The arguments against the work, or at least against awarding them in the World Press contest, are familiar to anyone who’s followed 20th century art (Duchamp’s Readymades, Warhol’s Brillo Box, Richard Prince, et al) but now it’s photojournalism on the block. The thrust of these arguments can be boiled down to these: He didn’t take the pictures, Google did.
I just came across his latest project “Ponte City” on his new website. He has thrown me around again, and I believe (and hope) it will for many others too. He has photographed every Door, Window and Television in an iconic and infamous 54-story apartment building in Johannesburg.
The New York Times has just reported that British freelance photographer Giles Duley lost both legs and an arm after stepping on an improvised explosive in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. The incident occurred February 7 while Duley was on a foot pa
I love the slap in the face given to AFP and Getty by attributing Daniel Morel Haiti’s images a well deserved award. I am sure they considered the little girl image as a first prize for a long time.
German artist and photographer Michael Wolf received an honorable mention in this year’s World Press Photo for his work A Series of Unfortunate Events based on Google Street View. He speaks with BJP
POYi jurors will decide today who wins the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award. And while that winner will be announced, contest organizers will continue to withholding the names of winners of lesser awards until the judging for all contest c
World Press Photo 2011 makes for grim viewing, including shocking images of torture and suffering. Are these images semi pornographic? Three jurors defend their choice
Independent photographers have been heavily recognised in this year’s World Press Photo contest, ahead of agencies such as Getty Images, Associated Press and Reuters
In the introductory text by artistic director Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq, the exhibition’s title can be understood by explaining that the photographer, above all known for his collaboration with the architect Le Corbusier from 1949 until his death in 1965, “was one of those unclassifiable photographers whose creativity went well beyond his technical skills.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost control of his site’s submission system in an internal revolt last fall, and has never regained it, according to a tell-all book penned by the organization’s top defector, who accuses Assange of routinely exaggerating
Hengki Koentjoro was born in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, in 1963. He is a graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California where he majored in film. He now lives in Jakarta where he specializes in fine art photography both underwater and on land.
Last winter I began to look at aspects of the oil and gas industry particularly its relationship to the land. These are images made for the larger film project where I am using multiple exposures to layer details of the story
Pakistan chief photographer Adrees Latif has won the prestigious ICP Infinity Award in Photojournalism for his outstanding coverage of last year’s Pakistan floods. Working under the most difficult of conditions he led the Reuters pictures team to tell the story from every possible angle.
Christian Vium’s project “Clandestine” has just been awarded the 2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights. It’s a harrowing look at the space between old life and new as young African migrants move to Europe.
It is rare that the most important piece of equipment in your bag is the bag itself, even more rare for that bag to be a black plastic trash sack slung over your shoulder as you walk past pro-government thugs on a bridge over the River Nile. The trash bag’s purpose, of course, is to conceal your large nylon camera bag, which is likely to get you grabbed off the street by the aforementioned thugs.
There seems to be an endless stream of bad news in the US commercial photo industry these days. I read and hear about it all the time – photographers working for less, even being asked to work for free in some cases. Microstock, Flickr, CGI, you name it –