The NY Times is sponsoring the 2008 Polling Place Photo Project. Established in 2006, the project collects photographs taken at polling places around the country (and overseas, in some cases) on Election Day. While the sponsors describe the goal as demonstrating the diversity of American voting, it seems there is also a effort to bring [...]
I got wind of this from an email that showed up in my inbox over the weekend, so caveat emptor. Instituto Terra is auctioning off a trip for two with Sebastião Salgado and his wife, Lélia, though that doesn’t include airfare to get to Sao Paolo and then to Vitoria (even though Vitoria seems much [...]
Capa said that if your pictures weren’t good enough, that’s because you weren’t close enough. Get this close to the epicentre of history and your pictures are bound to look pretty bad, as if they’re being blown apart. The irrefutable truth of the image – I was there – overrides all aesthetic and technical concerns.
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Formerly “Remain in the Light”, Shane Lavalette’s retitled and reformatted project “Lay Flat” is just about to step into the limelight. Problem is, it needs subway fare to get to the ball. Shane’s soliciting donor contributions to bootstrap the first issue by covering printing and distribution fees. The first issue features a substantial list of [...]
After a much lamented and commented on absence at his own blog. Alec Soth has picked up the blogging reins at Magnum. His first post asks for input on what readers would like to see in that space. Personally, I’d like to hear about pre-shoot thinking process. And post-shoot editorial process. What I don’t want [...]
A clip from the BBC’s “Genius of Photography”.
(via words on photography)
