My approach for making these images is actually quite different from how
I normally go about making images. In other projects, and most of my daily
work, I attempt to put as much of myself as possible into the photographs to
the point that every image is almost a self-portrait in a way. I shoot very
objectively and work to create an intimate connection with my subjects,
whether it’s a close friend, complete stranger, or even a place or object
“What’s it like photographing a National Geographic story?”
It’s a question frequently asked and to be honest, a rather intriguing one because a National Geographic story — the process from beginning to conclusion — is not always what we might think.
For one thing, I tend to get very wet and ruin equipment.
I had several bouts of photographing as a kid, and had my first show in the lunchroom of the University School of Milwaukee (despite the confusing name, a prep school). But I didn’t really become a photographer until 1980, when…
“I realized that my own family — Edith’s family — was as miraculous as the most distant people in the world and they were at the same time, the most available to me, and perhaps available only to me…. I had not realized t
He came of age photographically, making images of his wife’s family. “I realized that my own family — Edith’s family — was as miraculous as the most distant people in the world and they were at the same time, the most available to me, and perhaps available only to me…. I had not realized that art could be made by simply telling the story of your own life, of your own experience.”
Waukesha*, Wisconsin, June 2011 — I’m 54 this year, and film photography has certainly come a long way since I first seriously caught the photography bug in 1980. It used to be all there was. Up until the 1990s, the…
Lately, it’s been film (a.k.a. “analog”) aficionados who have been on the defensive, as digital has decisively taken over the market and removed just about any real practical necessity to use film at all.
The popular PhotoShelter Featured Photographer Slideshow has been updated for June/July, and includes images from 42 very talented photographers. The slideshow lives prominently on the Photo Buyer’s Homepage, where people can search images (from all PhotoShelter member archives), and photographers (according to region and specialty).
The images are part of a project devised by Hunts Point community organizations with the assistance of the 28-year-old French street artist known only as JR.
Alec Soth, 1969, USA, received a BA at the Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville in 1992. In July 2011 his book Broken Manual will be released. The series, created over the course of four years, investigates spaces people would runaway to, away from civilization. He has photographed monks, survivalists, hermits and runaways.
The rise of stock imagery has led to falling rates for professional photography, owing to market saturation, unwise marketing strategies, the internet and amateurs, says Betsy Reid, formerly founding executive director of the Stock Artists Alliance.
A photographer I work with here at the paper recently asked me to send him “a couple portfolio tips” to share with his students at the local technical college. I began writing what was coming to mind and the next thing I knew, I was on #8 and I still wasn’t done. Because here’s the thing: preparing a portfolio and getting a job isn’t as easy as just making a good edit and attaching a résumé and cover letter.
Here are 12 things I think it takes to someday put together a solid portfolio and be the “whole package” an employer is looking for.
I decided to put together a list of things that I thought made PhotoShelter cool, unique, special, different – and then built a presentation around it.
I was surprised by the reaction it got. It turns out, the smart people who were running the SB3 seminar knew exactly what they were talking about. A huge number of people attended each presentation in every city, enthusiastically firing off questions as I made my way through my list of favorite things.
We now know that the photographer was Franz Krieger, a native of Salzburg, Austria, who lived until 1993. And we know that the woman was Frieda Krieger, his wife. She was killed on Nov. 17, 1944 — as was their 2-year-old daughter, Heidrun — when America’s 15th Air Force bombed Salzburg.
Dhruv Malhotra’s series on people sleeping amidst the late-night glare of urban spaces first caught the attention of the photo world at the last Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by Martin Parr. Since then, he has upcoming shows in Canada and San Francisco. An insomniac, Malhotra says he finds the night more attractive than the day. After dark, he roams empty streets, looking for sleeping forms in empty public spaces.
An anonymous album from the Eastern Front in World War II has given up a few secrets. We’re inviting readers to help us answer many remaining questions.
There are certainly many photo albums of Nazi leaders and many photo albums of the Nazis’ victims. But it’s hard to imagine many albums depicting both, just a few pages apart.
At least one does, however, and it has surfaced in New York City. Its creator was able — apparently within weeks — to photograph Hitler as he warred on Russia and also to photograph some of the earliest victims of that brutal campaign, known as Operation Barbarossa, which began 70 years ago Wednesday.
By 1986 Schmid had amassed a huge stockpile of photographic material, not just found in the street, but actively sought out from invaluable sources such as fleamarkets and periodicals. From this material (snapshots, postcards, photographs cut out from magazines) Schmid began to assemble panels of similar pictures.
Rob: I want to talk with you about the post you made last week on your blog (here) where you asked people to guess the camera you used to make an image then revealed it was a frame grab from the Red Epic M digital cinema camera. Vincent: First of all, thi
Rob: I want to talk with you about the post you made last week on your blog (here) where you asked people to guess the camera you used to make an image then revealed it was a frame grab from the Red Epic M digital cinema camera.
As the 2011 edition of LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph came to a close, PDN asked a number of attendees what they would remember about the festival, which took place June 9–11 in Charlottesville, VA. Curated by New York Times Magazine director of photogr
PDN asked a number of attendees what they would remember about the festival, which took place June 9–11 in Charlottesville, VA. Curated by New York Times Magazine director of photography Kathy Ryan and VII The Magazine editor Scott Thode, the festival provided photographers and photo industry professionals a number of insights courtesy of the featured artists, as well as a chance to meet with peers and make new connections.
A lot of the encomia to digital that I’ve been reading for the past decade smack slightly but distinctly of rationalization. Most such apologias aren’t a balanced view. There’s no problem with that, necessarily—we’re making a case for what we…
I know I’ve written about this before, but I feel like thinking it through again. So here’s my current list of the best ways to preserve your pictures.
