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-- 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 it's 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... -- |