The photographer Andrea Star Reese dealt obliquely with issues of mental illness in her first project, “The Urban Cave,” on homelessness in Harlem. She is dealing with it head on in her current project, set in Indonesia, where Ms. Start Reese has worked on and off since 2003.
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 …
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 along the Dnieper River. Much like the Seine in Paris, the Dnieper plays a central role in Kiev’s cultural geography, and during the hotter months the woods and waterfronts of Gidropark turn into a summer playground, a “Soviet version of Coney Island,” as Yemchuk puts it.
The public had a strong reaction to the exhibition at the LOOK3 Festival of Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms of the Fallen photographs, which show the bedrooms of soldiers who died as a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photographs are being exhibit
In my previous post, I outlined some specific thoughts related to the Photography Book Now competition as it enters it’s 4th year. There’s $25k up for grabs for the best in self-published photography books.
Beyond that, I hinted at the “extremely rich moment” we are witnessing in the history of photography and books. Unparalleled resources and tools are available for artistic expression and the possibilities for distribution, primarily of self-published books, are growing. I want to mention these a bit more in-depth.
Based on my experience I can’t think of any good reason why photographers, US or otherwise, should not register their work with the US Copyright Office. Every case is different, and there’s no such thing as 100% protection. But follow these ten rules and you will almost certainly be able to collect substantial damages from any US website or publisher who infringes your copyright.
There were other Chinese photographers that covered the same topic of coal miners, and I realized that it was very important to find my own voice apart from other photographers. I was compelled to create more work using different styles of expression.
Oh hello! In addition to the less-than-inspiring GF3 announced today, Panasonic has redeemed itself with the new Leica DG Summilux 25mm ƒ1.4 ASPH lens. This fixed lens, which works as a 50mm equivalent “standard” on the Micro Four Thirds bodies, is likely to be one sweet chunk of glass.
“He loved what he did,” Duguay said. “He was incredibly generous. He taught himself photography and computers and then taught anybody else who wanted to know, and that included me and colleagues all over the world.”
Yesterday, on the final night of the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va., the curated work of more than 20 photographers was shown to an audience of 2,000 during a special 2-hour projection on the festival’s 40-foot main screen. TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev’s photographs from Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya were presented in a short film, On Revolution Road, after a moment of silence for the photographers who had given their lives since the festival last convened in 2009.
After vandals damaged the home and truck of Olympian photojournalist Tony Overman last week, and threw a corrosive substance on the windows of the newspaper’s offices and spray painted graffiti, a rally was held Saturday on the Olympian’s steps to show support for the photographer
For Tod Seelie, who is 33 and could be called the house photographer for the Kings County art-vandal underground, something worthwhile might include: a female mud-wrestling match, a violent punk show, an illegal party in an abandoned warehouse, a guerilla theater event in the snow or a group sailing trip through New York Harbor (and beyond) on rafts made of junk
Olympus has historically been a company associated with small yet high quality cameras. It’s taken them a while though to zero in on the medium-sized sensor pocket camera segment, but it would appear that their time has been well spent, because the XZ-1 presses all the right buttons – so to speak.
I have invested in not a few of the best Leica M lenses, on the assumption that Leica would put some serious effort into a future M camera that would make shooting M glass more productive and more reflective of the lens potential— and bring “M” into the digital age beyond just a dated sensor and a lousy LCD and 80 year frame line technology. I did not invest in the M9, I invested in the lenses.
spent a week covering the breaking news that Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic was finally captured after nearly 16 years on the run, in a village an hour north of Belgrade in the early morning of May 26. On assignment for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune I had the interesting experience of running in the streets with stone-throwing hooligans (there really weren’t that many of them, it was less of a mess than a typical soccer match
