insight

Posts in 2009

The Insiders

… I became increasingly fascinated with other photographers who had found themselves recording their own jobs… the Insiders…

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Why photos look bad in Firefox 3.5 (or: one reason why the web sucks)

Have you ever noticed how garish and over-saturated colours in photos appear when viewed in Firefox 3.5 compared to Photoshop, even on a calibrated monitor and with an appropriate ICC colour profile?

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Eggs

My friend, who last June became a father, visited recently on an invitation for coffee and found himself ambushed with a poem.

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Backstory: Sternfeld’s Elephant

Ever wonder what was going on with that elephant in that Joel Sternfeld photograph?

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Has the era of the “iconic image” passed?

Following a tweet from Magnum led me to a protest image from the 60′s by Paul Fusco. It set me to thinking about the current state of news photography….

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How can I believe what I see, when the truth is a show?

Why would a photographer mislead his audience?

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Raoul Gatepin – Hollywood Beckons

A reminder from Raoul of just how complicated video can be.

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Typology in the Public Domain

Ben discovers the Lying Down Game (“the latest craze to take the north east”).

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Wanted in Iran: The Photographs

The power of photographs from the government of Iran that (literally) target pro-Mousavi supporters.

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Adorama, Blurb & Lulu – Book Printing Review

A video survey of three print on demand services.

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