No fooling: A couple of days ago, Adobe exec John Loiacono briefly demonstrated some tablet-based imaging technology from our labs. Here’s an audience member’s recording: [Update: Video…
New legislation in Sweden designed to protect bystanders against acts of voyeurism mixes ambiguously broad language with commonsense edicts, prompting one photographer to test the laws’ limits with hidden-camera portraits.
Love it or hate it, when most people think of metal, they think of white dudes. Even if metal was born from the blues and there are growing scenes in places like Indonesia and Peru, metal’s founding fathers–Priest, Sabbath, Maiden–and most of those who’ve come after have been unmistakably Caucasian. Which is why I was pleasantly surprised to find out about a small but passionate collection of guys who dressed like doomsday cowboys and listened to Motorhead in the predominantly black, central African country of Botswana.
New York, March 29, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the shooting death of Mexican photographer Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo on Friday and calls on Mexican authorities to launch a thorough investigation into his killing. …
Judges Bert Fox, Sue Morrow, and Chris Wilkins will pore over the hundreds of entries during the next four days selecting the best of newspaper and magazine picture editing.
Looking through her site, I was struck by Gordon’s work from Harper, southeast Liberia. It’s a quiet and intimate portrait of a community, photographed beautifully and thoughtfully.
Central to LUCEO’s mission is our belief in the importance of long-term projects. We also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the LUCEO Student Project Award, which will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work.
This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 and receive mentorship for the project from one LUCEO member.
Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel of three judges presided over by moderator Michael Wichita, Director of Photography for AARP Bulletin, will narrow the decision to one winner who will be announced during LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph.
The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 15, 2011.
I began with black and white photography in 2002. May as well be yesterday. He covered Brussels, looking for funny shots, humanistic photography. He cut classes in order to make his own prints. A little bit Tintin, very much Capa, and quickly, he settled in Paris where he was bitten by News Fever.
Paraphrasing the introduction to Domestic Slavery: The cold and stark photographs of ordinary-looking buildings in and around Paris by Raphael Dallaporta are combined with Ondine Millot’s texts to …
In 2009, Magnum Photographer Christopher Anderson released his beautiful photobook, Capitolio, capturing the tumultuous upheavals of Caracas, Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Less than two years later,…
New York based photographer Ken Shung says he set out to make images that embody the idea of the “Pretty Picture.” He captures disjunction, viewing social spaces in search of a magical decisive moment that shows something ominous, paradoxical, or timeless.
The Scraper Bike Movement, as its participants refer to it, was spawned from East Oakland’s vibrant car culture around 2006. Like the Buicks and Oldsmobiles riding on rims 24” and larger, Scraper Bikes are often equipped with car stereos and are themed for everything from candy to fallen friends.
As photographers, we all pretty much want the same things. In short, we want to be rewarded for our individual creativity, and make a decent living making the pictures that we enjoy making. Yet, so many photographers feel that this is lacking in their lives. What can be done about this?
“To ask NYTimes.com’s 33 million unique monthly visitors to switch to a cash-for-manufactured-goods-based model from the standard everything-online-should-be-free-for-reasons-nobody-can-really-explain-based model is pretty fearless. It’s almost as if The New York Times is equating itself with a business trying to function in a capitalistic society.”