Tuesday 29 November 2011
Features and Essays
Egypt, Cairo, Tahrir….
Moises Saman has been kicking ass with his Cairo work…NYT front page pics on several occasions during the last two weeks…This is the slideshow a lot of people were talking about over the weekend…
Moises Saman: Cairo Undone (NYT) Cairo Undone on Magnum site.
Saman hit the front page also today (November 29) with an image (to-me maybe not so obvious choice) seen below, which can be found online in the NYT’s Egypt Turmoil slideshow…featuring work by various photographers.
photo: Moises Saman
Below image ran on the front page of the International Herald Tribune last week….You can see it in black and white in this Saman’s tweet…The colour version is up on Magnum Photos site…
Moises Saman: Unrest in Cairo: Egypt’s Revolution Continues (Magnum)
Miguel Angel Sanchez: Egyptians (NYT Lens) Angel Sanchez’s website
Davide Monteleone: Egypt Waiting (VII)
Espen Rasmussen: Beyond Tahrir Square (Panos)
Guy Martin: The Egyptian Revolution (Panos)
Trevor Snapp: Revolution Round Two? (Global Post) Full edit on photographer’s archive
NB. See later in this post regarding the latest TIME cover on Egypt that ran on all markets except the US. Filed under Articles.
Tim Hetherington’s last images on Magnum Photos…
Credit: Tim Hetherington. LIBYA. Misurata. April 20, 2011. Tim’s last photograph.
Tim Hetherington: The Libya Negs (Magnum)
Occupy Wall Street…
Christopher Anderson: OWS (New York Magazine)
Noticed that Ashley Gilbertson’s OWS series shot in October had sadly disappeared from VII site, but the reason turned out to be that New Yorker had put him on assignment (here’s a pic of him working)…I’m sure the series will reappear on VII in the future, but for now we can enjoy an edit on Photo Booth…good news: it includes new frames, such as the below one, shot this month…
Ashley Gilbertson: Occupy Wall Street (Photo Booth)
Nina Berman: Occupy Wall Street (NOOR)
Yunghi Kim: Occupy: NYC March to DC (Photographer’s website)
Erica McDonald: Occupy Wall Street | OWS: Under the Blue Tarp (Photographer’s website)
Related to OWS issues I would say… Great series on American poverty by Joakim Eskildsen…
Joakim Eskildsen: Photographs of American Poverty (Lightbox)
From the other side of the American political spectrum…
Jason Andrew: Tea Party: Under the banners of American Flags (Reportage)
DRC and elections…
Finbarr O’Reilly: Deadly Election Violence in Congo (Reuters)
Jonathan Torgovnik: Rebuilding DRC (Reportage)
Pierre Gonnord: Relatos (Lightbox)
Liz Hingley: Under Gods (Lightbox)
Gillian Laub: Turkey Day (Lightbox)
Paul Fusco: DGI 29 (Magnum in Motion)
Alixandra Fazzina: The Flowers of Afghanistan: First Sea (Photographer’s archive)
Pep Bonet: Microcredit Peru (NOOR)
Chloe Dewe Mathews: Caspian (Foto8)
That time of the year again..Best of the year collections coming out….Reuters’ one has a nice twist, with photographers sharing background stories and even some EXIF data (which most of us pretend not to care about, but secretly love to know)…
photo: Goran Tomasevic
Reuters : Best Photos of the Year 2011
VII have their Best of the Year up as well..what they have done is all the photographers have selected between 7* (Bleasdale) and 27 (Haviv) of their favourite photos of the year (or ones from 2010 released in 2011)….Great stuff….Shame we can’t see either Kratochvil’s or Morris’ selections though as their ‘best of’ links just take us to their personal websites…. [* well, only 1 in Stanmeyer’s gallery, but must be some kind of mistake]
I do have another gripe also… Much prefer those little numerous, yet subtle watermarks used at viiphoto.com to the big single ones used right-bang-in-the-middle in all the photos in VII archive..Maybe it’s just that I’m so used to looking at photos at the main site, that I don’t even notice the watermarks anymore, whereas in the archive where I’m far less often, the big watermark appears more distracting…
This one by Joachim Ladefoged is amazing by the way… [changed the Addario photo as it has been posted on the blog before and this one I hadn’t even seen before] {
VII – Best of 2011: Highlights of a Year in News : VII photographers present their best images, shot or released in 2011
Fan of David Cameron or not,these Tom Stoddart photos in Reportage Tumblr are worth seeing.Cameron by Stoddart for Sunday Times Magazine….
Tom Stoddart: David Cameron (Reportage Tumblr)
Andrew McConnell’s Gaza surfing series on Newsweek…Bummed I still haven’t received the first issue of my annual subscription… Would have loved to have seen this in print…
Andrew McConnell: Surf’s Up in Gaza (Newsweek)
McConnell from Gaza also, but very different…NGO piece…
Andrew McConnell: Regenerating Gaza (Guardian)
Japan…
Giulio Di Sturco: Awash in Wrackage : Japan (PDNPhotoaDay)
Kishin Shinoyama: After the Storm: Post-Tsunami Japan (Lightbox)
Donald Weber: Life After Zero Hour (VII) Japan
Davide Monteleone: Dusha: Russian Soul (VII)
Stefano di Luigi: Hidden China (VII)
Massimo Berruti: Lashkars in Pakistan (Lightbox) The series in Le Monde
Luceo Images: Few and Far Between (NYT Lens)
Joao Pina: Tracing the Shadows of Operation Condor (NYT Lens)
Andew Testa: Mind the Masterpiece (Panos)
Kacper Kowalski: Winter Photos from the Skies Above Poland (NYT Lens)
Jared Moossy: Mourning in Mogadishu (Foreign Policy)
Sebastian Liste: Urban Quilombo (Reportage)
Teun Voeten: Narco Estado (Magnum Emergency Fund)
Nick Cobbing: The Solid Sea (Photographer’s website)
Harvey Wang: A World of Change on the Lower East Side (NYT)
Robb Hill: Rural Home Town (NYT Lens)
Somebody working under cover in Myanmar for the NYT…
name withheld: The Pace of Reform Accelerates in Myanmar (NYT)
Suzanne Opton: Soldier Down: Portraits (Lightbox)
Kirill Nikitenko: Russian Portraits of Defiance (Newsweek) Nikitenko’s website
Brian Van Der Brug: In Prison and Dying (LA Times Framework photo blog)
Lourdes Jeannette: Blood Ties (Lightbox)
Guillaume Herbaut: The Zone (Project website) Now in English
Guillermo Arias: Tijuana River City (zReportage)
Kate Holt: The Real Cost of War (zReportage)
Marc Lester: Living with Breast Cancer (Anchorage Daily News)
Natalie Naccache Mourad: Madaneh Marriages (photographer’s website)
Showcasing also…how should I say… some of the not so traditional, less gritty, less obvious, some even funny photojournalism and documentary photography subjects…New work by Annie Leibovitz…
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage (NYT)
Also…
Saw an edit of this feature run in Time magazine couple of weeks ago…Beautiful…Couple of my favourite frames from the magazine aren’t in this edit though. Surprised they have been left out…
Xavier Zimbardo: Reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theatre (Reportage) Behind the scenes video with Xavier Zimbardo in French
This year’s Taylor Wessing Portrait Photography Prize winner Jooney Woodward’s animal exhibitor photos in the Guardian
Jooney Woodward: Animal Exhibitors (Guardian)
Caged animals.
Asmita Parelkar: Not-So-Wild-Kingdom (NYT Lens)
Stuffed animals.
Klaus Pichler: Behind the Scenes Photos of Natural History (NYT Lens)
Poultry.
Oli Scarff: Winners at the Poultry Club’s 2011 national show (Guardian)
Interviews and Talks
David Douglas Duncan (Lightbox)
Seamus Murphy (Verve Photo)
David Alan Harvey (Develop photo Vimeo)
Steve McCurry’s One-Minute Masterclass #6 (Phaidon)
Giles Duley : Becoming the Story (Economist)
Jason Larkin (Frontline club)
Alissa Everett : Giving up finance for photojournalism (CNN)
Sebastian Liste pt.1 / pt.2 (Daylight Magazine)
Marco Grob : How I Got That Shot: The 3-Minute Portrait (PDN)
Annie Leibovitz and what looks like Fuji X100…
Annie Leibovitz (NPR)
Annie Leibovitz ♥’s Her iPhone Camera (PDN)
Jodi Bieber talks about the reaction to her World Press Photo winning photograph on The Strand (BBC)
Anastasia Taylor-Lind (The Broad’s Sheet)
Useful advice from former Save the Children picture editor Rachel Palmer…
Rachel Palmer : How to get a photography commission for an NGO (photographer’s/photo editor’s website)
Kate Peters (IdeasTap)
Eric White (MSNBC photo blog)
Lisa Pritchard : Ask an Agent 5 (LPA blog)
Liz Hingley : Turning point (NYT Lens)
BagNewsSalon webinar, “The Visual Politics of Occupy Wall Street.” : 4 December
Videos
BBC: The ‘genius’ of Tim Hetherington killed in war
Articles
Time magazine does it again….’dummying-up’ (I might have just made up that word) the US edition I mean… My mate Tim Fadek has the TIME cover this week with a terrific image from Cairo in all markets expect the US….
Peek inside…This is how Tim’s two other photos ran…
Comment…
Business Insider: These Time Magazine Covers Explain Why Americans Know Nothing About The World
PDN: Israel Apologizes to Lynsey Addario
Saw Lynsey Addario ( @lynseyaddario) tweet a link to this Marie Claire piece on female photojournalists…Featuring Addario herself, Agnes Dherbeys, Erin Trieb, Stephanie Sinclair, and Andrea Bruce
photo: Stephanie Sinclair
Marie Claire: Female Photojournalists | “Once thought of as too frail for the job, five award-winning women photojournalists share their most vivd memories from the field — and the images they will never forget.”
Related…
NYT: Arrests and Attacks on Women Covering Protests in Cairo
NYT: Software to Rate How Dratically Photos Are Retouched
PDN: Inside the Bestseller List: Top Photo Books of 2011
NYT: Shooting for Global Change (NYT Lens)
I was in Istanbul over the weekend, but sadly had no time to check out any of these exhibitions…
photo: Bruno Barbey
NYT: A Whirling Document of Turkish Culture
PDN: Cartier-Bresson Photo Sets Record at Christie’s Auction in Paris
Yahoo: Camera lost at sea returned with the help of social networking
TimeOut: Photography galleries in London
Dvafoto: Find Copyright Violations of Your Pictures With src-img Bookmarklet
A Photo Editor: Real World Estimates – Flat Rate Magazine Contracts
BJP: Editorial photographers hit by latest Getty Images cuts
BJP: Photographer Jean-Christian Bourcart wins the 2011 Prix Nadar for his book Camden
BJP: Celebrated printer Gene Nocon dies
Joerg Colberg: What Photographs Can and Cannot Do (Conscientious)
Guardian: Jodi Bieber’s Best Shot
Guardian: Featured Photojournalist Tim Wimborne
Photoshelter Guide: Selling Stock Photography
Foto8: Book review – Ben Lowy: Iraq Perspectives
Related..
A Photo Editor: This Week In Photography Books
Looking into some heavy duty camera ‘bags’… Saw Greg Funnell tweet this review he had done in 2008…
Greg Funnell: Gear Review : Think Tank Airport Security Vs Pelican Case 1510 (Photographer’s blog)
Verve Photo: Jake Price
Awards, Grants, and Competitions
photo: Jan Grarup
Leica Oskar Barnack Award will be accepting entries from 16 January
FotoEvidence Book Award open for submissions
Photo Lucida Critical Mass 2011 Winners
Crowd Funding
Emphas.is Crowdfunding photojournalism survey
Behind the smokescreen by Rocco Rorandelli (Emphas.is) featured on BJP
Grozny – Nine Cities by Kravets, Morina, Yushko (Emphas.is) project featured on NYT Lens in 2010
Agencies and Collectives
Statement Images submissions deadline extended
Jobs
Saw these on Twitter…
New Yorker : spring multimedia intern (students only) : Contact kristina_budelis[at]newyorker.com
Redux is in need of an intern in NYC office : Adobe Creative Suite skills is necessary: send an email to submissions[at]reduxpictures.com with Internship in the subject line
Intern for Phaidon.com . Email features@phaidon.com with your CV
Desk Space
Roof Unit : London
Photographers
Website relaunch…
Benjamin Lowy : December 2011 Promo
To finish off…
Very, very good Erroll Morris short… The Umbrella Man from NYT
