In East Los, part of the Living Off the Wall documentary series by Vans, documentarian Angela Boatwright takes a candid, in-depth look into the punk-rock scene in East Lost Angeles. In addition to five short documentary pieces, East Los includes a satisfy
Link: AP’s White House staff: Press losing presidential access as Obama officials close doors | Poynter.
“Once we lose access, we’ll never get it back,” Dharapak said at the NAA event, where he also repeated a reference to the handout photos as “visual press releases.”
Our annual Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests ranks a number of well-known contests with a letter grade from A-F based on entry fees, prizes, and exposure. Most of the contests we review are aimed at the professional or aspiring professional photograp
“The biggest challenge for me is trying to be creative under physical duress.” —Jimmy Chin According to Jimmy Chin, “It takes a ton of creativity to push the boundaries at the front edge of action sports.” And he would know. Rock climber turned photograph
What are the ethics of of high traffic news and infotainment websites using a person’s Facebook image if that person was on an erased airliner? Is it just a case of, “well, you should have thought of that before you disappeared?”
Samer Mohdad was a 10-year-old boy living in the mountain village of his Druse ancestors when Lebanon’s civil war broke out in 1975. His life changed overnight: His childhood playmates were now his sworn enemies. The traumatic experience of the war, which lasted until 1990, stayed with him and, Mr. Mohdad believes, eventually led him to photography.
Link: Spotlight On Maggie Steber | The Image, Deconstructed
Eating dark chocolate in the middle of the night is a hidden secret pleasure. No one needs to know about it. In that way, it is mine alone. It’s like a secret garden, where I can retreat and work on something and it doesn’t matter whether I ever show the work and if anyone likes it or not. It’s where the dark side of my personality can come out to play and thrive. It’s like a guilty pleasure. I’ve thought about this a lot…. maybe this is where one’s work reveals a longing to be free of one’s self. I think we are described, for the most part, by how people regard us personally and professionally. In this secret garden where I might “eat dark chocolate in the middle of the night” I get to define myself and my work. I think this is a healthy and critical thing for anyone engaged in the creative process.
Link: There’ll Always Be An England | PDN Photo of the Day
Tony Ray-Jones’s images of sunbathers at Blackpool and beauty contestants in Merseyside are paired with black-and-white images of village life that Martin Parr took in the 1970s. Both bodies of work are sure to make viewers smile
A funny thing happened on the way to the future – the entire camera industry got blindsided. Camera and lens sales suck, have sucked for a while, and likely will continue to suck for some time to come. The question is – why?
Let Us Roam is an ongoing short film series supported by Leica Camera. This series features stories about photographers, artists, filmmakers and musicians inside of the skateboarding culture. For many, skateboarding is a lifestyle that breeds creativity,
British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews was named the 2014 Robert Gardner Photography Fellow by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the museum announced earlier this week. The documentary photography fellowship provides a stipend of $50,0
The death of an 18-year-old Syrian freelancing for Reuters has led to questions about the work of local activists the wire service employs there as photographers.
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring pricing your work from our 3 free guides written with Bill Cramer, CEO of Wonderful Machine. We’ve been sharing tips via the blog all this week on how to price your magazine photography, corporate & i