Royal Photographic Society Street Photography Workshop.
Friday May 24th 2019, 10am-4.30pm
£126/£94 Society Members. Explore Street Photography in any Form, London.
NYC STREET PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE CELEBRATES NEW GALLERY OPENING IN BROOKLYN
Street Photography, 17th June 2019
PRESS CONTACTS
Jorge Garcia, Executive Director Mathias Wasik, Communications Director info@nyc-spc.com 813.841.0240 www.nyc-spc.com
NYC STREET PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE CELEBRATES NEW GALLERY OPENING IN BROOKLYN
Brooklyn, NY, June 13, 2019 – The NYC Street Photography Collective (NYC-SPC) is pleased to announce the opening of Contact Gallery, its new home, community gallery, and workspace in Brooklyn. To celebrate the occasion, an opening reception will be held on June 27, 2019 with the works of 25 local photographers on display in the gallery’s first public exhibition.
NYC-SPC’s mission is to share the art of street photography with an underserved community in New York City. Contact Gallery is a space where this mission will be filled with life, as an educational space for people to exhibit, learn, and share work.
A series of exhibitions, workshops, and other events is currently under development and will be announced on the group’s website (www.nyc-spc.com) and social media channels.
The group’s monthly public meetings, open to anyone interested in street photography, will be held at Contact Gallery on the third Thursday of every month. Meetings give individuals the chance to share work, experiences, techniques, and whatever else helps people advance as street photographers.
Contact Gallery also hosts digital lab equipment including a scanning and a printing workstation that can be accessed and rented.
Dates
Opening reception Thursday, June 27, from 7pm-10pm
Gallery hours Friday to Monday, from 12pm-7pm
Show ends Saturday, July 13
Address
Contact Gallery
302 Morgan Ave #B2 Brooklyn, NY 11211
About the NYC Street Photography Collective
NYC-SPC, a non-profit 501(c)3, is a collective made up of a small group of passionate street photographers that are dedicated to creating and sharing the art of capturing life in public spaces. The group was founded by Jorge Garcia in early 2015.
We offer members and anyone who is interested in the genre an opportunity to explore street photography with like minded individuals through engagement with a local community that shares resources and promotes individual’s work. We also regularly produce zines as well as organize exhibitions, talks, and events to highlight photographs from our members or talented photographers we discover.
Roger Hicks, A great editorial writer, publisher of dozens of photography books, A gentleman whom I had the privilege of knowing in recent years, A contributor on “Street Photography” to our website, passed away on April 7th 2019. His dry sense of humour in his Articles which was often infused with truth, was remarkable & would often manifest a quiet smile & nod of acknowledgement to his loyal readers.
Though by no means an Amateur, his weekly “Final Analysis” on the last page of the award winning “Amateur Photographer’ magazine has been read by millions of people & will be missed.
Our condolences to his beloved wife Frances & family. May he rest in peace.
Jonathan Higbee and Anthology Editions are excited to announce the release of Coincidences, the first book of Higbee’s street photography, in Fall 2019. The book will comprise of over ten years of Higbee’s work, and will include never-before-seen photos from the much-lauded series.
A self-professed love letter to New York and its moments of serendipity, these intersections of passers-by, billboards, construction, and more take on new meaning and life through the lens of Higbee’s camera. In Higbee’s New York, a dancer performs on a stage of trash, graffiti unfurls from a backpack, and giants walk the streets of the city. Each photograph captures the wit, joy, and surrealism of everyday life in a sometimes chaotic world.
Jonathan Higbee is a New York-based photographer who is often noted for his street photography, but his portfolio also includes fine art and commercial work. His photos have been exhibited all over the world, and have been featured in major publications such as Huffington Post, Daily Mail, and Buzzfeed. His unique vision has amassed a large social following, where the popularity of his “Coincidences” series gained popularity on Instagram. He was awarded the World Street Photography grand prize in 2015, a LensCulture Street Photography Award in 2016, and most recently was a 2018 Hasselblad Masters finalist.
Anthology Editions is an independent book publisher based in Brooklyn, New York.An imprint of the record label Mexican Summer, Anthology is dedicated to uncovering and presenting new narratives via thoughtful, exceptionally designed publications in the fields of art, music, and pop culture history.
Coincidences by Jonathan Higbee will be published by Anthology Editions
Fall 2019 // ISBN: 978-1-944860-25-7
EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS
An amazing opportunity to raise your photography to the next level by joining the world Famous Magnum Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins & The Director of Laura Noble Gallery, Laura Noble in Naples, Italy.
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Shirley Baker. Without A Trace. The History Press PRESS RELEASE Book launch at The Photographers Gallery in London on 1st November 2018
Street Photography, 29th October 2018
The History Press
PRESS RELEASE
Book launch at The Photographers Gallery in London on 1st November 2018
The History Press and The Photographers Gallery in London is pleased to invite you to the launch of ‘Without a Trace: Manchester and Salford in the 1960s’.
The launch will start at 6pm in the bookshop at The Photographers Gallery, 16–18 Ramillies St, Soho, London W1F 7LW .
Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Shirley Baker started to photograph the streets of Manchester and Salford in the early 1960s when homes were being demolished and communities were being uprooted.
Shirley’s powerful images, sparked by her curiosity, recorded people and communities involved in fundamental change. People’s homes were demolished as part of a huge ‘slum’ clearance programme, however Shirley was able to capture some of the street life as it had been for generations before the change.
Shirley Baker (1932–2014) was one of Britain’s most compelling yet underexposed social documentary photographers. Her street photography of Manchester and Salford in the in the 1960s has come to define her humanist vision. Her curiosity and engagement with everyday life around her confirms her acute observation, visual humour and compassion. These photos have been selected by Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, who is keen to make her mother’s work widely available
The History Press The Mill Brimscombe Port Stroud
Glos
GL5 2QG
Tel 01453 883300
Fax 01453 883233 www.thehistorypress.co.uk
ZEISS ZX1 Camera Introduced – Full Frame Mirrorless with Fixed 35mm Lens & Lightroom Built-in | cinema5D
Street Photography, 29th September 2018
ZEISS ZX1 Camera Introduced – Full Frame Mirrorless with Fixed 35mm Lens & Lightroom Built-in
ZEISS just announced the ZEISS ZX1, their new full frame camera, featuring a sensor developed in house, a 35mm F2.0 fixed lens, 4k 30p recording onto an internal 512GB SSD and photo editing on camera via built-in Lightroom Mobile. Keep reading to find out more about this daring new product by ZEISS.
ZEISS is well known among photographers as well as cinematographers for producing premium glass, boasting incredible sharpness, little distortion and as some claim a certain undefinable “pop”. However aside from some collaborations on smartphone lenses with a certain company known as Nokia back in the day, they haven’t really been making digital cameras. And even in the film world their last camera was the ZEISS Ikon, an M-Mount rangefinder camera introduced in 2004.
And then the ZEISS ZX1 …
Cut to 2018, they just introduced a camera which follows its own daring concept. The ZEISS ZX1 is a modern digital rangefinder with a full frame 37.4 MP sensor developed in house by ZEISS themselves. The fixed lens on it is a ZEISS Distagon 35mm F2.0, with ZEISS’ T* coating. It does have AF, but a manual aperture, that can also be set to auto on the lens itself, similar to how FUJIFILM handles this in their cameras. The same goes for the ISO and shutter speed dials on top of the camera.
The Design
What jumps out at you about this camera is that ZEISS obviously tried to cut away everything unnecessary. The body, which weighs in at only around 800g including a battery, looks like a unibody-style shell, with only a sleek bulge for a grip. The shutter button, ISO dial and shutter speed dial are the only controls on top of the camera. The back is just as minimalist, accommodating just the 4.3 inch 338 ppi LCD, the 0.7 inch OLED viewfinder (boasting 1080p resolution), one button and the diopter dial. That’s it. On the photographic side it seems to lean heavily on street photography, aiming to be an all-rounder wide angle camera. ISO goes from 80-51.200, shutter speeds go up to 1/8000s utilising a near-silent leaf shutter. The lens focuses up to a minimum focusing distance of 30cm / 1 ft. and ranges from F2.0 wide open to F22 completely stopped down.
The ZEISS ZX1 shoots up to 3fps continuous, though there is no word on whether there is phase detect autofocusing. There’s a hot shoe that supports Sigma flash protocol.
Video features
The technical specifications at this point aren’t very specific about the video features. The ZEISS ZX1 can record 4k UHD in up to 30p and 1080p up to 60p. There is a record time limit of 15 minutes per clip. Whether the codec is H.264, H.265 or something else entirely isn’t specified yet.
So Much for the Traditional Stuff
That’s where we’re leaving the common territory. The ZEISS ZX1 doesn’t use SD cards, or any other cards for that matter, but relies on a whopping 512GB of internal flash storage. According to ZEISS this is enough for up to 6800 full-res RAW images, 50000 JPGs or 20 hours of video. Shot footage can then be offloaded to external storage via USB-C, using the USB 3.1 protocol, or backed up via the built-in Wifi. NFC and Bluetooth are also onboard, to facilitate easier connection to other devices, for example for geo-tagging or remote control. The ZX1 has a built-in microphone and speaker and seems to be able to adapt its USB-C connection to either an HDMI, headphone or microphone jack.
The camera seems to have its own rather full featured operating system, being able to connect to cloud services like Dropbox or even send out emails.
The real stunner however is the inclusion of Adobe Lightroom into the camera, allowing for pretty full featured editing via the backside touchscreen, and immediate upload to social media. It also makes starting the editing process possible, and continuing it later on your fully-fledged laptop or desktop computer
Who is this camera for?
Although ZEISS’s marketing materials seem to be focusing on street photography, this kind of camera could appeal to a wide range of shooters. If nothing else it serves as a reminder of what is possible today, both in camera software, as well as design truly focused on shooting without any distractions. Maybe some other manufacturers will take the hint and stop giving us tabbed menus some time soon. It is 2018 after all.
What do you think? Is this a camera that stirs some interest in you? Would you use it for video shooting?
Stephen Leslie, has just published a book of his Street Photography, £25 (UNBOUND) to get a glimpse, you can look him up in Instagram . We wish his sales good luck
Royal Photographic Society: London. Fri 26th Oct 2018, 10am-4.30pm, £115 Non Members. £86 Society Members.
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