Economic Collapse Seen Through Aerial Photos of Abandoned Mansions

This is an amazing series of photographs: Avarice and greed + real estate speculation + stripping the land + a recession = 

 

The current state of digital photo printing.

Interesting article on the current options available for printing photographs.

Dig platinum printing? Dig this:

The Networked Photographer

Essential new thinking on how to position yourself as a photographer.

Can photojournalism survive in the Instagram era?

Nice interview with Fred Ritchin, discussing his new book, Bending the Frame (which I recommend, btw).

OUCH!: "In recent years the tendency has been to elevate the messenger over the message, a strategy which effectively keeps their more painful imagery at a distance. The courage of the photographer is celebrated while the circumstances of his or her subjects becomes somewhat secondary. As a result the photograph becomes less of a window onto the world and more of a mirror reflecting the distorted priorities of the culture consuming the imagery."

The positive effect of the iPhone . . .

. . . the desire for better cameras . . .

The dying art of darkroom printing

Read this blog post about Magnum darkroom printer, Pablo Inirio, and you'll long for the smell of stop bath and fixer . . .

Gregory Halpern on Documentary Ethics

ASX Interview with Gregory Halpern - "On Documentary Ethics" (2013)

"Photography is a highly edited, subjective vision of the world, but the medium presents itself—and is often misused by photographers—as a form of objectivity. There is, of course, no way to make objective documentary work, and any attempt to do so is flawed, misleading and disingenuous."