One: in 8 million

New York is a city of characters.

nytimes.com "305-square-mile parade of people with something to say."

Special Halloween edition of the East Texan

The next issue is a special Halloween edition of the ET with an added 4 pages. There will be one photo spread dedicated to us and whatever I want to do. I feel this would be a nice time to open up you talents as photographers. The work needs to be turned in FRIDAY 10-23-09 by noon. I am looking for images that display what It is like to be a college student . You can take it literal or figurative, emotional. I want to give you the opportunity to display it anyway you wish. As ARTSY as you want guys


Requirements.
What: Display life as a college student at A&M COMMERCE
When: Due: FRIDAY 10-23-09 at 12pm
How: whatever it takes, you can shoot any medium you want just give me the best digital file you can produce...
Tips the image will be in Black and White newspaper so subtle contrast and detail may not be shown,,

Most important: I also need three sentences on what it going on, who it is the image, what are you showing me.

How do I get it to you..
EMAIL Daniel Mendenhall and attach it danielmendenhall[at]gmail.com
Send me your NAME, PHONE NUMBER, and three sentences and attach your images

IDEAS:
What is it like to be a commuter
Or live in town
What do you do for fun
Do you also balance a full time job
Are you a freshman what is it like to live in the dorms
So you have an interesting major
Do you have a night class.
Are you involved in extra circular activities?
Are you attending an interesting event on campus.
Do you live at home
Do you live on campus
Do you walk to school do you drive
Where do you eat...where do you play.
Are you religious how does that effect being a student?
What is it like being an athlete on campus, band member, student worker.

If you have any questions email me danielmendenhall[at]gamil.com or call 214.505.9863

How to: Making quality jpegs for your website.

Optimizing images for your website.  from FolioLink.com

Photos Do Not Bend

International Student Photography Competition

A new contest to enter for Third Floor students and readers of the blog



"An International Student Photography Competition continued . . .

Open to All Students of all ages working in all mediums of photography.

Juror Statement
"As a photojournalist/documentary photographer what interests me most about photography is its unique ability to freeze a moment in time and reveal something within that instance, be it a 500th or even two seconds. When you document humanity, that moment can unveil emotions that exist within all of us whether it be one of joy, sorrow, anxiety, anger, boredom, ecstasy, frustration, hope, loneliness, resentment, vulnerability and a whole hosts of others. That revelation has the potential to bind us forever to the people we’ve gotten to know within that one moment frozen in time."

About the Juror
Lucian Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in biology, later studying photography with Garry Winogrand and working on the student newspaper, The Daily Texan. In 1979 he received an internship at The Washington Post, where he worked as a staff photographer for 27 years. He received the "Newspaper Photographer of the Year" by the National Press Photographers Association in 1994 for a portfolio that included projects in Russia and a “behind-the-scenes” look at the New York fashion shows. In 1995 with Post reporter, Leon Dash, he won a Pulitzer Prize for their four-year study on the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C. family through the eyes of the family's matriarch, Rosa Lee Cunningham. In 1996 he was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year for his photograph of a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. In 2000 Perkins won another Pulitzer Prize along with two colleagues at the Post for their coverage of the Kosovo conflict.

While at the Post, Perkins covered major international events, including Russia since 1988, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also chronicled local and national events throughout the United States, and worked closely with the online version of the newspaper to produce many of their first multimedia, interactive projects such as the Siberia and Finland Diaries. In October 1998, Chronicle Books published his first book, Runway Madness, which accompanied a national touring exhibition.

Perkins also co-founded InterFoto, a non-profit that mounted an annual international photography conference in Moscow, Russia (1995-2005), and organized exchange programs, exhibitions, workshops and a “Russian Photography of the Year” contest. In 1996 and 1997 Perkins curated an exhibition of Russian photography “Russia: Chronicles of Change” that traveled to museums in the United States.

Perkins’ own work has been in a number of solo and group exhibitions at World Press, Amsterdam; the ART in Embassies Program in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Havana, Cuba, Tokyo, Japan, and Ankara, Turkey; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; the Newseum, Washington, D.C, San Francisco, and New York; American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; and the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, among others.

Currently, Perkins is an independent photographer and videographer concentrating on multimedia projects and video documentaries while still pursuing his love for the still image. Over the years, Perkins has developed a preference for human interest stories, and is known for an approach that counterpoints a deep sympathy for his subjects with an ability to expose their hopes and foibles, and a style that combines formal clarity with an off-beat humor."



International Student Photography Competition

Photographer: Irving Penn

Lens: Parting Glance: Irving Penn

By By Niko Koppel

Published: October 7, 2009

The death of the 20th-century master Irving Penn invites a look at his renowned work from studio portraits to fashion photographs.

Irving Penn NY Times photo blog

Brian Sorg

Brian Sorg is a photographer who did a three part series on covering the life of his friend Davey, and compiled this project over several years. Checkout the three part series, beginning from Davey I to Davey III on his site. Great work for showing a documentary on the changes of adolescence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feature Shoot

Bringing to light the website of Feature Shoot, a website highlighting new upcoming photographers in almost every single genre from documentary to fashion, portraiture and even architecture. Give it a glance as its update almost every single day.

Feature Shoot Website

Photographers Forum Contest

New Contest by Photographers Forum. Entries Due October 19th for early deadline.