Wednesday 25 January 2012
Apologies for no updates in nearly three weeks…just been busy with own work… But here we go again. Loads to share…
Features and Essays
Brilliant…Full edit of Gene Smith’s classic ‘Country Doctor’ online for the first time on LIFE.com….
Eugene Smith: Country Doctor (Life.com)
Finally received the first issue of my annual National Geographic Magazine subscription..Bought annual deal in NatGeo’s Regent Street store in London in August…Found out in December my activation hadn’t gone through, and then told should start receiving issues from January….Got on my nerves…Five months wait… oh well… Glad to finally being able to enjoy print issues on regular basis…From the February 2012 issue….
Amy Toensing: Papua New Guinea’s Cave People (NGM)
Gerd Ludwig: Astana, Kazakhstan (NGM)
This week’s Time International cover story…Christopher Morris has been back to the White House…
Christopher Morris: Inside Barack Obama’s World (Lightbox)
Republican primaries…
Two series by Charles Ommanney for Newsweek…
Charles Ommanney: South Carolina Trail (Newsweek)
Charles Ommanney: The Granite State Weighs In (Newsweek)
Chris Morris from New Hampshire for TIME…
Christopher Morris: New Hampshire Primary (Lightbox)
Brooks Kraft: Running Romney (Photo Booth)
Mark Makela: How to Run for President (zReportage)
One year since the Egypt revolution…Ed Ou video and slideshow on NYT
Ed Ou and Ben Solomon: Reflections on an Unfinished Revolution (NYT) video
Ed Ou: Youth in Egypt (NYT Lens)
Ed Ou: The Ongoing Revolution (Photographer’s website)
Denix Dailleux: Egyptian Artists (Newsweek)
Nice series by Adam Dean…
Adam Dean: Kachin Come Under Siege in Myanmar (NYT)
Erika Larsen’s beautiful Sami work on NYT Lens…
Erika Larsen: Sami People (NYT Lens)
Alejandro Chaskielberg: Horn of Africa (BBC)
Eunice Adorno: The Flower Girls: Mennonites in Mexico (Lightbox)
Ed Kashi: Turkey (VII)
Nikos Economopoulos: India in Colour (Magnum)
Ron Haviv: The Devastating Costs of the Amazon Gold Rush (Smithsonian)
Glenna Gordon: Living with the Past in Liberia (Lightbox)
Greg Girard: Lifestyle on U.S. Military Bases (NYT Lens)
Rina Castelnuovo: In Israel, a Clash Between the Secular and Ultra-Orthodox (NYT)
Steve Shelton: Sudan’s Secession Crisis (zReportage)
Richard Tsong Taatarii: Baby Buddha (zReportage)
Mimi Chakarova: Sold for Sex in Eastern Europe (CNN Photo blog)
Luigi Baldelli: Afghanistan (Corriere.it)
Leon Borensztein: American Portraits (Lightbox)
Sean Gallagher: The Smog That Ate Beijing (Foreign Policy)
Louise Serpa: Sweetheart of the Rodeo (NYT Lens)
Brian Cassey: Hong Kong’s Poor Living in Cages (CNN Photo blog)
Leonard Freed: Behind New York City’s ‘Police Work’ (Lightbox)
Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting (Lightbox)
Giuliano Camarda: Jahalin Bedouins in East Jerusalem (Photographer’s website)
Åsa Sjöström: Turkana Draught (Moment Agency)
Ragnar Axelsson: Greenland (Polka)
Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures (Photo Booth)
Kalpesh Lathigra: From the Film Set of ‘Coriolanus’ (Photobooth)
Jessica Ingram: Following the Trail of Civil Rights (NYT Lens)
Joseph Szabo: Coming of Age in America (Lightbox)
Davide Monteleone: Red Thistle (VII)
NPR photographer David Gilkey has been discovering Russia by rail…
David Gilkey: Russia By Rail (NPR)
Larry Racioppo: New York Housing Pictures (NYT Lens)
Peter Mcdiarmid: Year in Pictures 2011 (Photographer’s Vimeo)
Kieran Dodds: The Scottish Highland Games (The Atlantic)
Lee Jeffries: Homeless (Guardian)
Interviews
Chris Johns, Editor, National Geographic Magazine (burn Magazine)
Patti Smith (BBC)
Steve McCurry on fall of Kodak (BBC)
Alejandro Chaskielberg (BBC)
Adam Dean (Digital Photo Pro)
Luca Sage (Sojournposse)
Guy Martin (BBC) Starts at around 17 mins.
Toni Greaves : Radical Love, The Promise (BJP)
Jason Larkin : Cairo Divided (BJP)
Joel Sartore (NPR)
Heidi Levine on working in Libya (laurenmwolfe.com)
Chris Floyd (Hungry Eye Mag Vimeo)
Maggie Steber (NPR)
Ron Haviv (TV4.se)
Jim Wilson (NYT Lens)
Umit Bektas, Reuters photographer , reflects on the essence of war (MSNBC)
Rineke Dijkstra (PDN)
Shelby Lee Adams : An Ode to Appalachia (PDN)
Christopher Manson (NYT Lens)
Errol Morris : ‘We’ve forgotten that photographs are connected to the physical world’ (Guardian)
Sebastian Liste (GUP Magazine)
John McDermott (PDN)
Antonio Faccilongo (KL Photoawards)
Sean Gallagher (Asiasociety.org)
Articles
photo: William Eggleston
Guardian: The Month in Photography |The Observer New Review’s monthly guide to the 20 best photographic exhibitions and books, featuring Pieter Hugo, Eve Arnold, William Eggleston, Don McCullin and Annie Leibovitz|
photo: Simon Roberts
FT: A New Beginning(FT Magazine) | “After the disasters of the past year, we asked photographers to look at the people and places putting themselves back together again in 2012” |Toshiki Senoue, Davide Monteleone, John Davies, Jim Dow, Antoine Doyen, Massimo Vitali, Simon Roberts, Laura Pannack, Michael Collins, and Marcus Bleasdale
NYT: Blame Photoshop, Not Diabetes, for This Amputation
Radu Sigheti: The Problem with Prizes (Reuters photo blog)
BBC News: Syria unrest: French journalist Gilles Jacquier killed
World Press Photo: Preparing for Judging
David Burnett: Talent Added: Photojournalism
Ed Kashi: 3 Qualities of a photojournalist
Little Brown Mushroom blog: On Marrying a Photographer
AP: AP opens full news bureau in North Korea
Guardian: Why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers
Guardian: Is photography the most influential medium for environmental awareness?
Guardian: Decisive moment? Smartphones steal focus from point-and-shoot cameras
Congratulations to Danfung Dennis for being nominated for an Oscar for Hell and Back Again…
Oscar.go.com: Documentary Feature Nominee: Hell and Back Again
Aidan Sullivan to Replace David Friend as World Press Photo Jury Chair (Reportage Tumblr)
Wayne Ford: The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs’ by Magnum Photographer Alex Webb
David Gonzalez: Life — and Kodak — Remembered (NYT Lens)
Ben Roberts: Exposure Don’t Buy You Shit! (Photographer’s blog)
Poynter: Washington Post raises eyebrows, questions with ‘composite’ photo on front page
NYT Lens: The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League
NYT Lens: William Gedney’s View of Myrtle Avenue
NYT Lens: Parting Glance: Eve Arnold
Sean O’Hagan writes on Eve Arnold’s touching photograph of a bar girl in Havana…
Guardian: The big picture: Bar Girl in a Brothel in the Red Light District, Havana, 1954
Guardian: Happy birthday, Firecracker: the site for female photographers | In an industry still dominated by men, Firecracker promotes and supports women working in photography
NYT: After an Arrest, Civil Rights Questions
CNN: CNN Digital Names Simon Barnett As Photography Director
Guardian: Leo Maguire’s Best Shot
BJP: Christopher Anderson signs with New York Magazine
BJP: AFP v. Morel: Both parties moving for summary judgment
BJP: Photographer Lauren Greenfield sued for defamation
BJP: How are the Tate, V&A and National Media Museum investing in photography?
BJP: London Underground apologises for DSLR ban blunder
photo: Chris Hondros
Foreign Policy: Photos that mattered in 2011
NYT Mag 6th floor blog: Entering Weegee’s World
DuckRabbit: Cameras, communication and the intimacy of a moment.
David Campbell: Thinking Images v.25: Iran as perpetual enemy
Miniature helicopter in new use…
NGM: Field Test: Serengeti Lions
Comments on crowdfunding…
Joerg Colberg: Crowdfunding is not a cash cow (Conscientious)
Pete Brook: The Etiquette of Crowdfunding (Prison Photography)
Verve: Birthe Piontek
Verve: Kevin Kunishi
Verve: Dimitri Stefanov
Verve: Tomasz Lazar
How to make a Magnum in Motion-style essay
7 Tips for HD Color Correction and DSLR Color Correction
multiMedia
photo: Joachim Ladefoged
Once Magazine Issue 4 is for sale in the App store
The cover story is by Joachim Ladefoged… If you don’t have an iPad and thus no access to Once Magazine, you can view Ladefoged’s terrific 2003 Newfoundland series on his agency VII’s website here.
British Journal of Photography – iPad App
Crowd funding
‘McCullin’ – Feature Documentary (indiegogo)
Exhibitions
The Last Days of Mubarak : Photos by Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett : Host Gallery : London : 9 February – 10 March 2012
Peter diCampo: Life Without Lights : 6 -12 February 2012 11am – 6pm at The Strand Gallery : London
Nobel Peace Center to present Hetherington, Addario exhibition
Awards, Grants, and Competitions
Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism
Renaissaince Photography Prize Calling for Entries
Useful site for grants and awards etc. …The Curator Ship
PDN Photo Annual : Deadline: 25 January
Hasselblad’s Masters Award winners announced
Events
UK Premiere: Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, February 8 : 7pm : Frontline club : London
Sneak preview of the above on YouTube here
powerHouse Portfolio Review : NYC
Agencies
Magnum Photos January 2012 Newsletter
VII Photo Newsletter January 2012
BJP: VII Photo appoints new director of business development
Jobs
UPI : senior staff photographer in LA
Summer internship on NPR’s Social Media Desk
Photographers
Simon Roberts has updated his website….
Equipment
CPN: Gary Knight introduces the new Canon G1X
BJP: Fujifilm goes back to its professional roots, releases the X-Pro 1
To finish off… Fotoshop by Adobe
and This is Brighton