Luc Delahaye is not a photojournalist.

poorly mismanaged in both funds and leadership, the NPPA has been having some issues for a while now [1, 2, 3].
many members, myself included, have become a little disgruntled about the current state of affairs. many have also had the great internal debate about renewing their membership this year. $90 seems like an awful lot to pay each year for a magazine subscription and a book. and now you've got an executive director quitting and you don't even get the book...
and while mark loundy offers some solutions for saving the fledgling organization, i think it sounds more like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound.
[**CORRECTION: while judy borich is still an assistant director in NPPA's region 6, the post she recently quit was as an executive committee board member.]
[mark loundy responded via email saying that "my efforts to change the NPPA are more like a heart transplant than a "bandaid." if successful, they will change the basic mission of the NPPA." -- best of luck mark. as much as i would love to see the NPPA survive, if for no other reason than the longevity and entertwined history it shares with photojournalism, the cynic in my says too little, too late. backing off of the newspaper strike in detroit and recent matters concerning freelancers' rights makes me think that perhaps the organization should make some changes from the top down rather than the bottom up.]

"We want to change the perception of VII as only war photographers," Maurel says. "They are great photographers, period." With that in mind, VII, the two year old photojournalism cooperative, recently added their 10th member by asking Danish photographer Joachim Ladefoged to join the club.

never step between photographers and ice cream

obit: helmut newton, a trailblazer in the fashion photography world, known for exploring power, gender roles and an icy sexuality in his picture, was killed in a car accident today after losing control of his cadillac.

The NFL is still trying to find an agency to handle licensing of its photo archive, but photographers balking at the new rights agreement are ready to pull their photos out of the archive.

Walter Iooss has a website!It amazes me that some photogs don't know Iooss' work. Whatever sport, person, style, etc. more than likely Walter shot it first and did it better than 99.999999% of the photographers out there.

D A V I D * L A C H A P E L L E - He is to photography what head-on collisions are to cars.

PDN/Nikon Self-Promotion Awards have been announced.

The Decline of Fashion Photography - critical analysis of what's wrong with modern fashion imagery. (IMO I think the author just isn't looking hard enough for the good stuff.)

PDN is now having a call to entries for their 2004 photo annual. and for some inspiration before you enter, check out last year's winners first.

there was some absolutely amazing work posted on aphotoaday.org in 2003, so in case you missed a day, the archives have now been updated.

"Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States conducted 216 nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests until 1992. 100 Suns documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with 100 photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen, and still photographers were sworn to secrecy."