Following its 66th AGM earlier this week, Magnum Photo Agency announced that Olivia Arthur and Peter van Agtmael are its newest members. Good choices. Peter’s a nice guy and was kind enough t…
Link: Deeply Touching and Emotional Photos Document the Life of a Multi-Handicapped 11-Year-Old Boy | Feature Shoot
My goal has been to understand Jon and his feelings. It took a while before I could read his very special body languages. At first I spent a lot of time just to get to know him and his family before I pulled the camera out. After a while they got more relaxed and comfortable with me being around, so that I could come closer and make more intimate moments with my camera. It has been a challenge to create that closeness and to capture his personality through the lens, as well as an eye opening experience for me personally and photographically.—Sara Marie Ramsoe
What’s so fascinating about this Egyptian sunset that’s gone viral over the past few days is how much the heavy-handed construction of reality mirrors the radical re-engineering that has just taken place in Egypt.
Link: Arles 2013: Robin Hammond | Le Journal de la Photographie
Winner of the third Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award in 2011, Robin Hammond has now chosen to illustrate the humanitarian crisis touching Zimbabwe
Link: Davide Monteleone wins Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award – British Journal of Photography
VII Photo member Davide Monteleone has won the fourth edition of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, which financed a four-month project in Chechnya
A: I would say Egypt in general is a challenge for photographers, especially for street photography. Many people feel responsible for what is going on in the streets, particularly after the security broke down. Foreigners with cameras are often being looked at skeptically. I had to explain myself nearly on a daily basis. It sometimes went as far as trying to take my camera from me, when people didn’t like what I was taking pictures of. And that was mostly the case in this feature.
By Jim ColtonWhen we think about what elements constitute the “American Dream,” high on that list would be to own a house. There is nothing more personal, in both a physical and emotional sense, than the sanctuary of one’s home. After all, as Pliny the El
Amazed at what he found, he has organized thousands of film positives taken by his grandfather in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, and put together a 12-piece photo narrative (all originals) that he calls Granddad’s Archive. The collection is authentic, persona
The long journey that I made at the age of nineteen in search of the Gypsies was my photography school and a school of life. They taught me that there’s always a solution, that we must never give up, that there’s always hope
Canon today announced the successor to their 60D DSLR, named the Canon 70D. Featuring a very interesting new Dual Pixel CMOS AF system that promises “instant and precise focusing of video as well as still images,” the EOS 70D also has a completely new 20.
Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante has built an Instagram following of more than 18,000, and is also author of a popular blog called Shooting from the Hip. He sat down for a video interview with PDN at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph
In a message on Twitter posted earlier today, photographer Michael Christopher Brown has confirmed that he’s Magnum Photos’ new nominee. ‘Proud and honored to be accepted as a nominee this year,’ he wrote. In two years’ time he will be able to resubmit hi
Link: Preserving the Voice of Vanishing Cultures – NYTimes.com
Chris Rainier has spent three decades photographing ancient cultures, often in places that cartographers have labeled uncharted, among “peoples from the past who were living in the present.” As he has repeatedly returned to New Guinea, South America and Africa, he has witnessed an onslaught of global American culture and technology erode the remnants of those cultures. Time is running short to preserve knowledge that he believes is important for all of humankind.