The test results for the Nikon 1 lenses from DxO Mark are out. Currently there is no equivalent data from other manufacturers for a meaningful comparison – this will become more interesting once the Nikon 10mm f/2.8 lens ($249) can be put side by side wit
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been waiting a long time for the Utopian leisure society to emerge where robots and computers do our work, while we sip on maitais and eat bon bons. As I always say, “work is for the peasants.” Fortunately, our computer
Harvey Wang was a young photographer when he moved into a fifth-floor Chinatown walk-up in 1979. It was an easy bike ride from the East Village clubs where he took pictures of strobe-lit dance floors and bohemian debauchery — and besides, rent was only $140 a month.
For photographer Liz Hingley, one of the most familiar locales was also one of the most uncharted. The images in her series “Under Gods” capture cultures from all parts of the globe, many in various states of religious practice
The photo essay (it’s really a gallery as there’s no storyline nor timeline) is of snapshots (I use this term very respectfully) of daily life in Cairo…the gritty, the edgy, the incomprehensible, the political and the anachronisms that dominate this teeming city.
Israel’s Defense Ministry has apologized to photojournalist Lynsey Addario after soldiers subjected her to a humiliating strip search at a Gaza Strip checkpoint several weeks ago, according to an Associated Press report. The search occurred after Addario,
Israel’s Defense Ministry has apologized to photojournalist Lynsey Addario after soldiers subjected her to a humiliating strip search at a Gaza Strip checkpoint
Getty announced pay cuts for editorial contributors and when PDN asked them if that was because they needed to lower their prices (here): Asked whether Getty has found itself unable to compete for low-priced business without asking for concessions from su
There’s no doubt that Getty has found a sweet spot in sales with their subscription model, unfortunately that means contributors are seeing lots of images sold for $5. I often get asked why someone doesn’t step in and create an agency with a better cut for photographers.
Here is a photographer who is really struggling with the medium photography, trying to make it tell the story he wants to tell. To make this clear, by “struggling” I mean a very creative struggle. Maybe “wrestling” would be a better word (if a grown man could wrestle with an abstract concept): Trying to make the medium express something, by bending and twisting and augmenting it.
It’s fairly easy to make something small in a photograph. If you shoot a pedestrian from a distance you’ve accomplished the task. The tougher job is to activate that small thing and make the viewer care about it. This is a challenge for any photograph, but particularly one in which the subject is tiny. Winogrand makes it look easy but it’s not.
I’ll have more to say about it in due course, but I just thought you’d want to know that I received Vivian Maier: Street Photographer yesterday. (It’s available for pre-order in the U.K. and it’s not in stock at The…
I’ll have more to say about it in due course, but I just thought you’d want to know that I received Vivian Maier: Street Photographer yesterday. (It’s available for pre-order in the U.K.and it’s not in stock at The Book Depository yet.)
I need an intervention. I went to land of red – Super Target – and converted everything to black-and-white. I must be in a post-turkey, up all night haze.
In an effort to spend time with the many relatives who have come west for Thanksgiving this year, I am re-running last year’s Lenscratch Thanksgiving Exhibition on Family
The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales. View the
You might be tempted to call it a photographic road trip, but it’s more than that. On their cross-American adventure, James Estrin writes, Luceo has become something of a “photographic rapid response team.” Off they go.
Gordon Stettinius is the founder of Candela Books in Richmond, Virginia. I caught up with him recently to chat about Candela’s latest release, Salt & Truth by Shelby Lee Adams
Francesca Mancini Asylum Seeking Refuge This is the story of a young man aged twenty, this is the story of a man aged thirty, this is the story of a boy. This is the story of someone who, out of ne…
This is the story of a young man aged twenty, this is the story of a man aged thirty, this is the story of a boy. This is the story of someone who, out of necessity or choice, is compelled to fight a system and to pay the consequences: forced escape
