What is it with Hungarians and photography? For a country with a relatively small population base (roughly 10 million), Hungary has produced…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/09/stay-hungary.html
What is it with Hungarians and photography? For a country with a relatively small population base (roughly 10 million), Hungary has produced a startling number of first-rank shooters.
“We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia
Entry is free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. and promises to easier than ever now that the photographer friendly online entry system CPOY debuted last year has been fine-tuned.
It wasn’t easy documenting the lives of a British crime family. But Jocelyn Bain Hogg managed to present his subjects in a candid — and at times unflattering — light.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/candid-photos-of-the-underworld/
In 2007, 10 years after Jocelyn Bain Hogg started chronicling organized crime in Britain, one of his subjects asked to pose for a photo. “No,” Mr. Bain Hogg said, right away. “I don’t do that.”
A bold response, given his subject’s long criminal history. “Who the hell are you?” the man responded angrily. Mr. Bain Hogg paused, reconsidering his words.
The family of Lucas Dolega, a French photographer who was killed in Tunisia on 17 January, has launched a new prize dedicated to photojournalists
A little while ago Gabriela Bulisova sent us a link to her project “Option of Last Resort: Iraqi Refugees in the United States”. It is a challenging look at the issue of Iraqi refugees who are struggling to settle in the United States. Many of them assisted the Americans during the conflict, as translators or contractors, which put them in profound danger of reprisals.
In Libya, the fall of a dictator came faster than anyone expected. After six months of fighting along what were often stagnated front lines, the rebels succeeded last week in overwhelming the forces of Col. Muammar Gaddafi to take control of the Libyan capital. The sudden assault sent the enigmatic 69-year-old Libyan leader and his family into hiding; his forces scattering.
And throughout Tripoli, TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I have watched over the past week as a population celebrates its victory over a tyrant. As security improves with each night, more and more families flock into the city’s iconic Green Square—now renamed Martyrs’ Square—where Gaddafi once delivered his bombastic speeches. And in a sprawling assortment of military bases, mansions, villas and farms, curious Libyans have sifted through the surprises and the horrors left behind by a 42-year-old regime.
Unlike the cables that WikiLeaks has been publishing piecemeal since last fall, these cables are raw and unredacted, and contain the names of informants and suspected intelligence agents that were blacked out of the official releases. Der Freitag said the documents include the names of suspected agents in Israel, Jordan, Iran and Afghanistan, and noted that interested parties – such as the Iranian government or intelligence agencies – could have already discovered and decrypted the file to uncover the names of informants.
Daniel Patrick Lilley is a portrait and editorial photographer located on the south coast of England. He is currently studying commercial photography at the Arts Institute, Bournemouth. This is a selection from his Wrestlers series.
Allison Shelley, freelance photographer, has been chosen as the recipient of the White House News Photographers 2011 Project Grant. The grant of $10,000, half from the WHNPA and a matching amount of $5,000 from PNY Technologies Inc., will fund her project to examine and raise awareness on the health implications of adolescent childbearing in rural India. Every minute a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes according to The United Nations Population Fund. In developing countries maternal mortality is the leading cause of death for women of reproductive age. But when the mother is under the age of 15, she is five times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than a woman in her 20’s. Girls 15 to 19 are twice as likely to die in pregnancy
Documentary photographers have long struggled to get their longterm projects into print. So it’s little surprise to see them embrace the iPad, with its immersive viewing environment and an entirely new cost model that lets them bypass traditional media altogether. Olivier Laurent talks to four early adopters about their experiences.
In military terms a Pocket Battleship has the guns of a battleship but the swiftness of a fleet cruiser. After several days with a pre-production NEX-7 I can say that in photographic terms this camera certainly gives the impression of a compact fighting machine that sacrifices little for its diminutive size.
The big idea around Adobe Carousel is that all your devices should have access to the same photos and photo editing tools. There is a Carousel desktop app, along with a tablet app, and a smartphone app. It’s up to you to decide how you want to engage with your photo library from each device. You also have a choice about which friends and family you want to team up with on a photo library.
Jessica Hische, creator of the excellent Should I Work For Free?, has just published a post on her blog called The Dark Art of Pricing, which is a no-nonsense guide for young creative types to start thinking about effective pricing of their work
A tweet on the Women’s Wear Daily blog stated, “Lindsay Lohan just threw a full drink at a boy at V magazine party who dared to snap her pic,” while Rischen himself added, “Wow. Lindsay Lohan is as trashy as they always say. She threw drinks and glasses to me as we tried to take a shot for V magazine.”
To prevent that, Righthaven is asking U.S. District Judge Philip Pro to stay his decision requiring Righthaven pay $34,000 in legal fees to an online commenter it wrongly sued for infringement.
The College Photographer of the Year Competition was founded by Cliff and Vi Edom in 1945. The University of Missouri administers the contest with continuing support from its co-sponsor, Nikon Inc., whose generosity allows CPOY to offer free entry to college students worldwide.
Link: https://cpoy.org
Entry is free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. and promises to easier than ever now that the photographer friendly online entry system CPOY debuted last year has been fine-tuned.
The deadline to enter is 11:59 pm Central Time, Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011. But please help yourself and us, by entering early and preventing a last minute logjam on the CPOY servers.