Roy DeCarava, a Harlem photographer who captured its ordinary people and jazz giants, passes away.
Great story on CCN.com featuring cab-driver Sevket Sahintas, who goes around photographing the side of Istanbul that most people outside of Istanbul never sees.
Photographer Joseph Rodriguez is featured at The New York Times Lens. You can see the grit and passion in his photography. I was moved by the video slideshow.
Excellent piece by James Estrin at the NYTimes.com lens blog, showcasing the stylized photography by Tony Fouhse of crack addicts on a street corner in Ottawa, Canada.
The Fifty Four from richard hernandez on Vimeo.
I recently attended a retirement party at the Palm restaurant on 2nd Ave (NYC) and anyone who's been there knows how dark it is inside. It's a challenge trying to take photos without having to blast someone with the flash and ending up with the deer in the headlights look. Test shots with and without the flash revealed the nightmarish conditions under which I would be taking photos.
It's pretty tough trying to take pictures in tight quarters, where it's practically elbow-to-elbow in a sea of students, teachers, siblings, relatives and parents. Even harder still when you have a DSLR and need to look through the view finder at what you're taking.
Since I started DailySnapshots.com in 2004, I've always been concerned about posting photos of my family online. Any parent knows what it is like to automatically keep an eye on your children while they're growing up. It's an instinct you develop. Like moving things out of the way for your toddler or keeping objects away from the reach of little hands.
