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FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR MOST ICONIC IMAGES
“I felt like there was kind of this void,” says Tim Mantoani. “There were all these anonymous photographers out there who have not been given enough credit.”
Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends. Mantoani has shot over 150 of these portraits in the last five years, most of which are contained in the book.’
See more here
National Photography Symposium
Looks really interesting - it was great last year!
The speakers so far include: Simon Norfolk, Jem Southam, Anne McNeill, Peter Kennard, Esther Teichmann, David Hoffman, Pete James, Sara T’Rula, Pauline Hadaway, Neil Turner, Andrew Wiard, Zelda Cheatle, WM Hunt, Jeffrey Boloten, Alan Sparrow, Suzanne Plunkett, Laura El-Tantawy, Anna Fox, Anthony Luvera, Ewna Spencer, David Moore, and more confirming all the time.
Sessions include: work and the economy, collaborations, archives, press ethics, the print market, women in photojournalism and a range of informal discussions and inspiring presentations.
More info and booking here: http://uknps.org.uk/
London Festival of Photography
If you’re down that way in the next few months, take a look at this - lots happening.
More info here: http://www.lfph.org/diary
Canon release their long-awaited 5D MkIII.
Edinburgh Pinhole Festival 2012
5 - 17 March 2012
The first pinhole photography festival kicks off in March at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. With exhibitions from leading pinhole photographers, Katie Cooke, Justin Quinell, Minnie Weisz, Mark Tweedie, Bethany De Forest and event organiser Kenny Bean. There will also be a variety of workshop and events at the Botanics, Camera Obscura and also an advanced weekend course at Stills.
For more information go to the festival website
image © Justin Quinell
KODAK is officially bankrupt (Updated)
The Eastman Kodak Company has filed for bankruptcy.
Read more at HUH magazine or go to this site specially set up by Kodak www.kodaktransforms.com
*Update* Kodak will apparently still continue the production of film whilst phasing out all of their digital products. More from BJP
Gallery 779
www.gallery 779.com
3 photography graduates from Sunderland University are creating a new online photographic gallery for the North East. They’ve got some really interesting ideas and are definitely worth checking out!
Democratic Camera Club Book 2011
Scotland The World Over - Blipfoto
‘Scotland The World Over’ invites everyone to take part and photograph
a saltire wherever they may be. Launched by Cabinet Secretary Michael
Russell, Scots and Scots at heart will start to build a film, one
frame at a time, by simply uploading pictures with a Saltire centred in the
frame. What surrounds the Saltire in the rest of the image is entirely up
to the participant.
The finished film will then be premiered worldwide on
Burns Night 2012 (25 January).
To take part and for more information go to:
Adobe demoed a potential new “un-blur” feature at their MAX conference recently that could feature in future versions of Photoshop…
Also, have a look at Lytro’s newly launched camera that allows you to pick your focus point after you’ve taken the picture!
THIS CONCERNS YOU!
The Hargreaves Copyright Review was published a couple of weeks ago.
Read this damning critique by Simon Crofts now.
Profile piece on Scott Richards, part of a new series Blipfoto are doing with their community of ‘Blippers’.
2010 Book
The Scottish Society for the History of Photography’s Annual Lecture welcomes Simon Norfolk
Using a large format camera, his photographs speak eloquently of the nature of destruction and meditate on the vanity of empire and man’s historical capacity for self-annihilation.
- Friday, 15th October 2010
- 6-7.30pm
- Hawthornden Lecture Theatre - Weston Link (National Gallery Complex)
- Free
- No booking required: unticketed
Stills Postcard Competition
We are looking for 3 more images to illustrate the next set of Stills promotional postcards to be distributed throughout Edinburgh and beyond!
The images must have been produced with the support of Stills. Whether it was with ‘Camera Club’ inspiration(!) developed or printed in our darkrooms, scanned or printed in the digital lab, or was made during one of our courses or shot using our equipment, we want to see it!
How to enter:
Please send up to 3 jpg images to resource@stills.org.
Please title your email submission “Stills Postcards”, and include your name, phone number, email address and details of how and when your images were made. Please also title each jpeg as “yourname_01.jpg” (numbered sequentially).
Please note: images should be no more than 2Mb each.
Deadline:
5.00 pm, Monday 14 June, 2010. Winning entrants will be contacted for high-resolution images & titles after the final selection process
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