The F Stops Here

One of my favorite contemporary documentary photographers, Shelby Lee Adams,  has been featured in the March 2010 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

I have previously written about him and his Appalachian Portraits. He was accompanied by a writer who wrote about his Capturing Appalachia’s “Mountain People.”

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — CQ-Roll Call Group today announced that Roll Call staff photographer Bill Clark has won two Awards of Excellence from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA). Clark took the honors in two categories of the WHNPA Still Division, “On Capitol Hill” and “Insiders Washington.” The judging took place last weekend at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington, D.C., and the winners were announced Sunday, Feb. 14.
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DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Inspirational and tender images photographed by renowned portrait artist Tamara Lackey for the January 31, 2010 airing of ABC’s Emmy award-winning show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” captured the depth of love, spirit, and hope evidenced by a Lexington, North Carolina’s family in the midst of their financial struggles, decaying home, and the mother’s stage 4 cancer.

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2010 — Nik Software announces today the Nik Summit, its first-ever multi-day educational event designed specifically to educate and empower photographers and fans of the company’s award-winning software tools. Attendees will learn how to improve their photographic skills by working alongside some of the world’s leading professional photographers and the lessons will continue beyond image capture to help photographers develop powerful photo enhancement skills using Nik Software’s imaging software products. The Nik Summit will be held May 13-16, 2010, in San Diego, California. More information and registration details are available at www.niksummit.com.

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A comprehensive guide to help photographers effectively use social media to promote their work, build a following, increase website traffic, and sell more images

New York, NY, January 22, 2010 – PhotoShelter, the leader in photography websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers, today released the latest in their series of free downloadable research reports for photographers. PhotoShelter’s Social Media for Photographers, a free 55-page e-book, provides essential internet marketing guidance for serious professionals and aspiring hobbyists looking to grow their photography business online. Available at http://www.photoshelter.com/mkt/research/social-media-for-photographers the guide is designed to share insights with photographers who want to get started or optimize their productive use of social media platforms like blogging, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as part of their overall marketing strategy.

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LONDON, January 18/PRNewswire/ –

- Splash of Colours and Joy of the Urban Garden on Display at ‘Art@Ketchum Pleon’

Photographer Karin Gunnarsson standing in front of her portrait of the artist John Lee Bird

Works by Karin Gunnarsson, a Swedish-born photography graduate from the Royal College of Art, are being featured at the Art@Ketchum Pleon exhibition now through to the beginning of March 2010.

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Michigan City, IN (PRWEB) January 9, 2010 — Photojournalist David Honl has added 3 exciting new products to his well-respected line of Honl Photo professional lighting accessories for small flash users.

The David Honl: Light DVD is an entertaining introduction to Honl’s small, quick, and nimble lighting setups. Joining him is his partner, actress Claudia Christian, along with actor Bill Mumy (Lost in Space), actress Pat Tallman (Night of the Living Dead), and a 40th Anniversary portrait for the Planet of the Apes. With a total of 10 dynamic lighting setups, David takes you through each quick 5-minute session, followed by explanatory lighting diagrams in David’s studio. David insists, “When it comes to lighting, I’ve found most people are quite intimidated by it. To spread the word that there should be no fear in studio-quality lighting, and show that it can actually be quite fun, Claudia and I filmed several of my shoots this past year . We shot everything from a gourmet food shot, a cat headshot, and a glamour shot with a Frederick’s model”

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Telluride, CO (PRWEB) January 4, 2010 — The world’s most renowned outdoor and adventure photographers will share their art and their passion at Telluride’s inaugural Photography Festival September 20 – 26, 2010. The weeklong event, geared toward professional and experienced amateur photographers, is timed just right for photographers to capture the changing fall light and the aspens turning gold and blaze orange.

The Festival will feature field classes and photography workshops, seminars, portfolio reviews, and exhibits. “We are so excited to bring this new event to Telluride, one of the great festival venues in the nation,” said event organizer and photographer Eric Moore. “We have some of the best known landscape, nature, adventure, and sports photographers coming to Telluride to teach their art and share their photography for an entire week,” Moore said.

The Photography Festival is teaming up with the Ah Haa School for the Arts. The Ah Haa School is a community center of learning and culture and a Telluride icon for nearly two decades. Ah Haa will help promote the Festival and host a number of Festival events as well as the opening reception and gallery shows at the School’s historic Depot building.

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Alex Kraus, Knut Müller and Ulrich Baumgarten
November 25, 2009. Three photographers from vario images take part at this year’s “Rueckblende”-photo competition. “Rueckblende” is a well-known photo and caricature competition for political and social life in Germany.

The vario-photographers in particular:
Alex Kraus – editorial photography from a special point of view Originally Alex Kraus was born in Bavaria. He studied constructional engineering and social work, before he started to work as a freelance-photographer for Deutsche Bank, Financial Times Germany and Bloomberg – just to name a few. Since 2007 Alex Kraus is chief for photography for the “Frankfurter Rundschau” a well-known supranational newspaper in Germany. His images are quite convincing because of its dynamic and unconventional picture language.

Since 2005 Alex Kraus is represented exclusively by vario images.
Knut Mueller – reportage and art Beside of the publications of his work in the Figaro and the Los Angeles Times, Knut Mueller has taken pictures for Stern, Spiegel and many more prestigious magazines. Since 1989 he is regularly abroad in war zones and conflict areas like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kosovo, Iraq, Somalia – just to name a few countries. But there exists also a reverse side of Knut Mueller. He studied not only art and design, he is as well a successful photographer for high art-images, which has been proven by many exhibitions not only in Germany.

Knut Muellers images of the last years are distributed exclusively by vario images.
Ulrich Baumgarten – photo journalism in a class of its own More than 40.000 digital images and several then thousands images more in the analog archive speak for themselves: Since 1975 the name “Uli” Baumgarten stands for ambitious photo journalism. Many of his pictures witness in a brilliant way the contemporary history of the last decades. For example, he has shot photos of the daily life in the early 1980s of the German Democratic Republic. Furthermore, he brought a lot of images from his journeys to Israel, South Africa, Turkey, North Korea and Iraq. By the way, he started his career as a sports photographer. The topics of his work are still politics and economy. On the other hand he is as well addicted to social topics, new technologies and symbol photography.
Ulrich Baumgarten is represented exclusively by vario images.