Words On The Street

Photographer Wanders Streets of Japan to Capture the Cyberpunk Style of the City at Night Photographer Stefano Gardel walked the streets of Osaka and Tokyo at night and the images he captured look like a real-life version of Blade Runner.

Uh oh

Fujifilm to raise prices of films by 30% this July - Kosmo Foto UPDATE: These price rises may in fact be the delayed roll-out of price rises announced in February. Fujifilm has announced a price rise among its remaining films this summer. Prices of all films in its range – including Velvia and Provia 100F slide film, Superia print films and Pro negative films ...

The winner of the World Press Photo Awards 2019

Viral Photo Of Crying Girl At The Border Wins 2019 World Press Photo Awards John Moore's haunting photo was among the dozens of winning images that show the power of photojournalism.

This image just won 120k

The Winning Photo of the $120K HIPA Prize Was Apparently Staged The prestigious Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) has announced its 2019 winners, and Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong Wee Kee won the

Freedom of speech will put you in prison in some parts of the world. Thank god there are those who, no matter the consequences, fight the good fight.

While he was in prison, Mr. Abou Zeid has received numerous international awards; last year, he won the Unesco Press Freedom Prize.Well deserved

Egyptian Photojournalist Is Released After 5 Years in Prison Mahmoud Abou Zeid, known as Shawkan, became a symbol of the crackdown on the news media. He vowed to continue working despite major restrictions on his freedom.

It’s a sad day

Yannis Behrakis, award-winning Reuters photographer, dies aged 58 Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and best-loved photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58.

Vintage photos from NYC subway in the 70s and 80s

Vintage Photos Reveal the Gritty NYC Subway in the 70s and 80s

Perfect! Now get it out already!

Ektachrome 120 'could be released in April' - Kosmo Foto Medium format photographers take note: Kodak Alaris is bringing out the recently relaunched Ektachrome E100 in 120. The news came during this week’s edition of the film photography podcast Sunny 16. Kodak Alaris UK quality manager Andy Church told the podcast that the company had definite plans to...

The sad story of this beautiful street shot

The Story Behind That IKEA Photo of Amsterdam VILSHULT is an IKEA ready-to-hang photo of Amsterdam that has been sold over 427,000 times. After many of my friends asked me why I bought such a

Why does one win and one lose?

Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies The Kodak moment is gone, but today Fujifilm thrives after a massive reorganization. Here is a detailed analysis based on firsthand accounts from top

Interesting!

Was the Fujifilm GFX a Mistake? Should Fuji Have Gone Full-Frame Instead? Of all the current camera manufacturers, if you were to call me a fanboy of any of them, Fujifilm would be the most accurate. There’s good reason too: it

Things are looking up. Budapest.
It’s all a matter of perspective. Try looking up from time to time. Even 90 degrees from your usual stance. It will make your scene more interesting, keeping the viewer intrigued for longer.

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Escalator To Heaven. Budapest, 2018.
You can change your scene just by changing your orientation. Experiment. It might be better than the way you captured it in the first place.
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Quick Hair. Budapest, 2018.
Juxtapositioning at its finest.
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Juxtaposition is the keyword today. Same same but different. Look at the subject in terms of its surroundings. Here, the concept is much deeper than the items photographed. They need to work together.

Walking On Water. Budapest, 2018.
Light metre on the sky or lightest part of the scene of create silhouettes and a great figure to ground composition
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Juxtaposition is the keyword today. Same same but different. Look at the subject in terms of its surroundings. Here, the concept is much deeper than the items photographed. They need to work together.

A sad day for the world of photography and journalism

Photojournalist David Douglas Duncan Dies at 102 Legendary American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan has died. One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, Duncan was best known for

Stuck on you.
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Finding that quiet place for a few pages.
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Hey HEY! Some street photography made it into the Smithsonian Photo contest. Go street!

The Winning Photos of the 2017 Smithsonian Photo Contest Smithsonian.com has just announced the winning photos of its 2017 Photo Contest, the 15th edition of the contest. The grand prize winner this year was photographer Thong Huu for his photo above, titled "Breakfast at the Weekly Market." "In northern Vietnam, people come to the weekly market to exchan...

The gritty streets of Russia - taken on an iPhone. Goes to show that it’s not the camera, but the intent

This Photographer Uses an iPhone to Shoot Russia's Grittiest Streets Photographer Dmitry Markov grew up Pushkino, a hardscrabble industrial town north of Moscow where, for Markov and many of his childhood friends, sniffing g

There’s another Vivan Maier, but a Russian version. This is interesting!

'Russian Vivian Maier' Discovered After 30,000 Photos Found in Attic She was Leningrad's lost photographer. Russian photographer Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) photographed constantly but never showed her work to anyone. In

If you’re always looking for more light, then the Sony a7 III IS the answer

The Sony a7 III Has Amazing Low-Light Performance It seems that every new Sony camera announcement these days creates an insane amount of hype because the company keeps pushing the envelope in different di

Three different 85mm primes, three different prices...but are they really different?

Canon 85mm Shootout: f/1.2 vs f/1.4 vs f/1.8 Canon currently offers three different 85mm lenses: the $370 85mm f/1.8, the $1,600 85mm f/1.4L IS, and the $1,900 85mm f/1.2L II. If you're wondering how

Great street project idea!

Transforming Subway Passengers Into Renaissance Paintings The British photographer Matt Crabtree is having fun transforming stolen photographs of subway passengers in London into beautiful Renaissance paintings. These portraits are created with a simple smartphone, used for shooting but also for editing. This amazing project entitled 16th Century Tube Pass

This years fashion

Full-Frame Shootout: Sony a7R III vs. Nikon D850 vs. Canon 5D IV Want to see how popular full-frame cameras from Sony, Nikon, and Canon stack up? Here's a 20-minute comparison video from Dan and Sally Watson that looks a

What persistance!

This Photographer Spent 12 Years Shooting the Same Window Alper Yesiltas, a photographer and lawyer from Istanbul, Turkey, spent the last 12 years shooting photos of the same window. The project only came to a hal

Too common a problem - staging has entered (and always) been part and parcel with documentary projects. Look at Dorothea Lange for example...even Capa is accused of staging. The pictures have to be captivating, or they don’t get attention. The problem is, too much and it pushes the boundaries of reality vs fiction

Words on the street

This is How Photographers Stage Scenes to Win Prizes Photojournalist A. M. Ahad was at a train station in Bangladesh when he came across a group of photographers pointing their cameras at a young man who was

Talking about the Male gaze...

Words on the street

Coming soon: What I took from Gillian Wearing

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Work with contrast. Contrast is your friend. Don't fight it, use it to your advantage. Outlines can be just as dramatic as showing everything as the mind makes up the details.