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The Laughing Heart

2011-08-12T10:55:00.001-04:00

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

— Charles Bukowski

Lyle Owerko’s “Sumburu Warrior” Finally In Color

2011-04-28T20:22:00.000-04:00

Lyle Owerko’s “Sumburu Warrior” Finally In Color

Drop Culture presents "The Boombox Project"

2011-04-15T18:02:00.002-04:00

DropCulture.com presents "The Boombox Project" from Paul Stone on Vimeo.

Nothing in the world is permanent

2011-04-15T18:00:00.002-04:00

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it."

W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

BP & ODDS - "Ultra-Magnetics" (official music video)

2011-04-04T11:25:00.000-04:00

CBS Sunday Morning - The Boombox Project Segment

2011-02-13T18:33:00.000-05:00

The Words of Marley

2011-01-16T22:10:00.003-05:00

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." — Bob Marley

The History of the Boombox, NPR Music

2010-10-12T01:22:00.000-04:00

The Boombox Project Booksigning at CLIC Gallery

2010-10-11T21:27:00.002-04:00

Fight for your (digital) rights

2010-10-11T16:37:00.001-04:00

This past weekend Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons and lead crusader in the fight to reduce copyright restrictions, was part of a panel called “Know Your Digital Rights” at Vimeo Festival in NYC.
link

Lyle Owerko’s Boombox Project a Blast

2010-10-11T16:27:00.000-04:00

Lyle Owerko’s Boombox Project a Blast

$200 Warhols

2010-10-11T11:15:00.001-04:00

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.

The Future of Media

2010-10-11T11:00:00.000-04:00

Interesting article in the Independent about the exodus of journalists to brands:

link

The Influencers

2010-10-10T21:14:00.002-04:00

INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo.

Pump up the Volume

2010-10-03T12:45:00.000-04:00

The Village Voice picks The Boombox Project as a show to see!

link

Man Ray Quote

2010-09-23T10:20:00.001-04:00

"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information." — Man Ray

Boombox Project in NY Magazine

2010-09-21T10:28:00.001-04:00

"The Best Bet" -- The Boombox Project in NY Magazine. Click Here

Creative Exodus in Adland: It's Just Not 'Fun' Anymore

2010-09-21T10:26:00.000-04:00

Article in Adweek about the exodus of high ranking creative directors. Click here

when does art become voyeurism?

2010-09-17T14:43:00.000-04:00

Panayiotis Lamprou's image, Portrait of My British Wife, on the shortlist of this year's Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize. It is, as the Guardian's arts correspondent, Mark Brown, put it (perhaps understating the case somewhat), "arresting because of its intimacy". It begs the vexed question, when does art become voyeurism or, indeed, pornography?

Panayiotis Lamprou: the casual power of an intimate portrait

Art Establishes Basic Human Truths

2010-09-10T00:16:00.003-04:00

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
— John F. Kennedy - Address, Amherst College, October 26, 1963

Surfer videos Great Whites

2010-08-14T15:52:00.000-04:00

From New Mag - link - After noticing two great whites following him in the waters off San Clemente, CA, surfer Chuck Patterson paddled to land and returned with a video camera. His short horror documentary ends when one of them "slap[s] his tail on my board." Enjoy.

SIMCHOWITZ:

2010-08-14T00:25:00.000-04:00

SIMCHOWITZ:

'Terror Babies'

2010-08-13T22:55:00.000-04:00

Alpha Dog of the Week

2010-08-12T23:40:00.000-04:00

www.colbertnation.com

take a minute for Motörhead

2010-08-12T12:50:00.000-04:00

I simply enjoy typing out a name of a band with and umlaut in it - enjoy a minute with this sublime piece of culture featuring Motörhead on Top of the Pops - link

The travels of Henri Cartier-Bresson

2010-08-09T22:41:00.000-04:00

A great little blurb on the MOMA site about Henri Cartier-Bresson being at home everywhere with his camera - link - For Cartier-Bresson, to photograph was to live. As he said, “It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”

Ron Galella "Smash His Camera" trailer

2010-08-09T21:36:00.000-04:00

Here's a clip from the Leon Gast documentary "Smash His Camera" about the life of the eponymous celebrity paparazzo Ron Galella - link

Blue Moon Brooklyn Blog

2010-08-09T20:59:00.000-04:00

The ever insightful Bronwyn Keenan's blog on painting and art is worth a browse: link

NY TIMES: "The Selby" profile

2010-08-09T20:45:00.001-04:00

Here's a profile in the NY TIMES on the phenomenon of "The Selby" a photographer who is making a mark through his unique approach to documenting interiors and carving a niche out for himself in the commercial photo world here's the link

Also here's the link to his site: The Selby

Advertising Existentialism (an Advertising guy tries to find his soul by rebranding himself)

2010-08-09T15:52:00.000-04:00

The Advertising name behind the Agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (the one and only Alex Bogusky) is on an existential quest to rebrand himself -- read what Fast Company has to say about his personal vision and efforts to do so - link

Christopher Makos - Polaroids

2010-08-09T15:45:00.000-04:00

Christopher Makos show of Polaroids is on view in the Hamptons at CLIC Gallery -- check out the blurb that the NY TIMES published - link

Bands I'm listening to right now

2010-08-09T08:57:00.000-04:00

Here's what I've been listening to while processing image files the last few months:

Fitz and the Tantrums, Paper Tongues, The '59 Sound, Chase the Sun, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Lyrics Born, Fink, Black Joe and the Honeybears, Richard Swift, The Drums, King Khan and The Shrines.... I've been on an eclectic tear lately trying to fill my head with as many new artists as possible that pull influence from Blues, R n'B, Psychedelia, Surf Rock and Folk... I've also got a slight obsession right now with the Phenomenal Handclap Band, Edward Sharp & The Magentic Zeros as well as the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the new Black Keys releases ... There's a whole lot of interesting new music out there right now. I'll try to post more band names when I have time.

Iggy Pop interview with the CBC circa 1970's

2010-08-09T08:43:00.000-04:00

Really interesting interview with Iggy Pop as a brash young man -- here's the link

Surf and Skate Show

2010-07-13T12:23:00.006-04:00

SURF/SKATE
July 27 - September 5, 2010
The hedonism and purity of the surfer lifestyle meets the uninhibited mischief of skatepunks in Clic Gallery's new summer show, SURF/SKATE, featuring the collages of surf king Tony Caramanico; the skater photographs of Drew Carolan, Lyle Owerko and Alberto Vargas; and the beach photography of Antoine Verglas, Randall Medson, Ron Church, Patrick Cariou, Paul Solberg, Joni Sternbach, Jean-Philippe Piter, Wayne Levin, and Burton Machen.

Accompanying the show will be a display of a number of spectacular limited edition signed skateboard decks featuring designs by pop artists Damien Hirst, Jeff Kooms, and Takashi Murakami, specially commissioned by Supreme Skateboards. These collectors items are extremely rare and have never been exhibited together before.

Clic Bookstore & Gallery
255 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
Tue-Sun 12pm - 7pm

The Aural Curator

2010-06-29T00:59:00.015-04:00

Peter Makebish is a wonderful soul who I've had the pleasure of knowing for many years now. We've seen each other grow through many phases and somehow have both managed to reach a point in life where calmness is a prelude to igniting a thunderous creative future as men. His abilities as a composer were posted on the web today. When I was a kid I remember packing horses deep in to the rocky mountains... One afternoon sitting high up on a mountain valley we'd made camp but had the chance to take the horses for a quick sprint before we called it a day. Even now I can recall the touch of the mountain air turning cold as my horse galloped beneath me, it's speed accentuating the severity of our environment; heightening the extremity of the cold air grazing my face as we speed across the meadows surrounded by snow capped peaks... There's an adrenaline rush that comes with those experiences that is without peer, especially living in a city like New York where the energy flux of so many people can hold you frozen solid at times hoping your heart doesn't lose it's own sense of rhythm amongst all the other pounding "noise" of humanity swirling around... Listening to Peter's latest remix with John Wolfington reminded me of that moment on horseback knifing like an arrow through the air, free, purposeful, silent of mind, at peace and completely in union with the horse I was riding. Unforgettable. Like the razors edge of calm that always exists before a storm strikes (that unique calm that blankets the atmosphere a moment before the full power of a storm punches it's way though the sky). Something in the aural space of Peter's composition reminds me of that identifying element in the air before a squall rips through the everything. Listening to the track, for a brief moment in time I'm back on top of the galloping horse of my youth, ignited, alive and feeling the cold touch of the wind tattooing its signature on to my face... Check out the posting on Nowness - It's definitely got a vibe - calm and extreme - two opposites that share so much with each other.

Mr Oizo - "Rubber" movie trailer music

2010-06-22T21:16:00.002-04:00

Mr Oizo is the French composer known for his hyper-kinetic electro music. His music first came to light with the infamous Flat Eric puppet in a series of music videos directed by Quentin Dupieux. This clip is a trailer of sorts of a film about a car tire that comes to life for no reason...

Sophia Coppola's latest feature film trailer

2010-06-22T08:54:00.001-04:00

"A Moment of Grace"

2010-06-20T11:30:00.005-04:00

This morning I read a NY Times article about the Sunday Bloody Sunday commission report written by Bono. To give you an even greater context to this article (I think one of Bono's best), Gilles Peress was in Derry that day in Northern Ireland photographing the events when the British troops opened fire -- Gilles was a young photojournalist at the time, in coincidence we had a really insightful conversation last weekend about this event at his house in Brooklyn about an American Indian Shaman that was at a Sunday Bloody Sunday healing gathering many years later.... reading this article provides an amazing backdrop to the consciousness of standing up for what's right and believing in the ability that the distinctive elements of grace and healing are possible when truth is present...

the events...

Gilles photo one minute before the troops opened fire.

More through Gilles eyes.

Home Made High Altitude Camera

2010-06-20T00:39:00.003-04:00

A cinematographer in Oxnard, CA, built a homemade high-altitude camera using a weather balloon with two second-hand digital cameras he bought on Ebay (for only $45) that captured beautiful video images from 24 miles above the Earth's surface.

DIY-tinkerer Colin Rich built his device using styrofoam and duct-tape to prevent the cameras from freezing at temperatures below -50F (aka 1002 uses now for duct-tape!).

The balloon eventually burst at around 125,000 feet, which triggered a parachute to deploy, allowing the device to float safely down to land in Santa Paula, 15 miles away from where it was originally launched.

Bill Maher New Rules 05 14 2010

2010-05-18T01:06:00.002-04:00

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010

2010-05-17T22:30:00.000-04:00

Francois and the Lights - "the Top"

2010-05-10T01:28:00.003-04:00

New Black Keys track

2010-05-10T01:02:00.000-04:00

Phillips de Pury - AFRICA auction

2010-04-23T10:43:00.007-04:00

My Samburu work is being taken to auction by Phillips de Pury this coming May in their AFRICA auction -- the catalogue has a lot of great material. It's also an honor to be included in an auction along with a lot of my favorite artists such as: Pieter Hugo, Malick Sidibé, Seydou Keïta, Chris Steele-Perkins, Sabastião Salgado, Marlene Dumas, Ernest Haas, Mikhael Subotzky, Peter Beard, and Leni Riefenstahl as well as many others. Check out the full offering from the show here.

FOTO HITS - May 2010 cover

2010-04-23T10:25:00.008-04:00

Was surprised to get the May 2010 cover of the German magazine "Foto Hits" with one of my Samburu images -- they have an article on this years Hasselblad Masters winners as an interior story (which garnered the cover mention).

Is Photography Over?

2010-04-22T13:12:00.006-04:00

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is holding a symposium called "Is Photography Over?" -- an account about it was posted on Foto8 -- I took a blurb from the article

Photography’s value is where you find it: As it appears, informs, conforms, collaborates, defies, or otherwise becomes part of the process of making meaning. As Fred Ritchin (who would have added an interesting perspective to this program) writes, “The history of media is not a linear narrative following a neat progression. It is a chaos of possibilities that emerge and recede, back up and move forward, crisscrossing one another.”

The meetings occur over April 22nd and 23rd -- it will be interesting to hear what comes of the gathering...

Grand Theft Octo

2010-04-19T20:49:00.001-04:00

Octopus steals video camera from diver and shoots own footage...

How to give your iPad a camera feature...

2010-04-07T17:21:00.001-04:00

cool link to a posting on Gizmodo

Photo Drama Reality Drama Made for TV Drama Drama

2010-04-02T00:09:00.001-04:00

A Spike in an Absolut World

2010-03-30T01:52:00.003-04:00

"I'm Here" is a robot love story celebrating a life enriched by creativity. The movie is set in contemporary L.A., where life moves at a seemingly regular pace with the exception of a certain amount of robot residents who love among the population. A male robot librarian lives a solitary and methodical life — devoid of creativity, joy and passion - until he meets an adventurous and free spirited female robot. The film stars British actor Andrew Garfield and Sienna Guillory.

Jay-Z – On To The Next One Video

2010-03-24T02:00:00.002-04:00

Jay-Z busting out a conceptual music video. He's always stepping up the game - trying not to follow while pulling from a grab bag of visual metaphors...

Esquire Magazine - short films - Mila Kunis

2010-03-23T12:19:00.001-04:00

Esquire Magazine - short films - Kate Beckensdale

2010-03-23T12:01:00.000-04:00

Polaroid Film Release To Help Polaroid Camera Make Its Comeback

2010-03-23T11:04:00.003-04:00

The Impossible Project gains momentum with the re-manufacturing of Polaroid Film.

Marion Cotillard as “Lady Rouge”

2010-03-22T16:44:00.000-04:00

Samburu Work in Vanity Fair

2010-03-15T22:08:00.005-04:00

Victor Demarchelier at CLIC Gallery

2010-03-15T20:21:00.003-04:00

Victor Demarchelier has his first solo show at CLIC Gallery -- WWD has the story here.

"A Boombox can change the World"

2010-03-15T00:38:00.002-04:00

Dieter Rams - Ten Principles of Good Design

2010-03-13T09:56:00.006-05:00

Design legend Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design, During the 80’s he became concerned by a world consisting of ‘an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.’ So he looked inward and asked himself if he was a contributor or if his design was good design. As a result he penned what are sometimes referred to the ‘Ten Commandments’ in design. These commandments can be applied to photography as well with a little twist.

> Good design is innovative

> Good design makes a product useful

> Good design is aesthetic

> Good design helps us to understand a product

> Good design is unobtrusive

> Good design is honest

> Good design is long-lasting

> Good design is consequent to the last detail

> Good design is concerned with the environment

> Good design is as little design as possible

Shad - The Calling

2010-03-13T09:41:00.004-05:00

Shad - The Calling from 360 To Nowhere

I like anything done in motion that pushes the capabilities of a camera forward. What I post on this site is intended to lead people to new ideas, new camera techniques, interesting pieces of art or simply a path to competitions and opportunities for exhibitions that they would not normally discover. With the advent of motion and video capabilities in the latest 35mm cameras there are ways to shoot and capture things beyond my wildest imagination. Lately a lot of these camera manufacturers show videos by a select few photographers (many of whom produce very mediocre pieces). I encourage anyone who reads this blog to search beyond what those people are doing ("don't believe their hype") and discover the underground of a new generation of talent who are doing things that are experimental, exciting and very fresh.

Mai Doi Todd - OPen Your Heart

2010-03-13T09:36:00.001-05:00

Mia Doi Todd "Open Your Heart" dir. Michel Gondry

Here is the latest video for Mia Doi Todd for the track ‘Open Your Heart’. The visual feat was achieved by director Michel Gondry who continues to cement his reputation as a true artist behind the camera.

Macro Kingdom

2010-03-13T09:33:00.000-05:00

macro kingdom from clemento on Vimeo.

Digital Analogue

2010-03-13T01:23:00.001-05:00

The music for this short film was made entirely from sounds recorded from a collection of antique cameras. The imagery is comprised of over six thousand still photos shot and edited together via stop motion animation.

Every Oscar Winning Movie Ever

2010-03-13T01:10:00.000-05:00

Die Antwoord goes global

2010-03-12T19:12:00.006-05:00

8 weeks ago when I was in Cape Town my friends showed me the work of "Die Antwoord" -- we had a good laugh and loved it for all of it's music video clichés and how it turned rap and the conjunctive tongue of Afrikaans on it's ear. Now it's somewhat of a global phenomenon. On the back of this they just signed to Interscope records. In the age of digital viral social memes... this is one more notation in the path to new global media phenomenons... These are how the latest sensations are made and as Ninja, the lead member/rapper of Die Antwoord ("The Answer" in English) says: "Become the Enemy" when advising Jimmy Iovine of Interscope on how to overtake what the Internet has done to the record industry. Read more about them through this link to Boing Boing.

B.O.B "you put me on"

2010-03-12T18:34:00.002-05:00

Gotta love Boomboxes -- of course I'm obsessed with them and so is B.O.B in their latest single by the looks of it...

Lady Gaga vs Beyonce

2010-03-12T17:48:00.002-05:00

Jonas Åckerlund delivering another madhouse creation from his imagination...

NY TIMES: Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print

2010-03-09T18:55:00.004-05:00

Check out this article in the NY Times. Reading through it I gravitated to the poetic observations made by one reader in the "comments" section (posted above - "click" on it to enlarge).

"The Samburu" in Change Observer

2010-03-09T18:13:00.003-05:00

The Samburu work is featured in this weeks issue of "Change Observer" which is part of the Design Observer blog -- check out their site -- many amazing articles and links.

"The Cove" wins best documentary Academy Award

2010-03-08T11:09:00.006-05:00

Photographer Louie Psihoyos wins the Oscar for the documentary he directed on the slaughtering of Dolphins in Japan. At the Academy Awards he was interrupted in his ability to give thanks to all the people that helped him make the film (the speech was cut off early by the network). Luckily backstage he got a few extra seconds to pay heed to a few of the key friends, family and co-workers who contributed to the film.

Here's an excerpt of the speech we were not able to see:

"We made this film to give the oceans a voice.

We told the story of The Cove because we witnessed a crime. Not just a crime against nature, but a crime against humanity.

We made this movie because through plundering, pollution and acidification from burning fossil fuels, ALL ocean life is in peril from the great whales to plankton which incidentally is responsible for half the oxygen in this theater.

Thank you, OPS Team for risking your lives in Japan -- and thank You Academy for shining the brightest lights in the world on THE COVE......

Japan, please see this movie for yourselves! Domo Arigato!"

"The Cove" for Academy Award

2010-03-04T00:42:00.005-05:00

Louie Psihoyo's - a good friend and mentor is nominated for an Academy Award this year for best Documentary Feature -- it's Louie's first feature length film as a director and a very passionate project for him. It's quite a huge effort and the team around him of both friends and cohorts is truly an exceptional group of people. A few years ago I shot this image of Louie after rising up from a dive in the Tahitian Islands. A calm and peaceful moment as we waited together to be plucked from the ocean after our last dive of the trip... Good luck this Sunday Louie -- you are inspiration to us all.

PDN "The Curator" Contest

2010-03-03T12:43:00.006-05:00

This appears to be one of the more worthwhile contests that PDN has put out there. For people who are doing Fine Art photography and have not yet had a solo exhibit it's worth giving it a go.

TIME photo of the day

2010-03-03T11:51:00.003-05:00

Seems editorial clients have been accessing my reportage collection a lot lately at Getty... It's great to see some long forgotten images being revived in new context's. I shot these lockers a few years ago while on a shoot for MTV...

Photo Contests

2010-03-03T11:49:00.002-05:00

"I put a spell on you" - relief effort for the disaster in Haiti

2010-02-28T23:02:00.002-05:00

Cloud Sculpture by Troika

2010-02-28T16:04:00.001-05:00

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

2010-02-27T12:49:00.000-05:00

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

by Rudyard Kipling

Rewind, Replay, Remix

2010-02-23T08:54:00.012-05:00

Scenes from the opening this past weekend (and a sample of part of my Boombox collection on display at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona)

Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music & Everyday Experience

Design and music intersect in Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music & Everyday Experience, an exhibition about the material culture of music. See how the designs of musical instruments and playback devices have shaped our experience of music, and how our use and creative modifications of these objects have in turn inspired designers and manufacturers. Radical guitars like Fender’s Stratocaster, electronic synthesizers like the MiniMoog and DJ-inspired turntables like the Numark TTX have led to entirely new forms of music. The innovative designs of such products as the Sony Walkman, the Discolite boombox and Apple’s iPod have created whole new ways of listening to music. Witness the evolution of music culture from the perspective of industrial design, the unique marketing strategies of corporations and the post-market modifications that music-lovers of all genres make to their products.

CLIC Gallery Group Exhibition

2010-02-23T08:45:00.007-05:00

CLIC GALLERY presents a group exhibition
featuring

Tony Caramanico, Vincent Fournier, Sue Kwon, Jody Morlock, James & Karla Murray,
Lyle Owerko, Jean- Philippe Piter, Jeannie Weissglass and Antoine Verglas.
February 3 - April 11, 2010

Clic Bookstore & Gallery
255 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013

Tue-Sun 12 pm - 7 pm

www.clicgallery.com

Tiny Screen Swarm - by MIT

2010-02-23T08:28:00.005-05:00

By way of Boingboing this is cool -- MIT researchers are exploring whether a swarm of tiny helicopters outfitted with LEDs could self-organize into a massive flying display "screen." The vision for the nascent Flyfire project is that each of the choppers acts as a pixel to form a dynamically-reconfigurable display. Imagine "Giant" floating screens in the sky.

National Review Cover - Feb 8th/2010

2010-02-05T14:45:00.006-05:00

The National Review used one of the reportage images from my Getty archive for the cover of their latest issue -- kind of a hard hitting block of copy (as I've never been particularly partial to the use of the word "hate"). It's worth checking out the debate in the article as it's a heated topic... and one that is certain to not go away...

Hillman Foundation Nominations

2010-01-24T05:57:00.003-05:00

Art Directors Club Call for Entries

2010-01-21T04:11:00.001-05:00

The Samburu Project wins the 2009 Hasselblad Masters Award

2010-01-20T05:26:00.004-05:00

Hasselblad today announced the ten winners of its prestigious 2009 Masters Awards, one for each of ten categories: architecture, editorial, fashion/beauty, fine art, general photography, nature/landscape, portrait, wedding/social and up-and-coming artist. Given in recognition of his or her contribution to the art of photography, Masters Awards are judged on photographic ability in the areas of creativity, composition, conceptual strength and technical skill. You can read more of the entire press release here: Hasselblad Masters Award

Here's the list of winners:

Up-and-Coming: Lyle Owerko, NYC, USA
Wedding: Joao Carlos, NYC, USA
Portrait: Claudio Napolitano, Miami, USA / Caracas, Venezuela
Fashion: Dirk Rees, London, England
Product: Mark Holthusen, San Francisco, USA
Fine Art: Quentin Shih, Beijing, China
Architecture: Stephan Zirwes, Stuttgart, Germany
Landscape: Bang Peng, Hong Kong
Editorial: Nina Berman, NYC, USA
General: Mark Zibert, Toronto, Canada

Voies Off :: Arles - Photo Contest

2010-01-19T04:08:00.005-05:00

Renaissance Photo Prize 2010

2010-01-18T15:50:00.003-05:00

Shaul Schwraz in Haiti

2010-01-18T05:48:00.004-05:00

My old friend Shaul Schwarz is on the ground shooting the tragedy in Haiti -- Shauls previous work in Haiti is exceptional -- be sure his images of the event this past week will be even more exceptional. Here's a link to his contributions on the CNN image gallery.

Nadav Kander in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London

2010-01-15T09:33:00.006-05:00

My friend Adam Weiss sent me this link today. A very beautiful short film featuring Nadav Kanders photo essay "Yangtze, The Long River" that he's been working on in China. The Film is entirely indicative of his patient eye, tremendous instinct and studied sensibilities for composing and image. Check it out -> Nadav Kander Short Film

Behind Photographs in China

2010-01-15T05:01:00.006-05:00

Tim Mantoani's project "Behind Photographs" keeps picking up momentum. It was recently published in China.

Tim sent the following information:

Here is a link to the blog post on a story CBS in China is running on the project. http://mantoaniblog.com/2010/01/cbs-china/

If you click on the words behind Steve McCurry at http://image.fengniao.com/vision/content/1/138-1.html the gallery will come up. They chose 37 images to feature.

Great to see this project being embraced around the globe. It is also in Esquire Russia this month. http://mantoaniblog.com/2009/12/esquire-russia/ and a full page article in The Beijing News last month.

More stories in Spain, Turkey and China coming soon.

Creative Quarterly 19 - call for entries

2010-01-15T04:55:00.001-05:00

Society of Publication Designers "45" call for submissions

2010-01-14T07:45:00.003-05:00

Applied Arts Magazine - Photo Contest

2010-01-13T02:55:00.002-05:00

American Photography 26 - contest

2010-01-13T02:48:00.001-05:00

Review Santa Fe

2010-01-11T04:58:00.006-05:00

One of the best things out there for up and coming Fine Art Photographers is Review Santa Fe. If you have been it's worth entering -- the people I met when I went in 2008 were immensely valuable in both my personal and career growth.

The Boombox is Back

2010-01-09T10:58:00.006-05:00

Lately my Boombox imagery has been receiving a lot of attention. The Omaha World-Herald published an article about these pictures (and a blurb on my forth-coming book about the cultural impact of Boomboxes on the late 70's and early 80's youth movement). Part of my personal collection of Boxes is currently on display until May 23/2010 at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Phoenix Arizona for the show: Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music & Everyday Experience

Check out the article here: Omaha World-Herald

Also check out the prints that are for sale at Clic Gallery in New York

The 6th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review

2010-01-09T06:56:00.004-05:00

Hearst 8x10 Contest

2010-01-09T06:38:00.002-05:00

Behind Photographs in Russian Esquire

2010-01-09T05:20:00.003-05:00

Tim Mantoani's documentary project makes it in to a really beautifully designed issue of Esquire in Russia.

Tim Hertherington on the gear he uses and why

2010-01-08T05:39:00.002-05:00

Planet Magazine Photo Contest

2009-09-29T16:04:00.002-04:00