Sadly, I’m unable to predict the future, but I’d simply say that the technical and technological tools available today allow for almost infinite creation and multiple ways of sharing and accessing content
Photojournalism is at a crisis point. A once trusted and venerable calling, journalists are now held at their lowest esteem in history. Why? I can answer that in one word…TRUST!
19 years ago for the magazine American Photo which has now disapeared , David Schonauer, Carol Squiers and I made a special issue for the 7th edition of Visa pour l’Image Perpignan called Is photojournalism dead ? We interviewed the 40 most important actors of the field then. Here are the texts. They are surprising, excepted 2 or 3 of them, no one imagined the tsunami photojournalism was going to live !
The Visa pour l’Image evening shows will cover the main events of the past year, from September 2014 to August 2015. Every evening, from Monday to Saturday, the program will begin with a chronological review of these news stories, two months at a time. This is followed by reports and features on society, wars, stories that have made the news and others that have been kept quiet, plus coverage of the state of the world today. Visa pour l’Image also presents retrospectives of major events and figures in history. The Visa pour l’Image award ceremonies are held during the evening programs
When I started this blog in December, one of my initial posts was “The Face of Hate,” which showed a couple of pictures from the first murder trial I ever photographed, the sensational …
From photographer to artistic director, the Photolux Festival founder Enrico Stefanelli gives us insight into educating our eyes and learning to make the most of the world around us
Coping Mechanism from Run Riot on Vimeo. WATCH THIS! Coping Mechanism Anthony Smallwood Full disclosure: David Alan Harvey is a great mentor and dear friend and the fact that we’ve almost been a…
Building on the success of the full-frame 36-Mpix Sony A7R, the recently announced update to that model looks to be one of the most promising cameras of the year. Along with a slight increase in pixel count over the original, the sensor in the 42-Mpix A7R
Photography has been used in many ways throughout its history: as documentation, propaganda, keepsake, etc. But never has it been so frequently used as a weapon as in the Information Age. As visual communication becomes the de facto language of social med
Curator Richard McCabe at the Ogden Museum has been thinking a lot about New Orleans in the last decade. He created a terrific exhibition to celebrate what has come after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the lively and diverse New Orleans
It had been raining for a few days in New Orleans earlier this month, but Frank Relle was not complaining. “I like it when it rains in the summer,” he said. “It cools you and you don’t have that heat building up into the night.”
On the city’s outskirts, many young people live in violence-ridden housing projects amid joblessness, crime, and profound isolation from the broader French culture.