Just helping out a fellow APADer here with a good cause. Christine Mladic is planning a trip to Chile to help some kids learn photography, but she needs a few supplies, namely unused working digital cameras, memory cards and a photo printer. Please visit her site to see how you can help.
This isn’t the contest for the photographer who can drink the most beer or take the best picture of a pint of beer. It’s the Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards 2006. The deadline is June 30, so hurry and get your entries in. Unfortunately the winner doesn’t even get a keg of beer. Instead, they get $10,000, which is almost as good.
2005 winners, 2004 winners, 2003 winners
On a side note, I do think the choice of sponsorship is peculiar. I would have thought that while alcohol does play a big part in the creativity for many photographers, a company with a more direct link to photography, like Canon or Fuji, would have sponsored an event like this. From the IPA website:
Tremendous synergy exists between the brand characteristics of Pilsner Urquell and the medium of photography and both are appreciated by discerning individuals who believe in self-expression and the right to their own opinions.
And it continues:
We are confident that Pilsner Urquell’s support for the IPA will benefit the organisation and its objectives as we have common goals of raising awareness of our respective brands, building on their prestige and making them truly international properties.
Weird.
Here’s a great resource for all those legal questions milling about inside photographers’ heads. It appears to be updated weekly and contains some great information about copyright and image protection.
Apparently 50 or so Washington Post reporters, mainly foreign correspondents, have been given video cameras with the intention of using the video for the newspaper’s website.
“We’ve always had the concept that reporters having video cameras out in the field would be useful,” says James Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com. “We would buy the cameras and give them to reporters to shoot still pictures, record voice, or shoot video. It’s a triple-threat device. It adds a whole different dimension than you can get on the print side.”
He was detained anywhere from two to five days according to the various news reports, but at least now Ed Kashi has been released unconditionally.
UPDATE: CPJ condemns arrest
National Geographic photographer Ed Kashi was arrested by the Nigerian navy for taking pictures of an oil facility without permission and because "the area is volatile and he could have been kidnapped."
This is a fun, behing-the-scenes take on what it’s like to photograph the World Cup. There is plenty of insight about shooting the actual matches balanced by some funny off-the-pitch moments. Stuart Franklin jokes about being "embedded" with the Brazilian team, and Ross Kinnaird experiments with a blurring effect to keep himself awake at one of many press conferences.
Also World Cup related, but not having anything to do with photography…
Check out the World Development Movement’s team chooser that lets you pick who you think should win based on the economical and political situations of the various teams in the tournament. Maybe all the extra support from this website is what led Ghana to defeat Czech Republic yesterday.
Surf photographer David Pu’u discusses what it takes to be able to create unique surfing photos in a first person article in Surfer magazine. It appears as though surfing photography equipment costs are a bit higher than for your daily newspaper photographer. [via SS]
"Why choose between still and video; why not both? While you’re at it, throw in 3-D data, wireless networking and Internet access."
