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-- Interview: BEN LOWY -- Benjamin Lowy received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, and Libya among others. In... -- The Water Dance -- New York Times Photographer Bill Cunningham has a great photographic study of people jumping over puddles. It's exactly the sort of thing that's every day enough to forget about but a pretty interesting piece....his commentary might even be better than... -- Ghana Street Portraits -- West Africa-based freelance photographer Olivier Asselin has a nice series of Ghana street portraits. The lighting pretty sweet, and he did it very minimalistically, with a Canon 550EX, a 430EX, a Vivitar 283, a shoot through umbrella, snoots, and some... -- AP Restates Ownership; Claims Copyright Infringement Of Obama Poster Image -- The Associated Press said that it owns the copyright to a Mannie Garcia photograph that was used by artist Shepard Fairey as the source of his famous poster of Presidential candidate Barack Obama, and the AP wants credit and compensation....... -- Look3 -- LOOK3 will be held June 11-13 in Charlottesville, VA. The 3 featured artists for the 2009 festival are: Gilles Peress, Martin Parr, and Sylvia Plachy. Other photographers scheduled for participation are: Simon Bruty, Platon, Paolo Pellegrin, Tom Mangelsen, David Alan... -- Paolo's Portraits -- Some sweet frames of Hollywood's elite by Paolo Pellegrin. [via David Holloway]... -- Punk and the Artist -- Here is an interesting video series on punk/hiphop/skate photographer Glen. E. Friedman, and graphic artist Shepard Fairey.... -- Colbert Nails Amtrak Photographer -- Stephen Colbert calls the National Press Photographers Association "a shadowy network that gathers in dark rooms and fears over-exposure."... -- Tim Gruber -- Tim Gruber's Blog has been pretty inspirational lately. Check it out.... -- Shawn Rocco's Cellular Obscura -- In the summer of 2007, Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer staff photographer Shawn Rocco was on assignment juggling lights and other gear when he stepped aside to collect his thoughts, and shot an image with his cell phone camera... -- Pool Spray -- Stephen Crowley rigged an Olympus Stylus point-and-shoot (shooting in video mode) to the side of his Canon 5D to create this first-person video to show us just how quick some White House photo ops actually are.... 
-- High Tech President -- 10,000 Words has a great post-inauguration wrap-up on all the cool high-tech coverage of the new president, including David Bergman's 1,474 megapixel image of Obama's inaugural address.... -- Final Farewell for a Presidential Photographer -- Eric Draper spent the last eight years alongside George W. Bush as the chief White House photographer. Draper, 44, who had covered the 2000 campaign for The Associated Press, took the White House from film to digital as he met... -- The Portfolio of... -- Greg Ruffing... -- The Idea of India -- Awarded the Aftermath Project Grant, photojournalist Asim Rafiqui has launched his site The Idea of India. There is a lot to look at and read, and the site may take a few visits to absorb but will be worth the... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Ye Rin Mok... -- Remembering the Tragedy -- In 1989, Patrick Purdy walked onto an elementary school campus in Stockton, CA, with an assault weapon. His violent shooting left 5 children dead and 31 others wounded. The story hit national headlines at the time, and twenty years later... -- Inauguration Coverage -- This is a pretty cool, pretty different angle on today's inauguration coverage. Second only to this one. Props to photographer Chuck Kennedy for working a remote camera onto the stage and bringing us a different look. The New York Times... -- Inauguration -- The students from OU covering the Inauguration in DC have a blog. In addition Matt Slaby, David Banks and Noah Devereaux have some great photos as well.... -- Dirty Pictures -- Collaboration is cool. So is fostering a love for the still image and finding other avenues to publish outside of the realm of newspapers. Dirty Pictures does both. A group of bad-asses in Portland (Rob Finch, Torsten Kjellstrand, Jamie... -- Photographing the Photographers -- Switzerland based artists GORAN GALIC & GIAN-RETO GREDIG have created Photographers in Conflict which puts people whose names we usually only see under the photos in front of the lens. Some of the photographers profiled include Ziyah Gafic of Getty... -- The Real Behind the Scenes -- APhotoEditor has a pretty hilarious behind the scenes look at Nadav Kander's "Obama's People" shoot.... -- Obama's People -- This Sunday, the NY Times Magazine will be featuring 52 portraits of members of the Obama administration and Democratic Congressional leaders taken by Nadav Kander. The online presentation of the portraits includes a terrific behind-the-scenes sequence from the shoot and... -- Living at the Edge of Life -- The Dallas Morning News spent a year exploring efforts to improve end-of-life medical care. Reporter Lee Hancock and photographer Sonya N. Hebert gained unprecedented access to Baylor University Medical Center's palliative-care team, spending months attending team meetings, observing patient visits... -- Cowboys and Cul-de-Sacs -- For years, Helotes prided itself on its small town charm despite being on the outskirts of San Antonio. Encroaching development in Northwest Bexar County has divided the community recently, with one side clinging to its rural identity the other embracing... -- 1mm per day -- Chris Hornbecker is wrapping up a project called the 1mm project. In his own words, Beginning with 14mm, each day I zoom the lens by 1 millimeter and force myself to use that focal length to shoot and post a... -- Creative Round Up -- Tim Gruber talks about the hard work that goes into being creative, while Nick Onken talks about working hard to make a career, about 10,000 hours worth or work actually. This is a tough idea to sell to folks with... -- 180 Magazine -- There is an online fashion magazine called 180 magazine that has been around for a few years now. Well worth a look, and while it is primary a fashion show, they have a smattering of other types of photography as... -- Film vs. Digital -- Ever wonder how film and digital stack up against each other? Well the folks over at FiveFWD did and they made multi story prints to prove it. That being said, shoot what you love be it film or digital. :)... -- Why do they do it? -- Low morale, shuttering papers, fears for the future, microscopic pay and even less respect. These are a few of the plights that many journalists would list the downfalls of their job. Yet journalists still continue on despite the economic and... -- Last Mission/Last Hour -- In the early morning of October 20, 2006, six days before his 21st birthday, the Humvee Diyar al-Bayati was riding in during a routine patrol came under attack by a roadside bomb and ambush. On his last mission and his... -- Portraiture Now -- Check out Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke talking about some of their portraits.... -- JPG Magazine Lives? -- A recent email to anyone registered on JPG Magazine's website read as follows: We couldn't ask for a better community. In the week or so since our last email, the outpour of support has exceeded our wildest expectations. Your efforts,... -- Question: -- What is a photojournalist?... -- Seattle PI up for sale -- Seattle PI has been put up for sale. The Seattle P-I is being put up for sale, and if after 60 days it has not sold, it will either be turned into a Web-only publication with a greatly reduced staff... -- One in 8 Million -- I'm looking forward to seeing where Todd Heisler's new project goes: New York is a city of characters. On the subway and in its streets, from the intensity of Midtown to the intimacy of neighborhood blocks, is a 305-square-mile parade... -- PDN >$3000 Studio -- If you are among the newly freelanced and looking to build a studio on the cheap, PDN has an article on building a studio on less than $3000 in gear. After reading it, I felt that the article missed the... -- Mario Tama Podcast -- In a Getty Images podcast, Mario Tama details the stories behind his powerful images of 9/11, the US presidential election and pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.... -- Close-Up of Conflict -- NPR Photographer David Gilkey gets a close-up of the Israel-Gaza conflict. So, I had just walked down there and I found a spot that seemed reasonably out of the way, and I heard "Boom! Boom! Boom!" on the metal wall... -- What do skulls, HIV+ blood, and hearts have in common? -- Wayne Martin Belger uses them to make 4x5 cameras. Here's the description for his Untouchable (HIV Camera): Designed to study and photograph a geographic comparison of people suffering from HIV. 4x5 camera made from Aluminium, Copper, Titanium, Acrylic and HIV... -- New photographer social networking site -- A new photographer social networking site, Fotocoma launched recently, started by a Chad Boutin and Burk Jackson, a pair of studio photographers based in Portland, Oregon. They set out to create a network of like minded photographers for critique and... -- Good news for the undiscovered -- Emerging Artists are set to get a boon this year, as people pull their money from stocks to invest in other things like gold and your photos. Via Susana Raab... -- In the Portfolio of... -- Aaron Huey... -- Obama's Unguarded Moments -- Time Magazine photographer Callie Shell talks to NPR about having access to intimate Obama family moments, including Monday morning when she got to photograph Malia and Sasha getting ready for the first day at their new school in D.C.... -- Souza Named Obama's Photog -- Photojournalist and NPPA member Pete Souza has accepted the position of official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama, he told News Photographer magazine. Boy am I jealous.... -- From Finance to Photojournalist -- As an investment banker, Marcus Bleasdale was paid 500,000 pounds a year to sit in front of 10 computers and 25 phones. 'My job was to produce for the bank,' he remembers, 'almost like being a battery chicken, sitting there... -- Blade Photographer Shares Favorite Work -- Recently retired Toledo Blade staff photographer Herral Long, a Toledo native who began working for the paper in 1950, shares the stories of some of his favorite photographs in this video.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Benjamin Reed... -- Photos from Chad -- Christoph Bangert's project on the Sudanese refugee camps in Chad online at The New Yorker this week is worth taking a look at. The story, by Jonathan Harr is also worth the time.... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Ethan Levitas and here's to a happy and fruitful 2009 for all....
-- The Portfolio of ... -- Kevin J. Miyazaki... -- Another Year in Pictures -- 2008 - The Year in Pictures - from the New York Times is a nicely organized, 8 section presentation covering many of the interesting aspects from a twisted 2008.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Nicole Fruge... -- The Portfolio of... -- matthew sleeth... -- Stop Motion -- Neil Gill did a stop motion video in one day that was kinda cool.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mika Ninagawa... -- Flying Camera -- Vincent LaForet is is doing cool things with the 5D Mark II again.... -- Finding what you love -- An oldie but a goodie, Steve Jobs talks about finding what you love. "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been... -- Path to success, path to longevity -- Miguel Garcia-Guzman over at Exposure Compensation has a really cool little bit about surviving as a professional photographer. Personally I found it to be a really good for both those starting their career, those who may be undergoing a mandatory... -- Smelting Factory -- I have always been a quiet fan of Ikuru Kuwajima's work. Here's why.... -- LA Times Revenue follow up -- dvafoto did a quick roundup of LA Times online revenue story posted here a bit back. They just wanted to point out that things may not be so rosy after all. I’m worried, though, like one commenter on Recovering Journalist,... -- A Reviewer's Eye View -- Ever wonder what the benefit of a portfolio review is? Well, Stella Kraner can tell you.... -- Project Roundup -- Drew Angerer does a roundup of the recent projects that inspire him.... -- Good News for the Newspapers -- LAT website revenue now exceeds paper's editorial payroll costs. Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel after all.... -- Photography Overload? -- An interesting discussion on the Blog-O-Sphere between Jorg Colberg and Alec Soth about seeing too much contemporary photographic work being problematic for one's vision. Alec's take: I once had an assistant, Phillip Carpenter, who said something I'll never forget. Phil... -- From Big Rig to Santa Gig -- Corey Perrine has finished documenting a trucker who turns into Santa every year just in time for Christmas. There is also an online slideshow of the images. Watching the images come across the APAD mailing list, I was waiting to... -- Happy Holidays -- From all of us here at APAD, may the holidays bring you happiness and the new year bring you prosperity where ever you may find your self in the future to come.... -- Interview with Tim Hussin -- There is an interview with Tim Hussin over at Mark Hancock's Photojournalism Blog.... -- Burn -- David Alan Harvey has just launched Burn -- his new online magazine.... -- Avedon Exhibits -- Julie Kavanagh, the former London editor of the New Yorker writes a bit about Richard Avedon and his current posthumous shows at AVEDON CLOSE UP | More Intelligent Life... -- The Face of Defeat -- Lensculture has a review up of Sandy Nicholson new book, 2nd: The Faces of Defeat. The cover really grabbed me, but then some of the images they provided didn't really do anything for me. You be the judge.... -- File Magazine -- File Magazine is a photo project that acts like a curator for the internet specializing in uniqueness. In their own words: The purpose of FILE is to collect and display photographs that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, odd... -- Boy Scouts of Harlem -- Tom Leininger points out the trailer to an upcoming documentary on The Boy Scouts of Harlem. It is this kind of work that really gives me hope for the future of journalism, and the future of the multimedia journalist.... -- Cover of the NPPA BOPJ Photojournalism Issue -- APADer Rich-Joseph Facun has scored the cover for the Best of Photojournalism issue of NPPA's magazine.... -- Getty on YouTube -- Getty has a YouTube channel that is worth checking out.... -- UNICEF POY -- UNICEF recently announced their Photo of the Year 2008, and there is some amazing work shown. Alice Smeets of Belgium took the prize as the youngest winner ever, and APAD's own Melissa Lyttle was among the honorable mentions. (Hope you... -- More than a feeling -- Missouri student Phoebe Sexton discovers that that sometimes, photography is more than information, it shows us feeling. It's a good reminder for us all.... -- Newspaper News Roundup -- The good folks over at dvafoto got together a list of all the news on the newspapers that has been coming out recently. In this case, no news would have been good news. Also of note, the Roger Ebert quote... -- The Power of Photography -- I know, everyone's seen it, but NatGeo Photo Director David Griffin talks to TED and has an uplifting message for all us still shooters out there. So go watch it, and revisit that warm and fuzzy feeling again.... -- Photography as Design -- Presentation Zen just posted just posted 10 rules for design that I thought would work for photography as well and they just maybe would produce some interesting results. 10 design rules to keep in mind (1) Communicate — don't decorate.... -- Eye Spy -- Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.... -- Obama: The College Years -- In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack (who is now a psychologist), who asked him if he would be willing to pose for... -- Words of Wisdom -- I find it aggravating that so many young photographers busy themselves with self-promotion when they should just be taking pictures. -- Alec Soth... -- Young Photographers -- Joerg Colberg points to some good advice to emerging photographers from around the web.... -- Ali Nowotny -- 17 year old Ali Nowotny is going through brain surgery this week and photojournalist Kristina Barker will follow her journey. It is worth following on the merit of the starting photos alone.... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Melanie Burford... -- Interview: JOSH RITCHIE -- Josh Ritchie is a freelance photographer based in South Florida. After graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, several successful internships and being a staff photographer in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois, Josh decided to take the leap into the freelance... -- Snapshots from the American Road -- No one has had a greater influence on photography in the last half-century than the Swiss-born Mr. Frank, though his reputation rests almost entirely on a single book published five decades ago. While he has produced other volumes over the... -- Year in Pictures -- MSNB has alrady posted their Year in Pictures -- and there are some really nice images in there from a lot of familiar names.... -- "At War with the Obvious" -- A personal favorite of mine William Eggleston speaking about his work via a film from Reiner Holzemer. Via Lensculture... -- Momenta -- Momenta Workshops brings you a new photographic workshop experience. They are committed to teaching quality documentary photography within a practical real world learning environment. And with instructors like Chris Usher and Ami Vitale, it looks like it could be good.... -- God Rest Ye Weary Journalists -- -- Georgia -- Take a look at Ron Haviv's look at the conflict in Georgia. I'm all for multimedia when it's necessary, but if you take a look at the weak video in this piece it helps make the case for the power... -- Where Is His New 5D? -- It would seem as though everyone except for Thomas Hawk is getting their new Canon 5D, so the San Francisco based photographer went online to investigate his order with Wolf Camera. Check out the humorous transcript of his online chat... -- New Camera for the Stars -- Over at the University of Hawaii, they have come up with an ultra sensitive camera. I wonder if we will see this feature in the Canon 1D Mark 20. A team of astronomers led by John Johnson of the University... -- Jackanory Films Presents -- What the Jackanory? has a conversation with Benjamin Lowy on his epic foray in to the fashion world for New York Magazine's Look, their bi-annual fashion spectacular.... -- Testing Grounds -- My friend and coworker Kathleen Flynn spent three weeks working on a story about the booming drug testing industry in India. Probing deep into the issue of what the cost of medicine really is, in human terms.... -- Chris Buck Interview at APE -- One of the things I say to young photographers now is that what you react against is far more powerful than what you are influenced by. I loved Irving Penn and Anton Corbijn at the time and it's one thing... -- The Newspaper Industry and The Future of Journalism on NPR -- On the heels of the Tribune Bankruptcy, NPR tackles the oft talked about future of the newspaper industry and what this new turn events is going to do. This week's bankruptcy filing by the Tribune Company is the latest sign... -- Apply for the Poynter Summer Fellowship -- Countless talented journalists have passed through the doors of the Poynter Institute over the years. Through workshops and the summer fellowship, the Poynter Institute has helped educate young journalists with intense ethics, writing and multimedia training. The time has come... -- Darfur, by Lynsey Addario -- Miguel Garcia-Guzman goes over the work of Lynsey Addario and her amazing Darfur images. She was the winner of the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography.... -- Why Blog? -- Max Bittle has recently gone through his blog and put a list of all the things he has learned about himself. The list he made really reminds me what a blog is for, connecting and reflecting.... -- Photos of Jesus -- Laurie Hill produced a short movie using photos, stop motion and animation for the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge about all the odd requests that Getty receives. Viadvafoto... -- The Healing Fields -- The Washington Post has put up a cool multimedia peice called "The Healing Fields" about an emergency medical relief camp in rural Virginia. Via the new sun photo:..::blog... -- Trapped -- Trapped is a short by Jenn Ackerman on the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit of the Kentucky State Reformatory The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the nation into the default mental health facilities. The... -- A fresh look at Fashion -- Photographer Benjamin Lowy took a break from covering war-torn countries to cast his lens on the fashion world.... -- Cookies for a Vietnam Mental Illness Hospital -- Keivn German is out to donate 400 cookies to the subjects of his mental illness hospital photo essay in Vietnam. He aims to bring light to the especially harsh conditions over there for the mentally ill. I was invited back... -- TTL War Photography -- An interesting documentary called More than 1000 words is worth taking a look at. It follows photographer Ziv Koren in the Middle East. The documentary makes use of an on-camera camera to record Ziv and what is going through Ziv's... -- Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy -- Tribune's Bankruptcy Filing Petition... -- Who needs a 5D mkII or a D90? -- Given all the buzz and hype surrounding the new still/video hybrids, I thought this music "video" was particularly interesting for its use of over 45,000 still images.... -- The Portfolio of... -- John Cranford... -- Another new Online Photo Mag -- David Alan Harvey of NatGeo fame is looking into starting a new online photo magazine. Worth keeping an eye on and seeing what develops.... -- Making it, a follow up -- Chase Jarvis also has a post on how to make it in the photo industry. The burning question in my mind is will we see an outflux of people in the photography field trying to make a secure living in... -- Young and Hungry? What to do?!? -- Joshua Wolfe has some notes for aspiring photographers. It's too bad. If this were a decade ago I would have said, 'give the kid an assignment' and sent you down the hall with something. Then I would have sent you... -- APJ Contest Winners -- Congratulations to Atlanta Photojournalism contest portfolio winners David Guttenfelder, Oded Balilty and Kevin German. They took home 1st, 2nd and 3rd, respectively. There are also a lot of familiar names amongst the rest of the winners.... -- Rich-Joseph Facun Interview -- Qufoto features the extremely talented, emotionally-provoking APADer Rich-Joseph Facun in a nice, little interview. Sometimes subjects find me, sometimes we find each other, sometimes I'm satisfying a curiosity and sometimes I'm looking for a challenge, something to push myself visually.... -- PDN APAD -- I didn't realize that the editors of PDN were picking their Photo of the Day.... -- Hitler Rants about D3x -- HItler is raving mad at Nikon, and lets his cohorts know about it!... -- How to Make a Contest Submission -- "The work was strong but there's an aspect to entering a contest or review that seems to be overlooked and this is the actual submission process so I thought I'd share with you a few tips on how to make... -- The Lazarus Project -- The Lazarus Project - by Aleksandar Hemon with Photographs by Velibor Bozovic Came across this interesting website for the above mentioned book, which is an interesting, puzzling and whimsical use of multimedia at its core. The website has a feel... -- The Rocky Mountain News -- Rumors are swirling that The Rocky Mountain News, which is currently for sale, will close "as soon as is practical". The Rocky Mountain News has produced some very highly regarded photography in recent years, including Pulitzer Prizes in 2000, for... -- Work ... for free? -- Strobist: Four Reasons to Consider Working for Free David Hobby at the Strobist takes a break from lighting tips to give a convincing argument on working for free. The caveat - you shoot what you want, when you want. "Why?... -- NPPA's Clip Contest Live on AOL -- The award-winning Monthly News Clip Contest photographs from the National Press Photographers Association's long-standing and popular monthly contest will be published on AOL's Pixcetera Web site starting today, NPPA executive director Jim Straight announced.... -- APAD Blog Turns 7 -- I just imported all of the archives from blogger to moveable type and realized that the APAD blog is 7 years old today. 7!! The very first post was congratulating all of the winners at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.... -- The Candid Frame -- Photographer Ibarionex Perello is the host of The Candid Frame, a photography podcast where he interviews 'some of the world's best established and emerging photographers in the world of photojournalism, fashion, landscape, documentary, sports, wildlife, travel and commercial photography. You... -- Cover Charge -- Keeping on the same theme of nightlife work, Thomas Boyd has recently updated his nightlife work, now titled Cover Charge. Check it out, it's good stuff.... -- Un Jour La Nuit -- Un Jour La Nuit is a photo essay by Patrick Zachmann of Magnum about the night life and artificial light. When haunting a giant metropolis, I stay awake all night, although I’m not a sleepwalker, nor an insomniac, nor a... -- A Holiday Present for Former Staffers -- John Harrington is offering a free copy of his book Best Business Practices for Photographers to those news paper staffers that have been recently laid off. The details are on his blog.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Muge... -- The Dear Leader -- Christopher Morris' film The Dear Leader is a conceptual look at Dubya.... -- Q&A: Damon Winter on Covering Obama -- Daryl Lang over at pdnonline.com has a nice Q&A with Damon Winter about his photos of Barack Obama's campaign for president. This was my first time covering a campaign and to be honest, when I first started in New Hampshire,... -- The Women of Evangel -- In this multimedia piece, The Women of Evangel, Healing and Hope, Western Kentucky's photojournalism coordinator James H. Kenney Jr. sheds light on Nigerian women cast away from their communities because of a gruesome complication during child labor called vesicovaginal fistula... -- Newspaper Profit Margins Healthy? -- Gannett Blog: Documents reveal double-digit profit margins at scores of papers now on verge of massive layoffs Here's an interesting blog entry citing some healthy profits for Gannett newspapers, and giving a little weight to the argument that many layoffs... -- World's Last Kodachrome Lab -- Mike Hutmacher of the Wichita Eagle gives a behind-the-scenes look at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas. Dwayne's is the last lab in the world that still processes Kodachrome film. How long will they continue the service? Read the story to...
-- APAD Bloggers Wanted -- I've always thought of APAD as a community -- a listserv and a website shaped by the people, for the people. Sometimes, sadly, it feels like it's dominated by one -- me -- and that's not my intention. So here's... -- Itkoff's Portraits -- Michael Itkoff, a former intern of Annie Leibovitz, has traveled the world since 2002 taking portraits of everyday people in the street. The subtle twist to these portraits is a small makeshift white backdrop that is held behind each... -- Tim Hetherington's Canon -- Why 2008 World Press Photo of the Year winner Tim Hertherington uses a 5D... [via words on photography]... -- The Places We Live 2 -- Here's an update to the other day's post: There's also a video interview with Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen on his The Places We Live project.... -- Snap Judgments -- What are the rules that govern journalistic portrait photography? Wide-angle lenses, nonstandard lighting, shooting from below - they're all fair game and frequently employed by photogs working for major publications. But what obligation is there to the subject?... -- I Wish I Had a Gun, Not a Camera -- I told some policemen the gunmen had moved towards the rear of the station but they refused to follow them. What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? I only wish I had... -- The Portfolio of... -- Kendrick Brinson... -- Journal from Mumbai -- APAD'er Michael Rubenstein shared his first-hand experience in an audio slideshow for the New York Times.... -- A Camera That's Protecting the Earth -- The Institute for Astronomy in the University of Hawaii has conceived this powerful camera and it is all in the name of saving mankind. This 1.4-gigapixel camera prevents doomsday on Earth.... -- The Places We Live -- The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. This triumph of the urban, however, does not... -- The Portfolio of... -- Justin Mott... -- Pocket Wizards -- WOW! These may be the geekiest Halloween costumes EVER. But the caption is pretty great. Walkie talkies OR sex toys?!?!... -- Nutopia -- I just spent a lot of time looking at the work of Nutopia Magazine.... -- Palton Audio -- Vincent Laforet posted audio of Platon's talk at this year's Eddie Adam's Workshop. Platon is known for his photo of TIME Magazine's Person of the Year Vladimir Putin and most recently for his portraits of service members for the New... -- We're Just Sayin' -- Finally... we get to see some of David Burnett's images from the Olympics.... -- Annie vs. the Queen -- Speaking of Annie Liebovitz, she is doing national media this week to promote her new book Annie Leibovitz at Work. Last week was NPR's turn. In an interview for Morning Edition, Leibovitz told some stories about the early parts... -- The Portfolio of... -- Colin Finlay... -- Martin Parr's lesson -- The lesson is simple: Photograph what you love. -- LIFE images online -- LIFE photo archive hosted by Google 2 million images available for search already, and 10 million total in the coming months. Most images have never been published. Interesting...... -- Who It Takes -- A photographic portfolio of the candidates, operatives, handlers, hustlers, true believers, and warriors who brought you the most epic presidential campaign of our lifetime. Check out Jeff Riedel's sweet campaign essay here.... -- Tea and Wallaby -- The New Yorker has an audio slideshow where photojournalists talk about memorable on-the-job meals.... -- Last Photos -- Here are ten fascinating "last pictures." The photos, which range in date from the Civil War to the 2004 Tsunami, include the last photos taken by a photographer before he or she dies as well as the last known photos... -- Advice to young photographers courtesy of Magnum -- Alec Soth provided us the opportunity to hear snippets of advice from some of the world's finest in photography :: Magnum Blog / Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers - the photo blog of Magnum Photos A personal favorite... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dave Jordano... -- Tim Hussin is the new CPOY -- The winners of the College Photographer of the Year competition were announced today, with APAD'er Tim Hussin taking gold. Amanda Lucier and Lane Christiansen took silver and bronze, respectively. Congratulations to all this year's winners!... -- The Portfolio of... -- Erik Lunsford... -- More Foreign Photoshop Controversy -- While the case for this being manipulated isn't quite as definitive as some past examples, it seems like North Korea may be showing off its mastery, or lack thereof, of Photoshop with its latest attempts to convince, well, everyone that... -- More Dark News for the Magazine Industry -- Publishing giant Time, Inc. asked for 100 volunteers to leave editorial staff positions at magazines such as Time and Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated, long recognized as one of the premier venues for sports photography, was particularly hard-hit, with 40 buyouts... -- Vanity Fair's top 25 news photographs -- This has been up for awhile, but it's an interesting collection of some classic news photos, along with a few surprises, from throughout history.... -- Crime and Punishment -- Magnum group has a new essay on the death penalty: Elkie Lee Taylor, 47, convicted in the robbery and murder of 64-year-old Otis Flake in Fort Worth, will be executed by lethal injection. In November 2008, six men are scheduled...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Ryan Pfluger... -- Free food, NPR and interns -- Stuff journalists like is only funny because it's true.... -- The Blogging Scholarship -- Do you maintain a blog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on. College Scholarships.org is giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs.... -- Life of a Photograph -- I'm excited about Sam Abell's new book "The Life of a Photograph." It's predecessor, The Photographic Life had a huge impact on me, and hearing Sam speak several times has been a huge source of inspiration. You can buy it... -- Making $ Doing What You Love -- Food for thought today... Tim Gruber has a nice post on making money doing what you love.... -- Soth is Back -- Alec Soth has reentered the blogosphere with a post over at theMagnum Blog.... -- Colin Powell Cites Platon Photo In Obama Endorsement -- President Bush's former Secretary of State Colin Powell was moved to endorse Barack Obama in part by a photo he saw in a magazine. On Meet The Press this morning, Powell said he was troubled by members of the... -- Eddie Adams Multimedia -- The multimedia presentations from this year's Eddie Adams Workshop are now online. I had the pleasure of working with Kate Szrom who photographed a young boxer trying to find his way and Brian Powers who photographed a 60-year old hunter.... -- InSight America -- Eli Reed just returned from Hawaii, Obama's childhood state. Alex Webb and Gilles Peress are on the road in Ohio; Thomas Dworzak in Pennsylvania. David Alan Harvey is in Virginia exploring the theme of the American family. And Bruce Gilden... -- Georgian Diary -- The Russians invaded Georgia on August 8th, while George W. Bush was in Beijing attending the Olympics. Twenty days passed and Barack Obama was officially named the Democratic Party candidate for the 2008 presidential run. In the meantime, the escalating... -- Hard Times -- The Washington Post's Travis Fox set out on a cross country journey. With this in mind, he's on 3000-mile road trip, from California to Washington, D.C., to see up close how the economic woes are beginning to affect regular people... -- On Chaos, Fear, Survival and Luck -- We are like swimmers lost on a vast, dark sea. Lightning streaks out from a distant storm to show us a direction and off we go, furiously slashing the waves toward the light and hopefully land. Too soon, darkness settles... -- Getty Grants Program adds Student Grants for '09 -- The Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography program is one of the best funding opportunities out there right now -- they award five $20,000 grants a year to professional photographers, along with support from Getty photo editors and an optional... -- Aperture Live -- Aperture just launched Aperture Live, a new initiative to offer live webcasts of their artist talks, panel discussions and other events online. In addition, these webcasts will be archived so that all of us can watch what we missed. Aperture... -- Life Rises From the Ashes -- Time and Getty plan to resurrect the LIFE brand online. "The new service is a 50-50 joint venture between Getty Images and Time Inc. The partnership marries two companies that have decidedly different histories: a legacy print media publisher and... -- Question: -- Was Cartier-Bresson a thief?... -- Nachtwey's Announcement pt. 2 -- Spread the story. Stop the Disease.... -- A New Multimedia Site -- Multimediamuse is impudent, they're plugged-in, and they're staying anonymous. They're three photographers who believe in creating a greater corporate news demand for online photojournalism. Currently, news sites often give lousy play to multimedia projects. Lousy play means fewer web clicks.... -- Nachtwey's Announcement -- Following much pre-launch hype from various bloggers like Rob and Mediastorm, among others, James Nachtwey is set to unveil his TED project on Friday, Oct. 3. Here’s a list of places to watch as the story unfolds. I’d drive to...
-- Platon's Service Portraits -- This summer, the photographer Platon took pictures of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. He followed them on their journey through training and deployment, after demobilization and... -- Reverie -- Vincent Laforet's independently-produced short film, shot with a prototype 5D Mark II, is now live on Canon's website. Join the discussion in the comments on his blog, and check out the behind-the-scenes "making of" video.... -- What You Can't See Matters -- Chase Jarvis has a great post about why certain people get hired by clients and why others do not. It's a good read for everyone, entitled "What You Can't See Matters!" Jarvis says, "Obviously, as professional photographers, we're most commonly... -- 5D MarkII review -- Vincent Laforet's Blog has an nice, comprehensive post on the new Canon 5D MarkII, which he says "will possibly change the path of my career as well as the photography industry to some degree."... -- This is... -- post #1000. Yay.... -- Cup o' Joe -- Now I'm craving a good cup of coffee.... -- Gray Team: Grant Morris -- Last year, I was lucky enough to have some amazing students on my team at the Eddie Adams Workshop. When watching the final slideshow at the end of the weekend, it was hard not to take pride in the fact... -- Flickring Out -- What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs?... -- PhotoShelter's Closing Their Stock Agency -- A day after PhotoShelter announced that it was closing its PhotoShelter Collection stock photo service, PDN spoke to CEO Allen Murabayashi and vice president of marketing Andrew Fingerman. We had a few key assumptions that we were predicating the business... -- More on Jill Greenberg -- Editor James Bennet said Greenberg behaved improperly and will not be paid for the session. He said the magazine is also considering a lawsuit. "She has violated the terms of our agreement with her, of our contract with her... -- Stanley Greene Video -- Just published on PDNOnline: Stanley Greene: Photographing Illness While Confronting His Own. Here is a video interview that accompanies the story. (Note: The video may play after a short commercial.)... -- A Whale of a Tale -- I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best... -- The Portfolio of... -- Peter Granser... -- The Portfolio of... -- Shoshanna White... -- The Manipulator -- Jill Greenberg vs. John McCain. Her website is called "The Manipulator." She's a disgrace to the profession. Enough said.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Rodney Smith... -- Alternative Uses of Photography -- Here's a couple of different ways to approach photography: Korean photographer Yeon Doo Jung has started an interesting project that reenacts children's drawings and turn their fantasies into the real world through his camera. And then there's Flickr user Balakov... -- The Portfolio of... -- Robert Cohen... -- Perpignan's Heated Debate -- The final conference Saturday was probably the most interesting (and inflammatory) of the week. It focused on a photo that was made in South Africa by photographer Kim Ludbrook, who sent it to his agency, European Pressphoto Agency, which in... -- Jostling for the Runway -- If it wasn't for the pizza that some vendor sold in the main tent at Bryant Park during Fashion Week a decade ago, Isabelle Erb, who turned 17 on Saturday, might never have developed an abiding interest in fashion... -- A Gregorian Diary -- The Russians invaded Georgia on August 8th, while George W. Bush was in Beijing attending the Olympics. Twenty days passed and Barack Obama was officially named the Democratic Party candidate for the 2008 presidential run. In the meantime, the escalating... -- Vewd -- Vewd is a documentary photography magazine that aims to continue the tradition of storytelling through an ever evolving visual medium. Launched in early 2008, Vewd is committed to bringing to the forefront versatile essays from up and coming but largely... -- Annie Gets Her Shot -- Four of the most memorable Annie Leibovitz shot -- of Mick Jagger, Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Queen Elizabeth II -- gain added power from the stories behind them, shedding as much light on Leibovitz's portrait-making process as on her... -- Scenes from the Front Lines -- In the past year, contributing editor Sebastian Junger and contributing photographer Tim Hetherington, winner of the 2007 World Press Photo of the Year award, returned to Afghanistan's Korengal Valley to embed with Battle Company, a unit of the U.S. Army's... -- The Portfolio of... -- Kevin Cooley... -- The Portfolio of... -- David Rochkind... -- Lynsey Addario in the NYTimes -- PAKISTAN'S WILD, LARGELY ungoverned tribal areas have become an untouchable base for Islamic militants to attack Americans and Afghans across the border. Inside the tribal areas, Taliban warlords have taken near-total control, pushing aside the Pakistani government and imposing... -- The Portfolio of... -- Espen Rasmussen... -- Iraqi Fruge -- My friend Nicole Fruge is in Iraq, for the fourth time. Thankfully, not much is happening where she's at and with the group she's embedded with. Which means she's safe(r), but which sucks for pictures -- but with her... -- Damon Winter's Lens -- Capturing these collisions, which can range from the delightful to the absurd, in a single image presents a daunting challenge for a photographer. One solution is to use double exposures: taking two distinct photographs on the same piece of film.... -- Making of Convention Pics -- Todd Heisler, Damon Winter and David Scull discuss image-making during the RNC and DNC.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brent Stirton... -- At last, at last, a dream fulfilled -- Forty-five years after Martin Luther King called on America to live out the true meaning of its creed - that all men are created equal - a senator from Illinois becomes the first African-American nominee of a major political party.... -- Visa Pour L'Image -- I've been watching PDN Twitter from Perpignan. Congrats to all the winners. And to Daryl Lang for getting to go!... -- 20x200 -- 20x200 turns one today!... -- Getty Grant Winners -- Lynsey Addario, David Gillanders and Eugene Richards have won the latest three Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000 each. [via PDN Pulse]... -- Reeder wins at Perpignan -- Mona Reeder of the The Dallas Morning News has won the Visa d'or International Daily Press Award. Thirty-one photographers from newspapers around the world were nominated. This is the first time an American newspaper photographer has won since 2003, when... -- Leeson's Moving On -- It's a sad day in newspapers when we've lost another good one to cutbacks and the current economy. Dallas Morning News photo/video journalist David Leeson took the buy-out . David does sound optimistic about what the future holds though:I've known... -- Indian Vogue Goes to Far? -- A Vogue fashion shoot that used ordinary citizens of India, rather than models, is drawing criticism and debate on the subcontinent.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke...
-- Anti-War Billboards -- An article published in today's New York Times (New York Edition) reports on some last-minute censorship of anti-war billboards scheduled to be displayed in St. Paul during the GOP convention next week. New York photographer Suzanne Opton has created... -- Tim Janicke Charity Auction -- There's a charity auction going on -- Welcome to the Tim Janicke Photo Gallery: Photographers from around the country have donated photographs to help Tim Janicke, a longtime Kansas City Star photographer, and his family cope with Tim's illness. The... -- Stuff White People Like... -- Unpaid Internships [dripping with sarcasm, of course]... -- Multimedia Shooter is back -- Oh Happy Days!! Did you know that MultimediaShooter is back? And that Richard Koci Hernandez has left his deputy director of multimedia job at the San Jose Mercury News to accept a Ford Foundation multimedia fellowship at the University of... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ed Linsmier... -- DNC's Finest Photogs -- Damon Winter, Matt Slaby and David Banks have been kicking ass at the DNC.... -- Drunk at the DNC -- Two hot-shot, bad-ass young photojournalists, are bringing us a new look at politicking. Drunk at the DNC offers a unique look at covering a huge event, differently. For people, like me, who believe that there is no such thing as... -- Trying to Make an Image -- Kenneth Jarecke says that we've gone from making images to just simply taking pictures. "No wonder the images are forgettable and leave the viewer feeling... nothing." This year, the Olympic Games, as an example, were photographed at a consistently high... -- Magnum Meeting -- Let's all strive for creating personal documentary work.... -- DSLR HD video?! -- While many photographers have anticipated the day their DSLR's would be taken from them and replaced with an HD video camera no one thought the opposite might happen - a DSLR that shoots HD video. (via Chase Jarvis blog)... -- Griffin Talks -- National Geographic magazine's Director of Photography David Griffin gave a great 15-minute talk at TED. Siting photojournalists Sam Abell, David Alan Harvey, Nick Nichols and Steve McCurrry, and the stories they've brought to life through the power of their vision,... -- Making the Digital Millennium Copyright Act work for you -- Carolyn E. Wright , an attorney dedicated to the legal needs of photographers has a great primer over on the Black Star Rising blog on how to send a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice to an offenders ISP when... -- Newsweek asks... -- "Where do you think the public faith in photojournalism is now?" John Long, the ethics committee chair for the NPPA, responds: "It's pretty low. We definitely haven't gotten any stronger. There seems to be a sense its bad and I... -- More Legislation ... -- Besides the Orphan Works there's more legislation that deserves some special attention. Hopefully the public can get some of their rights back with its' passage. Bill Would End Ban on Photos of Returning Military Dead... -- Eich @ NG -- This summer Matt Eich is interning at National Geographic Magazine in Washington, DC and will be keeping a blog of his travels on the On Assignment blog section. Check it out! [via Luceo's blog]... -- Luceo Images -- Luceo Images features some of my favorite favorite young photographers: David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Kevin German, Chip Litherland, Tim Lytvinenko and Matt Slaby. I wish them luck. It's the hope and promise of a positive rebirth for... -- Magnum's Meiselas -- This article on Susan Meiselas, who joined Magnum Photos at the age of 26 just makes me feel lazy.... -- Photo-Eye Blogs -- If you're interested in photo books, catalogs, zines, prints and other forms of published or printed photography, you'll want to know about the blog Buffet by Andrew Phelps that I stumbled upon today thanks to the new online photo-eye Magazine... -- Days With My Father -- For me, Days With My Father, Phillip Toledano's moving portrayal of his father's struggle with life with no short-term memory, easily surpasses any of Phillip's other work. It's interesting how this mirrors Richard Avedon's amazing portraiture of his ailing... -- The Portfolio of... -- Richard Avedon... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dan Saelinger... -- Photojournalists Are People Too! -- Check out Alissa Quart's essay about photojournalism in the Columbia Journalism Review. Quart has done her research and delivers a clear defense of documentary photography, as it faces threats from all sides. Unfortunately, the essay is fixated on the condescending... -- More Olympics -- David Burnett also started blogging his Olympic experience. Definitely one to watch.... -- Photography as a Weapon -- There's a great article by Errol Morris in the New York Times about the power of photography to deceive even the mainstream media. It includes lots of examples from recent times, and interviews with a couple experts in visual propaganda.... -- The Frame -- The Sacramento Bee's new blog The Frame is a lot like the Boston Globe's Big Picture. Both are much needed and refreshing in the newspaper realm of online entities.... -- Olympic Blogging -- I love seeing different looks from the same events. Everyone I know is blogging from the Olympics. And it's cool to see what they see and live through their experiences with them. The blogs I'm watching are: Kevin German Chris... -- Parr's Poignancy -- PDN has a nice little interview with Martin Parr online, where he asserts that "You have to disguise things as entertainment, but still leave a message and some poignancy." He thinks its time that photojournalism " has to get modern"... -- Sk8 or Die -- Travis Dove has expanded his Skatopia essay into a nice body of work for Rolling Stone magazine, where they published a nice chunk of them on their website in what they're calling Eighty-Eight Acres of Anarchy in the USA.... -- The Girl in the Window -- She was found curled up in a filthy room, unable to speak or make eye contact. They called her a feral child. Could nurturing make up for a lifetime of neglect? The girl in the window is a story about...
-- GeekFest 2008 -- There are some minor schedule changes, so I thought I'd repost the GeekFest line-up: If you're anywhere near Florida August 1-3, St. Petersburg is the place to be. For the nominal fee of $100, you can hang out with the... -- The Portfolio of... -- Caroline Irby... -- An Alleycat in Harlem -- For nearly three decades, Mr. Dejean, 63, a small, neatly dressed man with intense eyes behind thin silver-rimmed frames, has been an unofficial neighborhood photographer, chronicling the famous, the infamous and the anonymous. "I've seen all the changing faces of... -- Space Cameras -- From the first space journey on Oct. 3, 1962, Hasselblad cameras have played an integral part in the Space program, capturing the images that help us to understand our world and its surroundings. See the cameras that have shaped our... -- For the Love of Ping Pong -- Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography, and has now turned his eye toward China's love of table tennis with some gorgeous black and white images. In China, ping pong is more than... -- Alex Majoli: An Unvelied Secret -- From 1961-1987, 110 Eskimo children in 15 Alaskan villages were sexually abused by 12 priests and three Catholic Church volunteers. The secrets of the abused remained buried, until 2002, when the Catholic Church sex scandal came to light, implicating the... -- Supply and Demand -- Why your images are worthless...... -- Congo -- The Congolese are generally not the most willing of subjects particularly when they think that the photographer will somehow profit from the exchange at their expense. After a week or two struggling to work on stories on the Congo River... -- Africa as You've Never Seen It -- Pieter Hugo is a young South African photographer causing a stir and winning prizes for his unsettling images of the continent's marginal people."Some people have said to me that Pieter's subject is so dramatic that it would be hard... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brian Gaberman... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ryan Pfluger... -- Photojournalist sent home from Iraq -- Disembedded: Marines Send a War Photographer Packing... -- APAD T-shirts -- I'd like to introduce to you, the long-awaited, much-anticipated APAD t-shirts, with a smashing new logo designed by Bill Manley. They are for sale at both Skreened and CafePress stores. The banner reads, "In Image, Truth." Skreened is printed... -- Drive -- Andrew Bush mounted a camera to his passenger window and photographed people driving around Los Angeles. Bush's unique images of drivers has been collected into a book called Drive.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Koen Demuynck... -- The Portfolio of... -- Alison Malone... -- The Portfolio of... -- Anthony Blasko... -- Falling Down -- You've likely seen Dennis Darzacq's photos of people who look like they're falling and about to hit the ground at a high velocity. Lens Culture has a video that shows how Darzacq makes those photos; he plays a clever mind... -- Hurray! -- Interactive Narratives is back!... -- Joe McNally's Blog -- Do you want to know how to light something? How to be inspired by lighting something? Drool over the way something is lit? If so, check out Joe McNally's Blog.... -- Have You Had Your Kashi Today? -- Mary Virginia Swanson has a great post on Ed Kashi, including a link to an interview with him on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning about his newest book Curse of the Black Gold. Go read it. Then do yourself a... -- How Lenses Are Made -- -- GeekFest 2008 -- If you're anywhere near Florida August 1-3, St. Petersburg is the place to be. For the nominal fee of $100, you can hang out with the APhotoADay community, which is having its annual gathering. The weekend is jam packed with... -- Kabul in Transition -- New York Times photojournalist Tyler Hicks discusses his experiences covering the the changing capital of Afghanistan in this audio slideshow presentation by the Times.... -- Track Super Stars -- 1 race, 4 photographers, 9.68 seconds -- four Oregonian staff photographers reflect on their coverage of the men's 100 meter finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials.... -- Congrats to New Magnum Members -- We've heard the names of the new Magnum Photos members who were elected at the cooperative's meeting in Paris last week: Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D'Agata and Alec Soth have been elected full members. Olivia Arthur and Peter Van Agtmael are... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brian Cassella...
-- Couple in "The Americans" motorcycle photo identified -- As Robert Frank's The Americans turns 50, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is exhibiting the book's 83 photographs. The Indianapolis Star published an article (no longer available free on their website) about the exhibition accompanied by a photo from the... -- Photographer Interviews on Pix Channel -- Photographer Randi Lynn Beach and graphic designer Doug Beach have created a great resource for folks wanting to get a little deeper into the minds of some of photography's legends. The site includes interviews with Eliott Erwitt, Arnold Newman and... -- Domestic Vacations -- Julie Blackmon's new book "Domestic Vacations" is filled with conceptual images taken from her everyday life as a mother of three. Her work addresses the mundane elements of dinner, time out and play time and turns those moments into... -- Allison Smith Interview -- Liz Kuball just posted a nice, little interview with one of my favorite photographers Allison V. Smith. I remember the first time I saw one of her photos -- it was a woman flying off of a mechanical bull, and... -- Euguen Smith Grant -- This year the deadline to apply for a 2008 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is July 15. The Smith Grant is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of... -- Gorillas in the Mist -- NPR's Fresh Air has a fantastic interview with Getty Reportage photographer, and World Press award winner, Brent Stirton, whom chronicled the Virunga gorilla murders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.... -- True Grit -- Peter Yang spent 3 weeks photographing cowboys in his native Texas for Texas Monthly.... -- Abell on Richard Prince -- Sam Abell has an interesting and calm take on his work unexpectedly showing up in the Guggenheim via another artist. 'I'm not angry, and I'm not particularly amused. I'm thoughtful about it...'' (via PDN Pulse)... -- The Portfolio of... -- Joel-Peter Witkin... -- The Portfolio of... -- Bjorn Allemann... -- The Portfolio of... -- Anthony Georgis... -- Hungry -- Here's an example of an amazing multimedia piece by Maisie Crow of Patuxent Publishing (for a few more months... 'till she joins the ranks of great OU grad students). You can read the story here. To sum it up,... -- PSO PSA -- Portraits of phone sex operators.... -- Pre-Photoshop Image Making -- Photographer Sam Haskins, well known for doing in-camera montage, briefly describes how composite photos were made in the time before Photoshop. Its a single exposure with the model viewed through optical glass at 45 degrees and the fabric positioned to... -- Ready? Stream. Create. -- Getty Images has launched a cool new side project called Moodstream. The philosophy is that any mood can take you places. They bill it as a "powerful brainstorming tool designed to help take you in inspiring, unexpected directions." And you... -- Unseen Iraq -- Washington Post photojournalist Andrea Bruce is doing a photo column on Unseen Iraq during her travels there. She's highlighting the lesser-told stories of people like Shehad , a teenage girl, who has left the mosque only twice since her family... -- A Moving Piece of Storytelling -- One of the few stories I've seen in years that has brought me to tears. Summerville High Remembers Fallen Coach Louis Mulkey, brought to you by the folks at ESPN. Louis Mulkey, Summerville High basketball coach and full-time firefighter, was... -- In the Eye of the Burma Cyclone -- James Whitlow Delano gives a first-person account of being In the Eye of the Burma Cyclone. You can see his pictures here. As a post -script, Delano says that he may not be able to return to Burma after his... -- Soul of Athens v2.0 -- A great way to spend a Sunday afternoon is browsing through this year's Soul of Athens project. This time, the stories all follow a thread that weaves a theme in and out of the country's fabric: the pursuit of... -- The Big Picture -- The Boston Globe just launched a fantastic website called The Big Picture and it's making noise outside of photography circles. The site feature large-size pictures on a single topic (photo essays, basically), and it's amazing that it seems so novel... -- Mona Reeder and The Bottom Line -- Mona Reeder, a photographer with the Dallas Morning News, has won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for domestic photography for her photo essay "The Bottom Line." Through pictures, Reeder explored Texas' poor rankings in a number of categories ranging... -- The Portfolio of... -- Shiho Fukada... -- The Portfolio of... -- Phillip Toledano... -- A Treasure Trove of Weegee -- The NY Times reports that a trove of letters and photos from Weegee has been found in a trunk bought at a yard sale in Kentucky. "We're just lucky that it all survived," said Martin Krause, the museum’s curator of... -- The Funeral Train Relived -- If you haven't seen it, take a look at the New York Times' slideshow, The Fallen, where Magnum photographer Paul Fusco talks about the photographs he made in 1968 aboard the train carrying Bobby Kennedy's coffin from New York City...
-- GeekFest 2008 -- Here's the place to get info on APhotoADay's annual get-together, aka Geekfest. It's in lovely St. Petersburg, Fla. this year. Anyone can come. It's $100 for APAD members. $125 for non-members. Please direct questions in the comments field. And check... -- R.I.P. Cornell Capa -- For those of you who haven't heard the news, Cornell Capa passed away yesterday at the age of 90. I'm sure everyone knows his great deeds and service for the "concerned photographer." He'll be greatly missed.... -- Dispatches - A new magazine -- "...the purpose is dead serious. Each quarter, dispatches examines a crucial topic in its full context, with seasoned writers whose experience is firsthand and with photographers who have shown an exceptional ability to capture human reality. Its bold design in... -- A Photo A Day, Until Death -- He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died... -- Various Comments on Various Photographs -- Robert Wright has a great blog post onvarious comments on various photographs, with a bitingly honest assessment of the NYC Photo Fest. [via A Photo Editor] There's harsh criticism, like: Katherine Wolkoff's presentation on her work also springs to mind,... -- 10 Things I Learned About Ansel Adams -- 10 Interesting Things I Learned About Ansel Adams by Thomas Hawk is a fun and interesting read about his impressions of the great master. During the course of our two days together, (Ansel Adams' son Michael) took us to... -- When Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message -- Since Polaroid announced in February that it would stop manufacturing instant film and that supplies would run out next year, artists... have been passing through stages of grief. Nothing, they say, can replace the Polaroid -- awkward, dated, a little... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mark Powell... -- The Portfolio of... -- Marie Arago I especially like the Cuban Album.... -- The Photo Shoot -- "But it is about you...." Ya know, I didn't want to watch it, but I just couldn't look away... And I didn't want to like it, but it makes me laugh. Models....... -- The Portfolio of... -- Lacey Ann... -- Time Lapse Goodness -- MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. Here's a mind-blowing short film of an ambiguous wall-painted animation named MUTO, transforming and morphing its way through Buenos Aires' public spaces. P.S. It's totally worth the 7:30 you're... -- Drake on Kyrgyzstan -- There is a gorgeous slide show of Kyrgyzstan on the New York Times website by photographer Carolyn Drake. Her website backs up these beautiful images with a lot more strong work especially from central Asia, where she's currently living thanks... -- The Portfolio of... -- Marla Rutherford... -- Aevum. -- A new photo collective including some of my favorite photographers has just launched. Check out their website to see work from Elyse Butler, Yoon S. Byun, Chris Cappoziello, Matt Eich, Andrew Henderson and Matt Mallams.... -- The Gruesome Truth About Photography -- After Tim Hetherington won the World Press Photo of the Year award in February, everyone had something to say about his shot of a tired U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The left criticized him for being too sympathetic to the military,... -- The Story Behind the Photographs -- Each image awarded by World Press Photo tells its own story. But there is much more to tell. About what it was like to work in a war zone, or what restrictions were placed on a photographer at a major... -- The Portfolio of... -- Joni Sternbach... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ilker Gurer... -- Job Security -- Right now, it's so true that it stings a little.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Christine Tran... -- Footsteps and Shadows -- Special thanks to Mark for highlighting Richard Koci Hernandez's newest piece on his newest venture -- his own personal blog. Richard calls it footsteps and shadows and says it's "nothing special, a quick walk, inspired by the sound of footsteps,... -- Praying for Papers -- Praying for Papers is a site devoted to the simple premise. Our business is in trouble and with it are a lot of our friends, our brothers and sisters and their families. They are just asking that anyone who cares... -- Behind every good (fashion) photographer -- Is an even better retoucher. You may have never heard of Pascal Dangin, but he may well be the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. An "adept plumper of breasts and shrinker of pores", in the March issue of Vogue alone,... -- Orphan Works -- Photographers, Illustrators, Artists of all sorts, The Orphan Works Bill is consistently going through Congress trying to take the copyright away from any image you may have made without a copyright stamp on it. That means that print you sold... -- Magnum Photogs Speak -- I found this old gem, while searching the web for something else... Magnum photographers Steve McCurry and Alex Webb talk about their approach to photography on The Leonard Lopate Show.... -- Meet Jill Freedman -- Back in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city. ...Her New York was... -- Behind the Scenes with Gregory Crewdson -- Whether you're a Crewdson-lover or a Crewdson-hater, it's worth checking out Aperture's behind the scenes exclusive. Read two interviews with him, see production stills on location, and learn about his process and some of the people involved in the making... -- NEWtopia -- I'm loving Nutopia. their magazine rocks my socks off. [via the Dalphos]... -- Dispatches from the Road -- I'm loving Julia Robinson's visual narrative after she compiled travel photos from my time on the road to and from internships and a song that i couldn't get out of my head, so i made a visual narrative too. And... -- Ansel Adams' Yosemite -- Ansel Adams' Yosemite: I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. -AA [via photokaboom]... -- Moore Wins Capa -- Senior staff photojournalist John B. Moore of Getty Images was honored with the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal award from the Overseas Press Club of America at the organization’s sixty-ninth annual awards dinner in Manhattan. The Capa award is given... -- Dying Papers Satire -- “People really seem to identify with these moving, ‘end-of-an-era’-type pieces,” Washington Post editor-in-chief Leonard Downie, Jr. said. “It’s nice to see that the printed word is still, at least for now, the most powerful medium for reporting on the death... -- Bendiksen wins Nat Geo Grant -- The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth. The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed...
-- a camera, two kids, and a camel -- NPR's weekend edition Sunday did a piece on Annie Griffiths Belt and her new book today. She discusses how she has been able to raise her family while maintaining her career as a traveling photojournalist. it's a really heartfelt take... -- Journeys of a Lifetime -- In order to reveal what matters in the world, you have to put yourself square in front of it. Photography is about being there, as the saying goes. It didn't take long, however, for Lo Scalzo to realize that his... -- Susana Raab Speaks -- Liz Kuball has a great interview with photographer Susana Raab who talks about the long and winding road it took her her to become a photographer, a portfolio review that changed how she shot, and the talk of projects.... -- Kids With Guns -- If you haven't seen this multimedia piece by Tim Hussin, you need to. It's hands down my favorite SoundSlides show of the year. Not only are there quality photographs, but the sound actually compliments and adds to the story telling,... -- A New Twist -- on some classic photos recreated... -- Money, Money, Money... Money -- Looking for money to fund your photo project? The fine folks over at the Photoshelter blog have compiled a list of contests, grants, fellowships and publishing opportunities geared toward photojournalists.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Alexey Titarenko... -- Food -- This series of food that takes the shape of its container is one of the stranger things I've seen today. Strange... but cool, in some weird way.... -- Wandering & Wondering -- I've really been enjoying Ikuru Kuwajima's blog lately, I've been living vicariously through his travels and love being a silent observer as he finds his photographic voice.... -- You Are Not Your Ego -- Koci's back with a personal project.... -- Heartbreak of Newsroom Layoffs -- The last round of layoffs and buyouts really hurt me. i mean, each one does but this one especially. This place feels like a morgue. an abusive relationship. remnants everywhere. Empty cubicles. Empty chairs. Abandoned office equipment. goodbye emails. Besides... -- Ethics of Toning -- This is a good read about making honest pictures that uphold a certain level of integrity our readers place in us, as told through an ill-toned photo and a young, award-winning photographer. Ethics folks, lets get them, keep them and... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dave Lauridsen... -- The Portfolio of... -- Wheat Wurtzburger... -- Preston's Pulitzer -- The family of Carolynne St. Pierre faced the ultimate grief. Despite her courage, a rare cancer was killing a mother and wife long before her time. Yet she and her husband Rich invited photographer Preston Gannaway and reporter Chelsea Conaboy... -- Good News out of Iraq -- The Iraqi Judicial Committee has declared that the AP's Bilal Hussein is to be set free. No charges brought against him but lost two years from being imprisoned.... -- Funny -- Top 10 Reasons Not to Learn Multimedia Skills... -- Don't Undersell Yourself -- Watch and learn!... -- The Fallacy of Objectivity -- Words to live by: If you're a journalist and you don't have an agenda, you dont have a pulse. -- Brian Storm... -- Women in Photography -- Women In Photography contains a simple concept: -To showcase work, news and ideas from women in the contemporary photo world. -To create a collection of strong work by women actively creating work. -To reach new audiences collectively. [...] Email submissions... -- Gannaway, Latif Win 2008 Photography Pulitzers -- Preston Gannaway, now at the Rocky Mountain News, and Adrees Latif of Reuters have been awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature and breaking news photography, respectively. This year's Pulitzer Prizes were announced today. Gannaway was awarded journalism's top prize... -- Toilet Paper Rolls and Pipe Cleaners -- This is great storytelling on so many levels. And it rocked me to the core this morning.... -- Multimediashooter R.I.P. -- It saddens me greatly that such a valuable resource is gone... again... and this time for good... MultimediaShooter is no longer being published. I'm walking away this time with my head held high. It's been fun. I'm closing the blog...
-- Strazzante, Ackerman win top honors at Southern -- Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune and Jenn Ackerman, a graduate student at Ohio University, won top honors as 2008 Southern Photographer of the Year and 2008 Southern Student Photographer of the Year, respectively, this weekend. Strazzante also won Best... -- Being Frank -- Digital photography destroys memory, he believes, with its ability to erase. Art school is another problem, teaching students to be blind. Editors are worse -- they poke the artist's eyes out. Photography: one minute it's not art at all.... -- Hitler... say cheese -- Hitler had his own personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffman, who denied he was a propagandist for Hitler, saying: "I only photographed things that I saw and nothing else."... -- The Photo Booth -- Behind the curtains, our love affair with the photo booth, first unveiled in Times Square in 1926, goes on.... -- You Were Always On My Mind -- Yoon S. Byun started a new photo column called On My Mind at The Boston Globe. I like it for its simplicity, its potential to be revealing and powerful and its stark honesty. I also love that Yoon is helping... -- Verve -- Photographer and photo editor Geoffrey Hiller has created Verve to feature photos and interviews by the finest young image makers today. Verve is a reminder of the power of the still image. Verve will also point you to new photo... -- I'm Gonna Burn It Down -- I love Trent Nelson's take on contests. They are such a double-edged sword. You win: You feel validated. Your bosses and publications are happy. Your resume gets padded with a few extra lines. You lose: You take it personally. You... -- His Photos Reflect our Community -- Concord Monitor editor Mike Pride wrote a fitting tribute and one hell of a send-off to Dan Habib. After nearly 20 years at the Monitor, the last 13 as photo editor, Dan Habib has left to pursue a career as... -- R.I.P. -- ">Philip Jones Griffiths According to the NYTimes obituary Griffiths, who is best know for his defining images of the Vietnam War, died this morning at his home in London, at the age of 72.... -- MediaStorm, Reuters and Iraq -- Reuters and MediaStorm collaborated to create Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War. The site features profiles of three Reuter's journalists who have more than 23 years combined experience reporting and photographing in Iraq.Reuters video, photography, info-graphics and... -- Beyond Celebrity -- This quote completely jumpstarted my day: You know I developed a style a long time ago and I've had agents say to me "you know, you need to reinvent yourself" and you know, I've got to be honest at this... -- The Portfolio of... -- Benjamin Wirtz Siegel... -- Polaroid Mosaic -- I really want this Patrick Winfield Polaroid composite on my wall. It makes me smile.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Davin Ellicson... -- Update on Multimediashooter -- Richard Koci Hernandez sent out this note: 10 Things I Learned From Being Hacked 1. A bottle of Jack Daniels doesn't bring your site back to life. 2. Don't take it personally. Boy, did I take it personally. "Why me?"... -- Multimediashooter Hacked -- It sucks that an icredible resource like multimediashooter was hacked... There's a good article up at PDNPulse, that explains what happened. And the site's founder, and multimedia guru, Richard Koci Hernandez left a note on the homepage for everyone, including... -- The Man the A-List Calls -- What is it about Mario Testino? By a combination of charm, luck, hard work and patronage, he is now unassailable as the fashion industry's favourite snapper, the photographer du choix of every label, every magazine (though he's on contract to... -- A Woman's Eye on Afghanistan -- Born in Kabul, the 23-year-old is one of the few female photojournalists in Afghanistan. And even six years after she picked up her first camera, Ms. Wahidy says she still hears the grunts of disapproval or feels the sticks that... -- Education of a Photographer -- From Charles Traub's "The Education of a Photographer": Do something old in a new way. Do something new in an old way. Do something new in a new way. Whatever works, works. Do it sharp -- if you can't, call... -- I Fell in Love With a Female Assassin -- They met on a train and fell in love. Then photojournalist Jason P Howe discovered that his girlfriend Marylin was leading a secret double life - as an assassin for right-wing death squads in Colombia's brutal civil war. With their... -- The Portfolio of... -- Victor Cobo... -- Say NO to Video -- Why not stop wasting money on video gear, new laptops to support your purchase of FCP, shotgun mics and expensive delivery systems like Maven or Brightcove, hours and hours of training (if you're lucky), plus hours and hours editing on...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Bevis Fusha... -- The Portfolio of... -- Rafal Milach... -- Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner -- Ah... I've been on vacation for a week, and just returned to learn of all sorts of fun photo happenings. My apologies if this is old news to some of you, but I thought I'd post it to the blog,... -- And a Song Shall Carry Them Home -- My buddy Victor Blue recently completed a story on a group of migrant workers from Stockton, California who returned to their village in Mexico for its annual festival. He did it to try and put a face on the thousands... -- The Portfolio of... -- Andreas Meichsner... -- The Raw File Workshop -- Another good workshop was just announced... The Raw File Workshop will give you 6 Days on Independent Media Production, Social Justice, and Activism. Join Brenda Ann Kenneally and guest documentarians as well as prominent forces who work in multimedia production,... -- Photographer Without Legs Returns Stares -- Kevin Connolly has been getting such stares all his life. That's because he was born without legs. Connolly was used to drawing double takes in his hometown of Helena, Mont., but when he went to Europe and turned heads... -- MediaStorm Workshop -- Here's a golden opportunity to harness the power of the best multimedia story tellers of our time! The MediaStorm Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop in New York City is an intensive, hands-on educational experience in advanced multimedia storytelling. Over the course... -- iHole -- This may very well be the best use of an iPhone box EVER. As the site says, it is "the revoluntionary analog photographic device constructed from the recycled packaging of digital technology." We present to you.... the world's first iHole.... -- Eddie Adams Applications & Audio -- The fine folks at the Eddie Adams Workshop folks are now accepting applications for Barnstorm XXI. If you haven't gone before, you should. For me, it was an eye-opening experience as a student, and now going back as staff it's... -- POYi -- Judging of the 65th annual Pictures of the Year competition is now underway in Columbia, Missouri. And you can watch the winners trickle in on their website.... -- Raw Take -- Deb Pang Davis and Mike Davis have launched Raw Take, a blog dedicated to sharing their conversations with photographers. The first interview is with Brown W. Cannon III. And yes, for the uninitiated, that's THE Mike Davis. Current features photo... -- Oh Angry Journalist -- Why are you angry today? Pointless job in a failing industry led by ignorant people with no creativity. And photographers, who are all stuck-up, selfish bitches who think they are better than everyone else. [thanks Trent]... -- These are some great tips on -- how to be creative... -- Photographer's Journal: A View of Chad's Refugee Crisis -- This is a stunning collection of images by Noor photographer Jan Grarup. I can't stop looking at this one....... -- SX-70 film -- Demo film of the Polaroid SX-70 made by Charles and Ray Eames but set to a soundtrack of The Cramps performing Garbageman. [via Kottke] Granted, the video is a little strange, but it makes me a little sad about Polaroid's... -- THIN star dead -- Polly Ann Williams, one of the women featured in Lauren Greenfield's THIN, the HBO documentary about women battling eating disorders, died Friday, Feb. 8 in what media outlets are calling an apparent suicide. On her website, Greenfield remembers WIlliams as... -- This One Goes Out to... -- The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the... -- Saved from a Lynching -- From The Vigilante Journalist blog: My first day on the ground in Kenya, I went into Mathare with a group of photographers after hearing that there had been some problems. Two mobs were facing off on the main street leading... -- World Press -- Winners are up. And it's nice to see so many friends, and friends of APAD, amongst the winners. A huge congrats to Chris Detrick, Ben Lowy, Travis Dove, Justin Maxon, Carolyn Drake and Carol Guzy!! Also, the international jury of... -- Portrait Pointers -- Many photographers, curators, bloggers, etc. answer the question: What makes a good portrait? I do have specific ideas of what a good portrait may consist of, but I am often amazed at the portraits I come across that do not... -- 1200 f 5.6 -- B&H is selling a used Canon Super Telephoto 1200mm lens for $99,000. As for image quality, even wide open it's quite lovely. Stopped down to f/8 and f/11 it's actually quite remarkable. How remarkable? From midtown Manhattan we were able...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Nick Cobbing I never knew ice could be so pretty.... -- WHNPA Student Contest -- The White House News Photographers Association Student Contest Committee announces a new contest open to students from around the world to compete for the honor of WHNPA 2008 Student Photographer of the Year. WHNPA sponsor, Digital Railroad, will host the... -- Scarred by Abuse -- Vernetta Cockerham-Ellerbee peeled back the curtain of her bedroom window and saw the man she once loved enough to marry. Hunched over in a field across the street, Richard Ellerbee toiled, shoveling clumps of dirt over his shoulder. She glanced... -- The Audacity of Ambition -- My new daily mantra: The audacity of ambition -- and innovation I don't want to work for an industry that is content with the status quo. I don't want to work for an industry that is afraid of innovation. I... -- The Portfolio of... -- Peter Funch... -- Photographer's Eye View -- John Harrington gives us a great insider's look at how various photographers covered the President's State of the Union last night. It's interesting to hear what they're looking for and how they're working from the limited shooting positions they're given.... -- My week: Martin Parr -- What's your week like?... -- The Portfolio of... -- Joakim Eskildsen... -- Confessions of a Rock Photographer: -- For years she has photographed the rich and famous but kept her own life strictly private. Now a new film opens the shutter on Annie Leibovitz's drug addiction, love life and delayed motherhood.... -- The Unpublished Dan Winters -- In his 23-year career, our most celebrated contributing photographer has captured all manner of luminaries -- from Angelina Jolie and Bono to Lance Armstrong and the Dalai Lama -- for myriad magazines. But many of his favorite portraits have never... -- The Portfolio of... -- Aaron Hobson... -- Missing Capa Archives Found -- The suitcase -- actually three flimsy cardboard valises -- contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939,... -- Echo of the Past -- Thirteen years ago, when working for a tiny little paper in what was then a rural part of Illinois that would one day turn into a suburb of Chicago, photojournalist Scott Strazzante began visiting a Harlow and Jean Cagwin's family... -- Soth's Schtick -- He's a fussy photographer working with a fussy camera, and by the time he's set up the camera and the shot, the subject's instinct to perform has long ago expired, which is exactly what Soth wants. That's one reason he... -- Mountain Workshops, Finally -- Finally... The MOUNTAIN WORKSHOPS 2007 site is online. You can view the photos and multimedia shows from the students stories of Danville, Kentucky. But delve deeper, I always love watching the behind the scenes videos and interviews with the faculty... -- Great 8 -- Raleigh News and Observer's resident bad asses Jason Arthurs, Shawn Rocco, Ethan Hyman and Travis Long all had a little something to do with the promo for their most ambitious multimedia project yet: 8 bands, 12 videos and a... -- VII Photo Expands To Represent Non-Member Photographers -- The VII Photo agency announced a new division this week called VII Network, which will represent projects by photographers who are not VII members. At its launch, the VII Network is representing seven freaking incredible freelance photojournalists: Eric Bouvet, Jessica... -- Not Forgotten -- Every death is a tragedy. But when someone is murdered, it is an act of violence against the victim, their family, their friends and every one of us," says Yurman. "Homicide victims are not just statistics. They are our neighbors... -- The Eyes of History -- The Eyes of History have seen it all and they declare that: Jahi Chikwendiu of The Washington Post is the White House News Photographer of the Year. Jay L. Clendenin of the Los Angeles Times took the Political Photo of... -- 20,000 -- Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the issue of global warming in a video created entirely by using still images.... -- Chronicling A Dream -- Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara has spent more than 30 years shooting murals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. around the country. In doing so, he's gotten a close look at the poor urban neighborhoods that King spoke of. The... -- The Photos Not Taken -- The Photographs Not Taken is an interesting collection of essays by photographers -- like Alec Soth, Amy Stein and Nina Berman -- about the times they didn't use their camera. This collection is a series of photographs not taken with... -- Library of Congress meet Flickr -- The Library of Congress has started uploading a portion of its most popular collections to Flickr. There are about 3000 images uploaded so far under a new copyright license devised with Flickr for institutions. This seems like a much better... -- An End to Community -- After nearly four years, Flint Journal photojournalist Steve Jessmore is closing the books on Sense of Community, his photo column chronicling daily life in the Michigan city. More than 170 subjects were profiled in the column, which took a close... -- The Moment it Clicks -- Joe McNally's new book The Moment it Clicks will hopefully make you see the light, and learn how to use it. What makes the book so unique is the "triangle of learning" where (1) Joe distills the concept down... -- TWAC -- It saddens me that the Truth With a Camera workshop has been cancelled for 2008. "This was a very difficult decision to make ... it was not just a financial, but a very emotional decision. Most workshops have the backing... -- Promo Cards -- Rob Haggart, the now exposed photography director behind A Photo Editor, made a great post today about promo cards. Also see the Flickr set.... -- Interview with Melissa Lyttle -- "I think semantics are important. I don't call myself a photographer, I'm a photojournalist, and that carries a lot of weight in the newsroom with them trusting me to go out and actually tell the story that's there." Aphotoaday founder... -- Double Negative -- Exactly 35 years after taking his Pulitzer-winning photo of an injured girl in Vietnam, Nick Ut shot another young woman in distress - Paris Hilton. Both pictures made news worldwide. And both are depressingly of their time. "It's a strange... -- Multimedia Journal -- Multimedia guru Richard Koci Hernandez has a project that recently started out as random notes/worksheets to help some students and it's turned into a 60 page book. Multimedia Journal will show you how to tap into your creativity by guiding... -- The Portfolio of... -- Lisa Wiltse... -- Best of the Best -- The 2007 Year in Pictures: The Washington Post The New York Times San Antonio Express-News The Oregonian The Roanoke Times The Register Guard The Sydney Morning Herald Minneapolis Star Tribune MSNBC.com The St. Petersburg Times (any others?? send me an... -- Pennsylvania Avenue -- "The Southeast end is the sort of America that tourists come from. The Northwest end is where tourists go to. One avenue, many paradoxes, many echoes." I'm digging Andrew Cutraro's piece in last week's Washington Post Magazine on The Two... -- DAH Fund -- Congratulations to Sean Gallagher, who is the first recipient of the David Alan Harvey Fund for Emerging Photographers. Sean's essay on the desertification of China's Western Gansu Province where the fast moving desert is literally swallowing up farmland and communities...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Carl 'Cori' Lyttle (no relation.)... -- Bhutto -- Getty photographer John Moore talks about the images he captured when Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed. He was covering the rally where she was assassinated.... -- Nat Geo Won't Enter NPPA contest -- Speaking of the little yellow box... "We feel that UMC's POYi competition is currently more inline with our own aspirations for photojournalism and thus we will opt, for now, to enter their contest rather than NPPA's," David Griffin wrote in... -- What Drives Randy Olson -- After posting about the Gerd Ludwig beer commercial the other day, I got a great email pointing me towards a Randy Olson Land Cruiser commercial. And a note that said "the answer to your question on APAD (asking "how do... -- Rockwellesque -- For the last 15 years, photojournalist Kevin Rivoli has been In Search of Norman Rockwell's America -- first haircuts, town meetings and patriotic parades. Over the years, critics have mocked Rockwell, for creating a sugary, nostalgic America that doesn't exist.... -- APE Unveiled -- Rob Haggart is A Photo Editor.... -- A List, of Sorts -- Best of lists seem so final and authoritative. So self-righteous. So superior. So wrong. As far as photographers and photo books go, my list ebbs and flows with each day's tide. So rather than a best of anything, here's my... -- The Bottom Line -- Dallas Morning News photojournalist Mona Reeder spent three years working on The Bottom Line -- mostly on gaining access to some really sensitive situations. The result is some incredibly personal moments, and some heartbreaking story-telling images. By the numbers,... -- Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together -- Picture it. A photojournalist in a smoky scene. Prerequisite scarf on. Documenting a war zone? Some sort of chaos and political unrest? Nope, just another day shooting beer being brewed at the distillery. National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig is... -- The Portfolio of... -- Peter van Agtmael... -- 36 Exposures -- In the words of Stephen Shore, "[Today] there seems to be a greater freedom and lack of restraint...as one considers one's pictures less, one produces fewer truly considered pictures." So there's The 36 Exposures Challenge: articulate a concept, project, or... -- The Language of Photography -- How do you defend photography? "It's a cool photo" doesn't transcend or hold up as an argument outside of j-school. The best photo editors are the ones who can not only articulate what makes this photo better than the rest,... -- The Portfolio of... -- KayLynn Deveney... -- What a Gift! -- The complete archives of Diane Arbus -- including hundreds of early and unique photos, negatives and contact prints of 7,500 rolls of film and hundreds of glassine print sleeves that she personally annotated before her suicide in 1971 --were donated... -- Winner Winner Chicken Dinner -- Brenda Ann Kenneally of Brooklyn, N.Y., Jon Lowenstein of Chicago, and Tomas van Houtryve of France are among the journalists chosen for the 2008 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowships. They will receive grants of either $40,000 for one year or $20,000... -- A Dangerous Year -- In a report to be released this month, the Committee to Protect Journalists will state that 2007 has been one of the deadliest years for journalists in more than a decade. Of the 64 deaths tallied so far this year... -- The Portfolio of... -- Kanako Sasaki... -- Rear Window -- Continuing Melissa's post from earlier on Ben Lowy's work... Lowy began photographing in Iraq in 2003 when he "crossed the berm" embedded in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne. He's been to Iraq and back several times and, while home between... -- Unfortunately, I don't have a quick answer... -- Dug up from the lightstalkers archive, Sion Touhig posted a great, no-nonsense, layman's summary of copyright and what it means to photographers, especially in regards to websites such as Facebook, Flickr, and other sites where users submit photos. The ensuing... -- Aftermath -- A huge congratulations to former APADer Kathryn Cook, who just won the $25,000 Aftermath Project Grant. In case you (like me 24 hours earlier) have never heard of it: Because war is only half the story, The Aftermath Project is... -- The Whale Hunt -- Last May, photographer Jonathan Harris spent 9 days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, joining them as they prepared for and then went on a traditional whale hunt. And in one of the coolest uses... -- Politicking Concord -- Inundated with big politics in their small state, the Concord Monitor photo staff has learned to cover the rat race better than most... So they recently started a blog of all of their presidential primary photography. During the final stretch... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ben Lowy (Now I've linked to Ben Lowy's site before, but it recently got overhauled and there's all new stuff to look at... including the Storylines work which I'm totally enamored with.)... -- The Ninth Floor -- In 2004, anywhere from 20 to 30 young addicts lived on the ninth floor of an elegant narrow building overlooking Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The squatters had turned the sprawling apartment into a dark, desperate and chaotic place. People... -- Richard Prince, artist(?) -- "It's an unusual thing to see an artist who doesn't create his own work, and I don't understand the frenzy around it." -Jim Krantz. Krantz is one of the photographers behind the images that Richard Prince has photographed, blown up... -- Photo Histories -- A website that aims to record the stories and anecdotes from the history of photojournalism has been launched by Graham Harrison, a former photographer for Vogue and the Telegraph magazine. He explains "Photo Histories will document how some of the... -- Babies Schmabies -- Guess which photographer this was said to??? "If I can give you some advice, just photographing babies is never going to work for you. You need to broaden your portfolio to include adults and animals."... -- The Portfolio of... -- Yoon S. Byun... -- Hot-Lanta -- The list of winners is up for the 2007 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar... Lots of good friends, APADers, and familiar names on that list... Congratulations to all!... -- Hyenas and Risk -- I love the line about risk by Mr. Whiskets... it's in reference to The Hyena & Other Men by Pieter Hugo but it's the very last line in the review that may become a part of my daily mantra. Yet,... -- Photog Denies Court Order -- Paul Wellman, a photographer for the Santa Barbara Independent, a weekly newspaper, has been found in contempt of court for refusing to hand over photographs that were subpoenaed by a defense attorney. Here's the Independent's report on the case.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Matt Slaby...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Kate Brooks... -- Happier than a bartender, sadder than a welder -- Time recently published a roundup of various numbers and statistics describing Americans from such varied perspectives as Bible ownership, average commute time, drinking habits, and job satisfaction. Hard to say where photojournalists fit; in the graphic, "photographers," at 20.8 percent... -- Raven & Jason -- Raven and Jason. Rafal Gerszak's nine-minute video documentary, for the Globe & Mail newspaper, is stunning, engrossing and touching, an example of how newspapers can use video to tell compelling stories. This is video storytelling unlike anything you'll see on... -- libera me -- Alex Majoli has a Magnum in Motion Piece entitled libera me. The piece uses digitally manipulated images and landscapes from work in Latvia to create a haunting and abstract multimedia presentation.... -- onBeing -- Glad to see the Washington Post's Jenn Crandall is having fun with her onBeing series. If you're not familiar, Crandall describes it as "a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one another a little... -- Including Samuel -- In case anyone missed it, Concord Monitor photo editor Dan Habib was on All Things Considered Tuesday discussing his documentary, "Including Samuel." When his son Samuel was a toddler, he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. And at the suggestion... -- Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep -- The LA Times has a nice story about an amazing photographic endeavor called Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - one that speaks to the power of what we do, and the lives we touch (and those that touch... -- Humvee TV 2 -- Eerily similar to Andrew Craft's Humvee TV, Getty photographer Chris Hondros documented life in Iraq - on his 11th trip there - through the window of a humvee. "After five years, Iraqis are blase about the sight of a Humvee,"... -- The Raw File -- Brenda Ann Keneally's baby The Raw File is a digital theater inspired by the need for a space to host the serial web publication BACK ON THE BLOCK. The Raw File exists to provide an arena for stories not seen... -- Bilal to be Charged -- Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein will be charged on November 28 as a terrorist who infiltrated the AP, the military says. The AP says Hussein has been denied a fair trial and should be freed. [via PDNewswire] There is a... -- Heads -- The state of New York's highest court ruled yesterday that a Hasidic Jew who had his photo taken without his knowledge could not claim his civil rights were violated - even though his religion forbids it - because he... -- The Portfolio of... -- Aubrey Hays... -- In Yo Face!! -- Randomly noticed on Finch's excellent bloggage, a fun little site to visit when you're in need of a smile, chuckle or reminder that life is deliciously odd. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ... [drum roll] ... Faces in Places.... -- Your work is worthwhile -- Harlan Ellison's on fire in this 3:24 piece excerpted from the upcoming feature documentary on him "DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH" "about his experiences dealing with the packaging company for MGM on Babalon 5, includng their possible inclusion of one of... -- Alec Soth's Dog Days -- The Magnum blog posts a discussion between Alec Soth and his intern, Carrie Thompson, about his "Dog Days Bogota" work. "Here's the thing, I wasn't planning on doing a project," he tells her. "I was in Bogota for only one... -- VII grows -- Marcus Bleasdale, Franco Pagetti Elected To VII Photo Agency... -- Unequal Justice -- Starting today, The Dallas Morning News begins a five-part series examining the capricious world of "misdemeanor murder" in the state of Texas, which -- in Dallas County alone -- has led to there being twice as many murderers on probation... -- Coen Brothers Country -- Check out this pretty neat concept that's on the New York Times' website. In time with the release of Ethan and Joel Coen's feature film reworking of the Corman McCarthy novel "No Country for Old Men," photographer Finlay MacKay photographed... -- -- Photographer Carmine Galasso's book Crosses showcases portraits of Clergy Sex Abuse and images are in a slideshow produced by Nina Berman: AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Portraits of Clergy Sex Abuse (Photo Essay)... -- Eve Arnold -- Eve Arnold's photographs of China, made in 1979, are the subject of a new show at London's Asia House through Jan. 12, and there's a good preview up at The Economist. In part: "Ms Arnold's portrait of the country, supervised... -- Bitter Photographer -- Don't know who he is, don't know who he works for, but The Bitter Photographer is a bitter, bitter, bitter, and gloriously sarcastic and funny blogger.... -- CPOY Judging -- The judging for the 62nd College Photographer of the Year competition is currently going on at the University of Missouri Columbia 62nd College Photographer of the Year | Judging Podcasts Barring a few sound issues, videos and vodcasts are available... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brian Gaberman... -- IPA sues IHSA -- illinoispress.org - Newspapers Sue IHSA For Free Press Rights The Illinois Press Association has recently filed suit against the Illinois High School Association and their new terms that limit access to newspaper photographers and provide rights to a contracted photography... -- High fashion and international intrigue... -- It's weird enough that Mikhail Gorbachev was photographed for a Louis Vittonad campaign, but now it seems as though there's a hidden message in the picture. The Daily Intelligencer blog at New York Magazine noticed a mysterious (and tiny) Russian-language...
-- The portfolio of ..... -- Joshua Lutz and Happy Halloween!... -- Simon Norfolk -- And speaking of the New York Times, Simon Norfolk discusses some of his arresting large-format photojournalism in a new series of narrated slideshows for the NYT Magazine. In the section about refugee camps, photographed in 2003, he calls his work... -- A View From the Pulpit -- The NYTimes Sunday Magazine has a short film online by VII's Christopher Morris about the evangelical preacher Terry Fox to accompany this week's cover story on the split along religion is facing along generational and theological lines.... -- Great American Rebel -- Somebody took some time to archive their VHS copy of the Larry Clark documentary Great American Rebel (2003) on YouTube. The documentary, broken into six parts, features clips from most of Larry's films and quite a lot of insightful... -- "I'm Just a Photographer" -- Fascinating story in today's New York Times about Nhem En, the man who took the pictures that serve as chilling evidence of the killing fields of Cambodia. Nhem En was the staff photographer at Tuol Sleng prison, the torture... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mikael Kennedy... -- Newspapers Are Not Dead -- This came across the NPPA listserv recently. I'm reproducing it with permission from the author because it's worth a read: Newspapers are not dead-- and won't be in my lifetime. Many newspaper editors and publishers have always treated photographers as... -- Haunted -- Tandy Rogers committed suicide in Room 409, but his spirit survived. The basement's boiler room has become the playground for the ghost of a little girl who drowned there. A haunted hotel stirs up the imagination, and Fort Worth Star-Telegram... -- New Generation of Photo Pioneers -- The current issue of American Photo features their selection of the top fifteen emerging photographers: Amy Stein, Shen Wei, Donald Weber, Mikhael Subotsky, Jason and Carlos Sanchez, Steven Laxton, Alexandra Catiere, Camille Seaman, Lyric Cabral, Jehad Nga, Michael Christopher Brown,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Simon Thorpe... -- Blink -- To spot the difference between an average picture and an excellent picture, you have to look at a lot of pictures. And to see an opportunity that others would miss, you have to take a lot of photos that miss... -- The Portfolio of... -- Stephan Vanfleteren... -- Love in the First Person -- When this video of Matt and Melissa first made it's Internet debut in the Soul of Athens project, I gushed about it here. Now MediaStorm's gone and made it even better -- with the extended version. It's so sickeningly sweet... -- Daylight's Driftless -- The Daylight Multimedia October 2007 Podcast features an interview and photographs by Danny Wilcox Frazier from his project Driftless documenting the culture of rural Iowa. The book will be published this November by Duke University Press and the Center for... -- Need Magazine -- I stumbled into Need Magazine one afternoon perusing the stacks at Common Good Books, Garrison Keilor's fine little bookstore in Saint Paul. The cover story was about bringing aid to Darfur, and was illustrated by the photography of Ron Haviv.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Sara Code-Kroll... -- Corbijn's Control -- Andrew Hetherington has a great blog post about Control, Antonin Corbijn's new movie about the late Ian Curtis, lead singer for the band Joy Division. If you don't know Corbijn's work, you should. If you don't know the Joy Division...... -- The Portfolio of... -- Eric Grigorian... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brian Shumway... -- A New Dawn -- Lexington Herald-Leader photojournalist David Stephenson spent hundreds of hours and miles documenting the journey of Dawn Nicole Smith's four-year struggle to get clean, after being sentenced to treatment - not prison time - in drug court. Starting this past Sunday,... -- Eddie Adams Multimedia -- Each year, 100 photographers are invited to a farm in upstate New York. Twenty years ago, during the very first Eddie Adams workshop, students shot a limited amount of slide film that weekend. Eventually, technology seeped in, and in 2001,... -- Final Touches -- The day I met Rogelio Ramos, I had flown into El Paso, Texas, to ask his daughter to marry me. We'd been dating long-distance after Melanie left her summer job here in Virginia to go back to her home. I'd... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jim Korpi... -- Sugar Hill -- Sugar Hill is a housing project in Texas' richest county that has endured 40 years of economic and racial isolation. Rock Carpenter is a struggling pastor drawn inside the gates by a stubborn faith. Dallas Morning News photographer Melanie Burford... -- Ansel -- The world is falling to pieces, and Weston and Adams are doing pictures of rocks. - Henri Cartier-Bresson To many Ansel Adams was the master of the Yosemite, capturing a fading landscape and showing the world America's beauty. To his... -- Salgado's Lost Tribes -- It's a little odd seeing one's hero's work keeping company with a Kid Rock outtake, but there he is in all his black-and-white glory: Sebastiao Salgado is back between the covers of Rolling Stone with a new collection work in... -- Books, Books, Books, Books -- Mr. Whiskets over at 5B4 has a great post about self-published books. For him, books are the best way to experience photography. He believes no other medium is treated better and with more respect. I couldn't agree more. ... a... -- Diana, Jack and Meg -- Earlier this week I got news of the long-awaited remake of the Diana camera. To see what this camera can do, go check out Jen Friedberg's photography and see what kind of awesomeness is possible with a little toy camera.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Sye Williams... -- Golon on Editing -- As Time's Director of Photography, Golon wields considerable influence in the way people see the world. In this interview with John McDermott, she talks about publishing pix that make her uncomfortable, how the mag responded to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina,... -- Beyond the Wires -- Stanley Greene talks about covering the Iraq war differently. He asserts the notion that the quality of journalism has decreased, and journalists today are no longer journalists, it's the fixers and translators who are going out and doing the reporting... -- Blueeyes Can Drive -- Issue #16 of Blueeyes Magazine is out now, with new work by Carolyn Drake, Dan Seltzer and Miki Alcalde. They've also highlighted an excerpt from Jim Lo Scalzo's new book, in Document, "a textual counter-punch to our incredible collection of... -- It's About Time -- Time Magazine has posted a tribute in photographs to VII photographer Alexandra Boulat, who passed away on Friday. More work can be found on the VII website. Alexandra's funeral will be held on Friday the 12th of October in the... -- Renaldi Blogs -- One of my favorite portrait photographers, Richard Renaldi, is the latest to join the blogosphere.... -- R.I.P. Alexandra Boulat -- French photojournalist and founding member of VII Alexandra Boulat died this morning in a Paris hospital. "Alexandra was a remarkable person, and the world is a sadder place without her," Associated Press director of photography Santiago Lyon said. "We should... -- At War -- Documentary filmmaker Scott Kesterson arrived in Afghanistan in May 2006 to begin a one year journey as an embedded journalist. His film, edited by David Leeson, examines the pitfalls and perils of a mostly forgotten war told through the experience... -- SCOTUS rules in favor of Turnley -- State of the Art: U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Peter Turnley and Harper's in Suit over Casket Photo "Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision in favor of Harper's magazine and photographer Peter Turnley, ending... -- Darrell Barton, Still Photographer? -- The NPPA website has an interesting post on the MPW, so as a follow-up to the previous one, I offer you this: The explosion of multimedia on newspapers' Web sites has everyone talking about the "convergence" of video storytelling and... -- MPW59 -- Tim Gruber pointed out that the MPW wrapped up last week -- and long with a new gallery of community photojournalism to pursue there's a new batch of Rangefinders. The Rangefinder is the daily newsletter of the workshop and always...
-- Gangs Of Moresby -- Do the natives of Papua New Guinea all look like the images in Chris Rainier's books; tribal folk in traditional garb, posing in front of straw huts or jogging through the jungle with bows and arrows? No, of course not.... -- Living to the End -- "I feel so at peace." The journey that Lovelle Svart took us on is over. Svart kept a series of video journals, courtesy of Oregonian multimedia journalist Rob Finch, that shared intimate and personal details about her right to die... -- WH POD -- Time Magazine has been running a daily photo blog called White House Photo Of the Day. It contains some really wonderful off beat, behind the scenes moments from Time Magazine's White House photographers. Including some by Christopher Morris. Keep pushing... -- No Photos, Please... and Thank You -- Strictly No Photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you've ever... -- The Portfolio of... -- Michael Casker... -- Magnum = Skull and Bones -- "People ask me how to get into Magnum today, and I roll my eyes and say, 'You wouldn't believe it.' It's a complicated process. But in 1949, which is when I met Bob Capa, if he said your photography was... -- The Cult of a Leica -- "Even if you don’t follow photography, your mind’s eye will still be full of Leica photographs. The famous head shot of Che Guevara, reproduced on millions of rebellious T-shirts and student walls: that was taken on a Leica with a portrait lens—a short telephoto of 90 mm.—by Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Korda, in 1960. How about the pearl-gray smile-cum-kiss reflected in the wing mirror of a car, taken by Elliott Erwitt in 1955? Leica again,..." -- No!Spec -- No!Spec is a great website dedicated to educating creatives about the value of their work and the problems of working on spec. Though the site's geared mostly toward designers, there's a lot of advice useful to photographers trying to get... -- Packing -- Damir Sagolj, on the Reuters blog, writes: "But, the logistics. Man, how I hate even looking at the bags I have packed for Iraq. All the body armour, satellite modems, long cables, sleeping bags, spare lenses, entertaiment for the long... -- Fitzbitz -- The former photo editor at the Portland Press Herald is moving on, into the technology side of the business, and he wonders whether newsies will one day look at newspapers the way photojournalists now look at a can of Acufine:... -- A Photo Editor -- My new favorite blog is bookmarked and already on the RSS feed. I've been enjoying it immensely for the little nuggets of wisdom I've found. A Photo Editor is written by a Photography Director based in New York City. "While... -- Beautiful Neck Jewelry -- "...with a Leica, all you hear is the shutter, which is the quietest on the market. The result -- and this may be the most seductive reason for the Leica cult -- is that a photograph sounds like a kiss..."... -- Ways of Working -- Get Over It Relax Know Your Gear Repeatability Honesty Masking Study Develop Persist Share Michael David Murphy has some Ways of Working -- a 10-step introduction to the ins-and-outs of street photography.... -- Taliban Portraits -- Thomas Dworzak has compiled photographs that members of the Taliban made of themselves in semi-legal studios in early November of 2001. It's an interesting little Magnum in Motion piece. Magnum Photos - Taliban... -- Joe O'Donnell -- It turns out that the man who photographed little John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting at his father's funeral ... didn't. This from today's New York Times (reg. req.): "Joe O'Donnell's glowing legacy outlived him by less than a week. The... -- Shortcuts -- Popular Photography offers up some tips and tricks from the pros. Which includes some helpful hints like carrying higher wattage lightbulbs with you to increase the ambient during a portrait situation to using a white t-shirt for a little fill... -- Finding Your Voice -- Stanley Leary says that To Break the Rules, You Must First Know the Rules.... -- He's Like Tolstoy -- Is it possible to hear too much Cartier-Bresson, Leibowitz, Avdeon, Parks? It's certainly possible to hear too much from Charlie Rose. But I found these interviews via a post by Paul Treacy on Lighstalkers. In one clip, an incredibly animated... -- Conversation with Mitch Epstein -- Joerg Colberg has a conversation with Mitch Epstein, chock full of little gems like Epstein saying "I never pick my projects, my projects inevitably pick me. I don't mean that glibly. I've learned to listen to what moves and troubles... -- 20x200 -- 20x200 is a new Jen Bekman Project. The cool thing is that they offer original limited edition artworks at ridiculously affordable prices -- prints and photographs for as little as $20 each. They have stocked up on the equivalent of... -- "Fine art" reality tv -- Aperture has produced an HD television series on the subject of fine art photography. In each episode, a celebrity or two (Rosario Dawson, David Byrne, Lou Reed...) guides the viewer through a glimpse into the life of a photographer (Laurie... -- The Sichuan Diaries -- Chicago Tribune photographer Wes Pope and writer Evan Osnos are spending the next 5 weeks or so literally walking across a section of China. You can follow their adventure here.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Donna Ferrato... -- Interview: JIM WINN -- For those who don't know Jim Winn, he is an incredibly talented young photographer, who while in school at Western Kentucky University was the 2004 runner-up College Photographer of the Year and 2005 winner of the Hearst competition. Somewhere in... -- Luc Delahaye -- Luc Delahaye tells Joerg Colberg: "A work of art is always a document: a document about the artist, about its time and the context in which it has been made; and sometimes a photograph contains enough information about a given... -- Eyes of the Storm -- If you haven't watched " target="_new">this piece by The Times-Picayune photo staff on their Katrina coverage you owe it to yourself to take the 25 minutes to watch it. It's a fine example of not only great storytelling, but photographing... -- Do's and Don'ts -- Words to live by in The Education of a Photographer come from Charles H. Traub's Do's and Don'ts and Truisms: Do it sharp, if you can't, call it art. Don't whine, just produce. If you have to imitate, at least... -- Getty Grants -- After sifting through 124 applications for their Editorial Photography Grants, Getty Images has narrowed down the field to the best three -- awarding $20,000 each to Jonathan Lowenstein, Leo Maguire and Jonathan Torgovnik. Jon Lowenstein of Chicago will be continuing... -- Getty Rebranding -- Getty Images has a lot of rebranding going on, with a bunch of cute little specialized boutiques being created to market their photographers' work. Reportage highlights Getty editorial work. Orchard is strictly commercial. And Contour is an exclusive celebrity portraiture... -- In It Together -- It was nearly 3 a.m. on a Monday when three weary teenagers arrived at the Marine Corps recruiting station in the Santa Clarita Valley. There to meet them was the station's chief recruiter, Staff Sgt. Juan Diazdumeng, an energetic and... -- Noor -- Photographer Stanley Greene has announced the launch of an Amsterdam-based photog co-op. Known as Noor, the photo agency will open on September 6. Noor's Web site will launch on September 7. The internationally focused agency will sell and exhibit the... -- Teaching the Kids of Haiti -- For the past 10 years, Sharp Park-based photographer Jennifer Cheek Pantaleon has paid regular visits to Haiti. Her goal was neither to capture the chanting mobs and the burning tires nor to tan on the palm-lined beaches. Instead, Pantaleon went... -- Embedded -- Ben Lowy shoots, and Michael Gordon reports and narrates, a solid and unfussy New York Times report on the efforts of U.S. troops to win the hearts and minds of Sunni tribal leaders, and the first-hand, devastating and deadly effects... -- The Legacy Project -- If you are in Los Angeles you gotta check out The Great Picture Exhibition "In July of 2006, a group of photographers called the Legacy Project pulled off two truly staggering feats: converting an airplane hangar into the world's largest...
-- Cycle of Life -- I love short animation (on newspaper) about the life and times of a newspaper man. It's scary because there's some truth to it.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Charles H. Traub... -- Metro Collective -- Michael Bonfigli, Gabriela Bulisova, J Carrier, Daniel Cima, Bill Crandall, Karel Cudlin, Scott Dalton, Hector Emanuel, Bevis Fusha. Eros Hoagland and Michael Robinson Chavez have pooled their vision and created Metro Collective. Very nice.... -- Finding the Way Home -- What does it take for a family to start over? Photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally documents the seemingly endless struggles some families face as they set about Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina.... -- Where War Lives -- For those who missed it, Fresh Air's Terri Gross interviewed journalist Paul Watson, whose 1994 photo of a dead U.S. soldier being dragged through streets in Somalia earned him Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Watson talks frankly and at... -- What is seeing? -- Seeing with Photography Collective is a New York based group, whose work is a collaboration between visually impaired and sighted photographers. There are some absolutely stunning images in the photo gallery. And the technique is explained: Sighted assistants focus and... -- Video = Self-destruction of Photojournalism -- I fear, yes, FEAR the day I lose my camera and am handed a video camera. It is happening in Texas, some of the photographers there are excited about it, I am not. I think video is intrusive, limited and... -- Worms Worms Worms -- Chicago Tribune stud Wes Pope tells an amazingly intense story in video and stills on something I haven't seen done before. Lifting the Guinea Worm Curse is powerful story because of the emotion captured, and it held my attention because... -- Deserted -- San Antonio Express-News photojournalist Lisa Krantz has been drawn back to New Orleans several times since Katrina. In her most recent endeavor, she's using audio, video and stills to tell the story of those who have been deserted since Katrina.... -- Canon v Nikon -- The New York Times reports that Canon so dominates the professional market today, particularly when it comes to photojournalism, that it recently tweaked Nikon's nose with an advertising campaign about its triumph. Nikon's recent introduction of the long-awaited D3 and... -- One Shot -- "Photographers hate to admit it, but they are always best known for one picture." The BBC has a profile of Harry Benson, who figures he'll always be best known for his 1964 photo of the Beatles having a pillow fight... -- The Portfolio of... -- William Greiner... -- Shutting down the "Cycle of Life" -- Earlier this week commissioners from Hamilton County in Ohio agreed to a $8 million settlement stemming from a suit after artist Thomas Condon took a series of photos in the county morgue during 1999 and 2000. The project, which Condon... -- Face of War -- One of the more shocking photographs to emerge from the current Iraq war was taken last year in a rural farm town in the American Midwest. It's a studio portrait by the New York photographer Nina Berman of a young... -- The Portfolio of... -- Arja Katariina Hyytiainen... -- Making the Most of a Mentor -- Stanley Leary has a great post on the Black Star Rising blog titled How to Make the Most of a Mentor. What makes a great mentor is an inquisitive student. I often think of the old TV series Kung Fu,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Steve Peixotto... -- A Daily Photo Blog of Political Proportions -- Freelance photographers Keith Bedford, Yana Paskova, Michal Czerwonka, Eric Thayer, Allison Joyce and Joshua Lott are calling Des Moines, Iowa home through the 2008 presidential election. They will be adding a new photograph each day to their blog The Stumping... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jon Fletcher... -- Inside the AP -- In this short audio slideshow by the BBC, three AP photographers - Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner most famous for his work during the Vietnam War, Santiago Lyon, AP's current global director of photography, and Oded Balilty, an... -- Photo Betty -- There is some great journalism up over at Photobetty. Three new stories went up this month. Jean Chung looks at the complications of giving birth in Afghanistan. Anastasia Taylor-Lind documented a group of Kurdish female guerrila fighters, and Rena Effendi... -- The Portfolio of... -- Robb Kendrick... -- Rock On! -- Following up on a few musical posts, photographer - and former wannabe rockstar - Christian Patterson waxes poetic about band names. Especially for a band consisting solely of photographers... My favorite is The Darkroom. A goth-metal outfit. Will only perform... -- The Desired Effect -- "Monochromatic Chinese factories, grounded oil tankers being scrapped in Bangladesh, the vast scars of open mines. Enough context is provided to explain what you're seeing, but the relative lack of narration is as refreshing as the scenes are stunning. The... -- A Little Friday Inspiration -- Chip Simons is an outcast or originality. "I feel so mentally free to do whatever I want. I am not trying to impress anyone with my technique or who I have shot. I can still work for stupid magazines and... -- ...on Certainty and Sh*t -- 2point8 has a great post on Stephen Shore where he muses about the quality or lack there of in the digital world. Including this great jab at Flickr: I went on to flickr and it was just thousands of pieces... -- The Portfolio of... -- Sabrina Ward Harrison... -- Pirate Sarkozy -- AP shooter Jim Cole seems to have survived an act of piracy by French President Nicolas Sarkozy: "Sarkozy lost his temper with two American news photographers covering his vacation Sunday, jumping onto their boat and scolding them loudly in French,"... -- What Will We Become? -- -- A Conversation with Bruce Haley -- Joerg Colberg has a great conversation with Bruce Haley, where they talk about everything from stoking the flame of idealism, what raising an autistic child did for his documentary work, and image saturation. So where does that leave us, as... -- The Portfolio of... -- Chris Stanford... -- Photographs from the Edge -- Susan Meiselas is looking a bit shaken. She has just heard that her trip to Guinea the next day has been canceled; her local driver has been assaulted and is fleeing the country. She is working with Human Rights Watch... -- We Are All Made of Stars -- Jessica Stuart over at Mediastorm has a great tip about some free music for students, independent filmmakers and non-profits via Moby.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Charles "Stretch" Ledford... -- Living to the End -- The week, the Oregonian launched a series called "Living to the End." Multimedia journalist Rob Finch says: The project is like nothing I have ever tried before. We are going to do our best to tell the story of Lovelle... -- Redrafting the Rules -- In response to a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union and an outcry by photojournalists and advocates of press freedoms, the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting today announced they will step back... -- The Hidden Half -- With the 2nd highest rate of women dying while giving birth (in the world) and girls attending school at half the rate boys do... not to mention honor killings and an accepted level of domestic violence, the women in Afghanistan...
-- Kissing Couple -- The subjects of the single-most reproduced image in Life Magazine's history have remained anonymous for the last 60 years. Until now, well maybe.... -- The Case Against Zooms -- "I do have a prejudice against zooms, though, for this very simple reason: I don't think they help most photographers do better work. I think they are an impediment to learning how to see better. "... -- Picture NY! -- "We, the undersigned, believe that the new rules currently under consideration for Film Permits (Chapter 9, Title 43 of the City Rules of New York) will have an irrevocable impact on independent filmmakers and photographers and their ability to engage... -- Travel With Holga -- I posted a few weeks ago on the Junk Camera Soldier. I just can't get enough of his and other galleries at ToyCamera.com. Check out the work there by Simon Robinson in France, Daniel Grant around the Mediterranean, and Georges-Raymond... -- Experiencing War, First-Hand -- "When Rick Loomis took off for the Middle East as the U.S. was preparing to invade Iraq in early 2003, he put all his belongings in storage and sent his dog off to live with a friend. He was left... -- The Portfolio of... -- Joey Lawrence... -- Emmy Nominated Photog -- When you hear about photogs getting nominated for awards, you rarely hear mention of the Emmy's. But photog Lauren Greenfield may be changing that. The VII photog has been nominated for Thin, her HBO documentary about women with eating disorders.... -- Patrick Brown On Wildlife Trade -- "The wildlife trade is the third largest illegal trade in the world, rivaled only by guns and drugs. Every year up to 30,000 primates, 2 to 5 million birds and 10 million reptile skins are traded," writes photographer Patrick Brown,... -- Welcome To Hell -- "We got held up in a road block and you just never get used to the clunk-click of a shot gun behind your head, at some stage it will be the last thing you hear." Trinidad-based photographer Alex Smailes started... -- Like Father, Like Son -- In searching for an American sound, cellist Erik Friedlander is essentially making the soundtrack for his father's photographs. Shaped by summers spent touring the West in the family camper, Friedlander's new album "Block Ice & Propane" is influenced by those... -- The Portfolio of... -- Corey Arnold... -- The Portfolio of... -- Aubrey Hays... -- NFL Canon Vests -- According to NPPA, "The National Football League has passed a new rule for the upcoming season that requires photographers at NFL games to wear red vests with Canon and Reebok logos on them." Good grief. But seeing as how Canon... -- Ian Parry Winners -- London-based freelancer Ivor Prickett won the 2007 Ian Parry Scholarship -- and along with the award comes about $5,000 to continue working on his project. "Prickett, an Irish native whose winning portfolio features images telling the story of Croatian Serbs... -- Liar, Liar -- Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but there are two words that you can never apply to them: "true" and "false." Filmmaker Errol Morris deconstructs the truth of a photograph, by contending that a caption is necessary to provide... -- Fun With Lightpainting -- Wes Hope made a pretty rad post over at SportsShooter about the new Sprint commercial. It blew me away when I first saw it air on TV, because it's so different from all the other stuff out there. I've always... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ab Sesay... -- Non-Photography Day -- Live life today, instead of documenting it... Be in the moment instead of worrying about capturing it.... That's the thought process behind Non-Photography Day.... -- Surreal Speers -- A post over at the Lens Culture blog on Australian-born, Paris-based photographer Vee Speers caught my eye. Her hand-tinted black and white Polaroids from the "Birthday Party" are stunning... simple... strange... refreshing. One curator called them "a collection of astounding... -- The Portfolio of... -- Rania Matar... -- How do you follow Eugene Richards? -- If you've ever wanted to be a member of VII -- now is your chance.... -- John Szarkowski -- John Szarkowski died last Saturday. He was 81. As a photographer, his early influences were Walker Evans and Edward Weston. As a curator at the Museum of Modern Art (Edward Steicehn chose him as his own replacement), he introduced Diane... -- The Portfolio of... -- Alyssa Schukar... -- Junk Camera Soldier -- Here's a different take on the war: Junk Camera Soldier -- Hrad Kuzyk -- shot black and white film in various, well, junk cameras, while deployed to Iraq for 16 months. I found a short collection of the work currently... -- The Middle Distance -- The Inge Morath Foundation, in cooperation with Magnum Photos, is pleased to announce the winner of the 2007 Inge Morath Award. This year's winner is Olivia Arthur of London, England, in support of her project "The Middle Distance," documenting the... -- Mark Tucker's India -- I like to say that if I had just one picture in my portfolio like this one by Mark Tucker in India, I'd die a happy man. To me, it embodies the allure of travel. I don't remember how I... -- Book Review: Thank You -- I was first turned onto Robert Frank's book Thank You when it graced Allison V. Smith's A List of favorite, inspiring photo books. Frank had a profound influence on most photojournalists I know. Myself included. But there are many... -- Washington Post's Joe Elbert Wants To Shoot Again -- Joe Elbert, assistant managing editor for photography for The Washington Post, has decided to step down from his management role and go back on the street as a photojournalist. "There's no way I'm going to finish my career as an... -- Alexandra Boulat Update -- VII photographer Alexandra Boulat remains in a medically-induced coma at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem following a brain aneurysm. Dave Yoder posted today on Lightstalkers: There has not been any significant change in Alexandra's condition for the last few days as... -- The Got Soul -- Not every piece is a winner, but the idea certainly is.... Soul of Athens is a multimedia undertaking by students at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. They have immersed themselves in the community, and are finding out... -- The Portfolio of... -- David Walter Banks...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Christian Hansen... -- What the Duck -- -- Evidence of My Existence -- "How to stop moving? How to pull myself from an orbit that took me years to obtain? An orbit whose arc and velocity filled my life with something I mistook for relevance." Award-winning U.S. News and World Report photojournalist Jim... -- City Like This -- What do you do if you're the virtuoso guitarist in a juggernaut rock band that breaks up, leaving you with more royalty riches than you'll ever be able to spend -- and you don't have to check into rehab or... -- And the Nominees Are... -- According to Alec Soth, Magnum voted in three new nominees this year. That's exactly three more than last year. Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, 1968. Currently lives and works in New York. Sanguinetti is a recipient of a... -- Last Photographs -- New York Times contract photographer Ashley Gilbertson writes about his experience returning to Iraq: I didn't want to go back. When I began reporting from Iraq in 2002, I was still a wild and somewhat naive 24-year-old kid. Five years... -- SnapVillage Launches -- The world just got more competitive for established freelance photographers, and another door has opened for shooters looking for a break: Corbis has jumped into crowd sourcing with the launch of SnapVillage, an online microstock agency that allows photographers to... -- Cary Conover: Pocket Documentary -- For those of you who know the work of Cary Conover from his website, or from the recent issue of Blueeyes Magazine, where his Portfolio was featured, there is a Pocket Documentary about him now. For those who don't know... -- Alec Soth Speaks -- "At times when I'm on these assignments in the back of my mind I'm looking for my own pictures as well... Part of my whole theory about editorial photography, too, is that it presents great, strange opportunities, at times. To... -- Lunatic #1 -- The international collective of photographers Luna is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of the new online magazine Lunatic. Lunatic Mag gives the opportunity to photographers to promote original stories and images. It also aims to provide... -- Alexandra Boulat, Brain Aneurysm -- Conflict photojournalist, and founding member of VII, Alexandra Boulat suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm while working on assignment in Israel on Friday. You can follow news on Alex's situation as it develops on the thread over at Lightstalkers.... -- Interview: BILL FRAKES -- Bill Frakes is a Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer based in Florida. He has traveled to all 50 states and worked in more than 75 countries for a wide variety of editorial and advertising clients like Nike, CocaCola, Champion, Isleworth, Stryker,... -- How Magnum Works -- As part of the Magnum 60th Anniversary, WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show interviewed Jonas Bendikson, Alec Soth and Mark Lubell (Magnum's director). Includes an interesting explanation of how the Magnum membership process works. In the recent portfolio review session, they... -- Living Proof -- From Senegal to the cotton fields to the black churches to the Bronx and then the world.... Living Proof, David Alan Harvey's project traces the roots of hiphop to the modern day dispersion of the music and the movement... -- Geeks Do Portland -- It's been a long, wonderful week in the Pacific Northwest, but for now I have just two words: GeekFest 2007... (more on this soon, and a huge thanks to Jen Friedberg for building the site so quick and effortlessly!!)... -- Operation Azra -- Just wanted to draw your attention to an online print auction that just started to help Azra Latif, a Pakistani girl that photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair photographed. Azra was severely disfigured when her brother-in-law threw acid on her face during... -- 60 Years of Photos -- Photos from the first 60 years of Magnum. More iconic Magnum photos at Wallpaper.... -- Cuban-isms -- Mark Cuban is a straight-shooting businessman. He's not a newspaper man. And he may be exactly what the newspaper business needs. "...newspapers don't see their own value. They just don't get it. So they do dumb-ass shit, like they can't... -- T/S -- "The assignment originally called for aerials - but since 9/11 getting clearance over any major event has proven close to impossible - so I decided to shoot everything with tilt-shift lenses - which gives a very surreal, almost doll-house like... -- Audio, Video, Photography, Oh My.... -- The NPPA Multimedia Immersion Summit is going on in Portland, Oregon right now. Richard Koci Hernandez's poor man's notes are worth a read, if you want the Cliff Note's version of the workshop. He's also got a list of new,... -- Hey, Hot Shot! -- The spring (quarterly) edition of Hey, Hot Shot! have been announced. Congratulations to the winners, whose works will be on view at the Jen Bekman Gallery beginning with the launch reception on the eve of Wednesday June 13 from 6-8... -- The Portfolio of... -- Bryce Duffy...
-- To the Roof of Africa -- "After four days of damp underthings, flooded latrines and no showers, Lisa and I exchanged the greatest compliment possible for two people bunking in close quarters. "I can't smell you," Lisa told me. "I can't smell you either," [Karisa] said.... -- Deadly Search for Missing Soldiers -- Speaking of the New York Times... There's an incredible story told in both words and pictures by photojournalist Michael Kamber accompanied soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division as they searched for three missing U.S. soldiers in Iraq. During that search... -- Needle Exchange -- The nation's capital is the only city in the country barred by federal law from using local tax money to finance needle exchange programs. It is also the city with the fastest-growing number of new AIDS cases. New York Times... -- Magnum Goodness -- Oh, to live in New York City -- at least for a few months this summer. The schedule of events for the Magnum Festival '07, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the legendary photo agency, was just announced. Their June... -- Photographs of Photographers -- There's just something about these photographs of photographers that make me laugh out loud.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ross Taylor... -- The Portfolio of... -- Tomasz Tomaszewski... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jane Evelyn Atwood... -- The Anarchist Journalist -- "Journalists should be by their very nature anarchists, people who want to point out things that are not generally approved of," says Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths in this collection of audio clips recorded in early 2002 for the Musarium... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jessica Dimmock... -- Anonymous No More -- Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi took 70 pictures of a firing squad execution in Kurdistan on Aug. 27, 1979. One picture won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. It was, however, awarded to an unnamed photographer -- the... -- Beyond Words -- The CBC recently aired a documentary on War Photographers called Beyond Words turning the focus from the images to the photographer themselves. "Many have been wounded. Some have seen colleagues die. All have been scarred by what they do: some... -- Border Film -- The Border Film Project distributed disposable cameras to undocumented migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and the American Minutemen who try to stop them. The resulting images culled from the returned cameras provide a first-person perspective from both sides of the... -- The Portfolio of... -- Bruce Strong... -- JPG Mag, Rewriting Their Own History -- Seems like there's a little shake up at JPG Magazine. Issue 10 is hitting newsstands soon, and unfortunately, it will be the last issue that the founders Derek Powazek and Heather Champ are involved with. As Derek explains, "In one... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dominic Nahr... -- The Exodus -- VII badass Joachim Ladefoged has been documenting the flight from Iraq, as millions flee the country, creating the largest refugee problem in the middle east since 1948. The Exodus was this week's New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story, and... -- The Portfolio of... -- Q. Sakamaki... -- McCullin's Ghosts -- Although he's give up war photography, Don McCullin can't escape the 20 years of ghastly memories, and the mental breakdowns he had every other year from all that death that surrounded him. He now spends his days photographing Somerset landscapes... -- Heroes of Photography -- American Photo has a tribute to 10 photographers who inspire us. It's an unusual list that doesn't include a lot of the obvious heroes, like Nachtwey, Richards, Guzy, etc... Instead, it showcases photographers like, Joseph Rodriguez, who rebuilt his life... -- For Richards, War is Personal -- "War Is Personal" is a project conceived, written, and photographed by Eugene Richards. Stories in the series individually and collectively focus on the personal consequences of the war in Iraq. His images have become a photo column that appears in... -- PDN Photo Annual -- I got a sneak peek when I got the magazine in the mail a few days ago, and it's taken until now for them to get the PDN Photo Annual 2007 online so I could share it with the rest... -- Eddie Adams - It's that Time of Year Again -- Want to have a life-changing, intense visual experience with 99 friends and equally as many heavies in the woods of upstate New York? If you're still a student or have 3 years experience or less, then it's time to apply.... -- Words of Wisdom -- "...give yourself the "assignment" or the "grant" that you would dream someone would give you....find a personal project and do it without regard for later "sales"...you must do this in your "spare time"....make your "spare time" longer and longer and... -- RIP Dmitry -- Photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev was killed while on assignment for Russian Newsweek in Iraq on Sunday. Six American soldiers were also killed in the IED blast that hit the Tacoma, Wash.-based unit with which Chebotayev was embedded. Many photographers knew Dmitry... -- The Portfolio of... -- Marc Asnin... -- All That's Wrong With Art Photography -- I've never had a strong visceral reaction to anyone's work like I have to - a young man with an eye, and friends up a tree -- Ryan McGinley's. It's not a pleasant one. It's more of an "I just... -- The Portfolio of... -- Sacha Waldman... -- BOP video -- There's a great quicktime movie that offers some insight into how the picture editing contest for the Best of Photojournalism goes down. And regardless of what you think of the judging, the video was really well shot. Plus you can... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dorothy Hong... -- The Portfolio of... -- Amy Elkins... -- ACP & ADP -- The Appalachian Cultural Project is designed to promote the education of Western Kentucky University students, while respectfully documenting the people and culture of the Appalachian region. The workshop began in 2003 and after going through a lot of the photos...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Richard Renaldi... -- Low Morale -- Low Morale: Creep is a music video of Radiohead's 'Creep' song. The animation is a cathartic opus that aims to express the despair caused by a soul-destroying job and the pain of a broken relationship. Warning: may cause depression. I... -- Freelance Switch -- For all the freelancers out there, or those thinking of making the switch from job security to personal freedom this blog is worth checking out. It offers advice, tips, community and jobs for freelancers -- and could prove to be... -- The Portfolio of... -- Yunghi Kim... -- The Portfolio of... -- Nuri Bilge Ceylan... -- Pellegrin y Capa -- Robert Capa had a motto: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin was recently awarded the Robert Capa gold medal award for photo reporting exceptional courage for his work in covering the Israel... -- Blueeyes 15 -- Issue 15 of Blueeyes Magazine delivers three inside looks into three very separate worlds, connected by each photographer's passion to go beyond headlines to document the daily lives of natives. Stephanie Sinclair's brave, important record of the effects of... -- 100 -- In a time of buyouts and bleak forecasts for the profession, Chip Litherland has compiled a great list of One Hundred Things Completely Right About Our Job.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Bill Owens... -- Food For Thought, So Get A Buffet Plate -- Alec Soth has a few theories on cultural backlashes, like the one he points out is currently brewing about This American Life: * We quickly tire of anything highly original that is produced within a conventional context * Aficionados want... -- What the duck? -- What the Duck is a web comic by Aaron Johnson about a duck who is a photographer. Published most weekdays. Like most comics, it's sometimes funny, and sometimes not. Sometimes it hits close to home. The entire archive of the... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dana Romanoff... -- NoTxt 9 -- Issue #9 of NoTxt is now online featuring the work of Josh Brown, Andy Martin, Scott Bort, Jorge Javier Lopez, Jonathan Hanson, Francesa Dotta, Yeulmaus and Lars Borges.... -- 2007 Pulitzers -- The Pulitzer Prizes for 2007 were just announced. Congratulations to Feature Photography winner Renee Byer of the Sacramento Bee for her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer. And to... -- What a Jackass -- Today, the Toledo Blade issued a public apology on behalf of Allan Detrich. Mind you this is the same Allan Detrich who, a week ago told PDN, "I've been in this business 25 years. I'm not a cloner, that's not... -- Magnum Fest -- Man.... As if the Festival of the Photograph and the APAD Geekfest weren't enough to help you get your photo fill in June, now there's the Magnum Festival. You might as well take the whole month off.... -- More Detrich Photos -- It's a sad state of affairs.... After an internal investigation that included looking at files on his laptop and going back in the Toledo Blade archive, there apparently there were other photos of Allan Detrich's that "should not have run... -- The Portfolio of... -- Erik Boker... -- Migrant Mother -- While working for the FDR administration in 1936, photographer Dorthea Lange took the following photograph: You've likely seen it before...it's called Migrant Mother and it's one of the more famous American photos. When she took the photo, Lange neglected to... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dale Yudelman... -- Detrich Resigns -- First he was suspended, and told to turn in his gear and laptop, now the NPPA is reporting that Toledo Blade photographer Allan Detrich has resigned, effective April 7, over the digitally altered photo. "He has not taken any photographs... -- MugShots -- Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937.... -- Nachtwey and TED -- Along with President Bill Clinton and environmentalist E.O. Wilson, photojournalist James Nachtwey is one of the 2007 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Prize winners. In his acceptance speech, he talks about the last 25 years of covering conflict and notes two... -- RIP Ajmal Naqshbandi -- The BBC has a report today saying that Ajmal Naqshbandi, the Afghan journalist kidnapped last month with the released Italian journalist, has been killed. Previously on the APAD blog, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Italian NGO Emergency had... -- Allan Detrich, the Follow-Up -- As an update to the previous post about Allan Detrich's doctored photo, I'll leave you with his own words, after stumbling across his blog tonight. In his most recent post, he thanks all the people who wrote him to offer... -- Allan Detrich's Doctored Photo -- "It was mistake, plain and simple," says Toldeo Blade staff photographer Allan Detrich. "But it was a big mistake." Many photographers made images of the moment, and at least 4 were shooting form the same position as Bluffton University's baseball... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Joe Curren... -- "...to wake up, to go out, and to look..." -- If you can't make it to the talk at Aperture tonight in NYC, here's a long interview from 1987 with Josef Koudelka.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Stephen Gill... -- The Complications of Paradise -- "It's been 15 years since Sally Mann published Immediate Family, and the best testament to this 56-year-old Virginia photographer's talent is that the pictures in her book are as arresting now as they were when first published." Newsweek has a... -- Harvey Does Hip Hop -- David Alan Harvey has a great story on his blog about Uptown and Ruckus, two up-and-coming rappers from the Bronx that he befriended and became his passport into the Hip Hop story he was working for National Geographic. He brought...
-- What Resolution is Your Eye? -- The human eye is equivalent to a 576 megapixel camera and has a nighttime ISO of 800. Your eye also sees at about a 22mm focal length with a minimum aperture of about f 3.5, and the maximum aperture decreasing... -- The Portfolio of... -- Bill Crandall... -- Letter For Ajmal -- The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is issuing a letter urging for the release of Ajmal Nakshbandi, an Afghan journalist being held by the Taliban. You can sign online via LightStalkers here: http://www.lightstalkers.org/letter_for_ajmal Additional contact info for CPJ is here:... -- Winogrand at Work -- Garry Winogrand is the quintessential street photographer, drawn to the action and energy of certain subjects, trusting his instincts on what's in the picture and less on how it's going to look. Here's a short video from 1982 of Winogrand... -- The Messenger Delivers -- "Beauty is a vexed matter in scenes of suffering, cruelty and death. The difference between exploitation and public service comes down to whether the subject of the image aids the ego of the photographer more than the other way around.... -- How We See -- When art students are learning to do portraiture they still tend to exaggerate the size of key features. Trained artists learn to ignore these temptations and draw the world more realisitcally. Even some of the greats have had to learn... -- The happiest carts around -- "I photograph shopping carts because I find them to be emblematic of society ..." So says New Mexico-based photographer Craig Robinson of his ongoing project, "Cartography," which can be seen here. He continues, "Because of their ubiquity they seem to... -- Animals of the Sky -- "For us as photographers, day to day it's all very much about photographing people doing things. But every now and again the planet reminds us who's really in control. A strong storm makes you feel very small." Sydney Morning Herald... -- Don't Whine, Just Produce -- Charles Traub has some great advice for young photographers looking to get started in the field (and a good reminder for the rest of us old dogs, too).... -- Photo March Madness -- As March Madness rolls on, who's in your photo final four? I've got my money on Robert Frank, Andreas Gursky, Sally Mann and Richard Avedon: with Frank winning the big one. Although, the Eggleston-Soth match-up in the Sweet 16 is... -- 30 -- PDN's 30 is now online, and with some familiar names -- including APADer Kathryn Cook.... -- Look -- A gathering that started simply enough in Nick Nichols' loft in Berkley and then expanded to a backyard in Virginia is now taking over a whole town. Festival of the Photograph is being billed as 3 days of peace, love... -- The Portfolio of... -- Farah Nosh... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dave Hill... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dan Winters... -- The Portfolio of... -- Rachel Papo...
-- PopPhoto Guest Blogger -- American Photo Magazine recently launched a new guest blog feature on their State of the Art blog. The way it works is every other month, when their magazine hits newsstands, editors are going to ask someone from the photography world... -- Humvee TV -- While on a recent trip to Iraq, Fayetteville Observer photojournalist Andrew Craft watched landscapes and life pass by his window as he rode around in the back of a hummer, and he said it started to feel like he was... -- Judging the Judges -- There are some pretty priceless quotes in this Lightstalkers thread on the POYi wins: "it's not like photojournalism is supposed to raise awarness [sic] to problematic issues, or anything like that! aren't we all just here to suck editor cock?... -- News War -- PBS news program Frontline is currently half-way through the four-part series "News War," which investigates "challenges facing the mainstream news media, and the media's reaction." Parts one and two -- which examine how the media develops and utilizes sources and... -- Get your Daily newsvideaudiphopaper -- What's new in the newroom? "We want to try to make the Washington Post be not about the paper in newspaper but about the news." The Washingtonpost.com/Newsweek Interactive is using the Mac to merge photos, videos and audio to create... -- On Storytelling -- My favorite radio personality Ira Glass of This American Life talks about the building blocks of great story telling in a four-part series parts (1, 2, 3, 4). "If somebody wants to do creative work you have to set aside... -- Award-Winning Photo Puts Subjects on Defensive -- Spencer Platt's World Press Photo of the Year has been the spark of debate, the subject of controversy and had assumptions made about it by both sides. "What I think this image partly asks us, the viewer, is to challenge... -- POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year Named -- Posted Friday evening, the 64th annual Pictures of the Year International named The New York Times staff photojournalist Tyler Hicks Newspaper Photographer of the Year.... -- POYi -- The winners are trickling in.... -- Interview: SCOTT STRAZZANTE -- Scott Strazzante, 40, joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune in October 2001. Prior to that, Strazzante worked at The Herald News in Joliet, Illinois and the Daily Southtown in Chicago. Strazzante has a slew of awards under his belt,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brent Humphreys... -- For Canon purchasers -- Check out Canon Digital Camera & Lens Reviews before you buy.... -- Book Review: The Mind's Eye -- Reading "The Mind's Eye: Writings on photography and photographers" by Henri Cartier-Bresson is like sitting down with the legend over a cup of espresso in a small French bistro. His journal writings are as masterfully written as his photographs.... -- David Alan Harvey has a lot of blogs -- Holy cow. David Alan Harvey, whose work you've probably seen, has started blogging with a vengeance (via a lightstalkers.org thread on photoblogs). Road TripsHis student's workWork in progressHis family and friends (Koudelka apparently knows how to party)... -- The Portfolio of... -- Alex Garcia... -- Intern Arrested -- APAD member and Galveston Daily News Intern Nick Adams was arrested Saturday night while photographing an arrest at Mardi Gras in Galveston, Texas. Currently the facts of the case are disputed. While the police acknowledge that an officer physically pushed... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mitch Epstein... -- Blog.magnumphotos.com -- Magnum just unveiled a blog, which so far comprises posts by photographers, a gallerist, and a printer.... -- World Press Photo 2007 -- World Press Photo have announced their winners for 2007. Photo of the year goes to Spencer Platt, who shoots for Getty.... -- Art is the Party -- Philippe Chancel takes us into North Korea -- a place not many get the chance to experience, let alone photograph. "No country, no regime, past or present, has ever conceived such an environment of ubiquitous propaganda, not even those who... -- NoTxt 8 -- Issue #8 is now online, featuring Corey Smith, Meredith Edlow, Mario Sughi, Bryan Mitchell, Charlie Blackledge, Yana Payusova, Eduadorian children edited by Ashley Franscell, Ross Mantle. Check it out!... -- Waging Peace -- "In faraway desert villages and city slums, U.S. military men and women are healing children, digging water wells and building schools. It's part of a unique approach by a Navy-led task force to fight terrorism in a region where Islamic... -- Do you do portraits, Mr. Newman? -- Just found (via metafilter) a great little story about a phone call between a young assistant to a brochure designer and Arnold Newman, who has taken a number of portraits you probably know.... -- APAD, Amazon and You -- So, if I've done it right, i just set APhotoADay up as an Amazon.com Associate. What that means is that if you use the amazon.com search bar -- now conveniently located in the right hand column on this blog --... -- The Portfolio of... -- Burk Uzzle... -- Canon Rumormill -- The rumors are flying and everyone is talking (or not) about the possibility of new Canon EOS 1DS Mark III... some 22-megapixel beast that Annie Leibovitz may already be shooting with. This is a leaked photo of the back of... -- The Portfolio of... -- James Rexroad... -- Book Review: Witness In Our Time -- Witness in Our Time, by internationally recognized photojournalist and Professor Ken Light, records the testimonies of 18 documentary photographers and five editors/curators in their own words, giving you a glance into their chaotic but rewarding lives. Chronicled are those...
-- South Side goes South Beach -- Early in his career, Scott Strazzante had a dream list of things he wanted to shoot: the Olympics, the World Series, and the Super Bowl. He's now covered a summer and winter Olympics (Greece and Torino), documented his beloved White... -- Brookies are Brokies -- As a follow up to his original post last year, Journalism professor Dennis Dunleavy has more to say about the Brooks scam and the reality of today's newspaper job market. "What Brooks is alledged to have done is to make... -- The Portfolio of... -- Amy Stein... -- Reading Photos 101 -- Have you ever wondered how to read a photo book? The Online Photographer suggests an egg timer and looking -- really looking -- at each photo. One person who left a comment likes the idea and likens it to using... -- Awards Inside the Beltway -- Results are in for this year's winners of the White House News Photographers Association contest, "The Eyes of History 2007." Stellar work as always, with quite a few wins by Getty Images; and speaking of whom, a duece for APADer... -- The Crossing -- The Rocky Mountain News has recently launched a mutlimedia "documentary" on the 1961 school bus crash that took the lives of 20 children near Greeley, Colo. "The Crossing" is a collection of narrative, video, still images (archival and current), historical... -- The Portfolio of... -- Michael Jang... -- The Portfolio of... -- Frank Ockenfels 3... -- The Art of Morbidity -- A little old, but still worth a look ... Dutch photography Museum "Foam" currently features in its gallery a collection of images shot at crime scenes around the city of Amsterdam by the police department. Scores of archive photographs taken... -- Can You Guess? -- What's going to win World Press Photo's top honors this year? A grieving mother and father with their dead child engulfed in flames has a really good chance.... -- Altered Oceans -- The Los Angeles Times published a five-part series, "Altered Oceans," that looks at the man-made interlocking stresses that have created more than 150 known "dead zones" in the world's oceans. Those stresses have led to a reduction in marine life,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mohammad Reza Mirzaei... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jan von Holleben... -- HCB & Munkacsi -- "In 1932 the young Henri Cartier-Bresson, lately returned from Africa, saw a photograph of African children charging into waves on a beach. "I must say that it is that very photograph which was for me the spark that set fire... -- A Lost Art Revived -- New York Times photographer Fred R. Conrad discusses John Coffer's tintype photography after taking one of his workshops.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Angel Valentin... -- Interview: ROB FINCH -- We're starting a new INTERVIEW feature here at APhotoADay. Rob Finch graciously agreed to be the subject of the very first interview, allowing us to work out some kinks and figure out the format that best suits our needs. For... -- MASHing it up -- Via Richard Koci Hernandez and MultiMediashooter ... The folks over at Magnum Photos -- In Motion are at it again, this time with a fairly demiurgic convergence piece that tectonically collides the work of photojournalist Thomas Dworzak with a rich... -- Donald Does Remotes -- "Remotes thought out can give you pictures that you couldn't get in your hands." Ever wanted to learn how to us remotes? And use them well? SportsShooter has an excellent 3-part video of Getty sports stud Donald Miralle talking about... -- The Portfolio of... -- Christopher Wray-McCann... -- The Portfolio of... -- Michael Robinson Chavez... -- The Blind Photographer -- "Many years ago, I stood at the rim of the Grand Canyon watching the sunset. I blurted to the stranger on my left, "Isn't that wonderful?" When he turned to reply, I saw dark glasses and a white cane. I... -- The Portfolio of... -- Peter Dench... -- Blueeyes #14 -- The new issue of Blueeyes Magazine takes us to some hidden communities facing hardships. In Mixteca, Matt Black documents the remnants of a village that is quickly disappearing as its residents seek the dream of a better life in the... -- The Portfolio of... -- Gregg Segal... -- Leica's Freedom Train -- Ernst Leitz II is knows as "the photography industry's Schindler." E. Leitz Inc., designer and manufacturer of Germany's most famous photographic product, the Leica Camera, helped get hundreds of its Jewish employees out of Nazi Germany after Hitler took power.... -- Winds of Change -- "Do you know what the best part is? They're going to turn the schmaltz back up to 11. Oh yes. People will have their Kodak moments again. They're going to bring back all those damn picture of the cute puppies... -- The Portfolio of... -- Steven Brahms... -- The Portfolio of... -- Robbie McClaran... -- The Portfolio of... -- Lars Topelmann... -- Content, Content, Content -- "People worry that newspapers are going out of business. So what? It's the content that's important. No one gives a shit about the delivery mechanism." I stumbled across an interesting post by Sion Touhig where he muses that newspapers are... -- Happy New Year! -- We, here at aphotoaday, would like to kick off 2007 by showing your some of our favorite photos from last year....
-- The Portfolio of... -- Christopher Capozziello... -- Book Review: Photosynthesis -- It's easy to get caught up in a world of technology and contests and office politics. It's possible for me to be thinking about a million and one things while i'm taking pictures -- everything that is, except the... -- The Portfolio of... -- Scott Hammond... -- The Portfolio of... -- Steve Bloch... -- The Portfolio of... -- Erin Trieb... -- MultimediaShooter.com -- Richard Koci-Hernadez, Joe Weiss, Seth Gitner, Andrew DeVigal and several other outstanding journalists have just launched a new website called MultimediaShooter. There are a few posts already and a basic tutorial on the way, along with the Top 10 Multimedia... -- More Best of 2006 -- The Washington Post has a nice selection of the best images by staff photographers this year, as well as a gallery called Sights & Sounds 2006, which features the best work by the Post's multimedia journalists and interactive designers. The... -- The Portfolio of... -- Michal Chelbin... -- Interplanetary Drop -- I'm not sure this dropped camera will ever come back.... -- Formula to Fight AIDS -- Last month San Antonio Express-News photojournalist Lisa Krantz was sent to Zambia to do a story connected to San Antonio. She was in Africa to document a program giving infant formula to HIV Positive mothers in hopes of reducing mother-to-infant... -- The Portfolio of... -- Lorena Ros... -- The Portfolio of... -- Joseph Rodriguez... -- YIP -- Time Magazine has declared these The Best Photos of the Year 2006... -- The Eich Interview -- "Take risks. Make mistakes. Paolo Pellegrin is one of my favorite photographers. There's a lot of photos of his or [Antonin] Kratochvil. A lot of photo professors would look at it and say, "This kid gets an F. It's not... -- The Portfolio of... -- Francesco Zizola... -- The Portfolio of... -- Casper Dalhoff... -- No Txt 7 -- The new issue of NoTxt is up and running -- featuring Jeremy Harmon, Darren Soh, Matt Burden, Matt Eich, Per Jose Karlan, Ramin Rahimian, Concepterrorism, Lars Borges, Troy Boman, Douglas Baulos and G.J. McCarthy.... -- Leonard Freed, 77. -- "It is with a very heavy heart that I must inform all of you that Leonard Freed has passed on. He died yesterday with his wife and daughter by his side."...
-- MediaStorm'n -- Two new multimedia stories are now playing on MediaStorm. Bloodline is Kristen Ashburn's intimate look at the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Her images remind us how tenuous our connection is to each other. In doing so,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Allison V. Smith... -- War Photo Limited -- "It is the intent of War Photo Limited to educate the public in the field of war photography, to expose the myth of war and the intoxication of war, to let people see war as it is, raw, venal, frightening,... -- CPOY Winners are Up -- The winner's list and winning images have finally been posted from the 61st College Photographer of the Year. I'm so glad I'm not graduating from college right now, the level of passion and talent out there is incredible, and the... -- The Portfolio of... -- Tim Hetherington... -- Ed Kashi's Blog -- I love it when amazing photographers are able to share their experiences with us -- there's so much wisdom in their words. So, my find of the day was discovering that Ed Kashi has a blog. He discusses things like... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mike Slack... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jason Fulford... -- Magnum v2.0 -- Have you seen the newly redesigned Magnum website? I'm not sure that I love it, but my my initial reaction is that at least it feels a little more user friendly now -- with the photographer's spotlight, agency news, and... -- Blighted Homeland -- The Los Angeles Times' Gail Fisher has a really nice, in-depth four-part series running on the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation. "From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were dug and blasted from Navajo... -- The Portfolio of... -- Steve Liss... -- NY's Children -- "Of the 192 nations he's identified, he's photographed children from 123 countries so far." Photographer Danny Goldfield is taking a photograph of a child from every country in the world, and all within the boundaries of New York City.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Peter Bialobrzeski... -- Eich Wins -- Watch out for this guy... A huge congratulations to one of the most talented and passionate photographers I know -- Matt Eich -- for winning College Photographer of the Year. Eich was also commended for the Ian Parry Award earlier... -- A photo a day... A day, a photo??? -- Rochester Democrat and Chronicle photographer Will Yurman has been faithfully posting one of his own photos on his website everyday for the last three years.... -- American Color -- "I realize that all those pictures put together do not equal one second of time. It's sort of a remarkable thought about the moment." -- Constantine Manos... -- NoTxt 05 & 06 -- I'm just catching up on all my online zines, and realized I've fallen behind on one of my favorite new sources of visual inspiration -- NoTxt. Issue 06 features the work of Andrew Faulkner, Ken Davidson, Ashley Franscell, Aldo Martinez,... -- CPOY Vodcasts -- Ain't technology grand? In case you couldn't make it Coumbia, Missouri for the CPOY judging this week you're able to feel like you're there -- from the comfort of your own home or iPod. Throughout the judging they will be... -- The Portfolio Of ... -- Perou ... yes, just "Perou" ... you know, like just "Cher" ... right.... -- Paolo Pellegrin -- Paolo Pellegrin won the Kodak Young Photographer Award in 1996. In 2005, he was elected to full membership in Magnum Photos, and now a decade after bursting onto the photojournalism scene, he was awarded the prestigious $30,000 W. Eugene Smith... -- Darfur, Darfur -- "I couldn't face the prospect of my child growing up and asking me, years later, what I had done, and having to say: 'Nothing.'" Last spring Leslie Thomas, a Chicago-based architect, read a story detailing the fallout of hostilities between... -- Internment Camp Photos Unearthed -- Close to 800 new images of Japanese internment camps by the photographer Dorothea Lange have been unearthed in the National Archives, where they had lain neglected for a half-century after having been impounded by the government.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Spencer Murphy... -- Signature Style -- "A style or compositional tendency, whatever you want to call it, will organically emerge from that devotion." But this can happen, he added, only when the photographer is able to work "without excessive supervision." This is a nice first-personal article... -- The Portfolio of... -- Kirk Mastin...
-- ...fo oiloftroP ehT -- Jason Kinney... -- The Portfolio of... -- Todd Heisler... -- Lima Comes Home -- Washington Post staff photojournalist Andrea Bruce produced photographs and audio for the multimedia story When the War Comes Home, a look at how the Marine reservists of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines in Columbus, Ohio, dealt with coming home and... -- The Portfolio of... -- Susie Post Rust... -- Lessons From Cancer -- Please take the time to read and watch this compelling and very personal story about National Geographic contract photographer Joel Sartore and what he's learned from his wife's battle with cancer. It aired on CBS Sunday Morning. He speaks truth... -- In Case You Missed It -- Eddie Adams Workshop: The Musical parts -- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6... -- Immersed -- Immersed. That's the only way to describe my absence from APAD lately. I've been immersed in my own projects and work and an amazing workshop experience, all of which are connected in a cyclical fashion. This year at Barnstorm I... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jason Arthurs... -- Compassion, Compassion, Compassion -- "After covering the shooting in Bailey over the past few days I have learned that many of the people of Bailey are sick of the media. I can understand, I'm getting a little sick of us too," said photojournalist Nick...
-- Through Her Lens -- The recent edition of Newsweek has come under fire. In the International Editions -- Europe, Asia and Latin America -- the cover "Losing Afghanistan" is a serious look at an on-going war, and a photograph of an armed jihadi. The... -- The Portfolio of... -- Eros Hoagland... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ben Lowy... -- Haiti Bound -- Nick Whalen is a nomad, a dreamer, a doer. Whalen is now preparing for his third trip to Haiti -- where he has overcome language barriers, befriended the Brazilian commander of a United Nations base and been exposed to the... -- Jam That Cam -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been working on a device to jam covert digital photographers, but I'm not quite sure how it would differentiate between the paparazzi, snooping shutterbugs and professional photographers. The implications of this frighten... -- The Portfolio of... -- Andrew Miksys... -- Q&A With Video Journalist Travis Fox -- "You know my friends who work for television tell me that I am so lucky because people actually click my videos. That means they want to watch them. Whereas their shows on television are in the background when someone is... -- The Portfolio of... -- Greta Pratt... -- Soth: It Rhymes with Both -- "I'm often asked why, as a fine-art photographer, I would want to be part of Magnum Photos. In my application letter to associate membership of Magnum, I tried to answer this question by writing: I don't trust art world success.... -- Different Interpretations: Author and Subject -- A debate about Magnum photojournalist Thomas Hoepker's odd, almost serene photo of New Yorkers sitting on the Brooklyn waterfront during the 9/11 attacks has resulted in a few interesting first-person pieces on Slate over the past week by one of... -- The Portfolio of... -- Dana Neibert... -- 9/11, 5 years later -- Many have seen the images of the collision, the burning towers, the fall and the rubble. Most of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001 when New York was attacked. However, few... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jeremy Cowart... -- NoTxt04 -- Featuring the work of Jesse Lefkowitz, Paul blow, MAKESHFT, Guillaumit, Meredith Edlow, Travis Lampe, Matt Mallams, Jeff Marmorstone, Barto, and Corpicrudi, the next edition of NoTxt is now online.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Marvi Lacar... -- Liquidation of Rockport College/Maine Photo Workshops -- After 33 years, the renowned Maine Photo Workshops are being liquidated. Read the official Workshop news here or read an independent article here.... -- Links -- Travel Advice For Photographers Apple's ode to Magnum in Motion Learn to Protect Yourself by Reading the Photo Attorney Blog [all links via Seshu Badrinath @ Tiffinbox]... -- Shelter Dogs -- For anyone who's ever blown off the "Pet of the Week" assignment, get a load of this success story. After meeting with a publisher at Review Santa Fe, a platform for picture professionals to see worthy photo projects via one-on-one... -- Good For Him! -- In case you haven't heard yet, William Snyder was one of three people in the Dallas Morning News photo department to take a buyout. "There are no bad reasons for leaving. But it's time, the offer was good, and there...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Arthur Grace... -- The Portfolio of... -- Nick Brandt... -- "After the heartbreak" -- The photo staff of The Dallas Morning News recently released a comprehensive, impressive multi-media package ahead of Hurricane Katrina's one-year anniversary next week. The work offers a host of single-image slideshows -- including before and after sequences -- as well... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Brian Lesteberg... -- Mount Suribachi photographer Joe Rosenthal dies -- Famed photographer Joe Rosenthal, who photographed five U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, died Sunday in Novato, Calif. He was 94. Mr. Rosenthal's photograph, The New York Times' Richard Goldstein wrote in Rosenthal's... -- Make Incredible Pictures! -- In light of the recent digital alteration scandals (see the August 2006 entry in this History of Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics, and Law) that have been widely debated in the photojournalism community, as well as the national media,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Derek Frankowski... -- Katrina's Effects Still Lingering -- Times-Picayune photographer John McCusker almost became another casualty of Katrina after asking police to shoot him Tuesday. Police said he "was depressed after he found out he didn't have enough insurance money to rebuild his Katrina-ravaged New Orleans home." James... -- Sunday Reading -- The third installment of NoTxt magazine is up and running, and features some really rad art work from Adam Stoves as well as some cool and very British photography from William Greiner. And Blueeyes Magazine has just published lucky #13,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Steve Smith... -- Play the Game -- Stop the presses!!! You are Jimmy Olsen, the Daily Planet's star photographer. Try to get some good pictures of Superman for tomorrow's edition.... -- "Just a matter of being a human being..." -- An article on PDN details the aftermath of an August 2 attack in southern Lebanon in which photojournalists put down their cameras and helped rescue stranded civilians. Polaris photographer Timothy Fadek said of the rescue effort, "In south Lebanon there... -- Standing on the Edge of Life -- A Lyrical, Multimedia 'Journey Through Time' has spanned 7 years and all 7 continents. Photographer Frans Lanting has a collection of over 200 images that form "an exploration of the basic elements of our world -- earth, air, fire, water,... -- On journalism in Israel and Lebanon -- There's been a tremendous variety of stories in the media recently regarding how journalism is being done in Israel and Lebanon. Der Spiegel recently wrote pieces about journalists' complicity with the Israeli PR machine and Hezbollah's methods of silence and...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Mark Mirko... -- Finding an Angle in Every Shot -- "Was 'Victory' blurred because the photographers intended to subvert the administration's efforts to craft a message?" "Are photographers too easily complicit in the crafting of these pictures?" "Does the natural quest for beauty by photographers make them unwitting propagandists?" The... -- The Man Behind the Man -- From NPR's Morning Edition - "Photographer Issa Touma is the man behind an increasingly well-known photography festival in Aleppo, Syria. Touma uses his images to try to crowbar open Syrian cultural and intellectual life. That often leaves him butting heads... -- Altering Reality -- "Accuracy is among our most sacred journalistic values. That goes for the photographs, as well as the words, that we publish. So, it is with much regret that I inform you that the color in a photograph in Thursday's editions... -- Z Man Rocks The House -- Legendary Rock n' Roll and Sports photojournalist Michael Zagaris shares stories from his life and gives his prospective on photography on Sportsshooter. The nine part video series chronicles his beginnings in photography (lying to a PR rep to get a... -- "How's it goin' 2000 man?" -- The question of what the future holds for newspaper shooters seems perennial these days. Not unlike my childhood promises of flying cars and robot servants, the claim keeps being made that high-quality still images will be pulled from video and... -- The Portfolio of... -- Simon C. Roberts... -- The Portfolio of... -- Hans Kristian Riise... -- Talk To The Newsroom -- New York Times Director of Photography Michelle McNally is taking part in a Q&A, answering readers questions on everything from equipment to photo manipulation to whether or not a graduate degree is necessary in this business. There are a few... -- Like taking candy from a baby ... over and over -- Jill Greenberg, the prominent L.A.-based photographer, saw her show, End Times -- which was also the subject of a previous APAD news post -- come under attack from the "blogosphere" this spring on an entry in "Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection."... -- Child Brides in Afghanistan -- A photo essay featuring Afghan men and their young brides was in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair, who captured the stunning images of the men with brides as young as 11 years old, talks with NPR's... -- The Portfolio of... -- David Doubilet... -- The Short and Long of Steve McCurry -- I got a great e-mail from someone around here who said, "I was going to blog this when I first saw it, but then I realized there was no way I couldn't make a sarcastic remark about his brevity. That,... -- NoTxt 02 -- NoTxt Magazine #2 is now online, featuring the work of Bill Owens, Disposable Hero, Michelle Caplan, Keith Johnson, Josh Cochran, Jason Olson, Mario Ruiz, Olive47, Andrew Faulkner, and Seizer.... -- Reclaiming His Independence -- Today the Los Angeles Times published the story of Bryan Anderson, a U.S. Army soldier severely injured by an improvised explosive device in Iraq late last year. David Zucchino's words are moving and Rick Loomis' touching photographs are up in... -- The Portfolio of... -- John E. Hollingsworth... -- Of Time and Tides -- The Virginian-Pilot just published a two year long photo essay on the relationship between the sea and the people living in the area. The staff was given a ton of space in the print edition, a dominant six column photo...
-- Doubletake again! -- The excellent DoubleTake magazine has relaunched, though now it's combined with Points of Entry as a dual magazine. From their mission statement, the magazine intends to "present compelling, insightful stories in words and images that open windows onto the human... -- The Portfolio of... -- Chip Somodevilla... -- The Portfolio of... -- Chip Litherland... -- Video is Converging on Us -- Spurred on by technology and the Internet, now more than ever before, reporters at the Washington Post are expected to report in multimedia. For example, Maryland environmental reporter Elizabeth Williamson wrote a well-read story about a "wasting disease"afflicting rockfish in... -- Democratic Books -- "Books are the best way to bring information to the people. We want to show how photographers see the world. Photography is the most powerful way to confront humans with all kinds of reality. As intermediaries, we connect the people."... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ben Watts... -- The Portfolio of... -- Karim Ben Khelifa... -- Nachtwey Does Multimedia -- James Nachtwey's got a multimedia piece called The Congo's Hidden Killers that's worth checking out if you have the Time. It shows how the health crises created by the war in Congo can kill long after the shooting stops. The... -- Kashi Update -- Released and Unharmed -- Photojournalist Ed Kashi was released, unharmed, Monday after being held for three days, according to his wife, Julie Winokur, whom he called immediately after being released. "Winokur said that Kashi and his Nigerian assistant were in a boat and were... -- Ed Kashi Detained in Nigeria -- "We are worried that the navy is not even acknowledging that they are in detention. They say every day that they will release them but they still haven't." Ed Kashi, and his fixer Dimieari Von Kemedi, have been detained and... -- Becoming Fu Yang's Dad -- The Dallas Morning News staff photographer Louis DeLuca thought he was just to snap pictures of a Chinese boy looking for a home in Dallas. Instead, three years later, he's become the child's father. DeLuca and Fu Yang's stories collided... -- Unabomber Boys -- Bruce Ely is the bomb.... -- Reader's Say the Darndest Things -- "I think you need to trade in your brownie for an SLR" "Was Ms. Danielle Rappaport drinking too much Moonshine when she shot that photo?" "Your Mad Magazine of a newspaper has really humiliated itself this time" "Was this the... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Charlotte Oestervang ... who recently won top honors in Image06, a photo competition organized by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Sandro... -- Geekfest 2006 -- Over 30 members of aphotoday invaded the Windy City, for a long weekend of moments and mayhem. Aside from setting out into the city of Chicago to shoot pictures on various themes, we were treated to some amazing work by... -- The Ninth Ward -- A subdued, yet haunting, audio slideshow from the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans by Chicago Tribune photojournalist Pete Souza.... -- VII 5th anniversary seminar in NYC -- Join VII in celebrating its first five years Sept. 17 in New York. Photo stories and panel discussions will focus on such heartwarming topics as "9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, The Middle East, Tsunami, Congo, Girl Culture, Islam in Europe, AIDS in... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jason Hunt... -- Drew Carey doesn't joke about shooting sports -- That's right, Drew Carey of stand-up comedy, The Drew Carey Show and the American version of Whose Line is it Anyway? is an amateur sports shooter. Better than that, our celebrity friend is becoming an ambassador of our wonderful profession... -- NoTxt 01 -- The first issue of NoTxt is now online, and as promised -- all art, no text.... -- R.I.P. Arnold Newman -- Arnold Newman, the master of the environmental portrait, died today. Truly sad.... -- Open up Those Blue Eyes -- Issue 12 from Blueeyes Magazine features new project work from the Nepalese conflict by Tomas van Houtryve and an essay on sanatoriums in the Ukraine by Andres Gonzalez, plus an excellent new portfolio from Tomas Munita.... -- Studio Stairwell -- Mark Seliger's stairwell has been the backdrop for many an amazing portrait, of many a famous person. And the work from there is the subject of the exhibit at his new photo gallery, next to his swanky loft studio in... -- Howard Schatz photographs actors...acting -- A new portrait book by photographer Howard Schatz, In Character: Actors Acting (Bulfinch, ISBN: 0821229079), was an idea Schatz approached to explore the process of creating human emotion. Acting professionals such as Don Cheadle, Rosie Perez, Kelsey Grammer and George... -- WP Buyouts Announced -- At the Washington Post seven photographers and two photo editors -- 25 percent of the staff -- are taking the buyouts, including Lucian Perkins, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and 2000. (thanks to Joe Weiss for the link!)...
-- American Photo Podcasts -- "I'm trying, at least, to show a different side of the experience here." -Chris Hondros Check out the American Photo Podcasts: Photojournalist Chris Hondros talks, via satellite phone, about his experience in Iraq, Jill Greenberg talks about her pictures of... -- Interview with Todd Heisler -- Mark Hancock has posted an extensive 3-part interview with Todd Heisler on his blog. The interview covers a range of subjects, including Mr. Heisler's personal history, ethics, and, of course, the Final Salute project. Over the course of the interview,... -- The Death of Film -- First Nikon, now Canon... Or not.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Rick Loomis... -- The Portfolio of... -- Steven Sebring... -- The Portfolio of... -- Kurt Arrigo... -- Living With Conviction -- Students from Hampden-Sydney College near Richmond, Virginia taught pinhole photography to inmates at a local jail. Why pinhole photography? Well, because, "Pinhole cameras don't have to include anything sharp or anything metal." Of course.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Roger Lemoyne... -- Plan -- Plan is a photographic project by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga consisting of overhead views of apartments. "Such an unusual effect was achieved through the use of a special technique: the overall picture of a room is an aggregate of... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brenda Ann Kenneally... -- Aspiring Models -- "I feel that it's a photographic cop-out to take photos of strictly beautiful people because it's hard to take a bad photo of a beautiful person, especially a very scripted portrait."... -- 30 Seconds in the Oval Office -- Chicago Tribune photographer Pete Souza shows us what a 30-second photo-op in the Oval Office looks like, in real time.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Andy Cutraro... -- Keep on Rockin in the Free(Press) World -- Detroit Free Press photographer David Gilkey was flattered, but not star-struck, when he learned that one of his photos inspired the song "Families" on Neil Young's new CD "Living with War." "I am glad that it made an impression on... -- WWII POW risked Death to Document Reality -- Terence Sumner Kirk, a former World War II POW, built a pinhole camera from cardboard scraps and used smuggled-in photo supplies to snap photographs of fellow malnourished Marines inside the Japanese prison camps. In 1945, Kirk felt compelled to record... -- What Makes a Good Photograph? -- From Radio Netherlands, there's a conversation with photographer Thorne Anderson about three of his photographs from Iraq. His answer to what makes a good photograph is honesty. "And the way you achieve honesty is by spending time to really understand... -- A New Zine in Town -- There's something new in the works from Trent Nelson and Grayson West called NoTxt Magazine, which hopes to be a monthly collection of some of the best visuals out there. They are accepting submissions for the debut issue (appearing in... -- The Portfolio of... -- Edmund Fountain... -- PhotoShelter -- A little thing called PhotoShelter is making big news. The company was founded by photographers for photographers -- allowing you to archive your images online, categorize them, and make your images searchable from your website. It basically eliminates the need... -- Digital Camera's Fingerprint -- Here's an interesting -- but scary -- story about analyzing the noise from a digital image, and tying it to a specific camera. Apparently the noise pattern on your images is like a digital camera's fingerprint. "Just like matching a... -- Eve is Born -- More than merely a collection of emerging women photographers, EVE is the result of a common aspiration: to mobilize each of its member's photographic approach and interpretation of the world in order to provide an original and powerful series of... -- Tribune Turns Over 604 Photos, Publicly -- As a credentialed member of the media, Columbia Daily Tribune photographer Jenna Isaacson photographed an unofficial University of Missouri football team workout in July 2005. She shot a few dozen frames of freshman linebacker Aaron ONeal, when she began to... -- Paper Uses Profits to Train Future Generations of Journalists -- It's not often these days that you see a newspaper care less about profits and more about public service. But there's a nice little piece on NPA's All Things Considered today about just such a place: "At many newspapers, the... -- Xenophoto.org -- A month ago, we blogged about a project that photographer Lynn Johnson is working on. The multifaceted project, which includes several documentary essays, also features a website called Xenophoto. "This website is at its heart, about neutralizing fear based on...
-- David Burnett's Blog -- "Many of our friends have written to me to ask why I'm not writing about political issues... To tell the truth -- and it's not often lately, I think it's because politics gives me gas." David Burnett and his wife... -- The Portfolio of... -- Andrew Henderson... -- Interview with Joachim Ladefoged -- There's a new interview with VII's Joachim Ladefoged over at Journal of a Photographer. The conversation covers everything from Joachim's childhood and beginnings as a photographer to his joining and leaving Magnum and the atmosphere of VII and contemporary Danish... -- The Portfolio of... -- Carl de Keyzer... -- The Portfolio of... -- Loretta Lux... -- The Portfolio of... -- Lisa Krantz... -- Think Big -- "Nature is big. Perhaps there is nothing bigger, because nature is everything. Nature is always moving. She constantly changes, evolves. She is never the same." In order to keep up with the challenges of both understanding nature and taking her... -- Operation Photo Rescue Could use your help -- The folks at Operation Photo Rescue have a new batch of photos to be restored and are always looking for volunteers to help out. They are also heading back to New Orleans from May 1-5 and would love to have... -- Pulitzers Announced -- The Staff of the Dallas Morning News and Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News have won the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Spot News and Feature Photography, respectively. Mr. Heisler was recognized for his "haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for... -- Eugene Richards Joins VII -- (here's a pretty amazing blurb that rocks my photo world -- from a press release that went out today.) ...the members are pleased to announce the admission of Eugene Richards to the VII Photo Agency. "The work of Eugene Richards... -- The Portfolio of... -- Tom Fowlks... -- Blueeyes Magazine Issue #11 -- Blueeyes Magazine, created by John Loomis, is out with their 11th issue that unveils the zine's new digs. Of the three bits for this first issue in a year, two are essays, one each by Toshiki Senoue who documented the... -- Your new home -- One of the most useful pages I've come across in a while is the New York Times' Newsroom Navigator, a beautiful starting point for using the web as a tool for journalism. Intended as a way to selectively aggregate useful... -- The Portfolio of... -- Erika Larsen... -- The Portfolio of... -- Susana Raab... -- The Lifeline -- "In addition to 2,327 deaths in three years of fighting in Iraq, nearly 17,400 Americas have been wounded. An average of 110 per week." From the battlefield hospitals to their journey through trauma to their lives back home, L.A. Times... -- Barnstorm XIX Applications Online! -- Barnstorm XIX: The Eddie Adams Workshop is now accepting applications. The Workshop, which has been a beacon to young photographers since it's inception in 1988, brings together 100 of the best up-and-coming photojournalists and pairs them with leaders from all... -- One More Contest -- Yes, just one more contest to comment on. The Southern Short Course in News Photography published the portfolio winners this afternoon following their presentation in Spartanburg, S.C. Congrats to Mike Stocker of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel having been named Southern... -- The Portfolio of... -- Balazs Gardi...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Gerd Ludwig... -- HOWTO: Contact editors for freelance work -- Over at Lightstalkers, freelance photographer Jon Anderson conducted a survey of photo editors at major newspapers and magazines about how to approach them as a new photographer. The results include valuable advice about mailings and websites, how to follow up... -- Journal Of a Photographer -- We watched Martin Fuchs discover America, and take us behind the scenes at Magnum where he started as an intern last summer -- through his widely circulated New York Photoblog. Asked back to be an editor at Magnum in Motion,... -- Contest Season -- POY winners came and went, with nary a mention from us. For that we apologize, so I thought I'd make mention of both recent contest winners in one big post. Barbara Davidson of the Dallas Morning News was named Newspaper... -- Putting a Face on History -- "Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink." A new book called "Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955," is being published in April by Aperture and World Press Photo. It will... -- Xenophoto Project -- Photographer Lynn Johnson is putting together this project called "The Xenophoto Project" about hate crimes, intolerance and labels. She would love for all photographers to contribute, and help add to the growing database of images and identity words that people... -- Chim -- NPR's Morning Edition aired a story today profiling photographer David Seymour, a co-founder of Magnum who made his mark during the 30s, 40s and 50s.... -- Watch Out! -- This is the future of photojournalism! And they're graduating and coming for your jobs soon. That's right -- you should be scared! They're good, really good.... -- I Am Not an Experiment -- The picture that Mitch Albom paints about photographer Steve Nickerson gave me chills. The reality about the insurance companies denying payment for treatment that could save his life frustrated the hell out of me.... -- Niagra Falls and Larry Towell -- Someone sent me a link to a multimedia essay for Alec Soth's new work on the passion of Niagra Falls. Which I checked out because I was intrigued by his earlier work -- the stuff that got him into Magnum... -- The Portfolio of... -- Elyse Butler... -- For the Journalism Geek in You -- The State of the News Media 2006 offers an annual report on American Journalism. It looks at many of the pressing issues facing the news media, and offers a comprehensive look at how one day, May 11, 2005, was covered... -- Errol -- What do those quirky Miller High Life commercials and the documentaries "Fog of War" and "Mr. Death" have in common? Errol Morris. One of my favorite documentary movie directors. But he makes great TV Commercials too. There's a boat load... -- The Food Photographer -- "I also have always believed that even inanimate objects have souls. That's why when I'm shooting food I scream at it." Here's a hilarious look at Sjan, the food photographer.... -- Emerging 30 -- Usually they tend to favor art photography over photojournalism, but this year, the editors at PDN gave some amazing young documentary photographers their due, including some of APAD's favorites, like Carolyn Drake, Andres Gonzales, Schaul Schwartz and David Hogsholt.... -- Photogs Helping Photogs -- Rocky Mountain News photographer Steve Nickerson is battling a rare and life-threatening disease. There's talk of a promising treatment, but it's expensive and the insurance companies won't pay for it. The staff of the Rocky is having a print auction... -- 20 Ways to Kill Time -- The FWA -- Favourite Website Awards -- constantly and consistently highlights the websites out there that are combining inspirational ideas with cutting-edge technology. They just published their 20 best photography sites from the last six years.... -- Knight Ridder Sold -- "McClatchy is a dolphin swallowing a small whale." After months of speculation, it looks as though Knight Ridder has been bought by McClatchy in a $4.5-billion deal, and now 12 of those former KR papers, including the San Jose Mercury... -- In Memory of Gordon Parks -- There's now an online guest book for Gordon Parks, which members of his family will read and probably receive a copy of at some point -- in case anyone's interested in reading and/or signing it.... -- The Life and Death of Kevin Carter -- "I am zooming in on a tight shot of the dead guy and a splash of red. Going into his khaki uniform in a pool of blood in the sand. The dead man's face is slightly gray. You are making... -- 360 degree view -- Thinh Le made a cool series of Hanoi panoramas after feeling limited by the confines of the conventional picture frame, and then looking for a better way to capture a dynamic image, when many moments were happening simultaneously around him.... -- Gordon Parks dies at 93 -- Gordon Parks, who documented the strife of black America starting in the middle of the 20th century, and became a well-respected director in Hollywood, died Tuesday. He was 93. Mr. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kan., in 1912 and... -- From Darkroom To Classroom -- Photographers Caren Alpert, P.F. Bentley, and Eli Reed all have one thing in common, they've made the transition from the darkroom into the classroom, offering students lessons drawn from their real life experience.... -- Auschwitz Photographer -- "I didn't return to my profession, because those Jewish kids, and the naked Jewish girls, constantly flashed before my eyes," he said. Former photographer Wilhelm Brasse, 89, talked with Ryan Lucas of The Associated Press about job he hasn't been... -- Unseen. Unforgotten. -- "Before there was APAD and other outlets to publish images that the editors knock out of play for the paper, what could you do? What if the subject you were shooting was the civil rights movement and you were working... -- Getty Grant Winners Announced -- Photojournalists Kristen Ashburn and Andrew Testa have each been named recipients of a $20,000 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, the first two for 2006. Ashburn won for her project "AIDS and Faith in Zimbabwe" and will use her Getty... -- The Portfolio of... -- Tamas Dezso...
-- Pushing the PIxels -- "For us the digital revolution is a revolution in consciousness, not in commerce." The folks over at PixelPress have the goal of encouraging documentary work in many mediums, and allowing people to explore the possibilities of that work through the... -- Finding the Frame -- After 17 years as a still photographer, the Spokesman-Review's Colin Mulvany made the transition to shooting video and editing audio for multimedia packages for the web full time. He has been keeping a nice video journal (vlog? v-log?!) posting all... -- Levity, Olympic Style -- The Washington Post decided to allow its readership to try their hand at caption writing. Day 10 of the Olympic Photo Caption Contest looks to be a cross between speed skating and a baseball player sliding into home. Got a... -- Street photography is legal again -- The lawsuit against Philip-Lorca diCorcia has been dismissed. In question is a photo from diCorcia's book Heads of Erno Nussenzweig, an Orthodox Jewish man, taken surreptitiously while he was standing in Times Square. Multiple prints of the picture sold for... -- Katrina Media Fellowships -- The Open Society Institute is offering Katrina Media Fellowships in response to all the issues that have come into public light in wake of the devestation on the Gulf Coast, with the goal of aiding in media coverage of Katrina's... -- New Barnstorm Website -- If you have had the chance in the past 18 years to attend the Eddie Adams Workshop, please visit the new website and click on "Alumni Sign-Up." This will give you the ability to, among other things, post images and... -- The Portfolio of... -- Naoto Ikeda... -- 49th World Press Photo Contest Results -- World Press Photo has announced the winners of its annual photo contest. Due to its international nature, this contest is often lauded for rewarding what some argue is more progressive work than similar contests, and this year seems to be... -- If Only... -- The Onion has a great little brief in this week's issue about how "Eastman Kodak released an imaging software package that yellows, fades, and even loses digital photos over time."... -- The Snowball Effect -- Chicago Tribune stud Scott Strazzante is keeping tabs on his adventures and misadventures while photographing the 2006 Winter Olympics with his blog Olympix: It's All Downhill from Here. And Reno Gazette Journal photographer Scott Sady is covering the Olympics for... -- The Portfolio of ... -- Walter Iooss Jr.... -- Sigh -- I still don't understand all the hype over Ryan McGinley.... -- Operation Photo Rescue -- In an effort to help the residents of Pass Christian, Miss. in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Free Lance-Star photojournalist Becky Sell and photo assignment editor Dave Ellis are on a mission to recover and restore hundreds of family photos... -- How's "blogographer" sound? -- VII photographer Ron Haviv has just arrived in Haiti to cover the upcoming election for the Washington Post. What's interesting about his coverage is that it's being done in blog form. His first entry was posted today and features a...
-- Washington Photographers Slam White House: Too Many Photo Handouts -- Washington photojournalists spoke out against the frequency of White House handout photos. After five years of the Bush administration, 500 handouts were counted in the Associated Press archive compared to 100 handouts during President Clinton's eight years. AP photographer Susan... -- The Eyes of History -- Once again, a strong set of images has come out of the White House News Photographer's Association's annual contest --The Eyes of History 2006. The Washington Post's Andrea Bruce took top honors, with some solid work from the earthquake in... -- The Portfolio of... -- Elliott Erwitt... -- Kodak's New Look -- In an attempt to modernize its image and "break out of the box" Kodak has announced a new logo -- their first in over 50 years.... -- Panda Situation -- "They say he was a photographer. Never been cubilcled." Anyone happen to see Dilbert a few weeks ago? In case you missed it, there was a great three-day series [1, 2, 3] on the corporate world's attempt to keep a... -- The Forgotten People -- San Jose Mercury News staff photographer Dai Sugano spent two years following a family of Hmong refugees starting over in America. The pictures speak for themselves, but the dedication Dai shows toward this family is really highlighted in the photographer's... -- The Wounded on NYT.com -- The most recent coverage by The New York Times on wounded Iraq war veterans is published today online. Times staffers photographer Tyler Hicks and reporter Denise Grady (with a picture or two by Polaris represented photographer Max Becherer) discuss in... -- The Portfolio of... -- Rich-Joseph Facun... -- The Portfolio of... -- Marc Steiner Marc also has a blog and a really cool multimedia piece called "Exhibiting Truth". Give that last link a while to load before it starts playing though because it's a big file.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Marshall Clarke... -- Honestly, officer, I didn't know... -- Now you can "Know how, where you can use [your new digital camera]" with this nice little roundup of photographers' rights written for USAToday.com by Andrew Kantor. While it's aimed at people who received a new camera for the holidays,... -- Between You and Me -- Between You and Me is a 4-minute film written and directed by New York-based filmmaker Patryk Rebisz. He also shot it.....using a Canon 20d. While movies have been shot using run-of-the-mill digital still cameras before--Tim Burton's Corpse Bride was shot... -- The Portfolio of... -- Samantha Appleton (WOW, my first post in the APAD blog and do I ever feel GOOD! I think everyone is going to love Samantha Appleton's work. I came across her site looking for photographs of Iraq but I think her... -- Something else to do in Kansas City ... -- ... that doesn't involve the Chiefs or barbecue. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Valued at some $65 million, it is comprised of many well known photos, including a first-generation print... -- Heard At The Hearings -- 9:39 a.m. Senator Patrick Leahy In His Own Words "PICTURING THE HEARINGS. As usual with major news events, some of the best journalism from these hearings is coming from the news photographers who are covering them. News photography at Capitol... -- My F5 Is A Collector's Item Now -- Following the trend set by rivals like Kodak and Canon, The Nikon Corporation said that it would stop making most of its film cameras and lenses in order to focus on the demand for all things digital.... -- The Golden Snowball -- The George Eastman House is hoping to bring a little sunshine to those bleak Rochester, NY winters.... -- Thousand Mile Stare -- In a time when the media is so eager to find an iconic image, to put a face on something asoverwhelming as war, they often overlook the reality of the situation. Dan Rather went on the air describing the Marine... -- VII does LA -- The photographers of the VII Photo Agency just announced their first West Coast VII Seminar on April 7-9, 2006 at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The two and a half day event will include presentations by... -- The Sandhog Project -- Gina LeVay's Sandhog Project, a multimedia exhibit that chronicles people who work under New York City, opened today at Grand Central Terminal. The project has gotten a lot of press, including this WNYC piece in which both LeVay and her... -- Newspaper on the Radio -- Discussions of newspapers were on the radio Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday's talk on Fresh Air, from WHYY in Philadephia, focused on the reporting from The (New Orleans, La.) Times-Picayune through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Terry Gross talked with T-P... -- The Portfolio of... -- Aaron Ruell... -- The Portfolio of... -- Lloyd Ziff... -- Best of 2005 -- Sometimes a personal BEST is not marked by the prettiest light, the cleanest comosition or the most awards. Photojournalists capture thousands of moments each year, and the ones that touch us deeply are often the ones we hold onto. Sometimes...
-- The Year in Pictures -- [This post gets bumped up everytime a new one is added!] It almost goes without saying, it was a big news year. From the tsunami rocking the coast of Asian countries to the Pope's passing and subsequent predecessor being appointed... -- The Portfolio of... -- Ryan Donnell... -- The Portfolio of... -- Amani Willett... -- The Master Speaks -- "So I took this trip to Haiti, and I took this trip to the Mexico border, and in both those places I sensed some things that I never experienced before as a human being or as a photographer, and it... -- The Portfolio of... -- Damon Winter... -- The Portfolio of... -- Brad Mangin... -- The Portfolio of... -- Paul Reas... -- Feed Me some RSS -- Everyone's so hightech these days, and so plugged in... I'm impressed... and I've gotten several requests this week alone to have some sort of RSS Feed for the APAD Blog. And now we do! It will be housed permanently in... -- SFMOMA Podcasts -- I always think it's cool to see people embracing technology and using it in really cool ways. The San Francsico Museum Of Modern Art has released its new podcast series, called SFMOMA Artcasts. Each monthly installment has two parts: an... -- Pulitzer Recognizes Web Journalism -- After studying the evolution of online journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board has just announced a revision to its guidelines. Print publications may submit features for consideration that include online components, though there must be a component that appeard in print.... -- Putting a Face on War -- There's a story on NPR's Weekend Edition that talks about how Sebastio Salgado's "Exodus" captures the human face of war.... -- FSA in color -- Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. These vivid scenes and portraits capture the effects of the Depression on... -- Time's Best of 2005 -- Check out Time's Best Photos of the Year!... -- The Portfolio of... -- Thierry Le Goues... -- Heart and Soul -- Chicago Tribune staff photographer extraordinaire Scott Strazzante has a photo column that takes an intimate look at high school athletics away from the fields of play.... -- The Ones That Won -- Winning images from this year's Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar are now available for your viewing pleasure. Congrats to all the winners, especially those members of our humble little community here. You know who you are.... -- Interview with a Photographer -- Martin Fuchs just finished an internship with Magnum and started an interview project. The first one is with Simon Wheatley and they talk about everything from giving prints for his subjects to gaining trust to work being depressing. The next... -- Photography in Motion -- Check out The Photography Channel. It's video interviews, with stills interspersed, from a variety of photographers, and it's a little like Magnum's new pet project Magnum In Motion, though the videos I've seen at the Photography Channel are much shorter.... -- AMPAD? A Magnum Photo A Day! -- SLATE, the award-winning online magazine, today announced that it will partner with Magnum Photos to launch Today's Pictures, a daily feature offering readers a look at the best of past and current photographs from the internationally acclaimed photo agency. Each...
-- The Thought Project -- Photographer Simon Hoegsberg stopped 150 strangers on the street and wanted to know what they were thinking about the moment before their encounter. He pairs a photo of the stranger along with their quote in its entirety, and calls it... -- Film, Flash Card or Bacteria? -- WHOA! Watch out Polaroid, E. coli is developing. Graduate students in Texas and California have produced 100 megapixel "living photographs" from sheets of bacteria growing in a petri dish.... -- Change Me -- As photographers we like to believe that images have the power to change us. But do they? A website hosted by Getty has created a global dialogue on this very subject. Check out Change Me which is not only well-designed,... -- The Portfolio of... -- Palani Mohan... -- Gators Running Wild in Berlin -- University of Florida Professor John Freeman took 15 photo students -- 7 UF kids, 4 from UGA, and one from San Jose -- with him to Germany for two weeks this summer. The shooting was all digital and they met... -- Feeling Blocked and Frustrated? -- Why not buy a toy camera? Or, better yet, check out this fun little story from the folks over at NPR's All Things Considered. Nothing groundbreaking, really -- just a neat listen. And remember, folks, there's likely less than 365... -- Learning the Art of Documentary Photojournalism -- The students at the 2005 Mountain Workshops took over the small town of Lawrensburg, Kentucky to tell the stories of its residents. Along with the documentary-style photojournalism the workshop is known for, this year, several multimedia pieces were produced, with... -- Shooting Cameras is Safer than Shooting Guns -- "I showed one of [my] photographs to my friend and he looked at it and he said, 'You know, when I look at these photographs that's pretty much how I remember Iraq black and white and grainy. I don't remember... -- Influenced or Copied? -- What would you do if an artist painted a picture of one of your photographs and was selling copies it for $1,000? But that money was going to charity? Now what if you weren't even given credit for the picture... -- Welcome to the Photojournalism Hall of Fame -- The first eight inductees have been welcomed into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame. They are a diverse group: Cliff Edom coined the term "photojournalism," while Betty Love pioneered the use of color photography in newspapers. Read about it here.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Zen Sekizawa... -- Brewing is the latest MediaStorm -- Launched today is MediaStorm, Brian Storm's long-awaited, latest venture into the world of journalism. This multimedia platform on the World Wide Web is a blend of photojournalism, audio and film with a clean design. (Link thanks to MediaStorm senior producer... -- Behold, the Future of Photojournalism -- The winning images from CPOY are now online. Now go be amazed at the kiddies who are kickin' your ass and coming for your job!... -- Sixx is Rockin' the D2X -- "...instead of traveling to Thailand to slam dope, Sixx will now be shooting photos for National Geographic." Yes, folk you heard right, that's Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx I'm talking about... working for the Geographic before I do... just makes... -- Chuck -- This is being posted with a heavy heart. Fellow apad member and Naperville Sun staff photographer Chuck Cass passed away early Saturday morning after a 2 1/2 year battle with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Chuck was 31 years old. "He was an... -- Multimedia Links Clearinghouse -- I've had my eye on some juicy multimedia lately that's distracting me from the real work I'm supposed to be doing. Chiloe Stories is a project UNC - Chapel Hill students did on a Chilean island who's long-standing traditions and... -- CPOY Winners Announced -- CPOY has posted its winner's list. Congratulations to College Photographer of the Year Casey Templeton, Runner-up Yoon Byun, and all the individual winners.... -- 20Gs from Getty -- So you want to be like David S. Holloway of Virginia, Dario Mitidieri of London, Balazs Gardi of Budapest, Hungary, Scott Lewis of New Jersey and Kai Wiedenhofer of Berlin? I know I do, because they were the five Getty... -- The Portfolio of... -- Jeff Hutchens... -- One Life At A Time -- This week's Time Magazine was a big undertaking devoted largely to the issues surrounding world health and featured a powerful series of photos from James Nachtwey.... -- ... And the Kitchen Sink -- "I expect I'll win a few thousand bucks betting people that I've packed the kitchen sink." You know that photo of the guy loaded down with all the camera gear from last week's post? He's quite a character and they... -- First Frames -- "...this is what it looks like when thousands of cameras lose their photo-virginity" If you ever want to see the first picture people take with their digital cameras (or a newly formatted card) now you can, by doing a google...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Eolo Perfido... -- The Portfolio of... -- Matt Hoyle... -- Invitation to a Hurricane -- Clarence Williams, 1998 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography while at the LA Times, flew to New Orleans for a wedding days before Hurricane Katrina hit. The Miami Herald put together a multimedia presentation of Williams narrating his... -- This Is Why Photographers Have Back Problems -- See, when I shoot, I try to be as inconspicuous as possible. I usually carry two bodies, with one small fixed or zoom lens on each -- the theory being that my focus should be on my subject, not the... -- Link Clearinghouse -- I'm purging some of the photo-related links I've been sitting on: Getty is showcasing their contributing photographer's work in a nice, new way. APAD's own Jen Friedberg seeks to find the real in the surreal as she looks for the... -- Global Reach of South Florida -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel photographer Mike Stocker and reporter Tim Collie started their month-long report on Judaism in the 21st Century, and how South Florida's global reach could be key in keeping European and Middle Eastern jewry viable. The Sun-Sentinel series... -- Border Film Project -- "We are distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on differnt sides of the U.S.-Mexico border: undocumented migrants crossing the Arizona desert and Minuteman volunteers trying to stop them." Take a look at the Border Film Project and the... -- See the Whole Picture -- In celebration of their 50th Anniversary, all World Press Photo of the Year winners -- from 1955 to 2004 -- can be viewed in the 50 years gallery, as well as on postage stamps available in the Netherlands.... -- Apple's Aperture -- It seems PhotoShop CS2 may have a rival. Posted yesterday morning on Apple Hot News, Apple Computer Inc. announced their competitive photo editing software called Aperture. According to Apple's Web site, the software is still in its pre-ordering stage. If... -- The Portfolio of... -- Chris Gloag... -- The Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years -- The American Society of Magazine Editors has released a list of what they consider to be the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years. A few classics are in there, such as Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl and Time's... -- W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography -- Spanish photographer Pep Bonet has won the 26th W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Read the press release here. See some of the work here. Hopefully someone will update the grant's homepage soon.... -- The Portfolio of... -- Imke Lass... -- Breast Cancer Photo Essay -- Time Magazine recently published a photo essay about Mary Ann Nilan, breast cancer survivor, in a special 4-page section sent to female subscribers of the magazine. The essay, photographed by 2003 Alexia Foundation student first place winner Christopher Capozziello can... -- Matt Eich wins EAW Nikon Scholarship -- Here's a congratulations to APAD's Matt Eich, an Ohio University sophomore, who was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from Nikon last night for his portfolio and work at the 18th Eddie Adams Workshop. Matt's photographs of a garage band and a... -- More World Press Photo -- Also announced recently was the call for entries for the World Press Photo contest to be judged in early 2006. Chosen to chair the panel of eight other judges is Sports Illustrated picture editor James Colton. Prepare your entries for... -- World Press at 50 -- Today marks the fifth and final installment in a week-long series by BBC News online that discusses a handful of winning images from the World Press Photo foundation competition, which celebrates five decades of contests this year. Among the featured... -- MoAdendum -- To add to what Miss M said, the workshop was for me "exhausting, frustrating and difficult," but, above all, damn enlightening; basically, this was the photographic kick to the groin I've needed for years. To those interested, I'll post some... -- MoPhoto -- "Don't go for the easy story. Find something that challenges you, that scares you." That's great advice that Lois Raimondo gave to the 41 photographers who recently converged on Marshall, Missouri recently for the 57th annual Missouri Photo Workshop --... -- The Portfolio of... -- Michael Brown... -- Aussie Ass Kickers -- I swear to god, one of these days I'm going to move to Australia and beg the members of Oculi to let me join their club. Their new website is chock full of new singles and stories for inspiration, motivation,... -- The 10 Show -- Andrade. Baldwin. Bendiksen. Davenport. Dayal. Gilbertson. Katz. Laforet. Levy. Lowy. Those are the photographers whose work will hang as part of The 10 Show at the Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue between 15th and 16th streets in New York, from...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Amy Toensing... -- Mister Big Time -- So our very own Josh Ritchie went down to shoot his first-ever hurricane when Rita brushed the Florida Keys, and he ended up with this week's cover of Time Magazine. Way to go, Josh!... -- The Portfolio of... -- Benjamin Krain... -- The Portfolio of... -- Kenneth Dickerman... -- Sand and Cigarettes -- Speaking of journalists in Iraq, San Antonio Express-News photographer and APAD badass Nicole Fruge is currently in Baghdad waiting to be embedded and her paper is having her blog about her experiences.... -- NYT Freelancer Abducted and Slain in Basra -- Iraqi journalist and photographer Fakher Haider adds to the death toll of members of the media who have lost their lives covering the news. (read more here) Here's a general plea for all of you out there covering dangerous assignments... -- Anthropologist/Gear Head -- Found a little Web site last night while putting things right with this blog seeing if our site hits the recently updated part on the Movable Type Web page. Karen Nakamura admits to being a "cultural anthropologist, avid photographer and... -- "This is not a sprint, it's a marathon." -- We've all seen by now the PDN, NPPA, SportsShooter, etc. articles detailing photojournalists' stories about covering both the landfall and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It seems like many of these have focused a bit more on how newspapers and photographers... -- It's Alive! -- It's alive. Alive! That's right. The APhotoADay Weblog is now back in business. After some small checks and tweaks, we'll be in full swing again. There will be a few growing pains: One is the new URL: www.aphotoaday.org/apadnews Two is... -- Journalist Deaths in Modern Conflict -- About 63 journalists were killed during the Vietnam War, but that was over a 20-year period. Almost 50 were killed during the four years of conflict in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Either way you cut it, more journalists have...
-- The Portfolio of... -- Mark King... -- DBCC's SMP... Who Knew -- Rumor has it that there are some good things and great photographers coming to the Daytona Beach Community College's Southeast Museum of Photography. Magnum photographer Alex Webb will be there on September 21. There will be a meet and greet... -- The Portfolio of... -- Andres Gonzalez... -- VII + you -- After an incredibly popular and highly regarded first attempt (in Boston this past April), the second VII Seminar will take place October 15-16, 2005 in New York City. In addition to new photographer presentations and panel discussions, they are beefing... -- Trying to Find My Photograph by Jim Gherz -- "To stay motivated and to maintain the highest level of work I can, I have learned to search as deeply as possible on each assignment to find "my photograph," an approach I adopted after listening to a gifted National Geographic... -- The Portfolio of... -- Joseph Sywenkyj... -- Born Into Brothels, But Where Are They Now -- The New York Times has a rather superficial, and extrememly lifeless, article about Zana Briski's amazing film Born Into Brothels -- which I doubt the writer even saw that which she makes references to. (And yes, Ms. Roberts, It was... -- The Portfolio of... -- Eric Ogden... -- Selecting a Subject -- "The reason for a young photographer’s confusion is that most teachers, classes, workshops, books, whatever, imply that how the picture is made, what techniques were employed, why it looks different and artistic, is more important than the subject matter. Yet... -- Print Auction to Benefit Women -- Now's your chance to have a Stephanie Sinclair or Barbara Davidson print hanging on your wall -- there's an online print auction underway hosted by Marie Claire and Amnesty International. The 11 photos auctioned will raise money for Amnesty International's... -- The Holy Grail -- Anyone looking for a first edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment? (Or care to buy me one?!)... -- Art Shay photographs his own surgery -- Photographer Art Shay used a Leica with a 15mm lens to shoot his own heart surgery. The photographs appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine on July 31.... -- How Is It Out There? -- Still in its infancy, fotogblog.com is encouraging photojournalists to share their experiences while on assignment in both words and pictures -- and so far some big names are contributing (read: Jerome Delay and Mario Tama).... -- Knowledge is Power -- The best journalists are the ones who never stop learning. As of April 2005, continuing your education is now free, fits any schedule, interactive and easier than ever. Supported by the folks at the Poynter Institute and a grant from...
-- Digital Cameras = Better Photographers ... ? -- Well, not necessarily, but in a BBC News article Friday, foto8.com editor Jon Levy makes an interesting point when he says: "Looking at images and showing them to each other more often has made photography a universal, vibrant everyday language... -- The School That Skipped Ethics Class -- The NYTimes is reporting that the Brooks Institure of Photography may face possible closure over some false recruiting claims. "...the state concluded that Brooks routinely inflated claims of its graduates' success in order to draw new students. Posing as a... -- Amassing a Treasury of Photography -- It looks like the ICP and the George Eastman House are joining forces to create an unprecedented digital archive of iconic photographs. -- via an email from Pete Kiehart... -- The Portfolio of... -- Mario Lalich... -- The Portfolio of... -- Manu Agah... -- Bystander Photography -- I have a buddy who is interning at the New York Times. The night that the London terroist bombing attacks on the busses and trains rocked the world, he IMed me to say, "You'll never believe what the Times is... -- Philip-Lorca diCourtroom -- Well, well, one of my favorite photographers is being sued for daring, gasp!, to photograph someone in one of the most public places in the world. Renowned portrait photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia has had a lawsuit filed against him for photographing,... -- WashingtonPost.com's Divas -- Washington, D.C., area subscribers are not the only ones who will benefit from stories done by Ben de la Cruz and J.C. Crandall at WashingtonPost.com. Stories on the Web like The Post's Divas of the Gridiron present outstanding journalism and... -- Lives, Wallet-Sized -- "Last January, Mark Pike '04 and Blaise Dipersia '03, friends and former roommates, became co-proprietors of a model 21T color photo booth...Pike told Dipersia about the plan. They'd buy the booth, set it up in the middle of campus, and,... -- Open Your Eyes to a New Way of Seeing -- Inspiration has just come in the form of Matt Mallams journal entries and collages.... -- San Jose steps up Their Web Presence -- More newspapers should take note and follow suit. The San Jose Mercury News just introduced a new section on its website displaying a gallery of photos, multimedia and audio from staff photographers. It will feature a week in pictures gallery,...
-- Fur -- Troubled, tortured and often brillliant, photographer Diane Arbus has been posthumously creeping into pop culture notoriety in the last few years. And now, rumor is there's a movie coming out soon staring Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus. I just hope... -- The Art of Celebrity -- The National Portrait Gallery's summer blockbuster exhibition, The World's Most Photographed, explores the relationship between photography and power. "By unearthing photographs which have previously been lost, suppressed and hidden, together with more familiar images, the exhibition and series explore the... -- Mucho Mas MacMillan -- WAMU's Diane Rehm ran a segment on the first half of her show today titled "Images from Iraq," the blurb for which stated: "Some say America's news media is presenting a somewhat sanitized view of the war in Iraq. We'll... -- Ian Parry Scholarship -- The Ian Parry Scholarship 2005 deadline will be Tuesday June 21. Applications are available by download only from www.ianparry.org. Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died whilst on assignment for the Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He... -- Another sign of the times? -- The Eastman Kodak Co. announced yesterday that it would discontinue production of its black-and-white printing paper. The company, which posted in April a first-quarter loss of $142 million, joins a laundry list of other photographic companies whose traditional, film-based technologies... -- The Earth's Navel -- Photojournalist Monique Stauder spent over three years traveling through thirteen countries documenting the cultures that lie withing one degree of the equator. The resulting work -- Latitude Zero -- "is not an exhaustive geographical documentation, nor a travelogue. It is... -- BOP Web Winners -- Judges for the NPPA Best of Photojournalism web categories discuss the winners in a behind the scenes look at the judging using, what else, a multimedia presentation on the web. They discuss their favorites, what worked and what didn't, some... -- Stanley Kubrick, photojournalist -- Best known for his movies A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey, it's Stanley Kubrick's early work as a photojournalist for Look Magazine that allows us to watch the education of a filmmaker, assignment by assignment, frame by frame,... -- Enter -- The first issue of a new photo zine was just launched. Enter provides a platform for the sharing of information about the participants, organizations and other topics related to the World Press Photo foundation. You’ll find a variety of features... -- Which camera? Well that depends. -- "Everyone is using the same couple of Canon and Nikon digital cameras and the same three or four lenses," David Burnett said. "And... I started to notice a sameness in the look of most things I was seeing." So Burnett... -- Austin, in a snap -- "Armed with a map, a Deep Woods Off towelette and suggestions for hot picture-making (Chuy's, Laguna Gloria, the Ten Commandments monument), the photographers headed out for a long Friday of shooting. " And while it doesn't quite sum up the... -- GeekFest 2005 Website Launched! -- AUSTIN, Texas -- In the wee hours of the morning, fueled by a caffiene-free major cola beverage and amazing brisket, chunky baked potato salad and vinegrette cole slaw from Ruby's BBQ (at Guadalupe and 29th near UT campus), our very...
-- Leica and Kodachrome, cult icons -- Two good articles from the IHT this weekend: How is Leica, the most perfect analog camera maker, coping in a digital world? When Kodak announced plans to discontinue Kodachrome it "might as well have declared the death of color."... -- Not A Pretty Picture -- "I understand the criticisms about blood and gore," said Dallas Morning News photographer David Leeson. "I don't seek that. When I approach a body on the ground after a battle, I'm determined to give dignity to that person's life and... -- Bearing Witness on A&E -- "Bearing Witness examines the personal and professional lives of five female journalists as they attempt to put a human face on the otherwise impersonal tragedies of war," reads the beginning of a synopsis from iFilms.com. The two-hour film started broadcasting... -- Helping Hands and Healing Hearts -- Carol Guzy documented the lives of eight people, some young children, whose limbs were hacked off during the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, and were brought to the United States four years ago to start anew. Thanks to prosthetics,... -- NYT Transit Photo Ban Dropped -- About a year after it was introduced, New York City police and transit officials have decided to forgo a proposed plan to ban photography, videotaping and filming in bus and subway cars and stations across the city. Originally designed to... -- Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories -- "There can be horrible images, but war is horrible and we need to understand that," said Chris Hondros, a veteran war photographer whose pictures are distributed by the Getty Images agency. "I think if we are going to start a... -- NYT Class Project -- Class Matters is The New York Times' most recent report on class in America. "A Marriage of Unequals: When Richer Weds Poorer Money Isn't the Only Difference" and "Della's Story" talk about movement through the class system in the United... -- Back to the Fronts -- While we're mentioning new things around here... I'd like to point out the nifty little self-updating archive system (which means it's always going to be current now!) for all the photos that have appeared on the front of aphotoaday.org over... -- Ashes and Snow -- Seshu over at Tiffinbox turned me onto Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert's work titled Ashes and Snow -- which is absolutely, positively blowing my mind. Colbert's images of elephants and whales are so incredible and awe-inspiring and surreal that the mind... -- Long Time, No Update -- I am proud to announce, that after a long delay, three new essays are up on aphotoaday -- it cost $30 to get to the border for Matt Slaby who traveled through Mexico for two months on a bus, Hiroshi... -- EI8HT - V4N1 -- The June 2005 issue of EI8HT magazine is out, and as usual, thumbnail page proofs can be seen on the publication's website, foto8.com. You'll still have to pick up a copy of the quarterly photojournalism magazine to read the articles,... -- A Good Photo Is A Good Photo -- “A good photo is a good photo. Some answer questions, some question answers. Some break all the rules but still work. There is an audience for every photo ever made, even if it's an audience of one. The photojournalism community... -- The Best Newspapers to Shoot For -- PDN's Jay Defoore and David Walker have chafed me with their preposterous statement that, "Photography is unremarkable (or worse) at most U.S. newspapers, but there are some notable exceptions." These are two guys from a magazine in New York City,... -- Jan Garup -- Jan Grarup's work is the perfect example of what photojournalists should be doing. Long-term projects, heavy issues, intimate pictures...... -- Hot App Here! (UPDATE!!) -- Joe Weiss has updated the APAD slides desktop application so that it runs on Tiger. Download the new version here --and just trash the old version.... -- Geekfest 2005 -- Just what the hell is a Geekfest, anyway? Well, for July 4, 2001, about 15 people decided it was well worth putting up with my snoring and sleep on David Holloway's floor in Arlington, Va., to photograph Independence Day on... -- The Eppridge Commencement -- “It seems only yesterday that I was in the same situation as these kids who are on their way out to try to save the world,” Eppridge told News Photographer magazine just a week before the commencement. “I really hope... -- Eddie Adams *answered* -- Every year around this time, I start getting emails from folks asking what they need to do to get into the Eddie Adams Workshop. My answer is usually short and sweet: edit tightly. show only what you love. different is...
-- Thirty Years at 300 Millimeters -- Dutch photographer Hubert Van Es explains how one of his best-known images of the Vietnam War shows something other than what almost everyone thinks it does.... -- Photographer Detained In Sudan -- "Brad Clift, a Courant photographer documenting the plight of refugees in Sudan, was detained by security forces and placed under house arrest Tuesday." "I am being accused unjustly for trying to take a picture of someone suffering in a camp,"... -- Hot App Here! -- Joe Weiss rocks! Got an email from him about a week ago that said, "I needed a quick project to test some OS X code I'm working on and this seemed like a good way to surface some *great* work."... -- Operation Lion Heart -- San Francisco Chronicle photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice and reporter Meredith May talked about the daily assignment-turned 15-month project documenting 9-year-old Saleh Khalaf and his father. The Iraqi boy was maimed when an explosive he picked up in 2004 detonated injuring him... -- MacMillan talks about Iraq, Pulitzers and Plumbing -- APAD hermit Jim MacMillan completes this month a yearlong assignment in Iraq for the Associated Press; three of his images were part of a group portfolio that netted the wire service a 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography. MacMillan... -- Iraq: Second Impressions -- The Washington Post recently published on their Web site a multimedia show called Eyes on Iraq: Second Impressions. The Post looks back on Iraq through the eyes of photojournalists from newspapers, agencies and wire services who were there when it... -- Nature Boy -- John Moran is Florida's photo laureate. I had the pleasure of working with and learning from Suwannee Johnny on my very first internship. And while his ethics were questionable, and a photojournalist he is not, nobody -- myself included, has... -- That's rosstaylor.net, NOT rosstaylor.com -- Former APADer and all-around nice guy -- not to mention two-time North Carolina Photographer of the Year and Southern Short Course Best of Show winner -- Ross Taylor, was recently interviewed by a local NPR program about his time in... -- 2005 Pulitzers Announced -- The 2005 Pulitzer Awards were announced today in New York. Among the winners were the Associated Press staff for breaking news photography for continuing coverage of the Iraq war, and Deanne Fitzmaurice of the San Francisco Chronicle "for her sensitive...
-- Not just for toning anymore -- The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has teamed up with Adobe Systems Inc. (who brought you that handy-dandy little program, Photoshop) to create the "Adobe Photographers Directory". Those looking to hire photographers with "experience and competence" will have to... -- More Winners -- NPPA has released a full list of winners for The Best of Photojournalism 2005. Among the winners are APADers Scott Strazzante, Michael Laughlin, Lisa Krantz, Elaine Skylar, Armando Solares and Eric Schmadel (hope I didn't forget anyone!). Congrats to they... -- In the Beginning -- Sebastião Salgado's Migrations, or Exodus, as he prefers to call it, was a seven year project that took him to several contents as he photographed migrants fleeing ethnic and religious conflict and genocidal regimes. After witnessing so much suffering from... -- From Their Own Mouths -- Have questions about why judges from the 62nd annual POYi picked certain winners for certain categories? Audio snippets of their comments can now be heard on the contest's website for Newspaper and Magazine Photographers of the Year. Interesting stuff.... -- Greetings From Florida! -- "Generations of Floridians have admired his portraits of bridges and beaches, pelicans and laughing gulls, manatees and alligators. His sunsets cause hearts to go pitty-pat." Tom Brown is probably the most published Florida photographer you've never heard of -- and... -- Lots To Look At -- If you need a distraction from work today -- the winner's galleries are up for POY.... -- He Has Seen Hell... And Lived To Tell About It -- "I truly believed, deeply and passionately believed, that there existed a series of photographs, or a single photograph, that could end war. I wanted to find that one photo." For anyone interested in covering international conflicts, this interview with Pulitzer... -- Winnner's Are Up -- The winner's list is online now for the 62nd annual POYi contest. "Marcus Bleasdale, a photographer represented by the London-based Independent Photographers Group, won first place Magazine Photographer of the Year and Michael Macor, a San Francisco Chronicle staff photographer,... -- Unphotographable -- "This is a picture I did not take of a schoolgirl in blue plastic flip-flops, who ran past me on her way to school as I descended from the village of Asheta Maryam, Ethiopia, down a steep pitched trail of... -- AK47 -- AK47's new issue offers up some Snapshots of The Adventures of Guille and Beli who discover Dancers, Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies, while proving that One Man`s Waste is Another Man`s Want.... -- Controversy Behind Curtains -- "Anybody who knows the (Stewart) story and is familiar with Martha's current situation would know this particular picture was a "photo illustration," said Lynn Staley, Newsweek's assistant managing editor, defending their recent cover photo of Martha Stewart. "The piece that... -- 50 Nifty... -- 50 States 50 Photographers... -- A Storm in Coming -- Brian Storm is launching a new multimedia production studio entitled Mediastorm. The studio's goal is "to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling." With help from the likes of David Elliot Cohen, Rick Smolan, Robert Browman, among others I... -- VII, A Seminar -- Would you like to spend two days with some of the most talented photojournalists in the world? Saturday and Sunday, April 16th and 17th, 2005 the photographers of VII: Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Lauren Greenfield, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim...
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-- Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson talks -- Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson talks about his subway work as part of the New York Times celebration of the 100th anniversary of the NYC subway system. --------... -- "I feel lucky, very lucky" -- "I feel lucky, very lucky" That's what A Photo A Day member and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Photojournalist Michael Laughlin had to say after being wounded in Haiti Sunday. Reports and photos show that he had been standing with with some... -- For the first time, The -- For the first time, The Alexia Foundation for World Peace gave two professional awards, as well as student awards this year. Read the proposals and view the portfolios of the winners. --------... -- "Same-sex kissing is a powerful -- "Same-sex kissing is a powerful image. We decided we wouldn't use it on the front page." Are same-sex photos too divisive for the front page? Are they already cliché? Poynter details the decisions The Oregonian made after Multnomah County, Ore.,... -- Congratulations to all the POYi -- Congratulations to all the POYi winners, including some of APAD's own: Chris Curry, Rob Finch, Melissa Lyttle and Angel Valentin were some of those recognized. Can't wait to see the images... --------... -- A news photographer helped police -- A news photographer helped police persuade an escaped mental-hospital patient to climb down from a bridge where he was threatening to jump this morning. And given the chance I hope we'd all do the same. Ethics schmethics, when it comes... -- "Ladies and gentlemen, we have -- "Ladies and gentlemen, we have just been attacked!" should journalists in iraq carry guns? --------... -- Shoot the PGA tour in -- Shoot the PGA tour in Florida with Sport Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss. Discover the back alleys of India with John Stanmeyer. Photograph the Galapagos Islands with Antonin Kratochvil. Follow General Wesley Clark around with Ron Haviv. Shoot a Victoria's Secret...
-- Financial Times reports that Reuters -- Financial Times reports that Reuters and Corbis are forming an alliance to better compete with Getty Images. --------... -- Posing the endlessly fascinating question -- Posing the endlessly fascinating question of how we choose our partners, I give you, Magnum photographer Martin Parr's game of interactive Love Cubes. --------... -- When Rob Finch posed the -- When Rob Finch posed the question to the list,"What would Henri Cartier-Bresson say?" I wasn't prepared for the comedy that followed. --------... -- "I'm horrified," said Ken Light, -- "I'm horrified," said Ken Light, 52, head of the graduate photojournalism program at the University of California at Berkeley. "I think this kind of alteration is probably one of the scariest forms of trickery, particularly when it's done against a... -- congratulations to all the world -- congratulations to all the world press winners! --------... -- the digital m??? no.... -------- -- the digital m??? no.... --------... -- "In my work I really -- "In my work I really want to show how obesity needs to be treated as a medical rather than an aesthetic issue. Unbelievably, it will soon be the number one killer in the United States. It kills more people in... -- There are some amazing images -- There are some amazing images ranging from the effects of the Iraq war on the Iraqi people to gang-related shootings in D.C. to documentary photjournalism on Capitol Hill in The Eyes of History 2004 -- the official contest of the... -- Walter Iooss Jr. is one -- Walter Iooss Jr. is one of 5 photographers that has shot every Superbowl, and for this SI photographer, modern Super Bowls have lost their luster. --------...
-- Luc Delahaye is not a -- Luc Delahaye is not a photojournalist. --------... -- poorly mismanaged in both funds -- poorly mismanaged in both funds and leadership, the NPPA has been having some issues for a while now [1, 2, 3]. many members, myself included, have become a little disgruntled about the current state of affairs. many have also had... -- I like photography books and -- I like photography books and one of my favorite books sites on the Web is photoeye.com. They are celebrating their 25th Anniversary and have redesigned their Web site. And one of the best things about their new site is their... -- "We want to change the -- "We want to change the perception of VII as only war photographers," Maurel says. "They are great photographers, period." With that in mind, VII, the two year old photojournalism cooperative, recently added their 10th member by asking Danish photographer Joachim... -- never step between photographers and -- never step between photographers and ice cream --------... -- obit: helmut newton, a trailblazer -- obit: helmut newton, a trailblazer in the fashion photography world, known for exploring power, gender roles and an icy sexuality in his picture, was killed in a car accident today after losing control of his cadillac. --------... -- The NFL is still trying -- The NFL is still trying to find an agency to handle licensing of its photo archive, but photographers balking at the new rights agreement are ready to pull their photos out of the archive. --------... -- Walter Iooss has a website!It -- Walter Iooss has a website!It amazes me that some photogs don't know Iooss' work. Whatever sport, person, style, etc. more than likely Walter shot it first and did it better than 99.999999% of the photographers out there. --------... -- D A V I D -- D A V I D * L A C H A P E L L E - He is to photography what head-on collisions are to cars. --------... -- PDN/Nikon Self-Promotion Awards have been -- PDN/Nikon Self-Promotion Awards have been announced. --------... -- The Decline of Fashion Photography -- The Decline of Fashion Photography - critical analysis of what's wrong with modern fashion imagery. (IMO I think the author just isn't looking hard enough for the good stuff.) --------... -- PDN is now having a -- PDN is now having a call to entries for their 2004 photo annual. and for some inspiration before you enter, check out last year's winners first. --------... -- there was some absolutely amazing -- there was some absolutely amazing work posted on aphotoaday.org in 2003, so in case you missed a day, the archives have now been updated. --------... -- "Between July 1945 and November -- "Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States conducted 216 nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent:...
-- two interesting articles concerning the -- two interesting articles concerning the radically shifing notion of sharing ideas: righting copywrongs and undermining online journalists. these articles and more are listed at center for the public domain, an interesting resource, even if you don't agree with everything they... -- "Sales of digital cameras surpassed -- "Sales of digital cameras surpassed those of film cameras for the first time last year, and this year the gap widened, as prices continued to drop and manufacturers and retailers heavily promoted digital photography." Yet for some there is a... -- In a stunning rejection of -- In a stunning rejection of the Greenberg v. National Geographic decision, a federal District Court judge in New York has ruled that the Complete National Geographic CD doesn't violate the copyrights of several freelance photographers after all. --------... -- the first of 2003's "Year -- the first of 2003's "Year in Pictures" are popping up across the web. I'm always interested in what others see as the year's most iconic images, so I thought I'd post them here. Boston Globe: Wires and staff photos included... -- a repressive embarrassment indeed. since -- a repressive embarrassment indeed. since when did foreign journalists become enemies of the state and subject to the humiliation of being treated like terrorists with notepads and cameras? --------... -- PDNonline has an update story -- PDNonline has an update story on James Nachtwey. "Fellow VII photographer Chris Anderson says two things saved James Nachtwey's life after last week's grenade attack in Baghdad: Time senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf tossing the grenade away from the vehicle and... -- foto8 online journal has four -- foto8 online journal has four new photo essays. "The Four Seasons in Moscow" by Julien Daniel is my favorite of the four. "The Disappeared of Algeria" by Rachel Corner is a fascinating portrait study. "Miss Net World" by Muir Vidler... -- The Associated Press is reporting -- The Associated Press is reporting that James Nachtwey and a Time magazine senior correspondent were wounded Thursday in Baghdad. "The military official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said one of the journalists was severely wounded and the other... -- A lot of arty and -- A lot of arty and some of it naughty SPOON is eye candy and fun to look at. --------... -- through some random link hopping -- through some random link hopping i somehow stumbled across the university of texas' cool career of the month archives, where they say "in some ways the life a national geographic photographer sounds like hell." --------... -- "if you like looking at -- "if you like looking at these photos, you're crazy and you need a doctor. but this is a matter of truth." --------... -- Seemingly coveted by newspaper photographers -- Seemingly coveted by newspaper photographers everywhere The Great Picture Hunt by Dave LaBelle has been out of print and somewhat hard to find for years. I stumbled across my copy while browsing a used bookstore in Columbia, Missouri. Well look... -- during what he expected -- during what he expected to be an uneventful holiday in Waco, freelance photojournalist Chris Usher recently found himself on a holiday trip to baghdad with President Bush. his trip to Iraq is chronicled in Dispatches: Notes from the Field... -- congratulations to all of the -- congratulations to all of the winners in this year's atlanta photojournalism competition. --------... -- in haiti: the eroding nation, -- in haiti: the eroding nation, south florida sun-sentinel photographer mike stocker visually explores how the country's destructive cycle affects its environmental, economical, political and health status. --------... -- loretta rae presented the listserv -- loretta rae presented the listserv members with a challenge she wanted to pick a word, any word, and see how different photographers approached it. so she said -- go photograph "blue" -- it can be a mood, a feeling, or... -- "if you are an assignment -- "if you are an assignment or freelance photographer, congratulations because you are on the road to extinction. photographers, such as yourselves, have lost a war that they didn't fight. many of you don't even realize that you've lost it. photographers... -- Another non-photoj post from me -- Another non-photoj post from me but wanted to share that on Fridays one of my favorite destinations on the Web is A Softer World. A comic strip made with photographs and witty prose I found highly amusing. Produced by Joey... -- the photography channel uses a -- the photography channel uses a series of interviews with photographers to narrate running slide shows of their work to "create a unique, compelling experience on television and the internet." --------... -- Although this site isn't photojournalism, -- Although this site isn't photojournalism, photojournalists do study and observe people and their body language. And that's why I found David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies - www.stopmotionstudies.net - so interesting. "The 'Stop Motion Studies' are a series of experimental documentaries... -- some photographers you should get -- some photographers you should get to know (the work of): damon winter allison v. smith ryan donnell peter funch brian finke --------...
-- wichita (kansas) eagle photographer travis -- wichita (kansas) eagle photographer travis heying recently spent 67 days in a iraq. a sample of his images, as well as portions of a journal he kept while in the desert, are online now. [thanks to mike shepherd for mentioning... -- there's a lot of community -- there's a lot of community involvment/enrichment/activism through photography out there. people are beginning to grasp the power of photography by using cameras as a medium for reaching people and letting people reach out. the results are two-fold. allowing someone to... -- "since 1986, bradley clift has -- "since 1986, bradley clift has explored suburban drug addiction, the lure of children and drugs and alcoholism among both our elderly and our young. he has produced nine projects in the last twelve years . . . all have had... -- Eastman Kodak, one of the -- Eastman Kodak, one of the oldest names in the photo business, is in the process of trying to reinvent itself. As it continues to dominate a shrinking film market, the Rochester, N.Y.-based company is betting big on digital photography. (follow... -- congrats to all of this -- congrats to all of this year's CPOY winners! --------... -- photography is expensive. no doubt. -- photography is expensive. no doubt. but there are some ways to take cheap and cool photos and to minimize the costs by finding alternative ways to take pictures, develop negatives and have some fun in the process. i'm itching to... -- On further coment to Melissa's -- On further coment to Melissa's post below, Pedro Meyer, the author who is sticking up for Schneider, also belives that stitching two unrelated photographs together makes a perfectly ethical, truthful documentary image. A quote from another of his editorials: The... -- in defense of patrick schneider -- in defense of patrick schneider offers up the other side of the debate about one north carolina photojournalist's ethics. and even though it's an interesting read from a point of view i hadn't seen before -- i can't say that... -- Editor and Publisher has posted -- Editor and Publisher has posted the winning images from their "Photos of the Year Contest." A Photo A Day member Chris Curry won two awards. One for Multiple Images/Photo Essay (75,000-199,999) and an Honorable Mention. --------... -- There's a new issue of -- There's a new issue of Blueeyes Magazine online, and in it are two essays about entertainment and personal experience -- one from Morten Nilsson about young dancers looking for perfection in Denmark and the second from Brian Harkin about his... -- Photographer Tomas van Houtryve posted -- Photographer Tomas van Houtryve posted a pretty comprehensive "Safety Manifesto" to the list in response to fellow a APADer being injured at a protest recently. There's some valuable information in it, and I thought I'd pass it along: Kathryn's recent...
-- "we haven't always been clear -- "we haven't always been clear about what our mission is. we haven't always been clear about our brand," says Kicklighter, sitting in the quiet doubletake offices in davis square. "we don't want to be a pretty little quarterly, a boutiquey... -- During the week of May -- During the week of May 12-18, 2003, America 24/7 invited everyone in America with a digital camera to submit photographs that depict their lives, families and communities and what it means to be American. Professionals, students and amateur photographers... -- a new show at the -- a new show at the icp called strangers "leaves traditional quick-draw photography behind, and moves toward a new, concept-heavy way of thinking about camerawork." the art world is evolving and embracing the realism of good old-fashioned street photography -- with... -- in need of some inspiration -- in need of some inspiration and motivation. try swooping into a place, unknown. and working with people who at the beginning of the week are strangers and by the end of the week seem more like family, shooting subjects you've... -- helmut newton: edgy -------- -- helmut newton: edgy --------... -- get out your i-zones, your -- get out your i-zones, your pinholes, your dianas... as scott macdonald pointed out on the listserv, tomorrow is world toy camera day. he intends to shoot with the ol' holga and share the results with everybody. he's even going to... -- it's not often that a -- it's not often that a college gets big name photographers like sam abell, karen kasmauski and emory kristof to come visit. along with the long-standing photo tradition at the university of missouri, the national geographic also chose the up-and-coming university... -- The winning photo essays for -- The winning photo essays for the the 2003 FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography are online for viewing here. "The FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography seeks to draw social action from your visceral, unique viewing experiences. We want these... -- from ebay: rare chance to -- from ebay: rare chance to own your own photographer --------... -- ..."as photos on news sites -- ..."as photos on news sites gain in popularity, and users gain the power to add to the visual dialogue, perhaps the web can bring back photojournalism as a force for change." --------... -- for eight years, photographer ed -- for eight years, photographer ed kashi has been photographing aging in america, in his latest installment, he shows us the new world of growing older, a look at how seniors are staying engaged in their later years, and the love... -- $5,000 for your education! The -- $5,000 for your education! The Ron Patel Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for 2004. This year, the $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to a photojournalism student to advance his or her graduate or undergraduate education, according to fund president... -- looks like the kids up -- looks like the kids up at barnstorm had a blast. i can't wait to see what they produced, both for the workshop and for themselves. --------... -- cindy sherman talks about a -- cindy sherman talks about a "perfectly ambiguous picture." --------... -- i love finding out about -- i love finding out about new photographers, especially ones with dreamy, dreamy images. --------... -- Negotiating contracts has never been -- Negotiating contracts has never been easy for freelance photographers. But here comes the The Independent Photographers Toolkit by the National Press Photographer's Association. Check it out and bookmark it! It is a work in progress so expect to see new...
-- it's a tough question somedays, -- it's a tough question somedays, but one worth considering. so, "what motivates you to get up every day, pick up your camera, and go shoot?" --------... -- i just stumbled across the -- i just stumbled across the work of simon norfolk. and i'm as intrigued by his words as i am by his pictures. --------... -- i came across a list -- i came across a list of the top 100 works of journalism in the u.s. in the 20th century this morning. and it was a little disappointing to see that only 6 photographs earned a spot in the top 100:... -- Tying in niceley with yesterday's -- Tying in niceley with yesterday's blog, "Overnight, [Sallie] Mann was tossed into the strange ranks of photographersnotably the late Diane Arbuswhose work leaves you squirming even as it holds you spellbound. While Arbus sought out such misfits as sideshow freaks... -- "Mae West hated the pictures,'' -- "Mae West hated the pictures,'' Allan Arbus recalls. ''Because they were truthful.'' ''What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is,'' Arbus wrote in a notebook in 1959. ''He [Margie Ponce Israel] was always interested in... -- "For example, one 20-year-old college -- "For example, one 20-year-old college student snaps several pictures a day with her camera phone: a picture of her new haircut to send to a boyfriend; a really large shell that she found on a beach; her pet in a... -- Esquire Magazine examines one of -- Esquire Magazine examines one of the most remembered and most controversial pictures from the September 11 terrorist attacks, the man falling from the world trade center: "In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has... -- blueeyes magazine was published today, -- blueeyes magazine was published today, in remembrance of 9/11. this issue was a special collaborative project: 90 photographs in 2 essays made by 13 different photographers, covering the terrible tragedy and the way it has shaped our country in the... -- david hume kennerly has teamed -- david hume kennerly has teamed up with gateway to put a new gateway t-50 five-megapixel digital camera in the california gubernatorial candidates' hands. the resulting "candidate camera", is a new project providing a first-hand look inside the campaigns. the deal... -- reporters without borders recently published -- reporters without borders recently published the first worldwide press freedom index. at the top of the list four countries share first place - finland, iceland, norway and the netherlands. these northern european states scrupulously respect press freedom in their own... -- acclaimed brazilian photojournalist sebastiao salgado -- acclaimed brazilian photojournalist sebastiao salgado recently announced that he is about begin a new ten-year project, genesis, chronicling parts of the earth which remain untouched by modern humankind. this endeavour will complete the trilogy, begun by the massive bodies of... -- this month's national geographic just -- this month's national geographic just arrived, and in it, is all sorts of visual goodness. including, but not limited to, jodi cobb's epic tale of 21st century slaves, more from africa via michael nichols' lens, zip code: 97210 (portland, oregon)...
-- for those who are into -- for those who are into the technical side of things, here's a very detailed breakdown of the latest "photo scandal" at national geographic. --------... -- My favorite magazine came in -- My favorite magazine came in the mail the other day. So I checked out their web site to see what else was new. Five new essays have been posted. My favorite was "Dancing in the Ruins" by Katie Callan. --------... -- PixelPress has a few new -- PixelPress has a few new essays worth a look. Although shocking at first glance "The Face of War, The Face of Death" by Bruno Stevens is a reverent look at the aftermath left on lifeless faces. Another interesting essay is... -- "you have to be true -- "you have to be true to the reader about what you witnessed." --------... -- 11 million negatives, prints, slides -- 11 million negatives, prints, slides -- a cache that represents a culturally significant chunk of the visual history of the 20th century -- are stashed under a mountain in western pennsylvania thanks to bill gates. --------... -- Yesterday I sunk to a -- Yesterday I sunk to a new level and watched Jackass The Movie. So to replace the gaping hole left by that piece of cinematic shrapnel I checked out two web sites that are worthy of mentioning here. So go fix... -- I can't explain how angry -- I can't explain how angry this makes me, for a variety of reasons. More PJ manipulation... The N.C. Press Photographers Association has rescinded three awards given to Observer photographer Patrick Schneider in its 2002 statewide competition. The board ruled that... -- ""The purpose of journalism is -- ""The purpose of journalism is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." -- H.L. Mencken. --------... -- "I sat down, glassy-eyed and -- "I sat down, glassy-eyed and dazed. But they had no sympathy, only scorn. "You see Liberia, white man? You see how we live?" I was mute and communicated only with my eyes, like I'd just run a marathon. Then, shaking... -- can i please express my -- can i please express my displeasure with this: Yahoo! Groups will continue to deliver all attachments sent via email, however, the attachments will no longer be archived in the Messages area. You may continue to upload files and images in... -- came across this online magazine -- came across this online magazine today that focuses on the diversity of cultures on the edge in an attempt to increase awareness and allow us to celebrate our differences. all that is accomplished visually through some pretty powerful images from... -- Images and results from the -- Images and results from the Nebraska News Photographers Association 2002 POY contest are online! You might even see a few past and present APAD members represented. --------... -- as the email alerting me -- as the email alerting me to these pics said, "hardcore kids in the ukraine sniffing glue. my day doesn't seem so bad now." and i'd have to agree... --------...
-- seven months after the taliban -- seven months after the taliban fell, afghans are still adapting to the newness of liberty. time magazine sent four photographers -- alexandra boulat, james nachtwey, john stanmeyer and christoper morris -- to document life in the nation and capture what's... -- Les Enfants du Monde -- Les Enfants du Monde is an opportunity to own and view photography by some talented photographers and to support children in Nepal at the same time. Too often, photojournalists bear the responsibility of reporting devastation and sadness. They photograph... -- The Rough Guide to Iraq -- The Rough Guide to Iraq is a first person account of being a unilateral journalist during the war in Iraq. Worth the lengthy read with several mentions of photojournalists going about it the hard way. --------... -- "i couldn't help but feel -- "i couldn't help but feel sorry for them, huddling together with their faces and hands pressed against the window to block the glare." this week's photo column comes from bryan bosch who writes about missed opportunities. --------... -- here's a massive project from -- here's a massive project from the washington post. the u.s.-led invasion of iraq was one of the most intensely photographed wars of our time. hear from 24 photojournalists (david leeson, joe raedle, laura rauch, ron haviv, jerome delay, antonin kratochvil... -- from an email i received. -- from an email i received. it's definitely worth your time... I'm happy to announce the publishing of the third issue at Blueeyes Magazine! In this issue there are two great projects from home and away. It features APAD list member... -- "...but, like, right now, they -- "...but, like, right now, they just want to rock." --------...
-- PDN's 2003 photo annual has -- PDN's 2003 photo annual has some seriously kick ass work from all the realms of the photo world. wowee. --------... -- "hide and seek? hide where?" -- "hide and seek? hide where?" i asked myself. "it's an empty gym and there's nowhere to go." --------... -- magnum photographer constantine manos was -- magnum photographer constantine manos was awarded the 2003 leica medal of excellence award this week for his portfolio of american color. go check it out, and then check out the larger unpublished gallery of the the same project to see... -- the nocturnes is a web -- the nocturnes is a web site devoted to night-time photography, and it goes to prove there's still a lot to see after dark. one of the galleries that caught my eye belongs to troy paiva. paiva also happens to have... -- 800 pixels wide, 600 pixels -- 800 pixels wide, 600 pixels high, 64 pictures, 1 subject . . . The 800x600 Project. --------... -- finally... the archives are current. -- finally... the archives are current. --------... -- photocolumn is rocking these days. -- photocolumn is rocking these days. i swear, i closed my eyes for two seconds, and i missed some beautiful stuff like this and this. the thing i love is that when coupled with a narrative of words, the photos take... -- AIDS in South Florida -------- -- AIDS in South Florida --------... -- witness to war is a -- witness to war is a neat flashy, narrated recap of my buddy hilda perez's time spent in iraq for the orlando sentinel. --------... -- one of the first aphotoaday -- one of the first aphotoaday members has finally gotten off his arse to tackle the wonders of html and put his own portfolio online. so go give josh some love and hit him up with an email if you're so... -- "Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and -- "Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 8 years. Rotterdam's... -- According to a post on -- According to a post on the Editorial Photographer's Listserve, Newsweek Magazine's DOP Sarah Harbutt, daughter of Magnum photographer Charles Harbutt, is being fired. Harbutt joined Newsweek in February 2000, and almost immediately was bombarded by Burk Uzzle and several other... -- our friends over at blueeyes -- our friends over at blueeyes have just published issue 2. yummy. --------...
-- "The right to take photographs -- "The right to take photographs is now under assault more than ever. People are being stopped, harassed, and even intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were taking photographs of subjects that made other people uncomfortable." The... -- james nachtwey has won a -- james nachtwey has won a $500,000 Dan David prize. "The financial prize is substantial and will be very meaningful to my work," Nachtwey says. "It will allow me to take some time to produce books from existing photographs, to advance... -- phototag is a non-profit for-fun -- phototag is a non-profit for-fun joint venture. it's also a community photography project retrofitting cheap disposable cameras with shiny new packaging, artwork, instructions and return postage. each camera is then passed along to friends and strangers with the request that... -- Life v3.0 - Life magazine -- Life v3.0 - Life magazine is coming back to . . . well . . . life. "The magazine will come out on heavier paper than the typical Sunday supplement, the better to showcase the photography." --------... -- finally! the images are up. -- finally! the images are up. --------... -- the book isn't ready, but -- the book isn't ready, but here is a sampling of work from eddie adams xv i'm not sure why there are only some images up and not all of them, but at least those of us who survived "eaw storms... -- there's been some great discussion -- there's been some great discussion on the listserv recently that all started when new kid on the block dave vallely asked a very simple question, "how does one get a job taking pictures? being a photojournalist? does anyone have any... -- "I've tweaked pictures before - -- "I've tweaked pictures before - taken out a phone pole. Its not a common practice, but you can do it."PDN senior editor David Walker talks to fired LAT photographer Brian Walski about his doctored photo from Iraq and what his... -- the loudspeaker cracks through the -- the loudspeaker cracks through the cool air with the words, "girls pole-vault, report!"... the girls give a cursory listen, but return to their whispers of the upcoming prom. they talk of anything besides their pole-vaulting. --------... -- i know it's been a -- i know it's been a while since the last visual update 'round here... but just so you know, we have been a little busy in these parts. shooting pictures. talking about shooting better pictures. looking at many great pictures. so... -- kevin sites, cnn correspondent in -- kevin sites, cnn correspondent in iraq, has been asked to suspend his blogging activities. his blog clearly states that his behind-the-war-scenes material is his own and not representative of cnn in any way. but clearly they felt threatened by this.... -- "am I alive or thoughts -- "am I alive or thoughts that drift away? does summer come for everyone? can humans really do what prophets say? and if I die before I learn to speak can money pay for all the days I lived awake but...
-- don't forget the classics. i -- don't forget the classics. i hope that many of my friends live this long and that someday we can celebrate their lives in this way. Cartier-Bresson is nothing short of an inspiration. --------... -- duh. and by that i -- duh. and by that i mean wow. i didn't realize nachtwey had his own website, seperate from vii's. this is a compendium of images from the last 20 years, some that i have never seen and some that haven't been... -- matthew smolinsky's korean portfolio: part -- matthew smolinsky's korean portfolio: part one is up over at visual diaries. and it's just great. i love the intentional pairings of photos that are causing my brain to stretch a bit, and the photography is beautiful, as well. --------... -- to all those photo friends -- to all those photo friends in the midwest: Spend an evening with James Nachtwey, Tuesday, April 29, 2003 in the Colwell Playhouse at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Mr. Nachtwey... -- "Getty Images staff photographer Paula -- "Getty Images staff photographer Paula Bronstein recently left Kuwait following a "nonvoluntary disembedment"--the same sort of dishonorable discharge for the press that got Geraldo Rivera kicked out of Iraq. Geraldo lost his embedded slot for drawing a map in the... -- this sunday is world pinhole -- this sunday is world pinhole photography day. it was established to allow people to take some time off from the increasingly technological world we live in and to participate in the simple act of making a pinhole photograph, as well... -- as the email alerting me -- as the email alerting me to this said, "to say i was a little shocked would be an understatement". and i second that. --------... -- the degree confluence project has -- the degree confluence project has the lofty goal of visiting each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections around the world, taking pictures at each location, and then blessing us with pictures and stories on the website. --------... -- "The overstimulation of television journalism -- "The overstimulation of television journalism covering Iraqi Freedom has produced a resurgence of interest in photojournalism as a communication medium. Like the difference between prose and poetry, the power and poignancy of still photography are unmatched by live video. A... -- "I became a photojournalist because -- "I became a photojournalist because photography has this great potential to take a horrible image and make something really beautiful out of it." From an interview with Benjamin Lowy at MTV.com. Benjamin, an APAD member, is in Iraq shooting for... -- "I think the issue that -- "I think the issue that you face when you raise that camera is how do you take the photograph and allow that person to retain their dignity?" Dallas Morning News photograhper David Leeson on NPR's War Diaries. Leeson has also... -- thats right... the Eddie Adams -- thats right... the Eddie Adams Workshop is coming again, and the deadline for applications has been extended to May 19, so those of you who haven't gotten your applications in should do so. For those of you who have already... -- "We create war and war -- "We create war and war creates images; but in our choices of what to show, what to remember, what to flash repeatedly across the television screen, and what to celebrate, we make statements of ownership. We acknowledge the contract that... -- If your eyes are needing -- If your eyes are needing relief from images of war I would suggest checking out the dreamy pictures in Claudio Edinger's "Rio" at musarium.com. Edinger's style is extremely similar to that of Keith Carter. Who will also take you in... -- eight dark days in an -- eight dark days in an iraqi prison --------... -- Doing a nice job in -- Doing a nice job in supplying the world with multimedia content, the washingtonpost.com compiles a daily gallery of photos from the war as well as links from their own correspondents. Jahi Chikwendiu, Lucian Perkins and Michael Robinson-Chavez, who are shooting... -- things have been a little -- things have been a little crazy in the photo world, as we are inundated with images of war on a daily basis and a new contest announces their results every week. so, you may have missed the big one. the... -- <editorial bitchiness> this is enough -- <editorial bitchiness> this is enough to get me all riled up, for the second year in a row... it's a contest people. jusge the best of what's there. i can't believe you won't award something because it doesn't meet your... -- here are some pretty amazing -- here are some pretty amazing images of war. --------... -- more on walski: here's how -- more on walski: here's how he did it --------... -- 11 journalists die in 21 -- 11 journalists die in 21 days of war and only 20 journalists died in all of 2002 alone. if we have any illusions about the safety and neutrality of our profession in conflict, this war should shatter them. The US... -- maybe you missed it, because -- maybe you missed it, because they hid it very well but poynter has the BOP winners list for the web. some worth looking at: the washington post's best picture story winner "in the company of heroes" dave cone's speedway hearts... -- getty and afp team up -- getty and afp team up to take over the world. --------... -- oh the stories they can -- oh the stories they can tell... or as the email to me so noted, it's "an interesting read about chris hondros in iraq and almost getting his clock cleaned." --------... -- BOP winners are up! special -- BOP winners are up! special congrats to APADer stephanie cordle who had the 3rd place feature picture story. --------... -- from the nppa website: Winners -- from the nppa website: Winners of the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism 2003 contest will be named this week (March 31-April 4, 2003). Ami Vitale of Getty Images was named Magazine Photographer of the Year, and Rick Loomis... -- more on brian walski, including -- more on brian walski, including excerpts from his 214-word apology that he wrote to his coworkers. --------... -- When Cindy Brown asked the -- When Cindy Brown asked the rest of the listserv, "What makes someone think a little stronger composition is worth giving up one's sense of personal ethics and possibly throwing away a career?" I thought it was the perfect blend of... -- travis fox at the washington -- travis fox at the washington post has apparently hauled a 360 degree panoramic camera all the way to iraq. and now we can look at his images from the basra checkpoint, in quicktime format. --------... -- good news! the missing newsday -- good news! the missing newsday journalists have been found: "The two had been missing since last Monday night. McAllester, a reporter, and Saman, a photographer, were covering the war for Newsday in Baghdad. For several days, Newsday editors said they... -- THIS might be as close -- THIS might be as close as you ever get to a day in the life of... --------...
-- congrats to all of the -- congrats to all of the southern short course winners. and specifically to fellow APADers: Jason Frizzelle, East Carolina University -- 2nd place Southern Student Photog of the Year Grant Blankenship, The Macon Telegraph -- 3rd place Sports Action Chris Curry,... -- Each day as the earth -- Each day as the earth revolves toward sunrise members of a select human species awaken to observe the world with three eyes instead of two. They are the press photographers of the world, men and women who write the visual... -- here's a very cool interactive -- here's a very cool interactive map that tracks where journalists are in iraq. [thank you debby coleman] --------... -- it can all be summed -- it can all be summed up in one word -- passion. --------... -- thanks to an email from -- thanks to an email from the newark star-ledger's aristide economopoulos, i was reminded to check out aphotoadayer ben lowy's pics from the sunday morning grenade attack at the 101st airbone's camp pennsylvania in kuwait. --------... -- why cnn left baghdad: 'We -- why cnn left baghdad: 'We didn't want to push our luck' --------... -- there's good stuff on the -- there's good stuff on the web coming from st. petersburg times photographer john pendygraft. he's been keeping a first-person account of life in and around iraq, where he is embedded with the hmm 365 marine helicopter squad from new river,... -- i was just looking at -- i was just looking at vii's special report on the iraqi crisis and magnum's iraq coverage to get me motivated this morning. wow. --------... -- in case you were wondering -- in case you were wondering which papers are the ones people WANT to work for, the answer is simple: the ones that look good. the ones that respect photography. these are the ones that design pages around pictures and run... -- here's an interesting article about -- here's an interesting article about who's staying and whose leaving iraq. and why. --------... -- in need of some inspiration? -- in need of some inspiration? the folks at poy have finally put up the winning portfolios for newspaper and magazine photographers of the year. --------... -- there's a great new home -- there's a great new home for documentary storytelling on the web that was launched today -- blueeyes magazine. it's idealism and passion at its finest. and it's highly recommended. "the mission of the magazine is to publish the best new... -- "This moment in time the -- "This moment in time the whole game was before them, thought out in their head. Their hopes where high and their shoelaces tight. Despite the nerves and the apprehension deep in each of their guts, they were winners. At that... -- check out a few new -- check out a few new galleries now gracing the aphotoaday site: michael william banks, alex boerner, nicole frug and mark sypher. also there are a few updated ones worth browsing: jen friedberg, chip litherland and john loomis. --------... -- "Take a look at photographer -- "Take a look at photographer and location lighting guru Neil Turner's site. It's full of practical tips and explanations of lighting techniques for photojournalists. He'll also be speaking at the Southern Short Course at the end of March. I found... -- Fascinating look at photographer Martin -- Fascinating look at photographer Martin Schoeller's recent shoot for Outside Mag's Sherpas of Mount Everest story. Especially interesting if you like to see how other photogs work and what gear they ply their trade with. [Link is a big Quicktime... -- pdn's 30 photographers to watch -- pdn's 30 photographers to watch for 2003. --------... -- a stunning showcase of -- a stunning showcase of street photography. take a look around the galleries, but if you are rushed for time and can only do one, make sure you see the work of trent parke for a shot of inspiration. --------... -- Winners of the 60th annual -- Winners of the 60th annual POYi awards were announced today. --------... -- meet two changed women, linda -- meet two changed women, linda and sally. --------... -- for all you leica lovers -- for all you leica lovers out there, here's the latest offering from the M series. The brand new Leica MP is set to replace the M6 for lovers of the fully mechanical rangefinders. happy drooling... --------...
-- looks like apple is really -- looks like apple is really trying to appeal to us "creative" people. in the past two weeks, they've posted little blurbs on James Nachtwey and Peter Turnley on their site. short fluff pieces, but interesting for the uninitiated. --------... -- another week. another photocolumn. -------- -- another week. another photocolumn. --------... -- Slate.com is hosting an interesting -- Slate.com is hosting an interesting discussion in which Luc Sante and Jim Lewis "consider and discuss Susan Sontag's new book-length essay, Regarding the Pain of Others". The book examines images of violence in our culture and questions their use and... -- So much good photography and -- So much good photography and I bet so few people really had a chance to see it - the NYT mag's Fashions of the Times. Make sure to check out Matt Jones images of actress Natascha McElhone, Elliot Erwitt's primate... -- bastards! friday the san francisco -- bastards! friday the san francisco examiner fired 40 staffers, including its entire photo staff, leaving just two reporters, three editors and two columnists --------... -- i love learning about new -- i love learning about new photographers and discovering their work for the first time. even more so when what i see inspires me and get's me going... i got an email from my buddy rachel a while back that said,... -- Yes, it's all true. i -- Yes, it's all true. i have mad love for the photo bubbles, and virtual panoramas and all of that, but some how i missed this. i was fortunate enough to stumble onto it this morning. Tribute in Light panorama -... -- For those of you who -- For those of you who don't delve into the digitaljournalist you should at least check out contributing writer James Colburn's column about the things he's learnt about photographers on movies and tv. If you liked that, you should really check... -- put on your walking shoes -- put on your walking shoes sweethearts. street photography is alive and well in the nation's capital, with Vance Lessard leading the march. His work can be seen in the DC STREET PHOTO SHOW 20003 on March 7 - 29, 2003... -- Holy cow, True Believers. Magnum -- Holy cow, True Believers. Magnum has posted its members winning images/essays from this year's World Press Photo contest. Get ready to either feel mad inspired or decide that it's finally time to pack it in, because Jan Dago's new work... -- please help support aphotoaday. -------- -- please help support aphotoaday. --------... -- Inventive work from photographer Eric -- Inventive work from photographer Eric Myer. He got the idea for stereotypes from a children's pop up book that had pages spilt horizontally to allow one to create hybrid animals by matching the head of one creature to the body... -- Hundreds of anti-war protests are -- Hundreds of anti-war protests are scheduled for this weekend, the biggest of which are likely to be in London and Rome - organisers predict at least half a million demonstrators will turn out in each city. The BBC is asking... -- Ladies and Gents, the World -- Ladies and Gents, the World Press results were released today. My name isn't on the list but there is some fine work.Eric Grigorian went home with the photo of the year. --------... -- Tennessean photographer Bill Steber's journey -- Tennessean photographer Bill Steber's journey down highway 61 through Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee - blues country. Make sure to turn your sound up and prepare to stay awhile. --------... -- ""Whatchya think?" asks a raspy -- ""Whatchya think?" asks a raspy voice from the early-November fog. Startled, and nearly knocking over my tripod, I turned around to see an older gentleman in his pickup behind me on Mt. Holly Road. Beautiful horses, I replied" there's a... -- not that anyone reading this -- not that anyone reading this sends letters via the post office, but if by some chance you do get the urge, you should use these stamps. --------... -- a trompe l'oeil in the -- a trompe l'oeil in the st. pete times. --------... -- "From then on I kept -- "From then on I kept casting my eye skyward. Everywhere I went I glanced up to see the sky and what new palette would be presented. I felt a very emotional connection to the task of taking these pictures. I... -- A day off and I -- A day off and I have no ambition other than to drink coffee and browse the Web. What did I look at you ask? Well, heres a short list. At MSNBC theres Collateral Damage by Lucian Reed At photoarts.com was... -- here's a front page gallery -- here's a front page gallery so you can see what hundreds of newspapers across the country and several around the world did with the recent news of the space shuttle columbia disaster. and if you like the idea of looking... -- national geographic has a section -- national geographic has a section up on their website dedicated to black history month. i'm especially fond of the compilation of faces of traditional africa, ron tarver's images of african-american cowboys in philadelphia, and zip code 10027 -- a.k.a. harlem...
-- Mark Tucker is one of -- Mark Tucker is one of the most consistently inspiring photographers working today. His work spans from commercial and advertising to travel and documentary - all in beautiful black and white. His personal projects are great and have a very southern... -- some beautiful images from antarctica -- some beautiful images from antarctica --------... -- there was a nice portrait -- there was a nice portrait project called freedom row in the NYTimes sunday magazine this week. the premise behind the portraits is that after serving hard time for someone else's crime, these recently exonerated men revisit the past. in april... -- here's a chance to add -- here's a chance to add some new names to your photo repertoire: incredibly straight forward, gimmick free, and very real is how i would describe the portraits of john johnston. he's got a very clean, refreshing way of seeing and... -- Just what the hell is -- Just what the hell is going on over at National Geographic?! After 12 months or so of magazines that only occasionally inspired I saw this being advertised on TV last night and nearly spit my beer all over the floor.With... -- Melissa mentioned below about two -- Melissa mentioned below about two U.S. journalists being kidnapped in Columbia. You might not know that earlier in the week a reporter and two others were kidnapped. They are now free. One of the freed is Robert Young Pelton, a... -- in an act of both -- in an act of both boredom and pleasure, i'm going through the random assortment of photo-related bookmarks i've collected, and clearing house for your viewing pleasure: i can just picture it... a couple of friends sitting around having a late-night... -- the nicest person on all -- the nicest person on all of Capitol Hill happens to be from Washington, but not this Washington. She comes from thousands of miles away in a land where people enjoy sunsets over the ocean, instead of sunrises. i've seen her... -- ok, so i make -- ok, so i make fun of vest wearing guys as much, if not more than most people. it's easy to do, because honestly a vest isn't THE solution to carrying around a domke bag that weighs a ton (which... -- I found myself wanting to -- I found myself wanting to keep a visual journal, but not making the time to add it to my site, then someone sent me here, and now i have this. it's free and EASY. so if you are looking to... -- "Good photographers sometimes take bad -- "Good photographers sometimes take bad pictures and occasional photographers sometimes take great pictures. The Everyman contest offers a forum for both of these categories." Do you think it's true that everyone takes great photos, even if by accident? --------... -- "EVERY photographer is a photographer -- "EVERY photographer is a photographer of transition. The shutter blinks, confines history to a moment or a mood, but elsewhere, life moves on. The image left behind is part of a world that is already receding. Bruce Davidson has been... -- Story-telling through the much abused -- Story-telling through the much abused and underrated form of the music video. The beauty lies in that each "scene" can be frozen to create a perfect still yet the lyrics and the images are amazing. Whether you like the music... -- Edward Keating leaves the NYTimes -- Edward Keating leaves the NYTimes over staged news photo allegation. "The Times and Mr. Keating have reached a mutually satisfactory agreement regarding his employment, and as a result, he no longer works here," says Times spokesperson Catherine Mathis. --------... -- A new issue of shutterclique -- A new issue of shutterclique is up. Stacie puts this together and a few APAD list members have put their work up there. --------... -- The new PDN mentioned that -- The new PDN mentioned that Freestyle Photographic Supplies has announced that it is now the EXCLUSIVE U.S. distributor of the chinese-manufactured Holga camera line. give them much business, and don't forget these super duper custom jobs. good times for all.... -- "Photojournalist Peter Turnley was working -- "Photojournalist Peter Turnley was working outside of the journalists' pool during the Gulf War, when on the morning of the last day of the conflict he arrived at what he calls the 'mile of death.'" Listen to Peter Turnley on... -- when the folks at -- when the folks at Adobe came out with Photoshop it is hard to imagine that they knew the sort of cultural impact that their product would have. now, over a decade later, it has made a generation of shooters... -- Besides info on the -- Besides info on the load of amazing new toys from apple, their site also has some interesting interviews from six shooters that took part in the Day in the Life of Africa project. also a bit about one of... -- right on... you just fold -- right on... you just fold and use these origami pinhole cameras. " The modern camera is a wonderful thing, but it's nice to remember how simple the mechanism can be. You can strip away the technology until there is little... -- it's that time of year -- it's that time of year again. contests, contests, contests... POY entries must be in missouri by january 14. World Press entries must be in the netherlands by january 16. and the deadline for BOP is february 14. --------... -- happy new year to all. -- happy new year to all. didn't see enough good photos in 2002? here are some of the best of the bunch: the new york times has a few of their favorites chronologically [user name: aphotoaday / password: aphotoaday]. and time...
-- ohio university viscom students used -- ohio university viscom students used their annual dawn to dusk project to fill the pages of this month's zipUSA feature in national geographic magazine. the work of nine ohio university students is featured in the five-page story. the 45701 essay... -- i'm sad to report that -- i'm sad to report that photographer herb ritts died today. --------... -- I was given a great -- I was given a great book for xmas that now has me googling a bunch of photographers I'd never heard of or forgotten about. This is one such photographer: Nick Knight. Nick is arguably one of the most influential fashion... -- The MSNBC pictures of the -- The MSNBC pictures of the year are up. A couple APAD'ers, including Khampha Bouaphanh and Jay Drowns, have images in the Falsh 6 presentation (which is a bit finicky...) --------... -- As I was driving from -- As I was driving from one assignment to another yesterday I was listening to National Public Radio. My ears perked up when a story on Lauren Greenfield and her Girl Culture book/project came on. I couldnt sit in the car... -- an open letter to students -- an open letter to students contemplating photojournalism by paula lerner --------... -- i have a ton -- i have a ton of money invested in digital gear, and i know you do to, or at least your employer does. when i think how could it be better, one thing that always comes up is my desire... -- i've been checking msnbc's the -- i've been checking msnbc's the week in pictures regularly, as in once a week for a few years now, to see the updates. and recently while on there, i stumbled across a new kid in town -- the week in... -- on the list today eric -- on the list today eric pointed out that APAD lister kevin sullivan (not to be confused with this guy) has some work up from the few days he spent with heisman winner Carson Palmer. --------... -- i know you are bored -- i know you are bored with the 9.11 stories. i've heard you say so. well, i don't want you to look at this for the photos. there are a few gems, but nothing that you haven't seen before, and probably... -- as the post on the -- as the post on the nppa-list said: here's something for the photographer who has everything... --------... -- you spin me round, round -- you spin me round, round baby. right round like a record... denmark is pushing the envelope and kicking the photography 's ass again.these guys are taking the panoramic shot as far as they can go, and i have to say... -- wowee!! over at the oculi -- wowee!! over at the oculi site, photographer nick cubbin has a new story which captures fleeting moments and the solitary nature of commuters. not to mention, the beautiful color, unusually beautiful compositions and quiet energy of each shot... --------... -- every year syracuse university sends -- every year syracuse university sends a handful of photo students across the big pond to spend a semester living in the old country. the current group (which includes this year's student alexia winner justin yurkanin) now has some of their... -- one of the best things -- one of the best things about the internet is when someone sends you a link to something that you have no idea about and it blows you away. this is that sort of thing. latin america is coming to kick... -- A day in the life -- A day in the life of my mouth.Taking self portraits to new heights (or depths) and with a pin hole camera no less! --------... -- My favorite photographer in the -- My favorite photographer in the whole wide world photographed and narates a beautiful essay on Hawaii that was also published in this month's NatGeo. Truly multimedia story telling. --------... -- The oh so fabulous Newseum -- The oh so fabulous Newseum (home of the educational game "so you want to be a photographer") in WDC/NOVA may be temporarily closed, but stuff is still going on. this mostly seems like a collective pat on the back for... -- pdn has launched a new -- pdn has launched a new online magazine for emerging photographers called pdnedu. they feature portfolios of up-and-coming photographers, a step-by-step how-to, a guide to what other colleges and universities are doing out there, as well as a multi-media section called...
-- all i want for -- all i want for christmas is... --------... -- more atlanta pj seminar news: -- more atlanta pj seminar news: first we learned that alex webb cancelled, but now according to the website -- webb is back. maybe it's just wishful thinking on someone's part, and while i'm not going to get my hopes up... -- The awesome website edition of -- The awesome website edition of Anthony Suau's epic book on the growing pains of the former Soviet Bloc: Beyond The Fall isn't new, but for those of you headed to the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar next week perhaps a refresher course... -- Nerd Alert: Apple has posted -- Nerd Alert: Apple has posted "Jumping Into Digital", an article about Susan Meiselas' experience using Digital cameras during the recent "Day In The Life Of Africa" project, which was a digital-only affair for all involved. Though the article isn't exhaustive... -- single-frame movies from the portfolio -- single-frame movies from the portfolio section of the nyt magazine. --------... -- Mamiya's master showcase has an -- Mamiya's master showcase has an interview and photos up for self-proclaimed "documentary portrait photographer" and all around photo hotshot Norman Jean Roy. --------... -- I have mad love -- I have mad love for Virginia. No question about that. Virginia is for lovers; of photography, of photographers. all of that. This place is packed with superstar shooters. Nick Nichols is one of the many who make their home... -- Magnum Photos has a few -- Magnum Photos has a few recently added features, including Alex Majoli's story on AIDS in India "Love In Bombay", a sad and painterly tour through the truck stop and train station brothels of India's burgeoning sex trade. --------... -- If you ever cared about -- If you ever cared about girl's lives (and you should), or wanted to know what your daughter's, niece's, or friend's lives are really like, in terms of being A GIRL, then get on over to Lauren Greenfield's essay on Girl... -- "We have dumped billions of -- "We have dumped billions of gallons of raw sewage and some of the worst toxic chemicals imaginable into Puget Sound, ravaging what was once one of the world's richest ecosystems. We have over fished, destroyed shoreline habitat and poisoned beloved... -- In case you missed the -- In case you missed the boat, Denmark is burning: Joachim Ladefoged, Erik Refner and Jan Dago have what you need. Check the technique with Joachim's new essays on Yemen and Istanbul (color!) and French presidential candidate Jean Pierre Chevnement, along... -- how neat: on june 17th, -- how neat: on june 17th, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by. --------... -- yoni brook cleaned house.... but -- yoni brook cleaned house.... but congratulations to all of the CPOY winners. a big high-five to all list members, both past and present, who had something that placed. i'll post again when the work is online -- i can't wait... -- as pointed out to me, -- as pointed out to me, there is another day in the life of africa multimedia presentation up -- this one is courtesy of the washingtonpost.com. equally nice photos, buti like this presentation better, especially the handy map of africa, with... -- German photographer Peter Granser has -- German photographer Peter Granser has a beautiful essay on the senior culture of Sun City West, Arizona published in Mother Jones this month. If you missed it, click and see the all of the published pictures and more on his... -- the only words uttered are -- the only words uttered are these: the imagery that follows is a probing, by camera, of new yorkers in their city. simple human moments comprise this observer's portrayal of what he calls a 'city in silence'. when woven together, these... -- a day in the life -- a day in the life of africa --------... -- [from an email i was -- [from an email i was asked to share...] Comrades, For those of you who have, or plan to, cover any stories related to the US military, membership to this newly-formed organization is a must. The Military Reporters and Editors (MRE)... -- 3 new essays are up!! -- 3 new essays are up!! photojournalists evan parker, bob croslin and stuart tannehill give their take on a travel theme by going through the county, across the country and around the world. go look! --------... -- tsk, tsk, tsk... you should -- tsk, tsk, tsk... you should be ashamed of yourself mr. keating. --------... -- whoa!! the new nppa front -- whoa!! the new nppa front looks great. (hint: refresh the page and there's a new, great photo everytime!) let's hope the rest of the site gets a much-needed makeover as well. --------... -- "More than a third of -- "More than a third of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom. Reporters Without Borders works constantly to restore their right to be informed. Thirty-one media professionals lost their lives in 2001 for doing what... -- three great new essays will -- three great new essays will be posted this week. the common thread is "travel" and we'll be taking you through the county, across the country and around the world. evan parker will give you a glimpse at "life on the...
-- wow! we here at aphotoaday -- wow! we here at aphotoaday are happy to announce that a new record was set with 405 hits yesterday. a big hello goes out to all our recent visitors from russia, as well as those getting here via photoblogs. thanks... -- they came, they saw, they -- they came, they saw, they geeked out. after a great inaugural geekfest in washington d.c., the second annual geekfest was done south florida style. 15 people were in attendance, and they were rewarded with little sleep, crowded conditions and long... -- i promise that a great -- i promise that a great big entry is coming soon about geekfest. but this geek is still exhausted from the weekend. so, soon... --------... -- hey boys and girls, here's -- hey boys and girls, here's pretty rad pinhole spy camera you can make at home. it comes complete with blueprints you can print out and handy tips about exposure. and for all it's low-tech goodness, the flash site is pretty... -- finally... -------- -- finally... --------... -- st. petersburg, louisville, denver, dallas, -- st. petersburg, louisville, denver, dallas, portland --------... -- check out some really nice -- check out some really nice work from students at the mountain workshops, who spent a week documenting life in cave city, kentucky. --------... -- visual edge 2002 at the -- visual edge 2002 at the poynter institute teamed up professional journalists, students and multimedia coaches for 6 days this fall. the end result is 13 stories, told with photographs, video, and sound. --------... -- unititled magazine 15 is up -- unititled magazine 15 is up now. --------... -- the pdn write-up about eddie -- the pdn write-up about eddie adams workshop photogs giving valentines to new york has a little mention about "one of the youngest students in the workshop," our very own brian harkin. --------...
-- go vote. -------- -- go vote. --------... -- "LOOK AT ME is a -- "LOOK AT ME is a collection of found photos. These photos were either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. Maybe someone died and... -- while i'm finding the new -- while i'm finding the new look and feel of the magnum site a little awkward and clumsy, i'm loving some of the new additions like breaking down a photographers portfolio by the books they've produced, as well as the "features"... -- here are some defining moments -- here are some defining moments from this year's women in photojournalism seminar. --------... -- at poynter you can compare -- at poynter you can compare what newspapers around the country did with their front pages on 09-11-01 and 09-11-02. pretty neat to see what talented photo editors and designers can do with similar news. --------... -- best of luck to all -- best of luck to all the eddie adams workshop students. just remember, the workshop has very little to do with photography, and everything to do with life. go. be inspired. have a great time. and remember that feeling of awe... -- go vote! -------- -- go vote! --------... -- "In the aftermath of the -- "In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Seattle Times reporter Alex Tizon and photographer Alan Berner crossed the nation to gauge the mood of the people. As the anniversary of the attacks approaches, they hit the road again." [good... -- all kinds of crazy new -- all kinds of crazy new stuff going on over here: 3 new member galleries are up -- debby coleman, joe jaszewski and rachel rique. the shortlist is back, and the members are listed by location. we now have people in...
-- maryanne golon: savvy diplomat, passionate -- maryanne golon: savvy diplomat, passionate editor, champion of photojournalism --------... -- Some great multimedia stuff going -- Some great multimedia stuff going on at The Herald Sun Check out Joe Weiss' story A Long Road Home. From Durham to Celaya, Mexico, follow a young man home to the family he left behind. And Dave Cone's story Speedway-Hearts... -- the story of fallen hope -- the story of fallen hope teaches an all important lesson -- it pays to be in the yellow pages --------... -- anyone interested in going to -- anyone interested in going to the women in photojournalism conference in san diego this year, but thought the airfare was a little pricey? check out the great low air fares now at southwest airlines. san diego is their featured city... -- our very own favorite nebraskan -- our very own favorite nebraskan gerik parmele, who already runs a nice weblog full of great, frequently updated links, just announced a new site he's started called photocolumn.org. go give him some love. --------... -- "Perhaps it was because he -- "Perhaps it was because he was a foreign observer in a far-off war. Maybe he just saw things more clearly than most people. Ultimately, he showed the American public the real horrors of the Vietnam war. Welsh Magnum photographer Philip... -- Since late May, three 35-millimeter -- Since late May, three 35-millimeter movie cameras have been trained on ground zero from atop nearby buildings, each programmed to take a picture of the vast site every five minutes, night and day. By Sept. 11, they will be joined... -- just got done looking at -- just got done looking at gilles peress' farewell to bosnia -- wow. --------... -- The Palestinians, by James Nachtwey, -- The Palestinians, by James Nachtwey, is at Time.com with some 57 photos and audio commentary. Nachtwey spent a month in the West Bank and Gaza documenting the lives of Palestinians. --------... -- World-renowned wilderness photographer and writer -- World-renowned wilderness photographer and writer Galen Rowell, and his wife and business partner Barbara Cushman Rowell, a photographer and writer, died early Sunday morning in an airplane crash outside of Bishop, Calif. you'll be missed. --------... -- when steve raymer started this -- when steve raymer started this project, his aim was to put a human face on islam in southeast asia, a goal that seems more urgent now that southeast asia has become a new front in the global war on terrorism....
-- why photojournalism matters [thanks for -- why photojournalism matters [thanks for the link jacquelyn.] --------... -- according to a report by -- according to a report by the committee to protect journalists, the west bank tops the list of the world's worst places to be a journalist. --- in related news, from an email today from rich glickstein: yours and my favorite... -- a history of photographic chemistry. -- a history of photographic chemistry. --------... -- your 1s and 0s cannot -- your 1s and 0s cannot hurt me. it's not the first time i've been called a geek, and this post almost guarantees that it won't be the last. but say what you will, the text-image converter is pretty freakin' cool.... -- bottom of the page. yup! -- bottom of the page. yup! that's right. the archives are now up and running. --------... -- The July/August issue of Columbia -- The July/August issue of Columbia Journalism Review features a cover story entitled "Exposure to Light," a special report on photojournalism in the 21st century. The story includes photographer profiles, galleries and essays about topics ranging from the psychological problems facing... -- new york times photographer ruth -- new york times photographer ruth fremson gives a glimpse of life in afghanistan beyond the veil. [logan, thanks for pointing me to this.] --------... -- cute little story out of -- cute little story out of pamplona, spain: photographer scores bull's-eye with shot that left some wondering if he was dead or alive. [thanks for the link cara.] --------... -- This website has a few -- This website has a few nice galleries to check out. Can definitely kill some time. --------... -- In the hunt for internships? -- In the hunt for internships? It's never to early to start looking. Though they don't pay much (sometimes not at all), an internship can be a great experience. I came across the American Society of Newspaper Editor's listing of paid... -- How Race is Lived in -- How Race is Lived in America is an awesome project put together by the New York Times. Worth the time. --------... -- life in america is a -- life in america is a new site that officially launched yesterday. it's "devoted to the appreciation of documentary photography and the enlightenment of those who have committed themselves to it." life in america doesn't seem to have any timeframe to... -- there's a new essay up!!! -- there's a new essay up!!! go look. Celebrating the 4th is the result of a small band of photographers from the aphotoaday community that traveled to Washington D.C. during July of 2001 to document the nation's largest Independence Day celebration.... -- america: what it means to -- america: what it means to me --------... -- the zen of freelance photography -- the zen of freelance photography by rick rickman: Worry energy is wasted energy! It doesn't do anything but clutter your head with noise and make your digestive tract uncomfortable. In this, the worst year of record for freelance photography, I... -- Dallas Morning News photographer Jack -- Dallas Morning News photographer Jack Beers got a great shot of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963, but the Times Herald's Robert H. Jackson did even better. "Those who knew (Beers) say he never recovered from...
-- grrlstories is photographer joanna pinneo's -- grrlstories is photographer joanna pinneo's exploration into the lives and struggles of teenage girls. joanna received both a nikon documentary sabbatical grant and a grant from the blue earth alliance to complete work on this rather large-scale project. the site... -- photography was born 176 years -- photography was born 176 years ago. Joeseph Nicephore Niepce is the father. He started it with an image on a pewter plate coated with bitumen. this image of the french countryside is still beautiful and relevant nearly two centuries later.... -- A team of doctors recently -- A team of doctors recently went to Romania to do heart surgeries on little children. The folks at New Media For Nonprofits sent their team along too and produced a live documentary of the trip. Flight For Life chronicles the... -- stony brook, new york. navajo -- stony brook, new york. navajo nation. eau claire, south carolina. san juan, texas. chicago, illinois. yaak valley, montana. delray beach, florida. north pacific coast, alaska. san francisco, california. ithaca, new york. western, north carolina. philadelphia, pennsylvania. some big name photographers... -- Hey folks, Robert Hanashiro has -- Hey folks, Robert Hanashiro has announced that his sports photography newsletter Sports Shooter now has its own website. --------... -- for those interested in a -- for those interested in a sweet presentation and cool photos, check out the newly designed SCNPA website, that'd be the south carolina news photographers' association for those curious folks. it's all flashy courtesy of the hard work and long hours... -- eric larson is a rising -- eric larson is a rising star. --------... -- i was just looking through -- i was just looking through in-public.com at some really nice street photography. and toally geeking out over images like the ones by narelle autio. if this makes you as stoked about photography as it does me, then you're going to... -- have a hankering for some -- have a hankering for some ice cream? live in or near michigan? want to meet other photojournalists? have an interest in seeing "War Photographer", the academy award-nominated documentary on James Nachtwey? well, my friend, if you've answered 'yes' to these... -- go team!! aphotoaday listserv members -- go team!! aphotoaday listserv members josh ritchie and david holloway have some pretty cool stuff up in pixel press' 9/11 gallery. [note: scroll all the way down, they're both close to the bottom.] --------... -- all the photos were taken -- all the photos were taken over a one year period. all the photos are taken from the same spot -- three meters from the corner of oxford street and edgeware road in london. all the photos are of pedestrians who... -- Some of you may not -- Some of you may not be aware of the bill that John Conyers introduced to the House. It is titled the "Freelance Writers and Artists Protection Act of 2002." It's very important to freelance photographers in this country that this... -- prior to the release of -- prior to the release of his new book "the photographic life" next month, sam abell talks about the pursuit of the perfect picture on the digital journalist website. it offers you a rare glimpse inside the mind of a photographer,... -- first, the publisher of the -- first, the publisher of the boston phoenix said that the video of daniel pearl's last minutes alive, and then the beheading that followed is, "the single most gruesome, horrible, despicable and horrifying thing i've ever seen." and now the paper... -- i'm convinced handheld magazine is -- i'm convinced handheld magazine is dead. or maybe it's just hibernating. but being stuck on issue 3 for over a year now is like listening to a scratched enya cd. {sigh -- i'll save you from me expanding on the... -- The NYT once again proves -- The NYT once again proves that cool ideas and creative thinking are more important than buttloads of resources when it comes to multimedia. --------...
-- look at me is a -- look at me is a collection of found photos either lost, forgotton or thrown away. now namelessand haunting, yet somehow familiar, they give us an anonymous look back at our past. [link via alex via the morning news] --------... -- contest judges wrestle with ethics -- contest judges wrestle with ethics of winning image --------... -- Vote for your favorite images -- Vote for your favorite images from PDN's 2002 photo annual --------... -- to all the procrastinators in -- to all the procrastinators in the bunch: the eddie adams deadline extension was extended even further. may 31st. what are you waiting for?! goodluck to all. --------... -- this was a great read, -- this was a great read, in that refreshing, reinvigorating, reenforcing sort-of way. it was listed as "tips for recent grads" but i think it applies to both old and new... --------... -- and i thought i was -- and i thought i was a photo geek. ha! not even close!! (well, in comparison.) this is an amazing collection of anything and everything photo related. [thanks for giving me one more link to waste precious time on cara!] --------... -- Eddie Adams Workshop applications must -- Eddie Adams Workshop applications must be postmarked by May 15!!! --------... -- ***be on the look out -- ***be on the look out for stolen gear!!!!*** aphotoaday listserv member jason davis had a bunch of camera gear stolen out of his car. he asked me to pass this along: "Here is that list of stuff..thanks for helping any... -- "The movement members were not -- "The movement members were not happy that I had joined them. I had not brought food, only a camera, and I was there to take pictures. I was the only media photographer to enter the church since the siege began."... -- McSweeneys interviews Joel Meyerowitz about -- McSweeneys interviews Joel Meyerowitz about being the only photographer with permission to document the WTC site. --------... -- "There is this famous experiment -- "There is this famous experiment with frogs where if you take a frog and place it in a pan with water sitting on a stove, and then heat the water slowly until it boils, the frogs will eventually die in... -- i love the minds of -- i love the minds of people who have too much time on their hands, like this guy: "I'm just itching to buy a really good digital camera, but until they become cheap enough for me to just buy one as... -- there's some great new documentary -- there's some great new documentary stuff up at www.photodocument.pl. --------... -- "I don't want to approach -- "I don't want to approach this man with anger," says Yola Monakhov, who was shot and nearly killed 18 months ago on the outskirts of Bethlehem "I do want to confront him with what he has done to me. ...I...
-- see that thumbnail. yeah that -- see that thumbnail. yeah that one. up there. in the upper right corner. click on it. that thumbnail is going to be a regular feature around here. right now, it's a little gallery, showcasing the work of the members of... -- photojournalists? as fashion icons?! [thanks -- photojournalists? as fashion icons?! [thanks for the link gerik.] --------... -- "the red sox could field -- "the red sox could field a starting nine just from the caribbean, and fewer than half of the 25 sox players are white. but up in the press box at fenway park, where 23 writers cover every home game for... -- dates on the horizon: the -- dates on the horizon: the southern short course is this weekend, april 26-28. so if you're going to be in the greensboro, n.c. area... GO! there are some great speakers in the line-up, most notably, my friends/coworkers mike and sue... -- From the same folks who -- From the same folks who do Journale, a look at a legend's portfolio.Steve McCurry on PDN. --------... -- Tips, tricks, and anything you -- Tips, tricks, and anything you want to know about photoshop. Even if you think you're an expert, there's a lot you can learn from this site. If you're a beginner, this could change your world... www.adobeevangelists.com --------... -- Using a Polaroid SX-70 camera -- Using a Polaroid SX-70 camera with time-zero film and working with a variety of tools, Chris Usher has been creating unconventional images at the White House and while traveling. He manipulates the phtotgraphs to create distinct images and art. Check... -- "Backpack Journalism" - Point ...:::... -- "Backpack Journalism" - Point ...:::... Counterpoint What do you think? --------... -- the pulitzer prizes were -- the pulitzer prizes were recently announced and the new york times cleaned house. their seven awards, included the two photography awards given, one for breaking news and one for feature photography. --------... -- For folks who are interested -- For folks who are interested in learning and/or honing multimedia techniques, gathering and publishing, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is having its 2nd annual Multimedia Boot Camp. Some of the heavies include Jayson Singe, Joe Weiss, John... -- this should be fun. we -- this should be fun. we here at aphotoaday have opened the floor to others, and are making this a public blog. which means that there will be several people contirbuting and several new viewpoints coming soon to a blog near...
-- in response to the "dear -- in response to the "dear photojournalists" email going around now about bridging the POY and NPPA contests, there was a bit of brilliance off the listserv today from david holloway. here are a few snippets. "the contest is that you... -- In case you missed the -- In case you missed the NPR interview about the documentary movie "War Photographer" which has been nominated for an Academy Award, all you really missed was a nice interview with director Christian Frey about following photogod James Nachtwey around for... -- "The Committee to Protect Journalists -- "The Committee to Protect Journalists has released its Attacks on the Press 2001 report. There's some really interesting stuff in there, including press freedom facts and a list of the 10 worst enemies of the press. Reading this stuff reminds... -- ... still in shock... wow. -- ... still in shock... wow. ok. ::: deep breath::: so it's official. "a photo a day" rawks!! haha. or at least it did well in the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competition. "For developing a unique photojournalistic sense of community, its... -- Made for the Medium is -- Made for the Medium is a pretty interesting read in this month's digital journalist. BONUS: We even got a mention in the links section at the bottom. --------... -- Can you imagine millions of -- Can you imagine millions of people licking one of your photographs? Tom Franklin on September 11, 2001 captured the image of New York City firefighters raising the American Flag amidst the rubble of the World Trade Centers. Six months later,... -- A few months ago i -- A few months ago i heard an NPR story about this guy, Jacques Lowe, who was JFK's personal photographer. He took all the memorable images we've come to love showing the former president as a person, and his access was... -- "Iris patterns are even more -- "Iris patterns are even more individual than fingerprints. So the Geographic turned to the inventor of automatic iris recognition, John Daugman, a professor of computer science at Englands University of Cambridge. His biometric technique uses mathematical calculations, and the numbers... -- unexpected images from a "magic -- unexpected images from a "magic camera." --------... -- view the winning images from -- view the winning images from this year's POY competition. brian plonka and james nachtwey are definitely deserving of their first place wins. --------... -- PDN's 30 -------- -- PDN's 30 --------... -- more eye candy in that -- more eye candy in that fun, nice escape from pj kinda way: frankieboots.com sunshine hotel - a documentary film quarlo.com --------... -- People have been looking at -- People have been looking at us from as far away as Argentina, South Africa, Romania, Mexico, Australia and Singapore. (Somebody take a little trip to Antarctica and hit our site so we can say we've got viewers on all 7... -- The Camera Museum has a -- The Camera Museum has a ton of goodies for your viewing pleasure, and enough plastic and toy camera to evoke a sense of jealousy in any kid (like me!). [link via john l. white] --------... -- Logan Wallace has an exhibit -- Logan Wallace has an exhibit of her recent work at City Stage, 21 N. Front Street in Wilmington, N.C. It's 18 photos of some pretty eclectic stuff -- from her post 9/11 trip to D.C. and New York City, a... -- The POY winners were announced -- The POY winners were announced today. Congrats to all! --------... -- Vincent Laforet does the Olympics. -- Vincent Laforet does the Olympics. [link via justin best] --------... -- "Most people thought it was -- "Most people thought it was crazy for photo-journalist Deborah Copaken Kogan to take her six-year-old son to Pakistan to meet with Afghan refugees. But she brought her camera, he brought Legos, and they discovered a world of women, children, damage...
-- If you haven't gone, and -- If you haven't gone, and you're still eligible... go! I went last year, and it was one of the best experiences I've ever had. Four solid days of eating, and breathing photoj. And although exhausted, you leave there with this... -- Magnum photographer James Nachtwey was -- Magnum photographer James Nachtwey was followed by a film crew for two years, through war-torn countries and impoverished lands, documenting him while he documented the horrors in front of him. Director "Christian Frei used special micro-cameras attached to James Nachtwey's... -- one new gallery added in -- one new gallery added in the members' section -- mike shepherd. --------... -- More eye candy. -------- -- More eye candy. --------... -- World Press Photo announces all -- World Press Photo announces all of their 2002 contest winners, as well as their "Photo of the Year." Can you say "nice.....?" Great stuff from the premiere photo contest in the world. --------... -- you heard it here first... -- you heard it here first... Super huge CONGRATULATIONS to newspaper photographers Brian Plonka, Rick Loomis, and Barbara Davidson for placing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively, in that little, annual photo contest known as POY. (now shhh! don't tell anyone. hahaha.)... -- No need to thank me. -- No need to thank me. We all know it was my procrastination that finally paid off. The NPPA has extended their deadline to next Friday, that'd be February 22, 2002. Even though they say it's "due to the tremendous response... -- "As a young girl, -- "As a young girl, her eyes spoke of the suffering of a nation. But no one has ever known what happened to the child with the shocked, staring eyes whom award-winning photographer Steve McCurry fleetingly met in a refugee... -- the nppa contest deadline is -- the nppa contest deadline is friday. enter. it's free. and you can FTP the images. --------... -- three new essays for your -- three new essays for your viewing pleasure. --------... -- it's always neat to see -- it's always neat to see how papers from all across the country play pictures from the same event on their fronts. here are a few different looks at superbowl XXXVI. --------... -- 2002 NPPA-Nikon Sabbatical Grant Winner -- 2002 NPPA-Nikon Sabbatical Grant Winner announced. --------... -- As you may have heard, -- As you may have heard, the Cuban Ministry of the Interior seems to have shut down the Maine Photographic Workshop program in Cuba. This is incredibly disappointing, as Havana is a remarkable city to photograph. However, we have permission to...
-- The opening of the World -- The opening of the World Press Photo exhibit in Manila, led to some pretty powerful words about images. "Indeed, no event that takes place in the world can be so inconsequential as to escape the scrutiny of the camera lens,... -- At a time when many -- At a time when many predicted the death of photojournalism, thanks to new media, it appears to be not only still alive, but also thriving. --------... -- Look up consistency in the -- Look up consistency in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of this guy. Mike Stocker has won just about every honor imaginable in the world of photojournalism, numerous awards from World Press, POY, a 1st place portfolio at the... -- The New York Times pictorial -- The New York Times pictorial reminder of the year. --------... -- i appologize for the lack -- i appologize for the lack of posts lately. i've been out-of-town and the world's slowest connection made the thought of anything beyond basic email a headache. so, without further hesitation, here is something to mull over while i get a... -- hey, it's official. we're finally -- hey, it's official. we're finally someone's site of the week. how cool. thanks monkeypond. --------... -- The book opens with this -- The book opens with this epigraph from Dante's "Inferno": "Through me is the way to the sorrowful city. Through me is the way to join the lost people." "I don't want people to be concerned about me. I want them... -- the geranium: nature's camera -------- -- the geranium: nature's camera --------... -- "Helen Levitt is considered -- "Helen Levitt is considered "a photographer's photographer" -- little known by the public, but revered by fellow photographers. She doesn't enjoy talking about her life, and doesn't find it terribly interesting. But Helen Levitt has led a remarkable life.... -- Well, I've known for years -- Well, I've known for years that this kid is going to be huge. It's about time the rest of the world got clued in. Check out pages 100-101 of the January 2002 issue of PDN Magazine for a nice, little... -- You want fun, energetic photos? -- You want fun, energetic photos? Meet Michael Laughlin. This guy's good. Really good. And, he's got soul. And, I'm lucky enough to work with him. --------... -- After reading the PDN article -- After reading the PDN article on the emerging Danish photographers a few months ago, I've kept my eye out for one in particular, Jan Dago, whose images blew me away. In 2001, he was named a Magnum nominee. It was... -- advertising with powerful photos and -- advertising with powerful photos and social responsibility in mind. prepare to spend some time at this site, and in the end, try to remember that they sell clothes. --------... -- three-time pulitzer prize winning photojournalist -- three-time pulitzer prize winning photojournalist carol guzy speaks about the art of taking pictures and the emotional toll it has. --------... -- contest time is upon us. -- contest time is upon us. the POY deadline was last Friday, i hope those who were planning to enter made it in time. The World Press Photo deadline is January 17. (enter. you get a free book, win or lose).... -- there's a really nice selection -- there's a really nice selection of new essays coming. david holloway explores the south during arkansas' chuck wagon races. rich glickstein uncovers a hidden main street in columbia, s.c. and jen friendberg uses her diana camera to make magical images... -- finally. there's a new essay, -- finally. there's a new essay, a random assortment of images taken "in the evening", for you to see over at visualdiaries. now i just wish the folks at untitled magazine and handheld magazine would get off their asses and publish... -- see why they're the best -- see why they're the best in the business? consistency, consistency, consistency. --------... -- how wide is america? the -- how wide is america? the way photographer matt frondorf measures, the answer is 3,304 photos - one 35mm shot for every mile. [kick ass link via lucious lex. thanks alex.] --------... -- nice. very nice. -------- -- nice. very nice. --------... -- 3 new member galleries have -- 3 new member galleries have been added: chris curry, ryan holloway, and jacob langston. --------... -- worth a look: national geographic -- worth a look: national geographic is has a special spot now where they are showcasing one of their photos each day. and i've also added pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist david hume kennerly to the masters section on the "elsewhere" page. kennerly...
-- For all of you in -- For all of you in the DC/Baltimore area in need of some culture this holiday season, Vance Lessard is having a show of some of his latest night photography at the G-Spot Gallery in Baltimore on Saturday the 29th at... -- it's fast approaching -- the -- it's fast approaching -- the POY deadline is January 11 and the World Press Photo deadline is January 17. (i hear the voice of UF's professor freeman: you've got to enter to win.) --------... -- The Dan Eldon special,"Dying to -- The Dan Eldon special,"Dying to Tell The Story" which is about photojournalists, still and video at war, will be rebroadcast on CNN between 1 and 3 pm EST, on Christmas Day, breaking news notwithstanding. --------... -- Back when Muhamad Ali was -- Back when Muhamad Ali was still Cassius Clay, a young photographer working for the Los Angeles Sentinel was assigned to cover a press conference with the fighter who just won at the 1960 Olympic Games. That photographer, Howard Bingham, ran... -- back by popular demand, PBS' -- back by popular demand, PBS' series Art:21 is playing again on january 17, january 24, january 31 and february 7 - four consecutive thursdays, from 10-11pm. if you catch the january 17th show, you can see the sallie mann segment.... -- W. Eugene Smith Award Winners -- W. Eugene Smith Award Winners Named view some of 2001 winner maya goded's work here. sounds like all of the winners are tackling some very interesting subject matter. and i think it's one of those compliments that's not really a... -- they're up! -------- -- they're up! --------... -- wow. there's some amazing photojournalism -- wow. there's some amazing photojournalism going on around here. there will be three great photo essays up by the end of the day for your viewing pleasure. look for them (in place of the week's worth section) and enjoy. --------... -- i love the i-zone, but -- i love the i-zone, but i just lost a little respect for its makers. --------... -- sweet..."a photo a day" got -- sweet..."a photo a day" got its 100th member today. --------... -- ben lowy has a -- ben lowy has a show running from the 14th - 20th of december at the des lee gallery in downtown st. louis. it's called the fine line: a photographic document featuring the residents of the mark twain hotel. if... -- there are big things happening -- there are big things happening around here. soon, very soon. the week's worth of images section is going to disappear - only to be replaced with something a little bit meatier, a little more tasty... photo stories. keep an eye... -- "fourteen UF student journalists capture -- "fourteen UF student journalists capture rural belize in words and pictures." if you're in florida, it's worth a trip to gaineville to see the work of john kaplan's students, nicknamed the Florida FlyIns. the gallery opening was tonight on the... -- thinking about going to afghanistan -- thinking about going to afghanistan to cover the war? journalists are worth about $50,000 a head to the Taliban. --------... -- congratulations to all the winners -- congratulations to all the winners on at the atlanta photojournalism seminar. john loomis, from the university of missouri, received an honorable mention for his student portfolio. unc-chapel hill student logan mock-bunting won second place feature single. and rich glickstein, staff... |
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