© Jamel Shabazz
March 02, 2010 - We asked PDN readers: Who was your mentor? Many responded with stories of experienced photographers who had generously shared their knowledge and thoughts about photography, creativity, how to run a business or simply how to make a life as a freelance photographer. More »
© Luther Greene
March 02, 2010 - Launched in August in the middle of an advertising recession, Afar magazine strives to be a new kind of travel magazine aimed at the traveler who wants to get off the tourist track. Its design director is Jane Palacek, who over the course of her career has worked on a number of magazines honored for their design and use of photography. More »
© Urban Outfitters/Photo By Wai Lin Tse
March 02, 2010 - Urban Outfitters hires photographers whose styles help the retailer connect with their young customers.
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© Jimmy Williams Photography
March 02, 2010 - Two photographers with very different business models take us through the revamping of their Web sites. More »
© Philip j. Carvalho
March 02, 2010 - New York labor attorney Alan Koral explains the risks to employers who don't adhere to strict laws governing internships. More »
March 02, 2010 - In an interview we published online, CPA Robyn Cohn offered these tax-saving tips. More »
© Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star
March 02, 2010 - The Toronto Star's "William and the Windmill" project is a lyrical, uplifting work of multimedia about an African man who figured out how to bring electricity to his village by studying pictures in a library book. More »
© Zwelethu Mthethwa
March 02, 2010 - Zwelethu Mthethwa's color portraits consider the lives of post-apartheid South Africa's marginalized people through an empowering visual language. More »
© Platon
March 02, 2010 - In this month's story "What Makes a Good Mentor," photographers talked about the mentors who have encouraged and guided them. Here we ask the mentors who mentored them. More »
© 2009 Bob McNamara
February 02, 2010 - Doing the same old boring studio shoot day after day can get, well, a little boring. We talked to four photographers in three different studios to find out how they've been able to look beyond the walls of their workplace for fun and profit. Along with increasing their overall brand, these photographers have also been able to expand their businesses by redefining what a studio is. More »
February 02, 2010 - What are photographers doing to make their shooting spaces affordable? Here we present three case studies on photographers who maintain their own shooting spaces. To read two more case studies, check out PDNOnline.com. More »
© Teri Campbell
February 02, 2010 - Photo studios are primarily workspaces, but they can also be marketing tools. They reflect photographers' personalities and brand, and they entice clients in a variety of ways: by their sheer size, by their lighting, by their décor and by their amenities. More »
© Kevin German
February 02, 2010 - Phil Borges has built a career and a decent living—from book sales, exhibitions, print sales, speaking engagements and teaching—trading his services to Non Government Organizations (NGOs) in exchange for access to stories he couldn't otherwise get, for logistical and promotional support, and for the satisfaction of making a difference in peoples' lives. It's the calculus of many photographers working without pay for NGOs. More »
February 02, 2010 - Freelance photographers would hang a different shingle on the door if financial planning were their passion, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't take tasks like budgeting, saving and investing seriously, especially given their volatile incomes. More »
© Matador J./Photo by Sylvia Plachy
February 02, 2010 - PDN: What's the mission of La Fabrica? More »
© Esquire
February 02, 2010 - After a year of print advertising declines and magazines closures, publishers have found something to get excited about. Driven by the popularity of the iPhone and the Kindle, and the anticipation of new, magazine-friendly e-reader tablets coming from Apple and other technology companies, five publishing companies—Hearst, Condé Nast, Time Inc., Meredith and News Inc—announced in December a partnership to develop a digital newsstand where readers could pay to download magazines to the electronic tablets. These as-yet-unreleased (at press time, that is) e-readers offer publishers the prospect of actually selling content to readers in the way they never have on the Web. More »
© WSJ./Photo by Marc Hom
February 02, 2010 - Since its launch in September 2008, The Wall Street Journal's bimonthly lifestyle magazine WSJ. has established itself as a major outlet for top photography in an otherwise depressed magazine market. It has 1.5 million readers, high production values and makes 15 to 20 photography assignments per issue. More »
© Monte Isom
February 02, 2010 - This past fall, master self-promoter Monte Isom came out with a free iPhone application that markets his photography. Unlike the countless, and useful, apps that are out there aimed at helping you tweak the images you take with your iPhone (for a few of them, see "PDN's Ten Best iPhone Apps for Photographers" on PDNonline, http://tinyurl.com/yew3sox), Isom's app delivers new images he's taken, updates on his location, and even his travel tips to any client who downloads it to an iPhone. More »
© Kevin Kubota
February 02, 2010 - PDN: Why is the look and feel of a studio so important? More »
© John Poole/NPR
February 02, 2010 - Mass media used to operate as a series of independent silos: one for TV, another for radio, a third for newspapers and magazines. But the Web has breached those divides, and one example of that is "The Amazon Road: Paving Paradise for Progress?" an ambitious photo and audio story about a new highway across South America, produced by National Public Radio for NPR.org. More »
© Lydia Panas
February 02, 2010 - Over the course of three years, Lydia Panas asked individuals and groups of people she knew—some closely, others only peripherally—to come to her home in southeastern Pennsylvania to pose for portraits, which she made in natural settings on and around her property. She calls the project "The Mark of Abel," in reference to the biblical story of Cain and Abel, sons of Adam and Eve; Cain murdered Abel out of jealousy. Panas's series plumbs the complex connections inherent in human relationships—many of them familial—in a manner that has won her a great deal of recent attention. More »
© Don Kirby
February 02, 2010 - For Santa Fe-based fine-art photographer Don Kirby, picture making began as a hobby, grew into a serious interest and eventually developed into a second career. In late 2009, Kirby exhibited his newest body of work, a series of black-and-white landscapes shot in the nation's arid grasslands, at Verve gallery in Santa Fe. Nazraeli Press released a collection of the work, their third book with Kirby, last fall. More »
© 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
February 02, 2010 - Still-life photography, says one of its practitioners, Terry Heffernan, has always strived to "make something ordinary into something extraordinary." In the effort to transform simple objects, "scale is a wonderful tool," says Heffernan, whose Dogpatch Studios is featured on our cover and on page 26. More »
© Jill Greenberg
January 04, 2010 - "The Age of Irony Comes to an End," Time declared in its first regular issue after 9/11. Wrong. If anything, the 2000s have been a golden age of irony in American culture, including photography. More »
© Simon Norfolk/NB Pictures
January 04, 2010 - Even before a new century dawned, many photojournalists were striving to modernize the vocabulary of photojournalism handed down 50 years earlier by pioneers like W. Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lead by members of Agence Vu and numerous graduates of the Danish School of Photojournalism, the documentary photography that swept most of photojournalism's top prizes at the beginning of the decade used high-contrast black and white to painterly effect, and presented events in a way that was more evocative than descriptive. Rebelling against the speed and ease of digital image capture, many photographers experimented with film, large-format cameras and even Rolleiflexes and Holgas to restore a sense of care and craftsmanship to their images. Some photographers chose to tell stories using portraiture or large-format landscape photography. More »
© Platon/Art Department/CPI
January 04, 2010 - Photographers have pushed the stylistic boundaries of portraiture over the last decade. Rising competition, youth culture, cinema, and fine art photography have inspired edgy, experimental approaches. More visually sophisticated audiences spurred ad agencies and magazines to take refreshing creative chances and make bold choices in hiring photographers. Increasingly, clients have been turning to fine art photographers. More »
© Artimo/Photo By Geert Van Kesteren
January 04, 2010 - The publication of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's The Photobook volumes 1 and 2 advanced the notion of the photography book as an expression of a photographer's art and personal vision. A photo book became a prized art object in itself, and book publishers and designers expanded from traditional formats to match the design with the content. In some cases, photo books were the equivalent of a curated gallery show contained within hard covers. Artists, those who had quirky projects that couldn't find a commercial publisher and those who want to maintain control of the craftsmanship of their book, have turned to self publishing. More »
© The Fader/Photo by Peter Van Agtmael
January 04, 2010 - The last decade could go down as a creative golden age of magazine photography and design, and the end of an era. Some credit belongs to the legacy of the British music and culture magazines such as i-D, The Face and Dazed & Confused that pushed editorial boundaries on both sides of the Atlantic and launched careers during the Nineties. More »
© Tierney Gearon For Kate Spade
January 04, 2010 - 2001: Tierney Gearon's controversial fine-art work depicting children translated into an acclaimed advertising campaign for Kate Spade. More »
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