The Mountain That Eats Men
They told me I was the bravest tourist. The only white man they had ever seen scramble down so deep.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-mountain-that-eats-men-5369800790f2
They told me I was the bravest tourist. The only white man they had ever seen scramble down so deep.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-mountain-that-eats-men-5369800790f2
In 1975, at age 25, Arnold Jarmak moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts where he set about photographing the city and its people. He captured reality and caught the imagination of the city everyday with his front page photographs for the daily newspaper, the Chelsea Record. Without affect, without a meaningful interest in personal enrichment, he exposed 20,000 images in Chelsea between 1975 and 1988
The environmental photo award Syngenta just announced the winners of their second photo competition titled “Scarcity-Waste.” Mustafah Abdulaziz won first place in the Professional Competition for his ongoing “Water” series that tracks water issues around the globe. Abdulaziz will take home $15,000 USD plus a $25,000 USD commission for the winning work. Benedikt Partenheimer was named the first place winner of the Open Competition for an image made in Shanghai, China, documenting particle pollution. Partenheimer will take home a $5,000 USD prize.
Over 200 photographs, documentary material, camera models and publications – on March 13 the Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography exhibition will open at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. We talked with Celina Lunsford, the artistic director, about special discoveries, the Leica myth and the appeal of iconic images.
Agency researchers conducted a multi-year effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, presenting their findings at an secret annual “Jamboree.”
via The Intercept: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/10/ispy-cia-campaign-steal-apples-secrets/
Matt Stuart is a photographer based in London. • How was LA for you, Matt? LA was great. I had a fantastic time. I ha…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/03/q-with-matt-stuart.html
Pictures of the Year International director Rick Shaw today confirmed that Italian photographer Giovanni Troilo’s “The Dark Heart Of Europe” essay, entered in the 72nd Pictures of the Year International Visual Editing Division in the Motion Issue Reportin
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/troilos-dark-heart-europe-was-awarded-then-disqualified-poyi
Launch the first issue of Me-Mo Magazine, and your tablet’s screen springs to life, offering a cinema-like introduction to a variety of photo essays by its five founding photographers. With a combination of still images, video, text and informational graphics, it seeks to use as many different tools to capture the reader’s imagination. But what it really is aiming for is something that is time-tested: to create a community.
Stefano De Luigi documents two communities that have been fighting for centuries
via Time: http://time.com/3694192/in-tripoli-one-street-brings-the-syrian-war-home/
Apart from a few thousand people willing to risk their lives to bear witness at any cost, nobody is interested in the World Press Photo today. Photojournalism bores everyone, and now the only appeal of Perpignan is nostalgia. It’s sad but true
The RATP invited the Franco-Russian photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov to shoot a report on five cities: Casablanca, Florence, London, Paris and Seoul. Through these 60 color photographs, gathered in the book Un nouveau regard sur la mobilité urbaine (Éditions La Martinière), Pinkhassov shares his view of urban mobility. Human figures stand out or blend into the background as blazing colors sparkle from the predominantly dark tone of the images. Pinkhassov offers a metaphor for life, its movements and heartbeat.
Amid the chaos, slung sheets and 2x4s, photographer Noah Addis finds order and needs met.
“The war stories I know don’t usually have a hero, or even a good guy
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/ben-brody-endgame-afghanistan
Los Angeles County has agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement to photographers and instruct sheriff’s deputies to respect First Amendment rights.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/l-pays-50k-harassed-photogs-agrees-train-sheriff-deputies.html
Michele McNally, director of photography and assistant managing editor of The New York Times, offers this perspective: “The vast majority of the 20 percent were obvious deceptions – there were addition or subtraction of material, that was really evident.”
“Digital darkroom processing…is not the same as the old wet, analog darkroom,” said McNally. That is why the rules are outdated: “So much does not apply and we need clearer standards.”
The federal government has agreed to pay The Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio $18,000 to settle a lawsuit over the detention of two journalists last year at a military tank plant, the Associated Press reports. In settling the case, the government admitted
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/feds-pay-toledo-blade-18000-arrest-photographer-reporter.html
“When you’re young, you have this sense of invincibility, “ says Stacy Pearsall. “You can hear the gunshots, but they can’t touch you.“ Pearsall is a former Air Force Combat Photojournalist who spent much of her storied ten-year Air Force career assigned to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron in Charleston South Carolina
The photojournalist Olivier Laban-Mattei just returned from a mission in Chad on behalf of the High Commissioner of the United Nations Refugee Agency. He traveled to the Lake Chad region near the Nigerian border, a ten-hour hike from N’djamena, the capital, to document the arrival of the Nigerian refugees
via chicagotribune.com: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-mike-mcardle-st-0306-20150305-column.html