Link: VII Photo issues membership call – British Journal of Photography
The VII Photo agency is opening its doors to potential new members, calling on prospective candidates to submit their work by 26 April
Link: VII Photo issues membership call – British Journal of Photography
The VII Photo agency is opening its doors to potential new members, calling on prospective candidates to submit their work by 26 April
First and foremost, let’s be very clear: I am not a rangefinder shooter and certainly not a rangefinder reviewer. But I’m more excited than most people about the new Leica M (Typ 240) camera for one simple reason. It has live view and focus peaking so at
via LensRentals Blog: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/03/leica-m-type-240-resolution-comparison
Link: West Virginia judge’s suspension shows need for cameras in courtrooms | Poynter.
The justices said that, while in court, Watkins shouted profanities at people and threatened litigants. On one occasion, he called a woman seeking a protective order against her husband “stupid,” they said. He told her to shut up and criticized her for “shooting off [her] fat mouth about what happened.”
In what appears to be a tit for tat legal action in a messy business divorce, celebrity and pop art photographer David LaChapelle has been hit with a $75 million lawsuit by the former manager he sued last year for about $3.5 million. Fred Torres, who mana
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/03/david-lachapelles-former-agent-counter-sues-for-75-million.html
Brooklyn — the Borough of Churches — is where Larry Racioppo has been photographing Good Friday processions and pageants since the 1970s.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/four-crucifixions-in-brooklyn/
Making a documentary on Tibet, a film crew was subjected to years of cyber harassment blamed on China.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tibet-taboo-leads-to-cyber-assaults/2013/03/28/a6b8a0c2-8cae-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html?wprss=rss_world
Cory Doctorow: Those pushing for ‘solutions’ to piracy risk eroding the net’s integrity and freedom from surveillance, censorship and control
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/mar/28/copyright-wars-internet?CMP=twt_fd
Link: Exhibit: Color Rush (8 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
“Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America” captures the medium’s evolution throughout the first seven decades of the twentieth century, exploring the historical developments that led to color photography becoming the norm in popular culture and fine art
We emailed Art Buyers and Art Producers around the world asking them to submit names of established photographers who were keeping it fresh and up-and-comers who they are keeping their eye on. If you are an Art Buyer/Producer or an Art Director at an agen
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/28/art-producers-speak-young-and-hungry-anais-dax/
Part Two: The Clarkson MachineBy Jim ColtonJim Colton:You’ve had a remarkable career in photojournalism. Can you tell our readers how you first got interested in photography? Where did you get your first break?
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/52422
The World We Live In is a beautiful series by Vienna-based photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek. The work seems to be after the small moments. Gebhart shows us nature, friendship, adventure and solitude. The images are honest and human—they remind us o
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/03/daniel-gebhart-photographs-the-weird-and-wonderful-world-we-live-in/
Link: Art Paris 2013 The French Galleries | Le Journal de la Photographie
Art Paris Art Fair will welcome over 80 French galleries this year. Among them are contemporary photo galleries Les Filles du Calvaire, the Galerie VU’ and the Esther Woerdehoff gallery, and several other contemporary art galleries which will also be exhibiting photography
Link: Art Paris 2013: The International Galleries | Le Journal de la Photographie
With 74 new galleries exhibiting at Art Paris this year, some from countries that have never been represented at the fair before, like Bosnia-Herzegovina, the United Arab Emirates, Slovenia and Russia, the 2013 edition of Art Paris has a definite international bent, with a special focus on the East
An iconic World War II image nearly went unseen because the Pentagon wouldn’t allow photos to be published of American war dead. The image also was nearly never taken, because of the danger the photographer put himself in.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/a-photo-that-was-hard-to-get-published-but-even-harder-to-get/
Shanghai photographer Yan Yongliang, spent much of his early life learning Chinese traditional painting, calligraphy and various art forms before graduating from the China Academy of Fine Art, Shanghai, in the Visual Communication department, where he now
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/28/in-the-beginnings-sebastiao-salgados-genesis/#1
London-based photographer Ian Teh describes Dark Clouds, his project exploring China’s most industrialized cities, as “an exploration of the darker side of the economy’s bright, shiny facade.” Teh follows Chinese workers in the coal industry, giving us a
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/03/surreal-photographs-of-life-in-china%E2%80%99s-most-industrialized-cities/
Link: Dear New Yorker (4 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
Joseph Michael Lopez’s series “Dear New Yorker” is part of a group exhibition currently on view through April 5th at the South Street Seaport Museum.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/north-korea-puts-its-war-machine-on-display/100481/