Category: Video & Multimedia

Platinum Palladium Printing with Leica M Monochrom

Platinum Palladium Printing with Leica M Monochrom

Footage, edition and film direction by LUÍS OLIVEIRA SANTOS Music by: BEN SERETAN http://bser.tumblr.com/ http://benseretan.bandcamp.com/ SOL REZZA http://radio-arte.com https://soundcloud.com/solrezza ALONEFOLD http://www.alonefold.com http://alonefo

via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/66352973

Manuel Gomes Teixeira, photographer and Platinum Palladium printer, usually uses traditional methods, with photographic film in medium and large format cameras.
Invited by the exclusive distributor of Leica cameras in Portugal, he tested the Leica Monochrom. The high quality files, showing a rich tonal range, adapt very well to Platinum printing.

May 20, 2013
Canon 5D RAW hack – useful for real world production?

Canon 5D RAW hack – useful for real world production? – Newsshooter

By site editor Dan Chung: Genesis from James Miller on Vimeo. Okay – so I am officially impressed. A week after the Magic Lantern team unveiled their Canon DSLR RAW hack to the world there have already been substantial improvements to its reliability and

via Newsshooter: http://www.newsshooter.com/2013/05/19/canon-5d-raw-hack-useful-for-real-world-production/

Okay – so I am officially impressed. A week after the Magic Lantern team unveiled their Canon DSLR RAW hack to the world there have already been substantial improvements to its reliability and usability

May 19, 2013
The Dude Abides-Behind the Camera, too. Jeff Bridges talks about photography

LensCulture – Contemporary Photography

Discover and share the best in contemporary photography

via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2013/05/dude.html

I went to Burma with a simple task: to investigate challenges to Myanmar’s nascent model of democracy using the mining industry as a device to talk about bigger issues. Wait, that wasn’t simple at all. In fact, that was very complicated. However, my second goal of the trip was simple: to field test the Canon C100 in a large variety of environments in a real world context. This would be the opposite of a desk test.

May 2, 2013
ICP Infinity Awards 2013: David Goldblatt

Link: ICP Infinity Awards 2013: David Goldblatt | Le Journal de la Photographie

David Goldblatt spent his life documenting apartheid in South Africa. While many photographers chased mass demonstrations and violent rebellions, Goldblatt focused on the cultural values that led to more than 40 years of repression.

May 2, 2013
ICP Infinity Awards 2013: David Guttenfelder

Link: ICP Infinity Awards 2013: David Guttenfelder | Le Journal de la Photographie

Surreal and mysterious, North Korea was a black hole to outsiders wanting a glimpse of the country. That all changed in 2012, when AP photographer David Guttenfelder led the opening of the bureau’s newest office inside the hermit kingdom.

May 2, 2013
ICP Infinity Awards 2013: Kitra Cahana

Link: ICP Infinity Awards 2013: Kitra Cahana | Le Journal de la Photographie

Blurring the line between subjects and friends, Kitra Cahana captures a rare level of intimacy with her subjects. As a documentary photographer, her images explore anthropological, social and spiritual themes through a human perspective.

May 2, 2013
ICP Infinity Awards 2013: Mishka Henner

Link: ICP Infinity Awards 2013: Mishka Henner | Le Journal de la Photographie

Looking, and trusting in that act alone, Mishka Henner explores photography as an appropriation artist. Through new and alternative technology, Henner inspects art from the past while innovating in the present.

May 2, 2013
Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

The silent drama of photography

Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tel

Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography.html

Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking images from his latest work, Genesis, which documents the world’s forgotten people and places.

May 1, 2013
Building a Human: new retrofuturist short by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz

Building a Human: new retrofuturist short by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz

Robert Popper (electrocuted) and Peter Serafinowicz (electrocuted) are back with a new “instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth).” …

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/27/building-a-human-new-retrofut.html

Robert Popper (electrocuted) and Peter Serafinowicz (electrocuted) are back with a new “instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth).”

April 28, 2013
What is multimedia? Should we now be talking about visual storytelling? A report commissioned by the World Press Photo Academy looks at the state of multimedia in modern journalism

The state we’re in: Multimedia in modern journalism – a new report for World Press Photo – Newsshooter

Reported by Mat Gallagher: The World Press Photo commissioned Dr David Campbell to examine the current practices of multimedia against the background of the disruption in the traditional media economy, and the revolution in how people consume news today.

via Newsshooter: http://www.newsshooter.com/2013/04/26/what-is-multimedia-should-we-now-be-talking-about-visual-storytelling-a-report-commissioned-by-the-world-press-photo-academy-looks-at-the-state-of-multimedia-in-modern-journalism/

The winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards have just been announced. Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang was announced as the Photographer of the Year, for her series of portraits of children and youths who survived the July 2011 massacre on the island of Utoeya, outside Oslo

April 26, 2013
Video Pick: Thomas Dworzak’s Long View of the Caucasus

Video Pick: Thomas Dworzak’s Long View of the Caucasus | PDNPulse

Since the 1990s, Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak has explored the volatile republics of the Northern Caucasus. It’s a region that’s now in the news because alleged Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had ties there, but Chechnya, Da

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/04/video-pick-thomas-dworzaks-long-view-of-the-caucasus.html

In the book’s introduction, Dworzak called Kavkas “a toast to the Caucasus.” Magnum in Motion made a multimedia slide show of some of the images from the book. They appear on screen as in the book, interspersed with text from writers including Tolstoy, Lermontov and Pushkin.

April 22, 2013
The ‘Snow Fall’ effect and dissecting the multimedia longform narrative

Link: The ‘Snow Fall’ effect and dissecting the multimedia longform narrative | MultimediaShooter

“It’s become a verb in our newsroom,” a New York Times graphics producer tells me. “People are now saying, ‘can we snowfall this story?’”

April 22, 2013
Revisiting Memory and Preserving Legacy: Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros

LightBox | Time

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/18/revisiting-memory-and-preserving-legacy-tim-hetherington-and-chris-hondros/

“War gives you meaning,” he said, “an appreciation of life, and a chemical rush. That’s good. If anything else gave you all that, I’d be doing it every day. War is giving you these things that everyone seeks and presents it in a package. You never get those three things together in anything else. You can go skydiving but that’s not meaningful, it’s just an indulgence. War is everything.”

April 18, 2013
MJR

Link: MJR

What is overlooked is the sheer act of photography that refuses by its very nature to be a literal exercise. We are not encouraged, as professionals, to nurture the instinctive impetus to photograph our lives, our minutiae, our confusion, perhaps simply our response to what occurs on infinitely complex levels around us and within us…. without trying to force it into words, as if by doing that, the act of photographing is somehow justified and made important

March 27, 2013
The Magnificent One: Philip Jones Griffiths by Donna Ferrato and Emmanuel Trousse

The Magnificent One: Philip Jones Griffiths by Donna Ferrato and Emmanuel Trousse — duckrabbit

I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet because I’m training a group of people in London, but I’m…

via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/03/the-magnificent-one-philip-jones-griffiths-by-donna-ferrato-and-emmanuel-trousse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29

Legendary anti-war photographer and author of Viet Nam Inc, Philip Jones Griffiths, gives the interview of a lifetime only 48 hours before he died in at his home in London on March 19, 2008

March 22, 2013
Is Medium Format Dead?

Link: Is MF Dead

who better to ask than the CEO of Phase One, the makers of Phase One, Leaf and Mamiya cameras, backs and lenses? Henrik Håkonsson kindly agreed to fly to Mexico for a sit-down to discuss the state of the industry on-camera, and below we have a 41 minute long interview

March 18, 2013
Antonin Kratochvil On His Imaging Style

Antonin Kratochvil On His Imaging Style – A Photo Editor

You should never use camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience, to make the pictures with the camera. Not the other way around. — Antonin Kratochvil

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/18/antonin-kratochvil-on-his-imaging-style/

You should never use camera to make your pictures.
You use yourself, your experience, to make the pictures with the camera.
Not the other way around

March 18, 2013
Conclave: A Short Film by Christopher Morris

LightBox | Time

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/14/conclave-a-short-film-by-christopher-morris/

TIME assigned contract photographer Christopher Morris to document the Papal Conclave earlier this week. In addition to his work as a photojournalist, Morris also directed and produced a short film, ‘Conclave’, about the anticipation of the crowds congregating in St. Peter’s Square for the announcement of the new Pope.

March 14, 2013
david alan harvey – videos

Link: david alan harvey – videos | burn magazine

March 14, 2013
We Talked to the Founders of the Found Footage Festival

We Talked to the Founders of the Found Footage Festival

For eight years, a couple guys from Wisconsin with a passion for scouring through dumpsters, second-hand shops, and warehouses have been curating the best, worst, and strangest clips they could find—they’ve made six DVD compilations and a book of VHS…

via Vice: http://m.vice.com/read/we-talked-to-the-founders-of-the-found-footage-festival

The 1980s and 1990s were the glory days of the home movie—cameras and VCRs were affordable and easy to use, but no one had any dang idea how to film something anyone else would want to watch: poorly thought-out video dating profiles; cheesy, no-budget advertisements; and embarrassing corporate training videos abounded, and since this was before the dawn of YouTube, all of those glorious disasters were left to rot in the cavernous bins of thrift stores and garage sales.

The Found Footage Festival is devoted to bringing those accidental gems to life.

March 8, 2013