We have a first look at this cool new PocketWizard accessory, which has an expected street price of US$69.95 in the U.S. and is tentatively scheduled for release late next month. We’ve been testing a near-final ZoneController for some time and it’s great. If you value being able to work quickly with multiple Speedlites on location in particular, the arrival of the ZoneController can’t come soon enough.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: A first look at the PocketWizard AC3 ZoneController
Lighting it up in Austin with Robert Seale from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo.
via: Rob Galbraith DPI: Robert Seale lighting video well worth the time
Here we have it folks, the winners of the 2009 Sports Shooter Annual Contest! The judging was held Wednesday evening at Sports Shooter Academy VII in Orange County, CA.
Link: And We Have Winners! 2009 Sports Shooter Annual Contest « Sports Shooter Academy
PART FIFTEEN IN A SERIES OF POSTS DISCUSSING PHOTOGRAPHERS’ ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF FABIENNE CHERISMA IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2010. The aftermath of the H…
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I am convinced, CONVINCED, that enough evidence exists in the digital files these fifteen photographers to identify and prosecute the policeman who fired the fatal shot.
The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is the subject of a handsome and large — though surely not anywhere near large enough — retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09cartier.html
Rarely has the phrase “man of the world” been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the subject of a handsome and large — though surely not anywhere near large enough — retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday.
We have no choice but to point out that almost every photographer organisation supported Stop43 despite the signatures of some on the BAPLA letter.
The real question is : why BAPLA, Getty, DACS and RPS did not support Stop43 , and why they abandoned the high moral (rights) ground, and with it any claim to speak for us?
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | The short unhappy life of photographic industry unity
Nasser Kalaji was one of the photographers featured in the new Leica travel website. This is what he wrote on his blog today: “April 2010 Immortal Entertainment is proud to announce the commencement of a collaboration with the world finest camera makers,
The Apple iPad, which shipped this week, has created a frenzy of interest amongst consumers and publishers as a neutral content delivery platform backed by cool design and the Apple marketing engine. We asked a panel of industry professionals about the implications of the device for photography presentation and consumption.
As much as in the general public, military blogs have reacted with passion to the released Wikileaks video of a 2007 Apache attack in Iraq. With more expertise than most viewers — as well as more empathy, even among those who felt the pilots acted improperly — they explored a range of issues: Were the people in the video carrying weapons? Is Wikileaks a security risk? Did the military fail in not explaining the video more fully to the media? Should journalists operate so closely to insurgents?
Link: Reaction on Military Blogs to the Wikileaks Video – At War Blog – NYTimes.com
What drives people to pursue a particular subject is often personal. They can be heavy or fun or pursued solely to capture the passage of time. They’re nearly always done not for remuneration but for personal growth. The more anyone sets out to do with their body of work, the more growth there is.
Iraq’s elections were a photographer’s dream. Millions of people turning out to vote, long lines at the ballot boxes, and everywhere photogenically purple fingers being held aloft for camera and television lenses.
Then something bad happens, and you see the real Iraq. Or, rather, you don’t.
With the release of a video of a U.S. assault on civilians, WikiLeaks edged closer toward a form of journalism.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism,” Julian Assange, one of the site’s founders, said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.”
Namir Noor-Eldeen stood out among a gifted group of young Iraqi photojournalists who emerged from the war. His well-composed photographs showed his natural sense of color, and his gift for capturing the dramatic moment.
Link: Remembering Namir Noor-Eldeen – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Buried in today’s reports about another lawsuit against Annie Leibovitz is the shocking fact that her debt has ballooned to $40 million. In other words, Leibovitz has gone from being waist deep in the jaws of a shark to neck deep. It will be a miracle if she manages to pull herself out without losing her image archive.
Link: PDNPulse: What Happens When the Annie Leibovitz Debt Bubble Bursts?
Namir Noor-Eldeen (Reuters file photo) War encourages casual murder and probably always has, but the most egregious examples are still dismaying. Thanks to whistle-blowers inside the American military and the under-funded wiki site Wikileaks, which anonym
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By all accounts cheerful, helpful and energetic, the then-22-year-old Namir Noor-Eldeen had been interested in photography since boyhood. He was one of the first Iraqis recruited by Retuers for a program intended to train photojournalists who had local ties and local knowledge. Chris Helgren, the former Reuters Chief of Photography who instituted the program, said of Noor-Eldeen before his death that he “started from nothing and is now the pre-eminent photographer in Northern Iraq.”
Brunswick Capital Partners has filed a suit against her in New York State Supreme Court, saying that she owes the firm several hundred thousand dollars in fees for its recent role in locating investors who have helped her restructure her debt, Reuters reported.
Link: More Legal Woes for Annie Leibovitz – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com
Tim Rasmussen and The Denver Post have won the Best Use Of Photography category for newspapers with 75,000 circulation or over in NPPA’s 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition the judges announced today, and Justin Rumbach and The Herald in Jasper, IN, have won the Best Use title for newspapers with circulation less than 75,000.
And the Best Use Of Photography category for Magazines was won by Jim Colton and Sports Illustrated.
Link: Denver Post, The Herald & Sports Illustrated Win BOP’s Best Use Of Photography
From 1978 to the present day, Robert Herman has been making pictures on the streets of New York. He is currently working on a monograph of this body of work for publication.
Link: Robert Herman, New York
A look at life in the troubled republic of Chechnya, through the images of the photographer Davide Monteleone.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/documenting-the-chechen-struggles/
After suicide bombers set off two huge explosions, killing dozens in the Moscow subway system last week, attention turned toward Chechnya — the troubled republic in North Caucasus where the Russian government has sought to suppress a violent Muslim uprising since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone has been working there extensively this year, pursuing a project that documents Muslim life and the struggle for stability as the Russian government tries to stamp out the remnants of a war that has continued for nearly 15 years. Based in Rome and Moscow, Mr. Monteleone, 35, is represented by Contrasto.
The class action lawsuit asserts that a planned digital library amounts to large-scale copyright infringement.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07google.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
On Wednesday, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and other groups representing visual artists plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google, asserting that the company’s efforts to digitize millions of books from libraries amount to large-scale infringement of their copyrights.