Link: Defamation, Girls, and pictures through a window: recent legal news affecting photography and copyright | dvafoto
There’ve been a bunch of legal developments in the world of photography and copyright in the past couple weeks. Here are a few things that have been on my radar that all have relevance to freelance and staff photographers in the US:
Tokyo-based photographer Hajime Kimura didn’t have an easy time finding a slaughterhouse that would allow him to photograph on the premises. With his project Tracks, Kimura’s aim was to show all aspects of the uses of horses in Japan. For this, he needed
Filmmaker and photographer Cheryl Dunn shines a light on New York City street photography in her new documentary “Everybody Street.” The film features interviews with renowned street shooters, including Elliott Erwitt, Rebecca Lepkoff, Joel Meyerowitz, Ricky Powell and Jamel Shabazz, who discuss everything from how they got their start in photography to the esthetics of digital versus analogue imagery and the state of the photo industry today.
New York City is a photographer’s paradise, offering exhibitions, galleries, lectures, and educational opportunities that are unparalleled anywhere else. One of the institutions that offers education and opportunity is The Penumbra Foundation/Center of Al
We hope that this post might contribute to a thoughtful, open and persistent examination about the truth behind this story as well as the issues surrounding how photos in conflict zones can be procured today.
Link: Risen: Obama administration is this generation’s ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’ | Poynter.
The administration’s aggressive prosecutions have created “a de facto Official Secrets Act,” Risen said, and the media has been “too timid” in responding.
Link: What seemed like a high school player ‘flipping off’ sets off a photo firestorm | Poynter.
Gerik says the Journal Star only had one image because of the way the paper’s strobe system is set up at the arena. “We can capture about one shot per second with the system we use there.”
VII Photo announced today that five emerging photographers have been selected to join the photo agency’s mentor program. This year’s roster of photographers were chosen from 150 applicants. Over the next two years, VII photographers will mentor the five e
Link: Getting to Know the In-Laws | PDN Photo of the Day
New York City-based commercial and editorial photographer Augustus Butera began a long-term project about his partner’s large family, The Warrens, in 2002. He tells PDN via e-mail. “After more than a decade of taking their picture I would have to say that it is much easier to photograph someone else’s family and not necessarily your own.”
It all started with a haunted house. Or at least, a house former residents and neighbors said was haunted. When photographer Vince Musi purchased a home in 2004 on an island that once hosted Edgar Allen Poe, the residence came to life at night, but not be
Link: When Photos Lie: Sticking Up for Jalen Brunson – Shooting from the Hip
I felt the image could be misconstrued, so, I decided that it would be reckless of me to transmit the photo and take a chance that someone who didn’t see the play unfold would think that Jalen Brunson was flipping off the crowd or officials.
A photographer from the Peoria newspaper decided to send his version of the image and it was published online with the caption- “Jalen Brunson of Lincolnshire Stevenson makes a gesture to the Chicago Whitney Young crowd.”
The Twitter-verse exploded.
Brunson’s historic game was now just a side show to an online circus.
The Business Software Alliance — a proprietary software industry group — has pulled a controversial ad that promised cash to people who snitched on friends and employers who used pirate…
Los Angeles is a hard city to define visually. We all know the beautiful coastline, the star filled streets of Hollywood, the fabulous noir sensibilities of 1920’s and 30’s architecture, the mid century masterpieces by photographers like Julius Schulman,
by Jonathan Blaustein I used to have an Aussie friend named Pappy. We met when I was still impressionable, and were the best of mates for nearly 15 years. He looked like a pirate and drank like a Marine, so I did too. Having an Australian wingman is kind
At Reuters we are presently carrying out workshops with our photographers about The Wider Image, the name for Reuters’ branded, long-form, storytelling photojournalism. Our goal is to explain how to balance the need for quality, breaking-news pictures wit
Romanian photographer Petrut Calinescu was born in Constanta, a Romanian city by the Black Sea. As a child, he looked always wondered what’s on the other side of the water. Through the Around the Black Sea project, he got to find out. The project is a vis