Category: Photography

“A Moment In Time” has as its goal the hope of capturing, around the world, people in their lives at nearly the same moment, 15:00:00 GMT on Sunday, May 2, 2010.

Link: New York Times’ LENS To Launch Global “Moment In Time” On Sunday

While some have described, in hyperbolic fashion, the death of photography… I see rather a birth and a new definition forming, an expansion on previous ideas… a birth occurring that brings with it a new world in a sense, a massive frontier and a new sort of beginning… of new possibilities and new “tools”… and new way of using them and a new way of abusing them. The old is becoming renewed and fresh while “the new” is then already becoming a bit old and dull. We are looking forward yet looking freshly backwards on an unprecedented scale. The past and the present are co-mingling at such a rapid pace as to give one chills… if one can see it.

Link: The New York Photo Festival | The Future of Contemporary Photography

Catching up with two PhotoShelter photographers in the path of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

By now, you’ve no doubt seen the headlines featuring travelers stranded worldwide thanks to the billowing smoke, ash, lava and even lightening pouring from the volcano in Iceland. The images featured by National Geographic had me  full of questions, like “how do they get so close to the lava?”  Well, PhotoShelter actually has a growing presence among photographers in Iceland, and with some luck, I was able to track down a few of our members with some striking images of the volcanic eruption.  Sigurdur Olafur Sigurdsson (Siggi) and Sigursteinn Baldursson (Steini) were happy to share their photos and commentary via email.  Worth noting, both photographers are not your typical professional nature photographers, but they’ve each found themselves in a remarkable position to capture the beauty and power of nature at work.

Link: Photographing an Erupting Volcano – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter

Ask Anything – Art Buyer Speed Questions – A Photo Editor

Former Art Buyers and current photography consultants Amanda Sosa Stone and Suzanne Sease have agreed to take anonymous questions from photographers and not only give their expert advice but put it out to a wide range of photographers, reps and art buyers

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/04/22/ask-anything-–-art-buyer-speed-questions/

His blog now serves as a sort of oracle into the process of picture editing, and it’s full of practical advice. The posts are varied–there are interviews with photographers he’s worked with (here’s one with Matt Slaby on creating long term bodies of work (Slaby previously interviewed on dvafoto)), discussions of compositional theory, ideas behind how bodies of work should be edited, career advice, and on and on.

Link: Worth a read: Picture editor at large Mike Davis’ blog | dvafoto

Representatives of the photography departments at Christie’s, Phillips de Pury and Sotheby’s touted results of the spring photography auctions last week as positive. The sales signaled an improving economy and confidence in the value of photography, they said in interviews with PDN.

Link: New York Photo Auctions Total Nearly $18 Million

we see a lot of photo websites as we bring you dvafoto, and looking at work online is often a frustrating process. Here are a few things that I think every photo website needs. Each one of these is something that has prevented us from easily linking to work online, and if it’s made the process difficult for us, you can be sure an art buyer or photo editor won’t put up with it

Link: Things every photographer’s portfolio website needs | dvafoto

Journalists are often at their worst when trying to predict the future. But it seems safe to say that many hundreds — if not thousands — of shutters will be released simultaneously on Sunday, May 2, as photographers around the world help Lens create “A Moment in Time”; one single moment in the life of the planet.

Link: Photographers Prepare for a Moment in May – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

The mistake of not bringing along your releases is, to me, not too much different from the crappy buyers and publications that ask their photographers to sign starvation-contracts: you get what you need in the short run, but there’s no long-term sustainability to it.

Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Releases | Luceo Images