Photographer Jessica Hines won an honorable mention in our global photography competition — and thus an opportunity to publish a photobook at Blurb.com. She took this as inspiration and teamed up with Elizabeth Avedon (the designer of many of Richard Avedon’s stunningly beautiful photography books, and his daughter-in-law) to publish this blockbuster of a book. It’s a remarkable photobook that conveys an important political message as well as the compelling story of a personal tragedy that confronts some difficult, universal truths. Brilliant combination of great photography, thoughtful text, and excellent book design. Highly recommended!
Rogério Reis decided in 1987 to turn his back on the sparkle of the officially sanctioned Carnaval parade of samba schools through the Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro. Instead, he began to explore the rawness of the “counter-Carnaval” along Rio’s back streets.
Last week, Eliza Gregory at PhotoPhilanthropy got knee-deep in speculations about prison photography. Eliza was spurred by NPR’s On the Media which “did a story about a series of images that …
Eliza was spurred by NPR’s On the Media which “did a story about a series of images that the International Committee of the Red Cross made of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The ICRC made pictures of the prisoners to send to their families, and allowed each prisoner to choose which particular image would be sent. Naturally, the images the prisoners collaborated in making are very different from the images we’ve seen of them in the news.”
In this screencast I walk you through my process from start to finish. I have recorded, encoded, uploaded, and ditched this project three times this weekend with the third attempt being my final. Workflow and post production is far from being the funnest and coolest part of our jobs. There is only so much you can say or do to make it the least bit interesting yet it is crucial to our day to day jobs. The more efficient we can be in post production the more time is added to our lives.
Welcome to “Behind-the-Lens”, a series that will go inside the creative process of a photographer’s work. I couldn’t think of a better artist to start the series with than my Texas gal pal Allison V. Smith.
As journalism budgets continue to wither, some companies are taking aggressive action, but other smaller publications have had to let go of those efforts.
Indeed, as many companies have cut newsroom budgets they are also scaling back on another of their civic duties: legal battles to gain access to government information.
a most unusual ad appeared last week in The Star Tribune of Minneapolis with a less upbeat message, honoring — and naming — newsroom employees who had left the newspaper in wave after wave of staff cuts.
Last week, one of the most important photojournalism archives in history, the Magnum Photo Agency‘s press prints collection, was sold to Michael Dell of Dell computers. Specifically, to Dell’s private investment firm, MSD Capital LP. The collection will b
For Magnum, the deal is somewhat of a coup, having simultaneously achieved two intended objectives. Firstly, it has secured significant funds to build Magnum’s immediate business intent — namely, direct content distribution. Secondly, it has outsourced the preservation of works and promotion of the Magnum brand to the Ransom Center, a third-party with the requisite specialized skills.
CNN’s chief international correspondent, best known for her coverage of conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, lives in a “big and comfortable” rental apartment overlooking Central Park.
1. Most Amiable Dictator: Slobodan Milosevic. He would slap you on the back, offer you a drink. He tried to be charming. But many of them do. You have to be on your guard.
Benjamin Gerull is a fine art landscape and architectural photographer living and working in Munich, Germany. His work was recognized as part of The European Prize of Architectural Photography competition in 2009.
Here are my impressions based on a couple of weeks of field use and casual testing. As always, be aware that this is not a full test report. There are several web sites that feature comprehensive 30+ page reviews that detail every knob and screen. I recommend you to them if this is what you’re looking for. I am more interested in exploring how the E-P2 performs as a tool for photographers working in the field.
The international jury of the 53rd annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a photo by the Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo as the World Press Photo of the Year 2009. The picture depicts women shouting in protest from a rooftop in Tehran, on June 24, 2009. The winning photograph is part of a story depicting the nights following the contested presidential elections in Iran, when people shouted their dissent from roofs and balconies, after daytime protests in the streets. The story as a whole was awarded first prize in the category People in the News.
If you like blood, you will love the new crop of World Press Awards winners. There is a lot of it, in full details and in brilliant colors. Hopefully for you, you will not look at the galleries just after eating, the results might not get along with your stomach.
Allow me to introduce the latest WTJ? effort at wholesome phototainment™ ‘Dinner for Five Photographers’. The new venture, a low production copycat of the now defunct Jon Favreau series on IFC Table for Five, was thought up after a dinner some months back with the talented Mr Matt Salacuse that also included Kareem Black and Peter Yang amongst others.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Fake Chuck Westfall (fcwestfall@gmail.com) LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., February 11, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of office imaging systems, ink-jet technolog…
“It was the logical thing to do,” said Yoroku “Joe” Adachi, President and CEO of Canon U.S.A., during a brief but emotional press conference. “Ever since the start of the 1D Mark III autofocus debacle we started noticing a constantly growing number of photographers making the switch to Nikon gear. And who can blame them? We had nothing else to offer them at the time and Tokyo simply couldn’t fix the product adequately enough.
