Memoto has been making an appearance at the SXSW 2013 festival over the past week. When founders arrived at the show last Thursday, they wore two of the tiny lifelogging cameras they’ve been developing. The devices snapped one photo ever thirty seconds, and the duo soon amassed tens of thousands […]
Unsharp Mask: the sharpening filter of choice for photographers everywhere. It’s a fantastic tool that can really take an image to the next level when used correctly and I’m here to tell you that you should never use it again. That’s right, bid it a fond adieu and stop using […]
New Zealand photographer, Amos Chapple, made three visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran between December 2011 and January 2013. Chapple “was amazed by the difference in western perceptions of the country and what I saw on the ground ” He goes on to say that every traveller he met inside […]
Japanese photographer Satoki Nagata moved to Chicago in 1992 to document the city and its people. His background is in neuroscience (he has a PhD in the field), but his passion is creating intimate documentary photography projects in his city.
During a recent winter, Nagata decided to try his hand at […]
At a launch event in NYC last night, Samsung unveiled its latest flagship smartphone: the Galaxy S4. It’s a phone that looks remarkably similar to its predecessor, and one that is heavily geared toward photography. Having just launched a smartphone-style compact camera, the Galaxy Camera, Samsung appears to have stuffed […]
In many ways, photographer Yao Lu uses conflict as a way to achieve harmony.
At first glance, his work that began in 2006, titled “New Landscapes,” looks like photographs of traditional Chinese paintings.
In fact, the images are carefully reconstructed mounds of trash Lu has digitally manipulated to look like rural mountain […]
by Jonathan Blaustein
I got home rather late last night. The trip back from London took 22 hours, all told. I was lucky to avoid jet lag while in Europe, but at the moment it’s difficult to remember how to type. My brain is working slowly, like a magpie building a […]
UPDATE: You can see the results of this shoot on Laurie Reuben’s site, here.
Still riffing on Monday’s post about studio-vs.-location, here’s another reason I am not a big fan of studios. You can replicate them pretty much anywhere, and for almost nothing.
The photographer Paolo Woods began a career as a photojournalist, in his words, “rather late.”
He isn’t in a rush to catch up, though he has rapidly built a portfolio of fascinating and deeply researched projects around the world including Iran, China, Afghanistan, and Russia.
Woods worked in the fine art world […]
We emailed Art Buyers and Art Producers around the world asking them to submit names of established photographers who were keeping it fresh and up-and-comers who they are keeping their eye on. If you are an Art Buyer/Producer or an Art Director at an agency and want to submit a […]
I don’t make big plans because they run a high risk of failure. Instead, I make small plans and let them grow. So I have no big plans but about a zillion small ones. I am very curious to see how far they will grow.
–Barara Pocek
via MULL IT OVER. […]
The 41st Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race came to an end yesterday in Nome, Alaska. Mitch Seavey, 53, with his team of ten dogs, became the oldest musher ever to win the 1,000-mile race across the Alaskan wilderness in just over 9 days, 7 hours. Last year his son, Dallas, […]
There was a time when Nina Katchadourian was a master at the memory game.
“I was obsessed with that game,” Katchadourian said. “It’s so humbling. I was really good as a kid, and now I can have my ass kicked by my cousin’s 5-year-old kid; that game is so hard now.”
But […]
The shoreline — of the sea, lakes, and rivers — is a dynamic interface of civilization and the natural world. It exerts a powerful draw on us. That transition space holds beauty and carries risk, the zone where we at once embrace and battle the environment in which we exist. […]
Millions of Kenyans poured into polling stations on March 4, to cast their ballots in a crucial presidential election. Voter turnout was tremendous, starting hours before dawn, with lines of voters stretching nearly a mile long. Some voters waited nine hours on their feet in the hot sun to cast […]
I very rarely review gadgets on this site. But this is something that may be new to many of you.
When I travel I try to take as little gear as humanly possible. But the Tekkeon MP1580, seen above at bottom right, is on my must-take short list every time […]
