Looking at Stacy Kranitz’s project, The Study on Post Pubescent Manhood, reminds me of the first time I visited a middle school campus after six years at a nurturing neighborhood elementary school. Watching the pre pubescent boys charge out the doors fill
Yan Morvan has been documenting gangs in France’s suburbs for 40 years, he’s followed the Hell’s Angels, Skinheads and even serial killer Guy Georges, who took him hostage in 1995 and tortured him for three weeks. This experience forced Morvan to call it
The editor of French Closer magazine and an unidentified photographer have been charged with violation of French privacy laws for their alleged role in the publication last September of topless pictures of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge (and now
about a week ago Hasselblad dropped the other high-heeled lace-up shoe and announced the Stellar, which is last year’s model of the Sony RX100 (a very fine little camera, but now superceeded by the much better RX100II). What does it offer beyond the camera that one can already buy at Kmart? It has a wooden grip and Hasselblad charge 3X the usual price
Q: Did you feel comfortable using only one camera?
A: In deciding to make it my main tool, there was something of the order of the obvious, the instinctive, regarding the relation to the object first, and then the relation to the reality in which one inscribes oneself with this tool.
With this camera and this set up, I have a sense of simplicity and lightness, certain discretion. In one of his texts, Hervé Guibert talks about the “gentleness of intrusion.” This is something I try to put in place and which has always attracted me to a photographic project. With this camera, I have the feeling that I’m getting closer to my subjects than with the tools I previously used.
I am constantly preaching the power of photographing your niche, and here’s one more example of just how powerful it can be. Brad Mangin is all about baseball photography, so when Instagram popped up, he grabbed his iPhone and pointed it squarely at his n
Martin Klimek is a commercial and editorial photographer based in San Francisco. His personal project Man vs. Nature is a creative exploration of a series of man-made and natural elements through diptychs. We recently had a chat with him about the work.
DxOMark published test results for several super tele photo Nikon lenses, including the Nikkor 200mm f/2 (see review) which is one of the sharpest lens they have ever measured: Nikkor AF-S 200mm f/2G ED VR II “Mounted on a 36Mpix D800 the lens achieves a
Freelance travel photographer Gavin Gough has spent years fine-tuning his digital workflow. While he (and many photographers) love the flexibility and immediateness that digital offers, he doesn’t enjoy spending hours in front of the computer. To help str
In our latest free guide, Growing Your Sports Photography Business, we offer an in-depth look at the sports photography industry today. This comprehensive guide includes insider advice from sports photography veterans like Rich Clarkson, Brad Mangin, and
Every day, I’m inundated with friend requests on Facebook and LinkedIn from photojournalists the world over inviting me to review their portfolios. They offer to provide free photos to work with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in th