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April 2005 
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," Clift said in a Hartford Courant story posted on the newspaper's Web site. Read the full story here There's more on PDN's Web site, "Hartford Courant Photographer Arrested In Darfur"
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." Acording to Joe, it's not an RSS feed, but rather it pulls a random image out of apad's daily directory going back the first image posted on Sept. 9, 2002. It's basically a custom built webbrowser that can only browse APAD. And now it can be yours. You too can have your own aphotoaday slideshow running on your desktop.
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 and killing his older brother. Saleh was cared for at an Oakland, Calif., hospital after his father pleaded with American troops for help near thier home in An Nasiriyah, Iraq. The hour-long discussion with the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography awardee and the reporter she worked with took place Wednesday on National Public Radio's The Connection from WBUR in Boston.
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 recently gave an interview with PDN Online in which he described his experience in the Middle East, and on winning a Pulitzer. "I've lost more friends here than during the rest of my life put together."
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 all started in 2003. The cast of 11 in this installment includes Andy Cutraro from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Gilkey from The Detroit Free Press, John Moore of Getty Images (formerly of the Associated Press), Joe Raedle of Getty Images and other wonderfully talented journalists. Just as in their previous installment, the photojournalists not only present the work they accomplished this time, but also discuss their experiences in their own words.
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 India and Kashmir this past summer and where he'd like to see his photography take him. Here's an additional link to a downloadable mp3 of the interview and 2 of his photos. [tech geek note: If you save the file after it has loaded in your browser (File -> Save As), and drop it into iTunes, then you should actually see the two images which are discussed in the Artwork pane.
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 ever doubted that he is an outstanding nature photographer.
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 photo essay on an Oakland hospital’s effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion." Visit the Pulitzer Web site to see the work accomplished by the awardees.
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