Tereza and I were visiting New York on September 11, 2001…
Tereza ran to the corner to see and began screaming. I ran up and we could see smoke and flames billowing out of the large black hole, along with desks, chairs, papers and several bodies. I knew I was no longer a news photographer as my instinct was to get my wife out of there
Link: WE WILL NEVER FORGET | DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON’T CRASH
Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings:
what had been planned as a dissection of Hastings’s major articles evolved into a broader conversation about American exceptionalism, the process and duty of war reporting, the privatization of American war making, and the Pentagon’s intensifying effort to “tear down the wall”
between public affairs and propaganda
The past twenty years have been good ones for photographer Andy Anderson. After retiring from a career in the US Air Force he was made the first staff photographer at Men’s Journal. He’s been busy ever since, shooting constantly for top magazines and ad agencies, working around the globe like an over-caffeinated jet pilot.
Link: The F STOP » Professional Photographers Discuss Their Craft » Article Archive » Andy Anderson
The September 24, 2001, issue of The New Yorker, the first to come out after 9/11, featured photographs of the moments after the attacks and the wreckage …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/05/ground-zero-september-11.html
Photographs by Gilles Peress/Magnum.
Several days after this tragedy, you received a phone call from Paul Wolfowitz. Even though the picture revealed Bush’s military vagrancy, the Pentagon’s Deputy Secretary of Defense admired your work and invited you to lunch to ask you how to become a war photographer.
Link: Homage to a friend Chris Hondros | La Lettre de la Photographie
Think Tank Photo is now shipping the Retrospective 5, a classically-styled soft shoulder bag line that’s aimed at rangefinder and 4/3s camera users but is equally useful for digital SLR shooters who desire a small, unobtrusive bag in which to tuck a flash, short lens and other accessories.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Think Tank Photo now shipping Retrospective 5 shoulder bag
20 of today’s front pages
Link: Newspaper front pages capture elation, relief that Osama bin Laden was captured, killed | Poynter.
Zhou Mi, 1962, China, works and lives as a freelance photographer in San Francisco since 2004. He started out as a civil engineer in China f…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographer-281-zhou-mi.html
Zhou works with homeless people, photographs lost or discarded items on the beach and focuses on street photography.
which shows that ISO 160, and multiples thereof, show less noise in the blacks than nearby lower ISO settings. The difference at some ISO intervals is dramatic
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Photographer posts revealing Canon EOS 60D video mode noise comparison
I finally got the Nikkor AF-S 35mm f/1.4G lens few weeks ago from B&H and here is my quick hands-on review: General The 35mm is probably one of the most widely used focal lengths for photojournalism. In addition to the f/1.4G version that was introduced i
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2011/05/01/nikon-af-s-35mm-f1-4g-lens-hands-on-review.aspx
I finally got the Nikkor AF-S 35mm f/1.4G lens few weeks ago from B&H and here is my quick hands-on review:
close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, ‘This Is…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/05/getty-grants-for-a-good-laugh/
Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, ‘This Is Africa’. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you’ll be able to read what a group of Kenyan photographers think of the judges choice but for those who don’t stay the distance here’s a glimpse:
Since the summer of 1967 – Lyndon Johnson was President, there was a war in Vietnam, Civil Rights was a kind of day–to–day thing with no…
Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2011/04/of-big-events-and-such.html
I was reminded over the past couple of days that we are living in a new era. I have just returned from an assignment in London to cover the Royal Wedding. I felt some kind of obligation to history, I suppose, having been present as part of a big team of photographers covering the Diana-Charles
How ironic. Aghan-girl-on-the-cover-of-Nat-Geo photographer Steve McCurry and my-dslr-is-a-freaking-movie-camera photographer Vincent LaForet post help wanted ads 1 day apart. Old schooler McCurry goes for the craigslist classified ad seeking an intern wh
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/04/29/photographers-hiring-help-new-vs-old-school/
How ironic. Aghan-girl-on-the-cover-of-Nat-Geo photographer Steve McCurry and my-dslr-is-a-freaking-movie-camera photographer Vincent LaForet post help wanted ads 1 day apart.
Dan Boulton was born in 1973 in Enfield, North London. His work, which crosses the lines between documentary, street photography and fine art has been featured in Document Skateboard and Plus1 magazines and the book “Emulsion Stew”.
Twenty-seven-year-old photographer Kyle Johnson loves shooting people, no matter whether its portraiture, fashion, or working with a band, which he does quite often in his current town of Seattle, Washington.
The Dealership Wreck: I never noticed the monolithic deserted auto dealerships alongside the freeway until recently, when I began to notice empty dealerships everywhere I traveled. I researched the phenomenon and discovered that since 2009, over 2,300 auto dealerships in America were shuttered. The closings, which happened largely as a result of the US government’s auto industry bailout and restructuring, caused thousands of industry workers to lose their jobs and put 70 million square feet of commercial real estate on the market.
Edward Wong of the New York Times shares the story of Chris Hondros’s photographs documenting the accidental killing of Iraqi civilians by American troops in Iraq.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/04/remembering-chris-hondros-part-iii/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
I didn’t know Chris well, but I saw him on a few occasions in Iraq. He was a calm, cheerful presence in the middle of a war that was growing more chaotic by the day. After I heard the awful news of his death in Libya last week, I remembered interviewing him in Baghdad about what he saw one winter night in 2005: the accidental shooting of an Iraqi family by American soldiers in Tal Afar. My notebook with the entire interview is in the U.S., but I found a memo on my computer that I had typed up afterwards. There are few better examples of his professionalism and compassion than the photos he shot that night. Chris was a strong advocate for documenting the impact of war on civilians. This is an edited version of the memo.
contributions can be made by sending a check to The Chris Hondros Fund, c/o Getty Images, 75 Varick St., 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10013.
Link: Chris Hondros Fund To Aid Photojournalists Established
These photos for me are my way of breathing in the warm salty air and letting my mind get lost in the echoes of the waves crashing. I look at them today and I’m taken back to the warm ocean air and feel the cool sand on my bare feet. It’s just me, a camera, the powerful Atlantic and not a thought racing through my head.
Link: New Photo Project – The Sea | Ackerman Gruber Images – Minneapolis, MN Photographers
Chronicle editor Ward Bushee says the White House has threatened to exclude the paper from pooled coverage of its Bay Area events because it posted a video of last week’s protest at a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama
Link: White House upset with SF Chronicle for posting protest video | Poynter.