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Best press photos on display at the United Nations
The traveling exhibition of the world’s best press photographs of the year, selected at the 2011 World Press Photo’s contest for professional photographers, will be on display in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York, N.Y. from Aug. 5 – 28. Among the winning images featured in the exhibition is the World Press Photo of the Year 2010, regarded as the photojournalistic encapsulation of the year; a photograph that represents an issue, situation or event of great journalistic importance. The international jury of the 54th annual World Press … [Read More...]
Capture Thailand and Cambodia on photo tour
Journeys Within Tour Co. and Strabo Photo Tour Collection, with travel photographer Joel Collins, are partnering to offer an opportunity to travel to Southeast Asia and photograph the region's highlights. From Jan. 7-21, 2012, Collins will lead a Strabo Photo Tour through Thailand and Cambodia, assisted by guides and local expertise of Journeys Within. Guests will visit highlights such as the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Hill Tribes in Chiang Mai and of course a sunrise over AngkorWat. Beyond these amazing sights, the group will meet local communities and even participate in … [Read More...]
MiMedia announces Hard Drive Disaster photo contest
Did your husband spill his nice, cool glass of lemonade on your laptop? Oh, wait -- that was my husband and my laptop. Well anyway, if your hard drive suffered a sad fate due to the elements of summer, snap a picture of the damage and you might just get a new Canon digital camera out of it. Cloud storage company MiMedia launched a photo contest to find images of digital memories destroyed by the elements of Summer – like a laptop buried in the sand on the beach or a camera at the bottom of a pool. The contest runs through the end of July, with a new winner selected each Friday. The … [Read More...]
World’s largest photograph on display
The Great Picture, a gelatin silver photograph three stories high by eleven stories wide and created in and airplane hangar that had been transformed into an enormous camera obscura -- the largest camera ever made -- is now on display. Few art spaces are large enough to accommodate The Great Picture, but the University of California's Culver Center of the Arts possesses a soaring, glass-roofed atrium spacious enough to for this work. The Great Picture was created by The Legacy Project an artist collective comprised by Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, … [Read More...]
Leica Camera and Lonely Planet host photography excursions
Want to discover five North American cities -- with a Leica camera in hand? Now you can -- while honing your photography skills, too. Leica and travel information company Lonely Planet are offer experiential photography tours beginning in July. During these special Leica Akademie workshops, participants will capture must-see spots and off-the-beaten-path local favorites while expanding their photographic knowledge in exclusive, real world shooting situations. Host cities include San Francisco, Calif.; New York, N.Y.; New Orleans, La.; Savannah, Ga. and Los Angeles, Calif., and were … [Read More...]
Dear Photograph: So simple, so poignant
MSNBC reports on Dear Photograph, a new site that asks people to take a picture from the past in the present. In late May, Dear Photograph founder Taylor Jones, a 21-year-old Canadian who lives at home with his parents, was sitting with his family at the kitchen table, looking through photo albums. He saw a picture taken at the very table where they sat, and noticed his borther was seated in the same spot as in the photo. "Jones held up the old photograph of the kitchen table against the present reality of the kitchen table and snapped a picture. The effect was, in a word, awesome. He … [Read More...]
