The Suchiate River is the crossing point between Mexico and Guatemala for thousands of Central American migrants hoping to make it to El Norte, the United States. They cross the water on a couple of beat-up intertubes with planks of plywood taped on top o
Earlier this year, it was pointed out that his work went overlooked in the World Press Photo contest, where 1 in 5 finalists were disqualified for approaching some unacceptable level of post-processing.
As we can see, Smolan has been busy blazing new paths and pushing the digital envelope. This week, zPhotoJournal has a conversation with the multi-faceted and multi-talented Rick Smolan as we discuss his own journey that has lead him to “INSIDE TRACKS.”
The proposals made to the association members include the president taking questions from the press “on a regular basis, no less than once per week” and being “available in response to significant news developments.”
Facebook isn’t naive–they are Machiavellian. They know that this correction is coming in terms of how agencies, marketers, and brands spend their money on consumer facing technology companies…
This month Roger Ballen releases an expanded edition of his critically acclaimed book, Outland published by Phaidon Press which features 45 previously unpublished photographs. Along with this new incarnation of the book, Ballen has collaborated with director Ben Crossman for the second time to create an accompanying video for Outland, which re-introduces some of Ballen’s protagonists 15 years after the fact.
The photography staff of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for its coverage of the aftermath of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.
On Monday afternoon, a few hours after winning a Pulitzer for breaking news photography with the photo staff at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson went right back to work. Earlier, there was a little champagne and a cake that went uncut for while. The newsroom was proud of the win, Carson said, but it’s hard to celebrate something that started with a young man losing his life.
These are some images and thoughts that struck me about the visual media coverage of the catastrophe as photos filled galleries and illustrated news stories this morning.
Kacper Kowalski happened to be standing beside his brilliant picture and told me he’d been an architect who traded that in order to do two things he really loves—flying and photography.
James Oatway, a photographer with the Sunday Times of South Africa, managed to capture a mob of men fatally attacking a Mozambique man on April 18 in Alexandra township. Oatway’s photos, published on the front page of the Times yesterday, lead to the arre