Monthly Archives: June 2010

Save the date: Children of South Africa benefit in NYC on June 16

. The photo book The Children of South Africa has just been published, after over a year of hard work by our own Luca Zordan and the stylist Alethea Gold, and there’s going to be a benefit auction in New York to honor this important project and the youths it is designed to help. Celebrity [...]

More on photojournalism and Photoshop

Back in April, Stella Kramer stirred people up with her guest column on Adobe CS5‘s Content-Aware Fill feature, which enables users to alter images more easily than ever before. The issue was not that the feature itself didn’t work well. “Think healing or cloning, but on steroids!” enthused PC Magazine after previewing Content-Aware Fill. “If [...]

New work: Matthias Clamer’s victory dances

Matthias recently shot a campaign for GSN (the Game Show Network), and the concept was to capture people doing their best victory dance. The images you see here are outtakes from the shoot—victory-dance photos that Matthias thought were especially triumphant. . All photos by Matthias Clamer for Game Show Network. . . In music news, [...]

New work: Nadav Kander’s nudes for More magazine

“Can a great photographer’s discerning eye transform a woman’s feelings about her body?” That’s the question More magazine asks in a photo feature titled “My Body as a Work of Art,” published in its June issue. The great photographer they chose was Nadav, and their request was that he make portraits of five women posed [...]

The view from Walter Iooss’ window: June 2

“from montauk with love. june 2, 2010, 8:40 am.” —Walter Iooss . .

Maureen Martel: “If I don’t know who you are by looking at your portfolio, then your book is not doing its job.”

Ali Dent, who lives in Australia and writes the blog A Sydney Art Buyer, contacted me a while back about the Stockland Martel blog, which turned into an occasional email correspondence, which turned into her doing a sort of free-ranging email interview with Maureen. The interview just went live on Ali’s blog. A couple of [...]

7 pro photogs on shooting motion

The recently redesigned website of the British Journal of Photography features interviews with seven professional photographers who also shoot motion. It’s a great read, and it also underscores the fundamental fact that technical virtuosity will get you only so far. “They have to hit a nerve, and make an impact with their film in the [...]

New work: David Drebin shoots Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum’s got two new movies coming out later this year: the quirky romantic comedy The Switch, which also stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman (the switch in question has to do with a, um, sperm donor), and Morning Glory, about the hilarious infighting at a struggling morning show (Goldblum’s costars include Diane Keaton, Harrison [...]

Photo gallery: The Joys of Summer

. Technically, summer doesn’t begin here in the Northern Hemisphere until June 21, but with Memorial Day behind us and the heat all around us, it sure feels like summer right now. And what better way to celebrate the season that most represents fun—and to procrastinate the first day back at work after a long [...]

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