Photojournalist Bharat Choudhary is the winner of the 2011 Alexia Foundation Grant for professionals, and Amanda Berg and Bob Miller have tied for first place in the student category, the Alexia Foundation For World Peace And Cultural Understanding announced.
Link: Choudhary, Berg, And Miller Win 2011 Alexia Foundation Grants
[slidepress gallery=’prestongannaway_betweenthedevilandthedeepbluesea’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Preston Gannaway Between the Devil and the Deep Blue…
Once a rowdy playground for sailors, the area was rampant with drugs and prostitution. Residents still boast of its edginess. It’s a siren call for transients and misfits. But also a way out from the projects for working class families. For them, the beach is free. And it’s always there.
First, let me make it clear that I’m not a man-hater, I don’t advocate violence towards anyone, let alone men, on the whole, I rather appreciate them. I’m not psychologically scarred or disturbed or tormented – I’m just a doll photographer with a subversive sense of humour.
Link: Mariel Clayton I’m not a man-hater | La Lettre de la Photographie
James Whitlow Delano sought an answer — many answers — and is raising money for hospice and palliative care in the process, as Niko Koppel reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/what-does-mercy-look-like/
Mercy is commonly defined as compassion, forgiveness, kindness or an act of piety. But photographs of prisoners reaching through bars, a wrestler being contorted by masked men and an infant dressed for burial are among the many interpretations of the word in the book “The Mercy Project/Inochi,” created and curated by James Whitlow Delano.
like any project set on the road in America, they inevitably recall the work of photographers such as Stephen Shore or Lee Friedlander – though Robert Frank might be more apt – and that’s quite remarkable, because they were all taken from Google Street View. The US-based photographer, editor and founder of the influential website, American Suburb X, spent 10 months on a virtual road trip, touring through Google’s images of his home country to put together a new take on street photography.
Link: The View from the Streets – British Journal of Photography
You can learn so much about people without ever showing them. This is a portrait of a place without seeing its residents.
About 3:45 p.m., a Sacramento Bee photographer was threatened and chased by members of an angry mob who mistakenly believed she was recording it on her cell phone. She ran to her car, where people surrounded her, screaming and pounding on her windows. She escaped unharmed but shaken.
Three photographers have pledged to continue with the Basetrack experiment, despite losing accreditation from the US Marines they had been following for the past six months
Link: US Marines pull the plug on photojournalism experiment – British Journal of Photography
There’s no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She’s hugely respected for all the right reasons and…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/02/maggie-steber-accuses-duckrabbit-of-conducting-a-hysterical-witchunt/
There’s no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She’s hugely respected for all the right reasons and her voice carries weight. Tonight she’s written that duckrabbit’s (Benjamin Chesterton’s) questions regarding Jodi Bieber’s World Press winning photograph are ‘hysterical’ and amount to a ‘witchunt’. That’s quite a dressing down that deserves some thinking space.
A computer programmer who said his software could prevent Al Qaeda’s next attack won $20 million in contracts, despite suspicions that his claims were a hoax.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?_r=1
For eight years, government officials turned to Dennis Montgomery, a California computer programmer, for eye-popping technology that he said could catch terrorists. Now, federal officials want nothing to do with him and are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure that his dealings with Washington stay secret.
In many countries, women journalists must enforce a particular kind of crowd control.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/weekinreview/20logan.html
women reporters face another set of challenges. We are often harassed in ways that male colleagues are not. This is a hazard of the job that most of us have experienced and few of us talk about.
Patrick Smith–
Many of us in this industry, including myself, are very competitive.
This industry is tough and we all want make a difference in others lives by having our images appear on the front page of every major publication. We work hard, long days, and this dream job of everyone who owns a camera is demanding, largely on the physical side of the spectrum. Everyday sets a new challenge and it’s easy to neglect things that are important to us – such as our health.
In essence, it’s time we recognize our solipsistic viewpoint of only one way to record and document what we deem “photojournalism.” For far too long we have been held hostage by our own stringent rules, guidelines, methodologies and processes of making and distributing what was supposedly photojournalism. To discount Wolf’s work as anything less then what we all do is a rather fearful and, as quoting Lippman, a “democratic defect” in the pursuit of what really should be an egalitarian form of documentation. We cannot thrust upon the public or ourselves an outline of a “proper way.”
Link: “Picture Head”, a response from Donald Weber | dvafoto
The Arizona Republic is reporting that Tucson photographer Jon Wolf and his attorney, Ed Greenberg of New York, demanded $125,000 from the newspaper’s owner for unauthorized use of Wolf’s image of Chrstina-Taylor Green. Green was the nine-year-old girl ki
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/fair-fee-for-arizona-shooting-victim-photo-or-price-gouging.html
The Arizona Republic is reporting that Tucson photographer Jon Wolf and his attorney, Ed Greenberg of New York, demanded $125,000 from the newspaper’s owner for unauthorized use of Wolf’s image of Chrstina-Taylor Green.
The Leica Historical Society of America took the ultimate Leica trip for our most recent annual meeting last September … Germany! We chose Wetzlar, the original location of the Ernst Leitz Company, as our home base for the week. We toured a number of historic sites in the area, had a wonderful cruise on the Moselle including a winery tour and spent a day at the Photokina show in Cologne, but the real highlights for me were the Leica Factory tour of the production facility at Solms and the day I spent at the Leica Akademie.
Link: Carl Merkin: Back to the Source; Wetzlar, Solms and Beyond « The Leica Camera
Paul McDonough arrived in New York City in 1967 with a 35mm camera and entrée, through childhood friend Tod Papageorge, to the photography workshops and social networks of street photographer Garry Winogrand. Emerging from an early career as a studio easel painter, McDonough found photographing on the streets of New York liberating: “It satisfied my sketching impulses… I learned to carry a camera everywhere, all the time, loaded with 400-speed film.” McDonough’s first monograph, Paul McDonough: New York Photographs 1968 – 1978, was published in November 2010 by Umbrage Editions, in conjunction with an exhibition at Sasha Wolf Gallery. – Umbrage.
Attention procrastinators: Due to overwhelming demand and the high-volume of last-minute submissions received yesterday, PDN has extended the deadline to enter the Photo Annual until Monday, February 21, at Midnight EST with no further late fee. Forms and
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/your-last-last-minute-chance-to-enter-pdn-photo-annual.html
Attention procrastinators:
Due to overwhelming demand and the high-volume of last-minute submissions received yesterday, PDN has extended the deadline to enter the Photo Annual until Monday, February 21, at Midnight EST with no further late fee.
Todd Heisler is covering the elections in Uganda, Kerri MacDonald reports. One of the sights that has fascinated him most are campaign posters.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/the-many-faces-of-ugandas-elections/
When Todd Heisler, a staff photographer for The Times, arrived in Kampala, Uganda, on Monday to cover the country’s elections, he didn’t have to look far to find the candidates.
He was immediately struck by their smiling faces, plastered all over the city. As he shot political rallies on Tuesday and Wednesday, he kept an eye out for campaign posters.
Thomas Michael Alleman was a continent away from 9/11. But Jennifer Hamblett says that it found its way into his L.A. street photos.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/los-angeles-elegiac-and-a-touch-evil/
On Sept. 12, 2001, the magazine photographer Thomas Michael Alleman took a $20 plastic Holga camera and began walking the streets of Los Angeles.
Self Portrait, Athens, Ohio 1969, Nancy Rexroth • from the preface to Nancy Rexroth’s Iowa • Since its publication in 1977 Nancy Re…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/02/q-with-nancy-rexroth.html
Since its publication in 1977 Nancy Rexroth’s book Iowa has become an underground classic. Shot in the small rural country of Southeastern Ohio using a Diana camera with a plastic lens, and named after her childhood memories, the book is mysterious on many levels. It has long been out of print and copies are scarce. I found one at the University of Oregon library, quickly fell in love with it, and eventually tracked down its author to ask some questions about Iowa, Diana, and photography.