Lighting 101

World Press Photo winners announced

The winners of the World Press Photos of the Year award were announced today. Anthony Suau won the top honor with this photo from his story about home foreclosures in Cleveland.

Sadly though, as Gawker points out, he is currently seeking employment. Other winners include (ICP instructor) Jonathan Torgovnik, Pep Bonet, Chen Qinggan, and Walter Astrada, among many others.

As per usual (in my ever-so-humble opinion), some were fantastic, some were groundbreaking, some were “meh,” and a few were “and this is here…why?”. My personal “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” moment is Roger Cremers’ story on people visiting the memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau fitting into the “Arts and Entertainment” category. Altogether though, a very interesting collection of images that can be seen here as I’m sure my highly copyright infringing photo up top will be removed any second now. Enjoy!

matt

Helpful links from multimedia class with bob sacha

Interactive Narratives

Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists from around the country and the world. Our goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging storytelling, and eye-popping design in an environment that fosters interaction, discussion, and learning.

Radio Lab
Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, each hour-long show focuses on a topic of a scientific and philosophical nature, through stories, interviews, and thought experiments. The show attempts to approach broad, difficult topics such as “time” and “morality” in an accessible and light-hearted manner. Its audio production style is distinctive, often using rapid edits to construct an expository conversation. The credits are generally read by people who were interviewed or featured on the show, rather than by the hosts.

Radiolab is produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City. The show is nationally syndicated, and is also available as a podcast.

Transom
Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.

The Inauguration of Barack Obama

The day has come and gone but memories still remain. I just wanted to share this wonderful essay by photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz. Just click on the photo and it will direct you to the site.

      Copyright: Mustafah Abdulaziz

The PGB Photo Award

I discovered this photo contest when my fellow lightstalker buddies posted this. Please go ahead and see if it is of any interest to you guys. The deadline is January 4th, so it is fast approaching! Below is the link:

And here is the link if you want to find more information about it.

UNICEF Photo of the Year

UNICEF photo of the year award winner has been announced. I checked some of the other work from the finalists and honorable mentions. Worth a look; just click on the photo below.

Copyright: Alicer Smeets

Website do’s and dont’s

For those of you who are thinking of  launching a website or are in the process, should check out this article from PDN online. I found it very helpful:

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000807896

“Worst Photograph Ever Made”

PDN online had an interesting review about Annie Leibovitz’s latest photo adventure. Here is the link, see if you agree.

Here is the shoot that they are referring too.
http://www.lavazza2009.com/

Robert Frank: Snapshots from the American Road

A great article from The New York Times that is worth checking out.
Here is the link to the article 
The Multimedia piece with audio interviews is below.

 

Hitler Rants on Nikon Dx3

this may be one reason to stick with Canons 5DmarkII

my favorite multimedia

I created a blog for my favorite multimedia peices from different sources which will be updated weekly.
http://mcandrea.wordpress.com

American Road Trip

click here for on hard times by washington post

Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress

The 37th Frame- Celebrating the Best of Photojounalism

wwww.the37thframe.org
The 37th Frame is dedicated to bringing readers the best of the photojournalism on the internet. We will search the web sites of newspapers, magazine and the best independent photojournalists around the world and post links to the work.

Readers are encouraged to email us with suggestions to share with the rest of our community. We welcome comments and discussion on the posts.

The 37th Frame is a distributor (rather than a publisher) of third party material. We provide a summary and/or excerpts from work published on other sites and provide credit as well as links to the original published work as referenced.

_in the future we can contribute our long term projects to them
_in the mean time this is a great place to stop on the world wide web for inspiration
_in addition you can subscribe to their email newsletter.

Hotel Poverty by Shane Bauer

In 2008, “Hotel Poverty” received 1st place for independent audio slideshow features in the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism contest.  When thinking about a long term project which adresses poverty I think this piece is a great example for us.

Martin Parr: Talk and Book Signing

Martin Parr
Artist’s Talk and Book Signing

6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway
New York, New York
(212) 473-1452

FREE

Magnum Holiday Book Party

Magnum Holiday Book Party
Book signing and Reception

7:00 p.m.
Monday, December 15, 2008

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(212) 505-5555

FREE

NPR: Snap Judgements

NPR’s On the Media talking about ethics for portrait photographers. They have short interviews with Jill Greenberg, Platon, among others. Worth a listen. Link provided by Ilana Panich-Linsman

Magnum Photographer: Bruce Gilden on the Streets

Marie Claire wanted me to share this with the rest of the class. It is magnum photographer Bruce Gilden flashing away in the streets of New York. Its an interesting look into how he shoots, so check it out. Its a small YouTube video. Here is the link:

Blue Tag Sale

The ICP bookstore is going to be having a blue tag sale event.
They have books up to 75% off, so do check that out.

Stock up for the holidays.
Selected books and gifts up to 75% off.
Starting Friday, November 28.

ICP Museum Store
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York NY 10036
212.857.9725
In store purchases only.

Barack Obama win the elections 2008

 

11/04/2008 Harlem, New York, NY. Celebration of the victory of Barack Obama against Jon McCain in the American elections.