In the sensory overload world, eliminating clutter and streamlining work flow can be a challenge. You can’t have that big picture success without an attention to detail. I have two good examples – one for photographers and one for editors – of pushing through nonsense to get the job done. Bring on back the Monday [...]

Resolve blogger Miki Johnson and the folks at liveBooks created the After Staff series to help share, inform and enlighten ex-staff photographers from magazines, newspapers and agencies who are transitioning into an after staff career shift. The week-long series is finished and archived online. “We decided to do our part by developing this online home [...]

Today’s photo stars are regulars on lecture circuits, at workshops, seminars, in blogs. I don’t know Eugene Richards personally but I’ve been one of a billion in a lecture hall listing to him speak. David Burnett, Annie Leibovitz, Gary Knight, James Natchtwey, Mary Ellen Mark. All familiar voices. Enter Weegee. I am a life long [...]

A good story with good visuals. That elusive combination is as difficult as finding comfortable womens shoes that are also fashionable. Often, the best you can hope for is one or the other. Good story. Good visuals. Dansko clog or Alexander McQueen Sock Sandal. Thanks to photographer Didier Lefevre, you no longer have to make [...]

Industries are tripping over themselves to develop innovative ways to make money, use social media, keep their day jobs and produce work all at the same time. Signs that we are picking up speed to happier times or heading into a tunnel of desperation? Jane Hamsher, a writer and movie producer (Natural Born Killers), created [...]

Hurray Scott Kingsley for stating the fact and making my Monday a little brighter. A girl can get a complex after six months in job search mode doesn’t bring in any offers. File under misery loves company. I like when media colleagues express my reality – no jobs people, no jobs. Validation. Corroboration. Substantiation. Kingsley [...]

Getty Images knows the answer. And not in a useless philosophical dribble way. The agency provides contributors releases to download in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Poland, Russian, Spanish, English and Portuguese (European and Brazilian – a nod I’m sure to the photographic marketing power of Mrs. Tom Brady). Like the Rosetta Stone of releases. [...]

Media advertising and newspaper business models may be in a slump, but photography is still flashy and hip if Bloomingdale’s New York SOHO “Flashes of Spring” window/store decor is any indication. Sure, the displays are flashbacks complete with retro gear. But wouldn’t we all would like to return to heyday of watchdog journalism, ad dollars [...]

New Hampshire where you live free or die. That motto takes on a whole new meaning in a bad economy. We are returning to our regional state-by-state review of member photographers who post their sites on the NPPA “Find a Photographer” feature. The Monday Happy Nugget belongs to Kevin Jacobus. For those who are new, [...]

Two more friends and one husband laid off. The economy officially stinks. Media layoffs don’t surprise now. But architects, software engineers and my husband, the fabulous graphic designer? Enough with the layoffs. No happy nugget for me this week. If you want a glimmer of hope, check out the Newsweek article about consumer savings, confidence [...]