If one wants to think of photobook making as a spectrum, at one end, there are commercial publishers. At the other end, there are artists literally making their own books: Printing the pages, binding them etc. Raymond Meeks has produced a variety of such artist books, and I approached him to talk about those.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Conversations about Photobooks: Raymond Meeks
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via Engadget: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/17/ap-photographer-uses-mywi-to-cover-bahrain-protests/
If one wants to think of photobook making as a spectrum, at one end, there are commercial publishers. At the other end, there are artists literally making their own books: Printing the pages, binding them etc. Raymond Meeks has produced a variety of such artist books, and I approached him to talk about those.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021706160.html?wprss=rss_world
Across town, a firebrand imam named Habibullah was even more blunt.
“Let these jackals leave this country,” the preacher, who uses only one name, declared of foreign troops. “Let these brothers of monkeys, gorillas and pigs leave this country. The people of Afghanistan should determine their own fate.”
Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the fashion and art photographer David LaChappelle claims in a suit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan that the pop star Rihanna helped herself to too many of the images in the recently release
via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/photographer-david-lachappelle-sues-rihanna/
The suit, which asks for at least $1 million in damages, argues that the video is “directly derived from and substantially similar to” photographs he has created and published that show, among other things, a dominatrix walking a chained man on a leash, a woman in latex headgear and another woman (Lady Gaga, to be precise) wearing only screaming headlines.
Link: http://elysebutler.blogspot.com/2011/02/on-hawaiian-waters.html
The suit, which asks for at least $1 million in damages, argues that the video is “directly derived from and substantially similar to” photographs he has created and published that show, among other things, a dominatrix walking a chained man on a leash, a woman in latex headgear and another woman (Lady Gaga, to be precise) wearing only screaming headlines.
This is new work where he disassembles, among other things, a Pentax camera.
What Fernando Brito (a photojournalist from Mexico) seeks with his images, is that the next time someone sees a photo of a human being who has perished, they would cease looking at violent deaths as a normal, everyday occurance.
Link: Fernando Brito The call of Death | La Lettre de la Photographie
Photographer Mark Laita’s “Created Equal” is a series of portraits of Americans juxtaposed in rather provocative diptychs. Pairings include the likes of marine/war veteran, Baptis…
Photographer Mark Laita’s “Created Equal” is a series of portraits of Americans juxtaposed in rather provocative diptychs.
The turning point in the Egyptian Revolution, Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 11th–13th Exclusive to The Online Photographer Words and Photographs by Peter Turnley I’ve witnessed and photographed many of the most important moments of geopolitical change of
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I’ve witnessed and photographed many of the most important moments of geopolitical change of the past thirty years: the fall of Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, the overthrow of Ceausescu in Romania, the end of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the Tiananmen Square uprising and military crackdown in China to name the most important ones. After following daily from afar the uprising in Egypt, and being inspired by the wonderful and courageous photographs made by many of my colleagues who were already there, I decided last Wednesday to board a plane for Cairo. I was well aware of the potential dangers for journalists covering this story.
Public criticism and a stinging statement from the family of a nine-year-old girl killed during the shootings in Tucson last month have led a portrait photographer to halt a copyright lawsuit–at least for now–against various media outlets. The photographe
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/public-outcry-stalls-lawsuit-over-portraits-of-tucson-shooting-victim.html
Last Friday, Tucson photographer Jon Wolf was poised to file a copyright claim against more than a dozen major media outlets for unauthorized use of his portraits of Christina-Taylor Green. But yesterday he wrote on his blog that because of a community outcry, “I have chosen to halt filing legal action in the hopes of reaching negotiated settlements with those that have used this image.”
Ross McDonnell documented Dublin youths coming of age in a world of drugs, gangs and arson, Dawn Lim reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/coming-of-age-in-dublins-underworld/
Joy riding — stealing and destroying cars — is a rite of passage in the lawless but ritualistic world of disaffected youth in Ballymun, a community on the north side of Dublin. In “Joyrider,” through a series of cinematic black-and-white shots awash in light and movement, the photographer Ross McDonnell documented youths coming of age in a world of drugs, gangs and arson.
Two autocratic regimes have fallen in just two months, attracting dozens of photographers to report from the dangerous frontline. But, for some of these photojournalists, this story is just the beginning
Link: Dispatches from Tahrir Square – British Journal of Photography
Fantastic debate going on in the world of photojournalism right now as two of the top contests have awarded images that stretch the definition of photojournalism. Wait, there’s a definition of photojournalism!? No, and that’s the reason for the debate. If
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/02/15/photojournalists-push-boundaries-with-apps-and-computers/
WOW. You people are really laying it out for everyone. Good job. Now that cameras are basically mini computers you sound like you’re stuck in 1984.
Now that the winner has been announced, the judges reflect on what they have seen over this long weekend in Syracuse.
via The Society for News Design – SND: http://www.snd.org/2011/02/overview/
Amid all our positive observations, we became concerned about the state of photojournalism in the pages we saw. We missed emotional photographs. Glossy magazines and newsprint pages with vast, luxurious expanses of space were largely devoid of powerful photojournalism.
The lack of strong, documentary images puzzled us. We wondered if this has something to do with reduced investment. The industry has lost so many positions for picture editors and others, and yet great photographs can’t be made without time, care and commitment. Perhaps in places where the work is being done, print space to showcase it is no longer available.
When we talk about the World Press Photo winners, there almost never are any distinctions made between aesthetic and content. Now, we could argue forever about aesthetic problems (“what’s a good photo?”), but adding content makes things even more confusing. Basically, what we’re doing is chiding the WPPh for doing an impossible job.
On the morning of February 11, 2011, the international jury of the 54th World Press Photo Contest named a photo by South African photographer Jodi Bieber, World Press Photo of the Year 2010. The image is a portrait of Bibi Aisha, disfigured as punishment
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/02/world_press_photo_winners.html
On the morning of February 11, 2011, the international jury of the 54th World Press Photo Contest named a photo by South African photographer Jodi Bieber, World Press Photo of the Year 2010. The image is a portrait of Bibi Aisha, disfigured as punishment for fleeing her husband’s house, taken in Kabul, Afghanistan. Over 5,691 photographers entered 108,059 images in the 2011 World Press Photo Contest and after the two-week judging period, 56 were named winners in nine categories. It is a prestigious contest and an honor to be named a winner. The following post shares 23 of those winning images.
There are at least three ways of looking at this (and probably many more): 1: Jodie Bieber won the World…
There are at least three ways of looking at this (and probably many more)