Looking at Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/migrant-mother/
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/migrant-mother/
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what have been some of the most important milestones in your career up until now?…
Link: Vlad Sokhin’s Photos of Haiti’s Child Servants – NYTimes.com
Taken by the photographer Vlad Sokhin for a series called “Restavek: Child Slavery in Haiti,’’ it is one of the most haunting images (Slide 4) of a Haitian servant child that I have ever seen.
Link: Israeli Report Casting New Doubts on Shooting in Gaza – NYTimes.com
The boy, who was identified as Muhammad al-Dura, 12, became a symbol of the struggle against Israel; his name was invoked by Osama bin Laden, and images of him cowering behind his father have appeared on postage stamps across the region.
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/sundheim-reuss/
Do you remember the Associated Press’s 2009 announcement that they had discovered a magic-beans technology that would let them stop people from quoting the news unless they paid for license f…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/18/associated-press-quietly-nukes.html
By site editor Dan Chung: Genesis from James Miller on Vimeo. Okay – so I am officially impressed. A week after the Magic Lantern team unveiled their Canon DSLR RAW hack to the world there have already been substantial improvements to its reliability and
via Newsshooter: http://www.newsshooter.com/2013/05/19/canon-5d-raw-hack-useful-for-real-world-production/
Link: Fabrice Balossini Pèlerins | Le Journal de la Photographie
From January to March 2013, millions of Hindu pilgrims came to purify themselves in the sacred waters of the city of Allahabad
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Video Pick: PDN’s 30 Panel at Palm Springs Photo Fest
If you didn’t get a chance to attend the PDN‘s 30 panel at this year’s Palm Springs Photo Festival, you can now watch it
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/2013-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest/100516/
Link: AP photographer has chronicled several presidents’ ‘umbrella problems’ | Poynter.
AP photographer Charles Dharapak took those shots
In an urgent, important blog post, computer scientist and security expert Ed Felten lays out the case against rules requiring manufacturers to put wiretapping backdoors in their communications tool…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/17/computer-scientists-to-fbi-do.html
Link: My Way News – NYC artist’s secret photos raise privacy issues
the residents of a glass-walled luxury residential building across the street had no idea they were being photographed and they never consented to being subjects for the works of art that are now on display – and for sale – in a Manhattan gallery
The short documentary “Wild In The Streets: Jilly Ballistic” follows street artist Jilly Ballistic as she posts her cheeky computer dialog boxes and
A Greek photographer was unmoved by the immigrant community in Astoria, Queens, when he visited as a teenager. Twenty-five years later, he returned, drawn to the same community that alienated him as a youth.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/searching-for-greek-identity-in-astoria/
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Photolucida: Portfolio Reviews From the Photographer’s Side of the Table
As a photographer I find that portfolio reviews are the perfect combination of exhaustion and exhilaration, community and competition, motivation and humility
So it turns out that there really are two sets of rules: the rules that guide reporting what is supposed to be said, and the rules that insure that some things are not said.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/05/when-words-are-photoshopped/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/16/what-tsarnaev-saw-dagestan-by-dmitry-kostyukov/#1
Link: Agathe Gaillard: A French Gallery | Le Journal de la Photographie
A French gallery, because it was a pioneer in our country, exhibiting photographs for 38 years, and always with a passion
Link: Visa pour l’image: The 2013 Program | Le Journal de la Photographie
Someone asked when we would see at Perpignan the likes of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Jean-François Leroy thought it was some kind of joke