Archive for June, 2008

Daniel Traub and the edge’s of China urban landscape

© Daniel Traub
Daniel Traub is an American photographer located in China. His new series, City’s Edge, continues his work documenting the edge, the transition, of the rural and urban China. Cities are about buildings and about people, and even more, about how rural migrations to urban space and the growth of cities creates new spaces, [...]

The Raw File: a new multimedia photojournalism site

A new website, The Raw File, founded by photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, a photojournalist focused in urban stories, and by multimedia producer Laura Lo Forti.
The Raw File is a digital multimedia show aimed to host stories that are not sponsored by commercially media. It is a way to give, to expand the forum, for causes [...]

Pix Channel: wonderful interviews with master photographers

“That’s one of the problems about taking pictures, some people think when they are taking pictures … the shouldn’t think, thinking is bad for taking pictures. Thinking is good for conceptualizing. Taking pictures has to do with seeing things, being surprised, being interested, it is not about thinking, it is about discovering.” - Eliott Erwitt [...]

Purpose Photo Magazine

Purpose
What a wonderful discovery. Paul Demare, shared with me the link to Purpose, a great online photo-magazine. Check out the most recent issue here, and you will understand why I am both glad to learn about it and surprised that I did not discovered it until now. Purpose is published/edited in France but [...]

Flak Photo and The Reviews at Santa Fe

© Kathryn Parker Almanas
For anyone who reads this blog it will not come to a surprise if I say that one of the best sites in the web to enjoy photography and discover emerging talent is Flak Photo, run and edited by Andy Adams. This summer Flak Photo embarks in a wonderful effort [see here] [...]

Acces to Life: Magnum and the Global Fund to fight HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis.

© From Access to Life by  Alex Majoli [Magnum]
Remarkable collaboration between Magnum and  The Global Fund to fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV.
“Access to Life“, describes the impact of anti-retroviral treatments for HIV using the example of the life of 31 patients around the globe, portrayed before and 4 months after the initiation of treatment by [...]

Stephen Shore: the heroic articulation of the real

American Surfaces by Stephen Shore, book teaser at photo-eye.
“The heroic articulation of the real”, this is how photography historian Gerry Badger defined the photography of Stephen Shore. A great definition for a style of photography for which Stephen Shore became a pioneer and innovator. Few days ago I was happy to receive my copy of [...]

Luis Mallo, photography of patterns

© In Camera 2003-04, Luis Mallo
One of the qualities that makes images attractive to the viewer is the presence of patterns. Sometimes patterns are obvious, other times they can be inferred from the juxtaposition of different objects or subjects that convey the sense of a repetitive sequence. Visual patterns become far more interesting when they [...]

JP Jespersen

© JP Jespersen
Quite interesting images by JP Jespersen. Landscapes, night photography and don’t miss his family images and his blog.

© JP Jespersen

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Blending still images with video in photojournalism

© Ziv Koren
It is getting more popular these days. The blend of still photography, video, and music is a compelling way to expand the message in photojournalism. Israeli photographer, Ziv Koren is using this technique quite well. See examples here and the second video here.
Ziv Koren recently traveled to Guantánamo Bay on assignment for [...]