http://www.lightstalkers.org/keywords/show/of This feed shows posts at Lightstalkers. en-us I am in search of a fixer/driver for a reporting trip to the Republic of Georgia that I am currently planning. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks so much. Adrienne Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:23:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/fixerdriver-in-republic-of-georgia Shine from the Shrine: Photographic Tour of the City of the Dead The Sahara of the Slave Sultans Brought to Life by Ahmed Seddik Friday, 24th, August at 3 p.m. For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com The scintillating City of the Dead, anecdotal... Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:09:11 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/shine-from-the-shrine-tour-of-the-city-of-the-dead-al-qarafa-2 Shine from the Shrine: Walking Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa) The Sahara of the Slave Sultans Saturday, 5 May, 2012 at 9 a.m http://www.facebook.com/events/342312182482262/ For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69 or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com The scintillating City of th... Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:35:49 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/shine-from-the-shrine-walking-tour-of-the-city-of-the-dead Hi LS, Bruce Gilden's "Street Smart" scholarship-only workshop at LOOK3 is seeking applications from photographers 28yrs and under. The class is tuition-free for the 10 students who are accepted. Please help spread the word for this great opportunity. Thanks to Leica and Canon for providing the... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:33:56 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/full-scholarships-available-for-bruce-gilden-look3-workshop The Frontline Club is celebrating 25 years of Panos Pictures. This event will bring together key voices in Panos Pictures to discuss the developments at Panos and in the photojournalism industry over the past 25 years, and what the future holds. Award-winning photographer and Senior Lecturer i... Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:19:56 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/panos-pictures-event-at-frontline http://www.ivafestival.ir/ViewContent.aspx?PageID=102 Photography (international) 1-Photographs must: -conform to the cultural criteria set forth in the festival; -rely on the artist’s personal experiences in addition to the predetermined cultural criteria of the festival... Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:18:19 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/call-for-entry-the-fourth-international-fajr-festival-of-visual-arts http://www.cameraclubny.org/residency.html The Camera Club of New York OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2012 CCNY Darkroom Residency Program Application Deadline: December 1, 2011 CCNY invites emerging photographers living in New York City to apply for the 2012 Darkroom Residency Pro... Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:39:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/camera-club-of-new-york-darkroom-residency At UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. fowarding from KDMC: Applications opened today for two workshops we're holding in December and January. Among other things, we'll have sessions on the new Final Cut Pro X, as well as a session on reporting using mobile devices. If you know of... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:45:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/kdmc-digital-storytelling-workshops http://www.ajf.sg/ Applications for 2012 now open Deadline: 5pm (Singapore time), Friday 14 October 2011. The Fellowship brings journalists from Asia to Singapore's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University for three months. The 2012 Fellowship wi... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:47:49 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/asia-journalism-fellowship-singapore hi all, passing this on from Spirit of America. They're looking for military veterans to join their team in Afghanistan. As far as I know, they are the first "embedded NGO" - a civilian non-profit, whose field operators are former military officers. SOA provides assistance to US military units... Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:45:31 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/spirit-of-american-hiring-military-veterans-for-afghanistan-militaryngo-operations If any of you happen to be attending Look3, be sure to stop by the Prime Show and Pancake Breakfast for free coffee and pancakes! The exhibition is curated by the fabulous Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography at The New Yorker, and features the work of <a href="http://www.primecollective.... Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:07:02 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/prime-show-and-pancake-breakfast-at-look3 SORTIR DU CADRE INTERVIEW Third episode of “Sortir du Cadre” (think outside the box) about future of photojournalism! More than 3500 people have already watched the interviews with Stephen Mayes and Paul Melcher. Third “guest”, Jean Pierre Pappis, Founder and President of Polaris images. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:13:49 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/video-interviews-on-future-of-photojournalism Does Haiti's Crisis Call for a New Photojournalism? Blogs Michael David Murphy 21 Jan 2010 http://www.foto8.com/new/online/blog Last week’s crisis in Haiti has yielded a significant response from photographers and editors in the photojournalism community. Photographers were sent to H... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:13:55 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/does-haitis-crisis-call-for-a-new-photojournalismby-michael-david-murphy The Free World Newspaper and Review analyses and documents issues relating to freedom in fiction and reality. Participants will be offering their views, learn from the project organizer and from others participants about how to understand, exercise and expand their academic freedom as well as fr... Sat, 01 May 2010 13:45:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/upcoming-2-day-meeting-on-freedom-in-fiction-and-reality New Delhi,the capital of India, was recently under the grip of fear from the Biker's gang.The dreaded gang used to shot dead anyone who refused to part with his belonging.After intense public pressure the Police arrested some criminals who were residing in an outskirt village, posing as Bank's re... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:44:02 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/hongkong-bank-hsbc-india-the-prime-example-of-perverse-banking- I thought this might be of interest to the members here. http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/201/150/ It's a press release announcing a consumer report which tests photo competitions against a set of conditions called the Bill of Rights. Those competitions that fail the tests are report... Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:30:26 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/rights-grabbing-photo-competitions PANEL DISCUSSION: “FROM NEWS TO ARTâ€* free and open to the public 4PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16th 2008 Join Robert Stevens, faculty from the School of Visual Arts and former Time Magazine photo editor as he moderates a discussion contextualizing the journey of the function of a photograph fr... Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:22:33 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/fovea-exhibitions-panel-discussion "Somosfoto":http://www.somosfoto.org/ has arranged for the World Press Photo exhibit to be viewed in Santo Domingo as the Casa Reales, opening on March 17th. In addition they are running a workshop here with some very good people at the helm, so you all might want to check it out. The whole she... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:57:06 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/somosfoto-workshop-and-world-press-exhibit-in-st-domingo- Congrats to LS member Stephanie Sinclair for winning Unicef Photo of the Year 2007! Go girl, this is so awsome! http://www.unicef.de/foto/2007/english/index.htm UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007 Images of Extremes Eva Luise Köhler honors Stephanie Sinclair for her picture taken in Afgh... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:56:52 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/stephanie-sinclair-wins-unicef-photo-of-the-year Come join Ziyah Gafic for his opening reception of LOVE THY NEIGHBOR: BOSNIAN DIARIES at FOVEA EXHIBITIONS BEACON GALLERY this Saturday from 4-8pm. Ziyah has traveled from Sarajevo to Beacon for his first solo exhibition in the United States. On View November 10- January 6th 2008 open Fri... Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:17:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/ziyah-gafic-solo-exhibit-in-beacon- I would like to invite you to: MCP: The Minnesota Center of Photography Presents Three Gorges opens November 17 at MCP, and runs through February 10, 2008. a collection of work about the Three Gorges Dam project and life along the Yangtze River by Chinese, European, and North A... Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:39:30 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/three-gorges-at-mcp- I'm looking for the most unique, interesting, resonating, unusual, and/or other-wordly images in the world to fill 3 spreads at the front of National Geographic Magazine each month. The section is called Visions of Earth. The subjects should be upbeat (no news, poverty, war, etc) and can range fr... Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:35:53 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/nat_geo_picture_request_asap Wanted to let LS members know that there will be a discussion on covering conflict photography at the International Center of Photography's midtown campus on Monday, Feb. 23rd at 7pm. You can get more info at the events section of the icp's website: www.icp.org. Panelists include myself, Alexand... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:55:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/icp_panel_discussion_on_conflict_photography Spare a thought for the senior Middle East photographer fired by Reuters after two tampered photographs from a Beirut stringer got through the system during the Lebanon war. Company officials have trumpeted Reuters “swift, strong responseâ€* to this “unfortunate human errorâ€* and proclaimed ... Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:55:28 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/spare_a_thought_for_the_senior_middle_east_photographer_fired_by_reuters