Photography

Cameron Van Loos: How do documentary ethics function within your photography?

Gregory Halpern: To ask what one’s ethics are when making photographs of other people is as complicated as asking what one’s ethics are in general.

I should start by explaining why I don’t call my work documentary. To begin with, the way the word “documentary” is understood by still photographers, particularly in the US, is extremely limited and strict. The second is that I am not primarily motivated by the desire to “document” things. I am motivated more by the desire to create things, to make photographs that rely on things/facts found “in the world” but that are then shaped and altered according to my vision of them.

Trent Parke is one of the most phenomenal contemporary photographers around. What I love about his work is the strong emotional and personal connection he has in his photographs, as well as his fanatical passion to street photography.

Adobe has announced new standalone and Creative Cloud versions of its image management and Raw conversion software, Lightroom. The latest versions gain simple HDR and Panorama merging tools that create 16-bit DNG files from the merged results. Also added is the ability to paint-out regions of gradient filters, to allow more flexible overlays. Face Recognition tools have also been added, to simplify the tagging and retrieval of images. The CC version of the software is also designed to tie-in with the iOS and Android versions of Lightroom, by allowing for collections you choose to be synced and available across multiple devices, as well as on a web platform. The CC version also works with Voice and Slate: two new programs for creating image-based animations and presentations.

’m Peter Kirkeskov Rasmussen, a mechanical engineer by profession, a self taught photographer with a passion for street photography by heart. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, where I do most of my work.

n part one we looked at why images of people fascinate us, and the nature of portraiture. However, this only covers half of the possibilities for ‘images of people': instances where the subject is a conscious and cooperative part of the process. What about the other possibility: where the subject is not aware the photographer, or only aware of them in the most fleeting of moments before any conscious self-image or rapport can be built?

Venice is a city of water. Perhaps the city of water. And in such a city, a boat is a necessity, not a luxury – today’s photoessay is a little celebration of the the Riva, a tribute to the workhorse vaporetto, a nod to the cruise liner that dwarfs the city it arrives at, and a grudging acknowledgement of the ubiquitous gondola.

Today is the 75th birthday of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. I thought I would share my view on her, so I searched my archive for Queen Margrethe and came up with 2,311 images, and then I searched my mind.

I just gave a free street photography webinar, and here are some of the slides that I shared on practical tips, assignments, and "traits of great street photographers". The video recording of the event will be available in a week or so, will also make sure to share. In the meanwhile, enjoy this

A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are created equal. The pictures we usually feature on here can be cute, beautiful...

Today’s article is the first of two parts focusing on portraiture and human subjects as the focus of an image. It is not something I’m normally associated with because I rarely choose to show my work here; it doesn’t mean I don’t engage in it for personal reasons (which are usually not shared, obviously) or professional ones (I do have clients whose mainstay subjects are primarily human). Whilst curating images for a recent assignment, I had a couple of little personal epiphanies which I’d like to share with you all.

Today’s photoessay comes from a beach near Banting, on the west coast of Peninsula Malaysia and about an hour and a half’s drive out of Kuala Lumpur.

Welcome to our series of 100 interviews we will be holding with professional photographers who use mirrorless cameras for work! “Switching to a smaller and lighter system” has become somewhat of a buzz phrase as of late, but many working photographers take this philosophy seriously. From medical reasons such as resolving back and shoulder pain to the simple realisation that bigger does not mean better, photographers are turning to mirrorless systems now more than ever before.

Fille et petite fille de marin, j’ai passé mon enfance entourée par des objets exotiques. Mon grand-père a navigué aux quatre coins du globe et a rapporté dans son barda un tas de bibelots et de souvenirs tous aussi insolites les uns que les autres. Ne l’ayant jamais connu, toutes ces choses, ces bidules sont autant d’indices qui me renseignent sur son parcours géographique et donc son histoire. Il y a quelques temps, en farfouillant dans les affaires de famille, je suis tombée sur un ancien por

New York Street Photography with The Fuji X-T1 by Dom Shaw. Exploring the streets of New York and capturing the stories of this beautiful city.