The internet is buzzing about these Olympic portraits taken by Joe Klamar for AFP and Getty. Most of the talk is about how unprofessional they look with ripped seamless, rumpled flags and sinister lighting (Reddit thread here). I have to agree, but rather
Whether the picture subverts the background, the composition, the lighting or the athlete’s expression, what at least a handful of Klamar’s photos “accomplish” is to slight the plasticized image of the Olympic athlete perpetuated throughout the quadrennia
How does one photograph a story that has not yet occurred? How does one evoke a sense of what might happen, or of what could? This was the challenge for …
Recently, Burn Magazine announced Matt Lutton, a Belgrade-based U.S. photographer, as the winner of the Emerging Photography Fund for 2012. We talked to Lutton about the origins of the work, the complex politics of the region and what he plans to do with
Michael Kamber decided that someone had to gather all of his fellow photojournalists’ accounts and unpublished images in one place so there would be, in his words, “an accurate history.” So he took on the task himself and started formally recording his colleagues. He has collected 39 of these interviews in a book, “Photojournalists on War.”
Danny Wilcox Frazier Lost Nation: America’s Rural Ghetto [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] For ten years now, I have photographed throughout the Midwest, the agricultural and industrial heart of America.…
As a woman, mother, and photographer, I am so grateful to the incredible Alexia Foundation for their $25,000 grant to acknowledge the abuse of women in the United States. This is the first year that the organization has offered this specific grant and an
Photographers who post their work online run the inherent risk of having their work stolen. But stolen by another photographer? Come on, that’s just disgraceful. Now one Tumblr user has decided to put these photo-stealing photographers to shame, by public
Alec Baldwin got physical with ANOTHER photog in New York City moments ago … verbally blasting the guy in the middle of the street, squeezing his arm and ordering him to scram.
Visa Pour l’Image is coming back to Perpignan, but an increasing number of photo agencies are skipping the show, Corbis being the latest one to withdraw its support. BJP speaks with festival director Jean-François Leroy
A new camera concept, called Iris, aims to use eye-tracking technology and biometric detection to provide an impressively frictionless device for taking photos.
A playful 9-year-old, walking home to feed his parakeets, was shot and blinded by a bullet meant for someone else. April Saul’s photographic narrative documents the struggles of Jorge Caragena and his family who were traumatized by gun violence in the streets of Camden, N.J. As a result of this coverage, a local charity helped Jorge move to a new house in a safer neighborhood, readers donated money and the Camden Police Chief became the boy’s friend and mentor.
The new version of the LFI app is out. In addition to reading the current issues of the magazine, you can now also download every issue of the magazine since 2004 for a “special price”. Related posts: Leica Fotografie International (LFI) app now also avai
This Saturday, a hundred and ninety-eight cyclists are expected to start the ninety-ninth edition of the Tour de France. The three-week race will cover …
The American government’s bid to extradite copyright infringement king Kim Dotcom to the United States was dealt a body blow Thursday, when a New Zealand High Court judge ruled that the raids on Doctom’s home earlier this year were “illegal.” The decision