A Day of Silence
Sleeping With The Enemy
In this months issue of The Digital Journalist Mark Loundy writes about a very serious issue in our industry; the lack of decent paying gigs for photographers. The media companies are laughing at us. Our craft seems to have been reduced to a commodity. Unfortunately we’re only making their job easier.
Photographers who accept jobs for little or no pay, sign Work For Hire contracts and fail to abide by shrewd business practices are sleeping with the enemy. The belief that the slave wage paid to them now will expand into a career later is ludicrous.
Ilford put out a press release stating that Ilfochrome (formerly known as Cibachrome) will be distributed to camera stores in the USA and Canada by Photo Blog Project: Submit Your Sites
Brian Auer over at Epic Edits Weblog has come up with a neat little project for us photo-bloggers to get the word out about our sites…
“I propose we do a little blog project that will allow everyone to share their sites with the other readers. Nothing major – I just want to get a roundup of all your sites and post them here with a link and a description for all the other readers to see. Plus I’d like to add your sites to my arsenal of feeds that I digest every day.”
After the you submit you site and the article is posted, Brian will email everyone the list in html in the hopes that we will publish it as well. This is NOT a requirement to be listed. However if everyone who submits republishes the list, we all benefit from the links and the visibility.
Deadline is set for May 2nd. So go submit your sites…
Quotes: Dorothea Lange
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
-Dorothea Lange
Getting Out Of Hand
I think it has become overwhelmingly apparent that the photographer’s love of gear has gotten way out of hand.
Is this a camera or a rocket launcher?
Shapes and Abstractions: #10 Scaffolding
Magnum Front Page
Magnum has been at the top for 60 years now, and to commemorate the anniversary, it is making an offer to newspapers worldwide. Magnum will deliver a photo of the paper’s choosing, free, if they place the photo on the front page. Deemed “Magnum Front Page,” the only requirement being that the photo is credited to the photographer followed by “Magnum Photos / 60th Anniversary.”
Quotes: Yousuf Karsh
If it’s a likeness, alone, it’s not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind–if you see a photograph and say, ‘Yes, this is the person,’ with a little new insight–that is a beautiful experience.-Yousuf Karsh
Shapes and Abstractions: #9 Minimalism
Telephone Pole. 35mm @ f/8 – Tri-X Pan, ISO 320
Maintaining Insanity
15 Ways to Maintain A Healthy Level of Insanity
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Put you garbage can on your desk and label in “Inbox”.
3. Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, “Sorry, I really prefer it this way”.
4. Walk sideways to the photocopier.
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.