Heading to Cairo
I’m heading to Cairo after the week-end to work on an audiovisual. Looking forward to all te fine food and coffee! By the way… Via the Verve Photo Blog about documentary photography (see my recent post), I’ve found out about Denis Dailleux, a French photographer living in Cairo. He was awarded the World Press Photo [...]
Printing Digital Photographs
Printing digital photographs is the equivalent to the work in the darkroom in the film era. Printing Work-flow Of course, first comes appropriate RAW conversion, editing and post-processing before you can jump to the printing work-flow. These steps are not discussed here, i.e. there must already be a final edited photo with prepress proofing before [...]
The Most Published Advertising Photographer: Nadav Kander
Find out who is the most published advertising photographer… It’s Nadav Kander. Lürzer’s Archive Magazine lists them all. There is also a featured Spot of the Week, as well as the Print Ad of the Week. The Guardian recently pulished an interview with Nadav Kander. Kander’s latest project, Yangtze from East to West, is currently [...]
Editorial Photographer Chris Buck
One of the top editorial photographers: Chris Buck. His portraits always show the unexpected, and his portfolio is an incredible pot of creativity. There is a very interesting recent interview with Chris Buck by A Photo Editor. I also found an article about him on CBC, The portrait photography of Chris Buck. It also describes [...]
Up Up And Away
I was hiking in the mountains to shoot moving clouds for my time-lapse project (here’s the link to the movie, as well as the corresponding post). There were two paragliders preparing to start. Took some shots of them against the impressive clouds. The other paraglider had some problems after take-off. He went down and had [...]
Documentary Photography
Verve Photo is a blog about documentary photographers. Photographer and photo editor Geoffrey Hiller presents photos and interviews. The site contains a very well selected and beautiful overview on documentary photographers.
Paris 1997
This is one of my older photographs. Paris, 1997. Nikon F3 and 50mm on Tri-X film. Lazy scan from print.
Yoshida Brothers
Cool stuff of music!! Yoshida Brothers — Madrugada
Edward Hopper’s Influence on Contemporary Photography
I was in Vienna over the week-end to see the Hopper exhibition at the Kunsthalle: Western Motel. Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art. Great! I’ve already blogged about the exhibition. After getting up at 4 AM in the morning for the first flight (beautiful view over the alps in the sunrise!), we enjoyed a lot of [...]
Editorial Photographers I Admire
Here is a short list of some great editorial photographers whose work I find very inspiring. I only included contemporary photographers, and this list does not cover pure photo journalists. All these photographers make ingenious use of lighting to achieve their specific style. Chris Buck. An incredible pot of artistic creativity! The master of editorial [...]