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The winner of a prestigious photography competition has been stripped of his title after the judges ruled that he had changed his picture too much using computer software.
We had 18-year-old up-and-coming photographer Olivia Bee interview 74-year-old photo master Joel Meyerowitz about his new two-volume retrospective. We think it may be the start of a beautiful friendship.
by Jonathan Blaustein I caught up with Ben Lowy in August. He’s a busy man, juggling family and personal projects with a super-charged career. In the last year alone, he was in Libya, on Jon Stewart, won the photojournalist of the year award from the ICP,
Shooting in the dark, with a handheld camera, in a vibrating helicopter, 5,000 feet above land sounds like a photographer’s nightmare. But Iwan Baan made it look easy.
The Paris-Beijing gallery is opening a third space in Brussels. The works of around thirty artists have been brought together for the exhibition A History of Chinese Contemporary Photography, which traces the country’s photographic output from the last twenty years.
The exteriors of the houses and apartment blocks display a multitude of open wounds. The holes made by machine-gun fire and the white blotches of concrete, used to fill up the gaping cavities created by the bombs, look like imaginary constellations scattered across the whole of Bosnia.
Damon Winter covered the election of Senator Barack Obama in 2008, for which the photographer won a Pulitzer Prize. The experience this time, in 2012, is very different.
In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce photo filters that could compete with Instagram, according to people who work at the company.
“Surveillance Camera Man” is an anonymous fellow who wanders the streets and malls of Seattle with a handheld camcorder, walking up to people and recording them — in particular, recording their reactions to being recorded. He answers their questions with bland, deadpan statements (“It’s OK, I’m just recording video”), and sometimes mentions that there are lots of other (non-human-carried) cameras recording his subjects.