Worth a read: Disphotic on photo contests that cost money
Calling paid-entry photo contest the “cash cow” of photography, Lewis Bush raises a lot of valid points.
Calling paid-entry photo contest the “cash cow” of photography, Lewis Bush raises a lot of valid points.
Phase One today announced a new 100MP CMOS full-frame digital sensor for the XF camera system. “The ultimate camera system has arrived,” Phase One says.
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/01/04/phaseone-built-a-100mp-cmos-sensor-with-sony-for-the-xf-camera/
When Aaron Blum moved from West Virginia to attend graduate school at Syracuse University, he quickly realized his fellow students knew little about…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/01/03/the_misunderstood_appalachia_region_of_the_united_states_photos.html
A new book, “Africa Under the Prism,” captures the kaleidoscope of random energy, disorder and color on the continent, from work shown during the arts festival’s first five years.
It was a real pleasure to talk to Harry. He is an absolute gentleman and the reason this is a two-parter is that we chatted for well over two hours and I think we could’ve gone on all day. When I came to listen to the interview, I realised I couldn’t possibly edit it down to a listener-friendly hour or so, because I wanted to use nearly all of it. So, rather than put out one stupidly long episode, I thought I would run it over two weeks, and that’s what I’m doing.
“Homes at Night” by Todd Hido is an eery photo series depicting nightlife in an unexpected way. By shifting night photography’s focus to a subur…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/homes-at-night-by-todd-hido-2/
“I just love doing what I’ve done for all these years. I react, I go, ‘Oh my God, look at that,’ and the camera goes click,” says Grant, 86.
via CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/order-of-canada-given-to-ted-grant-1.3386351
This past fall National Geographic photographer Lynn Johnson suggested I do a blog post about photographs that inspired change. I was moved by this idea and thought what better way to end the year than to reflect on the power of a still image. Photographs
via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/31/8-photos-that-inspired-action/
Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web
As 2015 rolls to a close, TIME LightBox pauses to remember the great photographers we lost this year
via Time: http://time.com/4147172/in-memoriam-photographers-died-2015/
Happy New Year! Each year we ask you to share a photograph you created that stands apart from the rest…and we were blown away by the rich assortment of fantastic photographs submitted from around the globe. An enormous thank you to Grant Gill for curat
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/01/the-2015-favorite-photograph-exhibition/
Several years ago, Bassam Khabieh was an IT administrator working in Damascus, Syria, near his hometown of Douma. Then, the Syrian war began. Khabieh soon picked up a camera and returned to Douma to document the effects of years of shelling and urban warf
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/a-year-of-syrias-war-seen-through-the-lens-of-bassam-khabieh/422268/
When German photographer Kai Löffelbein touched down on the island of Lesbos early this fall, where as many as two to four thousand refugees come ashore on a single day, he was forced in many ways to be a human being first and a photographer second. He st
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/12/an-intimate-look-at-the-plight-of-thousands-of-refugees-stranded-in-lesbos-greece/
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/working-in-the-shadows-to-put-a-spotlight-on-the-world
Graves captured, with humor and humanity, the world he came back to when he settled in San Francisco amid the tumult of the nineteen-sixties.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/kenneth-graves-bay-area-1963-1974
Chervinsky ran a particle accelerator at Harvard and created photos that explored and expanded the camera’s ability to freeze a moment in time.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/12/in-memoriam-john-chervinsky-physics-engineer-and-photographer-54.html
From Patrick Smith
Our photo editors pick their favorite images we ran this year.
National Geographic Magazine just announce the winners of this year’s photo contest.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/winners-of-the-2015-national-geographic-photo-contest/422118/
With 2015 ending, we review the what to expect in the upcoming year for the very active visual tech space
via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/what-to-watch-for-in-2016/