An Interview with Annie Leibovitz

"So, There You Go."

An interview by Icontent, directed by Douglas Sloan.

An Interview with David LaChapelle

Jael de Pardo from CURRENT had the opportunity to interview David LaChapelle at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York.

Drew Gardner - ZEBRA SHOOT - BTS Video

Drew Gardner has been a photographer now for thirty years, his first professional work was published on the front page of his local newspaper 'The Lincolnshire Free Press' when he was 15. He graduated from regional to national newspapers where he worked for 10 years before moving into his own style of photography which he launched with an exhibition of his renowned Guinness World Record Series.

His work is diverse with a strong narrative, encompassing group portraiture to beautiful and extraordinary people both on location and in the studio. He has a burning passion for his craft and for people getting the very best from any given situation.

Drew also lectures in advanced digital and lighting techniques in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. More recently he has been working with disadvantaged young people in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa teaching them photography and building a practical and sustainable learning programme with the NGO True North.

(words from www.drew.it)

Helmut Newton

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan

Quote from Brad Kremer

Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. This is my Japan. This is one of the many reasons why I love Japan. I shot this in many locations around Japan in the summer of 2009. Some of the location include Tokyo, Matsuyama, Imabari, Nagano, Gifu, and Ishizushisan.

I started this as a personal project to try and capture the beauty that I see in Japan. It started as just that...

But now that I have finished, I see it only as a beginning. This video, along with SAIJO MATSURI (vimeo.com/​7458088) is just the start of a much larger project that I have now decided to do.

Anyone interested in helping fund/produce this dream of mine please feel free to contact me:

brad@bradkremerfilms.com

So I hope you enjoy this preview of what is to come in the future.

"Hayaku" definition: Hurry up

Gregory Heisler

Profoto has posted a fascinating Gregory Heisler whiteboard discussion of his techniques to pull off the iconic cover of TIME magazine featuring Rudy Giuliani.

Gregory Heisler is a New York-based photographer who is renowned for his technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness. He is an award-winning portraitist of leaders in business, government, science, sports, and the arts with  over 70 TIME Magazine covers.

Daniel Askill

Cult Australian fashion label ksubi, toast the long awaited return of their coloured denim range, with a short film directed by Australian director Daniel Askill. kolors is a fume-fuelled, slow-motion battle between three colour-clad models and a trio of ‘80s muscle cars.

With the ksubi team securing the very last sets of limited edition coloured tyres by Kumho available in Australia they then enlisted Askill and his team at Collider to fuse the vivid smoke with the spectral denim range. Models Bambi Northwood-Blythe, Cisco Gorrow and Heidi Harrington-Johnson act as modern-day matadors to the rumbling Ford's that attempts to hunt them down while the girls soar above the cars to an operatic soundtrack.

Shot next to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport in barren industrial wasteland that car fanatics converge on after dark and with a Phantom camera, Askill captures each and every denim movement and smoke billow at 1500 frames per second.

If you never heard of Daniel Askill, here are his other masterpiece "We Have Decided Not To Die" that inspire the commercial.

Is this where we heading?

or

from me to you

The second one is reasonably achievable without the fancy RED camera.

Here is the link on how to make one.

How photo can change someone life

Remember Kim Phuc?

Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.

The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

And the next photo is a photo of her on Veteran Day 1996.

Photo by Joe McNally

Joe McNally at Google Talks

Martin Prihoda

Dean Collins

Part 1.

Part 2.

Andrew Zuckerman

Chase Jarvis RAW: 12 Tasty Photo + Video Tips

Richard Avedon

Vividly portrayed in this American Masters Special, photographer Richard Avedon shoots for two different worlds. Primarily, he is a fashion photographer, having worked for various magazines for more than 50 years. As a fashion photographer, Avedon became known for his sense of movement and the energy he captured in each image; he gets exquisite models to leap, move, and flip their hair. His second, and perhaps lesser-known, body of work is art photography, including portraits of the famous and the unknown, with a signature style of photographing his sitters on a white background with no props. This documentary ably captures the tension between these two directions in his work by overlaying the positive and negative viewpoints about his photography in a collage of voiceovers. We learn how Avedon views his role as a photographer, and that for him the end result captures “the death of the moment.”

Here are series of movie clip of Richard Avedon, Darkness and Light (1982), a TVseries documentary.

Stanley Kubrick：A Life in Pictures - Introduction

“Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”
- Chicago Tribune

Here are couple of his pictures:

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Photojournalism and Travel Photography Introduction with Ric...

I-SPY TV talks with Russell James

Part 1

Part 2

Vivian Maier - The Discovery of A Legend

This story about Vivian Maier really fascinate me.

Thank God that the films and negatives was found.

Otherwise we will never have the honour to see the wonderful work of her.

Here is a documentary about Vivian Maier.

   (from http://www.vivianmaier.blogspot.com/)

Behind The Scene with CHASE JARVIS

Behind the scene of Chase Jarvis, shooting for LPGA commercial.

(Source http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2008/08/chase-jarvis-tech-photo-shoot-in-180-seconds/)

Behind The Scene with Mellisa Rodwell

Behind the scene of Mellisa Rodwell, shooting for Harper Bazaar - "Prince of Persia."

Harper's Bazaar Arabia from Melissa Rodwell on Vimeo.

Christopher Rimmer - In Africa

In Africa
A Journey In Photography

Australian photographer, Christopher Rimmer left South Africa in 1981 following his conscription into the Apartheid army. Twenty five years later he returned and captured these poignant and unforgettable images of his former homeland. Rimmer is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and an award winning photographer who has exhibited internationally.

Christopher Rimmer was born in England an emigrated to South Africa as a child. He began taking photographs as a teenager with a plastic 35mm Hanimex camera and sold his first photograph to the South African angling magazine Tight Lines in 1980.After immigrating to Australia Rimmer did an arts degree in Media Studies at Rusden College were he gained experience in the use of large and medium format film cameras.

His photographs have been published in many Australian and international publications. He has exhibited in group and solo shows both in Australia and in the United Kingdom. He is a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society. His most recent exhibition Christopher Rimmer – In Africa opened at Galleria Rocco Interiors in Melbourne in March, 2011 and was an instant sell out.
(from christopherrimmer.com)

What a rare opportunity for me to be able the 'man' in person. Such an enthusiastic photographer that eager to share his adventure and love story, the love to Africa, the place that close to his heart.

Here are some glimpse of the exhibition.

Daniela Federici - A Retrospective

Sophie Gannon Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of photographer Daniela Federici "A RETROSPECTIVE" until 9 April 2011.

If you like cinematic style photography, you might want to check it out.

Not just that, Daniela Federici also does some of the most beautiful black and white celebrities portraiture.

Please check Daniela and her awesome works at www.danielafederici.com

Ernest Hemingway, Papa Bear

This famous photo of American literary giant Ernest Hemingway is another by the great portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. Karsh's mastery of lighting is shown in the picture of 'Papa Bear,' a shot that somehow seems to mirror the stark minimalism of the writer's prose and capture the sense of both melancholy and raw adventure that figured in his life. The portrait, taken at Hemingway's home near Havana in 1957, offers a window into the soul of the big bearded man with elevated eyes wearing a rollneck sweater; a man both intensely imaginative and highly athletic; “A man,” recalled Karsh, “of peculiar gentleness, the shyest of men I ever photographed.” Tortured by alcoholism and ailing physical and mental health, Hemingway blew his brains out with a shotgun in 1961. Is the anguish of his world-weary existence expressed in this photo as it was in the words of his books?

From 10 Most Iconic Photo Portraits of the century

Thierry Mugler Fashion Show by Nicola Formichetti

Men's-wear collection for Mugler Fashion Show by Nicola Formichetti held in Paris on January 19, 2011 featuring Rick Genest and Lady Gaga music remix.

Scarlett Johansson

Photographer Peter Lindbergh shoots talented actress Scarlett Johansson in black and white for the April edition of Vogue China. Styled by Nicoletta Santoro, Johansson wears a sexy wardrobe by Dolce & Gabbana. 

Look for the sultry star next in the superhero blockbuster film The Avengers, which is due in theaters May 2012.

 

 

Zack Arias :: Sucksessful Commercial Photographer

Want a sneak peak into the life of a successfull commercial photographer?




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More Zack Arias stuffs here.

Japan Earthquake Images | A Photography Blog

Japan Earthquake Images | A Photography Blog

Great photo from http://www.aurumlight.com/






More of the idea behind the concept and BehindThe Scenes material please visit https://aurumlight.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/the-milky-nun/.

Week 2

Good day folks.
Today I passed my second week at college......woohoooo!!

So far so good.......apart from the presentation ...yikes.
I HATE PUBLIC SPEAKING !!!

Anyway.......


Another thing happens today.
A big quake (8.8 magnitude) hit North side of Japan.



All my heart goes to the victim of the quake.

Back to School

Yes......I finally dragged my self and enroll for a photo course at PIC.
Feel nervous... again.
I will most certainly to be the oldest student there :)

Let the adventure begin...