I’m a struggling freelance photographer just like many out there, I’m sure. I’m not widely known, nor have I been in the industry for decades with a client list that stretches for miles, but I know the sooner I learn to value my own work and the sooner I
Ben Shahn loved his Leica. To be more precise, he loved what he could do with it, especially when outfitted with a right-angle viewfinder. In my last post, I talked about Shahn’s 1935 encounter with a traveling medicine show in a small town in Tennessee a
His just-published series of photos of topless Haitian women receiving care in makeshift “emergency tents” after the earthquake is gratuitous, racist and disgusting.
This month, the dead were Christians. Last month, when Susan Schulman was at the epicenter of violence in Nigeria, the dead were Muslims. Patrick Witty reports.
Central to LUCEO’s mission is our belief in the importance of long-term projects. We also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the Luceo Student Project Award, which will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work.
This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 along with mentorship for the project from one Luceo member. Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel will judge from the ten finalists and the winner will be announced in June.
The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 15, 2010.
In the week’s interview feature, photographer Shawn Records takes the opportunity to dig into what led three photographers who he has admired for years- Jason Fulford, Alec Soth, and Richard Renaldi- to become publishers. We also find out what each of them has learned along the way.
a long and in-depth discussion with photographer Danny Zapalac, who recently came out with a project and self-published book called Mile Seventy Eight. Like fellow photographer and past TMC interviewee, Kevin Zacher, Danny first planted his photo roots in the snowboard industry and has since branched out into many successful editorial and commercial avenues.
Boing Boing partner John Battelle was on a WiFi-enabled flight last night, and wanted to say bedtime-goodnight to his kids using videochat. Lots of parents tuck their kids into bed over video when …
First of all, what everybody needs to realize is that many, if not all, of the photographers who record horrendous events experience them more or less the same way we would experience them, if we happened to be there. What was going through the mind of the photographer who was watching a man get stoned to death and actually photographed it happening? Well, the photographer was probably mortified and shocked and sickened just like most people would be.
If you approach the M9 as you would do with a 1Ds or a D3, you miss the point. The C/N approach is to optimize the camera software to improve the results and to use a lowpass filter to mask the defects. The Leica approach is to show the physical/optical limits of the camera and let the user decide. I find this a more sympathetic way of practicing photography.
Some while back, Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape posted “An Open Letter to Leica” subtitled “A Modest Proposal for Reinventing the M Series.” Not long after, Michael published a response by Thom Hogan of ByThom.com under the title, “Thom…
Based on some of the articles you’ve posted, I gather that you use Lightroom extensively. Can you speak to why you’ve added it to your toolset. How has Photoshop and Bridge, for example, not been enough?
This is an official letter from Leica (I have the actual PDF file, so it is real): Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to inform you that you we will put a new Firmware-Update 1.116 for the LEICA M9 onto our homepage. The free of charge download is e
Reader Chris Lucianu points out another pertinent news item from photoscala.de. Last Friday, insolvency proceedings were initiated against the assets of JOBO AG and JOBO Labortechnik GmbH, of Gummersbach, in the North Rhine-Westphalia area of Germany. JOB
If you’re attending South by Southwest this year, come join Taylor Davidson and myself for a “core conversation” provocatively titled “Everyone Can Be a Professional Photographer.”
Pentax has gone large with the new 645D medium-format DSLR. The 40MP monster has a 33x44mm sensor to fit all those pixels comfortably, and round the back has the DSLR standard-sized screen, a three-inch, 921,000 dot LCD. For a camera of this type the 645D
As you drive down the road you see the landscape changing leading up to the center of the city, District 1 – the financial district. It’s quite telling of the make up of each section really. On the surface everything is interesting because it is different to me. But it’s the details that bring it all together. The blankets and cart of a homeless man mimics the textures of the buildings across the river. The sound of construction nor the passing traffic phases him. He sleeps engulfed by his possessions.