Emil Gataullin has developed his eye as a photographer, but you can still see the painter not far below the surface. Teresa Tomassoni explains.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/russian-photos-in-painterly-strokes/
Emil Gataullin has always been a painter. Photography is his passion. He has never worked on assignment. He simply shoots to learn more about his country, its people and himself.
As the year 2010 approaches its last few days, it’s time to look back on the previous 12 months. In the last third of 2010, Wikileaks released hundreds of classified diplomatic cables, 33 men were rescued from a mine after being trapped for 10 weeks, prot
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html
As the year 2010 approaches its last few days, it’s time to look back on the previous 12 months. In the last third of 2010, Wikileaks released hundreds of classified diplomatic cables, 33 men were rescued from a mine after being trapped for 10 weeks, protesters took to the streets all over the world, and so much more. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2010. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please see part 1 and part 2 from earlier. [Editor’s note: The next regular entry will be posted on 12/22] (40 photos total)
The Magnum Foundation has launched a new initiative called the Emergency Fund support photographers working on thoughtful, long-form stories around the world.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/12/new-magnum-fund-pays-out-for-deep-photo-stories/
The Magnum Foundation has launched a new initiative called the Emergency Fund to offer support for photographers working on thoughtful, long-form stories around the world.
Over the next several days, I will share in parts, my favorites from 2010.
Today, is a collection of news photos including images from some of my projects.
Four months after Neil Burgess famously called time of death on photojournalism, the debate is still raging. In fact, it’s been around for decades, as photographer Michael Kamber tells Phil Coomes of the BBC. “I remember arriving in New York in 1985 only to find that I’d arrived too late: photojournalism was dead. This was common knowledge – everybody said so.”
Link: Photojournalism: Wait, worry. Who cares? – British Journal of Photography
Whether he was leaning out a window in the Empire State Building or telling a bad joke, Ernie Sisto knew how to hook an audience.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/the-irresistible-sisto/
Ernie Sisto would hook an audience. He was as good a storyteller as he was a photographer. And, like all good photographers, he was equipped for any situation.
Film Processing Timer for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film deve
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/12/sponsored-post-massive-dev-chart-app.html
The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film development.
As the year 2010 approaches its last few days, it’s time to look back on the previous 12 months. In the second third of 2010, a nearly unpronounceable Icelandic volcano wreaked havoc on European travel, South Africa hosted the World Cup, and while Russia
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html
The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film development.
The Internet, shrinking print media, camera-phones everywhere. How can working photographers separate themselves from bloggers, point & shoot-carrying reporters and soccer moms?
It’s the light!
Link: Registration now open for The Lighting Luau! | Sports Shooter Academy
I put together a list of simple gifts that will let your website know that you appreciate all the hard work. With these gifts, you should expect it to work even harder in 2011.
Link: 7 Helpful Holiday Gifts For Your Photo Website – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
the Print Vendor Network lets you sell prints and products via a PhotoShelter website while assigning fulfillment to a print vendor of your choice, virtually anywhere in the world
Link: Introducing the PhotoShelter Print Vendor Network – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
If you don’t play, your mind can’t grow. I started exploring photography because the image can be so much fun and the more I grew, the more I tended to perceive through photographs the special relationship between myself and Ghana, the country of my birth.
Link: Nii Obodai: Ghana, Who Knows Tomorrow? « The Leica Camera
Slow & Steady explores the contemporary movement away from mass-produced food and towards creative alternatives that offer vitality and potency to participants and their surroundings. In the Greater Rochester Region, individuals have rejected convenience food to responsibly grow, prepare and share sustenance in cooperative groups.
Streaming Today…
Filmmaker Thierry Guetta had been casually documenting the underground world of street art for years, but when he encounters Banksy, an elusive British stencil artist, his project takes a fascinating twist. Unimpressed with Guetta’s footage, Banksy takes over filmmaking duties and Guetta reinvents himself as a street artist named Mr. Brainwash — and, much to Banksy’s surprise, immediately becomes a darling of the Los Angeles art scene.
Brad Mangin:
Mickey Pfleger enjoys a wonderful Saturday afternoon photographing the Redskins @ 49ers game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in December of 2004.
After a long illness, Mickey Pfleger, a freelance sports photographer, friend and mentor to many photographers around the country, died Friday morning in Carmichael (near Sacramento), CA. He was 61.Many people remember Mickey from the stories published during the past 10-years on SportsShooter.com. In November, 2000, he was crushed out of bounds by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez during a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park, and was rushed to the hospital, where an MRI revealed he had a brain tumor. After this Mickey’s life was never the same.
Link: ‘He was always smiling!’
Carmine Galasso has portrayed survivors of sexual abuse who say they were molested by priests and nuns. David Gonzalez describes the project.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/too-painful-to-remember-or-to-forget/
“Crosses — Portraits of Clergy Abuse,” a book by Carmine Galasso, who traveled throughout the United States to document the devastated lives of men and women who were betrayed by the very Roman Catholic priests and nuns they had once admired and trusted.
The Mushroom Collector by Jason Fulford When this book arrived, I saw the cover and was afraid to look inside. I flipped through the first few pages and then put it down. I didn’t look at it again …
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/top-10-photobooks-of-2010-by-alec-soth/
“Crosses — Portraits of Clergy Abuse,” a book by Carmine Galasso, who traveled throughout the United States to document the devastated lives of men and women who were betrayed by the very Roman Catholic priests and nuns they had once admired and trusted.