Format international photography festival – review | Art and design | The Observer: "Built in 1717, Derby's Silk Mill may well be the oldest factory in the world and thus the birthplace of mass production. So it's fitting that the sixth and most ambitious Format photography festival should take as its theme the single word "factory". Its curator, Louise Clements, has chosen to interpret it loosely, with the role of photography itself – the most mass-produced creative medium in the world – at the centre of the festival's exploration of bigger themes such as labour, industry, globalisation, the changing nature of work and the workplace. Compared with big, extravagantly funded festivals such as the Les Rencontres d'Arles or Photo España, Derby is a somewhat makeshift affair, and all the more refreshing for that. The hub is the Quad building in the town centre, though some of the more intriguing and interactive events are taking place in a disused chocolate factory, as well as the aforementioned silk mills. The festival has two categories: Focus, which has been curated by Clements and her team, and Exposure, comprising work selected from an open submission programme."
Reviewed: New German Photography at Goethe-Institut - Arts Desk: "In the most recent edition on view at the Goethe-Institut, Fabian Rook offers a spark of inspiration—he culls images from Google Street View and prints them as if they were landscape photographs from his own travels in Mexico, Japan, and the Middle East (bottom). The resulting washed out depictions of forlorn neighborhoods grapple with issues of authorship and technology—the next logical step in a concept pioneered by Google Earth artist Christoph Engels, whose work was shown on the same walls in 2011."
Photography in Cairo exhibition challenges the meaning behind 'A7A' - Visual Art - Arts & Culture - Ahram Online: "The word "A7a" has a negative meaning in Egyptian society, though often people are not sure why it is considered a swear word. The word itself has no origin in the Arabic language, and is entirely colloqiual based. The most believed theory of the origin of the word was that during the Fatimid era in Egypt the word "to object" (Ahtag) was banned, so Egyptians started using the word "A7ta", which later turned into "A7a.""
The Street Photography of Nils-Erik Larson | Colossal: " . . . enjoying the street photography of Swedish photographer Nils-Erik Larson, who shoots primarily in black and white and has a wonderful knack for being in the right place at the right time. See much more of his work over on DeviantART."
Top 10 tips for farm photography - 3/10/2013 - Farmers Weekly: "Former dairy farmer and top photographer Pauline Rook, whose work is currently in a retrospective at Somerset Rural Life Museum, has provided her top 10 tips for on-farm photography to Farmers Weekly readers. You can see the exhibition, Top and Soil: Somerset People in the Landscape, at the Glastonbury museum until 25 May. . . ."
OPINION: Why Photoshop is Ruining Landscape Photography
By Darren Rowse
There are graphic artists who use photos as a foundation for the final image, and that is completely fine, but that is not photography any more than painting is. .... Photography is art. The work done both behind the camera and behind the computer or in the darkroom is what makes a photograph unique and it is also what gives a photographer their style. Sure if you are photographing for documentary or advertising purposes alteration is not your best route, but if you're photographing to...
Digital Photography School
OPINION: Why Photoshop is Ruining Landscape Photography
By Darren Rowse
There are graphic artists who use photos as a foundation for the final image, and that is completely fine, but that is not photography any more than painting is. .... Photography is art. The work done both behind the camera and behind the computer or in the darkroom is what makes a photograph unique and it is also what gives a photographer their style. Sure if you are photographing for documentary or advertising purposes alteration is not your best route, but if you're photographing to...
Digital Photography School
How to take a photography portrait in 10 minutes | Art and design | guardian.co.uk: "When time is short or the location is a disaster, every photographer needs some tried and tested ideas to fall back on. Here are a few tricks of the trade"
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