Wednesday 30 June 2010
Awards – The Press Photographer’s Year 2010 (UK) Winners
Features and Essays – NYT: A Year At War (NYT: June 2010) “Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey”
Features and Essays – Carl de Keyzer: A Postcard from Congo (New Yorker Photo Booth: June 2010)
Features and Essays – Boston Globe: Afghanistan June 2010 (Boston Globe: June 2010)
Looks like Ed Ou shot some video too….
Features and Essays – Ed Ou: Child Soldiers (video) (NYT: June 2010) Somalia
Features and Essays – Steve Labadessa: Profiles of ‘Open Carry’ Gun-Law Advocates (TIME: June 2010)
Photographers – Steve Labadessa : website
Happy birthday DRC!
Features and Essays – Stephan Vanfleteren: The DR Congo at 50 (BBC: June 2010)
Interviews – Ron Haviv (Starved for Attention blog: June 2010)
Twitter – Ron Haviv
Blogs – Publisher swipes Alec Soth’s concept for a book cover (Little Brown Mushroom: June 2010)
Major Panasonic PR fail?
Articles – Panasonic uses Canon to shoot its ad (BJP: June 2010) Same from PDN | The making of the Panasonic Lumix G2 TV advertisement (YouTube)
Articles – Telegraph: Beauty of the broken (Telegraph: June 2010) Ruins of Detroit and A Landscape of Wales are two new photographic books which capture the terrible poetry of urban decay.
Articles – ImageRights adds free visual search, plans compensation recovery program (Rob Galbraith DPI: June 2010) ImageRights website
Blogs – Guardian Eyewitness: The poor and the dead (Guardian: June 2010) Philippines
Services – Cathy Robert (UK) : They supply portfolios
Services – Plastic Sandwich (UK) : They supply portfolios
Agencies and Collectives – Parallelozero will select portfolios for its Nominees Photographers new branch : The selected photojournalists will obtain a one-year contract with Parallelozero. During this period, they will be fully syndicated by our agency and its partner agencies worldwide. After 12 months, Parallelozero will reserve the right to admit the candidates in its roster of official photographers. You can submit your candidature for the Nominees Photographers branch by writing to submission@parallelozero.com Attach portfolio, bio, website URL, publications and ongoing projets (if any).