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Interview with Melissa Lyttle
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Burt Keppler died Friday night at age 82
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Word is that half the hipsters in Brooklyn have already bought theirs.
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A friend once said to me that Canons are the best cameras available designed by engineers, and that Nikons are the best cameras one can buy designed by photographers.
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Some of the best moments came when I was just trying get a better photo from an odd angle.
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The anti-Semitic worldview, generally speaking, is fantastically stupid.
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LAST CHANCE TO ENTER: PDN PHOTO ANNUAL 2008
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We are woken at 6.30am by a frantic banging on our gate.
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The method would adjust the price of an image license based on factors like how popular the image is, how much the image cost to produce and the significance of the subject of the photo.
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Evil Mad Science laboratories is selling stickers that read “Now Slower and with More Bugs.”
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Exactly 35 years after taking his Pulitzer-winning photo of an injured girl in Vietnam, Nick Ut shot another young woman in distress – Paris Hilton.
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An AFP photographer had his elbow broken by a plain-clothes Egyptian policeman on Saturday while trying to take pictures of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
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Bound for the landfill, old photographs found a savior in David R. Phillips
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The film, Journey, will see Radcliffe play Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old who was among four journalists stoned to death by a mob in Mogadishu
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The “Local Testimony” exhibition is held each year together with the World Press Photo exhibition, and presents the best of local photojournalism.
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Join us in celebrating another year in the life of these shooters, in this newspaper and this community. Because this work matters.
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Check out how you did, and get your lawyers to call our lawyers in the morning…
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The guest professor, Zhou Xiaoming, a Tibet specialist and government consultant, was providing the students with their latest class in “Marxist journalism.”
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist (renne byer) was inducted Friday into the Ulster County Community College Alumnae Hall of Fame in recognition of her career.
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Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd.
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While Faulques snapped away, men in Chad, wounded and bound, were left on a riverbank to be devoured by crocodiles.
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As part of a new series of work, Christopher Morris will be documenting America as a contributing photographer to the Italian fashion magazine AMICA.
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Ron Haviv’s photographs touch upon some of the issues affecting the people in Watts on both sides of the lines.
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When Kate Webb reported from the battlefields of Cambodia, she kept her chestnut hair cropped G.I.-short and wore jeans and loose shirts to obscure her breasts.
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Withers carried cameras everywhere he went. Denied access to the people and places where white photographers flourished, Withers documented instead the lives of the other invisible people around him
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Harkins was stunned when David, scorning the hypocritical civility most of us were still willing to indulge in, refused to shake the general’s hand.
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In that way, Wall is the anti-Weegee. Struck by a fleeting moment in the “world,” he doesn’t surreptitiously snap off a frame with his Leica; he goes back to his studio and “re-creates” the moment on a heroic scale
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“It’s a picture, which isn’t a big deal!”
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The Hasselblad Masters represent photography at its finest; at its most inspired, most communicative, most beautiful.
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Our photo editors select their favorite images of 2007 by the photographers of the Los Angeles Times.
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if you ever have worked as a professional photographer, designer, creative, etc..
this is exactly how we feel.
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In September of this year I visited Bill Jay, the pre-eminent photo-historian and critic, at his home in Ocean Beach, California.
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In the summer of 1993 Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old photographer for Reuters, was making his way through the streets of Mogadishu
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In the second week of December I received my Nikon D3. My trial by fire with a D2x at the Cog gig in 2005 proved so informative that I jumped at the opportunity to familiarize myself with the D3 in a similar challenging environment.
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National Geographic Magazine has picked a side in the long-running rivalry between the two major U.S. photojournalism contests.
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“I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd,” Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore
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voice of john moore/getty images
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The photos of Getty’s John Moore are likely to stand as the most memorable and up-close from the scene of the Bhutto assassination today.
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Kevin Rivoli has spent the past 15 years capturing timeless moments in contemporary America
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Now that 2007 is coming to a close, everyone seems to be making lists of the best pix of 2007.
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If you are looking at the Aperture interface for the first time, you might not easily know what to do.
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It’s sort of a Leica on steroids, in that it allows precisely-focused, precisely-framed handheld 4×5 photography, with all the latter’s rich detail and beautiful defocus. The Littman VI
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Brady suffers from repeated seizures, daily. photo essay by Ashley Franscell.
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As far as photographers and photo books go, my list ebbs and flows with each day’s tide. So rather than a best of anything, here’s my list of some of my favorites from 2007
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the year in pictures
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Here are the 35 winning picks of Lens Culture’s first photo contest. The theme is “in between” moments, and the photos represent a broad range of interpretations.
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small signs photo essay – via conscientious
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Why choose journalism? Because you can make a difference — or even change the world — not because you’re going to get rich as a journalist.
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Call it instinct or intuition, but something is telling you what pictures you should be taking. I call it the quiet little voice, and when it talks, I try to listen.
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The best look at newspapers in movies or TV? Hands down, the prize goes to “The Wire.”
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Patrick Tsai is a 26 year old American who moved to Taiwan in 2003 to pursue his photography. Three years later he met a young Chinese photographer named Madi Ju
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When you enter Pictures of the Year International, your work becomes a part of visual history. Since 1943, POYi continues to be a living and a valuable reflection of human and world events.
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Dallas Morning News photojournalist Mona Reeder spent three years working on The Bottom Line — mostly on gaining access to some really sensitive situations.
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The newest buzz word in inkjet printing paper is Baryta. While it may be new to the 21st Century digital printing world it actually has its roots in high quality B&W printing papers from our past.
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To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master.
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Last week, Basket Mouth let Sunday Sun into his world as he disclosed the five qualities that a woman must possess in order to unlock his heart.
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I’ve added a long list of links to friends along the right sidebar. I’m sure I forgot people, so if you have a blog that should be listed, let me know and I’ll add it.
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Arkady Babchenko said his only goal was to capture the confused, fear-ridden, despairing world of a young private and his buddies where the only goal is survival.
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The black-and-white portraits and landscapes in “Bhutan, the Sacred Within: Photographs by Kenro Izu,” taken over the past five years, fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
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In the future photographers will rule the world.
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My name is Brad and I’m looking for my Next Top Muse to photograph constantly. Because the definition of a muse is kind of vague I’ve compiled a list of attributes that my muse would hopefully embody:
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Buy it. Put it in your pocket. Hit the streets.
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These kaleidoscopic images were created by Japanese architect and photographer Kazuhiko Kawahara (moonlighting under the name Palla).
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Interweaving footage of the clashes between police and demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic convention with 3-D animated reenactments of the trial that followed it, Brett Morgen turns the audience into witnesses of violent turmoil and absurdist spectacle.
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Zine 2 , an issue with Lomos has been shipped off to the printers.
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He is a talented and respected portrait photographer, and his pictures hang proudly in a dizzying number of Chicago homes. Worsom truly is a modern day “Picture Man.”
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It wasn’t Lane Hartwell’s first heated exchange over a photo copyright issue,
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a graphic illustration of just how fundamentally a little judicious cropping of an image can completely misrepresent the event it purports to illustrate.
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“O.K., let’s try one that’s a little less complicated: You want a movie or an album. You don’t want to pay for it. So you download it.”
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In 2001, Darin Mickey began to document his father’s life at work and at home. Stuff I Gotta Remember Not To Forget is a portrait of Ken Mickey, who sells storage space
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Komenich and Chinn said that Mr. Fields not only taught students the craft of photography, but also schooled them in running a good business and maintaining ownership of their work.
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There are many ways to use photography at a magazine. The worst is to use photos as decoration or as a literal translation of the story into pictures.
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Chuck Thompson demolishes the dream in “Smile When You’re Lying,” his acidic take on travel journalism and the multitudinous horrors that lie just beyond the airline check-in counter
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One show not to miss is Pieter Hugo’s “The Hyena and Other Men” at Yossi Milo (through January 12)
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Stephanie Sinclair won the UNICEF photo of the year for her haunting picture of a 40-year-man and his 11-year-old bride in Afghanistan.
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Bubble Video: This Thing Ain’t Over
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Ironically, the original Shaun Schwarz photo was censored by the military, which erased his camera’s memory. The photographer eventually retrieved the image from his hard drive.”
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I like the idea of making prints for the many people who love the work but can’t throw down the big bucks
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Little did he know that during that celebration Saturday at Jim Carroll Stadium in Savannah, Tenn., a photographer with the Associated Press had captured his moment of utter elation with one frame left in his camera.
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many a hapless individual has been caught, camera down staring into space. These are the pictures that pinned to the office notice board, we unwittingly walk past for days on end to the delight of our workmates, until the penny finally drops
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The usual names in über-cool, raw photography are represented here: Ryan McGinley, Terry Richardson, Richard Kern, Dash Snow, et al.
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After examining reports of journalists killed in direct connection to their work, the committee found that 64 journalists were killed in 2007, up from 56 last year.
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official notice – formal apology
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Robert Wright delivered part 3 (here) on the “business” of editorial photography and we both agree that corporate greed is the source of the problems we face in photography and generally in business today.
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Just when you thought film was dead the good people over at File and Flak Photo are keeping it old school and have launched the 36 Exposures Challenge
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I like what Taj Forer is doing with his photographs so I decided to talk to him about it.
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Keith Arnatt’s “Notes from Jo” (1990 – 94) record his wife’s Post-It note messages usually left in their kitchen. The work irreverently plays on the conceptual concerns of image and text through the irritations and communications of daily life
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Cool people I met this year on assignment. by usa today photog robert hanashiro
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I’ve always thought of shooting downhill skiing as one of the hardest sports to shoot. – Mike Blake, Reuters
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On Oct. 18, the life of a fellow Sports Shooter member ended tragically when Bridget O’Brien, only 26 years old, was killed in a car accident in Ohio.
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The D300 reminds me more of the traditional professional camera before the motor drive was built-in. Think Canon F-1, or Nikon F, F2, or F3.
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Ever since I began covering major sporting events, the frenzy to obtain a press pin became the center of conversation
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My intention was to provoke thought and debate about the sane and the insane in current business practices. I am copping the standoffish attitude as an affect. The THEM is definitely corporate GREED.
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We’ve found the key to…Time Travel.
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So after 8 days on embed I had been out on two patrols and one useless operation, transmitted 18 photos and was developing an ulcer.
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I’m getting to a point where I only want to shoot sports with a wide angle lens.
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Now the photographer’s estate has presented this intimate chronicle of Arbus’s life — her complete archives — to the Met as a gift
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For the past year or so I’ve been taking photos of the reporters I work with out in the field and posting them on the wall next to my desk.
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while Nikon may have been late to the party with its new D3, I think it employed a much smarter approach to a lens compatibility issue.
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Shooting the Leica is like going out with Pamela Anderson.
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Maybe the real reason for looking through the year’s work is because contest season has officially began. I used to put so much energy into winning. Thought it was so important. But I’ve seen contests ruin people.
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here are my Photographers of the Year 2007, as always in alphabetical order.
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