It was not unlike a political caucus. The candidates — in this case, nearly 100 photography books published this year — took over every inch of available counter space in the photo department, where they were carefully scrutinized by a group of opinionate
It was not unlike a political caucus. The candidates — in this case, nearly 100 photography books published this year — took over every inch of available counter space in the photo department, where they were carefully scrutinized by a group of opinionated voters, each of whom was given just 10 Post-it notes as ballots. Impassioned speeches were made. Votes were cast: a few books grew polychromatic bouquets of Post-its — each voter had his or her own individual color — while others sprouted single lonely Post-its. Votes were changed: worthy candidates, including the likes of Diana Vreeland and Gerhard Richter, were abandoned. Finally, after weeks, a group of winners emerged. Like all campaigns, it was brutal. Here are the 10 victors, in no particular order.
In the fourth of a week-long series by guest bloggers, Max Houghton looks at the ethics surrounding the creation and publication of certain news photographs.
Photographers are facing enormous ethical questions posed by the allegations aired during the ongoing Leveson inquiry. Here, Max Houghton, course leader in MA Photojournalism at the University of Westminster and a writer on photography offers her personal views on the challenges ahead.
Nika is not a traditional photo documentary project. It’s more of a contemplation of a young woman’s life or a lucid conversion about mortality. The photos lead you through the photographer’s personal impressions of trying to understand her subject and herself. Ilse Frech says, “My interests always had been focused on finding stories taken from daily life, where people play an important role and find themselves in often marginal situations of society.”
2011 was a rough year for photoblogs with many falling by the wayside. A few were killed instantly in one post through the heart. Most passed away quietly in their sleep. Some were abandoned in a state of suspended animation, and now haunt the blogosphere as the living dead. And a few rose like Lazarus from the beyond.
Let’s take a moment now to remember those who fell in 2011.
David Guttenfelder, Tomas van Houtryve, Ari Hatsuzawa, Seung Woo Back and Joao Rocha are among the photographers in “North Korean Perspectives” at Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Alyson Aliano’s project “Real Mother” explores what it means to be a mother. She says, “I started the moms project when I was a stepmother to twins. People would continually ask, ‘Aren’t you going to have children? Don’t you want to have your own children? When are you going to have your own children?’ The implication was that as a stepparent, I wasn’t a ‘real’ parent. At the time, I did all the things ‘real’ parents did: I took the kids to the doctor, went to soccer games, organized play-dates, birthday parties, summer camp and saved for college. My experience was a roller coaster ride: amazing, scary and exhilarating. I began to think about what parenting and motherhood were all about. I looked to other women to share their experiences and I photographed all types of moms: biological, step, lesbian and adoptive mothers. These women shared their hopes, fears, questions and experiences with me.”
http://vimeo.com/20664159 The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring
The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring fine art photographs of vintage boomboxes
Some of us start to break a sweat when we even hear the words “marketing plan”. There’s no need to get tripped up on terminology, but every smart marketer understands that you need multiple campaigns through multiple channels to get on people’s radars. Putting together a list of current and future marketing activities will help you in your efforts to get noticed, sell photography and in general, power your photo business. So here’s video #3 Create a Marketing Plan.
Bring on the noise It was inevitable, but now we have a comparison of the Canon EOS C300 & Red Scarlet when it comes to high ISO noise performance. From
Happy Holidays Lenscratch readers! I wish you all wonderful celebrations, full of family, friends, frolic, and fun. Right about now I’m still in my pajamas, probably starting my first mimosa, watching my children plow through their stockings, and feeling
I got a rule: if a Weird Sport is happening less than a mile from mi casa and there’s money light and red Santa outfits AND the promise of beers, I’m soooooooooo there.
And that’s how I ended up revisiting a classic Portlandia Weird Sport: Urban Golf.
In Brent Clark’s series “Season’s Greetings,” Dec. 25 is an excuse for over-the-top consumerism characterized by excessive decorating, sometimes whimsical, at other times verging on the surreal.
In Brent Clark’s series “Season’s Greetings,” Dec. 25 is an excuse for over-the-top consumerism characterized by excessive decorating, sometimes whimsical, at other times verging on the surreal.
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. The government has been using its secrecy system in
Next in our 9-video series is #2 Determine Your Audience & Addressable Market. This section asks you consider your intended audience and the relative size of that audience: Who are your potential customers and what are their needs? Is your audience big enough to sustain your business? These are the key questions that you’ll need to consider in order to truly target your market and build a stronger photography business.
I thought it would be fun to use the opportunity of Christmas Eve to showcase Jesse Rieser’s wonderful project, Christmas in America: Happy Birthday, Jesus. Santa (and Jesus) has been very good to Jesse this year. Here are a few of the accolades he reciev
Initially inspired by the absurdity of a five story inflatable Santa who appeared to be guarding a tree lot, I have launched this survey of uniquely American Christmas traditions. “Christmas in America” is an unvarnished examination of the ways people mark the holiday’s meaning.
Copyright troll Righthaven was conceived of as a way of extorting money from websites on behalf of newspaper owners when quotations from those newspapers were posted to the web. The idea was that t…
Righthaven is pretty much dead. They’ve lost control over their domain (assigned to one of their victims, who has become a creditor of theirs, since the court awarded him costs), gone broke, and are just waiting for someone to dump them in a pauper’s grave
An Ethiopian court has declared Swedish photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye guilty of supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally, according to an AFP report. “Guilty as charged, period, unanimous vote,” the judge declar
An Ethiopian court has declared Swedish photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye guilty of supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally, according to an AFP report.
This year seemed to have more than its fair share of iconic deaths, but this is not a greatest-hits issue. Instead, we gravitated to those with an untold tale. Ira Glass of “This American Life” edits a special section devoted to ordinary people.
The documentary photographer Milton Rogovin (b. 1909) sometimes returned to the same people over and over for decades. He took these portraits of one family in Buffalo in 1973, 1984, 1992 and 2001. This interview, which has been edited, was conducted by Dave Isay for their 2003 book, “The Forgotten Ones.”
