The North Shore families who hired Vivian Maier as a nanny came to know a kind but eccentric woman who guarded her private life and kept a huge stash of boxes.
Since a lot of news is light in our coverage area, I feature hunt and shoot standalones usually multiple times a week, which makes me rely on what I think is one of my biggest strengths – my vivid, colorful and fresh perspective, which as Strazzante said better than I could, “images that rely more on composition and color than on a specific moment.” In addition, I’d also add light and subject to that list.
I’m not sure what “top” really means, but somehow I decided that these 25 images out of the over 95,000 that I shot during the 315 assignments this year are the ones that stuck.
In Reason magazine, Radley Balko takes an in-depth look at all the places in the USA where it’s nominally illegal to record the police, and all the people who’ve faced fines or prison f…
Not to minimize police harassment of photographers here in the US, but that’s nothing compared to the pain and suffering of Burmese photographers at the hands of that country’s regime. According to a report in the Burmese opposition news site Irrawaddy, a
To assemble a well-rounded “best-of” list, I asked the PhotoShelter staff (all 17 of us) and many of our favorite bloggers to contribute suggestions from stories that captured their attention during the year. The result, a list broken down into 9 different categories, is a collection of useful, inspirational, funny, smart, creative and simply brilliant posts that make us all a little bit smarter, and a lot more motivated to keep seeing, shooting, and sharing.
There’s always a bit of discord that comes along with the end of each year. In my opinion, this has to do with the way that we draw arbitrary lines that tend to try to force us to close the book on one span of time, body of work, or chapter in our lives. I’ve always felt like these lines are a little unruly and don’t lend themselves to the slower things that are more germane to the human experience. In short, life –just like photography –doesn’t really give a damn about the boundaries we try to impose on it.
Below is a link to a retrospective slide show of my work this year, including my trip following the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Vietnam, a visit to the bizarre Republic of Kalmykia, the food crisis i…
So wouldn’t it be grand to be free from the burden of filling someone else’s expectations in making a picture, to set out to make a picture that you’re not sure will work, that you can’t exactly see before you release the shutter.
In today’s guest blog post, Scott answers a popular question about making great black & white images, with our latest Seattle 100 aesthetic as the case study.