“Pipe Dreams,” a new book by Rena Effendi, effectively brings an 1,100-mile-long underground pipeline into the light of the day, Kerri MacDonald reports.
This just in regarding the rumored new Leica 35mm Summilux lens: Will have a floating element construction to reduce focusing shift to nothing. Will be on the market in March, 2010. Will have screw lens hood like the Elmar 24. Will be a little bigger than
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Because we had so many responses to last month’s FotoForum: The Indelible Image, we decided to run a second column this month. So for January, we are featuring the indelible image choice of …
Too much of what we see today in photography ( thank you, commercial stock) is a sea of banality, of repetition, of dullness. It is status quo and no more. A long straight road of boring pre digested concept. Like a TV dinner : Please reheat and serve hot. Millions upon millions of images that rote just a few days after being exposed, so much full of artifice they are. A constant stream of annoying visual buzz that we hardly notice anymore.
This week showcases work from Céline Clanet’s project, Máze, which documents a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland.
It is important to get a feel for the real photo world, which is a lot different then what school, or even your own mind tells you. You need to find out if this is really for you (i.e. photojournalism, etc.). That’s what I did. I ended up being a cadet staff photographer for my local Hong Kong paper the South China Morning Post. I worked 6 days a week and did 3 – 8 assignments a day. Sometimes I would spend 5 hours just sitting around waiting for news stories.
A new study found that 95 percent of articles containing new information came from old media, which “set the narrative agenda for most other media outlets.”
There is a strong rumor that Nikon, Canon and Sony are developing mirror-less compact cameras with APS-C sensor sizes. The Leica X1 foreshadows this development. For Leica the X1 is a bold step and this could be a very promising one, but only when the camera offers interchangeable lenses and a redesigned set of functions. One could even imagine a digital CL with the M8 sensor size.
Chris Anderson visited HOST gallery in at the end of last year to launch his new book, Capitolio, in London.
He spoke about being a photographer and how his photography and desire to explore new ways of telling stories has developed over recent years, culminating in the book based on his experiences in Venezuela.
I don’t remember how I first met Isaac McKay-Randozzi, but it feels like it was a very long time ago. Mentally, I associate him with: film, black/white, and skateboarding.
I recently spotted one of Nathan Lundstrum’s photographs on Flak Photo and was intrigued. And then discovered his book, Ordinary Hours, was selected with an Honorable Mention in the Photography.Book.Now. competition.
Sexual violence, child soldiers, wounded refugees and malnutrition — there is no shortage of suffering in Congo. Amber Benham says that’s why Cédric Gerbehaye is there.
This does not constitute a full and final list of all our favorites for 2009, no doubt we have left off many more important books, names and thorns in our side from this offering…
February/March? Apparently the 1Ds Mark IV is in testing and is said to be “production ready”. The following are some of the rumored key features. 32MP