Stephen Mayes, Managing Director of VII Photo and one of my favorite photo thinkers, is presenting a lecture titled, “Restructuring the Photographic Process,” during the Flash Forward Festival today, June 3, at noon EST.
If you’d like to see what he has to say but can’t join us in Boston, please check in here, where I’ll liveblog his talk and any subsequent discussion.
[slidepress gallery=’chrisanderson_capitolio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Chris Anderson Capitolio play this essay The word ‘capitolioR…
I must confess that I have a soft spot for minimalist imagery. This portfolio by Kevin O’Connell is one of the best examples of minimalism in photography that we’ve ever published.
The Olympian reports that vandals found where photographer Tony Overman lives in nearby Tumwater to intimidate him. The newspaper also reports that the perpetrators left a message with black paint on its building that said: “Overman snitch.”
Last weekend I attended Review Santa Fe, an annual juried portfolio-review event in New Mexico. A hundred photographers were selected to participate, and …
We’ve given a fresh new look to just about every facet of the purchase process for PhotoShelter websites — all in the interest of making it easier and more efficient for your website visitors to buy photos from you. Plus, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to pack a few new, highly requested feature upgrades into this release as well.
Damon Winter of The New York Times and Barbara Davidson of The Los Angeles Times are among those honored by the National Press Phoographers Association.
As our organization has previously stated, photography by itself is not a suspicious activity and is protected by the First Amendment. Any abridgement of a constitutionally protected activity, especially in a thinly veiled attempt to limit public discourse is highly improper.
French artist Theirry Guetta is guilty of infringing on photographer Glen E. Friedman’s copyright, a federal judge has ruled. Guetta was accused of using a well-know Friedman image of hip-hop pioneers RUN DMC as the basis for several artworks, including “
Photo by Paul Trevor Here’s a nice video by the English photographer Paul Trevor about some old work of his that’s just been coming into its own within the past couple of years. It’s also quite pertinent to the discussion(s)…
Alejandro Chaskielberg’s project, The High Tide, depicts life in the remote community of the Paraná River Delta region in Argentina, where the river tides determine the activities and movements of its
When I’m working I like to find my way into an image and this means being unencumbered by the equipment, but more significantly it is about how I relate to a subject visually. When photographing with an SLR we tend to compose the image in the viewfinder, which is akin to looking through a tunnel and often we can become quite unaware of the space outside the frame. When I’m working with the Leica, I see images in my mind first, and the optical viewfinder for the Leica M allows me to effortlessly place the camera in the desired position while maintaining a strong visual awareness of what lies outside the frame.
Harrington uses the analogy of “the corner store.” When a new store opens up, they don’t sell their inventory at a loss and hope to make up for it over time just because they’re new to the neighborhood. Instead, they know what their cost of doing business is, and they they start out with a rate that’s profitable for them.