Your Invite to the, “A Matter of Time,” exhibition at the Brisbane Powerhouse
Here’s the official Brisbane Powerhouse e-invite to the, “A Matter of Time,” exhibition! It’s on both floors of the Powerhouse and runs from 26 March – 28 April! The opening should be a good night and I hope to see as many of you there on April 3 from 6 p.m.!
How to make your photography website work for you
I teach basic website building for photojournalists. I won’t call it design, because in these days of CMS, there are plenty of free and affordable customisable themes available for us visual communicators. When I started building websites in the mid-90s, it was all HTML. I started using PHP in the late 90s. I also started ...
Is a Good Story Enough?
I’ve just read a great blog about Ed Kashi, who was just in Montreal to present work at Dawson College as part of the World Press Photo – Montreal 2012 event. Dawson’s David Hopkins, a photographer himself and the author of the blog, does not shy away from the current dilemma facing professional visual storytellers—how ...
“A Greater Responsibility than Ever to Keep Telling the Truth,” – John G. Morris
This video interview is produced and published by Türkiye’de Zaman/Time in Turkey. Thank you. Eleven years ago, on a February afternoon, I had a surprise visitor to the photo office of The Prague Post, where I was the picture editor. We were still publishing photo stories in the paper (and beginning to explore multimedia online), ...
Multimedia of Poppy, Trails of Afghan Heroin
Poppy, trails of Afghan heroin from Metro Collective on Vimeo. Here is the short mutlimedia of Poppy, Trails of Afghan Heroin, by Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong.
New Photo Book: Poppy – Trails of Afghan Heroin by Robert Knoth & Antoinette de Jong
I’ve just watched the above Youtube video introduction of the 492 page opus, Poppy – Trails of Afghan Heroin by documentary team, Robert Knoth (photography) and Antoinette de Jong (writing), and read the review by Joerg Colberg here. Colberg claims it to be a “benchmark for the photojournalistic photo book.” From his video introduction of ...
HDR on the Front Page – a Photo Illustration Only
It’s happened. The Washington Post published a HDR (high dynamic range) image on their front page on January, 13, 2012. The justification of posting such an image (and quite a stunning image), which was included in the caption, was that the composite was meant to, “transcend the visual limitations of standard photography.” Digital photography has ...
New video and links to Fujifilm X-Pro 1
Fujifilm X-Pro 1 – (Pre Production) from Michael Fletcher on Vimeo. Coming from a sheepshed near you, photojournalist Michael Coyne and landscape photographer Christian Fletcher give the new Fujifilm X-Pro 1 a run-through. Looks like a step-up from the x100, addressing many of the issues discussed in my last blog (and discussed by every other ...
A New Tool: Testing out the Fuji X100
This above slide-show is in response to a challenge made to me by a colleague who shall remain nameless. We met up at an exhibition and I had the camera on my shoulder. “What on EARTH did you buy that thing for?” A series of expletives describing the camera followed. I smiled politely through the ...
Guardians of the Tongass: Documentary Photographer Julie Denesha
Documentary photographer, Julie Denesha, has published a website, Guardians of the Tongass: On water and land with forest rangers in the Tongass National Forest, of the work she made while following the rangers of the Tongass National Forest during an artist residency in Alaska. Julie traveled alongside the rangers, patrolling the park on foot, in ...
