Updates

Monday 28 December 2009
Features and Essays – Wayne Lawrence: On the Beach (NYT Lens Showcase: December 2009)
Features and Essays - NPPA – The Visual Student: Photos of the Year/Decade Part 1 / Part 2 (NPPA: December 2009)
Awards - The PGB Photo Award : Deadline January 31 2010
Articles - BJP: Hollywood’s most celebrated photographer Bob Willoughby has died. Retrospective on his life’s work (BJP: December 2009)
Sunday 27 December
NEWS – Oeil Public Closes Down (BJP: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Ozier Muhammad: Difficult Decisions on End-of-Life Care (NYT: December 2009)
Books – Larry Sultan: The Valley (Scalo Publishers: 2004) : ISBN-10: 3908247799 : ISBN-13: 978-3908247791 / images
Saturday 26 December
Features and Essays - The Wall Street Journal: The Year’s Best Photos – 2009 (WSJ: December 2009)
Friday 25 December
Awards, Grants, and Competitions – Eight photo competitions to enter in January (BJP: December 2009)
Thursday 24 December
NEWS - Bob Willoughby, legendary Hollywood photographer, dies at 82 (TIME: December 2009) slideshow
Features and Essays - Foto8: The Year and Decade in Pictures (Foto8: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Lauren Greenfield: Foreclosure: Death of the American Dream (Vimeo: 2009)
Wednesday 23 December
Awards – The CDP Emerging Documentist Award winner: Khaled Hasan (Cdp.edu.au: December 2009)
Features and Essays - The New York Times: 2009 The Year in Pictures (NYT: December 2009)
Features and Essays - MSNBC: Year in Pictures (msnbc: December 2009)
Features and Essays - James Whitlow Delano: A Thirsting Planet (NYT Lens showcase: December 2009)
Books – John Bartelstone: The Brooklyn Navy Yard (powerHouse Books: 2009) Hardcover, 12.25 x 9.75 inches, 112 pages, 91 duotone photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-511-7
Awards – The POYi 67th Annual competition open for entries : Deadline January 15, 2010
Awards - The NPPA’s Best in Photojournalism Contest : Call for Entries : Deadline January 29, 2010
Articles - Paul Lowe: Why Study Photography (BJP: December 2009)
Vimeo - Lauren Greenfield
Tuesday 22 December
Awards - SocialDocumentary.net Contest winners (PDN Pulse: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Cristian Movila: Romania, Still Beneath A Cloud (NYT Lens: December 2009)
Books - Alec Soth’s Top 10 Photobooks of 2009 (LBM blog: December 2009)
Monday 21 December
Interviews – Jason Eskenazi (audio) (Studio360.org: December 2009)
Interviews - Rena Effendi (audio) (BBC World Service: December 2009)
Books – Little Brown Mushroom’s Photobook and Magazine Links
Twitter - Little Brown Mushroom Books
Photographers - Andrew Cutraro : website
Sunday 20 December
Features and Essays - Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer: Portraits from the Hot Zone (Vanity Fair: December 2009) The human cost of the climatic chaos
Features and Essays - Ikuru Kuwajima: Crimean Cossack Cadet Corps (MJR Showcase: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Benedicte Kurzen: A Holiday Reflects a Racial Divide (NYT: December 2009) South Africa
Features and Essays – St. Petersburg Times photographers’ favorite images of 2009) (St. Petersburg Times: December 2009)
Photographers - James Clark : website
Saturday 19 December
Features and Essays – Francesco Zizola: A Paradise in Peril: The Maldives (NOOR: 2009)
Photographers - Frederic Lezmi : website
(multi)Media – VU Mag : issue 4 now available (by Agence Vu)
Features and Essays - James Clark: Downturn (Foto8: December 2009)
Tutorials - MFA Application Portfolio Editing (A Photo Student blog: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Amanda Rivkin: Year in Pictures 2009 (Photographer’s Photoshelter archive: December 2009)
Friday 18 December
Features and Essays - Mitch Epstein: Power Shots (Eye Magazine blog: December 2009)
Awards – Unicef Photo of the Year 2009 (Unicef: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Todd Heisler: Maurice Decaul – The Iraq War Veteran (NYT: December 2009) One in 8 Million series audio slideshow
Features and Essays - Larry Sultan: Homeland (American Suburb X: 2009) N.B. The images are not documentary photographs
Features and Essays – Tomas van Hoytryve: 2009 The Year in Pictures (Photographer’s website: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Frederic Lezmi: West Into East (NYT Lens showcase: December 2009)
Thursday 17 December
Features and Essays – Dan Winters: 2009 Person of the Year: Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke (TIME: December 2009) Inside the World of Ben Bernanke (TIME: December 2009)
Exhibitions – BBC World Service: Magnum gallery in Paris (BBC: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Cristina Garcia Rodero: Between Heaven and Earth (multimedia) (Magnum in Motion: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Boston Globe Big Picture: 2009 in Pictures (part 3 of 3) (Big Picture blog: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Song Chao: Portraits of Chinese Workers (TIME: December 2009) LED factory in Shenzhen
Features and Essays – Gillian Laub: Nancy Pelosi (TIME: December 2009)
Features and Essays – TIME : General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan (TIME: December 2009)
Features and Essays / Interviews and Talks – Tim Hetherington on his Liberia project (BBC: 2009)
Wednesday 16 December
Books – A Photo Student: 14 Photobooks I Have or Want (APS blog: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Boston Globe Big Picture: 2009 in Pictures (part 2 of 3) (Big Picture blog: December 2009)
Interviews and Talks – PDN: Inside The Celebrity Portrait (PDN: December 2009) “Veteran celebrity portrait photographers talk about what they did to get create a great image when Plan A broke down”
Features and Essays - Stefano de Luigi: Somaliland (VII Network: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Eric Bouvet: French OMLT in Afghanistan (VII Network: December 2009) French Operational Mentor and Liaison Team in Afghanistan
(multi)Media – Foam Magazine issue 21 out now
Photographers – Richard Mosse : website
Photographers – Massimo Vitali : website
Photographers - Nelli Palomäki : website
Photographers - Jussi Puikkonen : website
Photographers – Mads Nissen : website
Twitter- Agence VU
Twitter - American Suburb X
Interviews - Christopher Anderson on Capitolio (video 2 1/2 minutes) (American University, D.C. : 2009)
Tuesday 15 December
Features and Essays - Boston Globe Big Picture: 2009 in Pictures (part 1 of 3) (Big Picture blog: December 2009)
Blogs – Little Brown Mushroom blog
Photographers - Carrie Elizabeth Thompson : website
Awards – Leica is calling for entries for the prestigious Oskar Barnack Awards (BJP: December 2009)
Awards - Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards 2010 now calling for entries : Deadline January 15, 2010
Tutorials – Christopher Morris et al : Experimenting with the 5d mkII (Lightstalkers thread: December 2009)
(multi)Media - These Americans
Agencies – VII Multimedia
Services – Mr Site : they make websites
Monday 14 December
NEWS - Larry Sultan, California Photographer Dies at 63 (NYT: December 14, 2009) Larry Sultan dies at 63 (PDN Pulse)
Articles – History of Photography (Time line, photos, audio) (National Geographic: 2009)
Features and Essays - Marc Wattrelot: Divided Desert: Balochistan Province (Foto8: December 2009) Pakistan
Photographers - Marc Wattrelot : website
Sunday 13 December
Features and Essays – Jehad Nga: South Sudan at a Crossroads (audio slideshow) ( NYT: December 2009)
Videos – Christopher Morris: Obama’s War (3:41) (Vimeo video: December 2009) Short film of stills from presidential address at West Point miltary academy
Friday 11 December
Features and Essays - TIME: The Year in Pictures 2009 (TIME: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Callie Shell: Barack Obama’s First Year in the White House (TIME: December 2009) “A TIME photographer shares her thoughts about what it is like to photograph the President of the United States”
Features and Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Obama Receives Nobel Peace Prize (VII: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Paolo Woods: Asian Crossroads in Africa (NYT Lens Showcase: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Todd Heisler: Lynn True – The Sports Fan (audio slideshow) (NYT: December 2009)
Thursday 10 December
Features and Essays - Moises Saman: A Conflicted Mission in Congo (NYT: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Charlie Mahoney: A Troubled Paradise (multimedia) (Bombayflightacademy: December 2009) Maldives
Wednesday 9 December
Interviews – Richard Mosse (Whitehot Magazine: December 2009)
Services – Lens Culture Store
Videos – Robbie Cooper: Watching People Watch Porn (18 minutes) (1854 blog: November 2009) “Last year, photographer Robbie Cooper made waves by filming and photographing kids playing video games, catching moments of joy, exhilaration and despair. Now, he’s capturing similar sentiments from men and women watching porn. The project, commissioned by Wallpaper*, ‘throws up any number of questions about voyeurism and exhibitionism and makes clear the incredible nakedness of the solo sex act,’ says the magazine.”
Features and Essays – Marilyn Silverstone: The East Was Tugging At My Soul (Magnum in Motion: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Jeff Mermelstein: Heads Up (NYT Lens Showcase: December 2009) Related exhibition
Books – Jeff Mermelstein: Twirl / Run (powerHouse Books) Hardcover, 8.5 x 12.25 inches, 88 pages, 236 four-color photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-518-6
Galleries - Russian Tearoom (Paris)
Tuesday 8 December
Features and Essays - Ragnar Axelsson: Black and Very White (NYT Lens Showcase: December 2009)
Photographers - Ragnar Axelsson : website
Agencies – INSTITUTE for Artist Management website now live / Related article on BJP
Blogs - 22 great photography blogs according to Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Features and Essays – Sean Gallagher: Shifting Sands (NYT Lens Showcase: December 2009) China
Exhibitions and Talks- 28Stories : LCC MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography degree show : Elephant and Castle : private view Wednesday 9th Dec, 6pm – 10pm from 6pm in the Main Lecture Theater: David Campbell, Lucy Davies, Ed Kashi and Simon Norfolk in conversation on “The New Ecology of Photojournalism“ Followed by drinks reception at 7pm
Talks – Rena Effendi on her Pipe Dreams book at the Host gallery : London : 12 January 2010
Talks - Lauren Greenfield : PhotoNOLA : New Orleans : 11 December
Sunday 6 December
Features and Essays – Seamus Murphy: Providence (VII Network: December 2009) “Lake Providence, a small, mostly African-American town in Louisiana.”
Features and Essays – Benjamin Lowy: Afghan High (VII Network: December 2009)
Interviews - Joop Swart Masterclass participants interviews (World Press Photo: December 2009)
Saturday 5 December
Features and Essays – Stephen Alvarez: Shining Light (NYT Lens showcase: December 2009)
Photographers – Stephen Alvarez : website
Interviews - Ryan C. Henriksen : College Photographer of the Year 2009 (NPPA Visual Student: December 2009)
Photographers - Ryan C. Henriksen : website : blog
Friday 4 December
Articles - Max Houghton: How a Nation Controls its Image: Georgia on My Mind (Foto8: December 2009) Thoughts on Magnum’s Georgian Spring project
Talks - Three Photographers discuss gangs and youth in London: Shooting Kids (audio) (Foto8: December 2009)
Interviews - Jonathan Klein : Man behind Getty (thejc.com: December 2009)
Thursday 3 December
Features and Essays - Christopher Morris: Obama’s West Point Speech: The View from the Stage (TIME: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Lynsey Addario: Mumbai- One Year Later (VII Network: December 2009)
Features and Essays -Alex Masi: Bhopal 25 Years Later (TIME: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Alvaro Ybarra Zavala: Gun Men of the Bolivarian Revolution (Reportage by Getty Images: December 2009)
Wednesday 2 December
Features and Essays - Moises Saman: Afghanistan in Free Fall (NYT Lens: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Ashley Gilbertson: Dress Rehearsal (VII Network: December 2009) “Inside Central Louisiana’s Fort Polk military base, 100,000 acres of snake-infested pine forest is designated as a training area, known as “The Box”, where, each month, about 5,000 soldiers readying for tours in Afghanistan or Iraq, are trained in a full dress rehearsal for war.”
Features and Essays - Scott Olson: Life in the Afghan National Army (TIME: December 2009)
Features and Essays - Gilles Sabrie : The Cultural Demolition of Kashgar, China (TIME: December 2009) Ancient Silk Road city is threatened by modernization
Grants - National Media Museum (UK) bursary recipients (BJP: December 2009)
Tuesday 1 December
Books - Zed Nelson: Love Me (Contrasto, distributed by Thames & Hudson 2009) Love Me explores the insidious power of the global beauty industry and our collective insecurity, vanity and fear of ageing. Zed Nelson interview in the Guardian (from May 2009)
Features and Essays – Lauren Greenfield: Dubai’s Improbable Tale (NYT Lens Showcase: November 2009)
Articles – Matt Eich: Attending The Joop Swart Masterclass (NPPA Visual Student: November 2009)
Tutorials - A Photo Student: Movies About Photography (APS blog: November 2009)
Articles - WTJ: Institute for Artist Management (WTJ blog: November 2009)
Books - Institute for Artist Management Store
Features and Essays - Jason Andrew: The Twilight Country: The Anonymous Republic of Abkhazia (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009)
Monday 30 November
Features and Essays - Platon: Portraits of Power (New Yorker: December 7, 2009 issue) Interactive portfolio of portraits of world leaders,with audio commentary
Features and Essays - Paolo Woods: Iran, Beyond Stereotypes (NYT Lens Showcase: November 2009)
Photographers - Murray Ballard : website
Photographers – Pierrick Mouton : website
Awards - Guardian Student Photographer of the Year 2009 :Stewart Capper, Blackpool and Fylde College | Runner-up: Mikko Takkunen, Swansea Metropolitan University
Wednesday 25 November
Features and Essays – Alec Soth: Georgian Spring (Magnum in Motion: November 2009)
Photographers Excellent! Laura Pannack : website : blog
Interviews - Balazs Gardi (Daily Telegraph: November 2009)
Tuesday 24 November
Features and Essays – Ben Lowy: China Railroad (VII Network: November 2009) China’s $300 billion high-speed train system
Features and Essays – Marcus Bleasdale: Congolese Orchestra (VII: November 2009) The “Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste”
Features and Essays – Seamus Murphy: ANA (VII Network: November 2009) The Afghan National Army
Books – I just bought Christopher Anderson’s Capitolio to my girlfriend for her birthday. The book looks amazing. Some reviews: Conscientious / 5b4 (see the comment thread for comments by Anderson on the review)
(multi)Media – Foto8 has a new look
Monday 23 November
Features and Essays – Christopher Payne: Emptied, but Still Secret (NYT Lens Showcase: November 2009) “A six-year project of the haunted world of abandoned state mental hospitals.”
Books - Stanley Greene: Black Passport (Schilt Publishing: 2009)
Interviews – Tod Papageorge (Foto8: November 2009)
Sunday 22 November
Interviews - Christopher Anderson (Conscientious: October 2009)
Books - Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi (Aperture)
Features and Essays – Tyler Hicks: While Thousands Gather (NYT Lens: November 2009)
Saturday 21 November
Interviews - Simon Roberts (Online Photographer: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Mark Power: Georgian Spring (Magnum in Motion: November 2009)
Photographers - Michael Rubenstein : website
Interviews – Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb (liveBooks Resolve blog: November 2009)
Friday 20 November
Interviews and Talks – Roger Ballen (Audio slideshow 2:56) (NYT Lens Showcase: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Ashley Gilbertson: An Army Town Copes with PTSD (TIME: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Nina Berman: Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex (TIME: November 2009)
(multi)Media – Daily Telegraph : Telephoto : “Focusing on the best in art and documentary photography”
Photographers – Zed Nelson : website
Interviews and Talks - Jason Eskenazi (video 6:23) (Habitus Magazine: November 2009)
Thursday 19 November
Books - Marcus Bleasdale: The Rape of a Nation (Schilt Publishing 2009)
Features and Essays - 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass : Touch (World Press Photo: November 2009)
Articles - David Campbell : Revolutions in the Media Economy (David Campbell blog: September 2009)
Features and Essays – Julian Cardona: The Fall of Mexico : Juarez Drug Wars (audio slideshow 3:12) (The Atlantic: December 2009 issue)
Awards – 2010 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights and Photography : Deadline December 1, 2009
Features and Essays - Ziyah Gafic: Bosnia: Generation Zero (VII Network: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Stephan Gladieu: Real Dolls and iDollators (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009)
Wednesday 18 November
Videos - Christopher Morris: Obama’s Burden (Dispatches: November 2009)
Features and Essays – John Moore: Guantanamo’s Last Days (TIME: November 2009)
Tutorials - 26 Important photo essays (A Photo Student blog: November 2009)
Awards – The prestigious $20,000-worth Lange-Taylor documentary photography award is now calling for entries : Deadline January 31, 2010
Twitter – A Photo Student
Photographers – Jared Moossy : website
Awards – Sony World Photography Awards : Deadline January 1, 2010
Photographers – Cyril Bitton : website
Photographers - Marco Vernaschi : website
Tuesday 17 November
Articles – Guardian: Why conceptual photography is having a prized moment (Guardian: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Veronique de Viguerie: Afghan Policewomen (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Andrew Hetherington: A Room With a View (audio slideshow) (WTJ Blog: November 2009)
Tutorials - How to Color Correct Footage From Your Canon 5D or 7D With After Effects (video 19:09) (Grayscalegorilla: November 2009)
(multi)Media – Gaia Photos
Features and Essays – Q. Sakamaki: USA, Detroit: Once an Icon of American Prosperity (Gaia Photos: November 2009)
Photographers - Alex Welsh : website
Agencies and Collectives – Report Digital (UK)
Photographers – Ryan Gauvin : website
Awards - 64th College Photographer of the Year (USA) Competition Announces Winners
Monday 16 November
Grants – Getty Grants : from PDN Pulse: “ Getty Images will award all five of its $20,000 Grants for Editorial Photography at once next year, instead of breaking the announcements up over two rounds. This means there’s now one deadline: Circle May 1 on your 2010 calendars.
Getty is also continuing its new Grants for Good program, which awards two grants of $15,000 each. Beginning next year, photographers must have the support of a creative agency in order to be considered for the Grants for Good.” Getty press release on PDN Pulse
Agencies - Institute for Artist Management : blog : Twitter
Interviews and Talks - Roger Ballen (video 70 minutes) (WTJ blog: November 2009)
Interviews - Gerhard Steidl (Conscientious: November 2009)
Articles / Tutorials – Daniel Milnor: The Portfolio Review (Smogranch blog: November 2009)
Photographers – Daniel Milnor : website
Sunday 15 November
Talks - Edward Burtynsky on manufactured landscapes (video 34 minutes) (Ted Talks: 2005)
Features and Essays - Lu Guang: Pollution in China (China Hush: October 2009) “October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Interviews – Lu Guang (China Hush: November 2009) The winner of W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
(multi)Media – Denver Post : In focus Photo Galleries
Blogs – Denver Post : Captured
News – Newsweek’s Top Photo Editor Leaving (PDN: November 2009)
Articles - Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins enters the private world of carers and those they care for (Guardian: November 2009)
Articles - Lisa Wiseman’s ‘The New Polaroid’ (liveBooks Resolve blog: November 2009)
Saturday 14 November
Talks - Edward Burtynsky on his Oil project (Ted Talks: November 2009) video 3:40 “In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine — and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.”
Features and Essays – Ziyah Gafic: Illiteracy in Pakistan (VII Network: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Tivadar Domaniczky: Dreams Into Reality (VII Network: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Stefano de Luigi: Drought in Kenya (VII Network: November 2009)
Articles - BJP : Stefano di Sturco portrays religious strife to poignant effect (BJP: November 2009)
Friday 13 November
Features and Essays – Todd Heisler: William A. Thomas – The Regular (NYT: November 2009) One in 8 Million series (audio slideshow 2:46)
Photographers – Gillian Laub : website
Twitter – Redux Pictures
Features and Essays - Michael Wolf: A Room of Everyone’s Own (NYT Lens: November 2009)
Thursday 12 November
must Interviews – Eugene Richards (British Journal of Photography: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Kosuke Okahara: A Long Way to Paradise (Newsweek Japan: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Martin Roemers: The Cold Thaw (Newsweek Japan: 2009)
Event - Chris Anderson talks about his book Capitolio Tue 24 Nov 2009, 7pm in HOST gallery in London , £8
Articles – David Alan Harvey and Burn Magazine featured on Lens blog (NYT: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Erin Trieb: Inside the Apartment of Nidal Malik Hasan (TIME: November 2009) A glimpse into the home of the Fort Hood gunman
Features and Essays – Michael Stravato: With No Job, A Family Struggles (audio slide show 3:15) (NYT: November 2009)
Interviews – Lou Reed : The photographer (The Independent: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Amanda Rivkin: DC Sniper Execution (Photographer’s Photoshelter archive: November 2009)
Collectives – Luceo Images have a new website
Wednesday 11 November
Features and Essays – Craig F. Walker : The making of an American soldier (Guardian: November 2009) “When Ian Fisher signed up for the US army aged 18 at the height of the Iraq war in 2007, photographer Craig F Walker began documenting his journey from boy to soldier. The resulting album tells a powerful story of growing up at war”
Exhibitions - Consequences by NOOR

Obituary – Evelyn Hofer, Subtle Photographer of People and Places, Dies at 87 (NYT: November 10, 2009) Slideshow on NYT Lens blog
(multi)Media - Daily Telegraph (UK) : Picture galleries
Tutorials – How to get meetings with magazines (Too Much Chocolate blog: October 2009)
Tuesday 10 November
Features and Essays – Anthony Suau: Twenty Years Later (NYT: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Patricia Lay-Dorsey: Falling Into Place (NYT Lens Showcase: November 2009) Intimate self-portraits reveal a woman living life as if it were a work of art.
Monday 9 November
Videos – Tomas van Houtryve: Twenty-First Century Communists (Vimeo by Panos Pictures: 2009)
Agencies and Collectives – Black Archives
Videos – Anthony Suau on the Fall of Berlin Wall (TIME: November 2009)
(multi)Media – The Digital Journalist November 2009 issue now available online

Books – Anders Peterson and JH Engstrom: From Back Home (Max Ström 2009) Book review / slide show on Lens Culture
Photographers – JH Engstrom : website
Events - Photojournalism Today @ Museum of the City of New York : Tue Dec 15 6:30 PM : Kathy Ryan in discussion with Lynsey Addario and Damon Winter.
Features and Essays – Jessica Dimmock: Coler Hospital (VII Network: November 2009) Coler Hospital in NYC, once known as the Hospital for the Incurables.
Sunday 8 November
Videos - Martin Parr talks about Parrworld (Guardian: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Yuri Kozyrev: Afghanistan Drugs (NOOR: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Pep Bonet: Motorhead (NOOR: November 2009)
Photographers – Walter Astrada : website
Interviews - Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom (BJP: September 2009)
(multi)Media - Afrimages Online
Features and Essays – Gideon Mendel : Kindgmead Eyes (Project website: November 2009)
Saturday 7 November
Videos - Christopher Morris: The New Leader (Dispatches: November 2009)
Awards - Announcing the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner and Runners-Up (Aperture: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Edward Burtynsky: Oil (Foreign Policy: October 2009)
Friday 6 November
Features and Essays - Jonas Bendiksen: Planet Slum (Foreign Policy: November 2009) “Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. His remarkable panoramic images take us inside slum families’ lives, revealing the profound human impulse to fashion not only shelter but a home.”
Features and Essays – Todd Heisler: Maggie Nesciur – The Walker (NYT: November 2009) One in 8 Million series
Articles - Aline Smithson: Photographing Family (Too Much Chocolate: October 2009)
Agencies – NOOR Images November 2009 Newsletter
Features and Essays - Baptiste Giroudon: Portraits of Democracy (Foto8: November 2009)
Photographers - Baptiste Giroudon : website
Thursday 5 November
Features and Essays – Thomas Hoepker: Pictures From a Vanishing Country (multimedia) (Magnum in Motion: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Callie Shell: Backstage with Hillary Clinton (TIME: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Stephan Gladieu: The Women of Standing Rock (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009) Sioux women in North/South Dakota
Wednesday 4 November
Interviews – Damon Winter (Too Much Chocolate blog: November 2009)
Interviews – Martin Parr (BJP: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Dina Kantor: Finnish and Jewish ( audio slide show) (Forward: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Balazs Gardi: Facing Water Crisis – Rio de Janeiro (VII Network: November 2009)
Interviews / Features and Essays - Peter van Agtmael: ‘2nd Tour, I Hope I Don’t Die’ (NYT Lens: November 2009)
Tuesday 3 November
Books - The New York Review of Books: Review of two new books on Dorothea Lange
Features and Essays - Jim Naughten: Re-Enactors Take On the World Wars (TIME: November 2009) Photographer Jim Naughten immortalizes the men and women who gather annually to transform themselves into characters from the First and Second World Wars.
Events - Lauren Greenfield talk : 7pm : November 20 : @ ACP Austin, Texas
Monday 2 November
Features and Essays - Medith Kohut: A Pilgrimage to Sorte Mountain (NYT: November 2009) Venezuela
Photographers - Meredith Kohut : website : blog
Features and Essays - Alvaro Ybarra Zavala: Plan Oxigeno in Colombia (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009)
Twitter - VII Photo
Photographers - Justin Partyka : website
Blogs - Mercury News
Sunday 1 November
Features and Essays - Erin Trieb: Behind The Frontlines (MSNBC: October 2009) Afghanistan
Features and Essays – James Cheng: The Faces of Foreclosure (MSNBC: October 2009)












































