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This Image Will Not Win The First Ever FJP Photo Contest
Because even though it’s a super magical shot of the Pulaski Bridge connecting Long Island City in Queens to Greenpoint in Brooklyn, I took it and don’t qualify to win the super magical tripod that we’re giving away to the contest winner.
But your super magical photo could win. All you need to do is enter one on the contest page over on Facebook.
It’s all really easy. The contest theme is “Commuting”. The above I took with my phone. You can do the same. More details on Facebook.
Deadline is Tuesday, June 4. Get them photos in. — Michael
PS: Super Magical is our phrase of the day.
Beach Daze
Jihii’s been on vacation the last few weeks but forwarded us this slideshow from Weather.com. “You should gumble [sic] this,” she wrote from Las Vegas. Gumble it we will.
Some bathing suit history via Weather.com:
By the early 1900s, beach resorts were becoming a popular destination. But water activities such as swimming and diving were a burden due to the bulky Victorian-style swimsuits, especially for the women, the magazine reports. Thus, by the 1920s, fitted swimwear that modestly conformed to the body became a part of beach fashion. Susan Sessions Rugh, an American history professor at Brigham Young University, points out that as the years passed, swimsuits became smaller and smaller.
“Earlier in the century, the sexes were often segregated on the beach and women were chaperoned, even though today their swimsuits look ridiculously modest,” Rugh said in an interview with Weather.com. “Swimsuits shrunk over the years as new stretch fabrics and manufacturing methods allowed a more form-fitting garment.”
Rationing of fabric during the war created women’s clothing in America that was somewhat more revealing, possibly inspiring the production of two-piece bathing suits, which exposed women’s midriffs.
After the war, in 1946, the bikini was introduced and a trip to the beach hasn’t been the same.
French engineer Louis Reard created the first modern bikini, promoting it as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit,” according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal newspaper. Originally banned in Italy and Spain as it was considered indecent, the bikini didn’t become a popular fashion trend till 1956 after French actress Brigitte Bardot was seen wearing one, reports AmericanHeritage.com.
Images: Two ‘Bathing Beauties’ on the beach, circa 1929 (top); A professional photographer taking snaps of vacationers on the beach at Ostend, circa 1924 (left); Yum Yum beach fashion at Rottingdean, on the south coast of England, 1927 (right>. Via Weather.com. Select to embiggen.
![Conquering Everest
Sixty years ago today Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first people to scale Mount Everest.
The feet, obviously remarkable, was also cloaked in journalistic intrigue with the Times of London sponsoring the expedition and having exclusive access to the climbers. While The Times broke the story, it didn’t publish the first photos of the successful climbers. That honor belonged to Reuters’ Peter Jackson who tracked the expedition through the Himalaya.
Via the BBC:
[Jackson] needed 11 porters to carry his equipment and supplies - one just to carry a heavy box of coins because the hill people did not use paper money, and another to carry a portable radio and spare batteries.
After several weeks of climbing and perilous river crossings, Jackson arrived at the Thyangboche Monastery.
The monks there looked after him while he waited for news…
…Two weeks later, a messenger raced through the monastery with an urgent despatch.
Jackson discovered the runner had been offered 200 rupees to get to Kathmandu in six days and he suspected the mountain may have been climbed…
…[Jackson] trekked down to the small town of Namche Bazar where an Indian police officer manning communications let him see the message.
It was from the expedition leader, Colonel John Hunt.
On the trail back to the monastery, Jackson said he met Morris heading down to Kathmandu, and the Times reporter claimed the expedition had failed.
The next day, All India Radio announced Everest had been conquered and the Times was able to break the news on the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Jackson’s hunch had been correct - the message had been sent out in a pre-arranged code.
“Snow conditions bad” meant Hillary, and “advance base abandoned” meant Tenzing. Morris had not taken photographs and was rushing to Kathmandu to file his story.
Jackson then waited for the climbers to come down to the monastery and was thrilled to be able to meet them.
There were no other journalists in this remote place, and it was there he interviewed them and took the iconic picture of Hillary and Tenzing smiling at each other.
FJP: And that is how you scoop a story.
Bonus: The tech the 1953 expedition team used compared with what’s used today.
Image: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary drink tea at Camp IV on Mount Everest, by George Band via National Geographic.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/5071a51b4816b50a58d76e74eecdc81e/tumblr_mnkl55MbWB1qedj2ho1_400.jpg)
Conquering Everest
Sixty years ago today Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary became the first people to scale Mount Everest.
The feet, obviously remarkable, was also cloaked in journalistic intrigue with the Times of London sponsoring the expedition and having exclusive access to the climbers. While The Times broke the story, it didn’t publish the first photos of the successful climbers. That honor belonged to Reuters’ Peter Jackson who tracked the expedition through the Himalaya.
Via the BBC:
[Jackson] needed 11 porters to carry his equipment and supplies - one just to carry a heavy box of coins because the hill people did not use paper money, and another to carry a portable radio and spare batteries.
After several weeks of climbing and perilous river crossings, Jackson arrived at the Thyangboche Monastery.
The monks there looked after him while he waited for news…
…Two weeks later, a messenger raced through the monastery with an urgent despatch.
Jackson discovered the runner had been offered 200 rupees to get to Kathmandu in six days and he suspected the mountain may have been climbed…
…[Jackson] trekked down to the small town of Namche Bazar where an Indian police officer manning communications let him see the message.
It was from the expedition leader, Colonel John Hunt.
On the trail back to the monastery, Jackson said he met Morris heading down to Kathmandu, and the Times reporter claimed the expedition had failed.
The next day, All India Radio announced Everest had been conquered and the Times was able to break the news on the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Jackson’s hunch had been correct - the message had been sent out in a pre-arranged code.
“Snow conditions bad” meant Hillary, and “advance base abandoned” meant Tenzing. Morris had not taken photographs and was rushing to Kathmandu to file his story.
Jackson then waited for the climbers to come down to the monastery and was thrilled to be able to meet them.
There were no other journalists in this remote place, and it was there he interviewed them and took the iconic picture of Hillary and Tenzing smiling at each other.
FJP: And that is how you scoop a story.
Bonus: The tech the 1953 expedition team used compared with what’s used today.
Image: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hilary drink tea at Camp IV on Mount Everest, by George Band via National Geographic.
FJP Photo Contest: When a miniSkates Tripod
Just a friendly reminder that The First Ever And Hopefully One Of Many FJP Photo Contests is underway. The contest theme is “commuting”.
The winner gets a miniSkates tripod as shown in the video above. Background on the tripod and how we met its creator is here.
Want to jump right in and enter? You can do that on our Facebook Page which is located over here.
Yes, You Can Win This Cinetics miniSkates Tripod
And now for something new: The first ever FJP Photo Contest.
Back in March Peter went to SXSW and met Justin Jensen, founder of Cinetics, a company he started from the MIT Media Lab to create portable cinematic systems. Peter loved what they’re doing and Justin and Co were kind enough to donate the miniSkates tripod as the prize for our first photo contest. (You can see the tripod in action in Justin’s original 2011 Kickstarter video.)
The Contest
The theme for this contest is “Daily Commute”.
You are welcome to interpret the theme however you like but here are some ideas to help get you started:
- the essence of your commute;
- something you notice that you think others pass by;
- motion;
- the places you commute to, from or through;
- the idea of what a commute is;
- something not mentioned above cause we didn’t think of it.
How to Enter
- Take a great photo based on our “Daily Commute” theme;
- Submit your photo on our Facebook contest page;
- Win the coolest tripod on wheels!
Deadline: May 31, 2013
Other things you can do: Share this with your friends.
If this contest is successful we think we can get other companies to come together and offer contest prizes for The FJP community.
Many thanks. Start taking your photos and submit them to us over on Facebook. We look forward to seeing them!
The Little People Working in our Machines
Via Wired:
Mark Crummett thinks modern technology is beautiful. To him the devices we’ve built, such as computers, are not only functional, they’re aesthetically appealing. Especially on the inside.
“I like the idea that [technology] looks the way it does because it has to look that way,” he says. “A hard drive is made out of round and shiny material because of what it has to do and how it has to do it.”
Crummett says he’s tried to highlight that beauty in a series of photographs he calls Ghosts in the Machine. He’s placed model railroad figurines inside the guts of old computers and other contraptions, making the processors and transistors form a kind of otherworldly cityscape. Computer fan vents become postmodern architecture. Motherboards become strange new ecosystems.
For more images, and how Crummett shoots, visit Wired.
Images: Selected photographs from Ghosts in the Machine by Mark Crummett, via Wired. Select to embiggen.
Final Embrace
Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter.
Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen.
UPDATE: Via the New York Times, Clothing Is New Front in Movement for Fair Trade.
With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with working conditions, environmental issues and outsourcing are now demanding similar accountability for their T-shirts. And some retailers are doing what was once unthinkable, handing over information about exactly how, and where, their products were made.
The death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse is now over 800.
The Big List of Photography Cheatsheets
Check Hongkiat for their cheat sheets that help photographers with everything from depth of field to aperture settings, shutter speeds, focal length, lighting and more.
Hongkiat, 20+ Cheatsheets & Infographics For Photographers.
Image: The 10 Rules of Photography, via Hongkiat.
![Image Management
Beyonce Knowles has banned press photographers from her ‘Mrs. Carter’ concert tour in an attempt to prevent unbecoming photos of herself from being used by the media. This appears to be a response to unflattering photos published by Gawker and Buzzfeed from the singer’s Superbowl performance.
Now, Beyonce’s personal photographer, Frank Micelotta, is the only one officially allowed to capture images of Beyonce during her concerts. The press is then given a link to an “official” website where they must register to download “approved” images.
In an article in Slate, Alyssa Rosenberg points out the quandary of celebrities censoring — or otherwise trying to completely control — their pictures:
“[Beyonce is] turning the media into a distribution machine for whatever message she wants to send, rather than accepting that others have the right to judge the tour, as a product she’s offering up.”
FJP: Pop stars aren’t the only ones practicing the dark arts of image control.
Earlier this winter Politico published an article about the Washington press corps’ frustration with their access to the White House. Part of that criticism was the Obama administration’s use of social media to bypass them with images and information posted directly to the public.
For example, the White House Flickr gallery is made up of photographs by Pete Souza, the official Obama administration photographer. Souza captures and even stages pictures of the president — like Obama’s moment of silence photo op held in honor of the Boston bombings — and many of those images have been used by the news media.
Is it acceptable that politicians can craft their own image, but not celebrities? And how authentic can journalism be if everyone gets their images from one, tightly controlled source?
Sort of related: Attorney, Carolyn E. Wright, points out in Slate’s Manners For The Digital Age podcast: if you’re in a publicly-accessible area, and you don’t have an expectation of privacy, you’re fair game to be photographed.
Famous people, beware: as long as the media have their will, they’ll get you on camera their way — be you Obama, or be you Beyonce. — Krissy
Image: Beyonce from the Super Bowl, via Pocket-Lint.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9c3e9615a18f9f9a69e67e3f44394c97/tumblr_mm3mhykYYI1qedj2ho1_400.jpg)
Image Management
Beyonce Knowles has banned press photographers from her ‘Mrs. Carter’ concert tour in an attempt to prevent unbecoming photos of herself from being used by the media. This appears to be a response to unflattering photos published by Gawker and Buzzfeed from the singer’s Superbowl performance.
Now, Beyonce’s personal photographer, Frank Micelotta, is the only one officially allowed to capture images of Beyonce during her concerts. The press is then given a link to an “official” website where they must register to download “approved” images.
In an article in Slate, Alyssa Rosenberg points out the quandary of celebrities censoring — or otherwise trying to completely control — their pictures:
“[Beyonce is] turning the media into a distribution machine for whatever message she wants to send, rather than accepting that others have the right to judge the tour, as a product she’s offering up.”
FJP: Pop stars aren’t the only ones practicing the dark arts of image control.
Earlier this winter Politico published an article about the Washington press corps’ frustration with their access to the White House. Part of that criticism was the Obama administration’s use of social media to bypass them with images and information posted directly to the public.
For example, the White House Flickr gallery is made up of photographs by Pete Souza, the official Obama administration photographer. Souza captures and even stages pictures of the president — like Obama’s moment of silence photo op held in honor of the Boston bombings — and many of those images have been used by the news media.
Is it acceptable that politicians can craft their own image, but not celebrities? And how authentic can journalism be if everyone gets their images from one, tightly controlled source?
Sort of related: Attorney, Carolyn E. Wright, points out in Slate’s Manners For The Digital Age podcast: if you’re in a publicly-accessible area, and you don’t have an expectation of privacy, you’re fair game to be photographed.
Famous people, beware: as long as the media have their will, they’ll get you on camera their way — be you Obama, or be you Beyonce. — Krissy
Image: Beyonce from the Super Bowl, via Pocket-Lint.
Sony 2013 World Photography Winners
Top: Jens Juul, winner, Professional Portraiture, for Six Degress of Copenhagen.
Left: Andrea Gjestvang, Grand Prize winner, for One Day in History, portraits of survivors of the 2011 massacre in Utoeya, Norway.
Right: Valerio Bispuri, winner, Contemporary Issues, for Prisons of South America.
Select any to embiggen.
Winners across all categories along with photo galleries of their can be viewed at the World Photography Organization’s web site.
Not Your Ordinary Bookstore
Argentina’s El Ateneo Grand Splendid opened as a theater in 1919, later became a cinema and is now a bookstore.
Images: El Ateneo Grand Splendid, via Atlas Obscura.
Readers Capture the Complexity of the US-Mexican Border
What does life look like along the 2,000 miles of the US-Mexico border?
The New York Times crowdsourced reader photos, from the intimate to the aerial, to tell the visual story.
FJP: One of the best crowdsourced interactive features we’ve seen in a long time. Yet, you will need more than a thousand pictures to really grasp what exactly is going on along the US-Mexico border, one of the busiest in the world. And, as you most certainly know, it is not only about Tijuana anymore, but about a long series of bordertowns than span all the way East until the Rio Grande Valley.
H/T: Propublica.
![How We Read our Newspapers
fotojournalismus:
A man reads a newspaper inside a dilapidated baby’s crib along a street in downtown Manila, Philippines on April 10, 2013.
[Credit : Aaron Favila/AP]
FJP: I personally spread it out over the kitchen table but this works. — Michael](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0e1aeadf7298f22170af6611a38eade/tumblr_ml3qp08JV91r44q44o1_400.jpg)
How We Read our Newspapers
A man reads a newspaper inside a dilapidated baby’s crib along a street in downtown Manila, Philippines on April 10, 2013.
[Credit : Aaron Favila/AP]
FJP: I personally spread it out over the kitchen table but this works. — Michael
Remembering Rwanda
Via Pieter Hugo:
In 2004, most of the photojournalists I knew were heading to South Africa to cover that country’s decade of democracy celebrations. Following a succession of terrible events – widespread famine, Somalia’s endless civil war, the scourge of Aids and finally the genocide in Rwanda, which led to the war in former Zaire – people were desperate to tell positive stories from Africa. Publications and academics demanded it, claiming that it was irresponsible to continue depicting Africa as a continent tethered to war, famine and disaster. Yet, not engaging with the complexities of Rwanda seemed thoughtless to me.
As I still worked primarily as a photojournalist at the time, I tried petitioning every foreign publication I knew to send me to Rwanda. None obliged, so I decided to go on my own and stayed there for a few months photographing and contemplating these sites.
Rwanda did eventually rebury its dead ceremoniously in 2004. After President Paul Kagame stated that France ‘knowingly trained and armed the government soldiers and militias who were going to commit genocide and they knew they were going to commit genocide’, the French junior foreign minister, Renaud Muselier, cut his trip short.
These photographs offer a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place, and a very limited forensic view of a few of the genocide sites. At many of the places there is nothing happening and historical knowledge is needed to support the images; through the stillness the atrocity continues to resonate. At some of the sites human remains and the personal effects of the dead are still present. I hope these images in some small way bear testament to the personal anguish of these individuals.
April 7 was the United Nations’ Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide. Human rights organizations estimate that 800,000 people were killed within a one hundred day period.
Image: Bodies Covered in Lime, Murambi, by Pieter Hugo.
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