Abandoned Houses, by Kevin Bauman:
The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town.
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Asim Rafiqui: Portraits of Survival:
Asim Rafiqui is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and started his career in 2003 by focusing on stories from Afghanistan and Pakistan while pursuing personal projects on issues related to the aftermath of conflict. He has since produced stories from Iraqi Kurdistan, Haiti, Israel, and the tribal areas of Pakistan. He was awarded the 2009 Aftermath Grant for his project The Idea of India. He contributes regularly to National Geographic (France), Stern (Germany), Newsweek, and Time (Asia).
photo-eye | Magazine – French photographer wins European Publishers Award:
As reported by the British Journal of Photography, Klavdij Sluban, a French photographer, has been selected for the 2009 European Publisher’s Award for Photography. The announcement was made earlier today at the Rencontres d’Arles.
The Honduran coup d’etat – The Big Picture – Boston.com:
Internally split, Hondurans have taken to the streets both in support of Zelaya and in opposition to his return.
NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada:
TALENT + AMBITION + INTELLIGENCE + HARD WORK = SUCCESS
Any one of those four ingredients comes in stale or a few grams short of a buzz and you’re done. Get ‘em right and you’re going to Disneyland. In the meantime there are things you can do to protect yourself from the Great Newspaper Crisis of 2009.
Showcase: Life Behind Glass – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Michael Wolf composed his photographs, eliminating any horizon by cutting off the tops and bottoms of the buildings in his frame. There are no visual paths out of his images, making them feel claustrophobic. He calls this “no-exit photography.”
PDN – New Device Lets Celebs Flash Paparazzi:
Adam Harvey’s anti-paparazzi device in action on the streets of Los Angeles.
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies – Drawger.com:
Welcome to The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies… where tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.
Due to severe government budget cuts to the arts, our little museum’s acquisition funds are frankly, well, bupkus. So, we welcome Drawgerers to submit images of any artistic tools, machinery, gadgets, etc. that they feel have bitten the dust.
via Boing Boing
Chase Jarvis CURRENT: The Consequences of Creativity from Chase Jarvis on Vimeo.
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I was recently invited to speak to the Art Director’s Club of Denver and the ASMP about creativity, and subsequently delivered that keynote two weeks ago. This video is a recording of that talk. Hope it strikes a chord with you.
Photographer Learned About VIBE Shutdown in Mid-Shoot:
David Anthony’s photos of skateboarder Chaz Ortiz will never make it into VIBE, which folded Tuesday as the shoot was in progress.
Gringo Libre » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS:
It was so easy, I laughed. Caught a trolly to the border, went through the lab maze and was spat out in Mexico. Jumped into a cab and there I was, taking photos of all the folks dressed in Lucha Libre masks. My face hurt that night from all the smiling.
Via HEAVY DISCUSSION
Thoughts of a Bohemian » Wall of Shame:
Running a photo agency used to be a gentleman sport. You represented photographers and if, for some reason, the relationship did not work out, regardless the contract, everyone would gently part their own way . These days, contracts are like hammers, mostly used to crush a photographer into the ground.
PDNPulse: Gannett to Cut Another 1,400 Newspaper Jobs:
we must take these steps because the advertising environment remains challenged.
One Year With Nikon « Photofocus:
This week I am celebrating the one year anniversary of my switch to Nikon from Canon. After 17 years as a Canon user, I switched – mostly because no Canon camera could come close to the performance of the Nikon D3.
So what have I learned in a year?
AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Brett Weston (1991)”:
The son of Edward Weston and Flora Chandler, Brett Weston has produced a consistent and prolific body of astonishing images since 1925. He has utilized his energy and natural gifts for almost seven decades. A full sixty-eight years of uninterrupted endeavor, a prodigious span of sustained attention, persistence of vision, and unflagging creative drive.
The “child genius” of American photography turned eighty on December 16, 1991. On that date he began destroying nearly seventy years worth of negatives. This interview was conducted about two weeks before, on December 3.
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog » Archives » Darius Himes: Tips for creating successful photo books:
Darius Himes is a founding member of Radius Books, where he is an acquiring editor; prior to that he was the founding editor of photo-eye Booklist. In 2008, he was named by PDN as one of fifteen of the most influential people in photo book publishing. This year he is the lead judge of the Photography.Book.Now International Juried Competition. With the deadline approaching — July 16, 2009 — we thought we’d pick Darius’ brain about the contest, self-publishing, and what makes a photo book successful.
365 Portraits, The Book | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
In 2007 Photographer Bill Wadman traveled around the United States and Europe with a single mission. Each day he photographed, edited and posted online a different portrait of a different person. It was a mammoth effort meticulously followed that resulted in one of the most authentic collection of portraits I’ve ever seen.
15 Kopeks Amazing: a virtual look inside Moscow’s Soviet Arcade Games Museum | Offworld:
This started to make the rounds a few weeks back, but hasn’t gathered nearly as much attention as it should, for as outstandingly wicked as it is: you may have originally heard of Moscow State Technical University ‘Soviet Arcade Games Museum’ from an April 2009 Edge article that told the story quite well, but was accompanied by painfully tiny images.
But now, of all people, Art Lebedev’s design studio — the same creators as the OLED-driven Optimus Maximus keyboard [the same as was featured on, of all things, a 2007 cover of Edge] — has given the museum a full website makeover, complete with a growing collection of its games recreated and playable online.
