Andy Adams is the founder and editor of FlakPhoto.com. Larissa Leclair is an independent photography writer, curator, and collector, and founder of the Indie Photobook Library. Together, Larissa and Andy curated 100 Portraits—100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive, a projection which will be featured during NYPH 2011.
Link: New York Photo Festival » Andy Adams & Larissa Leclair In Conversation with Adriana Teresa
From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War, a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and wom…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/27/the-graffiti-of-war.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War , a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and women) create during deployments. From tanks spray painted with “I love u baby” to memorials for the dead to enemy jets covered in graffiti, every art work tells a story. It’s the alternative, unauthorized history of war from those who fought it.
I received a roadmap of sorts recently. The information went on to describe what’s going on with a few of the new lenses supposedly coming from Canon, as well a
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/04/a-random-roadmap-lenses-body-cr1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+canonrumors/rss
I received a roadmap of sorts recently. The information went on to describe what’s going on with a few of the new lenses supposedly coming from Canon, as well as some camera body information.
You’d almost think it was the first time journalists had been killed in the line of duty, but it wasn’t – it was just the first time, in a long time, that western journalists with names like “Tim” and “Chris” were killed.
In fact, two Arab journalists were killed in Libya last month, but their names, Mohammed al-Nabbous, and Ali Hassan al-Jaber, haven’t gotten a glimmer of the attention that Tim and Chris have seen.
Link: Which of Us Dies First?
Jim Goldberg of Magnum has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, which comes with a £30,000 cash prize
Link: Jim Goldberg wins Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011 – British Journal of Photography
I flinch from making too much of the deaths of journalists in conflicts, even that of friends. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that in the same counterattack that killed Hetherington and Hondros, seven rebels had been killed as well as a doctor about to leave for work at the overwhelmed local hospital. His wife, a nurse, lost both her legs. They were unnamed.
From 1994 to 2002, Robert Capa Gold Medal recipient Bruce Haley traversed the former Soviet Bloc, photographing war-torn settlements, disfigured industrial sites, and rural landscapes and isolated villages seemingly frozen in time. He combined this disparate subject matter, shot in both 35mm and panoramic formats, in his new monograph, Sunder
Tim Fadek, Spencer Platt, Nicole Tung, and Gary Fabiano share their thoughts on Chris Hondros.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/04/remembering-chris-hondros-part-i-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
I’ve often felt that being a photojournalist traveling to far away and troubled places was one of the loneliest things anyone could subject themselves to voluntarily. We know sometimes that’s required to make photographs which matter. It allows us to have empathy and compassion for the people we photograph. But I am grateful to know that this was one time Chris did not have to be alone. Knowing that he had friends by his side as he prepared for his next journey will help us move forward, processing an enormous tragedy.
Adriana Teresa: What would you say is the most significant progression in photography today?
Kira Pollack: Speed. In the digital world, the speed and the demand for speed that stories need to be communicated—and published—is astronomical. The most critical thing that we can do as editors is to be as thoughtful as possible in response to that speed. We need to get the images published as quickly as possible, but with journalistic integrity.
Link: New York Photo Festival » Kira Pollack in Conversation with Adriana Teresa
Got an iPad? Use Adobe Lightroom to organize and mess with your Photos? Then prepare to get excited. Photosmith has launched today, and it’s an iPad app which sits between your camera and Lightroom. Photosmith lets you tag, rate and otherwise organize all
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/photosmith-syncs-ipad-with-lightroom/
Photosmith lets you tag, rate and otherwise organize all of the photos which you have imported into your iPad, whether using the camera connection kit, an Eye-Fi card or just saved from an e-mail. This means that you really can leave your laptop at home when you go out shooting, or away on vacation.
The following interview by Miki Johnson was copied with permission from the Emphas.is blog. • • • The Emphas.is team is so grateful to the photographers we’ve collaborated with and the 750+ backers…
via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: http://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/130-editors-insights-from-a-photographer’s-first-crowdfunded-project-via-the-emphas-is-blog/
The Emphas.is team is so grateful to the photographers we’ve collaborated with and the 750+ backers who have pledged more than $60,000 to their projects. Many people have taken a leap of faith on this new funding model for visual journalism — now it’s our responsibility to return the favor.
In this post, and more to come, we hope to contribute to the growing discourse on innovative journalism funding models and to help develop success strategies for Emphas.is and other crowdfunded projects.
Combat photographer Joao Silva is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he’s recovering after losing his legs in an explosion in October. Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shot four times while covering conflicts. Silva
via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135513724/two-war-photographers-on-their-injuries-ethics
an interview taped Tuesday with combat photographers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, both of whom have been seriously injured in the field.
Marinovich: “Just seeing someone — especially a mother over a young child or a young fighter or a young civilian who’s being killed — and that look they give you as you come to photograph them, while you’re kind of apologizing about photographing,” he says. “And people want you photographing to show what’s happened, but that look of hatred — that sometimes you get from a mother — is just so disturbing.”
Richard Murphy: No, I don’t think we felt any obligation to give special consideration to photographs from any particular event. We certainly expected to see work from the major news events of the year, but we did not give them any extra weight. I would note that the breaking news winner in 2010 was a single image from a single photographer working in middle America documenting the rescue of a single person during a single isolated incident. In terms of world news it was a tiny event. That being said, a disaster of biblical proportions certainly offers more opportunity for dramatic photographs.
For the past six years, photographer Aaron Huey has trained his camera on these problems. But, he says, it took him five years to understand what the real story was
Link: Broken Treaties: Aaron Huey’s Pine Ridge Billboard Project – LightBox
Three of four journalists detained nearly three weeks ago by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi have finally been able to call their families to report that they are OK–but still locked up in a jail in Tripoli with little indication of when the
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/journalists-detained-in-libya-finally-contact-families.html
Spanish photographer Manuel Varela de Seijas Brabo was arrested April 5 along with American reporters James Foley, a correspondent for the online news site GlobalPost, and Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelancer who had been in Libya reporting for The Atlantic and USA Today. South African photographer Anton Hammerl was detained separately on the same day.
The best approach to the question might actually be to pose it, to talk about it. Or maybe more accurately to have debates about it in circles outside of photojournalism (photojournalists seem to have no problem talking about their role in society, probably for obvious reasons).
Link: Conscientious | What should be the role of the photographer in modern society?
his event [will be a place for] the entire NY Photo community to gather together, celebrate the lives of Tim and Chris while also generating funds for the recovery of Guy and Michael who will be in great need over the coming months
Link: An exhibition, celebration, and fundraiser in NYC | dvafoto
The families of two photojournalists killed in a rocket attack on Misrata, Libya, on April 20 are organizing memorials. Dean Hondros, brother of photographer Chris Hondros, announced that a memorial service will take place Wednesday, April 27, at 1 pm at
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/memorials-planned-for-photographers-chris-hondros-and-tim-hetherington.html
The family of Tim Hetherington have created a web page, Timhetherington.org/condolences, where remembrances of their son are being posted.
