The unexpected consequences of shipping computers to the developing world.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html
In Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana, adults and children tear away at computers from abroad to get at the precious metals inside.
Credit: Pieter Hugo for The New York Times
A call to arms, not only for myself, but for everyone out there. Ignore the rants preaching photojournalism is dead. It isn’t. It’s changed. It’s what we make of it. Yes, photos need to be shot in 20 minutes sometimes. Make it the best 20 minutes you can. In the end, we’re there to tell a story and even if our little 3-column photo is the only thing that gets a reader to read the eight-inch block of text underneath, our job is done. Onto the next one. In your free time, get off Facebook, find your project, your own path, and make your vision known.
Link: a call to arms – photojournalism is not dead | Redlights and Redeyes
Photoshop and the iPad, a pairing as natural as Bert sharing a bed with Ernie. As of today, you can use Adobe’s legendary image-editing app on your tablet. Or maybe not. Photoshop Express is a reworking of the rather more awkwardly-named Photoshop.com Mob
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/photoshop-crashes-onto-ipad/
Photoshop and the iPad, a pairing as natural as Bert sharing a bed with Ernie. As of today, you can use Adobe’s legendary image-editing app on your tablet. Or maybe not.
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.
Continuation from my previous post – this is the new Nikon D3100 scanned from the German magazine ”Foto Digital” (click on image for larger view): and the four new lenses (click for larger view): I have a scan of the whole article and I am going through a
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.
Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. But she didn’t hear screams — she heard the laughter of male guards.
The women had been drugged, as had Maria when she walked into the house. The guards forced her to swallow a red liquid and handed her some chalky white pills. She drank the liquid and tucked the pills in the side of her mouth, but they were slowly dissolving.
Reporters Sans Frontiers, among the most prominent advocates for a free press, writes that Wikileaks’ recent disclosures–which inadvertently exposed the names of Afghan collaborators…
Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. But she didn’t hear screams — she heard the laughter of male guards.
The women had been drugged, as had Maria when she walked into the house. The guards forced her to swallow a red liquid and handed her some chalky white pills. She drank the liquid and tucked the pills in the side of her mouth, but they were slowly dissolving.
There’s nothing like summertime to get the good times rolling. In the spirit of summer, we’re happy to announce our PhotoShelter “Summer 6-Pack”: six fresh enhancements for your website that will help keep you “cool.”
Link: The PhotoShelter Summer 6-pack for Websites – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
A seasoned photojournalist acclaimed for his brilliant and sensitive coverage of conflict zones around the world tells the amazing story of his evolving career and his Leica connection
Link: An Interview with Michael Kamber of the New York Times « The Leica Camera
After winning the trust of his distraught subjects in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina five years ago, Mario Tama just had to keep going back.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/showcase-200/
Mario Tama, 39, has covered war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has witnessed death and destruction on a grand scale. Yet he had never seen what he saw in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And it was not just the the people screaming for help from rooftops or the bodies that floated by him.
“As an American citizen,” he said, “witnessing other American citizens being abandoned by our own government was incredibly shocking.”
Drawing by Chris Robinson In Britain, several newspapers have devised novel and innovative ways to protest a craven ban on photographers by a football (soccer) club (team). The club is refusing accreditation to any outside photographers “in a plain and…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/08/photographers-banned.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
To protest the ban, one newspaper, the Plymouth Herald, didn’t use photographs at all in reporting a recent game—it used drawings
via: HEAVY DISCUSSION
Framework, the photography and video blog of the Los Angeles Times, celebrates the power and explores the craft of visual storytelling. The blog highlights the work of Times photojournalists who, frame by frame, document the drama, the emotion and sometimes the humor of life. Framework also aims to serve as a resource hub for photography, multimedia and video enthusiasts who share our passion. We will trade insights and discuss the tools and techniques of telling stories through images. Have a look and let us know what you think.
Link: Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times
Mario Tama, 39, has covered war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has witnessed death and destruction on a grand scale. Yet he had never seen what he saw in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And it was not just the the people screaming for help from rooftops or the bodies that floated by him.
“As an American citizen,” he said, “witnessing other American citizens being abandoned by our own government was incredibly shocking.”
Adobe has made available a new beta version of its Lightroom RAW photo editing software. It adds support for a lot of new cameras and old lenses, but more importantly, it squashes roughly a gazillion bugs. RAW photo editors need to add-in support for ever
Adobe has made available a new beta version of its Lightroom RAW photo editing software. It adds support for a lot of new cameras and old lenses, but more importantly, it squashes roughly a gazillion bugs.
File this under “I was speaking to….” “the person said that Canon’s primary focus with the 1Ds Mark IV was per pixel sharpness and dynamic range.” Expect
Adobe has made available a new beta version of its Lightroom RAW photo editing software. It adds support for a lot of new cameras and old lenses, but more importantly, it squashes roughly a gazillion bugs.
Mr. Lockwood, an American photojournalist, documented the treatment of an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam and persuaded Fidel Castro to sit for a highly personal interview.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08lockwood.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Lee Lockwood, an American photojournalist who had rare opportunities to capture political, military and civilian life in Communist countries — documenting the treatment of an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam and persuading Fidel Castro to sit for a long, discursive, smoke-filled and highly personal interview — died on July 31 in Tamarac, Fla. He was 78 and lived in Weston, Fla.
Drew Friedman is not just one of America’s most well-known and widely respected illustrators, but his work is arguably the most identifiable. Having worked for counterculture bibles over the years like National Lampoon, RAW, Screw, SPY and Mad, Friedman h
via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/08/an-interview-with-drew-friedman.html
Drew Friedman is not just one of America’s most well-known and widely respected illustrators, but his work is arguably the most identifiable. Having worked for counterculture bibles over the years like National Lampoon, RAW, Screw, SPY and Mad, Friedman has, in the past fifteen years, garnered mainstream respectability with onslaughts of work for Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Time and countless others. Friedman has also published several entertaining books, including his two critically acclaimed collections of portraits titled Old Jewish Comedians. I spoke with Drew Friedman recently in anticipation of his new collection, an overview of those last fifteen years of mainstream respectability: Too Soon? Famous/Infamous Faces 1995-2010 from Fantagraphics Books.
Black and white had been the only format for the lions of American photography, but in the 1970s a younger generation was ready to embrace something new.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/nyregion/08artsnj.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
“Black and white are the colors of photography,” Robert Frank declared. “Color photography is vulgar,” Walker Evans once wrote in an essay. And Ansel Adams weighed in on a William Eggleston photograph this way: “If you can’t make it good, make it red.”