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Vogue Magazine Contest = Exploitation!

June 13, 2013 — Leave a comment

“This contest, which is targeted at students and emerging photographers, appears to be an effort to secure thousands of free images for unlimited use in publications and in advertising. For this reason, we believe this contest exploits photographers, and we strongly caution everyone to carefully review and understand all the terms and conditions along with the rights they are surrendering before entering any competition.”

via Photo Contest Warning! | Photo Attorney

Please email the panelist at links below and demand to know why they are involved in this mass rip-off of copyright!

PANELISTS INCLUDE:
Tomas Maier, Creative Director, Bottega Veneta; Ivan Shaw, Photography Director, Vogue; Linda Evangelista, Supermodel; Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele, Fashion Editor & Stylist; Collier Schorr, Photographer; Pat McGrath, Makeup Artist; Andrew Bolton, Curator, Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Craig McDean, Photographer; Doug Lloyd, Creative Director, Lloyd & Co; Guido Palau, Hair stylist; Yossi Milo, Gallerist and Jimmy Moffat, Founding Partner, Art & Commerce.

via Vogue

Want to do something about this?

2 judges have Facebook pages you can post to:

https://www.facebook.com/PatMcGrathFans
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Collier-Schorr/126548330645

Email links:

David_Stuckey@condenast.com

info@yossimilo.com
info@lloydandco.com
info@artandcommerce.com
info@303gallery.com

Message Example:

To All,

Regarding the Vogue Photo contest you or your representatives are judging or promoting . It might be a good idea to distance yourself from this kind of exploitation.

I am sure you did not go into this knowing how bad it is for the young photographers who loose all copyright to their images and for the working pro’s as well (who would of been hired).

In my opinion all judges should step down or force Vogue to change the rules of the contest and allow all rights to remain in the hands of the artists. Until then this is a very ugly contest that only rewards big business at the expense of the young and talented.  Here is your chance to do good!

Sincerely mad as hell,

Your name here…

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The Constructed Photographs of Kim Keever

June 12, 2013 — Leave a comment

Constructed by hand and photographed in a tank of water Kim Keever makes haunting landscapes, abstractions and the like with the ironic eye of a gonzo Renaissance master.

 

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Shimpei Takeda: Trace

June 10, 2013 — Leave a comment

SHIMPEI TAKEDA’s series Trace documents radiation in the soils via sites he picked in Japan. He rigged up a unique method to expose photographic paper to the soils radiation content. Like some sort of shaman/scientist he makes the invisible visible and records all his methods in this haunting project of Japan’s contamination and loss.

“Hardly anyone outside of Japan had heard the name “Fukushima” until last year, now it’s known around the world disgracefully. The nuclear fallout covered precious land where ancestors passed away. As the reading on the radiation meter climbed uncomfortably, it was such an odd and terrifying experience to collect soil samples as I felt like gathering somebody’s ashes.”

via SHIMPEI TAKEDA – Trace / Note.

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Best Photographers in London Series: Susan Derges

June 5, 2013 — Leave a comment

Not a photographer in the classical sense yet Susan Derges is known for her images of water that encompass the reflected night sky. She produces mystical and moving photograms by placing photographic paper in rivers and shorelines at night. Her intensely poetic images are some of the most beautiful nature pictures ever made – and all without a camera. You can find her work in book Elemental.  Here is her Lecture at ICP.

 

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Exhibitions Hamburg: Harry Callahan Retrospective

June 5, 2013 — Leave a comment

Best known for his black and white work Harry Callahan was one of the first artists to really turn my head in terms of what a photograph could say. His design and composition awareness is legendary. Just gaze at the tension he creates via the gutter and telephone pole in a rare color image below. One inch to the left or right and the composition would fall into utter banality but Callahan knows the secret sauce to making an empty street sing.

Harry Callahan Retrospective at the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

March 22 − June 23, 2013

 

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