News
FotoTV.News 4: Photoshop CS5 (beta) released
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The News highlights from the fourth English edition of FotoTV News Show:
Photoshop CS5 (beta) released - Torsten Kieslich takes a look on the new features:
- Camera Raw 6.0
- HDRpro
- Content Aware
- Mini Bridge
a new webtip: sleeveface.com
Portfolio: The photographs of Leonard Nimoy
You can download a podcast of this news show at
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=346566809
FotoTV.News 3
Expert: Marc Ludwig Uma Gupta
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The News highlights from the third English edition of FotoTV News Show:
- Larry Sultan has passed away
- The Imago Camera in Berlin
- The Yongnuo RF-602 Flash Trigger
- Webtip: Depth of Field Calculator
- FotoTV Preview
- Portfolio
You can download a podcast of this news show at
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=346566809
FotoTV.News 2
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The News highlights from the second English edition of FotoTV News Show.
FotoTV wins the German IPTV Award
Paris Photo 2009; Conversations with members of
- Arab Image Foundation
- Magnum Photos
- Woerdehoff Gallery
Portfolio of Evelyn Hofer
A Surftip for you!
Twitter, iTunes & Facebook
You can also download a podcast of this news show at
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=346566809
FotoTV.News 1
Expert: Marc Ludwig Uma Gupta
Related topics: FotoTV.News | News
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Here's our first English edition of FotoTV News. It is a news show in which we present interesting snippets of information on photography from around the world. We feature the latest news, surf tips, a selected photographer's portfolio, a preview of our upcoming program, latest updates from FotoTV itself, how you can be a part of FotoTV and many more.
We hope to bring you this News Show once a month. Also, we intend to improvise it with time, so if you have any comments or suggestions after viewing it, do write to us.
Arles 2009
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Related topics: Conceptual Photography | Contemporary Photography | Masters of Photography | News | Photo Events
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40 Years of Rencontres!
FotoTV founder Marc Ludwig reports from the 40th annual Rencontres awards, conducting unique and informative interviews with François Hébel, director of the Rencontres d’Arles, Supermodel photographer, Peter Lindbergh, and photographer Willy Ronis, who is a living legend at nearly 100 years old.
The Rencontres d'Arles Awards have been an opportunity to discover new talents at the Rencontres d'Arles since 2002, although the Rencontres itself is in its fortieth year. This year the Awards will be featured all summer long in Arles; The Prix Pictet, the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability, communicating vital messages to a global audience. The Rencontres d'Arles'Discovery Award ‘goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has been recently discovered internationally or deserves to be, and the 'Author Book Award' 2009, one of the most prestigious awards in contemporary photography, and the 'Historical Book Award 2009', which is given to the best thematic or monographic documentary work about photography or a photographer.
Festival director Hébel also tells FotoTV that '40 Years of Disruption', a special category within the festival, will showcase photographers whose initial Rencontres exhibitions were controversial in accordance with the accepted standards of the time. In the forefront will be Duane Michals with a retrospective; and Nan Goldin, guest curator, whose 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' had such an impact it was considered groundbreaking work, as she was the first woman to use photography to present the intimate details of her personal life as a public work of art, and inspired a new generation of artists.
Another incredible highlight is Ludwig's interview with one of the founders of the festival, Lucien Clergue, a lover of photography and the arts, but above all, of artists. Clergue gauges the crucial role photography plays in visual arts at its core. At the conception of the festival he was determined to set up an exchange community that would get photographers out of their isolation. With his friends Michel Tournier and Max Rouquette he founded the Rencontres d’Arles festival, which led to the founding of the National School of Photography in Arles.
Sony World Photography Awards 09
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FotoTv founder Marc Ludwig reports live from the second annual Sony World Photography Awards, SWPA, in Cannes, with exciting interviews with this years winners, as well as interviews with the award’s founder and creative director.
After opening the film from the famous red-carpeted steps of the Palais des Festivals, Ludiwg heads to his first interview with SWPA’s founder, Scoot Grey, to find out what makes this awards festival so tremendous and so significant, as well as a forecast for the following days to come. Grey says the concept behind the SWPA is simple, “it’s a world program for the international photographic community, for photographers to show their work on a global scale”.
A very important initiative of the SWPA is the “Student Focus Program”, a groundbreaking initiative that provides a unique opportunity for both universities and their students, to gain important experience in a professional capacity and within the professional field.
Ania Wadsworth, of the student focus program explains, “The Student Focus Program is an initiative that focuses on the ecological issues and environmental problems of the world today. Specifically, for the festival segment there will be a week-long of exciting venues, including talks, seminars, networking meetings and events, exhibition tours, and media discussions hosted by some of the world’s most renowned photographers, editors, publishers, gallery owners, curators and other industry experts. This is definitely a great chance for the future professionals of tomorrow to show their work.”
Other film highlights include an interview an with award panel judge, where she discusses the consensus of the judges’ selections, an interview with Polka magazine editor and curator, Alain Genestar, who is the presenter of the “Lifetime Achievement Award”, which this year went to legendary photographer Marc Riboud, best known for his “Eiffel Tower Painter” photo.
A day after the gala award ceremony Ludwig meets up with this years L’Iris D’Or winner, David Zimmer, whose majestic landscape photos merited him the coveted prize. Wrapping up FotoTV’s filming in Cannes was an interview with the festival’s Creative Director, Astrid Merget, where she reflects on the momentous six-day long festival, as well as what the future holds for SWPA.
James Nachtwey
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The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, held annually in Long Beach California, bring together the worlds most fascinating speaker, thinkers and doers, in TED's stated mission "to spread ideas".
The participants come not just from the fields of technology, entertainment, design, but also from business, science and the arts. Over a 1000 people attend every year to listen to speakers who are challenged to give the talk of their life, in 18 minutes !
At the conference, the TEDPrize is awarded to 3 exceptional individuals, who each receive $100,000. Previous TEDPrize winners include, among others, Bill Clinton and Bono. In 2007 the award went to documentary photographer James Nachtwey and this bonus movie shows his acceptance speach.
The TEDPrice winner is also, much more importantly, granted "One Wish to Change the World." To realize the winners' wishes the TEDPrize leverages the unique resources within the TED Community "We work closely with TED sponsors and attendees to obtain pledges of support for the TED Prize winners. These pledges can take the form of business services, hardware and software, publicity, infrastructure, advice, connections ... Any and all pledges of support are welcomed."
Please click here to see what James Nachtwey wished for !
XDR-TB
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In this movie You'll see what James Nachtwey's "One Wish to Change the World." resulted in. To see his acceptance speech, please click on this link .
"I'm working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age."
Documentary photographer and 2007 TED Price winner, James Nachtwey created a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of extremely drug-resistant Tubercolosis, TB (XDR-TB) This very particular form of TB is present in 49 countries worldwide and every 20 seconds someone is dying from it.
"Many people think of TB as a disease of the past, but in 2007 alone, TB killed 1.7 million people. That’s 4,660 deaths a day, or one death from TB every 20 seconds. TB is the leading killer of people with HIV: Individuals are able to live with HIV but are dying from TB. Without proper treatment, 90% of those living with HIV die within months of contracting TB."
20th VISA pour l´image
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Each year, the city of Perpignan in southern France hosts the world's biggest festival for photojournalism. This year marked the 20th anniversary of 'Visa pour l'image'. We packed our cameras and went to find out what's so special about Perpignan.
Come along to a visit during which we meet amongst others the founder of the festival, Jean-Francois Leroy, photo-legend Paul Fusco, Aidan Sullivan, Vice President for Photo Assigments of the Reportage section of Getty and last but not least the french cuisine!
