Link: Thomas Vanden Driessche : Photo-booth | Le Journal de la Photographie
“A vintage photo-booth dropped in Brussels for a few months close to my place. Just a game at first and then a wish to speak about photography and photographers with a some humor…
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Link: The New York Photography Portfolio Review: Interview with James Estrin | dvafoto
Yesterday James Estrin, co-Editor of the New York Times Lens Blog and Staff Photographer for the Times, announced that they are inaugurating the first New York Photography Portfolio Review, a two-day event in April 2013. It will bring together 160 photographers, in two one-day sessions, with more than 50 prominent reviewers, including a diverse selection of photo editors, agents, publishers, curators and buyers. The event will include private portfolio reviews, discussions and workshops.
Gary Briechle 96 pages Published last December by Twin Palms Press (U.K. link ) Review by Jim Hughes One beautiful fall day in Maine a few years ago, I found myself sitting in the Subaru. I was just staring into…
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“Are you doing what I think you’re doing?” I asked. “Probably,” he replied, pulling out from the back of the Toyota a small white plastic tray full of really murky, and smelly, liquid. “I’m teaching myself wet plate.”
Link: Ben Lowy’s Advice on Creating a Brand for Your Photo Business ‹ PhotoShelter Blog
But alongside his award-winning photography is a distinct business brand that helps him reach more clients. So as part of our 2013 Photo Business Plan Workbook, we interviewed Ben to get his advice on creating a real, lasting brand for your photo business.
Building your photography business is a process, which means there is no one-stop shop formula for success to “hit the jackpot.” But the good news is that if you plug away in a few major areas, you’ll start to solidify your brand, attract more eyeballs to
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In the 2013 Photo Business Plan Workbook, we offer practical tips, to-do lists, and online resources to help you make smart decisions for your photo business in 2013.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Meditations on Photographs: Lightness of Being by Chris Levine
This photograph by Chris Levine, Lightness of Being, is extraordinary for a variety of reasons, the most important one possibly being that it utterly confounds our expectations1
I’ve been hating on Getty for years. They sponsor a few grants and buy their way into a few photo festivals and pretty much silence all their opposition. Meanwhile Cassandra over here is likened to the old man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.
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This is a great opportunity and you’re all so stupid for not recognizing that! Twelve whole dollars for an image (or is it six?) and all I have to do is upload my snaps and wait for the monthly checks to arrive?
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On December 6th the Google Drive Blog announced that “5,000 new photos of nature, weather, animals, sports, food, education, technology, music and 8 other categories are now available for your use in Docs, Sheets, and Slides” with no mention to how they w
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On December 6th the Google Drive Blog announced that “5,000 new photos of nature, weather, animals, sports, food, education, technology, music and 8 other categories are now available for your use in Docs, Sheets, and Slides” with no mention to how they were acquired or what type of license they come with
Link: 100-year-old photos found in antique camera – Digital Life
A local photographer got more than he bargained for when he bought an antique camera unknowingly loaded with vintage photographs of the World War I era.
The new year might already be underway, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to solidify – or start! – planning for 2013. We were curious what plans photographers had in mind to help jumpstart their photography business, so we reached out to some of the fo
We asked, “What specific tactics are you planning to help jumpstart your photography business in 2013?” Here’s what these business-savvy photographers had to say:
1. The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. We tend to set ourselves impossibly high standards, and are invariably
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We tend to set ourselves impossibly high standards, and are invariably our own toughest critics. Satisfying our own lofty demands is usually a lot harder than appeasing any client, who in my experience tend to have disappointingly low expectations
Prison Photography (PP): You use Twitter. Ashley Gilbertson (AG): I initially got on Twitter because I found Facebook pretty boring. It was turning into people’s family photo albums, which is…
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“I present certain photographs to the world that are very carefully edited and all of a sudden I’m making photographs on the fly and they’re bad! That’s got to hurt my reputation!
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There was mixed reaction to Craig Peters’ talk at Luminance back in September. Craig, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Getty Images, spoke mainly about developing new models for content owners (i.e. photographers, videographers, illustrato
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There was mixed reaction to Craig Peters’ talk at Luminance back in September. Craig, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Getty Images, spoke mainly about developing new models for content owners (i.e. photographers, videographers, illustrators, etc.) to license their work.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » The new Rockefellers
The intent is clear. Each company wants to be the only player in the photographic space. Period. Because photography is 75% ( if not more) of the internet space and growing rapidly. People communicate, share, comment, discover via photography. Even successful sites like Tumblr and Pinterest could have never succeeded without photography.I t is, in other words, the oil of the internet.
In reading New York Magazine’s annual column on reasons to love the city, I couldn’t help but feel inspired and proud of New York, and I realized that I had so many similar feelings about photography. So many wonderful, inspiring, and exciting things happ
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In reading New York Magazine’s annual column on reasons to love the city, I couldn’t help but feel inspired and proud of New York, and I realized that I had so many similar feelings about photography. So many wonderful, inspiring, and exciting things happened this year in photography, that I can only feel great about what will come next. So in no particular order…
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I won’t lie to you, very few of us do fit in, if you exclude doing workshops, I can literally think of three Street Photographers who work regularly doing observational photography for commercial clients and that is worldwide! This means that if you aspire to joining this small group you are going to have to have a very special and unique eye as well as being able to handle the business side that all photographers have to face, promotion, quoting, understanding a brief, production, working with an agency team and meeting a deadline. You will need to be able to adapt your personal work to the legal, technical and creative requirements of the Advertising and Design industries.
London-based stock photo distributor Image Source has announced that it will pay a higher royalty rate–60 percent, compared to its usual 40 or 50 percent–for all images it accepts from its US contributors from now through December 31, 2013. Could the pend
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Image Source CEO Christina Vaughan says, “We are on a mission and that is to get all professional photographers excited about stock again when all we ever hear is about microstock, agencies cutting their margins and general doom and gloom.”
It’s become a tradition on our blog to round up the year’s best photography blog posts from across the industry. That may seem daunting only because there’s no shortage of content on the web. But if you can shift through all the noise, you’ll find that
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So in tribute of everything that was documented, expressed, and reviewed in 2012, here’s the run down of our favorite blog posts from 2012. They’re educational, inspirational, and just plain useful.
Link: Conscientious Extended | How to tell a story with pictures (part 3)
Let’s say you have an edit, a group of photographs you want to use to tell a story. How do you go about this? Obviously, the first thing you need is, well, a first photograph
