Social media is supposed to be the realm of the young, and in this realm, Instagram reigns as visual king. It’s easy to imagine skinny jean-wearing hipsters snapping filtered squares of their perfect lunches and summer skinny dipping soirees. So it might
A crusader for citizens’ rights to record police officers performing their duties in public has sued the City of New York and several police officers, seeking monetary damages for unlawful arrest, and a declaratory judgment in defense of citizens’ constit
The New York Daily News has laid off at least 17 newsroom staffers, including five photographers and four photo editors, according to the New York-based publication Capital. Among those who lost their jobs were photographer David Handschuh, who has been w
My photo e-book has been published! It’s based on photo columns that have appeared on this blog over the past four years and I’m absolutely delighted. The title is “Depth of Field: Tips on Photojournalism and Creativity”. Essentially, anyone with a visual storytelling passion would enjoy this book. It has tangible tips, advice, backstories and some of my favorite pictures I’ve made at the Tribune over the past 15 years.
Oh sure. I like street photographs. Or candid photographs in public. But you asked about street photography and I assumed you were talking about the culture that has developed around it, especially online. That I don’t like.
Have you ever tracked how much waste you create during a week, or even a month? Every time I clean my house or walk down a neighborhood street I marvel at the sheer amount of waste we create. But where does it all go? And what happens when large companies
Depictions of “the enemy” have long been a popular subject for shooting-range targets. Whom the enemy is seen to be, of course, depends on in which country you choose to shoot ’em up. Munich-based photographer Herlinde Koelbl has made a fascinating study
As news about the Malaysia Airlines jet crash began breaking Thursday, the Reuters news service tweeted what it described as the first photo from the scene in Ukraine. The image was ghastly: It showed…
This year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award was Alejandro Cegarra for his portfolio “The Other Side of the Tower of David,” which is dedicated to the squatters in an abandoned tower block in Caracas. In this video, Alejandro describes how he uses black-and-white photography to show the personal, inside lives of those who reside in a partially completed skyscraper.
After a nearly fatal brain hemorrhage left a once-successful commercial photographer paralyzed, he continued to make photos — experiencing his work more fluidly.
Martin Kollar was 2014′s Oskar Barnack Award Winner for “Field Trip,” a portfolio of images taken in Israel. In the above video, he describes the idea behind this work and how he tried to focus on the future instead of the past.