The Imperiled Bloggers of Bangladesh
In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.
In support of gender equality, human rights and civil liberties, a group of bloggers is doing battle with Islamists online — and paying dearly for it.
The death of the journalist, Naji Jerf, on Sunday, came a day before he and his family were to fly to France, where they were seeking asylum.
Blood moon eclipses, volcano eruptions, Usain Bolt’s Segway crash and Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover … photographers explain how they got their shots. Selection by Karin Andreasson
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/dec/27/the-best-photographs-of-2015-in-pictures
We don’t often look closely at the environments we inhabit. Once in awhile, when our phones die, or we are snapped into conscious seeing while sitting at the doctor’s office, the banality of particular interiors come into focus, and we realize that time a
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/12/laine-wyatt/
A selection of the year’s most riveting photographs.
Photographer, scientist, engineer, husband, and friend John Chervinsky passed away earlier this week, shifting his energies into uncharted territories and leaving behind a significant and inspiring photographic legacy. He also leaves behind a community of
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/12/john-chervinsky-in-memory/
NY-based photographer Ryan Muir and some fellow photographers, along with Brooklyn Vegan and Idio Gallery, have put together a memorial retrospective in honor of music photographer Chris La Putt.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2015/12/kthxbai-a-retrospective-of-chris-la-putt-by-ryan-muir/
Last month, we reported on a new $10,000 grant program started by photojournalist Yunghi Kim with earnings she made from copyright infringement of her photographs. Kim and Contact Press Images Executive Director Jeffrey Smith combed through the applicant
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/12/2015-value-your-work-grant-winners/
Since 2010, Jesse Rieser has been photographing people fiercely devoted to their Christmas displays.
As an eventful year comes to a close, we invite you to look back with us at a collection of photographs by the award-winning photojournalists of the Los Angeles Times that captures the moments of 2015.
via Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-year-in-focus-2015-pictures-20151201-photogallery.html
Nina Berman has won the 2016 Aftermath Project Grant for “Acknowledgment of Danger,” a look at the “toxic legacy of war on the American landscape.” Berman, a documentary photographer, has published two books: Purple Hearts—Back from Iraq (2004), on wounde
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/12/nina-berman-wins-2016-aftermath-grant-for-project-on-wars-toxic-legacy.html
Christopher NunnUkraine 2013-2015This on-going series began in February 2013 when I travelled to Ukraine following a thread of family history to the sleeper town of Kalush, the birthplace of my the…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/12/christopher-nunn-ukraine-2013-2015/
Many of Satoki Nagata’s images might seem to be multiple exposures or to have been manipulated in postproduction, but all are single exposures of…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/12/22/satoki_nagata_s_nighttime_street_photography_in_chicago.html
the camera as we know it is changing. A revolution in digital imaging research could surpass the camera obscura in almost every technical way: resolution, size and energy efficiency. It’s called computational photography
Five friends and colleagues remember a great man
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/in-memoriam-christophe-agou-3c445cfea6bc#.xe8i833nc
The Turkish Photojournalists’ Association (TFMD) released a written statement on Monday saying veteran photographer Ara Güler shouldn’t be criticized for taking photographs of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family in Erdoğan’s mansion in İstanbul’s Kısıklı neighborhood on Saturday.
Following a tradition started by “Regret the Error” author Craig Silverman, whose list on BuzzFeed Canada you should definitely read, we looked back at some of the most notable corrections of 2015
I spent a few days last week in Havana, Cuba with MLB and the MLBPA for The Players’ Tribune as they brought professional baseball players back to Cuba for a historic goodwill trip allowed by both governments
Best site to view photobooks Josef Chladek With so many photobooks circulating now it’s difficult to track everything out there….
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/12/2015-photobook-recap.html
Will Google Cloud Vision disrupt the photo app landscape or is it too late ?
via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/what-googles-new-open-source-tensorflow-and-cloud-vision-api-mean-for-photo-app-developers/