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.
Link: Adrees Latif wins ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism | Analysis & Opinion |
in Contests
-
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.
Link: Christian Vium awarded 2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights | dvafoto
in Contests
-
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.
-
12 Photographers – Two Questions
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 –
via John Early Blog: http://johnearly2.com/blog/?p=848
I formalized the questions:
#1 What is the worst moment or time in your photo career and what did you learn from it?
#2 What is the best moment or time in your photo career and what did you learn from it?
in Photography
-
Sargent enjoyed hiking in the mountains and parks of the Pacific Northwest. But with his digital Nikon, he could show other people what delights him, what catches his eye, and what he thinks is beautiful. The result is a torrent of marvelous, quirky, vivid, poignant images that offer a view of a world that “neurotypicals” rarely get to see — the non-verbal autistic mind from the inside, looking out.
Link: Hidden Light: The Visual Language of an Autistic Photographer | NeuroTribes
in Photography
-
So do you think this is photojournalism?
If the answer is yes, then what we knew as photojournalism at it’s purest form is over and POYi just killed it. Well, they didn’t kill it so much as just dig another knife deeper into the back of its decaying corpse. It’s time to really address the crossroads we’re at in photojournalism and figure out where it’s headed versus what it was.
Link: there’s an app for photojournalism | Redlights and Redeyes
in Ethics
-
USB Knob Adds Remote Focus-Pulling to Canon SLRs
This $400 knob proves that the SLR really is the movie camera for today’s indie filmmakers. It’s called the Okii Systems USB Follow Focus, and it does what it says, allowing you to control the focus of a Canon SLR via USB. Think of it as focus-by-wire for
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/usb-knob-adds-remote-focus-pulling-to-canon-slrs/
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.
-
Stock photo buyers say it’s as difficult to find a decent picture now as it was 15 years ago, despite the billions invested in digitising images and selling them online. It all comes down to keywording – and too much is not always a good thing.
Link: Keywording is key – but don’t go overboard – British Journal of Photography
-
In the professional photography realm, newspaper photographers tend to fall in the middle to lower levels of quality – though there are some incredibly talented newspaper photographers.
-
I spent a lot of time researching on surveillance but I realized that there are actually not that many images accessible that show the act of surveillance from the point of view of the observer. Sure, we all know what an image taken by a surveillance camera looks like, nevertheless I thought that there must be more than this. In a catchphrase: I was wondering, if Big Brother watches you, what does he see?
Link: Conscientious Extended | Simon Menner: Images from the secret STASI archives
-
a sensitive, intimate look at the transformation of a town from being a manufacturing powerhouse to a dwindling population with 20% unemployment.
-
Of this series ‘Last Meals‘, he writes, ‘The series visually documents the face and last meal of convicted killers. I created this project to explore the interesting and unique relationship humans have with food and used the last meal as a metaphor to raise questions about the death penalty. In 2010 this photo essay traveled to Singapore to be shown in the Singapore Fringe Festival: Art and the Law. Ironically, Singapore has an extremely strict death penalty stance and I was informed that it is part of school curriculum to watch an execution take place. This is an ongoing project and I am currently researching publishers to make this into a photo book’.
-
I was in Houston, Texas, to shoot a wedding this weekend for a quick 36 hours. On Saturday, I took advantage of being a father and not being able to sleep in for the life of me. I woke up early, grabbed a 5D Mark II, a 50mm f/1.4 and just wandered with no direction. No ambition. No list of things to shoot.
-
Photographer Is First Media Fatality in Egypt; Situation Remains Dangerous | PDNPulse
A photographer for an Egyptian newspaper reportedly died last week of gunshot wounds sustained during the protests against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile, as the protests seem to be losing steam, foreign photographers are reporting that the s
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/1378.html
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported on Friday that Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud, a journalist working for the newspaper Al-Ta’awun, died of gunshot wounds inflicted January 28. Al-Ahram, another paper that owns Al-Ta’awun, reported that a police officer saw Mahmoud filming the clashes and ordered him to stop. He complied, according to Al-Ahram, but the police officer shot him anyway, hitting him in the eye. Seven eyewitnesses recorded the shooting on their mobile cameras, Al-Ahram reported.
-
Today, I decided to concentrate on the chairs that people put out by the curb.
In an hour of driving around the streets in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, I photographed well over 50 different types of chairs.
in Photography
-
-
Canon Officially Announces the 500 f/4L IS II & 600 f/4L IS II
London, UK, 7th February 2011 – Canon today launches two new super-telephoto lenses for its leading EOS Digital SLR (DSLR) range – the EF 500mm F/4L IS II U
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/02/canon-officially-announced-500-f4l-is-ii-600-f4l-is-ii/
Today, I decided to concentrate on the chairs that people put out by the curb.
In an hour of driving around the streets in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, I photographed well over 50 different types of chairs.
-
Build a Better Online Portfolio with Stella Kramer from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo.
We had the honor of conducting a webinar with Stella Kramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor, about photographer portfolios. I knew this was going to produce some amazing insights when we first announced it – but the results far exceeded my expectations.
Link: Building a Better Online Portfolio (Video) – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
-
Newsweek photographer Peter Turnley recounts time with Mubarak and other leaders, many of whom died in uprisings.