More than just a place to shop, the LUCEO STORE is the next step in our effort to assert more creative control over the production and distribution of our members’ work. This endeavor includes the creation of LUCEO PRESS, our in-house publishing arm; LUCEO STORE, a retail store for our collective works; and The LUCEO Print Gallery, a specially curated body of work by our members housed within the LUCEO STORE.
You must have something to say. You must be brutally honest with yourself about this. Think about history, politics, science, literature, music, film, and anthropology. What effect does one discipline have over another? What makes “man” tick? Today, with
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to pay your rent with your camera. Jimi Hendrix didn’t decide on the career of professional musician before he learne
Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to pay your rent with your camera.
by Jess Dudley Wonderful Machine Producer Most magazine assignments don’t have big budgets on the front end, but if you play your cards right, you can help make up for it on the back end. One way to do that is to be savvy about article reprint licensing.
Most magazine assignments don’t have big budgets on the front end, but if you play your cards right, you can help make up for it on the back end. One way to do that is to be savvy about article reprint licensing.
Bolt | Peters and Blurb are honoring the date the first camera phone photo was taken, June 11, 1997, with a one-day conference dedicated to iPhoneography
Speakers for the event include Emmy Award-winning journalist Richard Koci-Hernandez, entrepreneur Philippe Kahn, phoneographer Jessica Zollman, photographer Lauren Lemon and several more.
This one-day conference happens October 22, 2011 in San Francisco and tickets are available now.
WhatWasThere is an ambitious project to create a crowd sourced interactive photographic map of the world that includes present day and archival photos.
WhatWasThere is an ambitious project to create a crowd sourced interactive photographic map of the world that includes present day and archival photos. Photos, tagged with their location and year, are uploaded by WhatWasThere members on the website and via an iPhone app. Uploaded photos can be viewed on a Google Map of the world. WhatWasThere is by Enlighten Ventures of Ann Arbor.
Peter Brook, the man behind the Prison Photography blog, dedicates his time to the analysis of photography in sites of incarceration. Now he’s taking his work on America’s roads
Ten years ago, on a beautiful morning in September, my life changed profoundly. Much has been written about that day, and much has happened as a result of two planes crashing into the twin towers o…
Ten years ago, on a beautiful morning in September, my life changed profoundly. Much has been written about that day, and much has happened as a result of two planes crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Ten years later, it is as difficult for me to write about those events as it was then.
I have worked professionally for eight years now and have used several different film and digital camera systems, but using Leica was always an aspiration though I could never justify the costs. Apart from that, I have learned the hard way that a top-end camera can become your master. Although they can give you an advantage and help give you better negatives or files, an expensive camera does not make you a better photographer.
Fred Ritchin says that we are obsessed with ourselves and images of the unreal. That we are escaping from very real photos of destruction into visions of idyllic fantasies, and that this escapism is being branded by governments and corporations for their
Fred Ritchin says that we are obsessed with ourselves and images of the unreal. That we are escaping from very real photos of destruction into visions of idyllic fantasies, and that this escapism is being branded by governments and corporations for their own ends. We are being sold products and social scenarios that appeal to our fantasies but ultimately fail us.
When in 2005 the Chinese government ordered the demolition of the Beijing International Art Camp which housed Liu’s studio he created an image as a response. He painted his body against the rubble of the demolished building. It was the first image of the extended body of work entitled Hiding in the City. His entire body is painted to create an effect that makes him fade away into the background
Photographers need to get away from hyper-connectivity, and all this internet shit. It’s making the work all look the same . All these anxiety ridden photographers hustling for attention. Tweeting frivolously, talking about their shows, or what stupid blog they’ve appeared in
John Heller, a working photographer, was on assignment for Getty Images when his Nikon D3 camera and lenses were stolen from him at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. He’d all but written off…
He’d all but written off the $9,000 in ripped-off-gear, when he searched for his camera using a serial number search tool offered by theft recovery service GadgetTrak. According to the company, “He found an exact match with several images that were recently posted to Flickr.”
THE BLOG GROWS LEGS It’s with excited anticipation and a good amount of nerves that I announce the launch of my Kickstarter project Prison Photography on the Road: Stories Behind the Photos. …
It’s with excited anticipation and a good amount of nerves that I announce the launch of my Kickstarter project Prison Photography on the Road: Stories Behind the Photos.
