Getty Images and photographer Stefano de Luigi have teamed up to create a brilliantly hillarious parody of the worst journalistic stereotypes and cliches about Africa, something that they call (with tongue firmly planted in cheek) “T.I.A — This is Africa
via John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010/10/getty-.html
TRAILER ” WOMEN ARE HEROES” from SOCIAL ANIMALS on Vimeo.
via: Women are Heroes: a new film of concerned photography by JR – lens culture photography weblog
Shots of battle from the war in Iraq in 2006, taken by the photographer Joao Silva, helped lead to a Bronze Star for a brave Marine sergeant who saved a fallen Marine’s life.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/courage-recognized-joao-silva-in-combat/
During a few frantic minutes late in 2006, Joao Silva, a photographer for The New York Times, made a series of photographs of a Marine sergeant, Jesse E. Leach, retrieving from the line of fire a radio operator, Lance Cpl. Juan Valdez-Castillo, who had just been shot by a sniper on a foot patrol in Karma, Iraq.
InMenlo.com – Daily News and Features about Menlo Park and Atherton California
via InMenlo.com: http://inmenlo.com/2010/10/28/inmenlo-founder-chris-gulker-mar-10-1951-oct-27-2010
When I started at the Herald, it was a news-driven paper, focusing on freeway crashes and house fires. I kept a police and fire scanner in my car and in my house and pretty much worked ’round the clock without needing to be compensated for the extra time, I loved the job so much.
Earlier this year, the German photographer Andy Spyra’s photograph of mourners at a funeral in Kashmir won third place in the Pictures of the Year …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/10/postcard-from-kashmir-andy-spyra-and-his-holga.html
Spyra recently shared with me another body of work from the region, which he shot with a Holga, a Chinese plastic toy camera known for its low-fi distortions.
via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/q_a_war_photographer_moises_saman.php?page=all
“If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”
Carolyn Drake’s long-term project, “Paradise Rivers,” isn’t just about waterways. It’s about the environment. Politics. Culture. And change.
Link: Astonishing Confluences in Central Asia: The Work of Carolyn Drake – NYTimes.com
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…
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Fred Ritchin lays out how digital universe allows us to reorder content as and when we please (a contact sheet has an order; digital files can be swapped about, deleted). He posits that along with the demise of analogue technologies, analogue thinking has disappeared.
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
Link: Getty Images signs deal with legendary French agencies – British Journal of Photography
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.
Link: It’s a Portfolio Site. It’s an Archive. It’s Both! – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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.
Link: A certain courage – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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
Link: A prize-winning image? – British Journal of Photography
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.”
Link: A Street Photographer’s Nimble Tread: Neal Boenzi Made a Tough Job Look Easy – NYTimes.com
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
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/10/susan-meiselas-susan-meiselas-in.html
I don’t go in with a concept, the concept evolves and becomes self-evident at a certain moment in the process. In time one accumulates ideas of what’s possible. With each of my projects I’ve come to the idea of what they should be in the midst of them. This has been so from early projects like ‘Carnival Strippers’ right up to ‘Encounters with the Dani’. And of course very often, between shows and books, they have slightly different forms.
Soviet prisoners had a secret language – tattoos. Will Hodgkinson deciphers the hidden meaning of skulls, cats, grins and swastikas
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/26/russian-criminal-tattoos
Soviet prisoners had a secret language – tattoos. Will Hodgkinson deciphers the hidden meaning of skulls, cats, grins and swastikas
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…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/26/british-airways-chai.html
He suggested the practice of forcing passengers on US-bound flights to take off their shoes and to have their laptops checked separately in security lines should be dropped
‘I never talk to them… I don’t ask their permission. I don’t pay them… And eventually…I got into trouble’ – Philip-Lorca DiCorcia I’ve been thi…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/philip-lorca-dicorcia-on-shooting-in-public/
‘I never talk to them… I don’t ask their permission. I don’t pay them… And eventually…I got into trouble’