The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has become the first UK organisation representing photographers to publicly oppose the proposed US ‘Orphan Works’ legislation, saying it “utterly rejects” the bills currently going through the House and Senate. see http://www.epuk.org/News/863/nuj-opposes-us-orphan-work This is a major issue for European and British photographers, so I’ll post a longer piece on [...]
We are probably all familiar with maps of the world with the south pole at the top, or showing relative size per capita income or use of global resources etc: they act as an immediate visual paradigm shift in our perceptions in a way that simple raw data on a subject can’t match. In the [...]
Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up during the post election violence in Kenya to act as an incident reporting and tracking monitor for acts of [...]
The prodigal son returns to the editorial world. After a long interregnum in the more commercially focused arena of high end stock and advertising photography, stephen mayes has returned to his roots in the reportage agency business, joining vii as managing director (as I hinted at in yesterdays post) It’s been a long time coming: [...]
adobe have just launched a beta version of an online image storage and sharing service called adobe photoshop express you are supposed to be in the US to sign up, but i just checked the box and it let me in it is free at present, and the T&C dont seem too scary in that [...]
an interesting short film on what rights we have to film and photograph in public places, and how the police are enforcing laws that don’t exist to prevent it
traditional photojournalism in the form of the ‘sunday supplement’ photo essay is under siege: many have seen the web as the saviour of the genre. but does this mean simply transferring an old model into a new medium, or does it need a complete re writing of the rules? this thought provoking piece by stephen [...]
charlie beckett, the director of Polis has written a new book called SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World and in a blog entry related to it writes ‘“What are we supposed to tell our newsrooms when they tell us they don’t have time to do anything special for the Web?” Or put [...]
Piclens is a new and very cool way to search images online from sites like google and flikr, like something from minority report
As a media practitioner and educator I’m interested particularly in the ways that new media are transforming the landscape of how we source our information, knowledge and beliefs about the world. We are shifting from a passive stance of absorbing from fixed media like books and newspapers, and from the relatively traditional teaching methods of [...]
