Monthly Archives: January 2010

Photographers share their best business lessons

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If you haven’t already checked it out, Editorial Photographers has a great online archive of industry-related articles and interviews, including one with Rob Haggart of A Photo Editor and one called “The Best Things I’ve Learned in Business.” For the latter, EP surveyed some of its current and former board members. Here’s a taste of [...]

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

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It’s hard to believe it was only 50 years ago that America treated its people this way:
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Taken from Time magazine’s photographic remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.:
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Like to photograph stripes? This contest is for you.

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Wired, which Adweek has named Magazine of the Decade (congratulations, Wired!), is sponsoring a photo contest inspired by the signature stripes on the mag’s spine. What do you need to do? Take a great stripe-y photo (see examples, courtesy of Wired, below). And submit it by midnight tonight, Pacific time.
For more on the contest, go [...]

New work: “Remember Me” and “Damages” by Timothy White

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Two extremes of the pop-culture spectrum: the swoon-inducing Robert Pattinson and the fear-inspiring (at least on-screen) Glenn Close. Timothy shot them both for campaigns for their respective projects, the movie Remember Me (coming out March 12 and costarring Pierce Brosnan) and the hit FX series Damages.
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What’s that you say? You want more Damages? No problem. [...]

Vincent Laforet’s “Cabbie” drives video contest

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Some of you have seen this already, but just in case: As PDN’s Dan Havlik has reported, Vincent’s short film Cabbie launched his “Behind the Still” video contest last week. The “7-chapter communal story contest is sponsored by Canon and Vimeo.
“Canon gave Laforet a still image of a cab and then asked him to interpret [...]

A few more ways to help Haiti

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Yesterday, I posted a link to the American Red Cross for those who want to support the organization’s relief efforts in Haiti. Jorg Badura has just sent me links to two more organizations that are helping in Haiti: Concern Worldwide and Partners in Health.
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Photos of Jacmel, where the Ciné Institute—run by Jorg’s friend David Belle—is [...]

A peek at “Peep Show”

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As I mentioned on Tuesday, John Midgley’s exhibition “Rapture” opens tonight from 8 to 10 at ION Studio, and at 8, there will be a screening of Erotic Moments, an award-winning series of seven short films directed by Eva Midgley, John’s wife and longtime collaborator.
But earlier in the evening, there will be a screening of [...]

Helping in Haiti (and keeping a local film school alive)

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Jorg Badura phoned me this morning to ask if we could post an appeal for help on behalf of the people of Haiti, who have been devastated by yesterday’s catastrophic earthquake. Jorg’s good friend David Belle runs the Ciné Institute in Jacmel, a film school on the southern coast of Haiti that David (an American [...]

New work: Iron Man 2, Spartacus, Crazy Heart, and more by Michael Muller

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A fresh selection of hot new work by Michael Muller:
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And there’s more, including ads for Speedo, Crash, and Von Zipper. Just click here.
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Video: Doug Menuez at TEDx

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We finally got a video link to the “Fearless Genius” presentation Doug gave at TEDx in San Francisco this past November. “Fearless Genius,” of course, is the vast series of photographs (more than 250,000) he took in the 15 years he documented Silicon Valley in the ’80s and ’90s—a project that grew from a Life [...]