A while ago, Simon Pollock asked me to write a review of the Think Tank Photo Shape Shifter backpack for Digital Photography School.
I love the products of Think Tank Photo and was really curious about the design of this particular backpack. So suffice to say I was really looking forward to it.
It took a while for the bag to arrive (damn you, Dutch customs), but it was certainly worth the wait. What a great bag.
You can read the review over here. If you’ve got any questions about the bag, feel free to contact me. I’ll be monitoring the comments over at DPS too.
This entry was written by , posted on March 28, 2010 at 09:58, filed under Misc, Review, Twitter and tagged gear, Review, Think Tank Photo, Twitter. Leave a comment over here.
Happy new year guys! I hope all of your wishes and dreams may come true in this year.
I got out of bed early yesterday, to participate in @scotbaston’s New Year Sunrise Challenge. About 35 photographers from all over the globe got up early to photograph the rising sun. I really hate getting up early, so it was quite an accomplishment for me. Especially after barely four and a half hours of sleep.
The panorama (5x21mp photos, so the original file is really huge) above was one of the resulting shots. You can see my other image on Flickr. Check out the photos by other photographers over here.
Anyway, I’m kind of proud to announce my new portfolio website! I’ve been designing this for a while now, and I thought it would be a good idea to release it on January the 1st. I know it’s January the 2nd right now, but it was actually released yesterday evening. So some people might have seen it already. It isn’t completely finished yet (I’ll be adding a ‘series’ page in a while), and the photos will be continuously updated, but most of it is pretty final.
If you’ve got any feedback on anything, I would appreciate it if you would let me know. Preferably by using the contact form, by DM on Twitter or by MSN.
Cheers!
This entry was written by , posted on January 2, 2010 at 17:51, filed under Portfolio, Twitter and tagged design, Portfolio, Twitter. Leave a comment over here.
(c) AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
In my short life, I’ve seen thousands of truly horrific photos. Lots of deaths, wounds, tears and blood. I’ve seen countless of suffering people and bodies ripped apart by explosives.
I don’t get shocked easily any more when watching photos or video footage of these horrors. Don’t think that I don’t care about these people, on the contrary, but most of the images just don’t send those cold shivers down my spine any more. Well, those shivers came back last night, after seeing one of the most shocking photo essays ever. (more…)
This entry was written by , posted on November 21, 2009 at 13:21, filed under Photojournalism, Twitter and tagged Pakistan, Photojournalism, terrorism, Twitter. Leave a comment over here.
Photographer Jeffrey Chapman just tweeted a link to a blog entry on PDNPulse. The post is about the latest issue of GUP Magazine, a photography magazine from my own country Holland. The magazine published photos of London-based photographer Ben Roberts, without notifying the photographer or asking for their permission (or even for higher-res photos).
To be honest, I’ve never heard of this magazine, which is quite a surprise to me, since I was under the impression that I knew most Dutch arty-farty magazines. I think it goes without saying that every photographer wants to know if, when, how and where their work will be published. But GUP obviously didn’t realize this.
Publisher Peter Bas Mensink posted the following comment on Ben Roberts’ blog.
“… This is a magazine born out of love for the medium and respect for the photographers. It’s not profitable and probably will never be. It’s a podium for photographers (read our statement on our website). For every category in the magazine we contact the photographers involved, however for bkmrks this proofed quite impossible. contacting ±15 photographers worldwide – every issue – is a very complicated thing. We’ll get photographers wanting a say in the text we write, wanting to supply us with their own text, diverting us to their gallery, who are on assignment abroad, not reachable etc. etc. etc. We work deadlines….”
The arguments Mensink makes, are pretty ridiculous in my opinion. Every photographer either has a simple contact form or a mailto-link on his or her website. It will only take a couple of minutes to send an email to a photographer, asking for permission to publish.
If, like the publisher comments, the photographer doesn’t respond before the deadline, just publish the photos of another photographer. I know that deadlines can sneak up on you, but important stuff like this shouldn’t suffer from deadlines.
EDIT: A few hours after my post, I received an email from Peter Bas Mensink, asking me to publish the rest of his comments. I don’t really see any reason for that to be honest (I’ve read them all, on Roberts’ blog anyway, and you can do the same if you wish), but I would like to add the following.
I obviously like magazines that are created for the love of photography, and I think it’s okay for a non-profit magazine to publish photos without paying the photographer. So for me, it isn’t about money at all, but just about common manners. I don’t know if Mensink is a photographer too, but I bet he would like to know if photos of him will be published.
This entry was written by , posted on October 13, 2009 at 21:09, filed under Ethics, Twitter and tagged Ethics, magazine, Twitter. Leave a comment over here.
