Month: May 2006

Toxic Shots photo and music show, Austin, TX, US

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Toxic Shots flier

"Yowzas! Busted cameras and broken teeth. A photo exhibit of action shots from the underground. Like looking backward through a telescope."

Photography by Chris Anderson, Jack Barfield, Brett Bays, Sherry Cardino, Paul Gigliotti, David Hyde, Dan Machold, Chrissy Piper, Lisa Roebuck, Chris Pfeffer, and Katherine Strickland.

The show runs 14–20 May, 2006 at End of an Ear, 2209 South First St., Austin, TX, US.

Opening reception Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 (with DJs and refreshments 6–8 pm), the night before Chaos in Tejas fest. Live music by Storm the Tower.

Cartier-Bresson’s The Decisive Moment now online

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A scanned version of Henri Cartier-Bresson‘s long out of out of print and fantastically expensive photography book, The Decisive Moment, is now available online at e-photobooks.

Quoth the Wikipedia:

Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was one of the first serious photographers to shoot in the smaller 35mm format, and is commonly considered the undisputed master of candid photography using the 35mm rangefinder camera. He helped to develop the "street photography" style that influenced generations of photographers to come.

Issue 29 of mooncruise* is up

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Cover of mooncruise issue 29, May 2006

The May 2006 issue (#29) of mooncruise*, an online magazine featuring photography and music by international artists, is now up and ready for viewing.

In this issue

PHOTOGRAPHY by: Alain ASTRUC, Aline Smithson, Kirill Arsenjev, Caroline Taylor, David Deveson, Eva Reppel, Holly Bynoe, Karl Blanchet, Kathryn Allen Hurni, Maho Murobuse, Michael Harp, Nicola Girardi, Robert J. Vizzini, and R.P. Madeira

MUSIC by: Au4

mooncruise.com (requires Flash 8)

UK/Ireland Citizen Journalism Award announced

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The Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards are a celebration of the very best in citizen journalism in the UK over the last 12 months. The role of the citizen journalist or witness contributor has become increasingly important in the last year with many news reports taking their lead from submissions from the general public.

Run and controlled by Press Gazette, the magazine dedicated to UK journalism that brings you the British Press Awards and Regional Press Awards, the inaugural Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards 2006 are an opportunity to acknowledge just some of the excellent picture and video footage that has been published for the first time in the UK and Ireland.

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The entrant’s/nominee’s picture/footage must have been published/used in a recognised magazine, newspaper, broadcast service, self-published blog, citizen journalism website, photo-sharing website or internet news service company from within the British Isles.

The picture or footage must have been taken between May 1st 2005 and April 30th 2006.

The entrant must be resident in the UK or Ireland.

In a rare burst of sanity, there is no entry fee.

Go to the Citizen Journalism Awards Web site

Via the BBC

US national parks to start charging photographers “location fees”

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William Campbell writes on the National Press Photographers Association‘s Web site:

LIVINGSTON, MT (April 20, 2006) – The National Park Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, has published new rules authorizing the NPS to begin collecting location fees for video, film, and commercial still photography projects. The new regulations appeared in the Federal Register (Vol. 71, Number 71) published April 13, 2006, and will take effect on May 15, 2006.

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The new location fees start at $150 per day and—with monitors and other charges—could exceed $500 per day.

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…This mention of still photography is the only other reference to non-video photography, but no further explanation is offered for how still photographers may be effected…

The bullshit continues at nppa.com

Via Plaid Jello Photography

Toy camera article in Photoblogs magazine

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Badass photographer Tread has written a piece on toy camera photography for the May 2006 issue of Photoblogs magazine, and it go a little something like this:

So why now, when it is easier than ever to get a nice photograph and cheaper and simpler to print your own, have I became a near-Luddite photographically speaking? It’s an easy answer: I like the work I make with toy cameras more than anything I’ve done in the past 23 years of photohobbying. With toycameras, I am forced to think more about the shot, less about the camera’s controls, more about what I want the photo to "say," less about the technical fluffery of so-called "good" photography. Any respected photographer will sing the same song, "It’s not the camera or the equipment that makes a good photo, it’s the person behind the camera…"

Read article at photoblogsmagazine.org

When you’re done with the article, do yourself a favor and check out Tread’s portfolio site and blog.