Category: Photography
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lens culture: Japan 2008
Consider Japanese photography as a whole and it becomes evident that a large number of artists tend to express feelings of incomprehension and ambiguity towards reality and the world rather than attempt to decrypt it and objectively analyze it Check it out here.
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PDNPulse: DRR Photogs: Your Check Is Not in the Mail
Stock Artists Alliance, which has been working on behalf of photographers who were customers of Digital Railroad’s image hosting and licensing service, tells photographers not to expect their money back any time soon. Check it out here.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Digital Railroad liquidator indicates asset purchase, service continuation possible
A notice on the website of Digital Railroad’s liquidator indicates the company has “received a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase the assets of DRR…with the desire to continue providing services to DRR members and customers with as little disruption as possible.”
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Strobist: Nick Turpin Ditches his SB-800s for a Cell Phone
emember Nick Turpin, who did those beautiful SB-800-lit street portraits of thriller writers for Arena Magazine? Now, he has ditched even those and is shooting his current month-long campaign for Samsung using only a cell phone. No DSLRs, no flashes, no female assistants holding long poles. And he is not even in control of what…
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Digital RailWreck « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Shutting down the DRR online storage site – and giving all of your customers less than 24 hours notice to retrieve their data – is ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE.
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Mostly True: Digital Railroad is Now Dead
To our valued Members: We’re sorry to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down.
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The Peddecord Show: On Shooting Dance, Part I
Shooting live performance either in the rehearsal studio or on stage is where many photographers cut their teeth with dance and then attempt to pursue a career in dance photography. It’s usually a dead-end.
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photographylot: Magnum Korea
The Hankyoreh, a newspaper and media company in Korea, commissioned Magnum to produce a series of photographs to commemorate South Korea’s 60th anniversary and the company’s own 20th anniversary. The Resulting project is apparantly the largest single undertaking by the Magnum agency, who sent 20 of it’s photographers to South Korea between the end of…
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Take a Photo, Leave a Photo at Urban Prankster
For Toronto street artist Posterchild’s latest project, he installed blue wooden boxes around town with a camera inside. Check it out here.
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Doug Menuez ON CHAOS, FEAR, SURVIVAL & LUCK: LONGEVITY IS THE ANSWER
We are like swimmers lost on a vast, dark sea. Lightning streaks out from a distant storm to show us a direction and off we go, furiously slashing the waves toward the light and hopefully land. Too soon, darkness settles back down around us and we lose our way again. Occasionally, we lose our faith…
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Magnum Blog / If I was president, I'd have a kick-ass blog
photo by Alec Soth Alec Soth: So let me start the conversation by asking what you want. If you ran this blog, how would you make it better? Check it out here.
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Workshop – In Depth Still Photography Workflow & an introduction to Video for the Photographer « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
I’ve been planning a photography workshop for a few months now – and have recently decided to include a section for photographers wishing to make the transition into video as well. The full-day workshop will be held at the Apple Boston Market Center, in Boston MA on Sunday November 2nd, 2008. Check it out…
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A Bright Spot: Introducing the PhotoShelter Personal Archive 2.0
Photographers, get ready to FREAK OUT. PA 2.0 represents a full re-skin of the site, a trophy-case of new features that we developed in direct response to our users’ requests, the cheapest/fastest/coolest way to get a personal photography website loaded with e-commerce capabilities (can you say … website-in-30-seconds-or-less), and some cool new *viral* tools for…
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Photo Event Calendar, 5th Ave Apple Store, NYC
Monday, October 20, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Filmmaking for Photographers with Vincent Laforet Join Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Vincent Laforet as he discusses his recent video, The Reverie. With props like the 5D Mark II SLR camera used on set and accessories from RedRock Micro, he’ll discuss the making of the film and how Final Cut Studio and…
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PDNPulse: Something is Up at Digital Railroad
I have heard two rumors today that something is amiss at photo hosting company and stock marketplace Digital Railroad. One rumor – that the company might be liquidated – appears on John Harrington’s Photo Business News blog. John may be in a good position to know, since Digital Railroad is one of his blog’s advertisers.…
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Anders Petersen Photography Workshop in Barcelona – lens culture photography weblog
I just learned that Anders Petersen, the great Swedish photographer, will be conducting a rare one-week photography workshop in Barcelona, November 23-29, 2008. Check it out here.
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Trent Parke's Family Album – Magnum Photos
Trent Parkes new exhibition “The Christmas Tree Bucket – Trent Parkes family album” will be shown at the Australian Centre for Photography from 21st November 2008 to 21 January 2009. Check it out here.
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A Photo Editor – Getting A Story Made at National Geographic
After talking with several National Geographic photographers about shooting for the magazine I became intrigued with the process of getting a story made. The collaboration between the photo editors and photographers and then the photographers involvement in all the steps along the way is unique and important to how they make stories Check it out…
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How to Fail as a Photographer
Self-help gurus want to sell you on success. I prefer to do the opposite. I’d rather tell you how to fail because failure is more insightful. What’s more, you’re probably already on your path to failure. You’re already doing the things that increase your chance of failure. And by the end of this article, I…
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PDNPulse: The Dan Winters Issue of New York
Dan Winters spent 22 days in New York photographing dozens of New York power brokers, New York newsmakers of the past (wow, Frank Serpico looks nothing like Al Pacino, but Joey Buttafuoco has turned into John Belushi) , New York director Woody Allen, New York pride and joys like Deborah Harry, and 36 New York…