Link: Gaia Squarci’s Photos of the Visually Impaired – NYTimes.com
A blind man helped Gaia Squarci find the heart of her photography project documenting the lives of the sightless and visually impaired. Dale Layne was describing to her the onset of blindness, which he said was like seeing the world on a broken screen that fragments, then eventually obliterates, reality.
You have to have been living under a rock if you aren’t familiar with the work of Liu Bolin….or perhaps Liu Bolin is under a rock and you haven’t noticed. Galerie Paris-Beijing is exhibiting a retrospective of his work that opened March 7 and runs thro
Link: Sipa Press reborn as court appoints new management team – British Journal of Photography
Sipa Press photo agency, which went into bankruptcy in November after its German parent company closed its doors, will be saved after a French court ruling. Michel Puech reports
Link: In Iraq: What’s in a Name (6 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
Franco Pagetti’s portraits of Sunni and Shiites with their ID cards are included in an exhibition of images he took in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 currently on view at the VII Gallery in Brooklyn, NY through April 12
Link: Ex-Gamma photographer in legal woes over ownership of her images – British Journal of Photography
When photographer Marie-Laure de Decker asked her former agency to return 770 of her images, little did she know that she would be fined €10,000 for wasting the agency’s time. Olivier Laurent speaks with both parties
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
The Urban Cave is the powerful documentation of homeless men and women in West Harlem by Andrea Star Reese. Formerly a filmmaker, Reese began this project when she enrolled in the photojournalism documentary photo program at ICP. One of her assignments wa
The gripping footage of a Baghdad throng toppling Saddam Hussein’s statue was hardly the turning point of the war. If anything, it symbolized the problems covering the conflict.
Link: The Archives of Daniel Mordzinski destroyed | Le Journal de la Photographie
The French daily newspaper Le Monde has “inadvertently” destroyed ten years of slides and negatives taken by Argentinian photographer Daniel Mordzinski
A new video review of the Leica M just got published by The Camera Store. If you are interested in the video capabilities of the new M, check also this post by Cinema5d: Leica M type 240- video review. (Non of the written here is relevant to the photo sec
As part of the celebration of their 125th year, National Geographic recently launched a Tumblr blog that unearths “lost” photographs from the Yellow Monster’s image archive, which is said to include more the 10.5 million images. Called “Found,” the vintag
Photographer Jeffrey Milstein highlights the beauty of aircraft design in his photographs of the undersides of aircraft in flight. Milstein removes the
http://youtu.be/jAY-ztBHYq8 “This is supposed to be show about you and I working together!” “Tim & Eric’s GoPro Show” is an upcoming comedic web series on