White House Press Photographers, circa 1924 (Library of Congress Archives)
I must admit, it’s hard to concentrate on photography at the moment, given all that’s happening here in the U.S. financial markets. News on the bank failures abound, I won’t rehash them here, but it has us glued to the radio at Daylight Photo. Through every crisis of the last 25 …

Quite a few of you were able to participate in Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk this past Saturday. For those who weren’t able to attend, I’d like to invite you to 90 seconds of candid video from Cincinnati, just in case you’d like to see just what went on in our little part of the world. Photographers, clicking shutters and …

I’ve been writing quite a bit lately so today’s post is purposely short and simple. That doesn’t mean it was quick to create, though, it actually took about a year.
Over the course of a year I documented the twin Bradford Pear Trees in my front yard, following them through the seasons. Stepping outside my front door with a 24mm lens …

Last January I ran into my friend Stephanie Carson at Sitwell’s, a popular university area coffee shop here in Cincinnati. Stephanie is a very successful wedding photographer in the region (view her website here and fun blog here) and she’d just wrapped up her 2007 obligations and would soon be off to Europe for a few weeks. We promised to …

A couple weeks ago Brian Auer at Epic Edits Weblog mentioned a project he was putting together and I’ve been looking forward to it ever since, for a number of reasons. The short story is this: the project encourages readers to either buy or use an existing $50 film camera, then write a review on the camera and submit a …

As mentioned in last Friday’s post, I’m busy creating a handful of new videos for coming weeks so this is a rare Monday without a new prophotolife vid. But Monday deserves a video so here’s a good one from one of the masters: well known annual report photographer David Tejada. I really like his use of a strobe shooting through …

This past weekend I became reacquainted with the work of a favorite photographer: David Plowden. Searching for inspiration at the main library branch in downtown Cincinnati, I found myself in the oversized book section, looking at (imagine this) the photo books. The book “David Plowden: Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography” was on the shelves. It was just what I’d …

If you live in the United States you are partial owner to some of the most important photographs in U.S. history. The Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) funded a national documentary photo project during the Great Depression years (1935 – 1945). Now-legendary photographers like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, …

This guest post is written by Andrew Gibson, still in the early stages of his career, yet an accomplished photographer and writer and the author of the Magical Places Fine Art Online Photography Magazine. A number of prophotolife readers have requested more information about photographers’ career paths, and Andrew discusses his pursuits and career with us here, from his first …

Though we may be at different points along the journey, photographers do share a common path. The magic of photography has hooked us all. This is the third and final installment of a look at three different photographers, all at very different points along their personal journey. The first in our series was Colin Summers, UK Photojournalist. Entirely self-funded for …