The Surgeon Behind The Knick: Interview with Dr. Burns

We are so pleased to present this interview with Dr. Burns – much gratitude to Sonia Epstein, author and Executive Editor, Sloan Science and Film. This article is republished with permission from Sloan Science & Film, an online publication reporting on all things science and film, published by Museum of the Moving Image and funded …


Candidly Posting

We have been office bound for a bit, taking care of all those bits of paper, unanswered emails and tackling projects that have been gathering dust. Hard to stay put with Spring calling; but we have been able to take a journey, none the less, complements of “The Candid Frame,” a photography-based podcast by Ibarionex …


The Half-life of Censorship

With retrospectives at both the Getty and  LACMA and a new HBO doc about his life and work, Mapplethorpe sparked this editorial from writer/curator Simon Herbert: Given the current tone of political discourse in an election year, it’s tempting to think that we’ve hit new lows in civility; yet rewind to 1989, on the floor …


Photocase: The Anti-Stock Image Undertaking

Fifteen years in the running and still inspiring buyers to license images without corniness. Guest post by Jain Lemos Photocase launched from Germany in 2001 as a creative stock photography marketplace with a determination to deliver the anti-stock image. All their photos are hand-picked, meaning you won’t slog through millions of repetitive or inferior quality …


Clickbait for You!

Every now and then, we take a look around the photo world on the web and round up news worthy of a visit with your morning coffee: Former Travel Photo Library boss Philip Enticknap has launched a new website to license his own Rights Managed images. Amongst the copious travel images, there is an extensive Malta collection …


Creating A Conceptual/Fine Art Stock Photo

How DO they do it? ‘Stock Photo Guy’ and resident guru John Lund takes us behind the scenes. Creating a fine art stock image for Getty Images Siri Stafford, my art director at Getty Images at the time, suggested this stock image for me to create. She asked me to make the image because she …


Secrets From the Set

Imagine if a donut was a diva… demanding that it only be shot from certain angles, or that the powdered sugar only be of a certain specific type; and you begin to get an idea of the stresses faced by professional stylists. For, make no mistake, food might not, in reality, be able to make …


All Types of Gifting this Season

As the season of giving is upon us, let’s take some time out from all that financial management – all that project billing, and equipment buying, and estimate building – and take a brief look at some folks in the photography community are in the the giving frame of mind: Photojournalist Yunghi Kim has perhaps …


NaturePL – Bats About Wildlife

The giving season is upon us and Julian Jackson’s conversation with Tim Harris about NaturePL and how they do things a bit differently is nothing if not timely. NaturePL (Nature Picture Library) is a world-renowned nature specialist photo agency, based in Bristol, a city in the south west of the UK. Bristol is notably an …


Sally Mann Went Looking For Her ‘Local’

Ellen Boughn reviews ‘HOLD STILL’, the photo memoir of the summer, if not the year. I wasn’t particularly interested in reading Sally Mann’s autobiography, Hold Still, but took it up a few weeks after my husband bought it for me as a surprise. I began the book more out of a sense of guilt about …