Getty buys Mediavast (Wireimage) where photographers have a 50/50 royalty split more or less and after several months realizes that’s not their standard split and that they’ve been “overpaying” all this time.
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Aaron Kupferman started a company called Motorsport Lens, and is one of the many people who have made great use of the ‘Personal Use’ download option within PhotoShelter. He spends many of his weekends shooting images during “amateur track day” events, where normal people get to take their cars for a spin on a real racetrack .
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Once in a while I get a staggering email from a photographer. The latest greeted me when I returned from Paris; ten images in my inbox from Portuguese photographer João Pina, from his new series about the incredible violence that plagues Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Luceo Images is celebrating our one year anniversary by teaming up with AdoramaPix and Photoshelter to make collector’s prints available for a limited time.
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Photo by David BurnettOne I liked, and the judges did too (1st Place/Sports Action: Korea/Cuba Olympic Baseball)
I joined the WHNPA about twenty years ago, and over those years have won a few individual category awards, but never the P.O.Y. The real advantage to entering contests, as it happens, is not the rewards you might win – for they are fleeting, indeed, but that it gives you a chance, nay, forces you, to look at last year’s work and really analyze it in a critical and self-mirroring way.
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Just in case you aren’t sick of seeing photos from the campaign of McCain and Obama…
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UPDATE: This photo is by Jay Janner, not me!
This photograph I made of a young FLDS girl waiting to be reunited with her parents recently won an Award of Excellence in the General News Reporting category in the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) photojournalism contest.
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The show is of recent work by Ruud van Empel – the 51 year old Dutch photographer who has been working in the collage/photoshop medium since the late 1990s.
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In the middle of the bustling Philippine city of Manila, home to almost 11 million people, lies the North Cemetery. Founded in 1904, it is the final resting place for several Filipino Presidents, celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of the city’s Catholic dead. However, since the 1960’s a new, living population has grown. In this surreal environment, people have formed a functioning society that is literally built on tombs. A community of approximately 3,000 people currently live and work within in the North Cemetery’s walls.
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With newspapers in cities across the country on the brink, an old idea is being resurrected in the hope of saving them: They should charge for access to their journalism on the Internet. This is a great idea, but about 10 years late.
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On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
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Q: What inspired you to create the Fake Chuck Westfall blog?
A: I noticed that Canon has a problem with honestly, effectively and clearly communicating with customers. And sooner or later, if they didn’t fix that problem, someone was going to fix it for them. And it looks like I’m the first to step up to the task.
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In a recent survey by CareerCast.com photojournalist was listed as the third most stressful job behind only surgeon and commercial airline pilot.
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The Orphan
is incomplete, unpublishable, moloch-less, disrespected, bizarre and roundly rejected.Check it out here. Via BoingBoing.
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A jury on Thursday acquitted three men charged in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, winning praise from Politkovskaya’s family for not accepting what they called a poorly investigated case.
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In Brian Kosoff last post he talks about the value of advertising photographers’ time and images dropping during the last decade. For a while he stuck it out with cost saving measures like those outlined below. But when an opportunity arose to move to a new model — fine art photography — Brian was smart enough to see its potential and happy to make the switch.
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Evan Roth’s new self published book project called, /AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth 2003-2008/ (made entirely in Linux using open source software and fonts).
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“This restructuring is focused solely on our debt, not our operations,” chief executive officer Brian P. Tierney said in a statement. “Our operations are sound and profitable.”
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