Helen Stead discusses how turning family snapshots into Art has led her to reevaluate how digital photography is changing our approach to capturing photographs. My work explores my own personal family history and I use old family photo albums as a starting point to begin each piece. I generally create work for myself, to help identity with hidden or repressed qualities of … [Read more...]
Flickr Massage 2011
How to make a photo opportunity out of a disaster, flickr crashed on the 1st October apparently due to hardware failure. Rest assured that your photos remained sage throughout the outage. One interesting update on the flickr blog brought a photo challenge with a dedicated hashtag. Update 9:58 GMT/2:58 PST – While the databases are being tended to and the site is down, … [Read more...]
Once : A Photography Magazine for iPad
Once narratives move beyond images on a screen. By joining photos with text, audio, video, and infographics, Once offers readers a new and interactive type of story. Stories are curated by editors, not algorithms, with topics ranging from aligator hunting in Louisiana bayous to water scarity issues in Bangladesh. Each issue is anchored by some of the best photographs being … [Read more...]
Photovine Announce Closure
Just over one month after we announced the Photovine photo service was going live they have posted on their website the service will close in March. Photovine received mixed reviews when it opened to the public in August but I think everyone will be surprised it is closing so soon. The company announced the closure on their website : As you may have seen, Slide … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Polina Rabtseva
Polina Rabtseva was born on September 18th, 1987. She was raised in love and care in small town near Minsk. Her carefree childhood left its imprint on her creative style, vision of reality and perception of the world. From her earliest years she was attached to art, her grandfather is a talented artist and photographer, and her mother is an architect. As a child she attended … [Read more...]