Friday, July 25th, 2008
In a Reuters blog, photographer Andy Clark, who has traveled to the West Indies for 15 years now, tells us what it’s like to cover “Cricket, lovely cricket…”
see more Reuters blog explores the lovely game of crickethere
Friday, July 25th, 2008
National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz captured the beauty of Bolivia in this photo gallery called The Altiplano and Bolivia’s New Order.
see more Photo gallery features Bolivia’s beautyhere
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Photo District News’ pdnonline features a story and slideshow on embedded freelance war photojournalist Zoriah Miller, who was covering the war in Iraq, then asked to leave after publishing photos of dead U.S. Marines in his blog.
see more Embedded photographer asked to leavehere
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Photo District News and National Geographic Traveler have teamed up to produce The Great Outdoors 2008 Gallery.
see more The Great Outdoors 2008 Gallery postedhere
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry produced a fine batch of images to go with a story on the Kingman Reef.
see more National Geographic features photography from the Kingman Reefhere
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Version 3.7 of Photoshop Action Pack, a set of free (donations accepted) Automator Actions for Mac OS X 10.4 and later that enable the creation of Automator workflows for Photoshop CS3, is now available. The release adds two new Actions, one to change a layer’s blending mode, another to copy IPTC metadata into Spotlight comments, and refines several others. Photoshop Action Pack 3.7 is comprised of 90 Automator Actions in all.
see more Ben Long releases Photoshop Action Pack v3.7here
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Coming quickly on the heels of Hasselblad’s 50MP H3DII-50 announcement, Phase One has today revealed that their upcoming P65+ digital back and P65+ camera will feature a 53.9mm x 40.4mm sensor manufactured by Dalsa that will produce 60.48 million image pixel photos at full resolution. P65+ products are to ship in the fourth quarter of 2008.
see more Phase One to ship 60.48 million image pixel system later this yearhere
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Nguyen Quoc Khanh fell ill last year with tuberculosis at his home in Vietnam and soon discovered he had HIV. By then he was too weak to work and support his family.
Khanh had been a longtime heroin user and likely contracted the virus that causes AIDS through shared needles. The illness put Khanh, his wife and two children who all shared a single room at risk of losing their last shreds of dignity. But only a few months later, after Khanh began taking antiretroviral drugs, he regained his strength, returned to work and brought new hope to his home.
The exhibit is a timely one. It comes as Congress considers a dramatic increase in U.S. contributions for the Global Fund, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and other programs to fight AIDS and HIV in developing nations.
The devastation AIDS causes around the world is well known, said Natasha Bilimoria, executive director of the group Friends of the Global Fight. “But the tremendous effort that has begun all over the world to basically bring those who are sentenced to death from HIV back to life is actually not well-recognized at all,” she said.
Photojournalist Larry Towell documented the recovery of several people in South Africa and Swaziland. Towell and other photographers on the project worked with curators on presenting the stories in the exhibit. Towell included video and photos, along with captions he wrote in pencil on the gallery walls.
Some subjects in the project did not survive long enough for a second visit from the photographers. But the images show dramatic improvements among those who joined support groups and received medication in time.
The presence of the photographers for weeks on end was a risk for subjects such as the Khanh family in Vietnam. The family runs a food stand selling porridge and rice cakes, and their income dropped as people noticed the photographer, generating rumors about Khanh’s health.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
De website Face On, uitwerking van een tentoonstelling met portretten van Getty-fotografen die deze week nog is te zien in het Fotomuseum Antwerpen, heeft een ‘merit award’ gewonnen bij de European Design Awards.
De website biedt een bijzonder interactief programma. Bezoekers kunnen niet alleen foto’s aan de virtuele museumwand bekijken, ze kunnen ook zelf portretten uploaden.
Het ontwerp van de site is van Louise-Lotte Brekelmans van de firma Boondoggle, gemaakt in opdracht van Getty Images.
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