Are you an early riser, or are more of an evening person? Either way, as a photographer you’re more than likely drawn to the visual drama of sunrises and sunsets. A new video from Paul Farris at Photo Genius provides some excellent tips for beginners (and for more advanced photographers as well) on capturing day breaks and dusks. He goes over gear, camera settings and more. Read the full Story >>
Rose Hartman. photographer, native New Yorker, and (now) octogenarian, was hardly alone in capturing the debauchery of Studio 54, but the images she took decades ago are like no other, declares W magazine. “I didn’t want to be repetitive,” Hartman says. “I never wanted anyone just standing and posing—that would make me revolted.” Her images from the infamous disco are on display at TW Fine Art Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, in the exhibition “Femme Fatale” (through February 22). Read the full Story >>
One hundred photographs taken by photojournalist David Douglas Duncan that chronicle the private world of Pablo Picasso through his death in 1973 at the age of 91 have been donated to the Musée de l’Élysée in Switzerland, notes The Guardian. The pictures are a sample of some 25,000 taken of the artist by Duncan, who first met Picasso in Cannes in 1956. Duncan, who died in 2018, became a firm friend of the Spanish-born painter despite their difficulties in communicating. Picasso laughed at Duncan’s poor grasp of Spanish. Read the full Story >>
Aytek Çetin, a photographer from Turkey, is the overall of the 2021 International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition for a series of images made in Cappadocia, a semi-arid region in central Turkey known for its distinctive “fairy chimneys.” “The 60-million-year-old story of fairy chimneys and the fact they have been home to different civilizations for tens of thousands of years, makes Cappadocia extremely mysterious for me,” notes the the photographer. The competition is now in its eighth year. Read the full Story >>
