Oh, Canada?
Naomi Harris, a Toronto native who hadn’t truly explored her vast homeland, set out on what she calls “the Maple Highway” to find what it means to be Canadian.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/canada-eh/
Naomi Harris, a Toronto native who hadn’t truly explored her vast homeland, set out on what she calls “the Maple Highway” to find what it means to be Canadian.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/canada-eh/
Link: M Waiting
I would argue (as would a great many others) that there is likely no finer family of lenses – ever – than those made by Leica. Leica’s now defunct R series lenses and its current magnificent S series are also equally superb, and have their ardent proponents. But the M series is in a class by itself, with hundreds of lenses and lens variations over more than a sixty year period to choose from.
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In Guillaume Bonn’s remarkable photographic essay “Silent Lives,” the relationships between members of Kenya’s white, Asian, and affluent black …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/silent-lives.html#slide_ss_0=1
A Gordon Parks photo essay in Life magazine made the Fontenelle family in Harlem the face of American poverty. It also forged an enduring bond between Mr. Parks and Richard Fontenelle, the family’s only child to live past 30.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/gordon-parks-harlem-family-revisited/
With the increasing frequency of “Personal Projects” tabs found on photographers websites, it seems more and more shooters are keen to distinguish between work and hobby — between paid work and non-paid work. Mark Bramley, a commercial photographer in th
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/03/mark-bramley-landscapes/?viewall=true
Congratulations to Jessica Eve Rattner for her 1st Runner Up win in Canteen Magazine’s Naked Judging contest. To be honest, I thought this body of work should have won. This does not take away from Walker Pickering’s terrific images, but when I saw this
on sale in early April for $2,699.05
Since most people seem terribly uncomfortable about actually addressing the images, let’s go there.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/03/the-role-of-the-camera-and-the-photos-in-domestic-abuse-maggie-shane-and-sara-lewkowicz/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Nikon Announces 16.2MP Coolpix A Compact Camera with DSLR-size Imaging Sensor (Hands-on Preview)
Those DSLR-worthy features don’t come cheap, however. The Nikon Coolpix A will go on sale later this month, in black and silver versions, for $1099.95.
The U.S. Department of Justice has just filed a Statement of Interest in the federal civil rights lawsuit brought by photojournalist Mannie Garcia against Montgomery County, MD, police and prosecutors in the aftermath of his June 2011 unlawful arrest, whi
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/42647
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/smithsonian-magazines-2012-photo-contest/100466/
Who cares how far along Iran is in building a functional nuclear weapon—they are way ahead of schedule in celebrating National Tree Planting Day. In …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/03/slide-show-national-tree-planting-day-in-iran.html#slide_ss_0=1
More “tiny people” installation photos by Slinkachu, whose work is compiled in several books including the recent Global Model Village. The pieces featured above and below were commissi…
Entekaphobia – fear of the number 11 Or. . . How I Learned to Appreciate Small Aperture Photography If you read my blog much, you know I’m a resolution fanatic. I test every new lens for resolution. For personal use, I’ll choose the lens with higher resol
via LensRentals Blog: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/03/overcoming-my-fentekaphobia
Photographer Dennis Morris has won his lawsuit against the appropriation artist known as Mr. Brainwash for unauthorized use of a decades-old image (shown at right) of deceased punk rocker Sid Vicious. A federal district court judge in Los Angeles recently
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/03/photog-prevails-in-copyright-case-over-mr-brainwash.html
Link: Robert Hammond Documents the Brutal Treatment of Africans with Mental Illness | Feature Shoot
Known for his work documenting human rights and development issues around the world, photographer Robin Hammond has undertaken a long term project documenting the lives of the mentally ill in Africa, a project he calls Condemned
Link: Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with CPC 2012 Winner Karen Miranda Rivadeneira
A good photograph? When it leaves me with no words or not even a desire to understand or wonder what the photographer wants to say, when instead of rising my curiosity it leaves me in complete awe.
Link: Los Angeles: Art Shay A Retrospective | Le Journal de la Photographie
Mr. Shay’s photography is rivaled only by the stories surrounding many of his images