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Focus on Photographers is a new, potentially annual exhibit that opens at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon on Saturday (Jan. 13) with a reception from 1 to 5 p.m. Curated by Larry Kershberg and Ronnie Beth Sauers, the exhibit will begin in a big way, with free talks by photographers William Snyder and David Burnett. Snyder, who will speak at 2:30 p.m., is the director of the photojournalism program at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. His subjects have included an exposé on the deplorable conditions in Romanian orphanages, a National Transportation Safety Board crash investigation, Hurricane Katrina and athletes at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Avalon by William Loeb Carl Lewis by William Snyder Collage by Jane Soodalter Face to Face with a Blue-eyed Black Lemur by Sandra Belitza-Vazquez Rifton Nightlife by Pierce Johnston Ruth Bader Ginsburg by David Burnett Village Halloween Parade NYC 1986 by Tony Cenicola Snyder also was the official photographer for The Who for 19 years, has shot the Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters and Pink and is the co-author, with Eddie Vedder, of Join Together (With The Band). "I'm not interested in basic, good-looking, clean, safe, predictable photographs," Snyder has said. "I want what it feels like. I don't always get it, but it's my goal." He will be followed at 3:30 p.m. by Burnett, whose work has been published in National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, LIFE, STERN and Paris Match, among other publications. He also has published collections of his work such as 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World; Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley and, most recently, with Raymond Depardon, September in Chile 1971-1973, which documents the coup against Salvador Allende. Burnett is also co-founder of Contact Press Images, a longstanding New York agency, and was on American Photo's list of the 100 most important people in photography. In recent years, he has worked with Photographers for Hope to create a workshop for homeless news vendors in Glasgow, Scotland; in 2017 the group visited Newburgh for two weeks to shoot and mount a show that also became a book, Newburgh Rising. Today, Burnett has a studio in Newburgh. Other photographers participating in the exhibit are Sandra Belitza-Vazquez of Newburgh, who specializes in nature and travel; Tony Cenicola of Beacon, a staff photographer for The New York Times; Pierce Johnston of Beacon, who shoots the Hudson Valley; William Loeb of Beacon, who uses Photoshop to enhance and modify his images; and Jane Soodalter of Cold Spring, who focuses on macrophotography. The Howland Cultural Center, at 477 Main St. in Beacon, is open most Saturday and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. The show will continue through Feb. 25.
Our guest is Michael Magers, who is a documentary photographer and journalist who splits his time between New York City and Austin, Texas. He is a frequent collaborator with the highly acclaimed publisher Roads & Kingdoms (legendary author and television host Anthony Bourdain was a partner and investor in Roads & Kingdoms), and served as the lead photographer on their award-winning books "Rice Noodle Fish” and "Grape Olive Pig."Michael's images are exhibited both internationally and in the U.S., and have appeared in a wide range of digital and print publications, including TIME, Smithsonian, Vogue Italia, CNN's Explore Parts Unknown, and The New York Times to name a few. Michael is also known for his unique and deeply insightful work that captures Japanese artisans called shokunin. In this episode, we will discuss how Michael got into documentary photography, what part of Japan attracts him as a photographer, the essence of the shokunin mindset, his intriguing work that features modern life of Japan in the dark, and much, much more!!!Photo courtesy of David Burnett, Contact Press Images.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
La MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie - vous propose de revenir sur 5 œuvres de photographes, issues des collections de la MEP, qui se sont engagés dans différentes crises et conflits mondiaux. Cette série « Photographier les crises » s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'exposition consacrée à Boris Mikhaïlov, présentée jusqu'au 15 Janvier à la MEP. Crédits image : Sans-abri irlandais, East End, Londres, c. 1969 © Don McCullin (courtesy Contact Press Images)
Mike Tyson has long been a boxing legend, and for this week's podcast we speak with the photographer who was there from the very start. Lori Grinker was just a student with a semester-long assignment when she first met Tyson as a 13-year-old kid under the tutelage of famed boxing trainer Cus D'Amato. Grinker's inside access over the next decade offers an intimate portrait of Tyson that few others have seen, and is now published in the book Mike Tyson. Listen in as Grinker describes how she learned on the job as the only woman ringside, transforming from student to pro in step with Tyson's meteoric rise. She also weighs in about gear choices, making distinctions between photographing with reflex cameras and rangefinders, and sharing thoughts on shooting black and while film vs digital captures in monochrome mode. Listen in to learn how she juggled documentary coverage with celebrity reportage and sports photography in what was truly a wild ride. Guest: Lori Grinker Photographs © Lori Grinker, Courtesy of Contact Press Images This episode is sponsored by Audio Technica For more information on our guests and the gear they use, see: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/ringside-access-lori-grinker-captures-mike-tysons-rise Guest Bio: Lori Grinker is an award-winning photographer whose work straddles documentary and fine art. Internationally published and exhibited, her long-term, non-linear projects often mix photography with video, audio recording, text, installation, books, and collage. The recipient of many awards and the author of three books, Grinker is a dedicated educator for both University programs and private workshops. She is a senior member of Contact Press Images and is represented by ClampArt Gallery in New York City. Stay Connected: Personal Website: www.lorigrinker.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/lgrinker Twitter: twitter.com/lgrinker Facebook: www.facebook.com/lorigrinker/ Episode Timeline 2:02: Grinker's photojournalism class assignment, and shifting focus to Mike Tyson 4:40: Tyson's dedicated study under legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato 7:26: The trajectory of Grinker's photos—from school project to documenting Tyson's daily life to published news stories 9:04: The learning curve from daily life to photographing ringside 11:55: Enlisting Tyson's help to get paid by Don King 13:02: Robin Givens, her mother the publicist, and control over Grinker's pictures 15:34: Tyson's interest in seeing himself in pictures 17:04: Grinker's embedded access and hurdles of Tyson's rise to fame 20:12: Grinker's experiences in dealing with a no-show photo subject 21:44: Working with photo agencies and joining Contact Press Images 24:36: The benefits to Grinker's agency support: Canon camera gear, exhibitions, and books 24:58: Grinker's advice for photographers seeking agency representation 26:26: The importance of owning the rights to your pictures and registering the copyright 28:10: Episode break 28:42: Lori Grinker's photo gear: From Nikkormat to Leica to Canon and beyond 29:50: Grinker's first experience with digital—embedded on a ship the during Iraqi invasion 30:36: Learning to use flash and shooting with black-and-white film 31:41: Making the switch to color film for photo assignments 32:00: Comparing the shooting style of reflex cameras and rangefinders 34:52: Grinker's thoughts on teaching students depth of field 35:32: Learning by doing and Grinker's earliest teachers 36:52: Grain vs pixels: shooting black-and-white film vs digital in black and white mode 40:50: Film type, Kodak chemistry, and printing with Agfa Portriga paper 42:02: Printing gelatin silver prints for upcoming ClampArt exhibit 44:08: Grinker's Mike Tyson book and the 2014 book contract 45:12: Reconnecting with Tyson for Spike Lee's Broadway production 48:18: Choosing a book designer, going through the pictures, making a huge book, and then cuts 49:44: What does Mike Tyson think of the finished book? 50:32: It's more a photo book than a sports book—a time capsule, a slice of pop culture 52:30: Lori Grinker's upcoming events—book launch and ClampArt exhibit 54:34: Grinker's website and social media contacts
This week's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast provides a lesson we all can use: how to be better businesspeople while we are being better photographers. Much of this advice comes from our intriguing guest, photographer and educator Todd Bigelow. A longtime pro, Bigelow has freelanced for the likes of Sports Illustrated and The Los Angeles Times, among many other editorial and commercial clients, and he is a contributing photographer to the prestigious agency Contact Press Images. He is also the founder of the Business of Photography Workshop, an adjunct professor of photography and photojournalism, and the author of The Freelance Photographer's Guide To Success: Business Essentials, which is the basis for our conversation today. With Bigelow, we discuss growing a client base, the ratio of time and labor between the business and the craft of photography, and how to let your archive work for you. We also talk about negotiating rates, contracts, and handling copyright infringements. Bigelow uses many examples from his own career to highlight his points, and Allan adds some examples of his own. Join us for this enjoyable, motivating, and helpful conversation about photography business essentials. Guest: Todd Bigelow Photograph © Todd Bigelow
Adriana Groisman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York (1984-85). She is a freelance photographer based in New York City, and has been represented by Contact Press Images since 1989. Her work has been featured in major publications including The Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, The Atlantic, Black and White Magazine, Aperture, Sette-Corriere della Sera in Italy, The London Sunday Times and French GEO. Her Tango project received a Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award in 2000. Groisman’s two books “Tango, Never Before Midnight,” and “Voices of the Tempest, Memories and Traces of the Falklands/Malvinas War” were published in December 2004 and June 2016, respectively by Ediciones Larivière. She has shown her work in the U.S., Argentina, the U.K., France, Denmark, China, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Lithuania and other countries. Her work is part of the permanent collections in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Photography Museum at Charleroi, the Photobibliotek in Esbjerg, and many private collections in the USA, Europe and Argentina. Find out more and view some more of Adriana’s images here: https://contact.photoshelter.com/gallery/Adriana-Groisman-Falklands-Malvinas/G0000MfEv6AN_rtY/P0000z1k_y0AyTXM htp://www.photoshelter.com/c/contact/gallery-show/G000084iyArXw198/P0000z1k_y0AyTXMt https://www.frontlineclub.com/photo_week_2012_-_voices_of_the_south_atlantic_with_adriana_groisman-2/ https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-photobooks-2017-23-curators-pick-their-favorites#slideshow
David Burnett is a photojournalist with more than 5 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York based photojournalism agency. In an issue of American Photo magazine, Burnett was named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography." (That made his mom very happy.) In the spring of 2018, David was awarded the Sprague Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Press Photographers Assn., though he claims he is trying to figure out what his subsequent 'lifetime' work will be. In his career, he has created photographs of history unfolding: war, sport, politics, the famous, the infamous, and the Unfamous. In a world gone mad over digital photography, his kit includes a 70-year-old Speed Graphic press camera, and a plastic $30 HOLGA. Each has a place alongside his digital cameras, each camera a tool to find the right look for the right moment. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .
In episode 28 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the relationship between photography and music, the importance of inspiration from multiple sources, making your own rules and the need for commitment in storytelling. Plus this week photographer Kenneth Jarecke takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Kenneth Jarecke is an American photojournalist, author, editor, and war correspondent. He has worked in more than 80 countries and has been featured in LIFE, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated magazines amongst many others. He is a founding member of Contact Press Images, and is notable for making the iconic image of a burnt Iraqi soldier that was published in The Observer newspaper in 1991. Jarecke moved to New York City to pursue his dream of being a photojournalist. Still a teen, he landed in New York with minimal experience and talked his way into meeting Sports Illustrated editor, Barbara Hinkle. She encouraged him to start shooting in colour rather than black and white. He then met David Burnett and Robert Pledge of Contact Press Images at a photography workshop and subsequently became a founding member of Contact Press. Jarecke was a White House photographer in the Ronald Reagan years and covered the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the first Gulf War, and nine Olympic Games since 1988. He currently resides on a ranch in Montana. www.kennethjarecke.com You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto and on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book #New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay will be screened across the UK and the US in 2018. © Grant Scott 2018
Ken Light is a social documentary photographer, and educator, whose work has appeared in books, magazines, catalogues, on-line media and exhibitions. He is the author of eight books including his most recent book, Valley of Shadows and Dreams (published by Heyday, 2012). Additional books include Coal Hollow, published in 2006 by The University of California Press, his text Witness In Our Time; Working Lives of Documentary Photographers was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in October 2000 and in a revised second edition in 2010. His photo book Texas Death Row University Press of Mississippi was published in the fall of 1997. Texas Death Row is a look at life inside the death house as the condemned wait to be executed in Americas largest and most active Death Row. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley and 2012 Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has taught workshops at the ICP in New York City, The Missouri Workshop, Anderson Ranch, the S.F. Art Institute and the School for Photographic Studies in Prague. He was editor of the university of California Press series on contemporary photography and a founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography which awarded grants to photographers internationally and Fotovision.org anon-profit documentary organization based In San Francisco, California. He is associated with the editorial photo agency Contact Press Images in New York City. www.kenlight.com www.kenschles.com www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandiframe.com
Catherine and Leo interview the great photographers at the 2012 Nordic Light festival. This episode features Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark. Greg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers. Robert Pledge founded Contact Press Images in New York and has curated major exhibitions worldwide along with serving on prestigious international juries. Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. Hosts: Catherine Hall and Leo Laporte Guests: Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark Follow Catherine on Twitter. You can also check out her blog here. Don't miss a chance to watch or listen to your favorite photographers – download and subscribe to TWiT Photo podcast for free at twit.tv/shows/twit-photo. Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this show.
Catherine and Leo interview the great photographers at the 2012 Nordic Light festival. This episode features Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark. Greg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers. Robert Pledge founded Contact Press Images in New York and has curated major exhibitions worldwide along with serving on prestigious international juries. Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. Hosts: Catherine Hall and Leo Laporte Guests: Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark Follow Catherine on Twitter. You can also check out her blog here. Don't miss a chance to watch or listen to your favorite photographers – download and subscribe to TWiT Photo podcast for free at twit.tv/shows/twit-photo. Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this show.
Catherine and Leo interview the great photographers at the 2012 Nordic Light festival. This episode features Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark. Greg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers. Robert Pledge founded Contact Press Images in New York and has curated major exhibitions worldwide along with serving on prestigious international juries. Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. Hosts: Catherine Hall and Leo Laporte Guests: Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark Follow Catherine on Twitter. You can also check out her blog here. Don't miss a chance to watch or listen to your favorite photographers – download and subscribe to TWiT Photo podcast for free at twit.tv/shows/twit-photo. Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this show.
Catherine and Leo interview the great photographers at the 2012 Nordic Light festival. This episode features Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark. Greg Gorman is an American portrait photographer of Hollywood celebrities. His work has been seen in national magazine features and covers. Robert Pledge founded Contact Press Images in New York and has curated major exhibitions worldwide along with serving on prestigious international juries. Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. Hosts: Catherine Hall and Leo Laporte Guests: Greg Gorman, Robert Pledge, and Mary Ellen Mark Follow Catherine on Twitter. You can also check out her blog here. Don't miss a chance to watch or listen to your favorite photographers – download and subscribe to TWiT Photo podcast for free at twit.tv/shows/twit-photo. Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this show.