July, 2009 Archives

Moo-Moo’s is a corner store and an ice cream shop on Rawlins Cross in St. John’s.

A bunch of photo links today.

I am getting sick and tired of digital photographers pronouncing the film dead. Leave us, film shooters, alone, will ya? I mean why does it matter to you? Why this need to kill analog photography? Let it be…

The Black Snapper is a new on-line photojournalism magazine. The more the merrier, I say.

2andFro is an interesting blog using Through-the-Viewfinder technique to a pretty neat effect. Essentially, using a digital camera you shoot through a TLR viewfinder. Now, I have been drooling after a TLR for some time, but what I really want to use it for is to take pictures on that dead thing called film.

Recently, I stumbled upon interesting work by Xiaomei Chen.

Some thoughts on long form multimedia that I sort of agree with. And, speaking of multimedia done right, you should check out the latest story(ies) in NYT’s fabulous One in 8 Million series.

Stay at NYT (this is why we need serious newspapers – nobody else is going to do this kind of stuff) and read the essay on documentary photography which was written sort of in response to the latest allegations that Capa’s famous Falling Soldier may had indeed been a posed photograph.

Vanity Fair has a collection of Mary Ellen Mark’s photos from movie sets that are worth checking out [h/t Mark Hamilton].

And two fabulous exhibits are coming to Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario is featuring Edward Steichen and The Royal Ontario Museum is bringing Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008. And I am very likely going to be in Toronto in November :)

Croatian word of the day: film film

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A corner store on Greenspond Island, Newfoundland.

Here is a Toronto Star story on storytelling tradition in Newfoundland that I photographed and my significant other wrote. Enjoy, because the writing is superb, if I may say so.

Croatian word of the day: trgovina store

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Ah… a whole new set of corner stores… This one is on Queen’s Road and Bates Hill in St. John’s. I see Telegraph-Journal is makingnational headlines… Getting your editor-in-chief and your publisher sacked after a front page apology to the Prime Minister AND your own reporters tends to do that. Can’t say I am in mourning for whatever befalls that particular bird cage liner. But, I will say that I don’t believe a word of those two stories I linked to. There is more to this than it meets the eye. A lot more.

Croatian word of the day: dim smoke

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