House Speaker John Boehner’s office ordered CSPAN to switch off its camers during a fellow Congressman’s scathing dressing-down over the Speaker’s refusal to entertain further deb…
The Speaker asserts control over CSPAN’s cameras and has made it clear that Americans can only expect to see their government in session when he believes it is in their interest to do so
Above all else, my most enjoyable photo moments this past year happened as I practiced my street photography skills.
Sean Quinn snapped the picture and sent it to The Repository, saying that the officer photographed was only a few hundred yards from a car crash. He said he flashed his own vehicle’s high-beam lights at the cruiser for several minutes in an attempt to get the officer’s attention before another officer responding to the scene stopped him from taking more pictures.
Lacoste reportedly objected for political reasons to a project by finalist Larissa Sansour called “Nation Estate,” which was inspired by the recent Palestinian bid for nationhood at the United Nations. Lacoste said in a statement today that Sansour’s work did not fit the contest theme, and denies it excluded her for political reasons.
Brian Ulrich began his Copia project in response to George W. Bush’s appeal to Americans in the weeks after 9/11 to shop and spend as a patriotic activity, but it developed into something much more far-reaching. The result of a decade’s work, Copia is a project that has grown organically out of its earliest premises. The work examines retail consumerism’s material and cultural legacies and has been shrewdly executed and edited as Is This Place Great or What?, published by Aperture with the Cleveland Museum of Art, where a selection of images from the project is exhibited until 26 February 2012.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new guide, “Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices,” which explains how the law, good te…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/21/howto-keep-your-data-safe-at-t.html
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new guide, “Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices,” which explains how the law, good technology choices, cryptography and backups can be combined to keep your data safe while you travel, especially when crossing into the USA, where customs officials reserve the rights to search your laptop and mobile phone without a warrant and keep whatever they find.
Nearly nine years of war in Iraq have produced a growing cadre of world-class, homegrown Iraqi news photographers. These are the stories of five of those photojournalists, with a sampling of their images.
Nearly nine years of war in Iraq have produced a growing cadre of world-class, homegrown Iraqi news photographers. Some started out with little technical knowledge but a strong desire to document their country’s experience. Within months, they were producing work that became increasingly crucial to the world’s understanding of Iraq. These are the stories of five of those photojournalists, with a sampling of their images.
Getting connected on Twitter is a great way to spread your name and learn from others.
via OnlineUniversities.com: http://www.onlineuniversities.com/50-fabulous-twitter-feeds-for-photography-students
Read on to find a wealth of excellent Twitter feeds that are great for photography students and enthusiasts alike
Journalists die at high rates while covering protests in the Arab world and elsewhere. Photographers and freelancers appear vulnerable. Pakistan is again the deadliest nation. A CPJ special report…
Link: http://cpj.org/reports/2011/12/journalists-killed-political-unrest-proves-deadly.php
Pakistan remained the deadliest country for the press for a second year, while across the world coverage of political unrest proved unusually dangerous in 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its year-end survey of journalist fatalities. CPJ’s analysis found notable shifts from historical data: Targeted murders declined while deaths during dangerous assignments such as the coverage of street protests reached their highest level on record. Photographers and camera operators, often the most vulnerable during violent unrest, died at rates more than twice the historical average.
At least 43 journalists were killed around the world in direct relation to their work in 2011, with the seven deaths in Pakistan marking the heaviest losses in a single nation. Libya and Iraq, each with five fatalities, and Mexico, with three deaths, also ranked high worldwide for journalism-related fatalities. The global tally is consistent with the toll recorded in 2010, when 44 journalists died in connection with their work. CPJ is investigating another 35 deaths in 2011 to determine whether they were work-related.
Many of the most dramatic images of the Iraq war were made by Iraqi photographers who risked life and limb. They set out to document what many hoped would be its rebirth, and kept shooting what they realized was its dissolution.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/iraqi-photographers-captured-the-costs-of-war/?pagewanted=all
In my mind’s eye, there is a perpetually revolving carousel of images that define the Iraq war. Many of them I saw in person. But many I did not.
A pool of red, bloody water reflects passers-by with the precision of a mirror. Crushed plastic bottles float on the unruffled surface. That photograph was taken by Ahmad al-Rubaye, a former carpenter and wedding photographer, at the scene of a bombing.
Michael Nichols is working with a micro-copter, an adapted toy helicopter, to photograph lions in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Anna Kukelhaus Dynan says: Field Test, a newly launched Na…
Field Test, a newly launched National Geographic feature, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a magazine article, including the latest technologies used in the field by photographers- camera traps, micro-copters, infrared vision, R/C cars, etc.
Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj visited North Korea in October and had a rare glimpse of the extent of the food crisis in rural areas.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/revisiting-north-koreas-hunger-crisis/?pagewanted=all
The death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il comes not only at a time of political uncertainty, but also against a hunger crisis caused by storms and floods. This year, the Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj was part of a group of journalists invited by the government – itself a rare step — to document the emergency facing the country’s farm region. As Lens republishes his images today from a post in October, we asked him for an update.
CNN recently laid off at least 50 staff, including several photojournalists, in favor of affiliate contributions and iReport — CNN’s user-generated content department which does not pay users for their submissions. To many inside the industry and out, the
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/12/cnns-ireport-produces-controversy-llama-photos/all/1
CNN attempts to mitigate the predictably chaotic and non sequitur submissions from its almost 1 million registered users by offering online journalism tutorials (shown above), but only 7 percent of iReport content is vetted for wider use by the organization. Critics are skeptical these educational efforts are enough to turn iReport into a dependably quality product.
The State of the Industry, is a new column where Suzanne Sease speaks with advertising industry professionals and influencers to discuss what’s happening and where we’re headed. Gregg Lhotsky is a well-respected photography representative with the acclaim
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/12/20/the-state-of-the-industry-gregg-lhotsky-ba/
The State of the Industry, is a new column where Suzanne Sease speaks with advertising industry professionals and influencers to discuss what’s happening and where we’re headed.
Gregg Lhotsky is a well-respected photography representative with the acclaimed Bernstein & Andruilli. Gregg and I have had the pleasure of working together when I was at The Martin Agency and have been friends ever since. I admire Gregg’s eye for talent, his professionalism and the fact that we both grew up in Baltimore, Maryland (same age but never knew each other).
Getting back to basics, Kwaku Alston found photographic inspiration at his doorstep in Venice, California.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/kwaku-alstons-rebirth-in-venice/?pagewanted=all
“Helmut Newton once said you should be able to walk out your door and find a picture within two or three miles,” Mr. Alston recalled. “Of course, he always picked these great places like Monte Carlo, so he could say that.”
Mr. Alston chose Venice — as in California.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/20/in-memory-of-photographers-we-lost-in-2011/#1
We lost great photographers this year. They photographed Presidents and popes, rock stars and rebels. They risked their lives, and some of them gave their lives, so that we can better understand our own, the place we inhabit, and more importantly, the areas of the world we would otherwise never see. —Nate Rawlings
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/19/kim-jong-il-as-first-among-equals/#1
TIME has no way of being certain if any of these images are truly authentic; communist, totalitarian regimes have a long history of doctoring and airbrushing official pictures. But the photos above show Kim in the light he (or at least the state) wished to project North Korea’s dictator
…To continue from Number 4, yesterday…. The Fuji X100 next to a Leica MP. Photos by Ken Tanaka, from his X100 review. Number 3: The Fujifilm X100 . No matter how you slice it, this thing has been a phenomenon….
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So, a small camera, with a potentially outstanding sensor (again, we really have to wait and see), and a potentially outstanding made-for-the-camera lens of perfect specification? This won’t get the pull from the hoi polloi, the mass market, or the mainstream media that some cameras-of-the-moment get, but for real camera buffs, there’s just nothing we desire right now more than this little beauty.
Douglas Turner, The Buffalo News
Today, photographers and reporters are being manhandled again in this country by police. Not in the smoky backwoods of the Deep South, as in the 1960s, but in cradles of so-called liberalism like New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and Rochester
via NPPA
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/kim-jong-il-1942-2011/100210/
Early this morning, North Korean state television reported the death of North Korea’s longtime ruler Kim Jong Il. Kim reportedly died two days earlier, on Saturday, December 17, 2011, suffering a heart attack while riding on a train outside Pyongyang. The 69-year-old had been North Korea’s “supreme leader” since 1994, after succeeding his father, Kim Il Sung, the founder of the communist state. Kim Jong Il presided over a long-suffering, isolated nation, antagonized the western world, indulged himself while millions starved, and funneled much of the country’s meager funds into military spending and the pursuit of nuclear weapons. His nominal successor, son Kim Jong Un, remains untested and the sudden power vacuum in such an unpredictable nation has neighbors, allies, and enemies on edge. Collected here are images from the life and times of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, and a few recent images from the reclusive country and those who have noted his passing
