Tweet So, what I didn’t mention in my last post about this experiment project is that every so often, when I process a batch of film from my time on the Fox River shoreline, I spend some time in my yard setting fire to the negatives to a certain extent. Most of the time I [...]
TweetChad Stevens, a professor at UNC and a classmate/instructor friend of my from when I was at grad school in Athens has recently put out a piece with Yale and Mediastorm that studies the effects of mountaintop removal, which is a really important issue to me. Also, fellow Chicago photog Daniel Shea has some images [...]
TweetRecently I posted over on the APAD blog a little article quoting some editors over at SELF magazine speaking about the photoshop retouch work that goes on for their magazine covers, or specifically, their latest cover with Kelly Clarkson. Former classmate Andrea Morales pointed it out to me via facebook. Ironically, I subscribe to mostly [...]
Tweet$7 ….?? So agrees Sotomayor. This court ruling, in which Sotomayor had connections to the defendant (never disclosed) says effectively that a photojournalist’s original work that were lost by Corbis were worth $7 a piece. They lost a lot of images, so he walked away with a $100,000+ settlement, but this is nothing in terms [...]
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, [...]
TweetAs I consider my future as a freelancer in the Chicago market (come fall that’s where I’ll be situated) I know that the economy is bad, I know that newspapers are dying, I know that the barrier of entry for photography is lower and therefore there are more people I need to compete against …. [...]
