with director Alyssa Boni of RSA Films to p
“Token women are wheeled out constantly, but just because there is some female presence doesn’t mean we’ve got equality,” writes Alex Holder, executive creative director at Anomaly London, who recently teamed up with director Alyssa Boni of RSA Films to produce this year’s ELLE UK feminism campaign.
More than 80 prominent photographers and artists—including war photographer Don McCullin, photo critic Sean O’Hagan and book publisher Michael Mack—are demanding a reversal on the controversial decision to move a historic photo archive from Bradford to London.
Gannaway, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, says her goal is to “continue pursuing stories that are meaningful, stories that ultimately forge connections and enrich viewers’ perspective.”
“And to make a living at the same time,” she adds.
“Every two seconds a girl is married,” says photographer Stephanie Sinclair, who’s going on her 14th year of documenting the issue of child marriage. (See her photos of child brides in the 2011 National Geographic magazine story “Too Young To Wed.”) The i
In an effort to do that, Stephanie Sinclair started a nonprofit, Too Young to Wed, in 2012. Just a few weeks ago it partnered with Fuji Film and the Samburu Girls Foundation (SGF)—an organization that rescues vulnerable girls from harmful practices in rural Kenya—to put on a photography workshop for ten girls between the ages of 11 and 14.
This morning we launched our April issue and our online gallery of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. In the new issue, you can read part of an interview with a photojournalist who decided to get a master’s degree because there was “somethi
in the 16 years I’ve been arranging PDN’s 30 seminars, the media and the photo industry have changed so much, the career paths that past PDN’s 30 photographers described just seven or eight years ago now sound quaint. What I’ve appreciated about PDN’s 30 photographers is that they know the old industry models are gone, but they’ve figured out their own ingenious, enterprising ways to fund and share their work
“The authority of images is at risk,” said photographer David Hartt, one of 19 artists featured in “Ocean of Images.” “So through consuming and discarding images so rapidly, are we diluting them?”
As for his MFA students who may be less concerned about creative freedom and more worried about a career, he advises: “First of all, it is hard. And I’ve had tons of missteps along the way,” he says. “That’s the thing about being creative. You come up with creative solutions to problems. And that’s not just in your work, but in life.”
VSCO is expanding its platform to include original content that it is commissioning. Dubbed VSCO Originals, the content includes photo essays, writing and art.
Yahoo announced yesterday that it will be cutting 15% of its workforce, or about 1,700 jobs, in an effort to bring the flagging Internet company back into
When the current Robert Frank exhibit at New York University closes next week, it’s really closing: The images will be handed over to photo students who will, in a private ceremony, draw on them or sculpt them into some creation of their choosing. Then they will destroy them.
Getty Images is a business. Businesses make money, do deals, and increase shareholder value, or they go out of business. Also: choosing to be smug affects people’s perceptions about your business.
Four long-time Sports Illustrated photographers who lost NFL assignments for refusing to sign Time Inc’s controversial photo agreement have been given a second chance to sign, according to a photographer who spoke to PDN on condition of anonymity.
If you want to ensure that your efforts to renegotiate a bad contract handed to you by a large publishing group are unsuccessful, do any of the following: Sign the bad contract Have your trade group send a letter of protest with no follow-up Organize a gr
If you want to ensure that your efforts to renegotiate a bad contract handed to you by a large publishing group are unsuccessful, do any of the following:
