Photography News Archives

“It was 10 years ago that a friend suggested I start selling some of my artistic photos”

A lifetime of amateur photographic experience and a desire to share his images with the public has motivated a Bentwater man to open a new gallery in downtown Conroe. via Houston Community Newspapers

“Periplum", 1985 dart series painting and a Matta triptych monumental work. The New York Times called SeaFair "For collectors, it is a new stop on the art circuit.”

"Every artist is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed." -- Leo Rosten MIAMI, FL - Launching the December Miami art fair season, SeaFair inaugurates ... via Art Knowledge News

Artist Jim Draper, photographer Jay W. Shoots and art consultant Karen Sadler are the creators behind PIE Studio. via Jacksonville.com

Coming Soon - Our Entertainment Section is Getting a Makeover. Click Here for a Sneak Peek IT COULD be the summer of 2007, not '69, for Aussie supermodel Elle Macpherson, who is reportedley making sweet music ... via News.com.au

Herald photographer Kate Geraghty's Walkley award winning photograph ... Anjelika Elliott comforts her husband Dr John Elliott, who is wracked with pain, the day before he ends his life voluntarily at a clinic ... via The Sydney Morning Herald

“We are so happy to begin offering our 8-week session more frequently. We've found that as soon as they decide on a photography course, our students just cannot wait to begin learning new photographic techniques”

BetterPhoto.com, the worldwide leader in online photography education, today announced the addition of a new 8-week course session beginning December 5th. via Market Wire

Tanya Aguiniga, Felt Chair. Photography courtesy of Todd Beattie. MIAMI, FL.- Design Miami/ announced an extensive roster of groundbreaking Design Performances to take place continuously throughout it 2007 ... via Art Daily

“Besides the variety, the best thing about the festival is that it is for the masses. Almost all the programmes - be it the music festival, the folklore festival or the food festival - are open for the public.”

Food to titillate your tongue and vet your appetite, music and folklore to lift your spirits and a fashion show to soothe your eyes... all that would be brought for you in the first ever Saarc cultural ... via Hindustan Times

“It cost 10 cents to see a movie”

Today the location of the former Orpheum theater is home to a Haverhill Housing Authority apartment complex and a photography shop. via News Courier

The Australian newspaper's Hedley Thomas has won the nation's most coveted journalism prize, the Gold Walkley. via The West Australian

Eric Michael Jones should be applauded for thinking big. His digital photos, some printed as large as five feet tall, uphold my general thinking concerning photography exhibits: the bigger the better. via Houston Press

Some say photography is a craft; others insist it is an art. Regardless of one's stance, students at Fauquier High School are learning photography the old-fashioned way - with a film camera. via Times Community Newspapers - Fauquier...

My last article covered the basics of why all dentists should consider incorporating high-quality digital clinical photography into their practices. via Dental Economics

“He was like, 'I promise you - it will look really nice.' I said, 'OK, I'm trusting you,' and he came through. My arse looked OK”

American actress Scarlett Johansson resorted to threatening the artistic director of her hit film Lost In Translation in order to make her butt look more flattering. via AndhraNews

Stock photography website Corbis is allowing bloggers to download their pictures on blogs for free without having to worry about "copyright infringement" - in return Corbis will embed a banner ad beneath the ... via Digital Inspiration

“I knew every tree, critter and pine cone on the entire 400 acre ranch. We were so fortunate to be able to prevent the destruction of the vast open space that we now enjoy.”

ATHERTON, CA, November 28 / MARKET WIRE/ -- PodTech releases "Photowalking above Silicon Valley with professional photographer Marc Silber," its latest video, by Robert Scoble, PodTech's VP of Media Development ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

“My attitude was very much that I was there for the readers and it was my job to get the very best photos that showed people what happens away from the lights, mikes and gaggle of geese”

Diana Walker has been a contract photographer for Time magazine since 1979, and worked as a White House photographer during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. via Photo District News

There are plenty of gift guides at this time of year, with plenty of the same kinds of presents: iPods, digital cameras, computer games... Wake me when it's 2008, OK? If you're equally bored with the same old ... via Creative Pro

“I told the director of photography that if he made my arse look bad he'd never work again! "He was like, 'I promise you - it will look really nice.' I said, 'OK, I'm trusting you,' and he came through. My arse looked OK.”

SCARLETT JOHANSSON was so insecure about having her bum on show in the opening sequence to hit film LOST IN TRANSLATION, she resorted to bribing the artistic director to make it look flattering. via PR-inside.com

“Under the sea is like outer-space - we have had to go to extraordinary lengths to train our bodies and invent all types of equipment just to explore it.”

EXHIBITIONS Under the water at the maritime museum By Stephen Ivall The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is known for celebrating activity on the water, however, from January 28 the museum based in Falmouth ... via Falmouth Packet

San Clemente, California Enjoy a night out in San Clemente Saturday, December 1st, at this unique and intimate art exhibit featuring the iconic surf art of Drew Brophy and internationally acclaimed photography ... via Transworld Surf

“There have been assertions that he is too close with the insurgents, that he is associated with the insurgents -- it's all very vague”

This photo, taken by Bilal Hussein, was part of a package of 20 photographs that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2005. via NPR

“They hadn't been able to pay for electricity so it had been cut off”

Each year around 4,000 refugee children arrive alone in Britain. Without friends or family, and unable to speak English, they face a frightening future. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

“Bob made it exactly how I had the Ellis Island picture dodged and burned years ago in the lab”

Photographer John DiGiorgio thought he would never be able to reproduce a 20-year-old black-and-white picture of Ellis Island because he lost the negatives. via Citizensvoice.com

This is a photograph of a sculpture by artist Olafur Eliasson currently on display at the SF Museum of Modern Art . via Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

STRETTON GRANDISON photographer Richard Crompton is Practical Photography's photographer of the year. via Ledbury Reporter

“An American Tragedy") and Grace Brown (his lover) offer more than enough evidence that crime, and the sensationalism that most assuredly follows it, have no unique generation. This is not to say that "Crimes”

It is easy to think about the American civil rights movement through the context of the few compelling personalities that history books tend to remember. via Asbury Park Press Online

“I have been at it, taking pictures since I turned 13 in 1944, taking a picture of my grandfather and then enlarging it into a 5 x 7 print”

After the success of his Star Trek show 3 years ago at the BBC, UK radio host Tommy Boyd has decided to pick up some unfinished business and devote another night to this genre classic. via Sector32

Nearly 200 residents turned out Sunday for the Humane Society of Parkersburg's annual Pet Photos with Santa event at the shelter on 29th Street Sunday. via Parkersburg News & Parkersburg Sentinel

“It's a journey though the apocalypse, I guess, or some form of it”

High-end mens fashion magazine chooses College Station for glamor shoot associated press photo by Pat Sullivan Photographer Phillip Toledano, left, working for the British edition of Esquire Magazine, ... via Report news

Gallery moves A quick reminder that two popular galleries have recently moved. Photography venue and digital printing center Pushdot Studio has moved from the Pearl District to Southeast Portland . via The Oregonian

“Whether it's the old buildings, mountains of Himalayas or the city of Lahore, they have immaculately captured the nature's beauty through lens”

RAWALPINDI: The works of Pakistani and Indian photographers were exhibited at the Rawalpindi Art Council premises on Friday. via South Asian Media Net

The latest from the DVLA, who announced the winner of their Vista competition at the NEC Bike show yesterday. via Inside Bikes News

Many predicted that 2007 would be the year of the digital SLR, and industry shipments confirm the huge growth in DSLR sales. via AnandTech

Bilal Hussein is the AP photojournalist in Iraq who was detained by the U.S. military in April, 2006 and has been imprisoned ever since without charges of any kind. via Salon.com

“We don't want to bring any attention to that place.”

Photographer Tom Carter, new author of 'CHINA: Portrait of a People,' expounds on his 2-year journey across the 33 provinces of China, how Chinese censorship affected his photography, and what it took to get ... via Buzzle.com

Ploeger BY D.K. ROW November is a tricky month for an artist to have a show. The beginning of the holiday season and the long Thanksgiving weekend often distract the public from the art world, and they also ... via OregonLive.com

“It's like being a model for a day and I didn't have a photographer at my wedding, so this is my perfect opportunity for me to have the pictures that I always wanted”

Wedding dresses across America are being dunked in rivers, doused in pools, splattered with mud and simply messed up -- all in the name of a highly personalized new style of photography. via KREM-TV Spokane

A tribute dedicated to all of You, Lovers of Photography and specially to Hakan Erman who encouraged me to start Photography.. Nur ---------- Photographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A photographer is ... via TrekEarth

The world is talking. Are you listening? Rising Voices grantee, the HiperBarrio project , is a great example of how underrepresented communities are increasingly able to tell their stories to the world from ... via Global Voices Online

“There was no medicine, water, no electricity nor food for days.”

Bilal Hussein's career as a photojournalist nearly ended soon after it began. Hussein, who had been working for The Associated Press for about three months, volunteered to stay in his native Fallujah as U.S. forces prepared to assault the city to drive out Sunni religious extremists.

It was a decision not taken lightly. Once known as the 'city of mosques,' Fallujah had become the symbol of Sunni Arab resistance to the Americans and their Iraqi allies.

Fallujah had become a place where car bombs were rigged, terror attacks planned, and kidnap victims taken for their final terrifying days before they were beheaded before video cameras. Read more

Digital Photography: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks, 3rd Edition by Rob Sheppard Wiley Publishing, Inc. via MyMac.com

“McCain laughed along with the crowd as he said, "May I give the translation?”

On "Fox News Sunday," GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made the following statement in response to a question from host Chris Wallace: WALLACE: Now, Thompson and McCain both talk about leaving abortion ... via Southern Voice

There are times when I desire to do photography but the outdoor weather and light are not cooperative, so I turn to indoor documentary or still life photography. via Greeley Tribune

Job Description: Palm Bay International is a leading importer of wine and spirits brands in the United States. via Wine Business Online

“They will not tell me what allegations they are planning to allege”

The American military is sending an Iraqi photographer for The Associated Press it accuses of aiding the insurgency into Iraq's criminal justice system, according to American authorities and The A.P. The ... via New York Times

“This incentive is extended to all our new members and, consequently, to ALL of our contributors.”

Dreamstime, distinguished as a global photo community and a worldwide leader in the stock photography industry, celebrates another monumental achievement. via Customer Interaction Solutions

“This really is my passion, I love it”

STAYING at home may not be a financial option once you have a baby - but changing jobs to suit parenthood might help. via Ic Coventry

“We thought the regeneration of Newbiggin would provide us with an excellent opportunity to celebrate the future of the village and also give the community a chance to remember the past.”

HAPPY day at the seaside for hundreds of photographers has inspired an exhibition and a calendar. via The Journal Newspaper Online

Nikon today updated its 18-55mm 'kit' lens to include Vibration Reduction . The lens also features a Silent Wave Motor aka AF-S, Super Integrated Coating and hybrid aspherical elements in its design. via Digital Photography Review (dpreview....

“The marchers are forcibly stopped and blocked out of the inauguration by Navajo Nation Police. President Joe Shirley is not allowing you into the inauguration. You must turn around NOW”

Images top to bottom: One of 40 photographs in "Question of Power," at the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery on Thursday. via LeanneGoebel

“Out of maintaining the thinnest veneer of objectivity, the AP ought to recuse itself from reporting on the Hussein case at all.”

In April 2006 , I broke news about our military's detention of Associated Press stringer Bilal Hussein-whom sources in Iraq told me was captured by American forces in a building in Ramadi, Iraq, with a cache of ... via Michele Malkin

You've decided to buy a digital camera-or upgrade to a newer, more powerful one as a holiday gift -- or for yourself. via WFMJ-TV Youngstown

Both professional photographers and amateurs are welcome to participate. Apart from earning prizes, winning entries will be published in the global newspaper The Epoch Times - published in 17 languages on the ... via The Epoch Times

Even with more models marketed than ever before, it's not a banner year for new, innovative consumer-oriented digital cameras. Although new features are offered, resulting in many above average models, some of the best bargains include older models at reduced prices.

Each week it seems a new model, or model update, hits the market. Here are trends you will see.

** Small is in. The overall size of point-and-shoot digital cameras continues to get smaller.

** Reviewing an image is easier. Rear (LCD) screens are larger, showing more detail. Read more

“I've gained a lot of knowledge doing volunteer work”

Tammy Rapp is a photographer. Her husband, Capt. Dave Rapp, is a veteran firefighter. via Pasadena Star-News

“He was quite well-known in Greer. He had a photography shop on East Poinsett”

This holiday season, Greer area residents will have a chance to look inside some of the community's oldest homes, along with some that have been built more recently. via Tribune-Times

About Christopher Flach A New York City native, Flach earned a BFA while working as photographer. via Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

Adobe released a slew of updates surrounding Lightroom, its professional photography tool for organizing and manipulating photos. via Infinite Loop

Wayne Hinshaw 's travels took him to Rochester, N.Y., and the famed photography museum at the George Eastman House. via Salisbury Post

“In the days before cell-phone cameras and digital photography, this is a glimpse of such an important moment”

Everywhere John Richter went Friday, people wanted to ask him about Abraham Lincoln. via The York Daily Record

“We heard a lot of screaming and noises coming from below, and some of the guys inside our party rushed downstairs.”

But witnesses at party in Allston contend he was beaten in brawl The Friday night party started off low-key, with about 20 college students and other young adults chatting and sipping beer inside a fourth-floor ... via Boston.com

“The Earth-rise cannot be observed by a person who is on the Moon as they can always see the Earth at the same position”

The Earth as seen from the Japan Space Agency 'Kaguya' spacecraft. Photo / JAXA/NHK View Photos Japan's Kaguya spacecraft has used high definition photography to capture one of the most spectacular space shots ... via MyTown

Although George's parents hailed from Aberdeen, they had already upped sticks for Edinburgh by the time George was born in Pilton on July 11, 1942. via Scotsman.com News

“Our hope is that families embrace the invitation to prepare, participate and experience Santastic, as we customize each step and present a place that both they and Santa Claus deserve”

Santa Claus is coming to Columbia, and whether town residents have been naughty or nice has nothing to do with it. via WTOP

Get to know important features, advantages and disadvantages of digital cameras. via Buzzle.com

“It's an extreme honor for me to find myself in the company of artists like Bert Seaborn and Edward Rausch, a major internationally known Oklahoma artist. He's in every art history book I've ever studied.”

When the Oklahoma State Arts Council came knocking, Steve Brown was quick to answer with a resounding "yes." The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma professor of art recently was asked to display three ... via Chickasha Daily Express

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Press Association and the Illinois High School Association have compromised over rules regarding photographs and access to sporting events following a lawsuit filed this month. via Quad-City Times

“In this country, because you are going to get the phone as part of a contract, you are in effect paying nothing at all for the camera. Why would you go and buy a 100 camera that does the same job, more or less?”

Sales of the digital camera will fall for the first time this year as growing numbers of people rely on their mobile phones to take pictures. via Telegraph.co.uk

“We are looking for any help we can get in identifying additional victims”

Modeling studio owner Michael Dee Carter, 38, is accused of sexually assaulting a child during a photo session. via Pasadena Citizen

The photoblog "Photo-Mania" has won the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards, The BOBs 2007. via Deutsche Welle

“The music they wrote, they sourced it from all these different timeless things ... and then they fed off that and created their own styles”

Graphic: Information about The Beatles Experience concert More than four decades after the Beatles first held music fans' collective hands, the band still commands the attention of the music world. via The Greenville News

“All my life I wanted to get off Cape Cod”

Kick-off event Dec. 7 aimed at youth, art, fun, spirit of giving By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com The seed the town planted last year for a Pearl Street artist colony off Main Street, Hyannis, has ... via Barnstable Patriot

Interview by Leo Benedictus Thursday November 15, 2007 The Guardian A cheeky performance ... Paul Trevor's best shot Today, Brick Lane is probably one of the most vibrant, cosmopolitan places in London. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

“How would you like the rest of the world to perceive the USA?”

IN a pub in Tenterfield, NSW, Nathalie Latham is hugged by an indigenous Australian for asking a few simple questions. via The Australian

“There are many poor families that don't have any income or housing, and for this reason, many children are left in orphanages.”

Montserrat College of Art Assistant Professor, Kate Jellinghaus wanted to accomplish many things when she decided to organize an exhibit featuring the work of eight Bulgarian orphans; provoking pity for the ... via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

“The diligence and talent of our editorial team is as much a part of our product as the technology or the images themselves”

PhotoShelter is pleased to announce that it has begun transacting image sales on The PhotoShelter Collection, the first online marketplace to provide the benefits of a commercial agency and a wholly transparent ... via TMCnet

“The new sprouts, paper, pencil, mat: my ambitions.”

First Communion #10 is tinged with melancholy. Details: Through December 8. FotoFest Headquarters at Vine Street Studios, 1113 Vine St., 713-223-5522. A large color photograph depicts set tables in a rustic, ... via Houston Press