TweetDinara, an interactive media student (disclaimer, she’s also my girlfriend) here at Ohio University has just finished a website about the former nuclear test site of Semipalatinsk polygon in her home country of Kazakhstan. It’s a pretty fascinating site, which is the culmination of research and two trips to the region where she went to [...]
TweetSomething that is encouraging about the plethora of online publishing options out there today is that professional journalists can put their work out there more easily, and in the case of photographer Carlan Tapp, he has managed to get his essay on the TVA Fly Ash spill up at David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine. Sure, [...]
TweetIn a moment of boredom I was browsing through this year’s World Press Photo winners and I was brought back to a series that interested me initially when I looked at the winners a month or two ago, but one that I didn’t quite “get” at the moment, pretty much because I only fleetingly glanced [...]
TweetChicago based photographer Daniel Shea has a really nice body of work on an issue that’s bothered me internally since I’ve lived in Appalachia … unfortunately I’ve not come up with a good way to tackle the subject since it’s always seemed to big and looming to add to my already chaotic grad school schedule. [...]
TweetIt is never good to see the effects of war, and when it hits home it is worst, but it is also when it is most poignant. The ban on photos of the deceased U.S. soldiers as they reenter the country has finally been lifted, putting the decision in the hands of the families and [...]
TweetI posted this a few days ago over on the APhotoADay Blog, where I am a contributor, but the more I go through this project the more I am fascinated by it. Switzerland based artists GORAN GALIC & GIAN-RETO GREDIG have created Photographers in Conflict which puts people whose names we usually only see under [...]
TweetI’d recently read about a new book coming out from a Hong Kong based artist and (sort of) photojournalist named Michael Wolf. The book was shot in about a month’s time and in none other than the city I grew up nearby. Entitled “The Transparent City”, this stack of paper is probably the best recent [...]
Tweetok, maybe not my biggest fear, but pretty big. slate.com has an article on photographing with Martin Parr, the kitschy, often hilarious and endlessly witty British documentarian. Summed up the author tells us something we tell ourselves endlessly, yet it never ceases to calm self-doubt. “The lesson is simple: Photograph what you love.” – my [...]
TweetNo photos of my own for now, will have to wait for a trip to the lab…might even be a few weeks. For now though I’m blown away by Magnum’s Patrick Zachmann and his recent In Motion piece “Un Jour, La Nui”. The night always felt like such a romantic and mysterious time of day, [...]
TweetEvery year OU does a one day photo essay called Dawn to Dusk that gets printed in a nice tabloid format and distributed around Athens. There’s also been a web component for the past few years to show all the photos that didn’t get published (along with the ones that did). Myself, Columbus Dispatch designer/illustrator/current [...]
