Category Archives: Blog News

Mr Toledano will see you now

Excellent video interview over on WTJ? with Mr. Toledano.

VII Adds Photographers to Network and Mentor Programs

Lynsey Addario, Ziyah Gafić, and Seamus Murphy have been invited to join VII Network and  Adam Ferguson to join VII Mentor Program. He will be mentored by Christopher Morris.

Light breakfast - David Sykes Photography

This latest piece of personal work is all shot in one shot on 5×4 transparency. I commissioned a model maker Ridley West to make a giant plate that we could attach to the wall and with the help of Jennie Webster who sourced some amazing balloons this shot was the result.
via David Sykes Photography News.

Cannes Lions, Press Grand Prix

FFL Paris won the press Grand Prix for its Wrangler campaign shot by Ryan McGinley
(here)

Jeff Goodby: ‘We are Becoming Irrelevant Award-Chasers’

We’ve created a system that rewards work that is increasingly unknown to anyone outside the business. We have become connoisseurs of esoterica. And in the process, we’re becoming more about us, and less about changing the world.
Read the rest on  Advertising Age.

Reader’s Digest Moves Right of Middle-America

“They are brands that may not be considered cool by the often elitist and self-absorbed standards of New York media,”
via- NYTimes.com(here)

Too much free

The first time a previously expensive good or service is made free, we’re drawn to it precisely because of the freeness. The fifth time or tenth time, not so much.
- via Seth’s Blog: Too much free.

Use Their Work Free? Artists Say No to Google

“Both of these jobs were high-profile and gave my work great exposure but both clients still paid me.”
Melinda Beck, an illustrator who is based in Brooklyn, wrote in an e-mail message to Google rejecting its offer for exposure instead of cash (right here).

Photography Might Be More Essential Than We Realize

“As our visual education and proficiency continues to increase over time, it will be important for newspapers and magazines to captivate us and draw us in by using photographs in even more powerful and creative ways, let’s hope they are up to the challenge.”
via « Horses Think.

Video From Look3 Festival Of The Photograph

John Harrington is filing video reports from the Look3 Festival of the Photography in Charlottesville, Virginia (here).

The Daily Show Checks Out The New York Times

Photobook Reviews

A nice addition to the blog-o-sphere is Douglas Stockdale’s, the photobook blog (here). He’s nearing 50 reviews and has lots of resources for photobook lovers.

Found it on Exposure Compensation (here).

Tomas Van Houtryve - North Korea - Secrets and Lies

More (here).

#1 cause of client dissatisfaction when working with talent

“If you’re going to do this [give someone as clean a sheet of paper as possible], you have an obligation to use what you get, because your choice was hiring this person, not in judging the work you got when you didn’t have the insight to give them clear direction in the first place.”
via Seth’s [...]

Q&A Series: Loyality vs. New Talent?

“Regardless of the economy, we always reach out to the best photographer for the job. Over the years I’ve found that there isn’t a shooter out there who won’t do everything in their power to work within the budgets I have.”
–Kellie Bingman, Art Buying Supervisor, McKinney
via Stone Thrower.

2009 Editorial Photographers Education Grants

In an effort to recognize and support emerging photographers, Editorial Photographers [EP], a non-profit mutual benefit organization, is pleased to announce our second annual student photography competition (here).

Colbert on Newspapers

“Newspapers are an important part of our lives, not to read, of course, but, when you’re moving you can’t wrap your dishes in a blog.”
– Stephen Colbert
via CJR.

Norfolk was ‘furious’ about the National Trust’s actions

“I was furious that my reputation, and that of the three other photographers, was apparently being used to sucker in amateur photographers to spend the summer filling the hard drives of a new National Trust picture library – all of which the Trust would be able to reuse and resell to generate profits.”
– Simon [...]