Two photojournalists covering Afghanistan have sustained terrible injuries to their lower limbs from explosive devices. They met on Sunday.Who better to counsel one than the other?
Emilio Morenatti of The Associated Press, who lost his left foot and part of his left leg in August 2009, visited Joao Silva, a contract photographer for The New York Times, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Mr. Silva is recovering. He lost both of his legs on Oct. 23 while embedded on a patrol in Kandahar Province.
Those are the two words that come to my mind when I think about the week I spent at the University of Missouri judging the 65th College Photographer of the Year last month.
I’m a “gear head” and I admit it. So here is a list of some cool/fun/interesting/ and even necessary toys I’ve used in the past year. If there is a bit of a pattern here, it’s indicative of my move toward using speedlights more and more.
Craig Silverman reports on trends and issues regarding media accuracy and the discipline of verification.Stories about errors, corrections, fact checking and verification
This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.
What I’ve learned from the last month of blogging and saying what I feel is that all of a sudden I become the bitter, cranky photographer trying to suck all the fun out of photography and make people quit their jobs. Trust me, if anyone did something because I said it, then I would be first in line to kick my own ass.
Today, my office at the Portland Tribune got a call from the Oregon State Police inquiring about the identity of a man I photographed at the Civil War game this past weekend. Fans rushed the field after the Ducks won, and a group set fire to an Oregon State Beavers shirt. I was moving through the crowd to get at the center of the pack and was surprised to see the small fire at the center. I started taking photos, as people cheered and lit cigarettes and cigars from the burning shirt. The unidentified man then picked up the shirt and flung it into the air as everyone else cheered.
Today, my office at the Portland Tribune got a call from the Oregon State Police inquiring about the identity of a man I photographed at the Civil War game this past weekend. Fans rushed the field after the Ducks won, and a group set fire to an Oregon State Beavers shirt. I was moving through the crowd to get at the center of the pack and was surprised to see the small fire at the center. I started taking photos, as people cheered and lit cigarettes and cigars from the burning shirt. The unidentified man then picked up the shirt and flung it into the air as everyone else cheered.
The LoopIt is a smaller – and possibly better – version of the LumaLoop, a bandolier-style camera strap invented last year by photographer James Duncan Davidson. Like it’s older brother, the strap is slung across the body for both security and comfort, on
The LoopIt is a smaller – and possibly better – version of the LumaLoop, a bandolier-style camera strap invented last year by photographer James Duncan Davidson. Like it’s older brother, the strap is slung across the body for both security and comfort, only this one is designed specifically for the modern crop of mirrorless cameras.
I like photobooks because they solve the problem of sadness and loss that I feel when I see a beautiful show in a museum or gallery that I can’t see again. They satisfy my curiosity about whether or not the work stands the test of time and merits repeated viewing.
The Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 update (Mac|Win) speeds up painting performance and fixes a number of problems discovered after Photoshop CS5 was released. The most significant fixes in the update incl…
A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
Crashing bugs related to typography & fonts have been addressed
Performance of various features has been improved
Crashes related to opening 3D layers, sharpening, color management, and scanning via TWAIN devices have been fixed
Problems with brush cursors, the histogram progress bar, the display of selection boundaries (“marching ants”), scrolling while using the shift key, and the use of action droplets have been addressed
Intermittent file format problems have been addressed
Metadata-related bugs related to focus distance and Orphea Studio JPEGs have been fixed
Lightroom 3.3 (Mac|Win) and Camera Raw 6.3 (Mac|Win) for CS5 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These up…
Lightroom 3.3 (Mac|Win) and Camera Raw 6.3 (Mac|Win) for CS5 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles
Corbis announced today that it has struck a deal to syndicate the work of photojournalists represented by VII Photo Agency. Stephen Mayes, managing director of VII, says the deal is “co-exclusive,” also allowing VII to syndicate its images directly to cli
Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, teamed with photographer Tim Hetherington to spend a year embedded with the Second Platoon in Afghanistan, documenting the hard work, fear and brotherhood that come with repelling a deadly enemy. Hunkered down with the soldiers in one of the region’s most strategic valleys, the filmmakers uncover the dark humor, sleepless surreality and constant anxiety of war in this Best Documentary winner at Sundance.
He needs your help, and a wealth of information to help you do so can be found at the Free Go Facebook Page. You will find contact information for the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia as well as the Cambodian Embassy.
The distribution and publication of photos of dead servicemen and women can be controversial because some people feel it disrespectful. Others feel such images reflect the realities of combat.
In 2000 a group of Australian photographers formed a collective and created a website showcasing their work. It was an outlet for newspaper photographers to get their personal work out to the world. The group was not formed as a commercial venture. While the membership of Oculi has changed over time, the mission of the group has stayed the same: make amazing pictures showing the drama of everyday life.
