On Tuesday, 21 June Leica Camera and Magnum Photos gathered distinguished guests at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris. The event began with a panel discussion entitled “Crises and catastrophes in pictures. What justifiable role can photojournalism play in an age of camera phones, Twitter and Facebook?” Moderated by Samuel Kirszenbaum, the panel included Christopher Anderson, Vice President of Magnum Photos; Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, Head of Supervisory Board at Leica Camera AG; Magdalena Herrera, Director of Photography at GEO France; Nicolas Jimenez, Director of Photography at Le Monde; Dominic Nahr of Magnum Photos and Nassem Tarawnah a Jordanian blogger who writes for The Black Iris. Then Stefan Daniel, Director of Product Management at Leica Camera AG, debuted the new Leica M9-P camera (bit.ly/LeicaM9P) and the new Leica Super-Elmar-M 1: 3.4/21 mm ASPH. lens (bit.ly/LeicaSuperElmarM).
Leica is working on its own mirrorless compact camera range, and it will be launched at Photokina in 2012. The news comes from Leica CEO Alfred Schopf, who spoke to UK magazine Amateur Photographer during an interview yesterday. Schopf was circumspect, bu
Brooklyn painter, street artist, and musician Dan Witz has a solo show opening at NYC’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery on June 30. The series of large-scale hyper-realistic figurative paintings is t…
“As a member of a society that views ideas of place as a central defining characteristic, second only to name and followed closely by profession, I have embarked on an exploration aimed at understanding the mythologies of place and subjective place-making.” – Jennifer Garza-Cuen, writing about Reno, Nevada
On Thursday, June 9, 2011, we had the pleasure of hosting a live judging of our 2011 Student Project Award that was open to the public at The Bridge Public Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lead Judge Michael Wichita of the AARP Bulletin led a panel of Gillian Laub (Photographer), Larissa Leclair (Indie Photobook Library) and Molly Roberts (Smithsonian) through the difficult task of selecting one winner from our ten talented finalists. We are very fortunate that one of our finalists, Maddie McGarvey was secretly in the small audience, and when she was selected as the winner it was a very sweet moment. Maddie selected LUCEO photographer Kendrick Brinson (Atlanta) as her mentor.
The City of Ft. Lauderdale agreed on Monday not to interfere with photographers taking pictures near the set of the film “Rock of Ages.” At an emergency hearing in state court, the NPPA joined the South Florida Gay News and the Society of Professional Jou
In an interview with BJP and AP, Leica’s chairman Dr. Andreas Kaufmann and CEO Alfred Schopf confirmed that they will be announcing a new compact mirrorless system camera (EVIL) at Photokina 2012, something I have been reporting here on LeicaRumors for a
Leica has announced the M9-P, a “professional” variant of its already high-end M9 rangefinder. The only functional change is the sapphire crystal cover on the rear LCD, which also comes with anti-reflective coatings on both sides. Otherwise, the manual-fo
Ex-Stanford student Ren Ng is just about to launch a new kind of camera that will blow you away. Don’t believe me? Try clicking around on this photo of a Scuba diver standing in front of distant mountains. This is a single exposure, taken with one camera.
Journalists said that Monday’s decision would help the public gain a better understanding of how the state’s judicial system works.
“I applaud the judiciary on a step forward in courtroom transparency, in public understanding of the judicial process and in confidence in the courts,” said G. Claude Albert, co-chairman of the Connecticut Judicial-Media Committee and a former editor at The Courant.
The Via PanAm app, by award-winning photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, studies migration in North and South America via photography, video and audio links
We’ve all done it. The arms-length self-portrait with face-blanching flash. And while these types of photos are ubiquitous in the online jungle, few have documented the moment of their conception.