Agnes Dherbeys had never before photographed such a violent breaking news story. For her work in Bangkok, the Overseas Press Club has bestowed the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award.
Her approach has earned Agnes Dherbeys, 34, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club of America. The medal honors the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” Ms. Dherbeys, a freelancer, was on assignment for The New York Times. “Her images are close-up, powerful and direct,” the citation said.
When Tuscaloosa News‘ Dusty Compton took a photo of the massive tornado that swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, he didn’t know it would land on the cover of The New York Times, USA Today and dozens of other newspapers throughout the country.
Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.
South African photographer David Goldblatt has won, with co-author Ivan Vladislavic, the 2011 Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Award for his exploration of Johannesburg over 60 years
After a 12-hour drive we reach Sendai, with an empty tank. We have been listening to the radio all day. Reactor No. 3 has blown up. NHK Radio is playing a slow instrumental version of “Strawberry Fields Forever.” NHK is a news station and never plays music. Not a good sign.
I get phone calls from the writers. “Leave now!” they say. I call Harald and explain why I want to find out more before I make a decision. He tells me to be very careful, but says that he trusts my judgment.
Each year, six million Mexican Catholic pilgrims journey to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City to pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe. In The Road to Tepeyac, Mexican Artist Alinka Echeverria photographs 300 pilgrims bearing treasures of the Virgin to be blessed.
Dies Irae is the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of Paolo Pellegrin. The show includes more than 150 images through which he tells us many of his stories and reportages. He has become a symbol of that authentic photojournalism (Magnum) that is not afraid of documenting the world by bravelesly staring at it in the eyes.
Jonathan Blaustein interviews Matt Slaby co-founder of LUCEO images: JB: I’d like to have a conversation with you about LUCEO, the co-operative that you formed a few years ago. And I know, on behalf of Rob, he would like us to talk about what people consi
ElcomSoft was able to crack Nikon’s Image Authentication System (priced @ $489). They were able to extract the original image signing key and use it in several forged photographs that successfully pass Nikon Image Authentication Software validation: “Niko
ElcomSoft was able to crack Nikon’s Image Authentication System. They were able to extract the original image signing key and use it in several forged photographs that successfully pass Nikon Image Authentication Software validation
If you lose your phone or your computer, there’s a fair chance you’ll get it back if you’re using some kind of tracking software. As we have seen before, Apple’s Find my iPhone service has rescued more than one lost phone. But what about your other gadget
If your camera is stolen, you now have at least a chance of finding it thanks to the Stolen Camera Finder by Matt Burns. It works by searching the web for photos bearing the serial number of your camera. This number is embedded in the EXIF data of every photograph you take.
That’s the idea behind Push Pop Press, a digital creation tool made by ex-Apple engineers who are about to blow up the concept of the book — with some help from Al Gore, who sits on Apple’s board of directors.
Developed by former Apple employees Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, Push Pop Press will be a publishing platform for authors, publishers and artists to turn their books into interactive iPad or iPhone apps — no programming skills required.
An estimated 800 mourners attended the April 27 memorial service for photographer Chris Hondros. The service was held at the Sacred Hearts St. Stephens Church in Brooklyn, where Hondros and his fiancée had planned to hold their wedding this August. Hondr
In his homily, Father Anthony J. Sansone described Hondros as a “prophetic humanist.” Sansone, who had recently counseled Hondros and his fiancée, Christina Piaia, in preparation for their wedding, said Hondros worked to document “the suffering and the heartbroken” out of a sense of conscience and a commitment to making the public aware of perspectives beyond their own.
I must admit, Michael Wolf’s two-volume portrayal of urban planning run amok had me running in circles for a while. I was stymied by the duality, by the muteness of interior and exterior, intimacy and mass, specific and abstract — there seemed to be no reconciling the two until I realized that I could use an old saw to cleave the knot. You know, the one about books and their covers? In this case, it’s not true.
While Argentinian Alejandro Chaskielberg won the top prize at the Sony World Photography Awards, more than 30 photographers have received commendations in 13 professional categories
During the war in Kosovo, Tyler Hicks was driving a battered old Renault we were renting, with five or six of us crammed into it lurching around the streets of Pristina. Hondros was holding Tyler’s bag with computer and camera inside. Suddenly a faulty lock popped the door open and the bag flew out and thudded onto the cobblestones. Tyler asked, “What was that?” and Chris responded, “Oh, I think that was your Leica, man.” Luckily we backtracked and found everything intact. That’s how I first met Chris Hondros twelve years ago.
Africa and Asia were the settings of the photos for which Chris Hondros of Getty Images will be best remembered. But Brooklyn was his home, as his friend Todd Heisler recalls.
Canadian photographer and filmmaker Devin Tepleski was working on an archaeology dig in Ghana when he was asked by villagers, 2,700 of whom would soon to be displaced by the Bui Hydroelectric Dam, to tell their story, which they felt was being ignored by the government and media. The result is a surreal series of portraits of men, women and children standing knee-deep in the Black Volta river taken in 2009, before the river was dammed to flood a 440-square-kilometer gorge.
