Let’s say you have an edit, a group of photographs you want to use to tell a story. How do you go about this? Obviously, the first thing you need is, well, a first photograph
By Stephen WolgastFor more than 40 years, Eugene Richards has held a mirror to society. Even his simplest images are packed with nuance, composed with a literary quality that pulls the viewer deeper. It’s a style that asks the viewer not to just see the p
Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
http://vimeo.com/53917349 Photographer Ian Ruhter is traveling the country photographing the people and places he sees along the way with a delivery van
The ladies examined here who photographed were pioneers. They were not accepted into the masculine monopoly of photography. These women photographers, even if they were exceptional in their abilities and talent, worked hard to crack open the small light of opportunity, which widened for them with each photograph they were able to create
Organisations representing visual artists and photographers in Europe have written to the UK government to protest proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws, BJP reports
Watch even just the first minute of Barbara Davidson’s video, and goosebumps will start to crawl up your arms. A 911 dispatcher’s voice plays in the background, trying to help a hysterical mother who’s child has just been shot. “Is he breathing?” she asks
The anonymous publication of a spreadsheet showing the recently announced 10% decrease in photographers’ commission by stock library Alamy is, in real terms, a cut of 17%
You can tell a lot about Jim Bates, a Seattle Times photographer who died of cancer Sunday at 63, just by looking at a photo he took of himself outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in 2001.
By Andrew Kochanowski “Street photographers” tend to dislike the very term, but, having failed to mint a better phrase, it will just have to do. Whether you blame the Internet or limitless card capacity, there are now literally tens of…
This week, I am sharing a few of photographers that I met at the Filter Photo Festival in Chicago…. It was a pleasure to see Samantha VanDeman’s terrific series, Forgotten Hotels in person. I’ve seen a number of images in exhibitions and online over the
Issue oriented stories are getting harder and harder to publish in mainstream media. Much of the space allotted in today’s newspapers and magazines is being occupied by news and entertainment which garner a larger audience. So how does a local newspaper t
“The U.S. Supreme Court Monday left in place a lower court ruling that prevented Illinois from prosecuting people under its Eavesdropping Act if they recorded police officers”
The four finalists for the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, which comes with a 30,000 pound (about $48,000 US) award, have been announced. They are: Mishka Henner, Cristina de Middel, Chris Killip and the duo of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. T
Gary Haynes, a distinguished photojournalist who assembled and directed a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers in Philadelphia at The Inquirer in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at 76.