What We Learned This Week: The Photographer Bio Data Base, and More
The Internet continues to bring more photography to more people in more ways: This week we noted that the New York Public Library has launched tool called the Photographers' Identities Catalog that lets users peruse the biographical data of some 110,000 people involved with photography, from the days of the earliest daguerreotypes to the present year. We also spotlighted a rare photo book ... Read the full Story >>
Tech News: CH StreetPan 400 Is Surveillance Film for Street Shooters
This is some of the rarest news you’ll find these days: a film introduction. PetaPixel reports that Japan Camera Hunter has introduced a new film called JCH StreetPan 400, an ISO 400 monochrome film that is actually a discontinued surveillance film. “I was terribly upset when Neopan was axed,” says photographer and JHC founder Bellamy Hunt. “I wanted something bold, slightly grainy and with a strong contrast.” Read the full Story >>
True Story Dept: A Ghostly Photo and a Ghastly Crime
Hazleton, PA-based photographer Sunny Jo offers an unusual professional service called One More Time, in which he adds a superimposed image of a dead loved one into a photograph of a surviving family member. In January, Jeanie K. Ditty of Spring Lake, NC, hired him to create such as image showing her daughter Macy, who died on Dec. 4, 2015. Ditty later posted the image on a variety of social media. But when she was arrested for the murder of Macy, Jo became the object of hatred, notes the NY Times. Read the full Story >>
Insight: ESPN's Tim Rasmussen On Winning Story Pitches
During his presentation at the 2016 NPPA Northern Short Course in Iselin, New Jersey, Tim Rasmussen, ESPN’s Director of Photography Digital, described the types of stories he’s looking for and how photographers get his attention with a pitch. PDN was on hand to summarize his insights: When Rasmussen reviews a pitch emailed to him by a photographer, he looks first for a brief description of the story. “[F]or me fancy marketing won’t work. It’s always about the idea, ideas are king,” he says. Read the full Story >>