Magnum Project - The Places We Live

The Places We Live is a project done by Magnum on the growing population in urban areas living in slums.

Canon v. Nikon or Iran v. USA

The left photo taken by Pete Souza, White House official press photographer and the right photo was taken by Hossien Fatemi of Fars News.
The winner is Canon!

White House Photographer - Pete Souza

Magnum Multimedia by Thomas Dworzak

A very simple yet nicely done multimedia piece in Magnum by Thomas Dworzak.

The Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize for 'Feature Photography' goes to Damon Winter of The New York Times and the prize for 'Breaking News Photography' to Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald.

Related Links:
Damon Winter slide-show on The NY Times
Damon Winter website
Patrick Farrell story on Miami Herald
The Pulitzer Prize

Visura - On-line Magazine

Check out Visura, an on-line photography magazine.
In this issue make sure to check Ed Kashi's project "Three."

PhotoShop?

Looks like this Iranian fighter jet has three wings thanks to PhotoShop. Photo taken by Fars News agency. Click here for the image.

Today (two days later), they (?) fixed it. The jet is back to looking normal. The old (above) link is no longer working, so check it out here.

NPPA Image Disqualification

A photo taken by Danish photographer Klavs Bo Christensen (http://www.klavs.dk/) in Haiti and submitted to NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, was disqualified for use of PhotoShop. The judges made the call after reviewing the RAW version side by side with the PhotoShop version. Read the article here.

Introducing - Morteza Nikoubazl

I always admire how, Morteza Nikoubazl, Reuters freelancer photographer in Iran, can turn a routine news event into a great photo feature.
You can click here to see more of Morteza Nikoubazl's work on the internet.

Hubble Telescope - World's Camera

The kind of photographs that the Hubble telescope has been providing the world is simply amazing and priceless. Here is an interesting article in The New York Times and if you click on the image (on the left), you will see a multimedia piece about NASA's Hubble program.

Introducing - Tim Mantoani Photography

In December of 2006, photographer, Tim Mantoani, started a project called "Behind Photographs." Tim Mantoani's photo series is about some of the most impressive and historic pictures and the photographers who took captured them. For this portrait series Mantoani used a 20" by 24" Polaroid camera and documented over 100 photographers.
You can view Mantoani amazing portraits here and here.

Luna - On-line photography magazine

Check out Luna, an on-line photography magazine. Make sure the browse through Lunatic. Luna's creative contemporary photojournalism.

Multimedia - War in Gaza by David Gilkey of NPR

NPR's photographer, David Gilkey's journal from the war in Gaza. David was in Israel as the war started and went to Egypt to enter Gaza from the other side.

A Fresh Concept to Tell a Story

It has been months since the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, but I just found this. I think this is a fresh way of doing a well-covered story. I guess this is how one must think when thousands of photographers trying to get the same pictures. Good work work by photographer Romain Blanquart, whose pictures are distributed by Zuma Press zReportage, for the Detriot Free Press. You can see the slideshow by clicking here.

Obama and Khatami - Face to face in Turkey?

According to a Turkish report (click on the picture), Mohammad Khatami, Iran's former president may come face to face with Barack Obama, U.S. president during a meeting of United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Turkey this coming week. This is Obama's first trip to a Muslim nation.

New York Times - Faces of G20 Summit Protesters

Interesting article and photographs in The New York Times of protesters over the G20 Summit in UK.

World Picture News (WpN) shuts down

After five years in New York city and hundreds of contributing photographers in 70 countries the World Picture News shuts down.
In an email to their photographers, Brian J Miller, WpN's CEO, wrote "WpN is another victim of the severe economic downturn, along with most of our clients and many of you. Our assignment revenue has dropped dramatically in the last five months and it simply does not make financial sense to continue supporting the losses we are sustaining with no improvement in sight. "
WpN management is keeping their website online and plans to continue selling their archive.

Life Magazine Comes to Life

Life magazine was the flagship of Time Inc. for documentary and photojournalism. However, as people's interests shifted more towards entertainment news, magazines such as People replaced this franchise.
Life magazine is now back in business in a different and not so glorious form in cyberspace. Check it out here.