While I cannot speak for the leadership of the Magazine today, I think there are several required attributes that are constant – they’re the same today as they were when I was Director of Photography, and earlier.
Those attributes are intellect, passion, maturity and drive.
Category: Photography
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What it Takes to be a National Geographic Photographer By Kent Kobersteen
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me, Me, ME, ME! (the perils of publication).
me, Me, ME, ME! (the perils of publication). — duckrabbit
One of the delights of having your photographic work ‘out there’, is having it seen. Unfortunately most of the time…
Dear Sir,
I noticed in the xxxxx Ski supplement to the xxxxx News, an image showing the piste in xxxxxx Ski Area with various skiers coming down and in the middle a very noticeable skier wearing a bright red ski suit.
On closer inspection I noted this individual is me, and no permission was sought nor given for this. I have consulted my solicitor and he has advised me to write to you to ask for payment.
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Nikon NPS roadshow gear stolen worth £100k, including D4, D800
Nikon NPS roadshow gear stolen worth £100k, including D4, D800 – Nikon Rumors
The van transporting the gear for the Dublin NPS roadshow was stolen on Saturday night near The Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland. The van contained Nikon equipment valued at £100,000 ($156,000) including the brand new D4 and D800 demo cameras. Her is a lis
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Model Defamation Case Dismissed Against Jason Lee Parry
Model Defamation Case Dismissed Against Jason Lee Parry | PDNPulse
A federal court in New York has dismissed a $28 million defamation lawsuit against photographer Jason Lee Parry on a legal technicality: He’s a California resident, the court said, so he’s not subject to jurisdiction under New York law. The case was broug
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/model-defamation-case-dismissed-against-jason-lee-parry.html
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Photography and Doubt
In photography, trust and doubt are like yin and yang: You cannot have one without the other, you have to balance one against the other. Trust and doubt exist in a complex relationship. They don’t just have to balance each other, they also have to drive each other.
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Chances Are, You Suck
Chances Are, You Suck
Not sucking is worth the effort. Seek out great photography. Devour it, and be suspicious of any undue praise.
Do you know that feeling? The one when you’re showing images to someone (perhaps an editor that you were hoping to work with) and you get to that picture, the one that looked perfectly acceptable moments before, but as soon as you show it, you’re filled with regret.
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Jason Schneider: Rennaisance Man on a Motorcycle
Photography is a small attempt at immortality — a way to preserve some aspect of your identity, your time and your consciousness; communicate it to others and bring it forward into the future. You can say that about virtually any art form of course, but photography is unique in being able to do more with less by employing an effective lever, a technologically based visual recording medium
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Never Explain Your Work
Never Explain Your Work – A Photo Editor
I asked Ethan Levitas to tell us a little more about the picture he took for GQ that we featured on The Daily Edit last week. Here’s his response: Jean-Jacques Naudet, the legendary editor in chief (’76-’88) of French Photo, who looks like a leading man a
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/01/never-explain-your-work/
“These ARE great.” Then he added a four letter word, poured us another glass, lit another cigarette and after a long pause looked up and said, “Never explain your work.”
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iTune it
Just like the music industry, with which it shares many similarities, the photo licensing world is ripe to be iTuned.
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JEFF BROUWS: “It Don’t Exist – The Impact of Sprawl and Suburban Build-out on Inner City America” (2009)
JEFF BROUWS: “It Don’t Exist – The Impact of Sprawl and Suburban Build-out on Inner City America” (2009)
“It Don’t Exist”, The Impact of Sprawl and Suburban Build-out on Inner City America
By Jeff Brouws (lecture delivered at SPE’s conference in Dallas), March 28, 2009
I’ve been photographing the American cultural landscape for the past twenty years. U
I’ve been photographing the American cultural landscape for the past twenty years. Utilizing different series that I’ve done involving the everyday urban and suburban places we encounter, I’ll strive to make visual and verbal connections between these overlapping territories of American life while sticking to our theme of how sprawl has affected inner city environments.
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Real World Estimates – AARP.org Contract
Real World Estimates – AARP.org Contract – A Photo Editor
by Wonderful Machine CEO Bill Cramer. For about six years now, I’ve been shooting assignments for AARP. I’ve mostly worked for their member newsletter, AARP Bulletin. And more recently, I’ve shot a few things for their website. They also have a nice magaz
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/01/24/real-world-estimates-aarp-org-contract/
I’ve found that a small percentage of magazines I’ve worked with over the years have no contract at all. In those cases, I send them mine. Of the rest, about half have a contract that governs assignments into the indefinite future, while others, like AARP, send out a contract for each assignment. When I do get contracts with no time limit, I tend to add an expiration date. Here’s the AARP.org contract (click to enlarge):
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Comparing Notes, Photographers Turn on Retna
An apparent administrative slip-up has unleashed an uprising at celebrity photo agency Retna, with photographers complaining that the agency is failing to report sales, pay royalties, or respond to calls and e-mails from frustrated contributors.
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An Ode to the National Geographic Collagist
The yellow border yields a power, which extends far beyond physical geography. It reins in the mythological, transporting its readers back to their wide-eyed childhoods, to their parent’s bookshelves and basements made up of solid yellow blocks, while simultaneously influencing some of our generation’s greatest visionaries and iconographers. Who hasn’t made a collage like David Lachapelle?
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“Film division is still profitable,” says Kodak
British Journal of Photography
Kodak has reaffirmed that film remains a profitable business for the company, a day after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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David Gonzalez Reflects on the Passing of the Kodak Era
And so I became an acolyte in the Temple of Kodak. Like a convert, I embraced the rituals, spending hours under the soft amber lights, holding beakers like chalices, head bowed over trays in worshipful anticipation. There was a Zen-like comfort to these processing and printing sessions, which calmed me. I would go in after dinner and not emerge sometimes until sunrise — often with a few rolls of bulk-loaded Tri-X jangling in my makeshift camera bag, ready for new adventures.
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Jobs shed as Getty Images absorbs iStockphoto
British Journal of Photography
Getty Images and iStockphoto have confirmed that 30 employees have been made redundant at the microstock company as part of an integration of the two brands
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Stolen Gear Is Small Hurdle for Year-Long Photo Project
Stolen Gear Is Small Hurdle for Year-Long Photo Project
This is the story of a 365-day, Kickstarter-fueled photo odyssey across America, called This Wild Idea. The project has photographer Theron Humphrey meeting one new person every day and telling his or her story through photos and a blog post.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/01/stolen-gear-is-small-hurdle-for-year-long-photo-project/all/1
While it’s never a good time to have one’s MacBook Pro, Canon 5D, Zeiss lens and iPad stolen, Theron Humphrey was in the middle of a project that required him to post a photo every day to his website, where thousands of readers check in every month to follow his journey.
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4 Useful Lessons from La Redoute’s Nude Man Fiasco
4 Useful Lessons from La Redoute’s Nude Man Fiasco | PDNPulse
Somewhere, a photographer has been scolded–or worse–for a catalogue image that embarrassed his or her client. The image in question, for La Redoute, a French clothing company, shows happy kids frolicking on the beach in bathing suits–with a naked man emer
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/01/4-useful-lessons-from-la-redoubtes-nude-man-fiasco.html
The image in question, for La Redoute, a French clothing company, shows happy kids frolicking on the beach in bathing suits–with a naked man emerging from the water in the background. The company removed the image from its Web site and apologized publicly after some shocked customers complained.
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The Myanmar Brief
I went to join friends and family and see this amazing country with a bit of inside perspective. I went because Myanmar is in a time of transition and I wanted to see it before everything changes.
