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Wednesday 21 December 2011

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Photography sites of the week

We scour the Internet for interesting, inspiring or amusing sites and stories related to photography.

Being Dad by Jocelyn Allen, showing as part of this year's Guernsey Photography Festival.
 
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Being Dad by Jocelyn Allen, showing as part of this year's Guernsey Photography Festival.  Photo: JOCELYN ALLEN
Being Nan, by Jocelyn Allen, showing as part of this year's Guernsey Photography Festival.
 
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Being Nan, by Jocelyn Allen, showing as part of this year's Guernsey Photography Festival. Photo: JOCELYN ALLEN

Week beginning December 19th

Austerity curbing your photobook purchases? Photobookswap is helping photobook addicts to get in touch together and swap goods and culture.

Week beginning December 12th

Since 2008 The Disposable Memory Project has been leaving disposable cameras in public locations around the world. Each camera contains a message, inviting its finder to pick up the camera, take some photos and then pass it on. At the end of its journey, the camera is returned home, and TDMP upload the photos to share with its followers.

Week beginning December 5th

Looking for an exceptional Christmas gift idea? PhotoVoice have a number of prints for sale

Week beginning November 28th

Interview with Annie Leibovitz in the Boston Globe.

Week beginning November 14th

Photohoku is a project to rebuild and restart family photo albums of those affected by the Tohoku Tsunami distaster.

Week beginning November 7th

A new and improved Paris Photo opens this week at the Grand Palais.

Week beginning October 31st

Daniel Cooney Fine Art is hosting an online auction of work by emerging photographers - deadline for bids is November 11th

Week beginning October 24th

London's V&A opens a new photography gallery this week.

Week beginning October 17th

British Photographic History offers information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history ranging from exhibitions and museum news, publications, and jobs.

Hungry Eye is a monthly magazine dedicated to photography and filmmaking.

Week beginning October 10th

Index7 showcases the work of seven visual artists and photographers who have graduated from London's Central St Martins' postgraduate photography course in recent years.

Week beginning October 3rd

The Art Collective is dedicated to showing work by emerging artists and photorgaphers.

Week beginning September 26th

The PhotoBook Club was set up by a photographer and a designer and is an open community across the world for people to come together to learn / discuss and share there thoughts and opinions on the photo books they love.

Week beginning September 19th

Image17 is a collective of photographers based in Waltham Forest who work collaboratively on annual projects.

Week beginning September 12th

A blog devoted to UFO photographs and pictures.

Week beginning September 5th

Antenne books is a publisher of artist books and zines.

Week beginning August 22nd

Tim Hetherington's last images from Libya

Week beginning August 15th

Enter the British Journal of Photography's International Photography Award

And a useful review of portrait lenses.

Week beginning August 8th

The Five Eleven Ninety Nine collective of photographers play Broken Train, where each day one member posts a picture in response to the previous image.

Week beginning August 1st

Selfridges plays host to the photography brand Lomography this month, with a special pop-up store staffed by retro sailor boys and girls and styled to look like a ship, inspired by their latest camera, the 'sardina'. You'll be able to rent analogue cameras for an hour at a time.

Week beginning 25th July

Balazs Gardi's Afganistan, through an iPhone.

Week beginning 18th July

Ever wanted a shower curtain printed with your photo? Look no further.

Week beginning 11th July

The French photography agency MYOP announces five new members: Ed Alcock, Pauline Bernard, Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, France Keyser and Julien Pebrel.

Teller Magazine launch their new website.

Week beginning 4th July

Keep up with the talks, symposiums, events and exhibitions for this year's opening week of the Rencontres d'Arles.

Week beginning June 27th

The latest issuse of Deep Sleep Magazine.

Document 11 award to be exhibited at the Foto8 Summer Show.

Week beginning June 20th

Vivian Maier self portraits

Week beginning June 14th

Lots of mini films with photographers and artists on the Tate Channel.

We've been following photographer Naomi Harris's Trans-Canada trip, The Maple Highway

Photo Stories is an experiment in writing, photography, and design.

Week beginning June 6th

The Guernsey Photography Festival is now open - work by Dana Popa, Martin Parr, Adam Patterson, Richard Billingham, Jocelyn Allen, Tony Ray Jones, Samuel Foss and many more.

Week beginning May 16th

The Sunday Times' tribute to Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, via Fotoboogie's blog.

Week beginning May 9th

For one week, the photographers Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin will be curating Self Publish Be Happy's blog.

Award-winning photographer Vanessa Winship is leading a workshop in Barcelona next month.

Week beginning April 25th

Visual narratives - a funded workshop for photographers under 35 from Latvia, Iceland, Turkey and Portugal. Deadline 20th May.

Condolence pages for the late Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros.

Week beginning April 18th

Postcards from America - 5 photographers, a writer, two weeks, a bus.

Daily Dispatches - A modern African city unfolds before your eyes.

Week beginning April 11th

Harry Hardie, formerly of Host Gallery, is setting up Here which 'publishes, exhibits, teaches and supports photography.'

Week beginning April 4th

Les Nuits Photographiques: four nights in Paris exploring how the practices of film, photography, animation and sound come together.

Since 2007 Thibault Brunet has chronicled war-torn landscapes and images of beleaguered soldiers all without leaving the comfort of his home in Lille, France. The artist began documenting the virtual world of video games like “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” but instead of photographing the action in the game, we only see the backdrop in which the player moves. Via Time Magazine.

Week beginning March 28th

Photographer Mark Morrisroe’s Celeb-Filled Zines

Week beginning March 21st

Seamus Murphy's film for PJ Harvey's new song, The Colour of the Earth, 1 of 12 films made for Let England Shake

Week beginning March 14th

Between 1937 and 1938 Humphrey Spender took over 900 pictures of Bolton at the request of Tom Harrisson, one of the founders of the Mass-Observation project. Humphrey Spender's "Worktown" photographs offer a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary people living and working in a British pre-War industrial town. Via Bolton Museum.

Week beginning March 7th

Amy Stein's 'Stranded' project tracked on a googlemap.

San Francisco's SF Camerwork provides support for artists to develop their work, including commissions and awards. Workshops, critiques, and portfolio reviews assist artists with their development and allow them to discuss their work with curators and gallery directors.

Week beginning February 21st

Black Swan - uncovering Iranian Women Artists, via BigThink

Social scientist, artist, writer, and provocateur Trevor Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies—the “black world”—for the last eight years, publishing, speaking, and making astonishing photographs. Via Aperture's exposures blog.

Week beginning February 14th

Taken over a period of 20 years, the photographs in this online exhibition depict working class families living in a six-block area of New York's Lower West Side.

The Strange Attractor shares strange and exceptional art from around the world, including photography.

Week beginning February 7th

Damian Drohan has photographed and interviewed World War II Veterans in Ireland.

Week beginning January 31st

The Good Advice Project: A photographer and a designer share advice from strangers.

Darcy Padilla's 'The Julie Project', which won the 2010 W. Eugene Smith Grant. A visual epic, the intensely intimate story of the life and death of Julie Baird spans 18 years starting with a chance encounter in 1993, and provides an in-depth look at poverty, AIDS, and social issues affecting American Society.

Week beginning January 24th

Postcards from the Revolution - Images of the Tunisian protests, via Newsweek.

Week beginning January 17th

Firecracker was established by Fiona Rogers to promote European women working in photography.

Week beginning January 10th

Unless You Will has dedicated its most recent issue to black and white photography.

An interview with Claudine Doury, concerning her projects 'Loulan Beauty' and 'Artek'.

Week beginning January 3rd

American Memory - using photographs to explore American History.

The Commissar Vanishes - The Falsification of photographs in Stalin's Russia.

Week beginning December 20th

Picture Postcards of Cambodia, 1900-1950, feature in the Walpole Times.

Week beginning December 13th

The Call for Entries for the 2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights is now open. This competition, which is free to all, offers an opportunity for photographers to exhibit their work and demonstrate their commitment to human rights issues.

Week beginning December 6th

Joao Silva, the New York Times photographer, recently lost both legs after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan. Joao’s friends have set up a Website to sell prints and raise funds.

The Humanising Photography network aims to bring together a diverse group of professionals working in the field of lens-based media including NGO workers, academics, activists, photographers, producers, curators and artists to discuss and explore visual politics and the relationship between lens-based image making, human rights, humanitarianism, and communication.

Week beginning November 29th

Facing Change - an independent collective of photographers and writers charting America, in the tradition of the FSA.

Vivien Ayroles and Stefano Marchionini present Ete10 - a self-published volume of photographs taken in their apartment over one summer.

A season of post-war documentaries at the South Bank, London.

Week beginning November 22nd

The best of Paris Photo 2010 - with plenty of pictures.

Auction of contemporary photography at Millon et Associes, 25th November.

Week beginning November 15th

The Arab Image Foundation (AIF) is looking for interns to work for three to six months in the communications and preservation departments.

A newsreel from 1967 on London fashion – take a look at ‘what gear the cats are wearing’

Week beginning November 8th

The Center for Fine Art Photography as a call open for its Portrait award

Week beginning November 1st

The Angkor Photo Festival differentiates itself from other photography events with its strong educational and humanitarian goals.

Laura Letinsky's still life photographs.

Week beginning October 25th

Telegraph21, is a curated video magazine that focuses on non-fiction storytelling and art from around the world.

Simon Finch - rare photography books

Week beginning October 18th

Resources for Autism are auctioning a number of photographs and other artworks to support their art therapy programme.

This is Margate Photography Competition - have your photographs judged by Martin Parr.

Week beginning October 11th

Just a few weeks left to apply for this $15,000 NGO assignment fellowship grant for photographers.

Vorte for the best photography story, as part of the Viewbook competition.

Fourteen Nineteen is a platform for young photographers.

Week beginning October 4th

Le Bal, a space in Paris created by Raymond Depardon dedicated to showing the best in photography, video, film and other new media platforms.

American Civil War photographs.

Week beginning September 27th

The British Journal of Photography's editors curate an exhibition for Canada's Flash Forward Festival.

Robert Capa's long lost negatives

Week beginning September 20th

A photo-essay by Matt Eich concerning the devastation left behind by mining companies in Southeastern Ohio.

Lay Flat - a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself.

Week beginning September 13th

Emphas.is - a new platform for crowd-funding photojournalism.

Self Publish, Be Happy are running a hands-on London workshop with help from a team of experts - but photographers have just 10 days to go to sign up

Week beginning September 6th

Brighton Photo Biennial

Curated, limited edition art available in editions of 100, priced at $100. Edition One Hundred.

Week beginning August 23rd

Photographs of the people of Imperial Russia

Sean Stewart's RiverTown, on Ahorn magazine

Week beginning August 16th

Unless you will, curated by Heidi Romano, is an online journal that showcases a vision within photo-based art.

Week beginning August 9th

America in Colour 1939-43. Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

Viewfinder gallery in London are running a workshop where participants are invited to visit the site of historic photographs set in the borough of Greenwich and to re-photograph the scene. To take part, email louise@viewfinder.org.uk who will email you the selection of source material. Deadline for submission is 9th September.

Week beginning August 2nd

The AOP Open online exhibition is now open for public vote

Keith Collman's photographs of veterans from the Great War

Week beginning July 26th

Aanonymes: 365 photographers, 365 days

Week beginning July 11th

What happens when you attach SLR lenses to an iPhone? Advice from DIY photography

A designer goes retro in Germany: conceptual photography of Berlin

Week beginning July 4th

All you need to know for Arles photography festival, the biggest photography event of the year

Week beginning June 28th

Support the fine art photography community via Troika editions Collections.

Week beginning June 21st

The ten most expensive photographs ever sold.

One Day, Ten photographers

Week beginning June 14th

50,000 euro prize for photojournalism via Carmignanc Gestion.

Martin Kollar

An international encyclopedia of all things photography at Dutch Doc.

Week beginning June 7th

Photographs of the 1910 flood in Paris.

Paolo Pellegrin's Iranian Memoir on Magnum in Motion.

A magical resource for Graduate Photography from Source

Week beginning May 31st

A brand-new website for the BJP.

Fans in a Flashbulb - the blog for the ICP (International Center of Photography)

The world's most expensive camera has been found - the wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, a few weeks after the first public announcement of photography.

Refocus - a grassroots organisation which runs participatory photography courses for minority groups and marginalised people.

Week beginning May 24th

500 photographers

Week beginning May 17th

A 3D online experience of the New York Photo Festival.

click! photography changes everything - a collection of essays and stories by contributors and visitors discussing how photography shapes our culture and our lives.

The Museum of London launches an app that lets you search for old photographs of the street you are standing on, via your GPS.

Photography competitions and awards.

Week beginning May 10th

Colour footage of 1950s Soho, on Retronaut.

Independent publishing via Hassla Books.

Absolute Present

London Independent Photography

Week beginning May 3rd

Self Publish, Be Happy celebrates and promotes self-published books with exhibitions, workshops and events.

Triangletriangle

All hail the Graflex

Week beginning April 26th

Twin Peaks, 20 years later, in photographs.

Yigal Feliks photographed the coastal road between Haifa and Tel Aviv, for a project titled 'Gradient'.

Found photography via Things Magazine.

A beautiful Rückenfigur, at La Pura Vida.

Week beginning April 19th

Jonathan Klein - Photographs that changed the world.

Booooom.com is running a project called Small Victories - a photographic celebration of the everyday, they're inviting you to send in your own prints of the "quietly beautiful" and "unintentionally funny" things around you. Deadline for entries is April 30th.

Week beginning April 12th

Heather Morton on photographing war.

Leland Bobbe records the wealthy women of the Upper East Side in a world of their own.

Week beginning April 5th

A long, but rewarding debate from MOMA San Francisco, asking 'Is Photography Over?'

The wonderful world of early photography, at Neatorama.

Week beginning March 29th

Interview with photojournalist Lynsey Addario. Addario was awarded a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship “genius” award for her work recording conflicts and humanitarian crises in the 21st century.

Ten years of Playboy centrefolds in one, mathematically averaged photograph.

The 50 States Project: 50 photographers from across the USA collaborate on a year long project where each photographer will represent the State where they currently live. Every two months each photographer responds to a theme - people, landscape, industry and so on. By the end of the project there will be 300 images which represent the talent of the photographers involved and have something to say about the USA today.

Week beginning March 22nd

Interesting and inspirational photography in this bi-annual called Steppe, a guide to the arts, history, culture and landscape of Central Asia.

Docupedia, a portal for documentary photography.

Week beginning March 15th

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard have begun producing a wonderfully comprehnsive Visual Journalism periodical online. Photojournalists write about emerging digital business strategies and their efforts to expand the reach of their photographs online and on gallery walls.

The first annual Caochangdi PhotoSpring is announced for Beijing. A three-year partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival, and the very first time that Arles’ programs will be shown outside of France.

The National Trust give details of the opening of 59 Rodney Street: the 1950s Liverpool studio, darkroom and living quarters of the portrait photographer E. Chambre Hardmen and his wife Margaret.

Russian online photographer Dmitry Shatrov discusses how the internet and new technologies have changed the art of photography, for the BBC World Service.

Big Little City is a new project, by photographer Daniel Green, which will document the lives of people and their city’s or town’s unique character, in national and international locations.

Week beginning March 8th

The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado announces juror Amber Terranova’s selections for the “Red” exhibition.

Streetpulse, Olivier Thebaud's photography blog.

The Daily Nice by Jason Evans

The latest issue of 1000 words mag - Place - hits the virtual shelves.

Turns out Bryan Adams does quite a good line in photoblog.

Week beginning March 1st

See the haunting works of photojournalist Ikuru Kuwajima, who has been announced 2010 winner of Fujifilm Distinctions Awards.

Great amateur Rock 'n' Roll photography: the public contribute as part of the exhibition 'Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock 'n' Roll Photographs Selected by Graham Nash'

1923 passport photos of the original stars of Plantation Days, on flickr.

Week beginning February 22nd

Michael Paul Smith reconstructs the town he grew up in.

San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in colour.

IMPACT online, imagemakers share galleries of work on their blog.

Week beginning February 15th

David Hiser's 'Documerica' pictures.

14 rare colour photographs from the FSA project.

John Pilger's documentary Cambodia: Year Zero.

Week beginning February 8th

Illustrated conversation between James Pomerantz and Jason Eskenazi on James's blog.

Noah Kalina takes a photograph of himself every day, for six years.

A new online photo school uses blogs to connect masters with students across Russia and beyond.

Week beginninng February 1st

Andrew Jackson's photo-essay The Beauty of Things Unseen.

Russell Lee's Pie Town on American Suburb X

Flak photo's CURATOR discussion continues with comments from 50+ photographers, dealers, curators and bloggers from the online community. Read their perspectives + share your own.

Week beginning January 25

Belly of the Whale by Robin Friend.

Make your own bespoke newspaper with Newspaper Club.

A blog about artists and photographers who collect things.

A rare audio interview with Weegee.

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger’s new film Restrepo premiered at Sundance.

Week beginning January 18

The response from photographers to the devastation in Haiti this week and last has been enormous. If you've seen a slideshow or a single image that you'd like to put forward for this section, please email us telephoto@telegraph.co.uk. We'd like to draw your attention to this from Damon Winter for the NY Times blog, Samuele Pellecchia and Francesco Giusti for Prospekt; David Levene for The Guardian, the brilliant Prison Photography Blog, Carolyn Cole and Rick Loomis for the LA Times, Jeroen Oerlemans for Panos Pictures and the harrowing Aid Workers' diaries for the BBC. This by no means includes everything we've seen and we'll be adding more throughout the week.

For those of you on twitter, please consider searching under the #Haitiphoto hashtag that @foto8 and @Yumi_Goto started last Thursday. Content includes a very comprehensive crowd-sourced list of photographers in Haiti and the links to their agencies, NGOs, Newspapers and magazines who are publishing and showing the work on the web.

Also associated with #Haitiphoto are other discussions and links regarding the practicalities and ethics of sending a photographer to cover this (and other) disasters.. for examplee:" Put your camera down and dig" comments.

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And on other matters:

Visura Magazine is showing a selection of Larry Fink's Beats series.

Witty street photography from Matt Stuart.

Not photography, but archive footage of a miniature Cadillac ordered by Queen Alexandra, driving around London in 1913.

Week beginning January 11

An English photographer has found and retrieved a series of old photographs - a holiday with children, a party, old pictures of buildings, smiles at a wedding - then located and matched where they were originally taken.

Noah Sheldon has photographed the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert. "The structure was billed as the first large habitat for humans that would live and breathe on its own, as cut off from the earth as a spaceship," the New York Times wrote back in 1992, but the project was a near-instant failure.

The World Photography Organisation has launched Collection, a site enabling photographers to promote their work to industry professionals. The site is divided into easy to use sections aimed at galleries sourcing exhibition material; collectors on the lookout for prints and creative professionals looking to commission photographers.

The Commons on Flickr is a collective of organisations from the Library of Congress, the Swedish National Heritage Board and the National Media Museum to the Bibliotheque de Toulouse, who have joined forces to showcase the photographic material in their collections. We're particularly fond of their tag search.

Week beginning January 4

Assembled by British collector Humphrey Winterton over about 30 years, the East African Photographs 1860-1960 collection documents African life; European life in Africa in all its manifestations; and the African landscape. Included are photographs showing the building of East Africa’s railways and the development of European colonial administration. Fully browsable online, it boasts an extraordinary 7,610 photographs and 230 glass lantern slides.

Mull it Over features a series of interviews by Jonathan Cherry. The latest features Terttu Uibopuu. Past editions have included Alejandro Cartagena, Chris Floyd and Spencer Murphy, a regular contributor to the Sunday Telegraph Magazine.

Week beginning December 21

Super8 footage shot by Robert Frank of The Rolling Stones in LA and NY 1971.

Design and publish your own photography magazine with MagCloud. 25% off until January 1st.

A collation of online photography magazines at Smashing.

A short film from the BBC about photographer Robert Bergman.

Week beginning December 14

The so-called 'only guy who can justify wearing orange trousers' in National Geographic's most popular photos of 2009.

The future of photobooks is being debated online by dozens of bloggers in a collective crowd-source exercise initiaited by Flak Photo's Andy Adams and Resolve's Miki Johnson. As posts go live, they're added to a hub page, where you can see the debate developing in real time.

Learn about the history of street photography, time-lapse or the MOMA collection in a series of online lectures.

Contact Editions is a new site selling limited edition, affordable photographic prints. A new edition is released every fortnight, on a Monday, hand-picked by a panel of industry professionals. The deadline for the next submissions review is 1st February 2010.

Week beginning December 7

Simon Roberts v Bialobrzeski: two photographers, with uncannily similar views of the seasons - including stunning winter shots - go back to back.

Tossography: Ryan Gallagher, a Texan theatrical lighting specialist, started this movement in 2006. It involves throwing the camera into the air - out of the window, off a cliff, or just in the kitchen - after setting the shutter to open for between one and two seconds in mid light. The resultant images are curious, abstract, curlicues of light similar to fractals.

The Queen gets tough on Paparazzi: senior aides at both Buckingham Palace and Clarence House have told The Sunday Telegraph that they will no longer tolerate photographers using telephoto lenses to capture pictures of the Royal family in "private" situations.

Week beginning November 30

The Photographic Dictionary: where random words are defined by a single photograph.

Living under the 7th Street Bridge: Photo story by Francine Orr of the LA Times about residents along a stretch of the L.A. River

The colour works of Irwin Klein: Klein was a New York based photographer who fell to his death from his apartment window in Brooklyn in 1974. Subsequently the majority of his negatives, cameras and equipment, as well as most of his printed work, were either lost or stolen. All that remains are a limited number of black and white vintage prints and a small collection of colour slides. Taken in the last weeks of his life as he walked along the streets near his home, the latter are being shown at New York's Domeischel Gallery for the first time. Thankfully they've put a healthy selection online too.

Not strictly photography, well, not photography at all, but a video, about a book. Going West.

Week beginning November 23

Royal assent on copyright rule: British Journal of Photography condemns government plans to change copyright licensing

Megan Mantia interviews Mattu Placek on too much chocolate, the online blogazine that does a brilliant line in photographers interviewing other photographers.

Robert Leggat's text heavy, but useful resource on the history of photography.

The Found Photo: vintage vernacular photographs at a fraction of auction prices. They're based in LA but ship worldwide.

Week beginning November 16

Wear good shoes: advice to young photographers: Magnum photographers give their two cents

Juliana Beasley's City Heat photo-story

Slightly out of focus is an on-line shop specialising in vintage, original illustrated magazines featuring the best in 20th century photography and photojournalism. LIFE, Vu, Picture Post, Illustrated, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post all feature, as do many others, including a comprehensive selection of Robert Capa magazines. As collecting original pieces of photography is becoming out of reach for many, collecting the work in context, in it's original form, is a great alternative.

Week beginning November 9

The Case of the Inappropiate Alarm Clock: Errol Morris' seven-part blog for the New York Times about photographic fakery and skulduggery.

Photography Market Confidence Returning: Art Tactic's 2009 report on the US and European art photography market includes market analysis and an overview of the photography market infrastructure.

Pollution in China: China Hush's photographic essay of work by Lu Guang who recently won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project 'Pollution in China'. (WARNING: Some of the images on this site are disturbing)

Ponte City Apartments: found at image sharer imgur.com

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