Gaga’s strict release form gives her the rights to all photos taken at her concerts
via Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/photographers-respond-to-lady-gagas-new-copyright-demands-20110307
Gaga’s strict release form gives her the rights to all photos taken at her concerts
Iran said Tuesday it was pursuing the case of a missing Al Jazeera reporter, saying she had committed “several offenses,” including traveling without a valid passport.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/world/middleeast/18journalist.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Iran said Tuesday that it was pursuing information about a missing Al Jazeera reporter sent to Tehran by the Syrian government in early May, saying she had committed “several offenses,” including traveling without a valid passport.
Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of polical, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen
Link: Jan Banning Bureaucratics | La Lettre de la Photographie
The New York Times Magazine is putting the emphasis on documentary photography in its redesign
Link: Redesigning The New York Times Magazine – British Journal of Photography
“No caption can make a fake picture real,” he said. “A fake picture is a fake picture. We already have a big enough problem getting a reader to believe us. Our credibility is all that we have. That trust — once broken — is never fully recovered.”
Link: White House to Stop the Presidential Post-Speech Photo Opportunity – NYTimes.com
Freelance photographer Anton Hammerl remains unaccounted for in Libya, more than 40 days after Libyan authorities say they took him into custody. The lack of information has escalated concern among his family and friends about his health and safety. “All
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/05/day-43-captured-journalists-languish-in-libya.html
Freelance photographer Anton Hammerl remains unaccounted for in Libya, more than 40 days after Libyan authorities say they took him into custody.
One thing is certain – Facebook keeps on getting bigger with over 600 million users and counting. As they do so, they keep rolling out more exciting promotional tools for businesses. Lately we’ve been tinkering with Facebook’s newest Fan Page tools, looking for ways to help photographers better harness the social network for marketing purposes. Today we’re happy to make that happen with the launch of a new free guide, Facebook Fan Pages for Photographers. This guide is available only to PhotoShelter’s Facebook fans. If you’re not one already, head on over to Facebook, “Like” us, and you’ll see a form where you can get a the free guide.
Link: New Free Guide: Facebook Fan Pages for Photographers – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
via Magazine: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/child-brides/gorney-text
Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows.
Working as a staff photojournalist has its challenges. How do you stay inspired, happy, and passionate about photographing a white guy in a suit standing in front of a building? How can you make compelling images that give your photo subjects a voice in their own community when you can only stay for only 10 minutes? Why am I photographing this plate of food that barely resembles food? How do you make a picture that says “ribbon-cutting” without literally shooting the ribbon being cut?
You just do. Here’s how
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/16/alex-webb-notes-on-the-suffering-of-light/#1
Acclaimed photographer Alex Webb writes exclusively for LightBox on the first comprehensive monograph of his work, The Suffering of Light.
dpBestflow® is the new guide for every aspect of digital imaging technology from ASMP, the leader in education for the professional photographer.
Link: Welcome | Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow | dpBestflow
A gallery filled with some of greatest photographs
Matt Black, 1970, USA, is a socially engaged documentary photographer. He grew up in a small town in California’s Central Valley, an agricul…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographer-291-matt-black.html
Matt Black, 1970, USA, is a socially engaged documentary photographer. He grew up in a small town in California’s Central Valley, an agricultural area that is home to some of the poorest communities in the US. In his Dust Stories he photographs the various communities, including indigenous Mexicans and the isolated Hmong population, who have come to Central Valley to work on large and rich farms or try to make a living on their own.
Let me preface, I am not a camera reviewer and never do this sort of thing here. In addition, I don’t like reading lengthy articles about new cameras. But I recently got my hands on the new Fuji X100 and thought I could share some insight on it for the other photojournalists out there eager to get their hands on one.
Few days ago a dpreview forum member mentioned about an upcoming Leica M9-P camera. The camera is expected to be released in June. So far those were all rumors and nobody has really seen such a digital MP rangefinder… until yesterday when the Dailymail
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2011/05/14/is-this-the-new-digital-leica-mp-m9-p.aspx/
View the 2010 National Newspaper Award winners in all photography and cartooning categories.Voyez les gagnants et gagnantes de l’édition 2010 des catégories de photographie et catégorie caricature.
via National Newspaper Awards: http://www.nna-ccj.ca/wordpress_dev/wordpress/?p=1226&lang=en
Photo by Ian Martens / Lethbridge Herald
Why does photojournalism addict us and make us want so badly to do this even though there are better ways to make more money?
The answer struck me when reading this recent book by Jane McGonigal. In Reality is Broken she describes the four defining traits that make a game a game. They are a goal, rules, a feedback system and voluntary participation.
Link: Maintaining Creativity Part C: Gamefully Employed « Perfesser Kev
More than a thousand relatives, friends and colleagues paid their last respects to photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington today, in a requiem mass held in London.
Link: Family, friends gather to remember Tim Hetherington – British Journal of Photography
Mr. Melcher misses the mark when he asks what gender has to do with the photojournalistic process. I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his post is attempting to say that photojournalism transcends gender, and gender should not be relevant. I think he meant that in the best possible way, but saying that is like saying we’ve transcended race in America. I don’t live in a fantasyland where racism doesn’t exist and I certainly don’t live in a society absent of sexism. Sometimes gender has nothing to do with the photojournalistic process, sure, but sometimes it has everything to do with it.
Link: On gender and photojournalism: a response to Paul Melcher by Melissa Golden | dvafoto
