Some Links for Monday
Posted by Jason Schupp on 12 May 2008.
Happy Monday! Here are some photo-related sites to brighten up your week:
Life Goes on in Tehran: When an Iranian-American filmmaker decided to leave Los Angeles and go live with her extended family in Iran's capitol, her friends worried for her safety. As a way of showing them that Iran wasn't a dangerous place, she started Life Goes on in Tehran about a year ago, a collection of camphone pictures and commentary about what it's like to be a young Iranian, and the similarities and differences between places. It's a wonderfully demystifying look that updates monthly. My favorite parts: inside the Driver's Ed classroom (October '07), the first snow of the year (February '08), big hair and bigger ice cream (both in this month). Start at the beginning, and be sure to roll over some of the images for more.
Photogamer: Do you like our regular Photo Challenges? Photogamer is a similar photographic scavenger hunt with a weekly assignment that sends you out to take pictures that fit the challenge, then upload them to their Flickr group. The real fun, I think, is that it can get you out of your usual photograph-taking habits, pushing you a little further.
Yeondoo Jung, "Wonderland": Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung faithfully recreates children's drawings as photographs, complete with skewed perspectives and fanciful clothing. Surreal and gorgeous.
Stranger Photos Have Happened: Atlanta zinester Jay Carlson left a disposable camera tied to a public bench with a note that read, "Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up." He came back to find the entire roll had been shot, and put the results in an issue of his e-zine, The Plug.
Stop Shooting Auto!: Credit for finding this one goes to the other Jason (who, sadly, is no longer in the 8020 office full-time... Vaya con Nikon, Mr. D!). Stop Shooting Auto!'s tagline is "You're smarter than your camera," and is a collection of articles meant to get you past your point-and-shoot-on-automatic phase, and to a point where you really understand what your digital camera can do. Homework assignments are included for the learn-by-doing set.
