The new structure is this: You’ll no longer pay benefits or salaries to photographers and you’ll hope these veterans will continue to fill your pages as freelancers who are struggling to make ends meet.
Many Poynter readers expressed shock and sadness Friday after a National Press Photographers Association report revealed that the magazine was cutting its entire photo staff.
The programming of Circulation(s) 2015 is built around a major exhibition featuring the work of 21 young European photographers, selected from a pool of 600 submissions. The photographs on display were selected by a jury of professionals from the photo world led by Nathalie Herschdorfer and the director of CENTQUATRE, José Manuel Gonçalves.
Diego Acosta López wanted to document New York from his son’s perspective: inside a stroller. Thousands of pictures (including little feet and hands) ensued.
Every year on the last day of the National Geographic seminar on photography, all of the photographers gather to share the work they have done over the past year. The afternoon begins by honoring one of their own with an award chosen with a vote by current NGM photographers.
Joseph Rodriguez grew up in Brooklyn when it was devoid of hipsters and even the city itself had a bit of a drug habit. You can hear it in his voice: a gravelly, nonstop commentary. That much has been documented, woven into the tale of a photographer known for depicting American subcultures.
Going behind the numbers and beyond the political debate, Mark Abramson got close to a young immigrant whose parents took her to California despite not having proper authorization.
When I picked up a camera, I was a lost kid. It became a compass for me. I traveled everywhere with it. A passport. I went to the places on old pirate maps that say “here they be monsters.” It gave me a place to slay dragons that were haunting me as an angsty teenager. It gave me confidence. Somewhere along the way the camera became a way to make a living and I lost how it was hardwired to my heart. It became a cash resister. The music business was a little hallowed and empty. It lacked any real depth. Pushy micro managing publicists making my life difficult, none of that Leibovitz John Lennon access. It was a job. I wanted to go back and understand why I use this thing called a camera – to see into the darkness. I wanted to make pictures from my depths. I had new dragons and monsters to deal with. It was time to get lost and wander around the subway. My underworld.
Today, everything and anything can prompt somebody to take a picture, to capture a fleeting memory, to record an event (whether potentially historic or totally mundane) — here is one serious photographer’s investigation into this global phenomenon
The Leica World in Wetzlar started out with a special cultural event in the New Year. Ralph Gibson, master of shadows and elegant nudes, talked about his life as photographer and about his experiences with the Leica M Monochrom during a lecture on January
A dark, rich, velvety photobook—we’re immersed here in the sea, off the coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, bumping up from below to catch a whale’s eye view, and then down again, only to surface in another spot with another vista, another surprise
Matt Eich Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town [ EPF 2014 SHORTLIST ] For the last four years I have been drawn to Greenwood, Mississippi like a moth to a flame. Since 2010, I have explored a complex …
This gesture will help tens of thousands of poor and needy men, women, and children across the continent who have never had the opportunity to walk around looking like a pompous jackass all day long
The National Press Photographers Association’s highest and most prestigious honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, will be awarded to the late Michel du Cille of The Washington Post.
Born in Belgium in 1988, Léonard Pongo was one of the five POPCAP 2014 award winners for his series “The Uncanny”. Here, he discusses what inspired this work – namely the need to create a bond with his father’s family and country, the Democratic Republic of Congo – plus his process of “listening to images”, his different influences, and, more generally, his conception of the photographic medium.
With the exoneration of Officer Morrison overlapping the backlash by the NYPD, we have a poster example of a serious problem with video and police accountability. It’s called over-sharing.