Correspondent
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/donetsk-shelling#.VNDaGEL_un0
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/donetsk-shelling#.VNDaGEL_un0
Sélim Harbi is a documentary photographer who lives between Berlin and Tunis, where he was born in 1982. He is particularly interested in the possibilities that digital offers for experimenting and re-inventing photographic narration. After studying at film school in Berlin, he talks here about creating the series he devoted to the city of Beirut in 2011, “Beirut Frames”. Highly committed to promoting a “southward-looking Southern gaze”, Sélim Harbi co-founded the pan-African collective “Afreekyama” and is currently involved in organizing the second edition of an African collectives workshop to be held in Gabon in 2015.
The Visionary Award, organized by the Tim Hetherington Trust, is designed to foster innovative approaches to visual storytelling
via Time: http://time.com/3692898/tim-hetherington-trust-unveils-visionary-award-shortlist/
A new exhibition questions familiar images of suffering around the world to broaden our notions of beauty, brutality and civil rights
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/02/-sp-human-rights-human-wrongs-cliches-conflict-photography
In Post-Industrial Stories, Romanian photographers Ioana Carlig and Marin Raica explore contemporary life in Romania’s mono-industrial communities. Romania was heavily industrialized over the course of its 40 years of communism. Every town had an industri
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/02/photos-look-at-romanias-communist-built-industrial-communities/
Few things make photojournalist Bünyamin Aygün flinch anymore.
But hearing even a second of his strained voice on a video from last January is too much.
A conflict photographer’s raw and emotional photographs of civil conflict that continues to envelop civilians and soldiers in east Ukraine.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/02/02/documenting-the-raging-civil-conflict-on-the-front-lines-in-donetsk-ukraine/
HB Nam, known as Nam in the international fashion world, is one of the leading photographers in street fashion photography. He works with the likes of ELLE France, Grazia Italy, GQ Japan, Vogue Japan and Style.com.
A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in January, as curated by Mikko Takkunen
via Time: http://time.com/3687500/photojournalism-links-january/
To many, it might seem that the art of photography is simply a matter of going out and snapping pictures. But there’s a lot more to it, and there’s…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/02/01/the_book_photographers_sketchbooks_shows_the_creative_process_of_photographers.html
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, co-owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide, opened for entries on January 5, and will stay open until February 26. The owners and sponsors have been kind enough to share the following 10 fin
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2015/385064/
Wasif Munem was awarded a special prize by the Prix Pictet to document the struggles of people in Bangladesh who have lost practically all of their natural resources and ways of life as a result of short-sighted shrimp farming along the coastline
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/munem-wasif-salt-water-tears
The Australian Peter Greste, who was imprisoned over a year ago, was quickly deported.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-frees-australian-one-of-three-jailed-al-jazeera-journalists/2015/02/01/52380912-aa38-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html?wprss=rss_world
Here’s a 4.5-minute profile of street photographer Travis Jensen, a man who documents life on the sidewalks of San Francisco. It’s a look at how Jensen
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/02/01/shooting-streets-sf-photographer-travis-jensen/
99% of the conversation regarding what can and cannot be done to a photograph is about post processing, after the image has been taken . Little, or none, is about before or when the image is taken.
This post is a curmudgeonly look at the current state of landscape photography. I was in Munich yesterday, munching on some bratwurst and drinking a beer
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/31/will-real-landscape-photography-please-stand/
The Japanese photographer captures New York City streets at night with his Leica camera.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/hiroyuki-itos-city-nights
Egyptian photographer Islam Osama captured the moment Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was killed in Cairo on Jan. 24
via Time: http://time.com/3689366/the-story-behind-the-photo-of-shaimaa-al-sabbaghs-dying-moments/
Guest post by Pete Pattisson: When the DSLR filmmaking revolution took off in 2008, a set of ‘rules’ soon emerged about how to get the most out of these cameras’ video capabilities: shoot in manual mode, record audio separately, use a rig, and so on. The
via Newsshooter: http://www.newsshooter.com/2015/01/31/rules-are-made-to-be-broken-five-filmmaking-rules-pete-pattisson-says-you-should-sometimes-ignore/
Photographer Meryl Meisler has a lot going on. She recently published A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick to much acclaim and will soon be launching a new book, Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & The City at the Bushwick Open Studios at The
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/01/meryl-meisler-a-tale-of-two-cities-disco-era-bushwick/