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June 2005 
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 they don't turn it into some cheesy love story, since it's apparent now thay Hollywood has its hands on things, they're going to exploit it and mass market it any way they can.
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 nature of celebrity and iconography, going beyond the often carefully constructed public image to reveal much more about their personalities and lives."
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 was just 24 years old. The Scholarship was set up by his friends and family in order to build something positive from such a tragic death. Each year we hold a competition for photographers who are either attending a full-time recognised photography course or who are under the age of 24. Entrants must submit a portfolio of their work and a brief synopsis of a project they would undertake if they won the award. Currently the prize is $1,500 of Nikon camera equipment, and a further $2,500 towards their assignment. Metro Imaging also offer $500 worth of vouchers to the winner and $250 to those awarded highly commended and commended. As you can imagine this is a significant prize for a photographer and coupled with the continued support of The Sunday Times Magazine, which publishes the winner’s work, the scholarship provides an excellent launch into a professional photography career. Year after year, the award has highlighted the work of some of the industrys finest emerging talent, all of whom have progressed into professional careers and still support the award. Last years winner, David Hogsholt, has since won a World Press Award for his photographs of Mia, a young drug addict in Denmark. We are delighted to announce that World Press Photo have agreed to automatically accept the winner onto their final list of nominees for the Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, as a result of so many of our previous winners having attended this prestigious event in recent years.
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 talk about the challenges of getting and editing war zone photography." Appearing on the segment -- along with an academic, a newspaper editor and a staffer -- was APADer-in-hiding Jim MacMillian, of the Philadelphia Daily News. Last Spring, MacMillan took a leave of absence from the paper to spend a year in Iraq as a member of the Associated Press photography staff that would go on to win a 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. A downloadable, audio file of today's show will be available on Rehm's website about an hour after broadcast.
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 have taken a financial hit from the digital revolution; both Britain's Ilford and the German-based AgfaPhoto GmbH have filed for bankruptcy within the last year, the former rebounding slightly after a management-led buyout.
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 humanity, nature and their interaction."
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 surprises, and the medium as a tool for the new documentary photojournalist.
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, as he learned to tell a story in pictures.
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 started thinking about giving his photos a new look, by digging in his closet for some old favorites -- now he uses everything from a Canon 20D to a 55-year old 4-by-5-inch Graflex Speed Graphic camera to a Mamiya 6 to a Holga depending on the shot.
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 including galleries showcasing the work of former participants and hear from experts about the many issues facing those taking documentary photos for a living.
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 intensity of the experience, the amazing hours and the sheer exhaustion of it all -- the Austin American-Statesman wrote a nice, little article on the Geekfesters rolling into town this weekend. *note: to log in --
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 own Jen Friedberg, web goddess, finished The Site in record time. For working at such breakneck speeds, she returns to work in Ft. Worth, Texas, with bloody nubs where she used to have fingers. It's not quite over yet. We still have some friends from the area to give us little talks and whatnot, have to look at the slideshow and have one more crazy night of drinking on 6th Street. But the GeekFest 2005 website is up! What are you still doing reading this entry? Go look at the pictures!
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