In advance of the grand jury verdict, photojournalist Jon Lowenstein talks about what he saw in Ferguson, Missouri. With photos and video.
via ideas.ted.com: http://ideas.ted.com/2014/11/11/does-after-ferguson-exist/
In Ferguson, Missouri, a grand jury will soon decide whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing an unarmed teenager in August. Photojournalist Jon Lowenstein talks about what happened.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/19/conflict-war-photographer-risc-saving-lives/#1
This year, RISC is holding a benefit auction of photographic prints to raise money to help pay for the training it provides. (Each training session costs $24,000 for 24 New York-based students; overseas sessions cost $36,000.)
the big difference between a powerful photojournalist image and commercial stock is that one misses a lot context while the other shows it all
I had a wonderful opportunity today in that I got to enjoy the company of Pulitzer Prize-winner photojournalist David Turnley in the setting of my very
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/09/pulitzer-winning-photographer-david-turnleys-advice-class-photojournalism-students/
David Turnley had so much to say on the matter of street shooting and his experiences of so many decades of work, and I was so overloaded with joy and the relevant information he brought to the table based on real experience from a career as a humanitarian and war photographer, that it was hard to capture everything he was saying, but some important things he shared with us did manage to stick with me.
Today David Lama is one of the most successful professional climbers in Europe. But at age 19, his climbing career almost ended before it even began. In
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/06/story-behind-image-best-time-photographer-right-now/
Rich Clarkson: “Let me just make something real clear guys,” he said. “You know, I’m tired of hearing people talk about how the future is not bright. The future for photography and filmmaking and journalism has never been brighter!
Makeshift schools, water pumps, bubble-blowers and balloon sellers … the award-winning AP photographer tells Lizzie Tucker what it’s like to live and work in the world’s largest community of refugees
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/31/-sp-photographer-muhammed-muheisen-afghan-refugee-children-pakistan
Makeshift schools, water pumps, bubble-blowers and balloon sellers … the award-winning AP photographer explains what it’s like to live and work in the world’s largest community of refugees
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/03/doug-rickard-youtube/#1
“I knew this work was going to be darker,” says the visual artist Doug Rickard. “As I started to dive into the footage, I realized that there was an extra motive for posting videos on YouTube, and often it was a rather dark motive in itself.”
Kira Pollack, Benjamin Lowy, Stephen Mayes and Andrew Delaney discuss the ways smartphone photography is affecting the photography industry.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/11/photoplus-expo-2014-leading-revolution-smartphone-photography.html
Photographers, if they can master the ways these digital systems work, “can become the masters,” Mayes said, and argued that smartphones had opened a “doorway into a rich area of image-making and communication with a power beyond anything we can imagine at this point.” Stay tuned.
Atlanta-based photographer David Welker attended the Eddie Adams Workshop and reflects upon his monumental experience.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/reflections-barnstorm-xxvii-by-david-welker/
I’m not going to go into the details of the entire weekend, but I want to take a moment to reflect on some things that I learned while there and will never forget:
Photography is powerful because we can place ourselves into the perspective of those we see in an image. Whether it’s street photography, photojournalism
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/10/25/photography-feelings-others-mirroring-emotions-theory-mind/
Photography is powerful because we can place ourselves into the perspective of those we see in an image. Whether it’s street photography, photojournalism or portraiture, we use photography to understand ourselves in relation to people around us.
NYC-based photographer Marcus DiPaola explains what it’s like to travel back from Liberia after covering the Ebola epidemic.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/10/how-a-photographer-leaves-the-hot-zone-a-first-hand-account-of-ebola-screening-by-marcus-dipaola/
On the way home, photographers should expect to face three levels of screening: in the hot zone, in a transit country, and in their home country. I just returned from a week-long trip to Liberia where I saw everything from an Ebola vomit-stained mattress being dragged out of an Ebola ward to bodies being hauled out of someone’s home. It was challenging, but not quite as challenging as trying to leave the country.
Newspapers in Canada led with big images and headlines about Wednesday’s shooting in Ottawa. Here’s are (sic) a few of them
National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer recently witnessed the exodus of more than 100,000 Kurds from Syria as they fled from ISIS into neighboring Turkey. This is his first-person account of the momentous scene that took place at the border in mi
via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/17/john-stanmeyer-witnessing-a-desperate-exodus-from-syria/
National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer recently witnessed the exodus of more than 100,000 Kurds from Syria as they fled from ISIS into neighboring Turkey. This is his first-person account of the momentous scene that took place at the border in mid-September.
There, I said it. You guys are a bunch of romantics. Tri-X can kiss my ass.
If you came of age in the 1970’s, as I did, it was hard to escape Simon and Garfunkel going on and on about the virtues of that ubiquitous slide film, what with those nice bright colors and greens of summer. Ten times a day you’d hear that damn song emanating from some transistor radio, and I’d always cringe when they got to the lyrical punchline, “Everything looks worse in back and white.”
I guess what I miss most is the solitude. I remember standing alone in the pitch black of a hotel road darkroom after a dangerous day, with my arms thrust deep into a sink of 68-degree wash water for no reason while I waited for the fixer to clear my film. There, in the absence of every sight, of every sound, it was peace.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/17/meet-times-international-photo-editor/#1
Last month, TIME was excited to welcome Alice Gabriner as our new International Photo Editor. No stranger to the publication, Gabriner photo edited TIME’s National section from 2000 to 2003 and then International from 2003 to 2009, including during the Iraq war.
A homegrown Iraqi photo agency is telling stories no one else can.
via Roads & Kingdoms: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/a-lens-to-the-front/
He handed his memory cards to Carini and sipped coffee as the two of them looked over his pictures. Carini was amazed. He was struck by one shot in particular—the closest one he had ever seen from the frontline. In the image, a few peshmergas are ducking for cover behind sand bags while being shot at by ISIS. A fighter has just launched a rocket grenade. You can still see the smoke left in its wake
For the International Day of the Girl Child, we wanted to bring to light issues that are often hidden from view. So we turned to five photographers who devote much of their time to girls’ issues.
via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/10/355188020/photographers-capture-the-sorrow-and-pain-of-global-girls
We asked five photographers, who devote much or all of their time to documenting the lives of global girls, to share photos with special significance and talk about the images
“Was this worth risking your life for? After a lot of worrying, I decided that it was.”Though the technology and methods of dissemination have changed (th…
via Collectors Weekly: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/activist-photographers-who-fought-for-civil-rights/
“Was this worth risking your life for? After a lot of worrying, I decided that it was.”