Thursday 20 October 2011
Features and Essays
Coming up in National Geographic Magazine’s November issue…
Chuffed to see that Erika Larsen’s Sami series has made it to NatGeo..Looking forward to seeing it in print….
Erika Larsen: Sami Reindeer Herders (NGM)
Pascal Maitre,Joel Sartore, and Carsten Peter: Rift in Paradise—Africa’s Albertine Rift (NGM)
I’m sure you’ll remember this too..
Timothy Archibald: Echolilia (NGM)
Two series by Stephanie Sinclair…This one is terrific…
Stephanie Sinclair: Hillary’s Angels (VII) Women working as secretary of state’s security detail
Stephanie Sinclair: Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan chess prodigy (VII Magazine)
Libya…
New Magnum in Motion piece by Moises Saman on Libya’s last days Gaddafi’s rule…
Moises Saman: Theater of War (Magnum in Motion)
Another Magnum photographer’s, Alex Majoli’s series in Newsweek….
Alex Majoli: Libyans in a Strange Land (Newsweek)
Mauricio Lima for the New York Times:
Mauricio Lima: In Surt, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (NYT Lens) Libya
Elsewhere in Middle East…
Alfredo D’Amato: Early Days of Spring (Panos) Tunisia
Portraits of Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zuccotti Park by Martin Schoeller in New Yorker and Sasha Bezzubov in TIME …
Bezzubov’s series on Lightbox opens with a crowd shot that was printed double spread in the magazine… See below how that and the portraits were used in print…
Sasha Bezzubov: Taking It to the Streets (Lightbox)
I haven’t seen how Schoeller’s portraits were used in print…
Martin Schoeller: Portraits From Occupy Wall Street (New Yorker)
To other things…
Global warming and rising sea level…
Amelia Holowaty Krales: Tuvalu, an Island in Danger (NYT Lens) Amelia Holowaty Krales’s website
Jocelyn Carlin: Global Warming’s Front Line (Panos)
Robin Hammond: Tuvalu Sunset (Panos)
James Whitlow Delano: The True Price, With a Hidden Cost (NYT Lens)
Tomas van Houtryve: Borderline: Bordeline: In the Shadow of North Korea (Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund)
Three Lynsey Addario series..This first one’s from the States…and her road trip with Joe Klein…
Lynsey Addario: Return to the American Road (Lightbox)
Lynsey Addario: Abandoning a Controversial Tradition (NYT) Genital cutting, Senegal
Lynsey Addario: Iraq Investors (VII)
Donald Weber: Quniqjuk, Qunbuq, Quabaa (VII)
John Vink: Cambodia 2011 Floods (Magnum)
New work from some of the Cesuralab photographers…
Luca Santese, Gabriele Micalizzi: Roma Violenta (Cesuralab)
Andy Rocchelli: Anzhi Makhachkala (Cesuralab) Makhachkala is the capital of Daghestan
Chien-Chi Chang: Burma: Land of Shadows (Magnum)
Sebastien Liste: Urban Quilombo (burn)
Kyoko Hamada: Letter to Fukushima (New Yorker)
Carolyn Drake: Among the Animals in Turkey (New Yorker)
Doug Richard: American Suburb (project website)
Boogie: The View From Kingston, Jamaica (AnnalsofAmericus)
Lizzie Sadin: Young and Imprisoned (NYT Lens) Sadin’s website
Ashley Gilbertson: MREs (Slate) includes a short interview with Gilbertson
Ryan Pfluger: Milwaukee’s Alliance School, the only gay-friendly charter school in the U.S. (Lightbox)
Richard Misrach: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Photos (Lightbox)
Sophie Gerrard: Protectors of Sight (BBC)
Samuel Hauenstein Swan: Somalis seek refuge in Ethiopian camps (Guardian)
Samuel: Hauenstein Swan: Tackling life-threatening child malnutrition in Chad (Guardian)
Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours (Lightbox)
Brent Stirton: The Malapa Fossils (Reportage)
Peter Dench: Dench’s England (NYT Lens)
Jules Allen: The Sweet Science of Body and Soul (NYT Lens) Allen’s website
Spike Johnson: Dale Farm Eviction (Foto8) Johnson’s archive
Kieran Doherty: Royal Wootton Bassett repatriations (Guardian)
Articles
Pretty gruesome images today in the videos showing Gaddafi captured and eventually killed…New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson comments…
C.I.A. agent Felix Rodriguez, left, with Che Guevara, center, before Guevara was executed in Bolivia, in 1967. Photograph: AP Photo/Courtesy of Felix Rodriguez.
Jon Lee Anderson: Picturing the Dead (New Yorker)
The day that marked Colonel Gaddafi’s death, marked also 6 months from the death of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros…Mike Kamber wrote about his friend Hetherington in New York Times Lens blog…
photo: Tim Hetherington
Mike Kamber: A Show of Respect for a Fallen Friend Tim Hetherington (NYT Lens)
C.J. Chivers: On the Day Qaddafi Dies, News – And Art – from Tim. (Journalist’s website)
Hadn’t seen this Hetherington video before…
Tim Hetherington: His Life and His Work (Vimeo)
BJP: Magnum Photos addresses Libyan Secret Service photo archive controversy | David Campbell’s comment
Source magazine: Collecting Photographs, Copyrights and Cash
An invitation to all monochrome photographers (BJP) “Emerging black-and-white photographers are invited to submit their work to Mono, a hardback photobook which will also include Roger Ballen, Anders Peterson and Oliver Pin Fat.”
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin: Photojournalism and the war of images (Guardian)
Silly…Guardian writes about Chloe Dewe Mathews’ BJP award winning Caspia work and then crops all four of her photos shown…The photos are originally 6×7…I wonder if they’d ever do the same to a painter?
Guardian: Lives bathed in oil: how Chloe Dewe Mathews captured the Caspian coast (Guardian) “In her award-winning Caspian series, the young British photographer explores the healthy and unhealthy relationship between oil and people in a spa town in Azerbaijan”
AP Photographer Ed Reinke Dies After Assignment Injury (PDN)
NYT: Barry Feinstein, Dies at 80
PDN: Custom Tools of the Trade
LA Times: Movie review: ‘Hell and Back Again’ | Guardian review
NPPA Visual Student: Insights and Experiences from the 2011 Eddie Adams Workshop
BJP’s news editors Olivier Laurent takes a look back at this year’s Visa…
BJP: The Optimists – A look back at this year’s Visa Pour l’Image festival
Photoshelter: Your Year-end Photography Business Plan
Guardian: Featured Photojournalist: Paul Bronstein
Guardian: Photographer Shahidul Alam’s best shot
Ai Weiwei’s Photo Shoot from China (NYT)
Brooks Kraft’s frames on Lightbox prove you don’t need to use a filter app to make a good iPhone photo…Refreshing…
Brooks Kraft: iPhone4 S frames (Lightbox)
Verve: Tessa Bunney
Verve: Rony Zakaria
multiMedia
Once Magazine for iPad : issue 1 available on iTunes Store
Blogs
The Map is Not the Territory : Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou are exploring America
Awards, Grants, Funds, and Competitions
The Chris Hondros Fund has launched (BJP)
The Chris Hondros Fund website
Krisanne Johnson Awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography (Time Lightbox)
W. Eugene Smith Grant Awarded to Krisanne Johnson (NYT Lens)
Hondros, Hetherington Prizes Awarded at Eddie Adams Workshop (PDN)
Spanish photographer Daniel Beltrá has won this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year award (BJP)
BJP: Three £3000 commissions up for grabs from Side Gallery
Interviews
photo in tear sheet: Shawn Baldwin
Errol Morris on Photography: Believing Is Seeing (Lightbox)
Henry Rollins (Featureshoot) “interview with Henry Rollins about his new photo book, ‘Occupants’”
Spencer Murphy (SIP)
Don McCullin (BBC Radio)
Old Nachtwey interview from 2002…
James Nachtwey (Apple Canada: 2002)
Yaakov Israel : CPC 2011 Winner (Conscientious)
Exhibitions and Events
Bryan Denton’s Libya exhibition opened on the same day as Gaddafi got killed… Fitting…
Revolution Photographs from Libya 2011 by Bryan Denton : October 20, 2011 – November 19, 2011 : Gulf + Western Gallery 721 Broadway, at Waverly – Ground Floor New York, NY 10003
Tim Hetherington – Visions : October 22, 2011 till December 02, 2011 United States New York Venue details Bronx Documentary Center 614 Courtlandt Ave (at 151st) Bronx, New York 10451 United States http://www.bronxdoc.org info@bronxdoc.org
Need help pricing and editioning your work?
The Social : Print Sales: Editioning, pricing, printing, and more : Monday 24 October
Foto8 : Making it Happen Seminar : 26 November 2011 : London
Agencies
photo: Paolo Woods
Institute for Artist Management adds three photographers (BJP)
Books
Magnum Photographers: Women Changing India
Equipment
Canon 1D X (CPN)
Klynt : “the interactive editing & publishing application dedicated to creative storytellers.”
Photographers
To finish off…. iPhone 4S / Canon 5d MKII Side by Side Comparison