DP Review Thursday February 10, 2022
The Canadian Press, Canada’s largest news organization, has announced it will be exclusively partnering with Sony to help outfit all of its journalists with Sony cameras and lenses. The partnership will see all of the organization’s photojournalists and videographers “use a variety of Sony cameras and lenses including the Sony Alpha 1 and Alpha 9 II products,” notes DP Review. This is the third major exclusive deal Sony has snagged over the past year: The company partnered with the Associated Press and the USA Today Network/Gannett in 2021. Read the full Story >>
The Photographer’s Gallery Thursday February 10, 2022
“You must look and look, and look again,” declares Hyperallergic in response to Helen Levitt’s pioneering street photography, showcased in the retrospective exhibition “In the Street,” at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. Once a commercial portrait photographer, Levitt changed course after a meeting with photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, notes the gallery. With a small Leica camera, she began to unobtrusively document the residents of local communities in her native New York, from the Lower East Side to the Bronx. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Thursday February 10, 2022
Launched across the USA and Canada, the new subscription-based platform Shoot With Me wants to be an “Air BnB” for photography by hooking up photo assistants and second shooters with studios and wedding photographers. You decide if you want to get hired or if you want to hire someone, then you set your availability or an event date. Studios or people looking to hire will receive a list of available suitable people. Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Thursday February 10, 2022
Imagine the luck. You're a world-renowned photojournalist and you're living in Manila, using it as your base for exploring the whole of Southeast Asia. Then one day Covid-19 shows up and you find
yourself confined to your apartment for the better part of two years. Your view of the world is confined to what you can see from your tiny nine-by-four-foot balcony on the … Read the full Story >>
