Israel has passed a law that bans the use of “underweight” models in advertising, and mandates that ads that are retouched to make models appear thinner must include a disclaimer. According to reports, a fashion photographer and model agent named Adi Bark
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/israel-bans-use-of-underweight-models.html
“Force actual tests. Make girls go to a doctor. Get a system to follow girls who are found to be puking,”
DxOMark published their test results for the Nikon D4 camera. The D4 automatically took the #2 spot, based on overall test score and just 2 points after the PhaseOne IQ180 digital back. Another interesting aspect is that the Nikon D3s got a better low-lig
Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics
Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2012/03/bruce-haleys-panoramic-landscapes.html
Bruce Haley’s book, Sunder, (published by Daylight) is a fascinating and quite poetic take on the demise of the Soviet Union and communism. I see it and am instantly drawn to the landscapes, the combination of complete environmental and industrial devastation mixed with romantic, rural landscapes and economic decay. I’ve been corresponding with Bruce Haley (see interviews here, and here) for a while and he has a fascinating take on photography that includes thoughts on landscape, politics, narrative and process.
He’s currently shooting panoramic landscapes on the history of mining in the US. These are shot on 10 inch negative in an extreme ratio – click on the pictures for more detail as the layers that are revealed are quite amazing.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/20/liu-bolin/#1
For Bolin, the most important element of his images is the background. By using iconic cultural landmarks such as the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, or the remains of Suo Jia Village where his studio was housed, Bolin seeks to direct awareness to the humanity caught between the relics of the imperial past and the sleek modern monoliths of 21st century China
Link: British Journal of Photography
The British Institute of Professional Photography is considering banning judges from entering its annual competition after four of this year’s jurors received prizes in the organisation’s Professional Photography Awards.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/19/inside-syria-photographs-by-rodrigo-abd/#1
AP cameraman Ahmed Bahaddou and I sneaked into Syria from Turkey, traveling with the rebels’ Free Syrian Army. Our aim was to understand and cover the conflict in the country’s northwest region, as well as in the hard-hit Homs neighborhood of Bab Amr, under siege for weeks by government forces.
Pete Pin spent five months photographing a small Cambodian community in the Bronx. For him, the work is personal: he was born in a refugee camp in Cambodia.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/after-camps-new-horizons/?pagewanted=all
Pete Pin spent five months last year photographing a small Cambodian community that has settled in the Bronx. The quiet photographs — of a woman cutting green beans on the floor, of a man walking in winter’s first snow — are part of a long-term project documenting Cambodian refugees in the United States.
Recently I spoke at a conference about the American conflict in Vietnam. This was the first time I had presented…
Recently I spoke at a conference about the American conflict in Vietnam. This was the first time I had presented a paper at a conference and it was interesting to receive responses after the talk. Some people were really excited by what I had said, some people wanted to argue with me, some people wanted to quiz me, and one guy said this:
“Do you think you are kind of ruining the photo by analysing it so much? I mean, these are iconic images, and you’ve got the photographers talking about them, talking about the moment they took them; don’t you think that you’re reading more into it than is really there?”
We came across a good handful of news stories and blog posts that this week were somewhat controversial in nature: there was Flavorwire’s roundup of “Art History’s Most Controversial Photographers”; the marketing agency who turned the homeless into mobile
We came across a good handful of news stories and blog posts that this week were somewhat controversial in nature: there was Flavorwire’s roundup of “Art History’s Most Controversial Photographers”; the marketing agency who turned the homeless into mobile internet hot spots at South by Southwest; and the 7 photographers you shouldn’t hire for your wedding. Let’s dive in!
David Guttenfelder is now the only Western photographer able to photograph on a regular basis there. He has used all of his extensive talents – and added a new one: acting as an unofficial diplomat between North Korea and the United States. “I represent the U.S. and the outside world to them,” he said. “But the big responsibility is representing them to the outside world through my pictures – to understand what I see, to try to be as fair as I can and to dig as deep as I can.”
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destructive potential of unbridled technological progress, at the time the Swiss military industry was producing weapons for World War II.
In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/the-disappeared.html?currentPage=all
Gervasio Sánchez’s book “Disappeared” explores the nightmare of forced disappearance not just in South America but around the world: Cambodia and Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Spain. The countries span the globe, but “the violence, the tragedy, the pain and loss and suffering, however, are the same,” Carmen Contreras Gomez, the managing director of the Obra Social Caja Madrid, writes in the introduction
At the first in a series of educational seminars organized as part of the 2012 PDN’s 30 programming, three photographers named to this year’s PDN’s 30 spoke about the importance of establishing and unique esthetic perspective, and about being persistent i
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/pdn%E2%80%99s-30-panel-perspective-and-persistence-key-to-success-for-young-photogs.html
At the first in a series of educational seminars organized as part of the 2012 PDN’s 30 programming, three photographers named to this year’s PDN’s 30 spoke about the importance of establishing and unique esthetic perspective, and about being persistent in creating and promoting new work to potential clients.
The contact from Syria called: “Be ready in 30 minutes,” he said. “If you want to go, we have to go now.”
via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/03/14/my-journey-into-syrias-nightmare/
In Syria, enemies are yards apart. The war is being fought from house to house. Not knowing the local terrain, we were completely dependent on our rebel guides to keep us alive.
For the first World Press Photo Multimedia Contest, the jury announced six winning productions across two categories, linear productions and interactive productions.
In April of 2001, I posted what I believe to be the best letter ever written by a journalist as he left a newsroom. The author is Mark Schlueb, who was laid off from the Akron Beacon Journal, a Knight Ridder paper eleven years ago.
This afternoon the winners of the World Press Photo Multimedia awards will be announced. Last year the panel was chaired…
‘No conflict of interest’ in voting for your own agency? I’m beginning to wonder what in the world of photojournalism actually would be considered a ‘conflict of interest’?
Speaking for NOOR images Claudia Hinterseer was kind enough to explain to Brook how the photography competition scene works
‘Looking at other international photography contests you will be amazed how often jury members are professionally or – as is very common in our industry – personally (on the basis of friendships) related to photographers whose work is rewarded.’
I received this tip several weeks ago, but did not publish it online because I really couldn’t believe it until today when Leica sent out invitations for their next announcement. The new Leica M camera is rumored to have a black and white only sensor and
The third picture essay in “Smoke-Filled Rooms” — a documentary, presented in serial form.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/watching-sarah/?pagewanted=all
This is the third picture essay in a series for Lens called “Smoke-Filled Rooms” — a documentary, presented in serial form, that strives to move beyond restrictions, spin and control of the contemporary American political game in order to present its processes and consequences
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/14/richards-war/#1
It’s been years since the book, War is Personal, hit shelves in September 2010, and even longer since Richards completed the project. In honor of that anniversary, LightBox caught up with Richards to discuss the way that photographs can follow a photographer.With War is Personal, Richards has found that it’s not just the images that draw him back in. “When you do a project like this, people keep occasionally popping back into your life,” he says.
