Amid Bay Area Gentrification, One Man’s Three-Year Struggle
A chance encounter with a man trying for a new start in Oakland led to a complex, three-year tale with no easy answers.
A chance encounter with a man trying for a new start in Oakland led to a complex, three-year tale with no easy answers.
Dutch photojournalist Teun Voeten and videographer Maaike Engels were shooting a documentary at a migrant camp in Calais, France, earlier this month when
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/25/photojournalist-mugged-by-refugees-he-was-trying-to-help/
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/chasing-a-dance-to-rest
If you want to ensure that your efforts to renegotiate a bad contract handed to you by a large publishing group are unsuccessful, do any of the following: Sign the bad contract Have your trade group send a letter of protest with no follow-up Organize a gr
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/01/photographers-are-their-own-worst-enemy/
I love photo fairs. In just a day or two I can immerse myself in new work, see some classics, meet a few artists, learn something new from an expert and have a great time, all for the price of a movie in a high end theatre. For these reasons and more, photo l.a. this year was a winner.
Gaia SquarciBroken ScreenWhen you’re losing sight, the world starts to appear fragmented, like through a broken screen. Then you stop understanding where light comes from.” Dale LayneThe blind liv…
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Porter Yates delved into his archives to create ‘Witness.Earth’ — a vision of the world through “animated contact sheets”
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/bringing-documentary-photos-to-life-2b0005b2701e#.lh41chw4c
His friends and colleagues share their birthday wishes
via Time: http://time.com/4189160/photographer-david-douglas-duncan-100/
Getty Images and Visual China Group partner to take over Corbis’ assets
via Time: http://time.com/4190784/image-licensing-war-is-over/
One thing I love about our Lightroom community is your fearless and creative drive to learn and try new things within the program. Find something especially challenging? …
via Adobe Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2016/01/introducing-lightroom-coffee-break-with-benjamin-warde.html
When a Taliban suicide bomber blew up a bus in Kabul this week, it ended the lives of seven employees of Tolo TV — the intended target.
Touching on a missing generation of mid-career journalists, new standards of safety and liability, and the increasing importance of serial storytelling, a veteran photojournalist offers wisdom and insight in this wide-ranging interview
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/blink-network-how-times-have-changed-photojournalism-and-the-middle-east
The drama of a northern Colorado wheat harvest
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/reckoning-days/426516/
Last night I posted a tweet: “Next time you want to post an essay to Medium, do the open web a favor and post it elsewhere. Anywhere. Tumblr. WordPress.com.” If I had more space I would have added Pastebin or Blogger. Really anywhere but Medium. 
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Victor Dragonetti’s street scenes are colorful, and complex, with an air of mystery that evokes different responses from viewers.
One of the largest photo collections in the world was just sold. Corbis, which is owned by Bill Gates, has sold off its images business to Visual China
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/22/corbis-images-sold-by-bill-gates-to-china-visual-group/
Last October Stacy Kranitz was making the rounds in New York, so I jumped at the chance to have her swing by Bushwick to talk about her photography and few photobooks I had laying around that we’d yet to discuss. I knew my friend, and season 2.19 guest, Paul Kwiatkowskiadmired her work, so I tossed out the idea of having him co-host, which he thankfully thought was a good idea. It definitely created an interesting dynamic for a conversation, since they both work from a similar impulse in many regards.
In his talk during the National Geographic Seminar on January 14, Louis Psihoyos, the photographer, filmmaker and conservation advocate, urged photojournalists and nature photographers in the audience to reach beyond magazine readers and look for new, amb
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/01/nat-geo-seminar-photographers-explain-how-they-reach-new-audiences-to-effect-change.html
Every now and again, and more frequently in recent years, we see an article that leads with something along the lines of “don’t hire a professional wedding photographer” or “you don’t need to pay for a professional photographer.” Though I understand where
via Resource: http://resourcemagonline.com/2016/01/why-does-the-world-seem-to-think-its-ok-to-devalue-photography/62470/
A Harvard student who studied under Minor White at MIT in the late 1960s and went on to teach at the Rhode Island School of Design, MacNeil explores portraiture from a dizzying array of angles, but with a clarity and consistency that make her calm and complicated images easily accessible.