Benjamin Rusnak

Features and Essays 

Anastasia Taylor-Lind’s latest work done originally for this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass now on her agency VII’s website… Great series…See later in this post for a link to a related interview…

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: The National Womb (VII) Nagorno-Karabakh

There’s 7 billion of us in this planet now…To note the mark, Newsweek published Martin Roemers’ World Press Photo winning series Metropolis …

Martin Roemers: Metropolis (Newsweek)

Lynsey Addario: From One Maternity Ward, a Growing World (NYT Lens)

Ty Cacek: The Ku Klux Klan Revisited (Time Lightbox)

Rodrigo Abd: Guatemala (NYT Lens)

Gareth Phillips: Cross Channel Swimmers (MJR)

Benjamin Lowy: iAfghanistan (Reportage)

Liz Hingley: Jones’ (Firecracker)

Inge Morath: Dancing Queens: Lost Images from a Grand Ball (TIME Lightbox)

photo: Pep Bonet

NOOR: Urban Survivors (NOOR) Group project by the agency’s photographers

Jan Grarup: Hunger in the Horn of Africa (NOOR)

Elaine Stocki: Beyond Yale: Another View of New Haven (Time Lightbox)

photo: Alex Majoli

Magnum Photographers (Moises Saman and Alex Majoli): Libya Aftermath (Magnum)

Joao Silva: Twenty-Six Miles Along Recovery’s Road (NYT Lens)

Kike Arnal: Choco : Looking for Gold in a Distant Jungle (NYT Lens)

John Conn: When the City Was a House of Horrors (NYT Lens)

Lise Sarfati: Portraits (Photo Booth)

Pete Muller: Sudan (NYT Lens)

Veejay Villafranca: Manny Pacquiao (Newsweek)

James Hill: The Bolshoi Theater Reopens (NYT)

Corinne May Botz: Haunted Houses (Time Lightbox)

Yuri Kozyrev: Occupy Sana’a (Time Lightbox)

Erika Larsen: Sami Reindeer Herders (video) (NGM)

Liam Maloney: Grey Zone : Toronto’s injection drug harm reduction program (cbc.ca) Maloney’s website

Tomas Munita: In Egypt, Tourism Remains in Tailspin (NYT)

Benjamin Rusnak: Lost Harvest (zReportage)

Emilio Morenatti: Captured Collection (Denver Post Photo Blog)

Carlos Barria: Jugderdem’s backyard (Reuters’s photo blog)

Ed Thompson: Occupy London (Telegraph) Thompson’s website

Ed Thompson: Rescued Hens (Featureshoot)

Ben Roberts: Occupied Spaces (photographer’s website) Occupy London | Also on BBC

Alban Kakylya: Climate Tourism in Greenland (Smithsonian) Kakulya’s website

Fred Herzog: Vancouver (TIME Lightbox)

Danilo Balducci: Domik Town (zReportage)

Chris Floyd: 140 Characters (BBC) same in Guardian

I remember reading about the below project from 2007, a year or probably more ago, and when Duckrabbit recommended it last week I thought I’d share it here…Some Twitter comments for the website since last night’s initial posting… One photographer mentioned “Exactly how a website should not ever look like.” and another “It feels like a bad acid trip.”….so do have a look…. It really is quite an “experimental interface for storytelling” as mentioned on the project’s website, and in my opinion you don’t necessarily even want to ‘Begin the Whale Hunt‘ (unless of course you want the acid trip!)  instead of just look at some of the stills on the ‘Highlights‘ page…although the number could be edited well down…

Jonathan Harris: The Whale Hunt (Project website 2007)

Interviews

World Press Photo Contest opens for entries in December…Video interviews with recent top prize winners on the WPP site…

Spotlight on the World Press Photo of the Year Winners : Bieber, Masturzo, Suau, Hetherington (World Press Photo)

Giles Duley (Guardian)

“Champagne lifestyle on a beer salary” – Marcus Bleasdale defines photojournalists’ lifestyle by quoting Tom Stoddart

Marcus Bleasdale : (BBC World Service) Starts at  18:45.

David Guttenfelder (MSNBC Photo blog) Photographing in North Korea

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (Guardian)

Anastasia Taylor-Lind (CPN)

Monica Allende (e-photoreview)

Danfung Dennis (BJP)

Marco Di Lauro (e-photoreview)

Karim Ben Khelifa (PDN) Banned for 20 Years, Photographer Returns to Tunisia

Emily Graham and Anna Stevens :  Contact Editions  (The Sip)

Ralph Morse : A Life Photographer’s Best Photos (life.com)

Elinor Carucci (La Lettre)

Lewis Whyld (BBC) England riots: One photographer’s baptism of fire

Steve McCurry’s One-Minute Masterclass #4 (Phaidon blog)

Sophie Gerrard (London Festival Fringe)

Articles

BJP: Photographer Stephen Ferry wins first Tim Hetherington Grant

PDN: The first Tim Hetherington Grant of $27.5K was awarded to Stephen Ferry for his work on the Colombian guerrilla war

photo: Michael Kamber

PDN: Compact Cameras, Keep it Discreet 

Guardian: Photographer Mitch Epstein’s Best Shot

Guardian: Mitch Epstein: American Power; Chris Steele-Perkins: The Pleasure Principle – review

Guardian: Britain’s photographic revolution

Guardian: Squeezing the vision of London’s proposed photographic spaces

BBC: Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press Photographers

BBC: Sebastiao Salgado’s Genesis project

TIME Lightbox: Rawiya: Photography Collective Finds Strength in Numbers

NYT: Propaganda in a Time of War

NYT: Years Later, Lawsuit Seeks to Recreate a Wedding

New Yorker Photo Booth: Great Mistakes: Richard Mosse (Photo Booth)

PDN: Pictures of Photog’s Arrest Force Police Accountability

Lightbox: Collect.give : Photography Meets Philanthrophy

Telegraph: Warhol at the Glass House: the story behind the photograph
NYT: Vogue's Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India

NYT Lens: 15 Years That Changed Photography 

BJP: “Security guards have no right to prevent street photography,” says Home Office

Verve: Adriana Zehbrauskas

Verve: Bryan Derballa

Verve: Araminta de Clermont

Guardian: Featured photojournalist: Navesh Chitrakar

Guardian: Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty

BBC: Two photographers seeking an MA

Lightstalking: Keywording Tips and Strategies for Photographers

Trey Ratcliff :  Public Why I Don't Use Watermarks (Google+) 
Andrew Burton: What is Photojournalism? (photographer's blog)

Events and Exhibitions

World Press Photo 2011 exhibition ad seen in this week’s Time magazine….

World Press Photo 2011 opens at Southbank Centre London Friday 11 November

Emerging photographers to talk at BJP’s Vision (BJP)

Apple plans week of photography events (BJP)

Books and e-publications

This should be good… World Press Photo book of this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass participants’ work…

Next 01 : Joop Swart Masterclass 2011 

Danish Photojournalism by The Danish School of Media and Journalism

Vincent Laforet: Visual Stories

Awards, Grants, and Competitions

Eros Hoagland Wins Aftermath Project Grant

World Press Photo opens for entries in December (BJP)

Lucas Dolega Award

Agencies and Collectives

I really like how Redux Pictures often tweet their photographers’ tear sheets….Ended up spending quite a bit of time on their website as a result the other day….Great line-up of photographers and contributors…Check ‘em out, if you are not familiar…

Redux Pictures : Photographers : Contributors

VII November 2011 newsletter

Getty Images Global Assignment November 2011 newsletter

Magnum Photos November newsletter

Cartel Photos

Crowdfunding and Initiatives

My friend Peter DiCampo has started a campaign to raise funds to help him continue his long term Life Without Lights project…. Peter has quite a track record with the project already, with awards such as British Journal of Photography’s International Photography award 2010, showcases and publications in Lens blog and others places, so do go and have a look….

Life Without Lights by Peter DiCampo (Kickstarter)

New York Times: Picturing 7 Billion : A Visual Time Capsule

The Karen of Mayo by Phil Behan (fundit.ie)

‘Everybody Street’ by Cheryl Dunn (Kickstarter)

Behind the smokescreen by Rocco Rorandelli (Emphas.is)

Spotlight on crowdfunding: Robin Hammond’s Condemned (BJP)

In the Shadow of the Pyramids by Laura El-Tantawy (Telegraph)

Services

Custom Brackets

White room Studios : photo studio hire London

Jobs

Director Brighton Photo Fringe

Blogs

CNN Photos blog

Reportage by Getty Images Tumblr

Photographers

Saw several nice portraits by Linda Brownlee of young British actors in the Independent on Sunday’s The New Review..Her website…

Linda Brownlee

Diana Markosian

Ayman Oghanna

To finish off… check out this pretty incredible video of starling murmuration

and Joe McNally’s Feelings on the Digital Workflow

I’ve had the pleasure to announce some new supporters for my blog during the last two weeks, and very happy to announce yet another one…Photo Raw magazine…check out the right-hand side bar…Photo Raw is a  quarterly magazine dedicated to the best photojournalism and documentary photography out there…published in Finland but printed in English…I think PJ Links and Photo Raw make a great match.  Their new issue will be out first week of June with features by Paolo Pellegrin, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Natan Dvir et al….

This week’s round-up…

Features and Essays

I forgot to post links last week to these two great essays from National Geographic Magazine’s June issue…

Stephanie Sinclair has continued her project on child brides…

Stephanie Sinclair: Too Young To Wed (NGM: June 2011) The secret world of child brides

Greg Girard: Can China Go Green ? (NGM: June 2011) No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy.

Stephanie Sinclair also has some work in the New York Times Magazine this week… Living on the Europe side of the pond,  I’ve never actually held NYT Mag in my hand, but I saw a place in Soho the other day, where they stock Sunday’s NYT.. Think I’m gonna go and pick up a copy…Always so great photography in there…

Stephanie Sinclair: A Mind of Their Own (NYT Mag: May 2011) Conjoined twins | article

There’s a link to a great Bryan Denton interview later in the post… but since I realised I never posted the link to his last story from Libya… here it is now…

Bryan Denton:  In Misurata, Fallen Qaddafi Soldiers Receive Respect (NYT: May 2011)

Christian Als: Bunkering Down in Benghazi (Panos: May 2011)

Richard Mosse: Congo (Guardian: May 2011)

Edward Keating: A Town Lost in the Wreckage (TIME LB: May 2011) The wreckage left by the Force 5 tornado in Joplin, Mo. | Keating’s website

Laura El-Tantawy: In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt (burn: May 2011)

Brilliant…

Elin Høyland: The Brothers (Guardian: May 2011)

Ed Wray: The Masked Monkeys of Indonesia (TIME LB: May 2011)

Nicole Bengiveno: Coming Out (NYT: May 2011)

Benjamin Rusnak:  23º, Far from Paradise (Burn: May 2011)

Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday was on Tueday. Photographer Elliott Landy spoke to TIME Lightbox about the photos he made of his good friend…

Elliott Landy: Bob Dylan at Home (TIME LB: May 2011)

Petrut Calinescu: The Black Sea (Panos Pictures: May 2011)

NYT Lens blog featured Espen Rasmussen’s book In Transit. One of the pictures from the book is the below frame of a Rohingya fisherman in Bangladesh…I remember reading an interview with Rasmussen in BJP last year, when he still had the Rohingya pictures converted in black and white and mentioned he might convert them back to colour…

From BJP… “He shot thousands of digital images, editing them down to a story of just 32 shots, then converting them to black-and-white and adding text and captions.”[ …} Rasmussen often writes his own stories and, although he also enjoys working with journalists, says it’s his favourite approach. After all, he points out, the most important thing is the story, and he’s in a good position to tell it both in images and words. “I let people talk and show their daily struggle through interviews and pictures,” he says. “I don’t search for the obvious drama, I try to describe daily life.” In fact, he’s considering turning the images back into colour, concerned that the sheer beauty of the monochrome versions detracts from the Rohingya’s plight.”.

Looks like he has done…See comparison here.

Espen Rasmussen: In Transit (NYT Lens: May 2011)

Sebastian Liste: The Chocolate Factory (NPR: May 2011)

Rob Rusling: A Street in Clitheroe (Foto8: May 2011) Rusling’s website

Brandon Tauszik: Pray for Mercy (Photographer’s website: 2010)

Anton Hammerl’s final photos from Libya…

Anton Hammerl: Witness to War (Foreign Policy: May 2011)

Apparently this has been published as a 500 page coffee table book…

Venetia Dearden: Mulberry (VII Network: May 2011)

Alec Levac: Israel, With a Knowing Wink (NYT Lens: May 2011)

Interviews

Must read Bryan Denton interview on Lens blog…

“To me, having training and gear is a responsibility we have to our families and friends who worry about us, our colleagues who work beside us and can benefit from our know-how if they’re wounded, and to the readers who are informed by the images we take and will cease to be if we get taken out of the game. There’s never any guarantee that that stuff will save you, but we owe it to those who love us, support our work and each other to take every precaution we can.” – Bryan Denton

Bryan Denton (NYT Lens: May 2011)

50 years ago, a young Bruce Davidson set out to document a bus ride down south – The Freedom Riders on LightBox…

Bruce Davidson (TIME LB: May 2011)

Richard Mosse (Conscientious: May 2011)

Guy Martin (Daily Telegraph: May 2011)

David LaChapelle (NYT: May 2011)

Ben Lowy (e-Photoreview: May 2011)

Anna Skladmann (BJP: May 2011)

Laura El-Tantawy (BJP: May 2011)

Brian Ulrich (Featureshoot: 2008)

Raymond Depardon (ASX)

Articles

PDN: Hetherington Memorialized by Family, Colleagues and Subjects (PDN: May 2011)

Vanity Fair: Remembering Tim Hetherington (VF: May 2011)

Excellent article on the Lens blog by NYT staff photographer Stephen Crowley…

photo: Pete Souza

Stephen Crowley: Whose Eye? What Beholder? (NYT Lens: May 2011) The problem of D.C. photo coverage goes well beyond restagings

Related…

Alex Garcia: When Photojournalists Become Visual Stenographers (Chicago Tribune Assignment Chicago blog: May 2011)

BJP: Donald Weber is funding his new book, Interrogations, with limited edition prints and books (BJP: May 2011)

BJP: Convergence between still and moving images? We speak to 6 photographers who made the jump (BJP: May 2011)

Guardian: Featured photojournalist: Mario Tama (Guardian: May 2011)

PDN: Time to quit using Twitpic?  (PDN: May 2011)

PDN: Celeb photo agency in Twipic deal has no relationship with (or obligation to) owners of the images it will license (PDN: May 2011)

BJP has taken a look at what this year’s Les Rencontres d’Arles is going to be like…

Festivals – BJP: Arles 2011 (BJP: May 2011)

Festivals – PDN: LOOK3 Preview : Goldin, Kratochvil, Vitali headline festival curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode (PDN: May 2011)

Workshops - Eddie Adams Workshop deadline extended to June 3

Last call…

Awards - Canon Female Photojournalist Award : Deadline 31 May 2011

Get your work in front of Charlotte Cotton or Monica Allende in BJP’s International Photography Award…

Competitions –  BJP Photography Award

Grants - Reminders Phoject Asian Photographer’s Grant

Slideshows – Slideluck Potshow London III deadline is on Monday 30 May

Competitions – Foto8 Summershow deadline is Tuesday 31 May

Honours – American Photography 27

Grants – BJP: Massimo Berruti wins Carmignac Gestion Prize of Photojournalism. He will receive a €50,000 grant (BJP: May 2011)

Spend 9,99$ and you end up in the Gulags of Carl De Keyzer’s Zona on your iPad (via @vinkjohn)

Apps – Carl De Keyzer: Zona (iTunes Store) Zona for iPad

Exhibitions – Ian Teh’s new series Traces open at Flowers Kingsland Road

To finish off…geeky Photoshop fridge magnets for photographers or retouchers…(via @LucasJackson RTR)