At this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier made her intentions as an artist and activist clear in a powerful presentation of her work that combined diaristic snippets about her relationships with her
By Ctein Over the past several weeks, many readers have raised concerns about the permanence of photographs, whether film or digital. Truly, they have every reason to be concerned. It’s a problem that has bothered me ever since Henry Wilhelm…
Citing First Amendment violations, a Florida publisher and the Society of Professional Journalists have filed suit against the city of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and its police chief over the city’s temporary ban on photography in a public area around a Holl
“Synergy was the Trojan horse with which FitzSimons and Kern attacked the values of journalists, cut costs and set their focus on local news because it was often cheaper to produce,” writes Mr. O’Shea.
Over the course of his 18-year career, acclaimed Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup has covered many of recent history’s defining human rights and conflict issues with his camera. His work reflects his belief in photojournalism’s role as an instrument of witness and memory to incite change and the necessity of telling the stories of people who are rendered powerless to tell their own.
From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman, on assignment for The New York Times, was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime.
Lovers of the iconic and legendary “fast 50” will no doubt be delighted that the Micro 4/3 system continues to bear fruit in providing options, with the new Leica 25mm DG Summilux ASPH lens for Micro 4/3 just announced. When…
To combat his sense of helplessness, he decided to distribute fifty disposable cameras to survivors displaced by the tsunami who had been evacuated to shelters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture
For photographers familiar with TinEye’s reverse image search engine, Google’s announcement today of a new reverse image search engine should be welcome news.
Six photographers – Ivor Prickett, Guy Martin, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Shiho Fukada, Kacper Kowalski and Mads Nissen – have been selected to become part of the Panos Pictures agency
I’m excited to share the publication of Jennifer Shaw’s first monograph, Hurricane Story, published by Chin Music Press. I’ve been a fan of Jennifer’s work for some time and in particular, this series that takes us through an experience that was life changing in so many ways. Her unique photographic approach to simultaneously experiencing Hurricane Katrina and the birth of her first child, is indeed, a success story!
Christophe Gin and Ricardo Venturi are the two winners of the SoPhot.com competition, devoted to promote the work of social and environmental photography.
Erin Trieb is probably one of the most gifted photojournalists of her generation. She has just launched a web documentary project on the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and she is looking for funding. This is the video message that she sent us.
The three companion apps have been enhanced, and for a limited time the price of Adobe Eazel has been reduced to $2.99. Details: Adobe Eazel (watercolor painting) – You now have easy access to the …
Earlier today I caught myself unfollowing someone on 500px because I clicked through on their photo and found this garish looking signature on their photograph. I know I’ll probably take a lot of heat for this, but I HATE watermarks and signatures on photos and many of the particularly bad borders and frames as well — so much so that more and more these days I’m not faving them or commenting on photos that I find them on and have actually started unfollowing some people who use them.
Before the Ukranian-born photographer Yelena Yemchuk emigrated to the U.S., at the age of eleven, she spent her summers in Gidropark, a recreational area …