Fred Ritchin’s talk from the Chautauqua Institution is a must watch. It is over an hour, but if you don’t make it through you might just prove his point! He lays out how digital univers…
Two of France’s most prestigious agencies, Gamma and Keystone, which were in severe financial troubles a few months ago, have now signed a deal with Getty Images for the distribution of its archives
PhotoShelter is great for creating tons of online content, but sometimes you want a different way to highlight your best images and galleries. The Portfolio option makes it easier than ever. It’s also a great way for photographers who do a lot of commissioned work to present their best images to prospect for new work while delivering current projects in private galleries.
I spent much of last week with tears on my face as I looked at several hundred photographs that Logan Mock-Bunting made of his mother.
It took a special kind of courage for Logan to make these pictures. You see, for more than four years he photographed his mother’s serpentine path to what became her death, as her body succumbed to cancer.
There’s been a bit of chatter about town debating the winning image (above) in the 2010 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize worth $80,000. There’s universal agreement that the winner, Dean Sewell is an exceptional photographer and that the sole judge, Stephen Dupont is also extremely well credentialed both as a photographer and as someone suitable to judge this kind of award.
The single image winner of BJP’s International Photography Award generated an unprecedented response this year, much of it questioning why the shot was chosen. Here Nick Galvin, archive manager of Magnum London and one of the judges, gives his thoughts
This new series, ‘Exploding Vegetables’, is created by firing a projectile into different kinds of fruits and vegetables reflecting our shift towards healthy (bio) food and away from junk food.
If you asked Neal Boenzi how he took the terrific pictures he did, he would pretend to click an imaginary camera shutter with his index finger and say, “It’s not this.” Then he would tap his temple with the same finger. “It’s this.”
Carnival Strippers, 1973
Susan Meiselas in Conversation with David Campany
DAVID CAMPANY: Much of your work seems to be based very much on process, particularly more recent work such as the Kurdistan project and ‘Encounters with the Dani’. Obviously w
The T stop is the F stop corrected for light losses produced by a lens. In other words, it truly represents the amount of light hitting the film or sensor plane, and setting the correct T stop for a light measurement delivers the correct exposure. Also, different lenses set to the same T stop deliver exactly the same amount of light at the film or sensor plane.
Martin Broughton, the chairman of British Airways, has called on Britain’s aviation industry to stop “kowtowing” to the USA’s ridiculous and inconsistent aviation “sec…
Since the news went out that photographer Joao Silva had been severely wounded when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan on Saturday, colleagues have sent messages of support to Silva’s Facebook page and The New York Times, where Silva is on contract. Ph
Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits. She is a master of scissors, glue, and surrealism. Hi-Fructose po…
It’s World Series time – so I thought I would ask my own personal baseball freak expert, Brad Mangin, about curating a little online gallery featuring the ten best World Series photos to have ever been taken.