Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on March 31, 2007 | No Comments »
© Edward Burtynsky (Nickel Tailings)
Manufactured landscapes, the impressive work of Edward Burtynsky. A recent winner of the TED award (see his talk at the link), Ed made a wish. That wish was to encourage a worldwide conversation about the planet, its problems and their possible solutions. Ed chose Worldchanging.com as the way to kick-start that [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
by Stefan Beyst (from the series Auguries of Innocence)
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times - Raphael Soyer
This quote from the late painter Raphael Soyer comes to my mind when I see the photographic work of Stefan Beyst. Stefan, a Belgium based retired lecturer in [...]
Posted in Photography on March 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I found this site “Look at me” .. quite an interesting collection of old, forgotten and found pictures.
The following is from the “Look at me” website.
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LOOK AT ME is a collection of found photos.
These photos were either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or [...]
Posted in Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on March 24, 2007 | No Comments »
© Jose Cendon (An inmate of the Neuro-Psychiatric hospital of Kamenge in Bujumbura, is held in an isolation cell. Burundi, 24 March 2006)
© Jose Cendon (An inmate of the Neuro-Psychiatric hospital of Kamenge in Bujumbura dribbles inside an isolation cell. Burundi, 24 March 2006)
The Picture of the Year (POY 64th) awards have been announced. Among [...]
Posted in Books, Humanitarian Causes, Photographers, Photography on March 22, 2007 | No Comments »
© Phil Borges from “Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion, about the endangered people of Tibet”
I was inspired by Irving Penn’s classic portraits of native people, taken in front of seamless backgrounds. Although I usually include the background, it’s always secondary. These pictures are portraits of individuals, not representatives of some exotic group.- Phil Borges
One [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 20, 2007 | No Comments »
© Simon Hoegsberg
I was thinking that those Sneakers with extra peanuts taste really good, and then I actually think my hair had been cut rather well. I’ve just been at a new hairdresser. That was what I was contemplating just before going back to work. Yes, I was chewing my peanuts, and then I thought, [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 18, 2007 | No Comments »
© Eolo Perfido
Eolo Perfido, just 6 years behind the camera. He has it, he just speaks his own language with images, and others listen. Look at his images at his photo.net portfolio, flickr portfolio and his website. I bet I am not the only one impressed.
I arrived at photography quite late in my [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on March 15, 2007 | No Comments »
© Nick Brandt
I don’t know how I lasted so long before citing the work of one of my favorites photographers, Nick Brandt. From music video director to photographer of Africa’s disappearing animals (see images here). Nick Brandt has left his past as a videographer and emerged as a unique photographer [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 14, 2007 | No Comments »
© Jason Hindley
Winner of the annual PDN/Nikon self-promo awards for new talent in 2006, photographer Jason Hindley is in constant demand by agencies and art directors. Turning ordinary objects into pieces of art is his mastery. I am really impressed about his work. His website has a very interesting and unique design where [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Bono, Miami 1996 © Anton Corbijn
I call this the Bono Batman photo as he is wearing a batman neck chain and I do need to give photos of him a name as it is too confusing with so many photos of him in my files. He is the person I photographed more than anyone I [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 10, 2007 | No Comments »
by Monika Eichert
Today just to point you to the interesting portfolio of Monika Eichert in photo.net. I love her “paintery” images.
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 7, 2007 | No Comments »
© Gray Scott
I just listened to a delightful interview with photographer Gray Scott. He narrates his very interesting journey from painter, to make-up artist to photographer and how he used this different artistic media to express himself. The interview was published by the LightSource Studio Photography Podcast. You will find the mp3 posted there [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 6, 2007 | No Comments »
© Karim Ben Khelifa/Oeil Public
© Spencer Platt /Getty Images
Are these Lebanese, are these tourists, are these rich kids having a fun tour around a neighborhood hit by the missils? Who are them?.
These are the questions that many asked when the winning image of the World Press Photo of the Year 2006 was announced few weeks [...]
Posted in Photoblogs, Photographers, Photography on March 3, 2007 | No Comments »
© Amy Stein
Amy Steim series are interesting and beautiful. This image is from the series “stranded“. Her work has been selected to be exhibited at PhotoEspaña2007, May 3rd-July 22nd (Madrid). She also publishes a very interesting blog with frequent updates of her own work.
Stranded is a meditation on the tension and desolation found [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on March 1, 2007 | No Comments »
by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
I stumbled into the photography of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan while reading the T.O.P and Lens Culture Weblog posts about this amazing artist. His background as filmmaker with the use of “wide screen” framing appears to drive the influence for the use of panoramic photography in his latest work (Turkey [...]
