World Press Photo Tuesday April 12, 2022
The global winners of the 2022 World Press Photo Contest have been announced. As we’ve noted, this year’s competition featured a regional model to increase entries from previously underrepresented areas. The Global Photo of the Year award goes to Canadian photographer Amber Bracken for her image of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside to commemorate children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, an institution created to assimilate Indigenous children. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Tuesday April 12, 2022
Fujifilm has confirmed that film prices have increased from 20 to 60 percent, with more increases to come on paper, chemicals and lab products and services over the next two months, reports DIY Photography. The company says the price increase comes as a result of a recent rise in costs for raw materials, as well as transportation, and the decline in demand for photographic-related products. Meanwhile, PetaPixel reports that photo labs may soon see shortages of Kodak paper and chemicals. Sino Promise, the manufacturer of Kodak silver paper and photochemicals, may be struggling financially as it has increased its prices and is demanding full upfront payment from labs, adds PP. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 12, 2022
Susan Meiselas was 24 years old in 1972, when she began photographing the women of carnival strip shows. The following three summers, at small-town fairgrounds on the East Coast, she captured the
performers both onstage and off, nude and not. The work was first published in 1976, and in the decades since, the subculture has gone extinct as the sex industry has radically transformed. … Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Monday April 11, 2022
How many times have you been browsing an online wine catalog or a magazine and stopped to really appreciate the photographs of the bottles? A lot of work goes into designing wine labels and the photography of the bottles, even just the boring old e-commerce shots on white, are actually quite technical, notes DIY Photography, which features a tutorial on photographing wine bottles from UK based commercial photographer Del Vincent. Read the full Story >>
