Warren Richardson has just won the World Press Photo of the Year 2015 award with his haunting photograph of a man passing a baby under barbed wire on the Serbian/Hungarian border during last year’s refugee crisis. The crisis saw thousands of refugees and displaced people flood into Europe to escape the war and turmoil still […]
Are We Headed For a Photographic Revolution?
The world progresses whether we want it to or not, and that is the same for any artistic mediums. After reading Stephen Mayes article “The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming” in Time magazine this morning, I think he may be right a photographic revolution. Stephen Mayes a visual communication strategist and the former CEO […]
Does Photoshop Ruin Photography?
Editing images in Photoshop is the photographers’ tool of constructing and deconstructing our photographs until it reaches our idea of perfection. However, image editing seems to be getting a bad rap recently, and it almost seems like ‘manipulation’ has become a dirty word. I noticed this recently during the controversy at the World Press Photo […]
What Really Happened At the World Press Photo Contest?
World Press Photo is having a rough time since their February announcement that over 20% of its contestants were disqualified for breaking contest rules. And to make matters worse, there was also the disqualification of Giovanni Troilo’s “La Ville Noir”—The Dark Heart of Europe, which depicts Charleroi, Belgium as seedy, sex-craved underbelly city of Europe. […]
Fine Line Between Image Editing and Digital Photojournalism?
The World Press Photo Organization announced the World Press Photo of the Year went to Mads Nissen of Denmark, but the story evolving today is around the disqualification of 20% of its contestants for excessive photo manipulation. As you can see, photojournalism in the digital age is begging a new question — what are the […]