The President today, on World Press Freedom Day, said that “World Press Freedom Day is observed every year on May 3 to remind us of the critical importance of this core freedom…It is also a day for us to sound the alarm about restrictions on the media as well as the threats, violence or imprisonment … Read more
The blogosphere is all aTwitter over the fact that a photographer on Haiti, seemingly without options for getting his remarkable images out, opted to use Twitter to do so. (PDNPulse – here).When Agence France Presse (AFP) published those images, and, yes, profited from their distribution as did all their subscribers, the photographer got mad, because … Read more
The good folks over at PDNPulse (here) wrote about the AP hiring out their staff photographers for freelance work.From one point of view, it sounds like a good idea. From another, a bad one.(Continued after the Jump)On the good side – the AP invests a great deal of money, time, and infrastructure to have their … Read more
When I first saw the iPad, I thought it was pretty cool, but essentially an oversized iPhone. It wasn’t until I was chatting with a friend who was a bit in the know, that I realized that it could be used as a second screen with my laptop, on shoots in either the studio, or … Read more
Paul Melcher, over at Thoughts of a Bohemian, writes about the salaries of staffers of Getty and Corbis in this article, and I strongly encourage you to read what your “support staff” is getting paid, if you work for one of those companies. Moreover, if the “support staff” for a photo organization gets paid over … Read more
“The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), joined by the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, Professional Photographers of America, photographers Leif Skoogfors, Al Satterwhite, Morton Beebe, Ed Kashi and illustrators John Schmelzer and Simms Taback, has filed a class action copyright infringement suit against Google, … Read more
So it seems, somehow, Photo Business News in the last 24 hours or so, got hacked. I am seeing it fine here on my end, and others are as well – so perhaps the cached version of the hacker site is de-populating from servers around the world – I apologize for the hack and the … Read more
As someone who has been overseas (albeit not in a bonafide war zone) and had my life at risk by thugs at gunpoint (once), seeing video of the actual death of a photographer turns my stomach and should make you realize just how dangerous being a photojournalist is these days.(Continued after the Jump)Photojournalists risk their … Read more
There are plenty of purveyors of misinformation on the web, and to be sure, in print too. Yet, I was shocked to find one whose core readership are DIGITAL PHOTOgrapher PROs (hence Digital PhotoPro) telling photographers that it is a myth that “stolen images are a bad thing.” What kind of idiotic advice is that, … Read more
Well, Google’s at it again! Back in September of 2008 (here), I wrote all about how the good people in the bowels of the Googleplex, in an effort to improve peoples’ search results, had tweaked the algorithm just enough that a number of photographers websites fell off the radar. This was happening to a number … Read more
