Magnum Photos celebrated its 65 years by holding its annual general meeting at Rencontres d’Arles. It was an opportunity for photographers to come together to discuss Magnum’s future in an ever-changing market. Olivier Laurent reports from the conference
4th of July is America’s official day to celebrate our amazing country, a country founded on equality, open mindedness, on progress, and possibility. I must admit, I tear up when I think about the waves of immigrants that have found their way to our shor
Bogotá, Colombia, July 3, 2012–Ecuadoran photographer Byron Baldeón was shot dead Sunday in front of his home in El Triunfo, about 60 kilometers (100 miles) north of the city of Guayaquil. The photographer had become a witness in a criminal case involvin
I’ll be off and on Internet-wise for a few days, so my recent updates here on the site might be delayed. The Click twitter feed http://twitter.com/theclick will be updated constantly. Follow it for the latest greatness
In recent months the Alexia Foundation has been very busy with new social media presence and a gorgeous new website that shows off all of the terrific projects and photographers they have supported over the last 21 years. The Foundation was founded in 1991 and has awarded $700,000 in grants to fund over 128 projects by both professionals and students.
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 recorded over 2,800 entries from professional photographers in 101 countries this year. This video shows the winners and finalists’…
Over the past decades, the photograph itself, the object on the wall, has become more important. Why is that? I actually think there is no simple answer. Instead, we seem to be witnessing several developments coming together at the same time
I write a lot about the fact that every copy of a lens is slightly different than every other copy. Now don’t get me wrong: I’m talking slight differences that are barely detectable, not good or bad. Even when things appear to be in the “bad lens” area, t
But that’s where we are. We’re fighting over seconds that, for the vast majority of news users, are completely irrelevant. We’ve wrongly bought into some idea or practice built on obsessive competition combined with the joys of technological advancement – and we’ve overestimated the end result and the ensuing public good.
Perhaps the news executives making the decisions are so far in the thick of things that they’re not even asking those kinds of questions. Indeed, I wonder if some media members in the trenches don’t really see that they’re competing over seconds. They’re just competing. It’s not as if CNN had a clock telling them how long before Fox or MSNBC would report the story.
The surveillance of journalists covering Syria has heightened concern about the risks journalists face in relying on mobile communications and cellphones. In February, journalists Remi Ochlick and Marie Colvin were killed when shells struck the press cent
Smosh has humorously reimagined some names for familiar snack foods and candies, giving each of the packages a much more realistic description of what’s