It’s the end of the year and soon the beginning of a new one. Time to review the past year and what better way them giving out awards, especially if it doesn’t involve a three hour long ceremony. Here goes, the first annual Thoughts of a Bohemian awards, or otherwise called the Bohey’s.
GIGI GIANNUZZI….at the “Kibbutz”, Brooklyn…December 8, 2008 I was just getting ready to write my goodbye to Gigi Giannuzzi , founder of Trolley Books, who died Christmas Eve…
Every assignment teaches me something new, but it’s not until the end of the year that I can comb through everything I’ve photographed and reflect. I’m continually grateful for my editors, new clients for instilling trust in my vision to deliver compelling images of each and every assignment. I cannot thank them enough and I’ll be forever grateful for each and every opportunity as long as I remain a freelancer.
In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.
“When Bob Jackson shot the famous picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, I was in the basement but I didn’t get a clear shot. I went to the newspaper and I saw the print coming out of the hypo. I turned to the Picture Editor of the newspaper and asked, ‘What rights are already committed?’ He said, ‘AP owns the newspaper rights and we’re running the front page.’ I said, ‘Well, who owns magazine rights world-wide?’ He said, ‘Nobody does.’ I immediately say, ‘Newspaper rights – that’s different than magazine rights. How’s $10,000?’ He said fine, so I bought world magazine rights. I don’t call the editor and I take the first print, turn it over and I copyright it in my handwriting in Bob Jackson’s name. I have to have that print, the original print, the first print made off that negative, on single weight glossy paper at the newspaper. So it’s a combination, Schiller the photographer and Schiller the businessman.
On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that inves
Award-winning photographer David Guttenfelder, has made a dozen trips into North Korea since 2000, trying to capture the country as accurately as possible for outsiders.
Instagram may be heading for a partial do-over on its 100% Cask Strength Terms of Service Shitshow, but it’s still cramming an arbitration clause down its users’ throats, which means th…
Under a continuing barrage of negative feedback, account cancellations, and defections by its users to other photo sharing services, Instagram has withdrawn the most controversial changes to its terms of service agreement. The about-face means that Instag