http://vimeo.com/53917349 Photographer Ian Ruhter is traveling the country photographing the people and places he sees along the way with a delivery van
Photographer Ian Ruhter is traveling the country photographing the people and places he sees along the way with a delivery van that he converted into a giant camera
Watch even just the first minute of Barbara Davidson’s video, and goosebumps will start to crawl up your arms. A 911 dispatcher’s voice plays in the background, trying to help a hysterical mother who’s child has just been shot. “Is he breathing?” she asks
Watch even just the first minute of Barbara Davidson’s video, and goosebumps will start to crawl up your arms. A 911 dispatcher’s voice plays in the background, trying to help a hysterical mother who’s child has just been shot.
Link: Judging hundreds of multimedia stories in 2 days
Here’s some of what I learned…
Surprise me and I’m yours
Once there was a surprise in a story, I was usually hooked and watched until the end.
James Mullinger has been at British GQ for over twelve years, having worked his way up from intern to Photographic Director. In this video recording of our webinar series, “What Photo Buyers Want,” James discusses what it takes to shoot the GQ cover, as w
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James discusses what it takes to shoot the GQ cover, as well as how the layout of the magazine dictates whether photography is from stock agencies or commissioned shoots. He also shares a little bit about Conde Nast’s photographer contracts and why sending physical mailers is a better way to grab his attention
Here’s the Israeli strike that killed Ahmed Jabari in Gaza.
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the recent failure of crowd-sourced news photos of Hurricane Sandy, and the shortage of coverage of other climate change-fueled disasters around the world, demonstrate how far we are from truly democratizing the medium of photography
Link: DSLR News Shooter | Jonah Kessel on Breaking Habits, Pushing Form & Raising Questions
Reading through Davis’ commandments I thought about the more than 60 videos or multimedia pieces I had made at that time and realized I had largely been a devoted follower of this clumsily named digital religion. Furthermore, in many ways, I agreed with him. And for the last year I’ve been thinking about the consequences of making multimedia productions with this formula and trying to find ways to avoid it.
If you haven’t noticed, we’re surrounded by photography. We not only consume copious amounts of photography through social media and everywhere else online, but we’re just as likely to create photos on a daily basis – whether it’s with our DSLRs or phones
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From the most decorated of photographers (David Burnett, Zack Arais, Peter Yang), to the technologists who are redefining how photos are captured (leaders from 20×200, Lytro, Facebook Photos), Luminance provided a tremendous amount of thought provoking material, which we are excited to share with you with our Luminance 2012 Speaker Videos
The New York Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno, who produced video and photography for The Times’s multimedia presentation of “This Land, Elyria, Ohio,” discusses the project and her approach.
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Last week, The Times published a special presentation of Dan Barry’s “This Land” column, centered around the town of Elyria, Ohio. The five-part multimedia series, with stories, photos, audio and video, ended Thursday. The Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno, who works with Mr. Barry on “This Land” columns, shot stills and video for this project, which was six months in the making
Jim Mortram’s Small Town Inertia is a must see…and the set below is the strongest I’ve seen so far..click full screen….
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These images depict the full stop of the Welfare State cuts, Housing Benefit cuts, Health cuts, loopholes and failures of systems and what happens when the heart of a community is slowly eroded. These images also depict the lives of those hanging on, bowed yet not broken, of lives where a fight to survive is very real. Fighting apathy, addiction, fighting loneliness, illness all the while clinging to self respect, adrift in the community, in life, but not yet lost
Link: Video Interview: Brian Smith’s Secrets of Great Portrait Photography ‹ PhotoShelter Blog
He might photograph celebrities, but Brian Smith is a celebrity all his own. In this very popular webinar, Brian discussed everything from why photographers need to be 15-second psychoanalysts, to the importance of keeping a database of possible shoot locations in your head, to the benefits of putting subjects up on a pedestal or getting them down on your level – literally!
Link: AS I AM: » The Commercial Appeal
Chris returned to the streets of South Memphis with filmmaker and Commercial Appeal photographer Alan Spearman, walking on foot for eight weeks to develop a series of observations that became the script of “AS I AM,” the short film below. With Chris as our guide, we float through this extraordinary young man’s landscape and encounter the characters who have helped shape his worldview.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/09/violentology-stephen-ferry-documents-the-colombian-conflict/#end
Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent ten years documenting the ongoing internal armed conflict in Colombia — a situation that, he says, is often overlooked or miscast as a ‘drug war’ outside of the country. In his recently-published book, Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, Ferry presents a comprehensive look at this incredibly complicated and brutal conflict with the use of his own photographs, historical imagery and text.
Relive the glory days though Bruce Dale’s career at Geographic.
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Relive the glory days though Bruce Dale’s career at Geographic.
Look at this nice plate of Lo Mein. Fresh, light, flavorful… it’s not gonna work at all. For starters, this picture was taken recently. No good. We want
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“What sets this apart is that there were multiple attackers from multiple positions and there was zero provocation,” said the official, who had access to the report but was not authorized to speak for the record. “Typically we are talking about a single gunman who acted in a somewhat rogue fashion, but in this case we are talking about an entire Afghan army unit and a large loss of life on both sides.”
The latest news from The Onion’s Video coverage all in one place and updated daily.
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When the war in Afghanistan leaves a woman without a husband, caring reporter O’Brady Shaw steps in to replace him
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
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Although a photographer’s process is integral to his/her work, it is often a carefully guarded secret. Most photographers tend to keep the development of their work to themselves, sometimes choosing to seek counsel only from a small circle of trusted friends.
It comes as a surprise, then, to find Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg’s reworked sketches, videos and maquettes of his groundbreaking books openly shared online
Link: Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War « The Leica Camera
Q: So what did your boss Horst say when he first saw the photo of Kim?
A: When he first saw the picture he had just come back from London. He asked who took the picture. They said it was mine. He asked me what happened in that picture. I told him napalm dropped. He went and sat at the light table by himself to look at my negative. He went to the darkroom and made 12 more prints to send to New York. He said that picture would cause trouble, and that he’d never seen a picture like this taken in Vietnam. But when he sent the picture to New York they didn’t want to use it because it was too naked. He said no I want that picture sent right away. He was yelling.
Nick Ut is an AP photographer. From the beginning of his career, he has used Leica cameras. His life work has took him to Vietnam, where he captured a war image…
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Nick Ut is an AP photographer. From the beginning of his career, he has used Leica cameras. His life work has took him to Vietnam, where he captured a war image that had such an impact, it stopped the war. Watch the story behind the famous photograph “The Napalm Girl”.