8%. That’s the decadently luxurious success rate imposed by the life I’m leading now — the life of a photographer. That’s right, all I ask is that 8% of my shots be successful. A measly 8%. That works out to 3 shots per roll of 36 exposures. Even more lenient are my Widelux and Xpan cameras, whose extra-wide negatives insure that only two decent shots need occupy each completed roll. Should I snap off two good frames on a roll of 120 threaded into a 645 camera, I’m a bona fide overachiever. And only a single successful shot is required each time I spool a roll through one of my twin lens reflex cameras.
Lesley Martin chats with WIRED about the busy fall season of photobook fairs and events, jurying, desert island photobooks, self-publishing, presages, Rob Hornstra, Japanese design, and her favorite paper.
The first snow of the season hit Chicago this afternoon, so, before heading over the United Center for tonight’s Bulls’ game, I wandered around The Loop.
This week we are sharing work submitted to Lenscratch… For next two weeks Lenscratch dives deep into the various emailed submissions we have received since re-launching the site. The pool of candidates was larger than expected, and quite difficult to n
During his time at the Express-News, he won honors for his work, including awards from the Dallas Press Club, and the National Press Photographers Association. Since his time at the Express-News, Hunter’s work could be seen at exhibits throughout San Ant
Link: A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm | PROOF
Ed Kashi’s story on northern Nigeria’s Islamic insurgency appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine. His wife, Julie Winokur, is a writer/filmmaker, and co-founder of Talking Eyes Media. They have two children, Eli, 18, a college freshman, and Isabel, 15.
In this edition of Conversations, National Geographic senior photo editor Alice Gabriner chats with the Kashi family about love, work, and finding the balance between the two.
Andy Summers has been a photographer since the early 1980s when he was the guitarist with The Police. He has published three books of photography: “Throb” with William Morrow & Company in 1983, “I’ll Be Watching You” with Taschen in 2007 and “Desirer Walks the Streets” with Nazraeili Press in 2009. He also collaborated with Ralph Gibson on “Light Strings.” The film “Can’t Stand Losing You,” based on his best selling biography “One Train Later,” will be released by Cinema Libre in May of 2014.
Link: 68th College Photographer of the Year | Winning Images
Multimedia winners’ names and school affiliation will be posted as the judging of each category concludes. The complete winners list will be posted following the conclusion of judging on the evening of Sunday Nov. 10th.
The photographer Mark Peterson, like most Americans frustrated with our democratic experiment, hyperprocesses his images to cast the hard-edged rhetoric in sharp relief.
Good art is rarely made by dolts who are disorganized, numb, or unthinking. The mad genius is a popular myth in art circles, but more often than not the best artists are the ones who work the hardest for the longest time, pushing themselves and their craf
You know that awkward moment when you think you’re getting your photo taken but the shooter accidentally has their camera set on video? From the Nottingham Trent Students Union, “here&#…