British Journal of Photography
Photographers Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams have been selected as nominees for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, organised by The Photographers’ Gallery
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/02/egypts-second-revolution-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1
On November 19, thousands of Egyptians took to Tahrir Square once
again in what many called a “second” revolution—or even the “real”
revolution
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Filmmaker Kurtis Hough was shooting the Pacific Ocean with his Canon 5D Mark II at (irony of ironies) Cannon Beach in Oregon when a wave took down his entire rig.
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Lytro Camera: How Pro Shooters Use Its Amazing Lens Technology
A little over a month ago, the revolutionary Lytro light-field camera became available for pre-order. But a few lucky pro photographers have been using the Lytro and its “living picture” technology for the last few months, and now we can see their stunnin
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/lytro-camera-zero-g/
A little over a month ago, the revolutionary Lytro light-field camera became available for pre-order. But a few lucky pro photographers have been using the Lytro and its “living picture” technology for the last few months, and now we can see their stunning results.
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Seeking Evidence Through Photography
One year ago, FotoEvidence launched its first call for documentary projects. The second begins today. But despite its early success, the Web site’s financial sustainability could prove be a challenge.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/seeking-evidence-through-photography/
In the summer of 2010, those memories moved Svetlana Bachevanova to start FotoEvidence, a documentary photography Web site and photo book contest that launched its first call for submissions last year. FotoEvidence begins its second push Thursday, seeking photographers who may have faced obstacles — if not outright censorship — with publishing stories with difficult themes.
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I notice CNN offloaded about a dozen photo staff this week. The powers that be put it down to the increasing quality of reader submitted pictures through iReport and the like. Well, I can’t say I believe them. It’s just far more likely to be a decision made on the basis of the cost of reader submitted content than the quality of it. But hey, it’s a press release and they’re saying what the market wants to hear I suppose.
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Mikolaj Nowacki – Odra
Mikolaj Nowacki Odra Odra is the second largest river in Poland. Its waters joins three countries: Czech, where it starts, Poland and Germany. I grew up on the banks of this river in the communist …
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Odra is the second largest river in Poland. Its waters joins three countries: Czech, where it starts, Poland and Germany. I grew up on the banks of this river in the communist era playing with my best friend on boats and on a landfill of anchors, observing barges that transported coal. I often dreamed of jumping on such a barge and going to the unknown. When I was a teenager I often walked many kilometers along the river searching for rare species of birds as an amateur ornithologist. At that time, Odra was just a beautiful sewage – a mixture of water, fecal and toxic, irritating chemical substances.
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$20,000 Aftermath Project Grant for 2012 Awarded to Andrew Lichtenstein | PDNPulse
Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein has received a grant of $20,000 from The Aftermath Project, an organization that supports documentary photography that tells post-conflict stories. Lichtenstein received the grant, which is supported by the Foundation to P
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/11/20000-aftermath-project-grant-for-2012-awarded-to-andrew-lichtenstein.html
Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein has received a grant of $20,000 from The Aftermath Project, an organization that supports documentary photography that tells post-conflict stories.
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PDN Online has published three articles surveying the photo book landscape for 2011
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After explaining to the students how all that had taken place, I emphasized how difficult it would be today for that same procedure to happen. One just doesn’t walk in off the street to get a job at National Geographic anymore. That was almost half a century ago when there were many more magazines being published that used good photojournalism. And the number of really fine photographers was not nearly as high as I believe it is today. So it’s much tougher to do what I did so long ago. But not impossible.
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Edward Burtynsky Interview – A Photo Editor
Jonathan Blaustein: I was in New York this past week, and I was able to see both of your exhibitions that are currently on display at Bryce Wolkowitz and Howard Greenberg. It’s such a great lead in to our conversation, and I definitely want to ask some qu
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/11/30/edward-burtynsky-interview/
Edward Burtynsky: I have no idea what else I would do. Creating ideas and objects, and being involved in art making, whether it’s in the form of photography, or something else is part of my being. The creative urge feels as if it’s in my DNA. If I’m not creating something, then I feel as if I’m having a slow death
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The Leica Camera
Kaushal Parikh describes himself as an ex-banker turned street photographer. He has shot street photography seriously for the last three years, drawing inspiration from Magnum photographers, as well as members from the In-Public collective. After shooting in what he describes as a bubble, he is in the process of building up an online/offline street photography community in Mumbai and also founded the India Street Photographers collective. During a recent trip to India, Eric Kim had a chance to speak with Kaushal about his work and technique.
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The Photo Society
We are a group of contributing photographers for National Geographic Magazine, committed to telling the world’s stories through pictures.
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Life in Baghdad: An Intimate Portrait
Playful, sad, poignant and optimistic, Marieke van der Velden’s photos of Baghdad portray a deeply human dimension of the sweltering, bomb-shattered city.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/life-in-baghdad-an-intimate-portrait/
Marieke van der Velden’s recent photographs of daily life — not death — in Baghdad make you feel. Taken in August, the project, “Baghdad Today,” forms one of the most intimate portraits of Iraqi life to emerge since the 2003 American invasion. By turns playful, sad, poignant and optimistic, her photos portray a deeply human dimension of the sweltering, bomb-shattered city.
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Atherton retired from The Washington Post in 1990 after a career that included two decades as a staffer with United Press International before he joined the Post in 1970. During his 40-year career he covered every U.S. President from Truman to Nixon and was a major influence on photographers and news photography in the nation’s capitol
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Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/where-in-the-world-part-2-a-google-earth-puzzle/100197/
Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today’s entry is a puzzle — part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering multiple choices. We’re challenging you to figure out where in the world each of the images below is taken. North is not always up in these pictures, and, apart from a bit of contrast, they are unaltered images provided by Google and its mapping partners
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13 Digital Point-and-Shoot Cameras Used by the Pros – PhotoShelter Blog
About a year and a half ago, Grover put out the following question to the pro photographer community: What digital point-and-shoot camera are you using? Knowing how fast technology changes, we figured it was time for an update. So we went back to several
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/11/digital-point-and-shoot-cameras-used-by-pros/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Knowing how fast technology changes, we figured it was time for an update. So we went back to several of the same photographers and asked them again, “What point-and-shoot camera do you use now and in your opinion, what’s the best point-and-shoot camera?” Several of the same big-name pros like Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith and photojournalist David Burnett gave their two-cents; we also posed the question on PhotoShelter’s Twitter and Facebook to get some fresh opinions.
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Nikon SB-910 Speedlight announced in Canada – Nikon Rumors
I just saw the Canadian press release for the Nikon SB-910 on Photoxels (page is now removed). The new SB-910 will have a new thermal cut-out feature, hard-type color compensation filters, three illumination patterns, a dedicated menu button, improved use
The new SB-910 will have a new thermal cut-out feature, hard-type color compensation filters, three illumination patterns, a dedicated menu button, improved user interface, etc
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D.C. will revisit street photography regulations
After objections, Attorney General Irvin Nathan says city rules will be narrowed.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/dc-will-revisit-street-photography-regulations/2011/11/28/gIQAbxqX5N_blog.html
Under current city regulations, persons or businesses that “engage in the business of taking photographs of any person or persons upon the streets, sidewalks, or other public spaces of the District of Columbia, for profit or gain” must hold a city license and follow a number of rules governing their conduct. Breaking them happens to be an arrestable offense.
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Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations
A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis
A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm.