By Jim ColtonTwo hours southwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the small town of Jasper, Indiana, stands a two story brick building with a white banner near the top that quietly proclaims the name of the local newspaper: The Herald.Established in 1895, The
David Kravets, at Wired: “An Ohio man who found his police booking photo on several privately run mugshot websites is suing those sites under a novel legal theory: that the mugshot publishing…
We may never know whether imposed silences by their parent organizations helped NBC News's Richard Engel or The New York Times's David Rohde escape, but the Agence France-Presse is now trying the opposite.
An itinerant photojournalist, Nereo López is arguably one of the most accomplished Colombian photographers of his generation. At 92, he’s living in New York, and still active.
In the days before Christmas, we asked the Snow Fall team about their process, and they responded with a mosaic of answers from their designers, reporters, developers, end editors.
So, this year I decided to copy The Atlantic Wire’s ‘Media Diet’ format to give you a better idea of what I read. And as I mentioned in The Digest last week, I have plans to create a section on the site for recommended blogs and magazines, something more than a page with links. I hope to get around to that sooner than later.
How did the year go by so fast? 2012 went by in the blink of an eye and the snap of a shutter, but it was a year rich in imagery, ideas, and community. I have to begin this exhibition with a big thank you to all who participated and shared a special imag
Oded Balilty thought he knew Israel, the country he grew up in, pretty well. But when he photographed Israel’s Russian-speaking immigrant community, he learned he had a lot to learn.
We just completed the final update to our Photo Tampering Gallery for 2012, so now seems like a good time to take a look at the past year and comment on any trends we’ve seen in the misuse of digital editing.
1. The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. We tend to set ourselves impossibly high standards, and are invariably
Instagram lost 4 million of its 16.4 million daily active users over the Christmas holiday, according to the usage trend monitors at AppData — but let's not jump to conclusions.
David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography.
From the public’s reaction to the New York Post photograph of a man about to be struck by a subway train, to the horde of news media that descended on a quiet little Connecticut town in the wake of the tragic school shooting, along with the countless “ind
From 1914 till 1936, The New York Times published a separate photo feature, the Mid-Week Pictorial, which sometimes included winners of Times photo contests. The contest judges seemed to favor the quirky, the animal and the surprising.