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 for [...]
Lucky day for blog readers. Every month or so I google various photographers I know and like to catch up with their work. While looking for D.C. photographer Hector Emanuel, I came across an entry about him on Verve Photo - a documentary photography blog by Geoffrey Hiller.
Hector joins 23 other NPPA members who have [...]
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 a [...]
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 [...]
Dan Habib, a Concord Monitor alum and now a filmmaker in residence at the University of New Hampshire, will be at a free screening for his new documentary called Including Samuel at Brown University the day before elections in November (11/3). Movie explores the social and educational inclusion of people with disabilities. The tagline on [...]
Enough doom and gloom. After another week of market dips, I want some shallow fun. Enter a plucky British cell phone game called sub-plotting. For 50p you sign up to participate in a photo essay with complete strangers and no theme. Result is an oddly connected but utterly random story.
Premise is once you receive an [...]
In 2007, James Nachtwey got $100,000 and one wish to change the world. He took that money and embarked on an 18 month/7 country project documenting the epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR-TB. You can watch and listen to him talk about his project while accepting the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) prize last year. A [...]
Globe photographer Bill Brett found 372 Boston moments in 372 straight days.
If you are counting consecutive week days - given an average 8 hour day that is 2972 hours of looking for the best image of the day. Factor in Boston winters and 2000 of those hours could have been spent knee-deep in snow
More numbers. [...]
