Another in a casual series of photo related articles from ’round the web. We all love a bit of creative intel: Media Bakery offers up some insight in their Stock Photography Trends for 2014 report. The very first Selfie! Ads of the World – bookmark this one for research. Feature Shoot showcases all genres of …
by Julian Jackson Colin Garratt is a man with a mission. He has spent his lifetime photographing steam trains, trying to preserve these magnificent machines on film before they vanish into history and become as strange, remote, and incomprehensible as the penny farthing bicycle. In 1969 he threw in his steady job, to become a …
by Julian Jackson When I was at school we always looked forward to chemistry lessons because we could blow things up and set fire to stuff, which was the opposite to the rest of the curriculum, where such activities would have you brought before the headmaster and disciplined or even expelled. Now education is more …
Guest post by contributor Julian Jackson Lewis Morley, who died in September at 88 in Australia, was a British photographer who photographed many of the stars of the 1960s – the “Swinging Sixties” – including actors like Michael Caine, Susannah York and Charlotte Rampling, models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, and comedians such as Barry Humphreys. …
Sometimes responding to LinkedIn invitations result in delightful discoveries. That is how I met Karen Beard and learned of her new agency, SheStock. She took time from her launch for a brief Q&A and look at some of the wonderful work of some of her contributing photographers. What was the defining moment that inspired the …
The J. Paul Getty Museum, in Southern California is the home of a huge collection of art at its two locations. Earlier this month, they began offering high resolution downloads of thousands of images from the collection, free to use, modify, and publish through their Search Gateway. The Getty is following the lead of a …
Guest post by contributor Julian Jackson. The UK has a plethora of photographic agencies and imagery sources. These range from big organizations which have photolibraries, like the BBC, through medium-sized companies like Alamy, to a large range of specialist libraries and hundreds of museums that have awesome collections of photographs, paintings and illustrations in their …
Guest post by Angelika Pirkl, posted with permission of akg-images. It is not every day that I receive an email with the somewhat surprising opening line “Hello, I am a photographer and writer who specializes in the cultural reception of death”. My attention was instantly grabbed. Staring out at me from my computer screen were …
In Toronto or environs on May 16th? Clear your calendar and reserve your space now for Visual Connections Toronto and for the morning Copyright and Clearance session featuring top experts in North America who can answer your questions and discuss copyright, clearances, orphan works and more. From 10am to noon, the panel will be held …
Located in the heart of Oxford, the Pitt Rivers Museum has collected photographs ever since its foundation in 1884 by Lieutenant-General Augustus Pitt Rivers. Particularly strong in images from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the collection contains important fieldwork archives, including the photographs of adventurers such as Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Sir Wilfred Thesiger belongs …