Last Call
The end of the printed newspaper.
via Medium: https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70
The end of the printed newspaper.
via Medium: https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70
Leica Camera announced a new Leica M-P 240 digital rangefinder with few improvements over the basic M 240 model: Scratch resistant display-cover made of sapphire glass Long-lasting readiness to capture due to a large double sized image buffer of 2GB (poss
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2014/08/21/new-leica-m-p-240-camera-announced.aspx/
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/21/photographer-capures-summer-freedom/#1
Where are the ethics and the boundaries when the media engagement is so passive, even acquiescent, and the product, so indistinguishable from propaganda that the insurgents feel they can have their way with the exposure?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/08/enabling-isis-the-vice-videos-and-the-execution-of-afp-photographer-james-foley/
The militants had pressed the United States to provide several million dollars for the release of James Foley, an American journalist killed in retaliation for recent airstrikes in Iraq.
Ben Anderson is a war journalist and documentary filmmaker for Vice News. His latest book is The Interpreters. “You’re surrounded by people who are so poor. Maybe their family members have already been killed. And they still can’t leave. So
via Longform: http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-105-ben-anderson
Reporters, editors and those who monitor the freedom of the press describe a harsh environment for reporters, in the United States and abroad.
The lawyer for the National Press Photographers Association who is on the ground in Ferguson alongside photojournalists has just filed a formal letter of complaint, as well as a request for an official investigation, into the “unlawful and unprofessional
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppas-lawyer-requests-investigation-ferguson-police-gun-pointing-incident
the future is shaped by people like Jim Foley, and the overwhelming majority of humanity who are appalled by those who killed him.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/James-Foley:-focus-on-humanity-amid-suffering
The Aaron Siskind Foundation announced the five winners of their 2014 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/aaron-siskind-foundation-announces-2014-grant-recipients.html
To foreigners, Syden sounds like a fantasy holiday destination accessible only to Norwegians, and it kind of is. In Norway, the word Syden is often referenced in lieu of certain European, Asian, African, and South American cities with a warm climate, main
Fair warning: your brain’s buffer might have a hard time processing this one. Following in the multi-shot heritage of the old CCD H5D-200MS, Hasselblad
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/20/hasselblads-new-h5d-200c-multi-shot-spits-massive-200-megapixel-files/
I’ve spent the past week down in Ferguson, MO covering the protests and police response. What I never expect was to find myself embarrassed to photograph
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/20/embarrassed-photograph-ferguson/
The day Foley disappeared Nicole Tung was supposed to meet him.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/20/video-a-friend-and-colleague-describes-james-foley/
Senior White House officials meeting on purported beheading of American journalist James Foley.
American journalist’s apparent killer is recognized by Londoners as one of their own.
Some one is always watching. Whether built into an ATM or mounted alongside intersection lights to catch traffic violators, surveillance cameras have become a ubiquitous presence in contemporary society. Andrew…
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/08/andrew-hammerand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrew-hammerand
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/20/ferguson-michael-brown-st-louis-photographers/#1
And to be honest, I love my photo editing team so much and would have killed to be able to shoot assignments like the ones we are dreaming up here at the Chronicle and then come back to get an amazing edit from Nicole Frugé, Russell Yip, Pete Kiehart or Dylan Entelis. This team is so thoughtful, supportive and truly committed to making sure that our staff has what they need to succeed.