His friends called him “Nounours” (Teddy). Henri Bureau died the day before yesterday. He was an impetuous, flamboyant, big-mouthed bon vivant. But he was above all a great photographer
I had the pleasure of connecting with Amy Wolff, Photo Editor at Photo District News. In order to frame the interview properly I asked her to explain her role at the magazine. Amy: Though my title is “photo editor,” the job description is different t
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.
As a photojournalist for the New York Times, Kirsten Elstner recalls musing with colleagues about how interesting it would be to put cameras in the hands of the people they were traveling the world to photograph, and let them tell their own stories. For the past decade, she has been doing just that, along with teams of National Geographic photographers.
One news magazine publishing Arab Spring reports has been paying 58 eurocents a photo. How much is it for a photo of the Berlin Wall coming down? Just 88 euro cents. And so it goes on.
The photographer is furious! Who wouldn’t be? “My photos aren’t even worth the price of a condom!”
Why do I need this new camera? What makes this different than all the other times I thought I needed a new camera as much as I think I need a new camera now? Stop. Breathe. I need to think about the time, resources, and headaches I put into video in the past and I need to honestly assess where I’m going with it now and if it truly justifies the time and resources and headaches I’m going to put into it again.
Like Christo meets “This Old House,” buildings in Hong Kong are sheathed in colored nets and bamboo while undergoing renovations. Peter Steinhauer tracks these cocoons on the urban skyline.
The man next to me, grown and gray, with a bored teenage son next to him, was mesmerized. His head dipped and his eyes widened at the old films. Returning to his hometown, it looked like he was returning to being a boy watching his hero, all over again.
Lurking on the eccentric and strange is a specialty on New York-based photographer, Martin Cartagena. His candid shots of the diverse cast of characte…
This interview is part of a series in which Olaf Willoughby talks with Leica Meet members about their photographic projects, their stories, goals and learnings along the way. Here Olaf interviews Guiseppe di Santis, who applies the principles of street photography to the Palio, a medieval horse race in Siena.
“When we look at images, we understand something about the world – but it’s always in the context of ourselves. It’s a universal language.” —Amy Toensing Amy Toensing learned early on in her career that she was interested in telling stories of humanity.