PDNPulse: Annie Leibovitz Sued over Lavazza Coffee Campaign:
Pizzetti said in the lawsuit he doesn’t think Leibovitz traveled to Italy for the campaign at all, according to the Bloomberg story.
The campaign was panned by other photographers. Mike Johnston on The Online Photographer called one of Leibovitz’s Lavazzo pictures “The Worst Photograph Ever Made.”
Escondido (Hidden), by Federico Gama:
Right at noon on Sunday 13 March 2005 I began my wanderings near the Tacubaya metro station, just as I’d been doing for several months previously. I habitually began at Tacubaya station, would continue outside Pino Suárez metro station and end the afternoon at a downtown park, the Alameda Central, guided by whatever I’d find in the streets related to a project I named Mazahuacholoskatopunk, in which I sought to portray indigenous young people in youthful fashions and styles derived from so-called “urban tribes.”
David Bailey’s Nokia experiment and the future of photography | Technology | guardian.co.uk:
Until recently, camera phones have been the snapshot camera’s poor relation, but some have reached the point where they can take serious pictures, even at night. That, at least, is Nokia’s sales pitch for the N86. It commissioned David Bailey to produce Alive at Night, an exhibition of photographs taken with the mobile phone to promote its launch on Orange.
Consider The Source – PDN:
Working on “Design For A Living World” provided
Vitale a number of opportunities. She was able to step outside her normal photojournalistic practice, travel to remote areas of the world that most people have never seen, and find a new outlet for her work. “It’s so interesting how it’s this domino effect, because once you start with one project that’s outside the lines of what your traditional role was, they sort of build on each other,” says Vitale.
The 37th Frame – Celebrating the Best of Photojournalism » DEEP SLEEP MAGAZINE – Call for Submissions:
We are making a last call for submissions to our third issue on the theme of ‘dance’ . The final deadline has now been extended to the 1st September 2009.
Deep Sleep Magazine was launched earlier this year, a brand new, quarterly online photography website founded by and featuring work from a small group of contributors sharing an office space in Shoreditch, east London. Each issue is on a specific theme and guest contributors are invited to submit a set of images based on that theme. The only stipulation is contributions must, in our judgement, fit the theme and that we are seeking photography of the highest calibre, whether from award-winning and exhibited contributors or emerging young talents in search of an outlet for their work. There’s no money involved, of course. Not for anyone. In fact, one of our motivations was to do something untainted by the demands of the marketplace. So it is very much a labour of love and we welcome anyone who would like to share in that.
Momenta Multimedia and Documentary Photo Workshops:
Momenta Workshops brings you a whole new crop of programs for 2009. We’ve added new instructors in brand new locations along with low-cost skills workshops.
We’re also expanding our line of intensive weekend workshops. This hasn’t changed our commitment to teaching quality documentary photography within practical, real world learning environments. We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the places we go and programs we teach.
In the Bronx, Capturing Beauty in the Bad Old Days of 1979 – NYTimes.com:
Thirty years ago this summer, I returned to the South Bronx, where I grew up, with a Yale diploma in one hand and a beat-up Pentax camera in the other. Raised to get a good education, become a doctor and escape, I had instead come right back to teach photography — on Charlotte Street, no less, the world’s most famous slum.
Markus Klinko and Indrani File for Bankruptcy:
The duo, who were formerly a romantic couple and remain business partners, have photographed such A-listers as Will Smith and Beyoncé and shot work for major clients including Nike and Vogue. The photographers are scheduled to star in an upcoming reality show on the Bravo network called “Double Exposure.”
Help photographers in need | dvafoto:
Seven days after asking for donations for vital medical care for his wife, St. Petersburg Times photojournalist Stephen Coddington has raised nearly US$8,000, but he still needs help. On April 1, 2008, Stephen’s wife Marian suffered a brain aneurysm. What followed was 6 months of intensive hospital care, care at one of the best rehabilitation centers in the US, and then what has become a year-long struggle against the CIGNA health insurance company. Steve has become his wife’s sole caregiver, the insurance company having denied crucial in-home nursing care and other necessary treatment; they have decided that Marian hasn’t made sufficient progress in her recovery to justify further expenditure. This is a travesty. Now, Steve is asking for help from his community and the larger worldwide community of photographers in his family’s hour of need, all trying to care for his two children and retain his newspaper job. Help Save Steve’s Family.
Seeing Money: Stop sabotaging your profit margin | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
So far in his “Seeing Money” column, Doug Menuez has covered several important topics for starting a photo business: getting loans, managing your expenses, and staying on top of Accounts Payable and Receivables (see his blog for more on cash flow and “must pays”). Here he explains why being “busy” is not the same thing as being profitable — and how to figure out which one you are.
Treasures From National Geographic Society’s Underground Trove – NYTimes.com:
“Photojournalism has really only recently been recognized in the fine-art world,” said Maura A. Mulvihill, vice president for the society’s image collection and sales. “And we are sitting on this vast, amazing collection, and started wanting to find a way to get it out into the world.”
Diversifying with workshops: rewarding but hardly easy | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
In the ’90s, Australian photojournalist Jack Picone covered eight wars in ten years. Then, like so many, he recognized that assignments were dwindling and decided to diversify in several areas, especially workshops. Based in Bangkok, Jack brings a non-Western mentality to his workshops, involving local photographers and inviting the community to see the final-night slideshow. Jack’s next workshop, with fellow Australian photographer Stephen Dupont, will be in Sydney and Melbourne in early October and November. But regardless of where they happen, as you’ll see from Jack’s comments, workshops are anything but easy — they are a lot of work for inconsistent money. The big reward is still helping students improve.
How Could Annie Leibovitz Be on the Verge of Financial Collapse? — New York Magazine:
Annie Leibovitz clearly hated what a lifetime-achievement award implied about her—that the best days of her 40-year career were behind her. “Photography is not something you retire from,” the 59-year-old Leibovitz said from the stage, accepting the honor from the International Center of Photography last May at Pier 60. She was turned out in a simple black dress and glasses, her long straight hair a little unruly, as usual. Photographers, she said, “live to a very old age” and “work until the end.” She noted that Lartigue lived to be 92, Steichen 93, and Cartier-Bresson 94. “Irving Penn is going to be 92 next month, and he’s still working.” Then her tone turned rueful. “Seriously, though, this really is a big deal,” she said, hoisting her Infinity Award statuette, her voice quavering to the point where it seemed she might cry. “It means so much to me, you know, especially right now. It’s, it’s a very sweet award to get right now. I’m having some tough times right now, so … ”
Human Nature: Doug Fogelson’s Overlapping Exposure Process:
Earlier this year photographer Doug Fogelson released The Time After, a book that considers humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world through an exploration of lifecycles and time signatures, which he visualizes using overlapping exposures created in-camera. His process yields complex images in which the subjects—people, urban architecture, street scenes, plant life, clouds, deserts and oceans, photographed in different locations around the world—intermingle and interact.
