look at me is a collection of found photos either lost, forgotton or thrown away. now namelessand haunting, yet somehow familiar, they give us an anonymous look back at our past.
[link via alex via the morning news]

contest judges wrestle with ethics of winning image

Vote for your favorite images from PDN's 2002 photo annual

to all the procrastinators in the bunch: the eddie adams deadline extension was extended even further. may 31st. what are you waiting for?! goodluck to all.

this was a great read, in that refreshing, reinvigorating, reenforcing sort-of way. it was listed as "tips for recent grads" but i think it applies to both old and new...

and i thought i was a photo geek. ha! not even close!! (well, in comparison.) this is an amazing collection of anything and everything photo related.
[thanks for giving me one more link to waste precious time on cara!]

Eddie Adams Workshop applications must be postmarked by May 15!!!

***be on the look out for stolen gear!!!!*** aphotoaday listserv member jason davis had a bunch of camera gear stolen out of his car. he asked me to pass this along:
"Here is that list of stuff..thanks for helping any way you can!" Jason R. Davis                                            Bristol Herald Courier         276-669-2181 - work 423-502-1641 - cell 423-283-7270 - home Tom Remine Investigator, Washington County Sheriff Department 423-461-1414 Recently all the items listed below were stolen from my car in Johnson City, Tennessee. If you have any information about anybody using or trying to sell these items please call Investigator Remine or me.

Nikon D1h digital camera - #5200192

Nikon 17-35mm wide angle lens - #234404

Nikon 80-200mm telephoto lens - #208381

Nikon 300mm telephoto lens - #241049

Sigma 14mm wide angle lens - #200492

Nikon SB-28dx flash unit - #2044198

Motorola SP50 Compact two-way radio - #777FAJA639

Compaq Armada E500 laptop # AE5P31000T4X20DC12N2

2 Nikon EN-4 battery packs for D1h

2 SanDisk 160mb flash cards -

1 Domke F2 Original Camera Bag - ballistic black
personal items:

1 Bogen model # 3221 Tripod black with gray strap -

1 Bogen Heavy duty Ball Joint tripod head Model #3055

1 Bogen Monopod  model #3018-silver -

1 Canon Sureshot underwater camera-

1 Sony XM Satellite radio model # DRN-XM01R serial #211023

1 Compact Disc case with 40 cds

1 Domke F2 Original Camera Bag - beige canvas
if you see any of it come up on ebay or photo.net or anywhere, please contact jason.

"The movement members were not happy that I had joined them. I had not brought food, only a camera, and I was there to take pictures. I was the only media photographer to enter the church since the siege began."
L.A. Times photographer Carolyn Cole gives a first-hand account, through words and pictures, of being the only member of the media inside the church of the nativity in bethlehem during the seige -- and surviving.

McSweeneys interviews Joel Meyerowitz about being the only photographer with permission to document the WTC site.

"There is this famous experiment with frogs where if you take a frog and place it in a pan with water sitting on a stove, and then heat the water slowly until it boils, the frogs will eventually die in the boiling water having never jumped out of the pan. However if you take a frog and place it in that same pan containing already very hot water, the frog will jump out immediately and save itself from being fried to death. "
The Story of the Frogs and the Titanic is an interesting look at the ever-changing face of photo technology.

i love the minds of people who have too much time on their hands, like this guy:
"I'm just itching to buy a really good digital camera, but until they become cheap enough for me to just buy one as a toy, I wanted something digital camera like to play with. I started playing around with my flatbed scanner to see if I could capture images of stuff around it, by holding the scanner in my hand and rotating it as it scanned. This allowed the focusing lens in the scanner to pick up some of the light from the surroundings...

there's some great new documentary stuff up at www.photodocument.pl.

"I don't want to approach this man with anger," says Yola Monakhov, who was shot and nearly killed 18 months ago on the outskirts of Bethlehem "I do want to confront him with what he has done to me. ...I want to get a sense of his reaction, what he is feeling when he sees me. Of course it would be nice for him to feel sorry." [link via Jim Romenesko's MediaNews]