While looking for a story about climate change in North America, photographer Nina Berman stumbled upon a tiny subject with a huge impact. The Mountain Pine Beetle is an 8 mm-long (about 1/3 of an inch) insect that is killing millions of acres of forest across Canada and the northern United States. Continue reading »
Nov 142009
LEICA ANNOUNCES NEW M9 CAMERA – Packed with a full-frame sensor that records 18-megapixels, the new M9 camera will be available at the end of September for around $7,000. Here’s a review.
Sep 012009
The Los Angeles Times has compiled a number of high-resolution, staff photographs of the Station Fire raging in the Angeles National Forest in southern California. Continue reading »
Jun 052009
The National Press Photographers Association’s annual Convergence conference, which includes the Multimedia Immersion workshop, Women in Photojournalism seminars and the Visual Journalism seminars, starts early Saturday morning at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Continue reading »
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Photo by James Jowers (American b. 1938) made in Tompkins Square Park in 1967.
The George Eastman House has put a number of photographs from its collections on Flickr. The majority of images on Flickr are from individual collections that have donated photographs and copyrights to the museum.
Photographer James Hill narrates a slideshow of farming photographs from Russia on the New York Times website. The story, which has been repeated on every continent, is about a how modernization in the farm industry is affecting the workers and their way of life.
It’s an interesting show but the photographs aren’t unexpected. Hill has some nice moments sprinkled through the story. One example is a photograph of a young Russian woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt shopping among traditionally dressed, older, farm women, one of who eyes her wearily.
Hill’s photographic strength lies in his ability to put the broad landscape of agrarian Russia into visual order. This is an audio slideshow worth viewing.