"Starved for Attention" exhibit

This event Wednesday night looks interesting:

From http://www.starvedforattention.org/

VII photojournalists traveled to malnutrition "hotspots" around the world to produce a series of multimedia documentaries to shed light on the underlying causes of the global malnutrition crisis and innovative approaches to combat this disease.

• Marcus Bleasdale in Djibouti
• Jessica Dimmock in Burkina Faso & the US
• Ron Haviv in Bangladesh
• Antonin Kratochvil in the US
• Franco Pagetti in DRC
• Stephanie Sinclair in India
• John Stanmeyer in Mexico

Seamlessly blending photography and video from some of the most prolific and award-winning photojournalists, "Starved for Attention" captures a new visual identity for malnutrition through frontline stories.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Exhibit Opening & Reception 6 pm – 9 pm Panel Discussion 7 pm

The TimesCenter 242 West 41st Street, New York

Photographers being denied access to Gulf Coast

File under "sad but not surprising".  Photojournalists are being denied access by BP to huge chunks of the coastline affected by the oil spill. Even flyovers are being controlled by BP.  Imagery of the devastating effects of the oil spill will surely bring more public outrage, and BP is hoping to control this.

From  http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html:

Last week, a CBS TV crew was threatened with arrest when attempting to film an oil-covered beach. On Monday, Mother Jones published this firsthand account of one reporter’s repeated attempts to gain access to clean-up operations on oil-soaked beaches, and the telling response of local law enforcement. The latest instance of denied press access comes from Belle Chasse, La.-based Southern Seaplane Inc., which was scheduled to take a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer for a flyover on Tuesday afternoon, and says it was denied permission once BP officials learned that a member of the press would be on board.

American Youth Book Editing & Event

Produced the American Youth book, a collection of photographs about young people shot by the photographers of Redux Pictures. The book received a lot of great press, including praise from Readers Digest, The Washington Post, Photo District News, NPR, The Daily Beast, Time.com and numerous photo blogs.

Organized a traveling exhibition which was shown at The New York Photo Festival, LOOK3 The Festival of the Photograph, The Minneapolis Center for Photography and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Each of these exhibitions generated their own press.

Summer is no time for a vacation

If you're an editorial photographer, now is definitely the time to be getting your website, portfolios and promo pieces in shape for fall. NYC will soon be a sleepy village as all of the photo editors switch from turning out big spreads to daydreaming about what time they can hop on the LIRR to their summer share. Same goes for you corporate photographers hoping to shoot still, video or multimedia for annual reports this fall.

Contact me during June so there is time to get everything in order for September!