Every once in awhile you come across some work that just makes you reevaluate things. Saul Leiter’s book of street photography (titled Early Color) from the mid 20th century was one such book this year that has really stuck with me. He gives a beautiful, unique and impressionistic view of life in New [...]
TED has a lot of interesting speakers, and a good collection of photographer speeches. DVAfoto pointed me out to Aaron Huey’s recent TED talk about the Lakotah tribe in the Black Hills. It is a gripping and poignant history lesson with powerful images to boot…once that have danced around in my head since Harper’s Magazine [...]
Bryan Derballa of Brooklyn has an interview up about his Lovebryan.com site, which is a sort of journal/photography site hybrid thing. Anyways, Johnny Simon over at the Photoletariat just posted an interview with him that’s a nice quick read, and is also a reminder for me to say please go check out the work of [...]
Martin Bandzak, John Vink of Magnum photos and others have work in a new magazine called Inside Magazine financially supported by Slovakaid and other parties. It looks like it’s free for a hard copy as well (you pay shipping) but it’s 432 pages and hardcover. It looks interesting and each issue explores a topic in [...]
Buddy of mine Jason Andrew with whom I used to intern at James Nachtwey’s studio at a few years ago recently got 2nd place in the Fujifilm Distinction Awards with the below image from his work in Abkhazia. The winner was Ikuru Kuwajima, who’s work in the Ukraine and surrounding regions has also been some of [...]
Browsing the shelves of a book store last night I found a new publication called Respect. Magazine.
It’s a photography centric hip-hop publication featuring lots of great portfolios of people who have photographed hip-hop for years and isn’t juiced with ads. Not sure if it’ll be around for the long haul but it looks good and [...]
A good friend of mine, Neil Osborne (currently in Toronto) is doing some really cool things within his niche lately, like landing an adjunct teaching position at Queen’s University teaching conservation photography and visual communication within their school of environmental studies. Some lucky students there…
But the point of this entry is to point you towards [...]
I’m going to use this moment in my Tuesday morning to point any of you readers to a beautiful new website by Concord, NH photographer Max Bittle.
I’ve watched Max’s work for awhile, since the days when he was a student at Southern Illinois University and would always have better pictures than me in the annual [...]
I haven’t been making much photography lately, things have been put on hold for various reasons one of them being I spent most of my week in bed (thanks Swine Flu!…I think) but I took the opportunity to read and look through a lot of books, one of which was the Ecotopia book that I [...]
This month’s Harper’s had a photo portfolio section that really captivated me. It was entitled Winter Stories, by Italian born New York photographer Paolo Ventura. I finally had the notion to dig deeper and look at more work on his website and, to be honest was not as excited as I was initially after I [...]