42 years ago today, two of our generation’s greatest photojournalists died in Laos. AP photojournalist Henri Huet and LIFE magazine’s Larry Burrows were killed at the Vietnam-Laos border near Ben Het, where they were waiting for a chance to cover South Vietnamese forces attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail inside Laos. They were killed along […]
By KAREL VAN WOLFEREN You must have noticed that as popular cameras became smaller, to almost everyone’s delight, the lenses became bigger. Greater portability of one is offset by more weight of the other; unnecessarily heavy normal focal length lenses, some of them pretty monstrous. Could this involve some heretofore unknown law of nature, deserving […]
Robert Capa, the greatest war photographer of the last century, was also a shrewd storyteller – and not just with the camera. His images of war and crisis areas went around the world, especially his photograph of the Falling Soldier. The image that shows a Spanish freedom fighter at the moment of his death has […]
“If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” Right, it’s the modern photojournalist’s golden mantra. It’s the leitmotiv of Robert Capa, one of the most influential photographers of all time who marks his 100th birthday on October 22. The late Robert Capa’s photographs of conflict — from the beaches of Normandy and the […]
Nikon, world’s second largest camera maker behind Canon, has inaugurated its newest DSLR manufacturing facility in Savan-Seno, a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. The grand opening on Sept. 23, 2013, laid the foundation for cheaper camera production costs. Just don’t hold your breath for DSLR prices to come down. […]
German magazine Spiegel has an excellent interview with photographer Roger Ballen, a black-and-white film photographer for nearly 50 years who believes that he’s part of the last generation that will grow up with this media. Black and white, says Balen, is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic […]
In my earlier days I worked as a tour guide, traveling the world to finance my studies. On one tour to Vietnam an elder man was in the group. He was the one who seemed to enjoy the trip the most. This was all pre-digital times, but while the other tour members were busy with […]
By OLIVIER DUONG In this tutorial I am presupposing that you are using Adobe Lightroom for your street photography. But every program that allows you to mess with your curves will able to reproduce the results. Step 1: Load Your Picture Load your photo in Lightroom and clean it up if need be (spots, dust, […]
By DAVID HOLLIDAY Cambodia is a very interesting place to be a photographer at present. It slowly climbs out of the period in history so full of horror and darkness into a vibrant and happening place that is quickly developing. People say it is booming now. It certainly has changed in the three years I […]
Joseph Rodriguez was a 20-year-old heroin addict when he was released from prison for the second time. Through photography he found his voice. The Latino from Brooklyn, New York, documents stories the lives of social outcasts. Today Joseph Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed and award winning American documentary photographer whose visual storytelling even lets him […]
The photo of a naked girl fleeing from a napalm cloud is one of the classic symbols of the Vietnam War. A historian analyses the image-related connotations and criticizes the media. Should a photographer — or any journalist for that — help victims of atrocities while trying to perform his or her duty of reporting? […]
Horst Faas, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who later was editor of the Associated Press staff in Saigon that produced the most haunting photographs of the Vietnam War, died on May 10, 2012, in his native Germany. He was 79. Faas survived many conflicts and wars. He was at the front of documenting terror and […]
Many photographers are conflicted about the iPhone’s place in photography. For many it’s a toy that even lacks a dedicated shutter button. Yet which photographer isn’t tired of lugging equipment around. These days some photographers even use the iPhone to shoot assignments. Photojournalism has become phone photography. Phono journalism, anyone? The best camera is the […]