Want to get a better sense of where the Deutsche Borse Photographers Prize finalists are coming from? Their websites reveal the narratives through which they would like us to understand their pictures. (Apologies to Esko Männikkö)
The World Press Photo of the year 2008 shows an American soldier resting in a bunker in Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 16 September. The image was made by Tim Hetherington on assignment for Vanity Fair. Hear Tim describe the circumstances of the image and his winning.
The short list for the 2008 Photography Prize is on exhibit at The Photographers Gallery. Here are some thoughts on what "the most significant contribution ot the medium of photography in Europe" might entail.
Member-owned VII added another dimension to the photojournalism cooperative as they announced this week that they will represent seven non-member photographers...
So its taken a little over ten years for the oligopoly that is Getty Images to go from saying... "Photography is the new oil" to "Lets off load this oil and get ourselves some cash"...
Tim Atherton's has been Muse-ing on Phil Nesmith's modern day tintypes, as the exhibition My Baghdad, displaying the unusually processed pictures opens at the Irvine Gallery in Washington D.C.
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