Category: Photography

PDN:

For PDN’s Careers and Self-Promotion Issue, we asked En Foco executive director Miriam Romais about the lack of diversity in the photo industry, why it matters, and what can be done to ensure more support  for minority photographers.  Romais, who will co-chair the 2010 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) conference, also addressed the efforts educators can make on behalf of student photographers of color.

Thomas Hawk:

I was dismayed today to read about the latest alleged case of Flickr Censorship. Censorship (or as they like to call it “moderation”) continues to be a problem on Flickr.

PDNPulse: On Lack of Diversity in Photography, and in PDN:

Yesterday some blogs circulated a note about the fact that of the 24 judges of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual contest, all of them are white. It’s a valid point ,and one that everyone who works on PDN’s contests has given a lot of thought. While the lack of any judges of color wasn’t intentional, it is regrettable.

David Walker – PDN:

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe re-photograph old Western landscape images to create collages that break the boundaries of time and space.

Fred R. Conrad – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

Since Polaroid no longer makes either film, I often wonder about the photographers whose work was most identified with Type 55 and 665 — how are they doing and with what.

Photo by Bill Burke

America’s Finest News Source

CLICK NOTE: So I’m guessing they’re filing Gilles Perres’ work under photography, not peace or love.

A Picture’s Worth says:

Every summer, a healthy chunk of the photography world descends on Charlottesville, Virginia for several days of good, wholesome, photo loving.  What started as a backyard slideshow at the home of Nick Nichols has blossomed into LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph http://look3.org, with dozens of exhibits, talks and workshops, and participation from some of the most recognized names in photography.  This year, the festival is June 11-13, and if you love photography and have a way to get there, you should make it your business to do so

Tim Gruber says:

After a lot of editing, toning, retoning, printing, reprinting, reordering(repeat a few more times for good measure) my print portfolio is finally finished. The beautiful or perhaps the ugly thing with a portfolio is that it’s never truly done. Your portfolio just like your mind will continue to grow and evolve. There’s a good chance the work you like today you’ll hate tomorrow.
I thought I’d share a few things about the process. Here are 11 random thoughts about the experience in no order.

MICHAEL KIMMELMAN – NYTimes.com says:

All this is the familiarly messy, philosophical heart of photography, and it’s also the subject of a show that just closed here, itself a mess. “Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography” was organized by Christian Pirker and Daniel Girardin, a lawyer and a curator from Switzerland, where the exhibition originated. Louvre-length, two-hour lines daily snaked out the door of the Bibliothèque Nationale here until the end of last month. (The show moves on to South America.) Inside, scrums of visitors clustered before 80 or so pictures, more or less famous troublemakers, spanning the era of the daguerreotype through Abu Ghraib.

lens culture says:

Photomonth in Krakow is one of the leading European photography festivals and one of the largest ongoing cultural events in Poland. In May 2009 the 7th edition presented over 30 individual and collective exhibitions throughout the charming city, in galleries, museums, cafes and post-industrial spaces. I got there late this year, and decided to stay three extra days, and I still didn’t get to see everything I wanted to see.

KOKOGIAK says:

Hello blog folks, it’s been a while. One year to be exact… one long crazy year. This time last year, I announced my project called The Big Picture, hoping, of course, that it would do well. It has really blown me away how well it has done. I will happily take some of the credit, but much of the success belongs to the photographers who consistently deliver amazing imagery that makes choosing and editing both a pleasure and a difficult task.

Gizmodo says:

You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn’t insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don’t walk fast enough.

America’s Finest News Source says:

“It’s so convenient. You get a photo in your mailbox, look at it for a while, and then drop it in the prepaid envelope and send it back,” Houston resident Jonathan Collins said. “I’ll never look at pictures the same way again.”