from the TED 2007 winners page
James Nachtwey’s Wish:
I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.
Watch the Video Talk
Update:
TEDsters Jon Kamen, David Rockwell and Stefan Sagmeister [...]
Photographer James Nachtwey will be breaking a big story globally on October 3 — using his powerful photographs to share a vital story that the world needs to know about.
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Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war [...]
There is a new beta version of soundslides, the quick and easy multimedia/audio slideshow authoring tool. Here is an example of a story on Iraq from the Spokesman Review Video Journal (thanks to Colin Mulvany and his informative mastering multimedia blog)
The plus version allows more interaction with the images including camera movements, and the beta [...]
The harassment of photographers in public spaces is becoming a very hot topic, with increasing discussion in mainstream media. The Guardian just had this insightful piece by Bruce Scheiner, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World ,where he convincingly argues that the idea that terrorists are wandering around taking [...]
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 it next [...]
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 adobe aren’t [...]
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 mayes, [...]
Piclens is a new and very cool way to search images online from sites like google and flikr, like something from minority report
