Freelance photographers who have been shooting sports on contract for Reuters in North America started getting phone calls Friday from Peter Jones, the North American Sports Photo Editor at Thomson Reuters, who told them that their sideline services would
Earlier this year Jennifer Schwartz, a gallerist and the founder of the non-profit arts organization Crusade for Art, traveled to cities around the country in an effort to create demand for the work of emerging photographers by encouraging people she met
Fujifilm is still producing new models of instant film cameras, and its newest flagship looks like a blast from the past. Fujifilm Japan’s recently-announced Instax Mini 90 is an instant film camera that wears the same retro styling seen in some of the co
Zwelethu Mthethwa, the South African fine-art photographer, will go on trial on Monday, charged with murdering a woman on a street in a suburb of Cape Town, according to South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. Mthethwa was arrested May 5, accused of beating and k
The NSA’s state surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen. On Sunday, U.K. intelligence officers he…
You’ve more than likely heard about the Canon 5D Mk III RAW Hack. We too have been keeping a close eye on the Magic Lantern (ML) team as of late. In the last 4 months they’ve enjoyed their greatest triumphs since initially cracking the 5D Mark II’s code a
Matthew Schrier, a photographer, says he was held for seven months by jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. After being robbed, tortured and accused of being an American spy, he escaped in July.
Before we dive into this guest post, we want to say how thrilled we are to see Corey Rich launch his new Beam site! We’re loving the way his action-packed images display full-bleed on the homepage, not sparing any details from his extreme shooting adventu
Several professional photography trade organizations have banded together to study Instagram’s Terms of Service, and today the American Society of Media Photographers issued the following press release: Photographic Community, Led by The American Society
Anna Di Prospero’s photography is luminous. Her photographs in “Instinct” speak of both the intimate and expansive, the feeling of being close and also reaching out towards nebulous space. There is an underlying anxiety and aggression beneath the sweet exterior of its peach palette, referencing the decay of fire and insects, the arcane claustrophobia of what it means to be trapped within our own bodies. The sensations of falling and drowning, or perhaps sheer suspension.
Brooklyn-based photographers Eva O’Leary and Harry Griffin have wanted to collaborate for some time. Devil’s Den, their forthcoming book, started as a conversation on a road trip they took from Florida to Pennsylvania. They began to imagine the epic scale
Earlier this month we did a live webinar with Carolyn E. Wright – aka The Photo Attorney. Carolyn is a full-time attorney whose practice is aimed squarely at the legal needs of photographers. During the webinar talked extensively about copyright infringem
Close to Union City, New Jersey, right across the Hudson from the big, bright lights of New York City, there is a community of about 25 men and women who have been living on the side of a cliff in a makeshift encampment for over a decade. Some have been t
Link: Photo Editors Who Made a Difference – NYTimes.com
Today and tomorrow on Lens, photographers recall and pay tribute to the photo editors who most influenced their careers. The people who pushed, pulled and occasionally strong-armed them into producing exceptional work. The people who believed in them when nobody else did — who recognized the photographer’s strength and took the time to develop it.