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Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner travelled to Baghdad in 2003 as a freelance reporter determined to get behind the front lines of the war in Iraq. Over the next 18 months she returned to the country several times capturing images of life with the troops – as well as behind the scenes in a psychiatric hospital.
My friend, Hillary Carlip, likes to collect other people’s discarded shopping lists. She likes them so much she created an art project based on the lists
I feel like a child holding a camera for the first time. But I have only one roll of film. My interests are sparked with every sound, smell and sight. But I have to be diligent and make every frame count. My camera lays in slumber till I am truly ready to photograph this city, this country.
Friday night I rented this documentary and watched it at home. My wife loved it, felt it had an important message about man’s impact on the environment, and was really taken by Edward Burtynsky’s photographs. I felt differently: if I ever wanted to make photography seem boring to a bunch of students, to discourage them from getting into the field, this is the film I would show them
I love the craft of creating. That something can affect so many people is a great feeling of accomplishment. It happens so quickly that we tend to take it for granted and it’s really very special. 40 million people will see these pictures in the Geographic, that’s terrifying.
Why bother buying a pricey selective focus or tilt-shift lens when you can just “work on it later in Photoshop”? Well hotshot, it ain’t always that easy and you know it. That is, it wasn’t always that easy until now.
If you like offering the “beautiful blur” look in your portraits but don’t have the time or the knowhow to “work on it later in Photoshop,” onOne Software unveiled their new Focal Point 1.0 plug-in today at the WPPI 2008 show in Las Vegas.
“It is absolutely DISGUSTING that the L.A. Times had the audacity to put a picture of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr.’s open casket on the front page. Shame on you, Times. He deserved more respect.”
So wrote Tracy Goldych, of Brea, about the main photo on Wednesday’s Page A1. Other readers left similar criticisms about the large photo.
I met Ofer Wolberger in the Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2003. It was all too apparent at the time that he was headed for great things, while I was headed for Crown Heights and a cabinet full of ramen. Ofer was shooting lustrous and large 4×5 and 8×10 imagery at the time, and had few commercial clients.
DataRescue has released PhotoRescue 3.1.3 Build 10708 for Mac and Windows, a new version of the company’s powerful photo recovery and memory card maintenance application.
EPUK, the mailing list and website for professional editorial photographers, has launched Copyright Action, a website community and educational resource that wants to become the intellectual property equivalent of Crimestoppers.
By the end of the year, a trio of promising juniors had emerged- Kevin Davis, Sean LIggett and Chris Dillard- and Coach Nelson, who worked tirelessly to teach not only basketball skills but life lessons as well, had the Titans pointed in the right direction for next year.
Throughout the entire campaign, I was quite impressed with the way Lamont Nelson went about his business as coach and mentor. Nelson, who drove in daily from Bolingbrook for practices and games, was tough but fair and always put the team before any one individual.