Posted in Books, Photography on December 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Cover Image: Uluru Rock, Australia, by Art Wolfe
As the new year approaches here it goes an idea for you all … take a picture of your land/home/city at day break of the New Years day, January 1st, 2007. This idea came to me when I recalled a beautiful book published to celebrate the begging of [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on December 29, 2006 | No Comments »
by Ellen Kooi
Ellen Kooi is a Dutch photographer with a beautiful and unique instinct to visualize and blend people with the landscape. Her work at first sight may look like common, everyday situations but some images are quite surreal scenes of people interacting with the landscape. In all, she manages to preserve a [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on December 28, 2006 | No Comments »
by Ruth Orkin
One of the most beautiful and well known street photographs, American Girl in Italy by Ruth Orkin, was partially staged.
On August 22, 1951, on the Piazza della Repubblica in Florence, Ruth Orkin snapped this image a photograph that made her career. At the time Orkin was a 29 year-old aspiring photojournalist traveling alone [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on December 24, 2006 | No Comments »
by Chuck Close
Chuck Close, painter, printmaker, and photographer has published stunning daguerreotypes in a beautiful book: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something.
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This cloth-bound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized [...]
Posted in Humanitarian Causes on December 23, 2006 | No Comments »
“Almost giving happens when good thought and intentions don’t turn into actions”
A poweful message, a beautiful campaign, don’t almost give.
The Generous Nation campaign PSAs demonstrate what happens when people almost give, with the hope to inspire more giving. The Generous Nation campaign is designed to inspire Americans to translate their everyday compassion and good [...]
Posted in Humanitarian Causes, Photographers on December 20, 2006 | No Comments »
Ken Meeks, AIDS patient, three days before dying.- Alon Reininger (Contact Press)
I did not want to do just a story about Ken Meeks. Ken was a character in a bigger story. He knew that I was taking his picture in a broader context. It just happened that I took a picture of him [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on December 18, 2006 | No Comments »
by Jack Bridges
For two years photographer Jack Bridges spent his time getting to know the people and the problems in the Robert Taylor Chicago Homes. This resulted in a collection of beautiful images that you can see at Jack Bidges’s site.
This is a photograph of a young man pointing his 22 rifle directly at [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on December 16, 2006 | No Comments »
by Jill Greenberg
Jill Greenberg, one of the most success commercial photographers at the moment, conceived the idea of photographing children crying back in 2004. She related the emotional impact to the despair of seeing G.W. Bush become reelected in 2004 and called it End Times.
I saw this little girl who’d come to a party [...]
Posted in Humanitarian Causes, Photographers on December 14, 2006 | No Comments »
by Michael Thompson
Fashion-celebrity photographer Michael Thompson, who began his career assisting the legendary Irvin penn, shot the beautiful and original images for the campaign “I Am African“, in partnership with Conde Nast. See the images here. Possibly you have seen the images in magazines few months ago, but I wanted to link to this work [...]
Posted in Exhibits, Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on December 11, 2006 | No Comments »
by Kristen Ashburn
The power of inspiration and purpose … Bloodine by Kristen Ashburn.
I began this project to give a voice to the people behind the statistcs- Kristen Ashburn
The AIDS pandemic continues to devastate sub-Saharan Africa. Two million people died from the disease in 2005 alone. Twelve million children have lost at least one parent. The [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers on December 10, 2006 | No Comments »
by Michael Yamashita
I believe it was God’s will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as [...]
Posted in Photographers on December 8, 2006 | No Comments »
by Jamie Kripke
This image is a composite of two shoots from different times and places. The coffee cups and the car were assembled in Photoshop. See the original images at Jamie’s site, in the gallery named composites. The gallery “places” shows some interesting work of ordinary stuff and places.
When I was sixteen, my [...]
Posted in Books, Humanitarian Causes, Photographers on December 6, 2006 | No Comments »
Gilda Manuel Mate with her children at their home in Mabote, Mozambique. Gilda is HIV-positive and a spokesperson in the fight against AIDS - Steve Simon
Photojournalist Steve Simon just published a new book, Heroines and Heroes: Hope, HIV, and Africa. The book, is the product of four trips to Africa that Simon has [...]
Posted in Humanitarian Causes, Photographers on December 2, 2006 | No Comments »
By Brent Stirton (Getty Images)
As a follow up from my last post about Brent Stirton I wanted to link to an article just published at PDNonline decribing Brent’s coverage of HIV around the world, in particular in locations where no public programs to prevent and care for the disease exist. Yesterday, December 1st, was [...]
