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I am not creating a story about violence that happens to be set in Mexico, but rather a story about Mexico’s present situation, offering a snapshot of a time that will be referred to for decades as people look for answers to make sense of Mexican society. I want each image to convey a sense of Mexico, her color, and her culture. The wounds of this war bleed into every corner of the country, staining the very fabric of Mexican life with violence, death and fear. The psychology of the country is also changing, as people become accustomed to horror and distrust, weakening an already fragile democracy. I am most fascinated by the space between what Mexico has always been and what this carnage is creating.
Success that Friday night was about cutting edge technology, a super experienced news photographer, and having one of the best pilots in town. Saturday’s page 1 picture was shot at a 3oth of a second (handheld) at f2.0 and at 12,000 ISO so without our new 1D Mark IVs it wouldn’t have happened.
“Hi, I’m Jim. I’m from the Internet.”
That was the moment Jim MacMillan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, veteran of 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and former embedded journalist of the war in Iraq, realized the game had changed.
Robert Hood says: Welcome to our improved PhotoBlog.
PhotoBlog has always been about conversations sparked by photojournalism. Picture display has been the primary focus, and the new design makes it better.
APE: When I worked at Outside Magazine we had a flat day rate for assignments but then had to create all these other rates to accommodate certain photographers or certain situations where the use was more extensive. It turned into a huge mess where we did
Robert Hood says: Welcome to our improved PhotoBlog.
PhotoBlog has always been about conversations sparked by photojournalism. Picture display has been the primary focus, and the new design makes it better.
Fukase’s images are grainy, dark and impressionistic. Often, he magnifies his negatives or overexposes them, aiming all the time for mood over technical refinement. He photographs flocks from a distance, and single birds that appear like black silhouettes against grey, wintry skies. They are captured in flight, blurred and ominous, and at rest, perching on telegraph wires, trees, fences and chimneys. Fusake photographs them alive and dead, and maps their shadows in harsh sunlight and their tracks in the snow.
Her newest project, Outbox, explores one particular moment in the life-cycle of everyday objects – the passage from refuse or trash to recycled material. These materials of paper, metal, plastic and fabric, shaped by the treatment they have undergone become unique works through her perspective, sculptural forms with an intense beauty
What I have found most exciting about working with animal subjects since then is the sense of mixing order and chaos, structure with ungovernable elements’.
The 64-bit, GPU- and multicore-optimized Premiere Pro CS5 handles full-res HD footage with aplomb. The app features native support for video that comes straight off digital SLRs, as video evangelis…
The 64-bit, GPU- and multicore-optimized Premiere Pro CS5 handles full-res HD footage with aplomb. The app features native support for video that comes straight off digital SLRs, as video evangelist Karl Soule demonstrates
☠ All cameras aimed at a grinning Johnny Knoxville—flanked by a bluegrass band—outside the theater where “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” made its Los …
As the film unfolds, we meet more upstanding Boone County residents: attorneys, churchgoing folks with jobs. Through both what they do and do not say, we learn how the Whites have terrorized the town they dominate for decades.
Asked to comment on the reputation of the White family early in the film, Boone County evangelist Patricia Smith pauses, then says—”I’d really rather not comment on that.” Who can blame her? These are deadly rednecks.
The Sony NEX cameras represent some of the most innovative thinking in camera design since Canon invented the modern SLR with the T90 back in 1986. It is the first digital camera not to owe the bulk of its design gestalt to previous film-based designs, and as we’ll see, it points to a future where still and video cameras not only converge, but also share lens mounts.
Before interviews with USF-I commanders or spokesmen, the contractor will have the task of talking with reporters (“pre-engagement with media outlets to determine the nature of the interview and the questions that will be asked by the media during the interview . . . to ensure that USF-I spokesman has maximum situation awareness prior to the interview”).
Digital technology has greatly effected the industry and employment of the photographic image but surely this has not ‘killed’ the medium. Visual information is being recorded and shared in ever more cavalier and intimate ways which will continue to impact the arenas of cultural production, including the worlds of art and photography. In my opinion, the increasing prevalence of photographs in communication will increase our reliance on, and the power of, the photographic still.
It was pure luck. I had to get the right fixer. I speak Arabic and I knew how to make my way through. The thing with dictators or with dictatorships is that they make you believe that you are not allowed to. You start self-censoring. It is amazing because nobody would stop you from going to take pictures of the Republican Guards. I realized that when the fixer took me to the Ministry of Defense and the guys from the Ministry of Defense said: “Why don’t you come to us and why are you the only one? We want to show that we are defending our country.”
UPDATE: The LA Times reports that Council President Eric Garcetti apologized to members of the media yesterday for the council’s recent restrictions and promised to rework them. Garcetti also…
Officer Johnson is the enforcer of rules big and small, and talk radio host Michael Linder’s blog reports that he’s even gone so far as to reprimand a camerawoman for her tripod sticking out beyond a designated area, not allowing reporters to sit down no matter how long meetings go on, and restricting the filming of faces of people testifying before the council. So in other words, what they’re thinking is, death by a thousand cuts — let’s just make these reporters’ lives as miserable as possible.
Six college students have been selected by the National Press Photographers Foundation to each receive $2,000 scholarships, NPPF Scholarship Committee chair Dr. James W. Brown announced.
The names of the six college photojournalism students from around the country who have been picked to compete in the 50th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s National Photojournalism Championships have been released, along with the added news that this year’s shoot-out will be in Manhattan instead of northern California.
This is the official press release from Leica UK: 24 May 2010: Following a treacherous 60-day trek covering 483 miles, Arctic explorer and photographer, Martin Hartley, has reached the North Pole with colleagues Ann Daniels and Charlie Paton. Recording ph
“I carried the Leica MP around my neck in a thin waterproof bag to stop the moisture from my breath landing and then freezing on the viewfinder. The camera was instantly accessible all day every day, no matter how cold it got. Every time I wanted the camera to work, it did. The focusing was fast and the shutter never failed – not once – during the entire expedition. Missing a shot because of camera failure due to severe cold was never a worry, no matter how low the temperature reached.”
Her most memorable work documents the lives of the dispossessed; those deprived by birth of the rights and amenities most of us take for granted, touch her.
By Janis Bultman, Darkroom Photography, Jan-Feb Issue, 1987
It does take a tool on you, and it’s not something you ever forget. The people you’ve worked with, if they’ve meant something to you, are going to live with you forever. You also feel a tremendous amount of guilt because you’ve taken something from them. They’ve given you something great, and how can you ever repay them?
