Doug Menuez: “Ignore your creative needs at your peril”

March 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

The new issue of PDNedu features an interview with Doug Menuez in which the award-winning photographer talks about his 30-plus-year career, from his photojournalistic beginnings as an intern at The Washington Post (he describes, for example, how he managed to get a shot of Mother Teresa that was different from what his press-corps peers were [...]

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HeatherMortonArt buyer interviews Maureen Martel about marketability

February 25, 2010 – 9:05 am

. As Heather explains in a blog post yesterday, she was intrigued by a comment Maureen had made in an interview last month with Miki Johnson’s RESOLVE blog: . “Application for the marketplace is also key. Key key, key key, key. If you can’t apply it, you can’t satisfy the client.” . Maureen was referring [...]

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Reminder: Launch party for Menuez Archive Projects tomorrow

February 17, 2010 – 9:52 am

. . Doug Menuez’s stock site, Menuez Archive Projects, went live this past Sunday. The site features a selection of images from throughout Doug’s career as an award-winning documentary photographer (with additional work available through Stockland Martel Archives), but in honor of its Valentine’s Day launch, the homepage showcases “Evidence of Love on Planet Earth, [...]

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Introducing Jason Hindley: Sharp as a tack, sometimes literally

February 8, 2010 – 11:44 am

. As Bill and Maureen noted last month in the RESOLVE interview “Inside the Minds of Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel,” British photographer Jason Hindley has joined the Stockland Martel roster. Here’s the e-blast we sent out last week to spread the word: . . .

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Managing your own image archive

February 4, 2010 – 4:05 pm

. At the RESOLVE blog, there’s an excellent post on the benefits of managing your own archive. Actually, not just the benefits of doing so, but the necessity of it. “The new trend seems to be the fully functioning, independent photographer who manages his or her own pictures,” writes photographer Ryan Pyle. Here’s a little [...]

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Our (highly subjective and by no means complete) look back at 2009

January 4, 2010 – 11:30 am

… PDNPulse featured James Worrell’s slideshow on a typical day in his life, which Dan Havlik sardonically introduces thusly: “Yes, it all begins at 6:30 am on a dreary morning in New Jersey but gets brighter as it goes along. He is, after all, working, which these days is an accomplishment in itself.” … RESOLVE [...]

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Marc Asnin on his NYCphotoWorks Portfolio Review

September 2, 2009 – 10:36 am

… It seems counterintuitive: A photographer launches a portfolio review intended to help other photographers get work. But that is, in fact, the mission that editorial photographer Marc Asnin has chosen with his NYCphotoWorks Portfolio Review. And he is taking it seriously. So far, Asnin has enlisted the participation of photo editors from Conde Nast [...]

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Going out of business vs. going for it

July 22, 2009 – 10:29 am

Every day, newspapers and magazines (the ones that are left, anyway) tell the new but familiar tale of a company that is cutting back severely or closing altogether. Just today, PDN relates a story of a wedding and portrait photographer in Pennsylvania who’s filing for bankruptcy after 21 years in the business. If you know [...]

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Photography and the price of being “free”

July 14, 2009 – 10:29 am

An interesting story from the online photo community Resolve: “I have talked to a lot of photographers and photo industry professionals about the importance of building an audience for themselves, building a reputation around quality work, industry knowledge, and personality. To do that, you often have to give away some things for free,” writes Miki [...]

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Resolve, an online photo community, makes its debut

June 25, 2009 – 7:25 am

Doug Menuez just emailed us about an ambitious new photo blog called Resolve, which describes itself as an online community that “brings together photographers and photo industry professionals of every kind to find ways to keep photography relevant, respected, and profitable.” The blog is hosted by liveBooks and so far features posts by photojournalist Sean [...]

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