Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the more memorable he’s taken.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/a-western-photographer-in-hama-syria/
Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s done.
By O.C. Garza
The years were 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Step back to those years in what was the active, peaceful city of Austin, Texas. The city is nestled hard against the banks of the Colorado River that knives through central Texas. This state govern
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/07/garry-winogrand-class-time-with-garry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(AMERICANSUBURBX)
If students were taking Garry’s class to learn photographic techniques and methods, they were sorely disappointed. Garry didn’t teach much technique. That was left to the PJ side of the photography world or to his “TAs”. You have a lifetime to learn technique, he seemed to be saying, but I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
The three Georgian photojournalists who were arrested in their homes on July 7, 2011, and accused of spying for Russia have “confessed,” according to an AFP report. On Monday Georgian authorities confirmed that Zurab Kurtsikidze, a European Pressphoto Age
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/07/detained-georgian-photographers-confess-to-spying-for-russia.html
The photographers could face up to 12 years in prison if they are convicted.
Feature Shoot:
For over two decades (1977-2000), Stephen Shames photographed a group of boys coming of age in the Bronx in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs, violence and gangs.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/19/food-and-the-inner-city-a-product-of-our-environment/#1
For his project “A Product of Our Environment,” photographer Will Steacy documented how food is marketed and sold in New York City neighborhoods, many of which have reported high rates of poverty, obesity, diabetes and people living without health insurance.
The press release: J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Online DSLR Camera Buyers Are Most Satisfied with Picture Quality, While Camera Durability and Shutter Speed/Lag Time Provide Opportunities for Brand Differentiation Nikon Pro Series Ranks Highest in O
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/07/jd-power-satisfaction.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
The Nikon Pro Series ranks highest in online buyer satisfaction with a score of 914. The Nikon Pro Series performs particularly well in shutter speed/lag time, durability and reliability and ease of operation. The Canon Mark-Series follows in the rankings with a score of 909, and performs particularly well in performance and picture quality
With their tiny lenses and even tinier sensors, will cellphone cameras ever be able to take photos as good as those from SLRs and Micro Four Thirds cameras? The quality has all but been taken care of with the latest phone-cams, but there’s one problem com
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/samsung-patent-creates-shallow-depth-of-field-in-digicams/
Samsung’s fix for small sensors actually uses two cameras in one, almost like a stereoscopic camera
Photography has entered such an extraordinary state of transformation that labels no longer serve a purpose. Photojournalist? Photographer? Artist? Today, it seems that we need to be all of the above if we’re to continue working in this sea of photography.
This is the email I received from a reader describing a recent Nikon event organized for major authorized dealers in a country I will not mention online in order not to get anyone in trouble: They essentially explain what happened with Nikon since March 1
This is the email I received from a reader describing a recent Nikon event organized for major authorized dealers in a country I will not mention online in order not to get anyone in trouble
DVAFoto:
Jim Mortram’s “Market Town” is wide-ranging and ambitious. The work is an ongoing process, started nearly 2 years ago. A mixture of documentary, portraiture, and interviews, the project tells the story of those “often overlooked and unseen by the people around them or seen and judged without the care for the stories that are there to be shared and rich bonds to be forged.”
Introduced to me when I was still at the photo agency I ran for many years, Leland Bobbé had a virtually-unseen archive of classic shots from the heyday of CBGB’s. Going through his archives recently he came across another cache: long-forgotten photograph
via aCurator: http://www.acurator.com/blog/2011/07/leland-bobbe-new-york-citys-seamy-70s.html
Introduced to me when I was still at the photo agency I ran for many years, Leland Bobbé had a virtually-unseen archive of classic shots from the heyday of CBGB’s. Going through his archives recently he came across another cache: long-forgotten photographs of Times Square and the Bowery in the 70s. We collaborated on this, Leland’s second aCurator feature (the first was the critically-acclaimed ‘Women of Fifth Avenue’), to present a good, graphic selection.
Lens Blog:
And now we get to sample the result in a gem of a book, “Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks,” just published by the Library of Congress and the Giles publishing house. It presents 50 of Mr. Parks’s F.S.A. photos from the library’s holdings. The editor, Amy Pastan, has found many fine photographs that have rarely been seen.
An image by Charles McQuillan of life-like dolls has won Photograph of the Year in The Press Photographer’s Year 2011.
So many great links in this post…
Duckrabbit is an award-winning film production company based in London and Birmingham. We tell heartfelt stories in film for commercial, charity and broadcast clients. We also run audio-visual storytelling, production and communications training in the UK
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/07/photography-and-freedom-of-expression-it’s-not-just-the-police-that-restrict-it/
Following on from the irate gallery attendant who stopped me taking a photo in what I felt was a public space (see here), I would say that although many complaints photographers make against restrictions to freedom of expression involve the police, far less reported are incidences with security guards, public-space personnel (museums, galleries, swimming pools) and shop attendants. What it reveals is a wide mistrust of photographers. If you’re photographing, you’re seen as someone sinister, which is a view that the world is a dark and nasty place, where photographers are immediately suspicious.
A fourteen year-old company focused on photographic education and providing a comprehensive information resource for Photo Enthusiasts around the world.
via Luminous Landscape: http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/
Few new camera introductions have generated as much interest and controversy as that of the Sigma SD1.
I have just completed an intensive week of testing a production camera, both in the studio and in the field. I was assisted by Nick Devlin, who has also added his own observations to this report.
Link: http://deepfriedpizzabook.blogspot.com/
Steve Butcher is young, Australian and living in Scotland. He is a tabloid photographer. He is also disillusioned. His life isn’t one of Page 3 Girls and celebrities. Instead, his morals and ethics are compromised every day. Thankfully, his life also revolves around beer, football, cable TV and, occasionally, women. It is through these he maintains his sanity. However, by the time his fourth Scottish winter – a particularly fierce one – arrives, he is at his wits’ end…
Working at a small family owned since camera shop in Minnesota, I was recently able to bring a copy of the Fuji X100 home for testing, and a wild idea popped into my head, my primary camera being a Leica M6… “What if I pitted these two wonderful cameras against each other? What would I find I liked and disliked about each, which would I find I liked better as a small concealable walk-around camera?”
Chief among them is that Lamo told Manning, “I’m a journalist and a minister … treat this a confession or an interview (never to be published),”