Excellent video interview over on WTJ? with Mr. Toledano.
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Mr Toledano will see you nowExcellent video interview over on WTJ? with Mr. Toledano.
VII Adds Photographers to Network and Mentor ProgramsLynsey 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 PhotographyThis 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.
Cannes Lions, Press Grand PrixFFL Paris won the press Grand Prix for its Wrangler campaign shot by Ryan McGinley

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


