When the photographer Emily Berl visits a place for the first time, she said, she likes to go to its farthest edges, because she knows she will find something interesting happening there. In New York this instinct took her to Coney Island, the neighborhood defined by the two things it was not: the amusement park and the beach. “Thousands of people go to the amusement park and never walk the three blocks into the neighborhood,” she said. “There was just so much life there that I didn’t know existed.”
Stephanie Sinclair’s first encounter with child marriage occurred in 2003 while doing a story on self-immolation in Afghanistan. All the victims she met had been married very young, some only 9 years old, and to much older men. Meigon in Herat told how her drug addict father sold her into marriage when she was 11, and detailed the rape by her husband. That was when Stephanie decided to devote herself to the subject, covering Afghanistan, Nepal, Ethiopia, India and Yemen. She was determined that her images would have an effect on people’s understanding of the issue, highlighting the urgent need to work within these communities for change.
Following on the heels of Leica’s M monochrome digital stills camera, Red have surprised me with the announcement of a black and white version of their flagship Epic cinema camera
What follows is a list of quotes I compiled for a while on my website. I’m currently revamping my site and eliminating this page along with some other things. So I thought I’d post it here to have it somewhere online still. They are various things I’ve heard photographers say in the past 12 years or so…
“Any photo taken today, even the least interesting ones, will be interesting in 50 or 100 years.”
–Chris Rauschenberg, 8/9/01
In his new column “In Focus”, Alex Federowicz interviews successful photo editors and industry leaders. In this Q&A, Alex speaks with legendary photo editor Jim Colton and discusses his career and what makes a great image.
As far as images having the same impact in the past, I firmly believe they still do. When the right pictures meet the right audience, great things can happen. As a caveat though, with all the new media being used (more on that later) we see some frivolity as well. Eg: The school bus attendant that was being harassed by teenagers seen by over 8 million people on You Tube resulting in
people donating close to a quarter of a million dollars for her “vacation.” WTF?
Artist Shepard Fairey was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and fined $25,000 today in a federal courtroom in Manhattan today for destroying documents, falsifying evidence “and other misconduct” in his civil litigation two years ago against the
Artist Shepard Fairey was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and fined $25,000 today in a federal courtroom in Manhattan today for destroying documents, falsifying evidence “and other misconduct” in his civil litigation two years ago against the Associated Press
Christopher Anderson’s, of Magnum and staff photographer for New York magazine, photos are always inventive and cut deep into his subject matter. His portraits from the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this week and last for New York magazine are my favorite coverage of the political conventions, and they look like no one else’s
North Korea, one of the world’s most secretive countries, invited hundreds of foreign journalists to witness celebrations in April to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of leader Kim Il-Sung, and the launch of a rocket considered by the US and its allies to be a cover for a ballistic missile test. Pedro Ugarte and Ed Jones described their experience of the hard-line communist state as “traveling back in time.”
Louisa Gouliamaki, Angelos Tzortzinis and Aris Messinis, Greek photographers in the Athens bureau, worked in relay, providing daily coverage of politics and social unrest in the country
Massoud, a thirty year-old Afghan photographer, has been reporting on war and developments in his country since 2007. He regularly goes on assignment with foreign troops (American, French and others), and travels to remote villages to show what the war on terror looks like in rural areas of Afghanistan
For the past two years, Bharat Choudhary has documented the impact of religious prejudice and stereotyping on young Muslims in America and England. Now, after winning one of Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000, Choudhary plans on expanding his project to document how social, political and economic factors are fueling the alienation of Muslim youth in France
Sebastian Liste was unknown in June 2010, days before he won the Ian Parry Scholarship for a gritty, yet traditional black-and-white reportage. Two years on, he has won numerous awards, is on show at Visa pour l’Image, has joined the Reportage by Getty Images agency, and has received a $20,000 grant. Olivier Laurent speaks with him and Aidan Sullivan
On Thursday, Getty Images awarded $80,000 in grants supporting the work of four international photojournalists. Bharat Choudhary, Kosuke Okahara, Paolo Marchetti and Sebastian Liste each received $20,000 prizes and editorial support as winners of the 2012 Getty Grants for Editorial Photography
The NPPF-NPPA Career Expansion Scholarships have been established for those who have previously worked as a professional still photographer for at least three years, and who have returned to school to expand their skills in order to change their career path.
Fujifilm has just announced the new X-E1 mirrorless camera, which is a smaller sibling to the successful X Pro-1. It features the same 16.3 mp CMOS sensor as the X-Pro1, but has a smaller and lighter body.
Photographers are increasingly turning to multimedia to tell their stories, yet, the skills required can be intimidating, especially when producing non-linear bodies of work. Bjarke Myrthu is hoping to streamline the process with Storyplanet
Owners of Marilyn Monroe photographs have won a decisive legal victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has affirmed that Marilyn Monroe heirs have inherited no rights of publicity to the actress’s likeness. The dec
The decision means that Monroe’s heirs cannot control how images of the actress are used commercially, and cannot demand fees whenever those images are licensed for use on calendars, posters, memorabilia, or other products.
Livestream and automated copyright blocking algorithms don’t play very well together; and from the looks of things, the problem is only going to get worse.
As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright “bots” — automated systems that match content against a database of reference files of copyrighted material. These systems can block streaming video in real time, while it is still being broadcast, leading to potentially worrying implications for freedom of speech.
