The John Faber Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers of news services” went to Daniel Berehulak of Getty Images for his reporting on the “Pakistan Floods”.
Link: Daniel Berehulak John Faber Award | La Lettre de la Photographie
AFP said it used Tungstene to detect tampering in a faked photo purportedly of Osama Bin Laden’s body that was circulated last week.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: AFP using new forensic software to detect faked photos
I wrote about the new Getty contract in early April (here) and there was some excellent discussion in the comments about the whole deal, so I thought I’d bring this latest announcement by the American Photographic Artists (APA) to your attention. In a sta
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/05/09/apa-recommends-that-members-do-not-sign-getty-agreement/
The signing deadline has passed, so I’m wondering if the APA is going to file a lawsuit.
The Associated Press has filed a legal request for the photos of Osama Bin Laden’s dead body, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The agency also demands that it is provided with the video of the raid taken by the military personnel during the raid an
Link: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=128005
The government has 20 days to respond.
Legendary conflict photographer Ron Haviv opens up about how he hopes for the best while documenting the worst around the world.
Henry Wessel’s photographs wryly depict an American West of decades past. Taken between 1968 and 1987, Wessel’s pictures explore suburban pockets and …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/05/henry-wessels-vintage-america.html
Henry Wessel’s photographs wryly depict an American West of decades past. Taken between 1968 and 1987
Amid a blizzard of images, what is the worth of one photograph?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/magazine/mag-08Riff-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality
Misha Erwitt talks with his father, Elliott Erwitt.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/elliott-erwitts-best-picture-the-next-one/
On Tuesday, the Magnum photographer and filmmaker Elliott Erwitt, 82, will receive the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Center of Photography, which will exhibit his favorite pictures as “Personal Best,” beginning May 20. For the occasion, he agreed to let his son Misha Erwitt, a photographer himself, present him with a list of questions that family members have long wanted to ask.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/05/06/enrique-metinides-mexicos-weegee/
I guess part of me naturally felt that I should be shocked or horrified by the subject matter that Metinides photographed—for almost fifty years during his career as a tabloid journalist he captured murders and car crashes, criminals and catastrophes. However, when I first saw his images, around the time of his New York exhibition in 2006, I felt neither of these things.
Currently, five city stops are scheduled: June 10 in McLean, VA (a suburb of Washington, DC): August 11 in Denver, CO; September 29 in St. Louis, MO: October 7 in the San Francisco Bay Area; and November 10 in Tampa, FL.
Sean O’Hagan: Obama’s decision not to release the photograph of Bin Laden’s body speaks volumes about the continuing power of the photograph
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/06/osama-bin-laden-photograph-obama-body?CMP=twt_gu
Obama’s decision not to release the photograph of Bin Laden’s body speaks volumes about the continuing power of the photograph
Kosuke Okahara, 1980, Japan, is a photojournalist who has been covering stories around the world since 2003. He made a lot of photographs th…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographer-285-kosuke-okahara.html
Obama’s decision not to release the photograph of Bin Laden’s body speaks volumes about the continuing power of the photograph
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2010/11/23/joel-meyerowitz-revisits-ground-zero/#1
Joel Meyerowitz was the only photographer with regular access to Ground Zero in the weeks and months after 9/11. As part of the November 2010 TimeFrames issue, TIME commissioned Meyerowitz to travel back to Ground Zero and revisit some of the locations in his seminal work, Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive.
Dorothy Parvaz, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, hasn’t been heard from since she landed in Damascus on assignment on April 29. Syrian officials have informed Al Jazeera that they’re holding her.
Link: Nieman Foundation calls for release of Al Jazeera reporter Parvaz in Syria | Poynter.
Bill Keller talks with Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich about what animates — and terrifies — combat photographers.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/the-inner-lives-of-wartime-photographers/#/1/
Last week, Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times, met with the photographers Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Mr. Silva is recovering from the grave injuries he suffered — including the loss of his legs — when a land mine exploded under him in Afghanistan. Their conversation, which served as the basis for Mr. Keller’s column in The Times Magazine this week, is presented here in full, with minor editing and condensing.
The first time, he was on vacation with his girlfriend. Mark Power discovered Poland as a tourist without ever imagining that after a tumultuous year, he would return here 25 times. It is 1989. He just entered stardom with his iconic pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall, making him an expert on eastern Europe for his native British newspapers.
As this project has developed, the locations and subjects are beginning to speak to me in a language that is clearer and more resolute. Which is not to say that it is easy or that I am always successful. On the contrary. But I do feel a clearer understanding of how the panos and single frame multiple exposures can be used to convey a range of ideas.
I know this is a long standing tradition in the White House as to not let the camera clicking interfere with the message. It isn’t President Obama, and it dates back decades. Unfortunately, the message that is being sent when the cameras are clicking is being interfered with.
That is no longer an acceptable answer in my mind. It is falsifying history. What if – and just imagine – what if something were to happen during the re-enactment? Any slip of the tongue, a trip on the red carpet, a glance or subtle expression change all can dramatically alter what is real and what is news. It is going to take that kind of moment to change all of this staging of events. Essentially, the White House is determining what is history. What we see. What is real.
CNN is the latest news organisation to settle its case against Daniel Morel, as the freelance photographer is set to face Agence France Presse and Getty Images in court this summer, BJP can confirm
Link: AFP v. Morel trial date set – British Journal of Photography
the start of November 2010, these five young men decided to take matters into their own hands hoping they can provide a bit of motivation and influence to an outside world so consumed with proper and trite ways. As the weeks began to pass, the beards grew into what looked like seemingly unending hell.
Link: Beard Off 2010/2011 « The Igloo Chronicles by Grayson West