Posted by Conor Risch on Monday February 28, 2011 | Social Media/Web
A photography professor at Coventry University in England is publishing his undergraduate-level photography classes online and in an app, making instruction and education available for free to photographers all over the world. Picbod (Picturing the Body) and Phonar (Photography and Narrative) are, respectively, second- and third year undergraduate classes taught by photographer Jonathan Worth. Students... More ›
Posted by Conor Risch on Thursday February 24, 2011 | Awards/Contests/Grants, Fine Art
Earlier this week Photolucida announced that Jeff Rich was selected as the 2010 Critical Mass Book Award winner for his survey of the French Broad River Basin watershed in North Carolina and Tennessee. Rich’s project includes landscapes, documentary images of cleanup workers and people using the French Broad for recreation, and portraits of people who... More ›
Posted by Sponsors on Friday February 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Click on the picture to watch the video! So you’ve heard of WIN-Initiative, an alternative boutique stock agency, right? If you haven’t, there’s no doubt that you will soon. WIN is becoming more and more visible on the photo industry radar. What’s going on at WIN? We’re shaking things up by pursuing authentic, provocative and... More ›
Posted by Holly Hughes on Friday February 18, 2011 | Awards/Contests/Grants
Attention procrastinators: Due to overwhelming demand and the high-volume of last-minute submissions received yesterday, PDN has extended the deadline to enter the Photo Annual until Monday, February 21, at Midnight EST with no further late fee. Forms and rules can be found at www.pdnphotoannual.com. But we urge all of you procrastinators out there: Please do... More ›
Posted by David Walker on Friday February 18, 2011 | Copyright/Legal, Photos In The News
The Arizona Republic is reporting that Tucson photographer Jon Wolf and his attorney, Ed Greenberg of New York, demanded $125,000 from the newspaper’s owner for unauthorized use of Wolf’s image of Chrstina-Taylor Green. Green was the nine-year-old girl killed in Tucson on January 8 when a gunman opened fire on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a... More ›
Posted by David Walker on Friday February 18, 2011 | Celebrity, Copyright/Legal
As we reported two days ago, David LaChapelle has sued pop singer Rihanna, charging that her new music video called “S&M” was “directly derived from and is substantially similar to” his images. Does he have a case? You decide. Below are the exhibits from David LaChapelle’s claim, showing his images side-by-side with frame grabs from... More ›
Posted by Holly Hughes on Friday February 18, 2011 | PDN Video Picks
Photographer Dave Anderson created this video of legendary photographer William Eggleston at home in Memphis. Seated at his piano, Eggleston provides a musical accompaniment to some of his images. The video was part of the “SoLost” series on the Web site of Oxford American, the magazine devoted to Southern culture. Anderson’s other video vignettes in... More ›
Posted by Holly Hughes on Wednesday February 16, 2011 | PDN Video Picks
Looking through the latest entries to the PDN Photo Annual, we came across this colorful and amusing video. Titled simply, “Bugs!,” it was directed, produced and colored by Ryan Enn Hughes. Watch that caterpillar go. This is the first year that the PDN Photo Annual has included a video category; the deadline to enter is... More ›
Posted by David Walker on Wednesday February 16, 2011 | Copyright/Legal
Photographer David LaChapelle has filed suit against pop star Rihanna for allegedly copying eight of his widely published photographs in a new music video. He is seeking at least $1 million in damages and an injunction to stop distribution of the video. LaChapelle is suing not only Rihanna, but the director of the video for... More ›
Posted by David Walker on Tuesday February 15, 2011 | Copyright/Legal, Photos In The News
Public criticism and a stinging statement from the family of a nine-year-old girl killed during the shootings in Tucson last month have led a portrait photographer to halt a copyright lawsuit–at least for now–against various media outlets. The photographer has also apologized to the girl’s family, and blamed the news media for “mischaracteriz[ing]” his intentions. More ›
