Link: LUCEO Announces New Trajectory | Luceo Images
Here are a few things you should look for in LUCEO 2.0
Link: LUCEO Announces New Trajectory | Luceo Images
Here are a few things you should look for in LUCEO 2.0
Link: David Griffin – What it Takes – The Photo Society
There are many people taking photographs. There are some who are very good. But there are only a few who are great. Your first task is to move yourself from the many, to the few, since NGM only works with the latter. To become a great photographer is your first task
The National Press Photographer’s Association has a handy guide that covers the basics of covering both conventions, ranging from what to do if you’re arrested to how to stay safe in a crowd to dealing with the heat. The guide also includes a brief survey of local and federal ordinances and laws that will apply to people on the scene and educated guesses on how police may treat journalists based on recent actions of police in Chicago during the NATO summit protests earlier this year
Link: Homai Vyarawalla: India’s First Female Photojournalist – LightBox
Besides capturing the last days of the British Empire, Homai Vyarawalla was one of the key visual chroniclers of the post-independence era, tracing the euphoria and disillusionments of a new nation as India’s first female photojournalist. For years her vast archive chronicling three decades of Indian history received less attention than the Indian work of her international contemporaries, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Margaret Bourke-White. But a new retrospective titled “Candid, The Lens and Life of Homai Vyarawalla“ at Manhattan’s Rubin Museum of Art is finally paying tribute to her groundbreaking work.
Link: iPad Photo Mag Once Shuts Down Due to Funding, Technology | Raw File | Wired.com
Sometimes good ideas fail. That seems to be the case for Once, the innovative photojournalism magazine that launched its pilot issue last summer with big hopes of capitalizing on the iPad as a new publishing tool.
Link: At ‘New York’s Picture Newspaper,’ photographers trade dark looks | Capital New York
When Alexander Hitchen assumes his new post as photo editor of the Daily News, he will inherit a small fleet of freelance photojournalists who feel as if they’ve just had the wind knocked out of them.
As Hipstamatic prepares to launch its Foundation for Photojournalism, as revealed last week by BJP, photographers, editors and agency directors share their views on how the San Francisco-based company could impact photojournalism
When I was a kid, it seemed like TIME magazine was filled every week with images of starvation from Ethiopia. I didn’t find myself connecting with those photos because 1) I didn’t have the emotional experience to contextualize suffering, and 2) Ethiopia s
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/07/the-power-of-tragic-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
in the past decade, certain images have been seared into my brain, and in the past month alone, a few images have nearly brought me to tears, even though we’re bombarded by hundreds of images on a daily basis. These images don’t describe a tragic event, but rather the aftermath. The emotions expressed by the subjects are universal, and as such, they transcend geographic borders and time. They are too easily relatable
Link: NPPA Board Discusses BOP Contest, New Web Site Progress
“We discussed – at length – a detailed plan for the revitalization of the Best of Photojournalism competition,” said president Sean D. Elliot. He added that details on the changes will be promoted later this summer.
The Board also – for the first time – was shown mock-ups of the new nppa.org Web site, which is in the works and expected to launch later this year. Visitors can anticipate a much cleaner design and improved user experience at a site geared towards promoting and showcasing members’ work, as well as building community.
Link: Repost: They All Follow Us « Perfesser Kev
I first published this post on the tenth anniversary of the Columbine shootings. It’s been rolling around among the knots in my stomach today, after a yet more devastating and senseless shooting in metro Denver. I am constantly rerunning these events in my head once again.
Synthetic, maker of the popular Hipstamatic application for iPhone, is expected to launch, later this year, a pack of digital lenses and films dedicated to photojournalists to raise funds for its newly created Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism. T
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2193262/hipstamatic-plans-launch-of-foundation-for-photojournalism?WT.rss_f=All+the+latest+articles+from+BJP&WT.rss_a=Hipstamatic+plans+launch+of+Foundation+for+Photojournalism
Hipstamatic plans to open the Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism to “support photographic storytellers” who use smartphones to tell their stories, BJP can reveal
Award-winning photojournalist Dennis Brack, who covered ten presidential administrations and major news stories for Time and Newsweek, has donated his photographic archive to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin.
Link: http://thelifeofm.com/?p=541
In the womb, Olivia and Hailey Scheinman formed to the thump of the same heartbeat. Cells divided and organs sprouted, skin and hair knitted together while fluids swirled. Their mother rocked them with her every step.
For reasons no one knows, something didn’t proceed normally for Olivia. During the first trimester, her brain didn’t form the way it should, the way her twin sister’s did.
Link: Friday the 13th hits Sports Illustrated | Utah Photojournalism
A series of pending staff cuts was announced a couple Fridays ago
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Feature: Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography
I realized that maybe the photography that first attracted me as a young man on the streets of Montreal — Henri Cartier-Bresson and the great street photographers — was not what I was doing anymore. Partly because of practicality — lack of time on assignments — I was shooting in a very formulaic way. I wanted to see if I could break away and rekindle that innocence of vision that I [once] had. I found that the project was my way back into that wonder of photography that I experienced as a young guy.
If May’s NATO Summit in Chicago is any indication, journalists covering events outside the national political conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C., later this summer can expect that everyone–mainstream media, bloggers, citizen journalist
Link: http://cpj.org/security/2012/07/what-to-know-about-covering-the-conventions.php
Both Tampa, which will host Republicans August 27-30, and Charlotte, which will host Democrats September 3-6, have established security zones around their respective convention centers. Those ordinances also ban a long list of items deemed to be potential weapons, so journalists who might come prepared with gas masks may find they are violating the new restrictions by carrying one
“I was under the impression that I was going to be photographing athletes on a stage or during press conference where I would take their headshots for our archives,” he explained. “I really had no idea that there would be a possibility for setting up a st
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/07/05/olympic-athlete-photographer-joe-klamar-brushes-off-criticism/
I work for a news agency and I wasn’t taking pictures for a Nike ad
Members of Magnum Photos held their annual general meeting this week at the Rencontres D’Arles photo festival in France, and selected three new nominees for the photo collective. The three are varied not only in their experience but in the kind of work th
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/07/magnum-photos-announces-3-nominees.html
The work of these three photographers might represent the different kinds of work now produced by Magnum members. Two years ago when we reported on Magnum’s choice of two news photographers as nominees, Alec Soth, a Magnum photographer, wrote us to say: “One of the reasons I wanted to be in Magnum is because of the diversity of approaches to the medium. There is such a broad spectrum within the agency that these lines between ‘art’ and ‘photojournalism’ have blurred beyond recognition.”