Archive for the ‘photography’ Category
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Features and Essays
Some interesting features from the upcoming National Geographic Magazine’s December issue…
David Guttenfelder: Japan’s Nuclear Refugees (NGM)
photo: Chia Ming Chien
Various photographers: The City Solution (NGM)
Jim Richardson: King James Bible (NGM)
A lot of people raving about this last week online…
Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible | Afghanistan (MediaStorm)
Beautiful photos by Getty’s Daniel Berehulak from the Sonepur Mela fair in India…
Daniel Berehulak: The Sonepur Mela (TIME) India
This week’s TIME US edition cover story…
Peter van Agtmael: An Army Apart (Lightbox)
I wished I had received the US edition as opposed to Time Europe with Platon’s smirking Berlusconi…
Noticed van Agtmael’s cover is a crop of one of the frames seen in the Ligthbox slideshow…
Magnum photographers: Paris in Winter (Newsweek)
Adam Dean has the cover of Newsweek International this week with a portrait of Ai Weiwei…slideshow on the magazine’s website…
Adam Dean : Ai Weiwei (Newsweek)
Nicolas Righetti: Syria: Posters of Bashar al-Assad (Newsweek)
Ed Ou: Syrian Refugees in Turkey (NYT)
Ed Ou: Somali-Kenyan Border (Polka) multimedia
Andrea Bruce: Leaving Camp Victory in Baghdad (NYT)
Definitely worth checking out…This year’s Joop Swart Masterclass participants’ projects…
2011 Joop Swart Masterclass galleries (World Press Photo)
Sanjit Das: The End of Splendid Isolation? (Panos) Bhutan
Ivor Prickett: Free Libya (Panos)
Zed Nelson: South Sudan (Guardian)
From VII…
Adam Ferguson: Looking Home, At War (VII) Same in VII Magazine
Jocelyn Bain Hogg: The Family (VII)
Ed Kashi: America’s Uninsured (VII)
Ed Kashi: Ze Peixe: A Life at Sea VII)
Sim Chi Yin: China’s Rat Tribe (VII)
Donna Ferrato: Domestic Abuse (NYT Lens) Ferrato’s website
Alessandra Sanguinetti: The Sixth Day (Photo Booth)
Peter Hapak: The Art of War: Honoring the Fallen for a Lifetime (Lightbox) Hapak’s website
Chantal Heijnen: Bronxites (NYT Lens) Heijnen’s website
August Bradley: Portraits of 99 from Occupy Wall Street (NYT Lens) Bradley’s project’s website
Brian David Steven: War veterans (BBC)
Adam Amengual: Leaving the Life: Portraits of Former Gang Members (Lightbox)
Fredrik Naumann: Return to Utøya (Panos)
Mario Tama: Nascar (CNN photo blog)
Jesse Burke: Deer Stands (Lightbox)
Tiana Markova-Gold: Prostitution in Morocco (Lightbox) Markova-Gold’s website
Martina Bagicalupo: One woman’s story of surviving 20 years of conflict in Uganda (MSNBC)
Paolo Woods: The Land of Prophets (Institute)
Shelby Lee Adams: Of Kentucky (NYT)
Danny Wilcox Frazier: South Dakota’s Badlands (MSNBC)
Matt Eich: Hunting Alligators in Louisiana (MSNBC)
Abbas: Kolkata (Magnum)
Greg Brown: Aerial Photos of Ground Zero (NYT Lens)
Kim Badawi: Gaza Stripper (Stern) You can see the full set at Reportage site
Patrick Farrell: Haitian Black Gold (ZReportage)
Narciso Contreras: Little Burma (ZReportage)
Ali Arkady: The Day Labourers in Northern Iraq (Foto8)
Wendy Marijnissen: Because I’m a Girl : Rape in Pakistan (Photographer’s Vimeo)
Misha Friedman: An Invisible Epidemic (PDN Photo of the Day)
Interviews and Talks
Christopher Anderson at the 2011 World Press Photo Masterclass (World Press Photo)
Sebastiao Salgado (CPN)
David Guttenfelder : Outside the Frame: Rare chance to see inside Fukushima (MSNBC) Related by Guttenfelder: Inside Fukushima (Guardian) | AP photographer Guttenfelder’s website
Don McCullin on Social Documentary Photography (Vimeo)
Ben Lowy (Photo Booth)
Ed Kashi : What is Photojournalism (Kashi blog)
Andrew Hetherington: The day I photographed the great Joe Frazier (WTJ?)
Huge congratulations to Antonio Bolfo for becoming fully represented Getty Reportage photographer last week!
Antonio Bolfo : Attending Joop Swart Masterclass (Getty Reportage Tumblr)
Susan Seubert (Youtube)
Martina Bagicalupo (MSNBC)
KC Ortiz (Juxtapoz)
Kate Peters (The SIP)
Tessa Bunney (e-photoreview)
Articles
The month in photography…
photo: George Georgiou
Guardian: The Month in Photography | The Observer New Review’s monthly guide to the 20 best photographic exhibitions and books, featuring Josef Koudelka, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Helmut Newton, Terry Richardson and Walker Evans.
photo: Chris Hondros
Peter Beaumont: Reporting Libya: freelance coverage, full-time dangers (Guardian)
Clare Morgana Gillis: What I Lost in Libya (The Atlantic)
The Atlantic: ‘Under Fire’: a new documentary shows that war is hell for journalists
David Campbell: The elusive enemy: Looking back at the “war on terror’s” visual culture
BagNewsNotes: Tents: The Overarching Symbol of Occupy (BNN)
The Atlantic: CNN Photojournalists Lose Jobs to Cheaper, Better Cameras
photo: William Eggleston
Guardian: Paris Photo 2011 – in pictures
Lightbox: Paris Photo 2011 Spotlights Sub-Saharan Africa
BJP: New festival to offer grants to photographers
WSJ: How an Image Becomes an Icon
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize winner annouced and exhibition opened….
photo: Jooney Woodward
Guardian: Taylor Wessing portrait prize: another animal, another girl with red hair | Was Jooney Woodward’s shot of a red-head holding a guinea pig really the best of the 6,000 entries? And what makes her think it’s an ‘unsettling’ work
Evening Standard: Taylor Wessing exhibition review
photos: Pete Marlow
Telegraph: Magnum Contact Sheets book reviewed
Lightbox: The Singular Approach: Chien-Chi Chang’s Contact Sheet Chronicle
BBC: Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II sets photo record
PDN: Gursky’s Print Goes for $4.5 Million, Observers Say: Huh? | Related: Nick Turpin blog: Value Added?
Joerg Colberg: How much are photographs worth?
PDN: Ad Banned in UK for Showing Super Skinny Model
Guardian: Photographer David Trood’s Best Shot
Verve: Corentin Fohlen
Verve: Beth Yarnelle Edwards
Chicago Tribune: iPad Apps for Photojournalists – Tuesday Tips
multiMedia, Apps, and Publications
The Condition One App : Features in NYT Lens | Lightbox | BJP
Jason Larkin has transformed his project Cairo Divided into a free 32 page newsprint publication…I picked up a copy from Jason himself last week at the World Press Photo exhibition opening here in London…do go order one…
Cairo Divided : Project website
Between Land : Project website
Awards, Grants, Competitions, and Exhibition opportunities
Magenta Flash Forward 2012 submissions open
The Street Photography Awards 2012
International Festival of Photojournalism calling for entries
Brad Vest Named College Photographer Of The Year (NPPA)
PhotoPhilanthropy – Student Grant Round 5
An opportunity for young Asian photographers…
Scholarship for Diploma in Photojournalism run by the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ) : The deadline is on Friday, 10 February 2012.
One Shot: The City – Intl Photo Awards
Crowdfunding, Initiatives, and Causes
Fancy Alec Soth taking your portrait? You do need deep pockets, mind…
eBay – An opportunity to purchase a portrait session with Alec Soth : Proceeds go to a charitable cause
PhotoVoice Auction 2011 Preview Exhibition : A preview exhibition of prints in the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs 2011 : Monday 14th – Friday 18th Nov : 11am-6pm, late night Thursday to 7.30pm Venue: La Galleria Pall Mall, 30 Royal Opera Arcade, London, SW1Y 4UY v
Events and Exhibitions
A Photo says 1000 Words? The Ethics of Photojournalism : 23 November 2011 : Southbank Centre : London
A Desperate Journey by Antonio Olmos : Jersey Arts Centre : Mon 14 Nov 2011 to Sat 26 Nov 2011 | more info
Workshops and Education
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012 : Thailand : July 29 – August 4 : Info: Eric Beecroft, the co-founder of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshops, has just announced that it was ready to accept early registrations ($100 deposit, non refundable, and deducted from the total tuition amount) until January 15, 2012. Early registration guarantees a spot and precedence in the choice of instructor. The 2012 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop will be held in North Thailand from July 29- August 4, 2012. For regional students (South Asia– India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tibet and South East Asia-Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Phillippines, Laos, Cambodia,Indonesia, Malaysia) the tuition is $475. For all others it is $975 US dollars. Payment is via Paypal.
MA program in Photojournalism at the Mid-Sweden University : Starts 2012
Agencies and Collectives
Photographers
To finish off… This week’s stunning video… earth seen from above
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Features and Essays – Lauren Greenfield: Fashion Portfolio Slideshow (with captions) (New York Magazine: February 2010) Entire print edit on the Institute website
Interviews – Lauren Greenfield (Stocklandmartelblog.com: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Andrea Bruce: Iranian Dissidents, Gays Flee to Turkey (Washington Post: February 2010)
Feature and Essays – Kieran Dodds: Africans on Safari (Panos Pictures: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Franco Pagetti: Brothers in Arms (VII: February 2010) American and Afghan soldiers side-by-side
Features and Essays – Stefano de Luigi: South Korea (VII Network: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Tyler Hicks: Under Fire in Marja (NYT: February 2010)
(multi)Media – The Photography Post
Awards – White House News Photographers Association : The Eyes on History 2010
Agencies – Lisa Pritchard Agency : Commercial
Monday 15 February 2010
Features and Essays – Lynsey Addario: Haiti Mourns Its Dead (NYT: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Tyler Hicks: Marines Battle Taliban Fighters in Offensive (NYT: February 2010) Afghanistan
Interviews and Talks – Doug Mills (audio) (NYT Lens: February 2010)
Articles – Guardian review: Just Kids by Patti Smith (Guardian: February 2010)
Articles – Telegraph: Sophie Ristelhueber: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (Telegraph: February 2010)
Articles – Berenice Abbott: Photography At The Crossroads, 1951 (A Photo Student blog: January 2010)
Agencies – Corbis Images
Blogs – Melissa Lyttle
Articles – Jim Krantz May Have Finally Gotten His Attribution (A Photo Editor: January 2010)
Sunday 14 February 2010
Articles – Max Houghton: Uprooted From The Real Photographers Without A Stance (Foto8: February 2010)
Articles – Guardian: Deutsche Börse Prize 2010, Photographers’ Gallery, London (Guardian: February 2010)
Interviews – Don McCullin (audio) (BBC Radio 4: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Lauren Greenfield: Fashion Show (video) (New York Magazine: February 2010) Photographer Lauren Greenfield compiled her Fashion Week photography into this video
Features and Essays – Alex Majoli: Caribbean Passages (Magnum in Motion: February 2010) Jamaican immigrants in the UK
Features and Essays – Tyler Hicks: ‘Operation Moshtarak’ Begins (NYT: February 2010) Coalition Begins Major Afghan Offensive
Features and Essays – Lynsey Addario: The Tamil Question (NYT: February 2010)
Interviews and Talks – NPPA Visual Student: Two of a Kind, Photographer Couples: Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber (NPPA Visual Student: February 2010)
Awards – Wine Photo 2010 : Deadline April 29, 2010
Saturday 13 February 2010
Awards – Aperture Portfolio Prize 2009 winner and runner-up portfolios online (Aperture: February 2010)
Articles – NYT Lens: World Press Photo 2010 (NYT: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Gleb Kosorukov: Ukrainian Coal Miners (Guardian: February 2010) Portraits
Workshops – Magnum Photos Courses in Photography and Human Rights (Magnum Photos)
Features and Essays – Gueorgui Pinkhassov: From Baku with Love (Guardian: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Lisa Wiltse: Beach Life (NPR: February 2010)
Articles – Wired: The Story Behind the Legendary Magnum Archive Sale (Wired: February 2010)
Tutorials – Charlie Mahoney: Canon 5D mkII Iso Settings and Noise (dokumentary fotografr: February 2010)
Tutorials – Philip Bloom: How to record sound with the Canon 5dmk2 and a great plug in for Final Cut for auto synching (Philip Bloom: 2009)
Friday 12 February 2010
Awards – World Press Photo: winners gallery 2010 (WPP: February 2010)
Articles – PDN: The 2010 World Press Photo winners have been announced (PDN: February 12, 2010)
Articles – BJP: World Press Photo Winner
Articles – BJP: British Photographers Win Big at World Press Photo (BJP: February 2010)
Articles – Lens Culture: World Press Photo Winners (Lens Culture: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Guardian : World Press Photo Awards gallery (Guardian: February 2010)
Features and Essays – James Nachtwey: Email From Haiti (VII: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Franco Pagetti: US Army Hospital, Afghanistan (VII: February 2010)
Features and Essays – Christopher Morris: Frida Giannini (VII: February 2010) Gucci designer
Features and Essays – Lynsey Addario: The Rescue Brigade (TIME: February 2010)
Updates 31 January 2010 and before
Sunday 31 January 2010
Videos – Restrepo movie website and trailer | iPhone and mobile compatible trailer available here. : “In 2007 photographer Tim Hetherington and writer Sebastian Junger were commissioned by Vanity Fair to report on the US soldiers fighting in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan. The dispatches they sent back – in stills, words and film footage – were seen by millions both in the magazine and on the ABC nightly news in America. Hetherington’s image of a soldier in the forward operating base of “Restrepo” won him the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year and a short video installation Sleeping Soldiers was first shown to wide acclaim by Foto8 at the NY Photo festival 2009. Restrepo, a feature length documentary about the soldiers who were stationed at this isolated and continually attacked outpost, received its screen premiere at the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah in January 2010 where it was awarded the top honour for Best US Documentary Film.” Text from Foto8
News – ‘Restrepo,’ ‘Winter’s Bone’ take top Sundance honors (AFP: 31 January 2010) “Powerful Afghanistan war documentary “Restrepo” and gritty drama “Winter’s Bone” scooped the top honors here Saturday as the curtain camed down on the Sundance Film Festival. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s “Restrepo” won the US documentary grand jury prize while “Winter’s Bone” took the grand jury prize in the US dramatic category as the festival honors were handed out.”
Features and Essays – Peter van Agtmael: The Convoy to Nowhere (WSJ: January 2010) Haiti
Features and Essays – Dominic Nahr: Uganda’s HIV Crisis (WSJ: 2010)
Features and Essays – Fred R. Conrad: Panoramic Views From Haiti (NYT: January 2010)
Articles – NYT: Review: Just Kids By Patti Smith Illustrated. 284 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. (NYT: January 2010)
Interviews and Talks – David Gilkey on Photographing Haiti (audio slideshow) (NPR: January 2010) “NPR’s David Gilkey traveled to Haiti just after the earthquake left the capital in ruins. Back in D.C., he reflects on his experiences photographing amid the wreckage.”
Saturday 30 January 2010
Features and Essays – Yishay Garbasz: In my Mother’s Footsteps (related article) (Telegraph: January 2010) Yishay Garbasz retraces her mother’s Holocaust.
Features and Essays – Tyler Hicks: From Marines, A Softer Approach (NYT: January 2010) Afghanistan
Features and Essays – Damon Winter: Giving Birth in Haiti (NYT: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Lynsey Addario: Sri Lankans Vote in Contentious Election (NYT: January 2010)
Agencies – Noor Images newsletter 29 January 2010
Features and essays – Pep Bonet: Motorhead Tour (NOOR: January 2010)
Grants – FotoDocument Commissions : Grants of £2,500 for Documentary Photographers : Deadline 31 March 2010
Photographers – Tom White : website : blog
Articles – PDN: Verve Fee Policy Sparks Debate About Blog Business Models (PDN Pulse: January 2010)
Friday 29 January 2010
Features and Essays – James Nachtwey: Haiti: out of the Ruins (TIME: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Marco Vernaschi: Child Sacrifice : Uganda (Photographer’s PhotoShelter: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Jonathan Torgovnik: Haiti for CNN (Reportage by Getty Images: January 2010)
Books – Lauren Greenfield’s new ebooks now available on Issuu
Features and Essays – Charlie Archambault: Wisdom From the Century Mark (USNWR: January: 2010) U.S.News & World Report spent time with seven people over 90 whose vitality is testament to lives well lived.
Photographers – Pontus Höök : website
Thursday 28 January 2010
Articles – Guardian – Photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s best shot (Guardian: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Doug Mills: At the State of the Union (NYT: January 2010) Panorama from last night’s State of the Union Address
Features and Essays – White House: State of the Union (Whitehouse.gov: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Frederic Sautereu: Haiti (Photographer’s website: January 2010)
Photographers – Frederic Sautereu : website
Blogs – Verve Photo: Jared Moossy (Verve Photo: January 2010)
Photographers – Giles Duley : website
Articles – Guy Lane: Jeff Wall: The Complete Edition (Foto8: January 2010)
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Features and Essays – Jan Grarup: Haiti (NOOR: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Ron Haviv: Haiti (VII: January 2010)
Interviews and Talks – BBC: Overexposed (BBC Radio 4: January 2010) ” Miles Warde presents the story of a group of photojournalists who set out to witness world events. They went to Yugoslavia, Angola, Chechnya, Gaza and Iraq. Two of them were shot dead. A compelling portrait of youthful ambition and the power of photography to change the world.” (Duration: 30 minutes : Available until: 8:32pm Monday 1st February 2010)
Features and Essays – Daniel Morel: This Isn’t Show Business (NYT Lens: January 2010) Haiti
Features and Essays – Pablo Delano: Cultural Tapestry, Under Wraps (NYT Lens: January 2010)
Equipment / Articles – Tomas Van Houtryve: Testing Leica M9 in Paris (Photographer’s blog: January 2010)
Articles – Guardian: A Better Place: Dash Snow’s Polaroids in pictures (slideshow) / Dash Snow’s Polaroids: life, or art? (article) (Guardian: January 2010)
Collectives – Cesuralab (Italy)
Features and Essays – Peter Power: Port-au-Prince Diary (multimedia) (Globe and Mail: January 2010) Globe photographer Peter Power reflects on the moments of beauty and hope he’s encountered amid the devastation in Haiti’s capital
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Features and Essays – Charles Ommanney: Haiti (Newsweek: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Reuters: Scenes from Haiti (Reuters; January 2010)
Features and Essays – Brian Vander Brug: Haiti (LA Times: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Dominic Nahr: Haiti Aftermath (Reportage by Getty Images: January 2010)
Articles – BBC Radio 4: Are Haiti Pictures Too Graphic? (audio) (BBC: January 2010)
Interviews and Talks – Carlos Barria was one of the first photographers to witness the earthquake devastation in Haiti. (audio) (BBC World Service: January 2010)
Interviews – Bruce Davidson (Telegraph: January 2010)
Interviews and Talks – Eli Reed discussion (video 12:33) (Vimeo 2010) A discussion with Eli Reed, Roxanne Evans, Adam Semien and Michael Hurd on what it means to be black in today’s America.
Press Release – PhotoShelter releases free social media guide
Tutorials and Training – Social Media Guide for Photographers (PhotoShelter 2010)
Features and Essays – William Daniels: Long Soviet Shadows (NYT Lens: January 2010)
Photographers – William Daniels : website
Monday 25 January 2010
Features and Essays – Dominic Nahr: Haiti (WSJ: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Lynsey Addario: A Bitter Contest (NYT: January 2010) General Puts Up a Fight in Sri Lanka’s Election
Portfolio Reviews – Foto8 : Meet the Editors 9: Portfolio Review: January 28 2010 : Foto8 once again opens its doors for amateur and professional photographers alike to come and have their portfolios reviewed by the people behind Foto8 and HOST and our esteemed guests. The portfolio review will include two 20 minute sessions, during which you will see a total of four reviewers who will review portfolios in groups of two.
Interviews – M. Scott Brauer : Working Abroad (NPPA Visual Student: January 2010)
Interviews and Talks – Sebastiao Salgado : The Photographer as Activist (video) (YouTube: 2004) A conversation with Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism adjunct professor Ken Light and Photo Critic and Curator Fred Ritchin.
Sunday 24 January 2010
Features and Essays – Tyler Hicks: Luck Trumps Death (NYT: January 2010) Afghanistan
Agencies and Collectives – Viewmasters (Helsinki, Finland)
Portfolio Reviews – Photo España Portfolio Review : Call for Entries : Deadline February 7, 2010
Interviews – Patti Smith (WNYC: January 2010) Poet and performer Patti Smith discusses her long friendship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpew, hich began with a chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967. Her book Just Kids: From Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel, a Life of Art and Friendship. is an account life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s, and a portrait of the passion to create that fueled the rise of two young artists.
Books – Photo Eye: The Best Books 2009 (Photo Eye: 2010)
Photographers – Carlos Cazalis : website
Interviews – Annie Leibovitz (NYT: 2007)
Resources – Pump Audio
Saturday 23 January 2010
One of my favourite photographers at the moment:
Photo: Erika Larsen
Interviews – Erika Larsen : Among the Sámi (Trueslant.com: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Magnum: Haiti (Magnum in Motion: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Agnes Dherbeys: Thailand: Paying for Sex (Photographer’s website: January 2010)
Portfolio Reviews – powerHouse portfolio review 2010 : On February 28, 2010 powerHouse Books will offer their Sixth Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review event
(multi)Media – The Black Snapper
Features and Essays – Alejandro Chaskielberg: The High Tide – Islanders Of The Paraná River Delta (The Black Snapper: January 2010)
Articles – Kenneth Jarecke: Broken Things (Photographer’s blog: January 2010) On Haiti
Friday 22 January 2010
Features and Essays – Rena Effendi: Pipe Dreams (Foto8: January 2010) A shortfilm made by photographer Rena Effendi on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline running through Azerbaijan
Initiatives – Haiti Relief print sales : Proceeds to Doctors Without Borders. Images from 35 photographers
Events – Photography events listings : Telephoto diary (Telegraph) What’s on in the world of photography, including events, exhibitions and talks in the UK and abroad.
(multi)Media – PDN Emerging Photographer
Blogs – Martin Parr
Features and Essays – Pete Souza: The First Year (Whitehouse.gov: January 2010) President Obama’s first year in office
Articles – Guardian: Dennis Stock obituary (Guardian: January 2010)
Agencies – Millenium Images (UK) : stock
Features and Essays – Maggie Steber: A Culture in Jeopardy (NYT Lens: January 2010) Haiti
Features and Essays – Jeff Antebi: Haiti (NPR: January 2010)
Photographers – Jeff Antebi : website
Awards – 2010 Hillman Prize Nominations : Deadline for nominations is January 31, 2010
Thursday 21 January 2010
Features and Essays – Shaul Schwarz: Aftermath Haiti’s Quake: A Photographer’s Vision (TIME: January 2010) TIME’s Shaul Schwarz documents the humanitarian crisis caused by the catastrophe WARNING: Some of the photographs that follow contain extremely graphic content
Features and Essays – Callie Shell: President Obama One Year In (TIME: January 2010) An intimate look at the Commander in Chief on the day before the one-year anniversary of his administration
Features and Essays – Peter Dench: Love UK (Telegraph: January 2010) Peter Dench discovers how the English love, where they find it and how they sustain it
Features and Essays – NYT: Suddenly Long Ago (NYT Lens: January 2010) January 20, 2009 : Asked to capture “hope” and “change,” 132 photographers in 79 countries answered in many ways. One chose to depict a man minutes after he was released from prison in Italy; another pointed her camera to a newborn baby in a Palestinian hospital. Few portrayed President Obama, even though it was his election night victory speech that had inspired Yoshiaka Koga, editor-in-chief of the international news magazine Courrier Japon in Tokyo.
Features and Essays – Panos Pictures: Haiti Earthquake (Panos Pictures: January 2010) Updated Haiti gallery
Articles – Guardian: Photographer Elinor Carucci’s Best Shot (Guardian: January 2010)
Exhibitions – OSI Documentary Photography Project Announces Moving Walls 17 Photographers (Open Society Institute)
Interviews – Susan Meiselas : Expanding the Circle: The Engaged Photographer (multimedia 6 minutes) (Open Society Institute: January 2010)
Grants – The 2010 Photocrati Fund competition is now open. Deadline for application submissions is March 15, 2010 (by 11pm GMT) : “The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to non-professional photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. Our goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world. We will offer one grant in 2010. The application deadline is March 15, 2010, and the award will be announced in June 2010. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award. ”
Books – Phillip Toledano: Days With My Father : Hardcover: 92 pages : Publisher: PQ Blackwell (June 2, 2010) : Language: English : ISBN-10: 0473158043 : ISBN-13: 978-0473158040 | Project website
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Features and Essays – James Nachtwey: Struggle to Live (audio slide show 10 minutes) (burn Magazine: January 2010)
Competitions – freshfacedandwildeyed 2010 : The Photographers’ Gallery’s annual exhibition open to recent visual arts graduates, representing the most dynamic new photographic work from across the UK : Who can apply? Any photographer/ artist who graduated from a visual arts course, BA or MA level, in 2009 : All images and other information have to be submitted online between 15 February – 3 March 2010
Interviews – James M. Lange : The War at home (DVA Foto: January 2010)
Books / Articles – The Independent: Patti Smith memoir ‘Just Kids’ a eulogy for photographer Mapplethorpe (The Independent: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Alvaro Ybarra Zavala: Haiti Earthquake (Reportage by Getty Images: January 2010)
Interviews – Ron Haviv (NYT Lens: January 2010) Haiti
Agencies – Oeil Public, End of a Story
reminder Awards – The PGB Award : Deadline just a few days away : Deadline 31 January 2010
Features and Essays – Mustafah Abdullaziz and Justin Maxon: Shadows Lengthen by the Sun (MJR: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Agnes Dherbeys: Nepal: In The Vice of Wills (Rearviewmirror.it: 2010)
Agencies – Parallelozero (Italy)
Tuesday 19 January
TIME are updating daily their Haiti gallery with photography by Timothy Fadek and Shaul Schwarz:
Features and Essays – TIME: Haiti’s Earthquake Destruction (TIME: January 2010)
Features and Essays – WSJ: WSJ Photographers Document Chaos in Haiti: January 18, 2010 (WSJ: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Michael Appleton: Katrina Many Times Over (NYT Lens: January 2010) Haiti
Features and Essays – Jan Grarup: Yemen (NOOR: 2010)
Features and Essays – MSF: Haiti Earthquake (MSF: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Julie Remy: MSF Work in Haiti (MSF UK: January 2010)
Interviews – Simon Roberts : Photography as Visual Anthropology in Russia and England (multimedia 9 minutes) (Lens Culture: January 2010)
Articles – Guardian: Donovan Wylie: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 (nominee) (Guardian: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Peter van Agtmael: Five Years in Iraq (audio slideshow 5:25) (PBS: POV: January 2010) ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter van Agtmael graduated from Yale University in 2003 with a degree in history. Following graduation, he spent a year in China on the Charles P. Howland fellowship photographing the effects of the Three Gorges Dam. He became a freelance photographer at the end of 2004. Since the beginning of 2006, he has documented the consequences of America’s Wars, at home and abroad. A monograph of the work, “2nd Tour Hope I Don’t Die” will be published in 2009. In 2008, he helped organize the exhibition and book “Battlespace,” a retrospective of unseen work from 22 photographers covering Iraq and Afghanistan. He is represented by Magnum Photos.
Interviews – Ed Kashi (Telegraph: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Brigitte Grignet: Chiloe: La Cruz del Sur (Visura: January 2010)
Photographers – Brigitte Grignet : website
Photographers – Agnes Dherbeys : website
Photographers – Linda Forsell : website
Photographers – Alex Miller : website
Articles – Hans Durrer: I Am Because We Are (Book review on Kristen Ashburn’s book about AIDS in Africa of the same name) (Across Cultures blog: January 2010)
Monday 18 January
Exhibitions – Moving Walls 16 (Open Society Institute)” The Moving Walls exhibition reflects issues of importance to the Open Society Institute around the world but is not organized around a single theme. The 16th exhibition of Moving Walls is dominated, however, by themes of war, conflict, and their aftermath. Half of the exhibition addresses the United States military engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq, focusing on the perspective of the soldiers and civilians whose lives are directly affected by these wars. Zalmaï returns to his home country, Afghanistan, to find that the promise of democracy has not been fulfilled. Whatever hope Afghans had for their country in 2002 is being destroyed as innocent Afghan civilians get caught in the crossfire of yet another bloody battle being fought on their land. Zalmaï turns his lens on the personal to remind viewers of the human cost of war.” Photographers: Ben Lowy, Eugene Richards, Tomas van Houtryve, Stefano di Luigi, Paolo Woods, Zalmaï.
Haiti Galleries from NYT, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, and LA Times etc.
Features and Essays – Damon Winter: Where is the Help? (NYT Lens: January 2010)
Features and Essays – NYT: Haiti’s Earthquake (NYT: January 2010)
Features and Essays – David Levene: Haiti Earthquake Devastation (Guardian: January 2010)
Features and Essays – WSJ: WSJ Photographers Document 4th Day of Crisis (WSJ: January 2010) Photos by Dominic Nahr and Julie Platner
Features and Essays – LA Times: Haiti: Coping with the Aftermath (LAT: January 2010) Hi-res images from Los Angeles Times photographers Carolyn Cole and Rick Loomis.
Features and Essays – Panos Pictures: Haiti Earthquake (Panos Pictures: January 2010)
Sunday 17 January
Articles – NYT: Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81 (obituary) (NYT: January 2010)
Interviews – Roger Ballen (video 10 minutes) (Lens Culture: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Carl Weese: Dark Screens, Bright Memories (NYT: January 2010) Drive-In Theatres
Photographers – Carl Weese : website
Features and Essays – Raghu Rai: Images of India (Guardian: January 2010) Acclaimed Magnum photographer Raghu Rai has spent 40 years photographing India. Here is a selection from his forthcoming exhibition at Aicon Gallery, London
Interviews – Raghu Rai (Guardian: January 2010) Photographer Raghu Rai has spent over four decades charting the changing faces of India, from Mrs Gandhi and Mother Teresa to the victims of Bhopal. As two exhibitions featuring his work open in London, he talks about his life behind the lens
Articles – Guardian: William Eggleston: 21st Century (exhibition review) (Guardian: January 2010)
Saturday 16 January
Features and Essays – TIME: Haiti’s Earthquake Destruction: TIME Exclusive Photographs (TIME: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Damon Winter: Prayers in the Dark (NYT Lens: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Stephanie Sinclair: The Polygamists (NGM: February 2010 issue) Related article
Awards – PDN Annual : Deadline 25 January 2010
Grants – National Geographic 2010 Photography Grant : Deadline 1 March 2010
Workshops – Foundry Photojournalism Workshop – Instructors announced : Istanbul 2010
Friday 15 January
NEWS – Listen to Shaul Schwarz, on photo assignment in Haiti for Reportage by Getty images, for TIME. (BBC4 Radio: Today Show January 15, 2010)
Features and Essays – Stuart Griffiths: Portraits of Isolation (Guardian: January 2010) Stuart Griffiths, ex-Para and now a photographer, is the subject of Isolation, a film made by Luke Seomore and Joe Bull about his extraordinary life. After leaving the army, Griffiths found himself homeless, a fate he shared with a quarter of all British ex-soldiers. The film explores the fate of British soldiers who have left the service through injury and illness, many of whom feel they have been let down by the institutions for which they sacrificed so much. His moving portraits of ex-soldiers tell their own story.
Articles – Guardian: William Eggleston: king of the album cover photo (Guardian: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Corine Vermeulen: Detroit School Kids’ Dreams of the Future (TIME: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Maggie Steber: No End of Trouble. Ever. (NYT Lens: January 2010) Haiti
Articles – Barry Schwabsky: How Soon Was Now? (Nation: January 2010) Polaroid nostalgia
Articles – Errol Morris: Thought Experiment No.2 (NYT: January 2010) We we should be sensitive about how photographs are presented. Changes in captions can radically alter how we see a photograph and what it means
Interviews – Tim Hetherington (video) (VF: December 2007) Pushing back the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan’s strategically crucial Korengal Valley is one of the U.S. Army’s deadliest challenges. For “Into the Valley of Death” (January 2008), Sebastian Junger dug in with the men of Second Platoon, whose humor, courage, and camaraderie come under daily fire. In this video, which features battlefront footage shot by Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington for ABC News, Junger and Hetherington talk about their experiences in Afghanistan while working on the story.
Interviews and Talks – Nadav Kander : Yangtze the long river (10 minutes) (YouTube: 2009)
Thursday 14 January
Articles – In Memoriam: Dennis Stock, 1928-2010 / Biography (Magnum Photos: January 2010) Parting Glance (NYT Lens blog: January 2010)
Tutorials – The 10 Things All Staff Photographers Must Do Right Now (PhotoShelter: January 2010)
Articles – NYT Lens: Behind the Scenes: There for the Quake (NYT Lens blog: January 2010) “On Tuesday morning, Tequila Minsky enjoyed a reputation in Lower Manhattan as an enterprising freelance photographer.By Tuesday evening, the world learned just how enterprising she can be.”
Photographers – Nathan W. Armes : website
Collectives – LUCEO Announces Daryl Peveto as First New Member (A Photo A Day: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Brent Lewin: Elephant in the Room (Foto8: January 2010) Portraits of Bangkok’s urban street elephants
Photographers – Brent Lewin : website
Events – Fronline Club (London): Preview Screening- Baker Boys: Inside the surge : Followed by a Q&A with veteran combat photographer Jon Steele : Date: February 1, 2010 7:00 PM : “A preview of the four-part documentary series that is an intimate, inside look at Baker Company, an elite group of Army soldiers on an extended tour in Iraq as they ‘surge’ into an Al Qaeda stronghold.
Filmed over three months in 2008 by veteran combat photographer Jon Steele, the film shows the world of the Baker Company without dramatisating or glorifying the reality.”
Wednesday 13 January
Features and Essays 2009 – Vanity Fair: Windows on the Wars (VF: December 2009) A decade ago, America was flush and at peace. Then came the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the retaliatory invasion of Afghanistan, and the controversial “war of choice” in Iraq. With the U.S. and its allies still grappling for solutions, this selection of indelible images shows history unfolding on a human scale.
Features and Essays – Rian Dundon: Bing Bing and Me (Foto8: January 2010) Fan Bing Bing is one of Mainland China’s biggest pop stars. An actress and fashion icon, she is most famous for her roles in the widely popular soap operas that are followed devotedly by hundreds of millions of people across China.
Awards – Anthropographia award winners
Interviews – Rena Effendi at HOST Gallery (video 5 minutes) (Foto8 YouTube: January 2010)
Photographers – David Hoffman : website
Photographers – Kieran Dodds has a new website
Photographers – Emmanuel Fradin : website : archive
Exhibitions – James Hyman Gallery (London)
Tuesday 12 January
Articles – Guardian: William Eggleston: 21st Century (Guardian: January 2010) Eggleston’s new exhibition 21st Century, selected from work made over the last decade, opens this week at the Victoria Miro gallery in London.
Articles – Guardian: Is Elinor Carucci right to turn the camera on her children? (Guardian: January 2010) Her intimate portraits of family life make for intriguing viewing, but raise unsettling questions about the dark side of photography | slideshow
Interviews – Elinor Carucci (BBC Radio 4: January 2010) Elinor Carucci: Intimacy is at the James Hyman Gallery in London from 7 January to 20 February 2010.
Features and Essays – US News and World Report : Year in Photos 2009 (USN&WR: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Muge: Drained by Rising Waters (NYT Lens showcase: January 2010) Three Gorges hydroelectric project on the Yangtze River
Articles – Robert Benson: Why They Still Shoot Film (Robert Benson blog: January 2010)
Monday 11 January
Features and Essays – Celine Clanet: Maze (TMC: January 2010) a small Sámi village located at the highest point of the European map, far above the Arctic Circle, in Norwegian Lapland.
Photographers – Celine Clanet : website
Features and Essays – Alex Majoli: West Indies in London (Magnum Photos : January 2010)
Articles – Telegraph: Pictures of the Year : The Pgotographers’ Choice (Telegraph: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Rena Effendi: Trouble on the Line (NYT Lens Showcase: January 2010) In Azerbaijan, every story revolves around oil.
Photographers – Ian Maclellan : website
Features and Essays – Christoph Bangert: Train From Sarajevo to Belgrade Revived (NYT: January 2010) Train Line Across the Balkans Restitches a Region
Photographers – Nigel Parry : website
Interviews – Dominic Nahr : Working Abroad (NPPA Visual Student: January 2010)
Photographers – Julio Aracil : website : Photoshelter archive
Agencies – 4SEE (Portugal)
Awards – Reportage : Festival of Documentary Photography (AU) Call for entries: the Projections in 2010 : Deadline June 30, 2010
Articles – Reuters: How to squeeze a decade into 100 pictures (Reuters: January 2010)
Articles – Foto8: The Best and the Worst of 2009 (Foto8: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Maisie Crow: A Life Alone (multimedia) (Photographer’s website: 2010)
Exhibitions – Crane Kalman Brighton : Curently showing Simon Roberts’ Polyarnye Nochi
Sunday 10 January
Features and Essays / Articles – Simon Roberts: Polyarnye Nochi (article on the work) / slide show (Telegraph: January 2010) Q&A with Roberts
Features and Essays / Articles – Elinor Carucci: Closer (article on the work) / Intimacy (slideshow) (Telegraph: January 2010) Video interview of Carucci
Photographers – Elinor Carucci : website
Features and Essays – Evan Baden: Coming to a screen near you (Guardian: January 2010) At home, at school, on the bus – Evan Baden’s photographs show that wherever they are, kids are hooked up to hi-tech gadgets.
Photographers – Evan Baden : website
Saturday 9 January
Features and Essays – Martin Parr: How the other half lives (Guardian: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Massimo Berruti: Vaccination Diplomacy (WSJ: January 2010) Afghanistan’s anti-polio campaign bringing Taliban and UN together
Features and Essays – Matt Eich: Teen Unemployment (TIME: January 2010) The recession has put a damper on the earning power of younger workers
Books – The Independent Photo Book
Awards – 2010 Center Awards : Deadline January 27, 2010
Exhibitions – MJR & Luceo collectives have come together to publish a limited edition magazine and are throwing an exhibition Make-Do : 25CPW gallery : 21 January 2010 : 6-10pm : 25 Central Park West at 62nd Street : NYC
Friday 8 January
Features and Essays – Peter van Agtmael: 2nd Tour Hope I don’t Die (Magnum in Motion: January 2010)
Articles – James Pomerantz: Song About Photography (Daily Telegraph: January 2010)
Features and Essays – Sandy Choi: Daily Life in Yemen (FP: January 2010)
Photographers – Sandy Choi : website
Features and Essays – Cedric Gerbehaye: No Relief and Little Attention (NYT Lens Showcase: January 2010) Congo
Photographers – Cedric Gerbehaye
Events – BJP: Magnum Photos launches professional practice event (BJP: January 2010)
Vimeo – Little Brown Mushroom
Interviews and Talks – Christopher Anderson (audio and slideshow) (Foto8: January 2010) Talk from November 2009 at HOST gallery in London
Photographers – Terttu Uibopuu : website
Tutorials and Training – Freelance Advice (NPPA Visual Student: January 2010)
Books – Photobook.ph : International Experts nominate their favourite book
Articles – Studies in Photography : Collected Essays on Photography
Articles – Hans Durrer: What Matters (book review) (Across Cultures: 2009)
Photographers – Hans Hochstöger : website
Thursday 7 January
Photo: Murray Ballard
Grants – TMC + Kodak Film Grant winners
Twitter – Too Much Chocolate
Features and Essays – Alec Soth: Las Vegas Birthday slideshow (Vimeo: January 2010)
Interviews and Talks – Christopher Morris (DVA Foto: January 2010)
Exhibitions – James Nachtwey: Struggle to Live – The Fight Against TB : Opens January 20, 2010 : 401 Projects : NYC
Photographers – Nicolas Axelrod : website
Awards / Festivals – Free Lens Award : Deadline February 28, 2010 : Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism : June 16-20, 2010 : Hannover, Germany
Wednesday 6 January
Features and Essays – Adam Ferguson: The Resurgence of the Hazaras (NYT: January 2010) Afghanistan
Articles – BJP: Photojournalist : one of the worst jobs in 2009 (BJP 1854 blog: January 2010)
Articles – Tom Kennedy’s thoughts on promise and challenge of multimedia photojournalism (Kennedy Media: November 2009)
(multi)Media – Kennedy Multimedia
Features and Essays – Amanda Rivkin: GITMO, USA (Photographer’s PhotoShelter archive: January 2010)
Photographers – Etienne de Malglaive : website
Features and Essays (2009) – Olivier Pin-Fat: In-Land Out-Cast (Prospekt: 2009)
Tuesday 5 January
Features and Essays – Andrea Bruce: Ingushetia (Visura: January 2010)
(multi)Media – Visura Magazine : Issue 7
Features and Essays – Simon Roberts: We English (Visura: January 2010)
Photographers – Larry Fink : website
Features and Essays – Christian Hansen (Too Much Chocolate showcase: January 2010)
Features and Essays 2009 – Foreign Policy: Afghanistan 2009: A Year in Photos (FP: December 2009)
Photographers – Olivier Sarbil : website
Features and Essays – Karim Ben Khelifa: Yemen (NYT Lens Showcase: January 2010)
Sunday 3 January
Features and Essays – Moises Saman: Resurrecting Local Militia (NYT: January 2010) Afghanistan
Features and Essays – Jehad Nga: Between War and Peace (NYT: January 2010) Darfur
Features and Essays – TIME: Los Angeles — Portrait of a City (TIME: January 2010) A collection of photographs from Benedict Taschen’s new book, Los Angeles — Portrait of a City
Friday 1 January
Happy New Year!
Welcoming 2010 by Boston Globe Big Picture
One of my favourites from 2009:
Features and Essays – Todd Heisler : One in 8 Million series
Thursday 31 December
Articles and Comment – Kathy Ryan: Photo Finish | The Year’s Best Books (T Magazine / NYT: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Lianne Milson: A New Hope: Indonesia After The Tsunami (NPR: December 2009)
Blogs – Ed Kashi
Exhibitions – Local Testimony : Israeli Photojournalism
Wednesday 30 December
Books – Guardian: The Year’s Best Photography Books (Guardian: December 2009)
Features and Essays – Luceo Images: Our Year in Photos (Luceo: December 2009)
Articles and Comment – What It Takes to Win an Aftermath Project Grant (PDN: December 2009)
Photographers – Eddie Gerald : website
Tuesday 29 December
Articles and Comment – Dominique Nabokov on Robert Frank’s Americans (The New York Review of Books: December 2009) Audio slideshow 4:20
Awards – Flash Forward 2010 deadline only 2 days away
Awards – The AOP Student Awards 2010 is now open : Deadline January 24 2010
Photographers – Wayne Lawrence : website
Features and Essays – Caroline Bennett: Escaping to Ecuador (Global Post: November 2009) Columbian refugees in Ecuador
Monday 28 December
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