Voluptuous Women Wanted: Kristin Herout’s Graduate School Project

Starting in February 2008, posters across the Northern Illinois University campus called for voluptuous women to participate in an unusual photography session. Kristin Herout, a 23 year old graduate student and professional photographer, needed some models to complete the photography portion of her…

Film & Photography: Getting Your Non-Profit’s Message Across

During my latest bout of Stumbling around, I came across a relatively new non-profit organization called The Girl Effect. Their mission is admirable: enabling the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity…

The new Magnum Photos Foundation will hold its first auction this week

The upcoming auction will contain 300 photographs from all Magnum photographers. All funds will go directly to the Foundation. The images up for bid were originally created for their 60th anniversary book, Magnum Magnum, by Thames & Hudson, and they feature all the agency’s members.

American Festivals Project

A wonderful photographer and friend of mine Ross McDermott and his friend Matthew Burris are in the midst of a fantastic cross-country documentary project. Partially funded by a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant, the pair are criss-crossing…

Factory workers of Cambodia

John Vink, a Magnum photographer working in Cambodia says:

“There is a multimedia piece about Chom Chao, an area in the suburbs of Phnom Penh where part of the 300000 Cambodian garment factory workers sleep, work, and have nothing much more to do because inflation is eating away their…

New York Times closes International Tribune Website

The International Herald Tribune website will soon become the new New York Times site. It seems the decision was merely branding, however, the Paris based IHT will likely be facing job cuts, according to both Forbes…

Jeff Jarvis calls bullshit on journalists

In a lengthy and well thought-out post explains how “the fall of journalism is, indeed, journalists’ fault.”



Read the article here.

Already some heated comments on this:…

World Press Photo photojournalism contest

The prestigious World Press Photo photojournalism contest, now in its 52nd year, is now underway. Professional press photographers are invited to submit photographs (individual or photo stories) in ten different categories. The 2009 jury panel is headed by MaryAnne Golon, consulting editor for Time…

The Portfolio Killer - As you design your Web site, have pity on us and spice it up!

I don’t care if your interface is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen — when your portfolio loads and I’m staring at a slate gray background spotted with red and white text, I can’t help but yawn and nod off. I don’t care if you have a supremely rare shot, even the Rolls…

Orphan Works Panel Discussion

Photographer Jim Goldstein leads a conversation about Orphan Works with photographers Chase Jarvis, Dan Heller and John Harrington.

Here.