With the inmates all gone, Damon Winter was able to portray the Civil Prison of Port-au-Prince; a view that few people have ever had.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/essay-10/
The main prison in Port-au-Prince emptied after the earthquake last week. Those inmates who weren’t killed were free to walk through the rubble, into the heart of the city. And an estimated 4,000 of them did just that.
[slidepress gallery=’jamesnachtwey_struggletolive’] Hover over the image for full screen and navigation controls – Large download (107 MB) ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT James Na…
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James Nachtwey has documented the resurgence of tuberculosis and its varying strains MDR and XDR in seven countries around the world. These countries include Cambodia, Lesotho, South Africa, Siberia, India, Swaziland, and Thailand
The member photographers included Karim Ben Khelifa, Samuel Bollendorff, Philippe Brault, Guillaume Herbaut, Dominic Nahr, Johann Rousselot, and Michael Zumstein.
Anyone fancy a job? There’s loads here you can be getting on with… Please don’t apply if you are the…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/01/free-work-yay/
“This appears to be a valid shortcut into the world of professional photography – go for it”
Cheers Norm. You moron.
Quick and easy way to make a stop-motion movie.
Link: Tuesday Tech stuff with Tim — Stop-Motion Workflow | Luceo Images
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803488.html?wprss=rss_world
Have a look at the “trailer” for Stanley Greene’s new book Black Passport, a deeply personal journal of life and a career in conflict. Or perhaps it is, as compiled by Teun van der Heijden, a biography.
Michael Appleton covered the 2004 coup in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina. He sees something of both in the present disaster, though on a far greater scale.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/behind-29/
Michael Appleton’s photograph of 76-year-old Marie Carme Morency, receiving communion while lying injured in a wheel barrow near the collapsed Church of Sacré Coeur in Port-au-Prince, captured the Haitian peoples’ response to the overwhelming tragedy that surrounds them.
“I guess it’s because they have so much experience in suffering, hurricanes or violence, that they hold up with remarkable grace,” he said. “Unfortunately, they’re used to it.”
So………… It seems the thing people talk most about with cameras today is ISO performance. So here is some examples/tests of the D3s & 1D4 ISO perform
By the looks of things, Nikon’s D3s is definitely outperforming the Mark IV at high ISO.
Remember the days when a 5 megapixel digital camera was considered top-of-the-line? I do. Remember the days when 570 megapixel digital cameras were the
There are many ways one can donate to the relief effort in Haiti. I wanted to draw your attention to One Respe a magazine idea spearheaded by San Francisco photographer Lane Hartwell.
Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator. His award-winning work spans from high-end print photojournalism to experimental film.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7017938/Ed-Kashi.html
What’s the greatest picture you didn’t take?
There are too many, so I choose not to dwell upon the near and far misses. Suffice it to say, like life itself, photography provides a limitless set of possibilities and we have a limited capacity to take advantage of them.
I like this. From the press release: Professional photographers are offering a special edition fundraising magazine through the Magcloud print-on-demand service to benefit victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The magazine features work from preemine
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/01/18/a-photographic-benefit-for-the-survivors-of-the-haiti-earthquake/
Professional photographers are offering a special edition fundraising magazine through the Magcloud print-on-demand service to benefit victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.
Try to get a job as official White House photographer. You’ll pretty much eat history for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You are there with one of the most powerful people in the world as much as he lets you.
But it’s a strange gig. You’re not so much a journalist as a real-time archivist — many of your images won’t see the light of day until after the president you are photographing has left office.
Link: LBJ Museum takes a rare look at the men who chronicled the intimate details of the office
Haiti remains a place of profound need, anguish, desperation and danger, with a few glimmers of hope and slowly growing capabilities to receive and distribute the international aid now flowing in. Sporadic looting, sometimes violent, was met with force by
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/haiti_six_days_later.html
Haiti remains a place of profound need, anguish, desperation and danger, with a few glimmers of hope and slowly growing capabilities to receive and distribute the international aid now flowing in.
Update: Nikon USA corrected their website, the smoke remains. Just a clarification on the Nikon TC-17E III teleconverter: this rumor is not based on the Nikon website listing that could be a typo (two typos in two sentences?): I received the information a
Damon Winter asks the same question that is constantly asked of him. Viewers are cautioned that this slide show includes very disturbing images.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/assignment-20/
Damon Winter has been in Port-au-Prince since Wednesday. James Estrin spoke with him at 12:30 p.m. Sunday by satellite phone.
“There’s nothing ‘in a box’ that solves our requirements,” Straight said. “NPPA’s unique Web site needs – eCommerce and our contests and editorial content – will require customized development … as well as integrating the old with the new.”
“The wrong decision about what to do with their Web site has ruined many companies,” new board member Smiley Pool said. “The most difficult task [facing NPPA] is the development challenge,” Pool said.
Link: Board Approves $1.4m Budget, Plans For NPPA’s Future, Web Site
A reporter, driven out of Iran, returns via the Internet and finds herself freer to write about the meaning of events back in her homeland.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/weekinreview/17fathi.html?ref=weekinreview
I am an Iranian, a journalist now living in exile like hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others. We were driven out after the June elections that were widely considered fraudulent, and the protests and repression that followed. Our offense was that we covered them too thoroughly.
Catherine Lainé of the sustainable tech non-profit AIDG, who was featured in this Boing Boing Video interview on Friday, is in Haiti and has begun uploading photos of what she’s witnessing th…
She’s uploading images to the AIDG Flickr stream. Unlike the Associated Press, hers are all licensed as Creative Commons images and may be freely re-blogg