notifbutwhen — Aralie 1 day old Aralie home at last and contemplating... After 4 long days of laboring we happily gave birth to our daughter Aralie Caden Ulrich at 9:59am July 20, 2010 7lb 12oz. Aralie shares her birthday with some choice peeps: 1932 Nam June Paik, born in Seoul, Korea, video artist, Medium is the Medium 1938 Natalie...
vervephoto.wordpress — Tawfig, Kusawku, Ghana, 2008 Jessica Hilltout (b. 1977, Belgium) has been traveling ever since her parents exposed her to the world and this sparked her fascination with images. As a young woman, she attended Art College in Blackpool, England and later worked briefly (and unhappily) in commercial photography. In 2002 she...
notifbutwhen — My wife Rachelle and I are expecting our first child and we’ve spent the last 3 days laboring, tv watching, back rubbing and generally not sleeping. We were due July 9th and are now expecting to deliver this evening (Sunday) or tomorrow. In the comments, predict the time/day, sex (surprise for us...
werejustsayin.blogspot — Even those of you who didn't really know her knew stories about her, so it is with great sadness that I share the news of my mom's passing this morning Friday July 16. It is with great joy, however that I tell you she died exactly the way...
prisonphotography.wordpress — © Thomas Hawk Thomas Hawk’s images are being used by police to pursue Oaklnd looters: “I recognized several of the photographs that the Oakland PD had released as my own photos that I’d taken the night of the riots and had posted to my own Flickr account. I was never contacted by...
vervephoto.wordpress — Sardinia, Italy 2008 Nicola Okin Frioli (b.1980, Italy) has been working for several years in the areas of reportage and portraiture. Since 2004 he has traveled through Northern Mexico, India, Pakistan, Kashmir and Sardinia. His work has been published in The New Yorker Magazine, Geo, The Guardian, Internazionale,...
dvafoto — I just heard some great news from our friend Ethan Welty who we wrote about in April after he was arrested in Colorado after an environmental protest. As of this week, the charges against him have been dropped. At the time I wrote, Shortly after the four who had trespassed on...
prisonphotography.wordpress — Screengrab - Inmate Benjamin Terry stands with Sierra, a mustang he trains as part of the Wild Horse and Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Complex on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado. © Dana Romanoff This is a great photo essay, simply because it is a great story....
dvafoto — Pause in our normal programming for a bit of an update on what I have been up to here in the Balkans. Lots has been going on and it seems like it will be continuing through the summer. And Scott and I have plenty of interesting things planned for dvafoto...
prisonphotography.wordpress — Clearly, Alec Soth does know what he is talking about … and he talks a lot of sense … and he talks often. Last week however, Magnum Photos attributed this quote to Soth and twatted it into the webiverse: “It’s not about making good pictures anymore. Anybody can do that today –...
vervephoto.wordpress — Waiting for Free Medical Care. Virginia 2009 Katie Falkenberg (b. 1981, United States) is a freelance photographer based in Los Angeles, California. She began her career photographing the 2004 presidential campaign, which led her to Washington, D.C., where she covered the White House, Capitol Hill, and other stories throughout the nation’s...
prisonphotography.wordpress — MARTIN BATALLES REPRESENTING URUGUAY LIVIA CORONA REPRESENTING MEXICO MARCOS LOPEZ REPRESENTING ARGENTINA Friend of Prison Photography, Emiliano Granado, likes football as much as rocks at photography. We pooled our knowledge to pair each country competing in South Africa with a photographer of the same nationality. GROUP A FRA France – JR MEX Mexico – Livia Corona RSA...
vervephoto.wordpress — Romany Settlement, Slovakia 2008 Milan Jaros (b.1979,Czech Republic) studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague between 1998-2004. He currently works for the Czech magazine Respekt covering social issues such as the rise of racism in Eastern Europe, the environmental situation as well as projects abroad in Georgia, Lebanon and...
vervephoto.wordpress — Aseel, Um El-Fahem 2009 Natan Dvir (b. 1972, Israel) received his MBA at Tel Aviv University and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY. His work has been published in Newsweek, Glamour, Le Monde, Stern, Focus, Die Zeit, among others. Natan is a winner of the PDN Annual, American Photograph...
werejustsayin.blogspot — It’s hard to get the temper of a time, and really understand what the world is about. We look around and it’s kind of obvious that we live in a “connected” world, full of all kinds of amazing techno goodies which supposedly let us live a new kind of...
prisonphotography.wordpress — These two bicycle culture anthropologists stop, chat with and photograph cyclists. “The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, together or separately, they’re on the lookout for fellow commuters, and people...
vervephoto.wordpress — British Soldiers, Afghanistan 2006 Kalpesh Lathigra (b. 1971, London, England) was educated at the London College of Printing with a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism. In 2000 he gave up working for newspapers and made the decision to work on long term projects. In the same year he was awarded the arts...
prisonphotography.wordpress — I was gobsmacked to learn that Utah still carries out firing squad executions, if the condemned man requests it. Ronnie Lee Gardner requested it. “I guess it’s my Mormon heritage,” Gardner said at the time. “I like the firing squad. It’s so much easier … and there’s no mistakes.” And another...
vervephoto.wordpress — Jardim Edite Favela. São Paulo 2009 Noah Addis (b.1975, USA) worked as a staff photographer at the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ until 2008, when he left to work on long-term personal projects. His photographs have been published in: The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, People, US...
prisonphotography.wordpress — Billy Baque’s Cuban Polaroid describes a camera’s self-contained process: “A wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside...
prisonphotography.wordpress — Joerg has predicted this’ll be all over the photobioblogosphere, so I’ll oblige. PROOF at the Edelman Gallery exhibits well known photographs with their original contact sheets. Do I actually like the show or have I been instantly suckered by a seductive concept? I actually like the show; PROOF demystifies some of the...
prisonphotography.wordpress — New York Times video The ‘Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma pores over the profound moral dilemma innocent prisoners face when they present themselves to a parole board. Showing remorse for the crime for which they he/she was sentenced increases a prisoner’s chances of parole; the parole board wants to see contrition, wants to...
vervephoto.wordpress — Polish Community Center. Birmingham, England 2008 Liz Hingley (b.1985, UK) is a documentary photographer and researcher based in London. She graduated from Brighton University with a first class BA Honours in Editorial Photography and recently completed a two-year scholarship with Fabrica research and communications department in Italy. Liz is now studying...
dvafoto — The New Yorker photo blog is featuring a series of pictures from Congo done recently by photographer Richard Mosse. The series is called “Quick” and it was shot on a strange infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. I find them confusing, remarkable and beautiful. I don’t know what exactly he was...
prisonphotography.wordpress — Photographing an American Marine with a malnourished boy during Operation Restore Hope, Mogadishu, Somalia (1991). © Paul Lowe/Panos Victor Acquah has established AfricaLens to present African nations as “you” and “photojournalists who travel across the continent see it.” Hopefully, AfricaLens as a collaborative space for photographers contributing outside...