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Photojournalism is Alive and Well at Luceo Images

Brian Smith — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:00:14 +0000

Finally a feel good story to share with you that serves as a great rebuttal to those who believe photojournalism is dead. NYT Lens blog’s James Estrin profiles photojournalists Matt Eich, David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Kevin German, Daryl Peveto and Matt Slaby from Luceo Images in a rather stunning response to Neil Burgess, who recently pronounced photojournalism dead on EPUK. These young photojournalists are on track for a great future. Bravo Luceo!

Say “NO” to NYC $300 Film Permit Application Processing Fee

Brian Smith — Fri, 28 May 2010 11:04:27 +0000

Please join all the major photography trade organizations by saying “NO” to the NYC Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting (MOFTB) plan to assess a $300 fee for film permit application processing. This is three hundred buck whether you’re doing a three month-long feature film with a crew of hundreds or a 15-minute still shoot with a crew of one.

For a feature film that’s nothing. But in a time that the magazine industry is particularly hard hit and everybody’s budgets are getting pared to the bone, it may me whether a shoot happens or not. This is a poorly conceived idea coming at the worst economic time and destined to place the heaviest burden on those who can least afford it. In short it’s a BAD idea.

All the major photography trade organizations: EP, ASMP, APA and NPPA will be at a hearing next Thursday, June 3 at 2PM at 125 Worth Street auditorium. If you are in the city that day, your attendance would be greatly appreciated!

If that’s not possible, please do the next best thing and sign the online petition saying “NO“!

An Inconvenient Deadbeat

Brian Smith — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:39:16 +0000

I was just reading a PDN Pulse post about San Francisco photographer Ken Light. Ken won a judgment in February against Al Gore’s cable TV network Current TV for unauthorized use of an image. But Current TV has appealed a small claims court award to Light of $500 plus $88 in court costs for unauthorized publication of a 1994 image of Texas death row inmate Cameron Todd Willingham.

Current TV downloaded the photograph off the New Yorker website and published Light’s portrait of Willingham on its website without permission, but is balking at paying up claiming news photographs are free to use under “fair use” which is not the case.

Al should know better. His wife Tipper was a news photographer for the Nashville Tennessean until he was elected to the Senate in 1976. Tipper definitely knows better. Tipper have a talk with your husband.

This is an inconvenient case. Pay up, Al.