Fazal Sheikh is an artist and activist based in Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been widely exhibited, in institutions ranging from the Tate Modern to the Princeton University Art Museum to small huts in rural India. He has collaborated with numerous foundations and non-governmental-organizations, and he has won, among many other awards, a MacArthur Prize.
I asked him to do an interview with the PhotoPhilanthropy blog because he approaches collaboration, strategic partnerships and accessibility in a way that I find very inspiring.
I came here to understand the primal drive of the modern hunter, writes photographer Erica Larsen, and to find a people who, when the land speaks, can interpret its language.
Christian Als contacted me recently, to let me know of his project A Childhood Behind Bars. Als visited Cesis Correctional Facility for Juveniles, Latvia’s only juvenile prison. A quick inter…
Christian Als contacted me recently, to let me know of his project A Childhood Behind Bars.
Als visited Cesis Correctional Facility for Juveniles, Latvia’s only juvenile prison. A quick internet search indicated a paucity of information on Cesis; so this documentary project should be considered a important record of this particular institution and the lives contained within.
ALL IT takes to be a photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, is “one finger, one eye and two legs”. He visualised photography as a way of engaging with the world. He quietly stalked his subjects—Balinese dancers, Mongolian wrestlers, New York bankers—until that “decisive moment” when the right composition filled the frame. It all came so naturally. He rarely used a light meter or checked his aperture setting, and he seldom took more than a few shots of a single subject. With the instinct of a hunter, he knew when to click the shutter: “I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life—to preserve life in the act of living.”
Catalonia-based Ricardo Garcia Vilanova has been working on a long term project in Afghanistan about the victims of the Afghan war, both civil and military.
Catalonia-based Ricardo Garcia Vilanova has been working on a long term project in Afghanistan about the victims of the Afghan war, both civil and military.
In a very personal interview with VII The Magazine, photographer Ashley Gilbertson, opens up about the effects of war on soldiers and their families, himself, and the country.
My latest Guardian column, “Digital Economy Act: This means war,” explains how the latest round of dirty tricks from the entertainment industry — perverting British law, proposing…
My latest Guardian column, “Digital Economy Act: This means war,” explains how the latest round of dirty tricks from the entertainment industry — perverting British law, proposing an American police state, building an oppressive global treaty behind closed doors — changes the game. We’re no longer merely arguing about the future of control over culture: now it’s about the fundamentals of a just and free society
I can definitely tell that the rumors chatter started to pick up in the last few days after it was dead for a month. Something is definitely coming – I already started to see the first signs of an imminent announcement (Nikon AF-S 200-400mm f/4G IF-ED VR
I conducted this interview with the late James Fee in 1994 for Camera & Darkroom magazine, where I worked as Managing Editor. It was the first installment of “In the Darkroom,” a department I initiated in which noted photographers like Fee, George Krause and Thomas Barrow discussed their developing and printing methods in relation to their work’s thematic implications. At the time, Fee was beginning to earn widespread acclaim for his “Photographs of America” series, which chronicled a country in decline through haunting images of abandoned factories, hardscrabble towns and neglected cultural icons.
Love trashy, low-contrast photographs taken through a plastic lens, but find them a little flat? What you need is the Holga 120 3D Stereo Camera, Lomo’s medium format stereo-shooter that grabs two shots side-by-side for some photographic 3D action. The pl
And those flash-like rectangles up top? Yup, they’re flashes, and the camera comes with colored gels so you can splash differently-tinted light around from each of them.
Freshly downloaded from the Internet (will not disclose the link – don’t want to get anyone in trouble – click on image for larger view): The details are still the same: The new Leica V-Lux20 will be announced on April 20th, 2010. Leica V-Lux 20 is based
Laura sez, “Mark Fiore just won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning for his animated works appearing on SFGate.com. I spoke with Fiore about what’s next for him, and he said he…
On Ring Road, the highway that circles Iceland, drivers can see 20 oversize photographs by Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson, with shots from the Vatnajökull Ice Cap.
When Iceland’s Eyjafjalla volcano exploded on March 21, the photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson boarded a Cessna and flew to the scene — one he said was “so beautiful you can’t imagine.”
Poland has been mostly about shooting video for me. But I grab stills on the side along the way. As I started going back through some edits, I couldn’t help noticing certain relationships between images. Pairings became a slightly different way to look at things. The connections here are different from one image to the next. Some are literal, but some are just intangibly, emotionally parallel for me.
Canon EF 14-24 f/2.8L NL has been told to expect Canon to “match” Nikon with a 14-24 this year. We’ve posted the patent to such a lens in the past I hav
Firmware Version 1.2.1 incorporates the following improvements and fixes. Extends the timing at which the high temperature warning indicator is displayed an
The Associated Press has just announced that it is making staff photographers available for hire to other news organizations for assignments around the world.
