Jordan Murph – SportsShooter:
I assist staff photographer John W. McDonough and we covered the Western Conference Finals with our partner in crime, Shawn Cullen, who was there to lend us a hand and the occasional smile. Staff photographer Bob Rosato covered the Eastern Conference Finals with his assistant Kevin Liles. We all combined our forces to form one super photography team to cover the Finals from every angle.
TIME:
Bruce McBroom, a photographer, snapped the image that made Farrah Fawcett an icon. He tells TIME how an innocuous photo shoot — in which Fawcett posed at her Hollywood home in a red swimsuit — resulted in the 1976 poster that wound up plastered on millions of bedroom walls.
lenscratch:
Photographer Lucia Ganieva likes to photograph women. And with the three series featured below, working women. Born in Russia, Lucia now lives in the Netherlands and explores women in all walks of life. She still does much of her photographic work in Russia, and the images below reflect Russian factory workers, aging stars, and museum guards.
Brian Smith – A Picture’s Worth:
If you’re waiting to “raise your game” until you get your dream gig, you’ll never get it. I spent the first decade of my career and a newspaper photographer, and I put the same effort into my assignments for newspaper as I did on the freelance shoots for Rolling Stone.
Cradoc Bagshaw – A Picture’s Worth:
It’s possible that you might have to battle with one client to get paid $150 for the use of a photograph yet you might get $15,000 from another client for the use of the same photo. What makes the difference?
The answer is image uniqueness, but this may not be what you think it is.
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Ed Kashi sent me some notes last week from his recent trip to the Niger Delta about the creative differences between shooting video and stills. This is an evolution many photographers are going through right now, so I decided to ask a few other multitaskers to share their thoughts.
Gary Knight :
Like many French journalists and photographers Paul Marchand drove a small car – often liberated from a car hire company – at a time when many English speaking journalists were choosing armoured cars. As protection he had a handwritten sign on his rear window saying “Don’t shoot me – I am invincible”. Well, he was invincible, until he was – perhaps inevitably – shot. Shot in the arm by a 50 calibre machine gun at Sarajevo airport. He lost a few inches of arm but his enthusiasm remained undeterred and his behaviour was unchanged.
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Shawn Rocco, 37, is a professional photographer. He shoots a Motorola E815.
Yes, that’s a cellphone.
Photo Attorney:
Many photographers are also authors. If you published a book before January 5, 2009, your work may be subject to a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights by scanning their books, creating an electronic database, and displaying short excerpts without the permission of the copyright holders.
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK:
Posters “Let All Turn out in Weeding Campaign!” and “Let Us Sincerely Help Farmers with Manpower and Materially through Patriotic Devotion!” depict an agricultural worker all out in the weeding campaign in the wake of the completion of the rice transplantation and the working people rushing to co-op fields, thus making an ideological and artistic representation of the elated enthusiasm of the Korean people to hit the target of grain production this year without fail.
Doug Menuez:
When most photographers set up shop, they focus on becoming better photographers, naturally. Few photographers, however, develop even the most basic skills they need to run their own business. They hope to hang on long enough to be discovered before they sink under their own lack of knowledge. That’s like building an intricate jeweled house atop quicksand.
IAN AUSTEN – NYTimes.com:
The reporter, Maziar Bahari, who holds both Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was picked up Sunday at his mother’s home in Tehran by government security officials who seized videotapes and a laptop computer. Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group, estimated that 26 journalists had been arrested in Iran since the presidential election on June 12.
Brad Mangin:
When I was growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area my father always said, “You can’t beat fun at the ol’ ballpark.” He was right. I grew up a San Francisco Giants fan and I have capitalized my love for baseball into a career as a sports photographer, specializing in shooting the Grand Old Game.
A Picture’s Worth:
The following is a growing list of reputable contests and/or awards that we believe are beneficial to serious photographers, and worth consideration.
Threat Level | Wired.com:
The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.”
Michele McNally – NYTimes.com:
Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally, who oversees photography for The New York Times, is answering questions from readers June 22-26.
