We feel today’s action by the Administration must lead to the end of a false assumption, taken for granted by the President and leaders in both parties, that the snuffing out a critical and essential photo is somehow a zero-sum game.
We at BagNews are profoundly disappointed in the Administration’s decision to censor the photo of bin Laden’s body, just as we were disappointed when the Obama Administration censored the extended set of Abu Ghraib images it has in its possession.
Issues surrounding photography and the “truth” of news pictures have become an unusual storyline running throughout this week’s coverage of America’s commando attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound, and the White House’s handing of both press photographers here and pictures of the terrorist’s body overseas.
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) executive director Eugene Mopsik has issued a statement strongly implying that the majority of ASMP members who sell stock photography through Getty Images should leave the agency.
By today’s standards David Carol is an “Old School” photographer. He shoots only Tri-X film using Leicas and Hasselblad rangefinders. His film is hand developed in Rodinal and printed on fiber based paper using a point source enlarger. David will show examples of his work and discuss his career and how he approaches taking pictures.
Osama bin Laden was killed a few days ago, and today the White House announced it will not release an image of his corpse. A look at the impact of other famous death images–and what they say about us.
It is easy and convenient to dismiss our desire to record and to see as primitive. The outrage over the Kill Team photographs is perfectly understandable, but we need to understand a few things.
The 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project is a new app featuring the work of fourteen photographers who documented the tragic aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The .99 app, published by Kodansha, is an innovative fundraiser as well – all proceeds from the project go to the Japanese Red Cross Society.
New York City based photographer Maria Antonietta Mameli has been working on a project called Human Observations . Mameli photographs passerbys from the vantage point of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City.
That means the photograph that appeared in many newspapers Monday morning of Obama speaking may have been the staged shot, captured after the president spoke. This type of staging has been going on for decades.
An article in PDN’s June issue explores what freelance photographers can and can’t expect from clients if they are injured. In reporting the article weeks before the tragedies of April 20, writer Jay Mallin could find no newspapers or magazines willing to state their policies regarding support for injured freelancers– or even if they have a policy at all.
In the two weeks since the deaths of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, the photojournalism community has been working through the stages of grief – bargaining, depression, lots of anger—and searching for ways to make something positive out
An article in PDN’s June issue explores what freelance photographers can and can’t expect from clients if they are injured. In reporting the article weeks before the tragedies of April 20, writer Jay Mallin could find no newspapers or magazines willing to state their policies regarding support for injured freelancers– or even if they have a policy at all.
This is the first post from Heidi Volpe who is joining APE as a regular contributor to provide news and interviews from the perspective of and of interest to Creative Directors and Art Directors. If you have news that she might be interested in email her
I hope that the iPad emerges as a platform for photojournalists who can no longer count on newspapers and magazines to subsidize their work. There has never been a better storytelling device, and by integrating other types of multimedia content the stories resonate even more.
Ashley Macknica has worked as a freelance photo editor at Jane Magazine and New York Magazine. In part two of our webinar series entitled How We Hire Photographers, Ashley discusses the important of persistence and “repetitive exposure” in getting a photo editor’s attention.
Michael Schmelling likes music. In fact he’s the only photographer I know who has a Grammy, which he won for his album art on Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born. Schmelling’s newest book is all about Atlanta’s music scene. “It’s one of the capitals of hip hop,” says Schmelling. “It’s a city that drives the genre. It’s a lot like Nashville in a way.”
for me the question is not whether or not a photograph of the corpse of Bin Laden should be released. Do we really want to pretend that it’s not going to happen? Do we really want to believe that somehow a photo might not find its way onto the internet?
NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism contest coordinators today announced winners in the competition’s Picture Editing and Best Use Of Photography categories, and after being delayed for several weeks and “re-judged” after some entries had accidently not been included in the first round only one category had a slightly different outcome
The latest LUF newsletter provides some more information about the upcoming firmware for Leica M8+M9 rangefinders: The Leica M9 firmware beta test is now complete. The main purpose in this firmware update was to minimize “red corners” in certain situation
For the past week or so I’ve been spending some time playing around with the photosharing site 500px and am really starting to like it. The site has been around awhile (since 2003) but went through some major redesigns, most notably in the Fall of last year. The result seems to be a very elegant photosharing community that is far more focused on fine art and artistic oriented photography than Flickr is.
You know when you read that you should use a tripod to get the sharpest possible photographs, especially in low light, and you’re all like “Whatever,” and “I have steady hands, dude.” Well, take a look at this video, which shows just how much you SLR can
The clip shows the laser as it shines onto a wall 20 feet away from the camera. The 7D was locked down on a tripod and took three shots. The first is made by pressing the shutter release carefully with a finger. The resulting vibrations, caused by both the finger and the mirror slapping up inside the body, make the laser careen wildly.
Justin Maxon, 1983, USA, is a documentary photographer who focuses on long-term projects that examine the complexities of human struggle. In his ongoing project Streets is Raw he concentrates on the highly impoverished Tenderloin district in San Francisco where he photographs and documents the various issues, drug addiction, mental health issues and the threat of disease and death, that the people are facing in this region.
Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has awarded the 2011 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography to Miki Kratsman, an Argentinean-born photographer who has lived in Israel since 1971. Kratsman, who has exhibited his work inte
Miki Kratsman will photograph Palestinians with a lens used by the unmanned aircraft of the Israeli Defense Forces. Photographs of shadids, or martyrs, as they are seen in posters in the occupied territories will be the basis for another segment of the project. For a third portion of the work, Kratsman will photograph articles of clothing warn by Palestinians when they were killed, a nod to Francois Aubert’s 1867 photograph of the shirt of Mexican ruler Maximilian just after he was executed.
Photojournalist Swikar Patel of The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, IN, has been awarded with the National Press Photographers Association’s Humanitarian Award for his actions on March 29 when he stopped to take part in the rescue of a child trapped at the scene of an auto accident.
