Fortunately, none of the workers at the Taiwa-Cho factory are reported injured but inevitably some damage has occurred to the factory building, causing a temporary halt in production for the FinePix X100. To this end, Fujifilm is expecting a delay to market for the X100.
Link: Fuji Announcement: Due to Earthquake, delay in Fuji X100 shipments | STEVE HUFF PHOTOS
Yeah, it was cold. And ugly. And unbeknownst to me, I had lost an hour driving from Denver to Liberal. (Thanks iPhone!) So I was really running an hour late for the early morning activities of the 62nd Annual International Pancake Day races.
Link: Out Of The Frying Pan » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS
Shiho Fukada wanted to get a behind-the-scenes look at China’s legislature. Instead, she put the spotlight on its theatricality.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/tension-and-theater-at-chinas-congress/
In their use of high-gloss spotlighting and impenetrable shadow, Ms. Fukuda’s photographs of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing convey both the theatrical and the mysterious facets of the events.
Sometimes you meet someone whose person and work is filled with grace and dignity. Michael Kirchoff is one of those people–kind, enthusiastic, talented, capable, and shows up prepared. And more importantly, just plain shows up. On the eve of his first solo exhibition, An Enduring Grace: Exploring the Cultural Landscape of Russia, I thought that this was indeed, a success story.
Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Success Stories: Michael Kirchoff
[slidepress gallery=’michaelchristopherbrown_lybia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Michael Christopher Brown Libya play th…
Since arriving ten days ago, I have tried to understand the situation here in Libya. People swap facts, predictions and rumors, the news feeds me information, but the complexity of the conflict makes it impossible to fully comprehend. Once a picture is taken or a word is written it is already old news. There seems to be no way to catch up, as the database of history is filed before it is processed. And as a result I have become more confused. But I can attest to one reality, shown in these photographs. They form a loose record of my experience during the war in Libya.
Sometimes, as photographers, it’s bearing witness to difficult subjects that makes our form of expression such a powerful tool and weapon. Lu Guang, the winner of W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China”, has been bearing witness to the huge problems from pollution that face China and the Chinese people.
Al Jazeera has announced that one of its cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, was killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghaz…
Al Jazeera has announced that one of its cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, was killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghazi.
The vast devastation wrought by the earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, may only be matched by the destroyed lives left in their wake. Few survivors have been found, but families continue to search for their sons, daughters
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_-_vast_devastation.html
The vast devastation wrought by the earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, may only be matched by the destroyed lives left in their wake. Few survivors have been found, but families continue to search for their sons, daughters, wives, husbands and friends. Threats of a nuclear reactor meltdown and resulting disaster loom
I could navigate the Las Vegas Strip for months on end without tiring photographically; however, I don’t believe I could go so much more than three days while retaining my sanity.I believe it’s some mix of the environmentally-induced debauchery, sensory overload, and a cruel lighting scheme requiring my eyes to process both bright and dim simultaneously.
On March 20, there’ll be another such event, Assignment Egypt, in which key images of recent coverage of Egypt will be discussed, dissected, and deconstructed, by photographers who were there and thoughtful members of the larger photographic community
Link: Online event: BagNewsSalon – March 20 – Assignment Egypt | dvafoto
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/
LightBox, a new blog by TIME’s photo department, will explore how photography, video and the culture of images define today’s world.
This blog will be our opportunity to give you a daily behind-the-scenes look at our photography as well as inspiring new projects. We want to immerse you in the visual side of the news and highlight photography that pushes boundaries in the art world. As part of our regular features, we’ll include the backstory from photo shoots, firsthand accounts from photographers in the field, profiles of legendary imagemakers, photo essays and more.
Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/about/#ixzz1GbfbIusz
I’ve gathered some links from the photo blogs running the largest and best edited photos.
Japan raced to avert a nuclear meltdown today by flooding a nuclear reactor with seawater after Friday’s massive earthquake left more than 600 people dead and thousands more missing. Towns in the country’s northeast coast were literally wiped away by an e
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_earthquake_aftermath.html
Japan raced to avert a nuclear meltdown today by flooding a nuclear reactor with seawater after Friday’s massive earthquake left more than 600 people dead and thousands more missing. Towns in the country’s northeast coast were literally wiped away by an ensuing tsunami, leaving countless people seeking shelter in the aftermath of the quake, which measured 8.9 on the Richter scale and was the country’s strongest recorded quake
The last I set foot in Mississippi was early November of 2010 for Butta’s funeral. A lot happens in a short period of time in this neighborhood, but somehow everything remains the same
San Francisco photographer, Stella Kalaw. She has a number of well crafted and interesting projects on her website, and found a voice creating, to quote Kevin, “pictures that are both intimate in subject, and yet graphic and pristinely composed”
“A photograph is an entity. You don’t crop it, you don’t butcher it, you don’t plaster text over it, you treat it with dignity.”
Link: Elisabeth Biondi by Elizabeth Avedon | La Lettre de la Photographie
Few weeks ago DSLR Magazine and Mirrorlessrumors already reported that the upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera will be targeted at professionals which contradicted what Nikon executives have said last year. It is possible that Nikon has changed their strateg
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2011/03/10/rumor-nikons-mirrorless-camera-will-be-targeting-professionals-to-be-released-in-few-weeks.aspx
“A photograph is an entity. You don’t crop it, you don’t butcher it, you don’t plaster text over it, you treat it with dignity.”
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California, 2003
Thomas Kern – Interview A DRUG FREE LAND
By Christian Reister, 2011, originally published by Seconds2Real
Q: Thomas, tell us a little about your photographic career.
TK: I became fascinated by ph
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/03/interview-thomas-kern-drug-free-land.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
The photographs I was searching for were documentary but rest ambiguous and inconclusive at the same time. I was not trying to make a final statement. The images come from heart and mind alike. They are wrought from strong convictions shaped by my own experience of living in the midst of a sometimes deceitfully familiar America – a very personal departure point to explore a very public subject. There was no common language for the confusions and fears triggered by 9/11, the ongoing wars and a crumbling economy. It was my ambition to give this America a face, to create a document, a visual commentary on the state of the nation