John White was a mentor and inspiration to many, including the New York Times staff photographer Michelle Agins. She visited him not long after he and the rest of the Chicago Sun-Times photo staff were laid off.
In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called “Karczebs”. With their bare hands Karczebs cleared forests in ord
Yestreday Swiss photographer René Burri received the Leica Hall of Fame Award 2013. The award was presented at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich. Burri was also given a Leica M Monochrom for his achievements in 55 years of photography. The Monochrom wit
The photo editor for a chain of suburban newspapers owned by Sun-Times Media of Chicago told freelance photographers yesterday that news and feature photo assignments will pay $65 each, and that photographers are expected to deliver 5 to 7 photos per assi
Robert E. Gilka, a newspaper photographer and editor who was a mentor to legions of photographers and who was the director of photography for National Geographic Magazine for more than 27 years, died today.
The Jamaican photographer Radcliffe Roye takes Instagram photos of residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to tell the stories of “the forgotten man.”
“In my part of the Sierra, the basketball courts are like the zócalo in the colonial city,” Mr. Santiago said, using the Spanish word for “plaza.” “It’s really the most important part of the town. A respectable town has a church, and a basketball court in front of the church.”
Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Photolucida: Dima Gavrysh: Insallah
Inshallah (God willing in Arabic) is a project that explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts.
Maciej Pisuk Under the Skin Photographs from Brzeska Street [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] The inhabitants of Warsaw consider Brzeska Street, the very core of North Praga, the most neglected and dangerous …
Fujifilm today announced the 16 megapixel X-M1, the third model in its compact system camera line. Although the least expensive of the trio, the X-M1 is built around the same 16 megapixel, APS-C sized X-Trans CMOS sensor as the X-Pro 1 and the X-E1. Becau
As a songwriter Pandora paid me $16.89* for 1,159,000 play of “Low” last quarter. Less than I make from a single T-shirt sale. Okay that’s a slight exaggeration. That’s …
After the Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire photography department, CNN commissioned former staffer Brian Powers to shoot this series of portraits of his colleagues holding something meaningful from their careers. Several of the photographers said the
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Staying Safe: Mobile Phone Security
As we increasingly take our mobile phones for granted David Hoffman suggests that photographers should be alert to the dangers of carrying a sophisticated monitoring device in their pocket, especially when working abroad.
Link: On Friendship, Managing, Respect and the Director/Actor dynamic. « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
For the employer/employee relationship to work for BOTH parties, the correct dynamic needs be set from the start. The employer hands out specific tasks and the employee executes them with their expertise. It’s pretty straightforward – and not an ego thing. If egos enter the picture, and if that dynamic is challenged by either party, things will break down at lightning speed.