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/
First, the camera application. The headline feature is that you can now use the volume switch to fire the shutter. This is a lot easier than tapping an on-screen button. Ironically, a third-party app which enabled this — Camera + — was booted out of the App Store in August last year.
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/
In my opinion it’s that realism that you can create, real moments and authenticity. It comes from your taste in wardrobe, people, props, clothes, locations. Everything is about your taste, and how you see. Then that all goes into that picture and into that set. You’re creating an action, and a theme, and a story. And then you’re shooting it. And then you’re snapping that camera at the right moment, or a series of moments and then you’re coming back and editing, I think editing is a big part of it as well. I would say the key to my style of photography is me feeling that moment.
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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
It was a few years ago that I first encountered Stephen A. Scheer’s photographs in Sally Eauclaire’s books, first in New Color/New Work and later American Independents. I was struck immediately by Scheer’s wonderful feel for composition and color, and his ability to find photos in unusual places. His style was simultaneously streety and formal. Who was this guy? I wondered. How come I haven’t heard more about him?
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
For ten years Larry Fink was the magazine’s official party photographer. Schirmer/Mosel has just brought out the illustrated book The Vanities. Hollywood Parties 2000-2009; with more than 90 full-page images it provides an intensive insight into the magnificent photographs Larry Fink garnered: Shot for shot a hit!
Link: Larry Fink Hollywood Parties | La Lettre de la Photographie
Rob Hornstra, who we’ve featured a number of times, had a film crew from Vice TV follow him around in his home in Utrect, Netherlands and in Sochi, Russia while working on “The Sochi Project”, an epic 5-year project he is working on with writer Arnold van Bruggen
[slidepress gallery=’dominicbracco_lifeanddeathinthenorthernpass2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2011 Finalist Domini…
Dominic Bracco II specializes in documenting the effects of Mexican and North American policies on the border region where he was raised
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2011/06/african-air.html
Flying in a motorized paraglider over one of the most diverse continents in the world, George Steinmetz captures the beauty of Africa’s landscapes and people. His pictures show not only the patterns of the land, but also the potential and hope that the continent encompasses.
[slidepress gallery=’michaelchristopherbrown_thelybianrepublic’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2011 Finalist Mic…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2011-finalists/2011/06/michael-christopher-brown-the-lybian-republic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag
Since arriving in Libya, I have tried to understand the situation. People swap facts, predictions and rumors, but the complexity of the conflict makes it impossible to fully comprehend. Once a picture is taken or a word is written it is already old news. There seems to be no way to catch up, as the database of history is filed before it is processed. And as a result I have become more confused. But I can attest to one reality, shown in these photographs. They form a loose record of my experience during the war in Libya.
via: A Photo Editor
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/06/john-stanmeyer-volcano-gods.html
It was tough to choose what to feature of John’s work because all his work is truly spectacular, but I decided on his Volcano Gods, which he shot for the National Geographic.
I’ve always felt my relationship with photography had an element of tension, even hostility. I would be lying if I said I still love photography. It is not an entity I fully respect or am faithful to, in fact the two of us are constantly on the brink of abusing one another.
Link: LOOK3 Guest Series: Flailing Love Affair with Photography « The Leica Camera
Alan Sailer is a photographer. He fires things very fast at other things, and then uses a homemade high-speed flash to capture some quite stunning images. Here’s how he got famous: Was a very, very obscure photographer working in his garage shooting stuff
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/high-speed-flash/
Alan Sailer is a photographer. He fires things very fast at other things, and then uses a homemade high-speed flash to capture some quite stunning images. Here’s how he got famous
When Fay Godwin died in 2005 at the age of 74, we lost one of the most sensitive and accomplished photographers of several generations. If you haven’t seen her book Land, you’ve missed one of the great quiet landscape books of all time.
Link: Landmarks by Fay Godwin – LensWork Vision of the Heart
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/02/dispatch-from-yemen-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1
Kozyrev’s photos shine a light on a country convulsed by violence, steeped in danger, seeking a way out.