It’s an as moving as powerful photographic essay by Angelo Merendino, husband of late Jennifer Merendino. On My Wife’s Fight With Breast Cancer, Merendino follows Jennifer through all the stages of the deadly cancer with his camera, photographing an unadorned eyewitness account of silent pain and his wife slowly falling apart. The images are never […]
Inspired Eye is now in it’s 4th issue and only growing stronger and better. In 138 spreads, the PDF magazine guides you through interviews, articles and tutorials. The unique layout of the magazine has already been ripped off and is designed to bring you closer to your own photography by exposing yourself to other’s photography. […]
On Photography by writer, filmmaker and aktivist Susan Sontag remains a cultural classic of the most timeless kind, with every reading unfolding timelier and timelier insights as our visual vernacular continues to evolve. Complement it with 100 Ideas That Changed Photography and Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, and you come to understand what happened […]
Everyone likes good food. Food photography — some call it foodtography — is not something always whetting one’s appetite. This however is food like you’ve never seen before. The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, an amazing photography book for food, is not if you’re looking for recipes. You get enthusiastic descriptions — of food photographs. Nathan […]
These are some great inspiring time witnesses and documents: long forgotten videos with Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviewing some of the greats of American photography. Recorded in 1981, the series portrays the iconic photographers Arnold Newman, Elliott Erwitt, Garry Winogrand, Horst P. Horst, Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer, Duane Michals, Cornell Capa, Burk Uzzle and Joel Meyerowitz. Especially […]
Soft, mellow photographs like watercolor paintings, taken by Julian Lennon, son of the iconic father. Lennon doesn’t set his images up. He calls his photography “a lot more random.” Isn’t that, in essence, the smartphone’s snapping approach. Nope. He finds a level of peace and calmness, Lennon says. He just tries to be more aware. […]
Take a cloudy day, a quasi black-and-white motif with dominant dark and light tones — and any camera. Et voilà, without any post-processing, you end up with unintentional black-and-white photography. Subject/object of this series is the marble and granite mountain church San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, Valle Maggia, Switzerland, by well-known architect Mario Botta. Near […]
The other night, at a gala dinner, I dropped into some fashion models. With the camera at home, the iPhone was completely overwhelmed. It resulted in a totally failed image that breaks about all known rules of photography basics — but has kind of something to it. Made me think of Edgar Degas’ Danseuses Bleues. […]
This is a must see video for every photographer. Meet some of the National Geographic photographers who want people to remember their pictures, not their names or what they look like. It’s a video interview with 44 photographers talking about how they found photography, and why they never left. Everyone thinks they must have the […]
It’s always heartening to see people still swearing by film even though filters and plugins give an exactly same look. Here’s an upcoming documentary — probably shot on digital — exploring the continuing fascination with analog photography. Indie Film Lab, a small U.S. film lab, has teamed up with (now called) Kodak Alaris. The documentary, […]
Want to surprise him or her? What about a camera tattoo. You’re the first among your friends, promised. Hesitating? Hey, you’d not be the first after all. Here’s a selection of some of the finest camera examples that go under the skin. Maybe you have all the gear. But you sure don’t have a camera […]
Lee Miller, one of the most perceptive photographers of the 20th century, epitomizes freedom, and I mean freedom of choice in every respect. She always did what she wanted to do. Whether she was shooting the atrocities of World War II or the latest collections from Paris, her eye was unflinching. A new book, Lee […]
While Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson experienced the intense joy of new life and fatherhood with the birth of his first child, a son, his father was diagnosed with lung cancer. With life and death so close to each other, it seemed obvious to Anderson to explore the bliss of life and tragedy of death with […]
It may be a sign of our photoshopped times that many don’t trust their own eyes anymore. Everything can be completely fabricated in Photoshop. Take Paul Hansen’s Gaza Burial, awarded the World Press Photo of 2013. Many say it’s doctored, the light’s just too perfect. Now here comes a cute innocent little frog clinging to […]
The New York Times’ Lens Blog just published a beautiful two-part series with journalist and filmmaker Sheila Turner-Seed interviewing Henri Cartier-Bresson in his Paris studio in 1971. The interview was only discovered in 2011. Not much to add. You have to read the whole thing for yourself. Straight-forward answers of a blessed photographer who never […]
By YORGOS EFTHYMIADIS Daniel, thank you very much for your time and for giving emerging artists from around the world the opportunity to present their projects to a wider audience! My main body of work is titled This Must Be the Place and it is a critical and curious response to being submerged in a […]
There goes Eve. She’s wearing only head, chin and arm ornaments. Balancing on a fallen tree trunk, she crosses a stretch of jungle water. In search of Adam? Eve is not Eve but a member of the Zo’é tribe in Brazil. But the famous photographer, Sebastião Salgado, presents the young beauty in Old Testament style: […]
Must confess, am probably the biggest fan of Inspired Eye, a mind-blowing, mind-altering and mind-opening feast for the discerning photographer. It’s been called “The Leica of Magazines,” and as its curators, photographers Don Springer and Olivier Duong, say themselves, “For the price of a latte, you get a magazine that helps you develop your photography.” […]
By ALINA RUDYA “Prypyat Mon Amour” (2011-2012) is a project that documents photographer Alina Rudya’s journey back to her hometown of Prypyat, Ukraine, which she and her family evacuated in 1986 following the nuclear power plant catastrophe at Chernobyl. At the time, Prypyat was a young and small town built three kilometes away from Chernobyl […]
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 […]
Nah, you never feel restless, are always in perfect harmony with people and your surroundings and your body can take it all. Seriously, being on an shooting assignment can be one of the most exhausting tasks. Depending on the climate you’re soon covered in sweat, full of dust and tired — or you have to […]
I actually wanted to write an article about George R. Lawrence, the extreme photographer with the giant camera: around 1900 Lawrence built the world’s largest camera after he got an order from the Chicago & Alton Railroad company to show their new and long trains on one single photograph. Well Lawrence built a camera heavier […]
By CHRIS KOVACS Adore Noir is a fine art PDF black-and-white photography magazine which was conceived in February 2011 by husband and wife team Chris and Sandra Kovacs. In just over two years they have produced thirteen issues and have featured emerging, established and world renowned photographers. It is this eclectic mix along with Adore […]
As some of you might know, I’m based in Bangkok. An Thai actor, Vithaya “Pu” Pansringarm who plays the Oscar-worthy lead supporting role in the latest Ryan Gosling flick Only God Forviges, over a few bottles of red wine drew my attention to this short movie called True Skin, directed by Stephan Zlotescu who’s envisaging […]
For years indie photographer Mike Brodie traveled with dropouts, adventurers, homeless and freedom seekers on freight trains across America. Now his first photobook A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is published — the book is a ride as wild as inspiring. It’s not the work of a few happy shoots, but of many years of ardent, […]
So many photo blogs out there. A photo a day, travels, reflections, whatever can be photographed has its own dedicated blogs. Now this one’s unique: What Ali Wore by Melbourne photographer Zoe Spawton is devoted exclusively to Ali, an 83-year-old migrant gentleman who lives in Berlin, fathered 18 children and owns nearly a hundred suits. […]
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 […]
This story serves as a reminder to what great length early photographers went. Well the equipment was not exactly portable. Some of the early photography pioneers would risk their lives for a good picture. In 1900, the Kolb Brothers founded the first Grand Canyon studio and took some spectacular pictures. They dangled over slopes and […]
Priceless views of a nanny… A new documentary tells the life of unknown street photographer Vivian Maier who in New York and Chicago from the 50s onwards shot photos with her Rolleiflex that she zealously hid from the eyes of others. Taking snapshots into the late 1990s, Maier would leave behind a body of work […]
This is not only for our French friends. Yes, this documentary on Henri Cartier-Bresson is in French. It’s as visually remarkable as surprising in many aspects. The documentary dates back to 1976, four years after HCB gave up photography. But he was willing to once again pick up his Leica (actually two Leicas each with […]
