100 Eyes magazine Bangladesh x Bangladesh:
This issue is over 200 pages and features work by Bangladeshi photographers Munem Wasif, Abir Abdullah, Tanvir Ahmed, Shahidul Alam, Monirul Alam, Murtada Bulbul, Saiful Huq Omi, Azidur Rahim Peu, Shehzad Noorani, Mohammad Kibria Palash, and Khaled Hassan.
Two AP Photojournalists Wounded In Afghanistan Bombing:
Photographer Emilio Morenatti and AP Television News videographer Andi Jatmiko were traveling with the military when their vehicle was struck by the bomb Tuesday.
Showcase: On the Razor’s Edge – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
The first days were the hardest for Claudio Edinger. He was appalled by the conditions at the Juqueri psychiatric hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Many patients walked around naked. Few spoke. One woman was chained to her bed. One man ate other patients’ ears. The stench was unbearable.
AFTER STAFF – What was the scariest thing about leaving your staff job? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
We asked a wide variety of former staff photographers the same question, and here’s what they told us. Please share your own stories — as you can see, you’re not alone.
You’d Be Surprised What Those Files May Contain – Luminous Landscape:
While HDR is most likely the preferred approach for squeezing the last bit of stunning detail and tonal gradation from highlights and shadows, if you havenít prepared your captures for HDR post-processing not all may be lost. There can be an astonishing amount of information hidden in your raw files just waiting to be revealed by the right treatment in Lightroom 2.x or Camera Raw 5.x.
DMU Launches DMU Magazine | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
One of the places that I’ve spent a lot of time online over the past few years is in the Flickr Group DeleteMe Uncensored. DeleteMe Uncensored is a group on Flickr where users submit photos to a voting pool and group members then offer brief critiques of these photos along with a vote to either save or delete the photo. If a photo gets 10 “saves” before 10 “deletes” it is put into a portfolio of images called “The Lightbox.”
Pictures That Please Us: Lucy’s Blog: Self.com:
Last Friday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that I answered the question, did you Photoshop the September issue cover photo of Kelly Clarkson? with the answer: Yes. Of course we do retouching (though it’s technically not Photoshop, but that is semantics). We correct color and other aspects of the digital pictures we take and then publish the best version we can. Here is what I have to add to this conversation
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS:
Photographic Artist Chris Jordan turns the statistics of consumerism into palpable images in his new photo series.
via Jason
Soldiers as patriotic pixelboards – Boing Boing:
Here’s a small gallery of Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas’s photos of thousands of soldiers creating giant, patriotic pixelart images of patriotic scenes.
Marcey Jacobson, Photographer of Mexican Indians, Dies at 97 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com:
Marcey Jacobson, a self-taught photographer from New York City who spent decades in the southern Mexican highlands documenting the lives of the indigenous Indian peoples, died on July 26 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, in the state of Chiapas. She was 97.
Massimo Mastrorillo – indonesia: check-in at room 101 « burn magazine:
This is a short selection from the on going long term project “Indonesia: check in at room 101” which began in 2005, the day after the tsunami.
Canon Rumors » Blog Archive » 1D Mark IV [CR2]:
A solid source has confirmed the launch of a new 1D camera in September.
Narelle Autio – The Black Snapper:
What I like about the photographs of Narelle Autio is that they depict the universal joy of being at the seaside. It is about playing, jumping of jetties, building castles, catching the biggest fish, it is about relaxing, about forgetting time, watching marvelous skies, and gazing to an empty horizon. And also about the excitement of the waves, the feeling of freedom and the caresses of the water, yet also the awareness of danger. I am very fond of the sea myself and by looking at Autio’s works I see that it is about the great joy in small things, about individuals experiencing their own stories, and yet something which is universal. I remember showing her work in the gallery in Amsterdam to an Australian visitor. She was moved to tears, the photographs made her homesick. Narelle Autio on the web: stillsgallery.com. Froukje Holtrop is the curator for Australia at Canvas International Art.
Q&A: Boone Speed, Portland – Feature Shoot:
Boone Speed is a professional photographer based in Portland, Oregon. Highly regarded for his painterly photographic aesthetic and minimalist sensibilities, Speed has been singled out by establishments like Patagonia, Nike, National Geographic Adventure and Nixon to help tell their stories. Boone’s photographs have been the subject of editorial and commercial campaigns, ranging from adventure travel essays and action sports exclusives, to intimate portraiture and fine art. Boone is also a principle architect in the evolution of the sport of rock climbing.
remembrance | Redlights and Redeyes:
Defeated, I drove to my second murder assignment of the day – and all I was given was a photo assignment to head to the home of the aforementioned Dejuan Williams to see if there was anything to photograph at all. I found the home finally, not because I had the address, because I didn’t, but because I found the 18 year-old’s faded blue Buick parked in the driveway with a few roses and some hand written notes on it.
The Three Types of Photojournalist « Perfesser Kev:
I’ve long felt there are three types of photojournalist out there. Which are you? Or two? Or three?
AFTER STAFF – Sol Neelman, diversifying to support a ‘weird sports’ personal project | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Photographer Sol Neelman left a staff job at The Oregonian in 2007 after ten years as a newspaper photojournalist. Although he’s won a Pulitzer and been honored twice by POYi, Sol does not claim to be an expert at the “After Staff” transition — and that’s exactly why I wanted to share his story. Burnt out on low-paid editorial, exploring commercial and wedding, and pursuing the personal project he’s passionate about, Sol echoes the experiences of almost every photographer I talked to for this project.
Typhoon Morakot – The Big Picture – Boston.com:
After forming as a tropical depression over the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 km east of the Philippines on August 2nd, Typhoon Morakot built in power and moved quickly west. Over the past several days, the storm has passed over the Philippines, Taiwan and Mainland China, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage due to high winds, flooding and mudslides. Southeast China evacuated nearly 1 million people ahead of the storm, after Morakot broke many records in Taiwan, dumping a total of 2.5 meters (100 inches) of rain on the island. At least 40 people are known to have died so far, but hundreds remain missing – many from one village in Taiwan, reportedly engulfed by a mudslide during the storm
AFTER STAFF – Where were you on staff and what are you doing now? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
We asked a wide variety of former staff photographers the same question, and here’s what they told us. Please share your own stories — as you can see, you’re not alone.
As Dubai’s Glitter Fades, Foreigners See Dark Side – washingtonpost.com:
Jaubert said he heard whispers about Dubai’s darker side — the abuse of desperate laborers from impoverished Asian lands, the jailing of the occasional Westerner who crossed a sheik — but “I brushed it all off. I saw glamour. I saw marble columns, mirrors and money.”