The show is of recent work by Ruud van Empel – the 51 year old Dutch photographer who has been working in the collage/photoshop medium since the late 1990s.
Category: Photography
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The Year in Pictures: Ruud van Empel
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Transitioning from advertising to fine art photography 2
In Brian Kosoff last post he talks about the value of advertising photographers’ time and images dropping during the last decade. For a while he stuck it out with cost saving measures like those outlined below. But when an opportunity arose to move to a new model — fine art photography — Brian was smart enough to see its potential and happy to make the switch.
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On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark
“When you’re working on a film, it’s almost like photographing paintings at a museum,” says Mary Ellen Mark, now 68 and dressed entirely in black, with twin braids over her shoulders. “You’re photographing somebody else’s world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.”
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Transitioning from advertising to fine art photography 1
Brian Kosoff was a top advertising photographer for 25 years, up until the beginning of the end of advertising photography’s golden age. As he watched photographers’ incomes drop and overhead costs rise, he found a way to transition to the world of fine-art landscape photography. Here he talks about the roots of the challenges advertising photographers still face.
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'Americans': The Book That Changed Photography
The Americans showed a different America than the wholesome, nonconfrontational photo essays offered in some popular magazines. Robert Frank’s subjects weren’t necessarily living the American dream of the 1950s: They were factory workers in Detroit, transvestites in New York, black passengers on a segregated trolley in New Orleans. Frank didn’t even get much support from the art world, he recalls.
“The Museum of Modern Art wouldn’t even sell the book,” Frank says. “But the younger people caught on.”
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Roger Cremers: Auschwitz Tourist Photography
Just a quick post here. The World Press Photo Awards were announced yesterday. One winner caught my eye. The work of Roger Cremers document the tourist behaviours at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a tricky topic to deal with, especially in a photography climate that frequently pours cynicism and scorn on global tourism (Martin Parr’s brilliantly garish work trail-blazed this climate).
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Using the Flickr API to Make DeleteMe Uncensored Even Better
One of my favorite places on the internet, and really the only place that I hang out regularly on Flickr is in the group DeleteMe Uncensored. DeleteMe Uncensored is a group on Flickr where users submit their photographs into a pool and then other group members vote on them along with a short comment. If a photo gets 10 “saves” before 10 “deletes” it is then saved into a group portfolio of photographs called “The Lightbox.” If you want to see what I feel is some of the best photography on Flickr check out The Lightbox.
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SuperTouch-SNEEK PEEK: KEHINDE WILEY’S FORTHCOMING “BLACK LIGHT” PHOTO BOOK
Renowned for his old master style oil paintings of modern black males in renaissance poses, NYC based artist KEHINDE WILEY makes his first foray into photography just as memorable with a new series of stills replicating his instantly recognizable fine art aesthetic. Created for “Black Light,” a forthcoming book by Brooklyn-based publishers POWERHOUSE set to debut in Ma
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How To Be A Portrait Photographer : justinhackworth.com
Watch this 30 second slideshow and you’ll know what it’s sometimes like to be a family portrait photographer. You’ve got to work fast.
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Smile! Polaroid is saved
When Polaroid announced last February that it would stop production of its instant film, it seemed the much-loved camera was gone forever. But within weeks, a group of users had started a global campaign for the format to return. And now, thanks to an unlikely saviour, their pleas have been heard.
Check it out here. Via Jason
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Contemporary city photoshopped with war-scenes from history
Sergei Larenkov has photoshopped together modern images of St Petersburg with photos taken during the brutal Siege of Leningrad during WWII
Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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Prisoners as Waste: The Photography of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan has spent his time making larger and larger photographic constructions to communicate the scale at which American society wastes its resources, its environmental future and its grasp on logic. In his effort to catalogue the linear and thoughtless waste of the US, he has progressed from crushed automobiles, to cell phone chargers, to polystyrene cups to American prisoners.
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seeing eye to eye – bookforum
BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANNBECAUSE IT’S THE PRODUCT OF THREE INDEPENDENT PARTIES—PHOTOGRAPHER, CAMERA, SUBJECT—THE PHOTOGRAPH CANNOT BE OWNED. INDEED, IT CAN AFFECT US IN WAYS THE PHOTOGRAPHER MIGHT NEVER HAVE FORESEEN OR DESIRED.
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Canon Professional Network – Steve Winter
When Steve Winter’s name was read out as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 at a gala at London’s Natural History Museum in November 2008 it was the culmination of a dream that began when he was a boy in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “From the time I was eight years old,” Steve reveals, “all I ever wanted to be was a National Geographic photographer. I always saw the magazine and watched National Geographic television specials and became fascinated by the great world out there, by all the other cultures and people.” He adds, ironically: “But never in a million years did I ever think I would end up photographing animals.” CPN’s John McDermott spoke to him about his career and his photographic pursuit of snow leopards.
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The Great Wall | PDN Photo of the Day
65#06 Beijing, Great Wall of Mutianyu, 2006, photographed by Thomas Kellner. Kellner explains his process
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The Mystery Deepens
Oh dear. After my scoop “identifying” the source photograph and photographer of Shepard Fairey’s iconic HOPE poster, Purchase College digital photography teacher Nathan Lunstrum came up with a different image that appears to be a better and less convoluted match.
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Scrumtralescent – You've Got To Be Kidding
I didn’t think the danger of slipping and falling in a parking lot could get any more severe. Then I saw this.
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Editor's Note – National Geographic
Sometimes it takes the worst to see people at their best. For Bobby Model, a photographer who has worked for this magazine and a world-class climber, the worst happened two years ago while traveling in Cape Town, South Africa, with his sister, Faith. A concrete block crashed through the windshield and struck his head, causing massive brain injuries. Doctors doubted he would survive. Though never solved, the case was investigated as an act of random violence. That’s the darkest side of humanity.
