The debate over whether iPhone and/or Instagram photos are real photography is stale and pointless. As pointless as whether one needs to use a certain type of camera or lens to make a photo worth looking at.
Many freelancers will nod their heads in agreement while reading entrepreneur Sharon Hayes’ seven reasons why she has pretty much stopped doing unpaid work for the many people who request it …
PDN/Nielsen launched a new magazine called PIX and Jezebel immediately picked up on the excessively girly and fluffy content in a post titled “Finally, Lady Photojournalists Get Their Own Photo Ladymag Full of Lady Stereotypes”: “Smudge-proof makeup tips
on the internet, photography currently seems to focus on what I call one-liners, and we’re in a strange spot. Where is this taking us? How can we get away from this (assuming we’d want to get away from it)?
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. I have been in this business for many years and I been familiar with Stephen Wilkes for years, okay deca
Arles 2012 is dead. Long live Arles 2013. Whatever will happens then, couldn’t possibly be worse than this.
Let’s not be hypocritical or too well behaved. Let’s say out loud what everyone else has been saying under their breath. This year’s festival was a failure.
Over the past decades, the photograph itself, the object on the wall, has become more important. Why is that? I actually think there is no simple answer. Instead, we seem to be witnessing several developments coming together at the same time
The internet is buzzing about these Olympic portraits taken by Joe Klamar for AFP and Getty. Most of the talk is about how unprofessional they look with ripped seamless, rumpled flags and sinister lighting (Reddit thread here). I have to agree, but rather
Whether the picture subverts the background, the composition, the lighting or the athlete’s expression, what at least a handful of Klamar’s photos “accomplish” is to slight the plasticized image of the Olympic athlete perpetuated throughout the quadrennia
Ion Orchard sunset. Leica S2, 70/2.5 Summarit-S Here’s an interesting thought: sensor resolution is way past the point of far more than most people need – look at that recent Nokia 808 …
What do I mean by that? A few things seem obvious. The first and foremost being that the advent of digital photography has destroyed the livelihoods of many photographers (and not just photographers, but let’s focus on photography here). In terms of the business side, the digital revolution has happened. I personally am not interested in the socioeconomic Darwinism that’s so prevalent in large parts of, for example, commercial photography. I’m not interested in the business aspects2, so I’m going to ignore them here.
Now that we’ve done all that stuff that you can see in history-of-photography books, now that we’ve become obsessed with re-creating that past over and over again – how can we turn around, to look at and move into the future?
Last week, a few of us from PhotoShelter headed down to Charlottesville, Virginia for the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. What started in 2008 as a group of photographers gathering on Nick Nichols‘ farm to watch slideshows of each other’s images has tod
Earlier this year, the Cultural Council of The Netherlands advised the Dutch Government to cut financial support to Noorderlicht after 2012. I am writing this letter to you, the members of the Council, to strongly urge you to reverse your previous decision and to continue funding Noorderlicht.
Whether its leaving the plains of southeastern Iowa to study photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara or moving across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii to keep his work fresh and stimulating, the 30-year-old photographer/artist/designer certainly
Called Invision Agency , it is a spinoff of the 150 years old Associated Press. Tired of taking a beating from Getty, loosing photographers, staffers and market share, the financially suffering AP images has decided to fight back and open fire.
Reuters reports that Getty Images, the largest stock photo agency, has retained Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to evaluate the possibility of a sale or an initial public offering (IPO). According to a source cited by the Financial Times, a sale or IPO c