For this week’s interview feature, photographer Christian Brecheis offered to interview one of his biggest influences, Kevin Zacher. Kevin was an iconic photographer in the snowboard industry in the 90s and early 2000s, and has since brought his style of visceral storytelling to a wide world of editorial and commercial spheres.
Link: Interview: Kevin Zacher
Stephanie Smith interned for photojournalist Ed Kashi during the summer of 2009. Smith, a senior at Ohio University, will graduate in June 2010.
Link: The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Ed Kashi Studio
Ms. Wilson was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24wilson.html?_r=1
Charis Wilson, who was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits, died on Friday in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 95.
Trent Parke, a Magnum photographer from Australia, is one of the first photographers that Rebecca and I showed our Violet Isle book dummy to a couple of summers ago in Paris. There was good reason…
Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/two-looks-trent-and-narelle/
Trent Parke, a Magnum photographer from Australia, is one of the first photographers that Rebecca and I showed our Violet Isle book dummy to a couple of summers ago in Paris. There was good reason: He and his wife, Narelle Autio, the wonderful and painterly photographer, had already published a joint book of their photographs, The Seventh Wave (2000). So no surprise that Trent was the first to notice how our two bodies of work played off each other.
His close-up style, influenced by Bernd and Hilla Becher, puts all of his subjects — no matter their status — on equal footing, revealing similarities as well as differences. Though well known for photographing the famous, Mr. Schoeller has always been attracted to a broader range of subjects.
Toward the end of that fight, when the Marines and Loomis were evacuating the area, he had to make a decision. Was he only a photographer, or was he going to put down his cameras and help a young Marine, Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, who had been shot several times through the chest during the battle? Loomis remembered the admonition of veteran photojournalist David LaBelle, who always said, “Be a human first,” and helped carry Austin out of danger.
Link: PhotoMedia Magazine Online » Blog Archive » Rick Loomis: Unforgotten Casualties
From Jeff Ascough Jeff had a chance to take the new 1D Mark IV on location to a wedding to test the lowlight AF and higher ISO quality. I can’t think of too ma
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/11/1d-mark-iv-in-the-field/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
Here’s a list of blogs I’ve been reading recently. It’s always changing but some of these may be new to you: http://gregceoblog.com/ http://richardrenaldi.blogspot.com/ http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/ http://dansaelinger.com/blog/ http://spoonfedatla
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/11/24/photographer-blogs-ive-been-following/
When I read the interview I thought it would be of interest for more people than just the Germans. In the interview, Ute and Werner talk about life as photographers in East Germany, and what photography meant for them
Link: An Interview with Ute and Werner Mahler – Conscientious
Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day
Link: Breaking: Twelve Journalists Killed in Philippines | dvafoto
There was a lot of confusion about the Leica student program and I received a tons of emails on this topic. I am taking this post down until I can get a clarification on all the details. Related posts: Leica’s student/educator program is now discontinued
A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24study.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Many of the findings — that working artists tend to work day jobs to support themselves; that more than a third don’t have adequate health insurance; that musicians and architects tend to do better than writers and painters — simply provide statistical support for what artists themselves have long known.
Photography competitions are everywhere. A quick Google search will reveal hundreds of them across the world in any given month. Fabulous, you might think. I’ll enter a few and hopefully get some recognition, win a prize, be able to call myself an award-winning photographer… So I’m preparing to send off some of my very best images when the terms and conditions catch my eye. Hold on a minute, what does, “you grant a perpetual and irrevocable right to use your images worldwide and in all media without further recompense to you” actually mean?
Link: Photo Competitions: What Many Organisers Don’t Want You to Know – A Picture’s Worth
Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all its grit and glory, was what the photographer Arthur Fellig – aka Weegee – lived for. But he wasn’t exactly a stickler for realism, writes Lucy Davies
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6616026/Something-of-the-Night-Weegee.html
Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all its grit and glory, was what the photographer Arthur Fellig – aka Weegee – lived for. But he wasn’t exactly a stickler for realism, writes Lucy Davies
You could be forgiven for thinking Heat magazine is all sweat patches, cellulite and beer bellies. But it has also published some of the most inventive celebrity portraits of the past decade
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/22/heat-magazine-celebrity-portraits
Ellis Parrinder, a regular Observer photographer, started his career working for the magazine and admits he was shocked by how game the subjects were. “I’d go to shoots thinking, ‘She’s not going to do that is she?’ But they always did. It set me up to be the photographer I am now. If you’ve photographed someone dressed as hamburger then you can photograph people doing anything.”
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Link: http://insig.ht/2009/11/the-insiders/
In an attempt to avoid this fate, I knew that it was essential at my stage of development to photograph regularly somehow. After considerable to-ing and fro-ing, an accommodation was eventually reached, one that was more on my terms: I began bringing a camera along to work, photographing my surroundings. And as this project progressed and I slowly learned my craft, I became increasingly fascinated with other photographers who had been in a similar situation, those who had found themselves recording their own jobs:
What we are seeing is the disappearance of knowledge. Most of the photo editors being let go from magazines, newspapers, websites are those who have spent many years building the foundations of our industry withtalent. They are the ones who knew a great image from a bad one, who could spot a talented photographer from the masses of mediums ones. They are the ones who created “names” by publishing their work. They are the ones who did look at photo books, went out to exhibits and photo festivals, no only to see and discover new talents but to personally connect with those they already knew.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Smoke gets in your eyes
I don’t think that I’m going to pay up $800 just yet for the new Drobo, but it looks like the previous model (which has FireWire 800) has dropped in price and is now offering a $30 rebate. At $319.95, after rebate, this is the cheapest I’ve seen this model yet. If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Drobo, now might be the time to do it.
Link: New Faster 5 Bay Drobo S Released for $800 | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection