As a helpful guide to the Games organizers, we have mapped out the hazards the torchbearers might encounter while running through some of the more treacherous parts of the official route.
Link: THE OLYMPIC TORCH VS. GANGS OF BRITAIN – Viceland Today
As a helpful guide to the Games organizers, we have mapped out the hazards the torchbearers might encounter while running through some of the more treacherous parts of the official route.
Link: THE OLYMPIC TORCH VS. GANGS OF BRITAIN – Viceland Today
I’ll discuss two of the most impressive features of the RED Epic – the incredible 5K resolution, as well as their HDRx technology.
Taking effect in October 2011, the VII Network will be dissolved and the name discontinued. All the photographers
currently in the VII Network have been invited to submit applications for membership.
Link: NPPA
via The Homecoming Project: http://thehomecomingproject.wordpress.com/
Matt Eich’s “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town” series wins the Photo Essay/Reportage category of the PDN Curator Awards,
Ernesto Bazan has found echoes of long-ago Sicily in Cuba’s western countryside, as David Gonzalez describes.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/another-cuba-a-different-fidel/
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/08/first-glance-look3-festival-of-the-photograph/#1
Link: Developing an Email Marketing Strategy for Your Photo Business – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
Doug Rickard, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2008 The drum machine arrived in popular music in the late 1970’s. By 1983, only a few years later, after 50,000 years of live human drumming, mainstream…
via it’s never summer: http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/6320235853/google-street-view
The C3 is the smallest NEX camera body yet, and NEX cameras are the smallest interchangeable lens cameras available – even smaller than Micro Four Thirds. This is the case even though the NEX sensor is full APS-C sized, the same as in mainstream DSLRs.
Link: Sony NEX-C3 Field Report
It’s been just over a year since the original iPad shipped, and only now are we really seeing apps that are suited for the bigger multitouch screen. One of those is Snapseed, a new image-editing app from Nik. You may know Nik for its expensive and excelle
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/niks-snapseed-brings-pro-level-photo-editing-to-ipad/
The Shooting Gallery, a tumblr featuring videos about photographers. The videos are divided into two categories: photographers talking and photographers shooting. There are 14 pages of archives to the blog, in which you’ll find videos about the likes of Richard Prince, Donald Weber, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jeff Mermelstein, Stephen Shore, Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Cindy Sherman, Ryan McGinley, William Eggleston (including this ridiculous interview on the Today Show), and many others.
Link: Worth a look: The Shooting Gallery – videos about photographers | dvafoto
Beyond Assignment is a documentary produced by The Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami, which explores the approach of three female photojournalists (Adriana Zehbrauskas, Gali Tibbon and Mariella Furrer.
Link: ::: The Travel Photographer :::: Adriana Zehbrauskas: Beyond Assignment
Organized by the Association Gens d’Images and with an award of 8,000 Euros thanks to the Swiss Life Foundation, the Arcimboldo Prize 2011 has been awarded to Alexis Cordesse for his series Border Lines with a special distinction to Gilles Desrozier for his series Inscape.
Link: Arcimboldo Prize: Back from Afghanistan | La Lettre de la Photographie
IOS 5 adds plenty of new features to the iPhone, but one group of users who will be particularly happy with the new operating system will be photographers. The most obvious feature is the update to the camera app itself, but there are lots of other tweaks
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/what-will-ios-5-bring-for-photographers/
Rob: I need to get into the history of Nick Onken, tell me how it all started. Where are you from? How old are you and when did you get into photography? Nick: I’m 32 and from Seattle. I started getting interested in photography about six and a half years
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/06/07/nick-onken-interview/
Mcutiz offers custom skins for various Leica cameras.
Ms. Trieb, 28, said she found it far more daunting to photograph the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder among the same soldiers when they returned to Fort Drum in upstate New York in December 2009. “Almost every soldier I talked to said they were having problems,” she said. These included drug abuse, binge drinking, attempted suicide and spousal abuse.
Link: Erin Trieb Intimately Chronicles Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Returning Soldiers – NYTimes.com
(This is part 1 of a two part interview. Part 2 can be found here .) It was a few years ago that I first encountered Stephen A. Scheer’s pho…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/06/q-and-with-stephen-scheer.html
There now is a new pitch up on emphas.is by Michael Christopher Brown, entitled The Libyan Republic – if you want to support a photojournalist specifically working in the country, which still torn by war, check it out
Link: Conscientious Extended | emphas.is: Michael Christopher Brown – The Libyan Republic