African and Caribbean Photography

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Underwater photography is tough, and, when you're dealing with something less than Caribbean-clear blue seas, finding the right lighting can be near-impossible. Fujifilm's Remora looks to make things a little easier, offering a 60 degree beam of light with a guide number of 20, so it's bright enough even for nighttime cuttlefish documentaries but can be dimmed to save the retinas of sensitive cephalopods. Four AA batteries give you 240 flashes at a depth of up to 180 feet, but at £229 (about $370) only the most serious rebreathers need apply. Filed under: Digital Cameras Fujifilm's Remora flash could save those underwater family portraits originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments (webremix.info)

In a new exhibit now on exhibit at Henderson County Public Library, six award-winning photographers share their world travels with views of places and people from Africa to Iceland, from China to Wales. (webremix.info)

As a means of correcting monumental distortions and negative image being painted by the western press about African women, Dr. A. Olusegun Fayemi, a Nigerian born and American based documentary photographer, has decided to devote his energies to social documentary photography of the progressive and positive feminine activities in continental Africa and Africa in the diaspora. (webremix.info)

Afrikia, a wildlife photography game set in an unexplored region of Africa, has gone gold and will be in stores (webremix.info)

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, GM Click above to watch Kate Walsh talk up the Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon after the jump So we knew that Bob Lutz didn't like the course General Motors commercials were taking - but no one knew what he did like. Now that he's back from vacation in the Caribbean, he's laid out what he has enjoyed: popular YouTube vids like the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 lapping the 'Ring, the Kate Walsh Cadillac ads, and a Howie Long Total Confidence commercial. Sure, Lutz's plan for ads sounds a lot like the Standard Operating Practices of old GM. However, Cadillac did good business with the Kate Walsh ads, the ZR1's 'Ring showing meant you could put "Corvette" and "supercar performance" in the same sentence. And while we sometimes find the Long ads a tad facile, they state their cases plainly. If Lutz can do what those three commercials did - but do so for each of the portfolio's entire brands intentionally and over time, he'll have done something monumental. To do that, Lutz says he is revamping and taking control of just about everything: bringing designers in on the ad planning and going to product-driven advertising, changing how GM works with its agencies and giving agencies clearer directives, holding weekly meetings with brand executives, and even making sure all the ad photography is flattering to the car. Will these changes be enough? Check out the one of Lutz's favorite new ads after the jump, then leave your fellow reader a line in 'Comments' with your best guess as to GM's chance for advertising success. [Sources: Automotive News, sub req'd; General Motors] Continue reading Lutz lays out his strategy for GM advertising: "Memorable," "clever," "viral" [w/VIDEO] Lutz lays out his strategy for GM advertising: "Memorable," "clever," "viral" [w/VIDEO] originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments (webremix.info)

Like travel shows on television? Then you'll love Voyage.tv a new luxury travel site that offers original lifestyle programming that is available both online at www.voyage.tv and in 20 million homes via Video-On-Demand, The beautiful high-definition footage includes culinary tours, visits to spas and health resorts and shopping experiences. Right now Voyage.tv is showcasing the Caribbean with programming on 11 islands with future spotlights to include New York, Mexico, Hawaii, Tuscany, Bali and Marrakech. Voyage also includes personal insights from local Resident Editors with dining and nightlife recommendations as well as articles from leading travel publications and video profiles of leading hotels and resorts. And if your viewing inspires you to action, Voyage has partnered with a third-party company (Trisept Solutions) to provide vacation packages. John Pasmore, the president of Voyages North America told the NY Times that he expects the revenue of the site to be equally divided between advertising and bookings. Advertisers appear in display ads but also in spots at the beginning of videos. One intriguing feature is that Voyage.tv allows public access to its digital mash-up library of full motion video encompassing over 20,000 HD clips, as well as a library of stock images and, in the future, music tracks. Members are encouraged to combine this footage with their own travel video and photography and even produce their own 'feature' videos for the Voyage.tv site. Filed under: Journeys Voyage TV Offers Travel You Can View, Then Buy originally appeared on Luxist on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments (webremix.info)

AFP - The UN Development Programme, the AFP Foundation and Japanese camera-maker Olympus on Friday launched an African photography contest to highlight the effects of climate change on the continent. (webremix.info)

In South Africa, education often relies heavily on copying from the blackboard and repeating after the teacher. (webremix.info)

Illustrative Options, a professional photography agency, won a Gold Award at a ProFoto Awards held by the Professional Photographers of Southern Africa (PPSA) in Johannesburg on March 20. (webremix.info)

Illustrative Options, a professional photography agency, won a Gold Award at a ProFoto Awards held by the Professional Photographers of Southern Africa (PPSA) in Johannesburg on March 20. (webremix.info)

The Game Audio Network Guild, a non-profit group dedicated to advancing and recognizing game audio, announced the winners for the 7th Annual GANG Awards, for which a ceremony was held last week in San Francisco, California. EA Redwood Shores' Dead Space received awards for Audio Of The Year and Sound Design Of The Year, while Wataru Hokoyama, the composer behind Japan's photography and safari simulation PS3 game Afrika (coming stateside as National Geographic: Africa), was ... (webremix.info)

Mar 29, 2009 - caribbeanracing.com - Photography by Dean Barnes - Crews have fun waiting for wind on Sunday [March 22] at the 5th Annual Culebra Heineken International Regatta. Sixty-one boats - everything from a Santa Cruz 70 to a Hobie 16 - competed in the 5th annual Culebra Heineken International Regatta, held March 20-22, out of Puerto Rico's beautiful offshore island of Culebra. What's more, a record 73 dinghy sailors - kids skippering Optimists, Lasers and International 420s - participated in the 5th annual Culebra Heineken International Dinghy Regatta. The two tandem regattas combined drew record participation and drew some of the best adult and junior sailors in the Caribbean who reveled on this grand fiesta of highly competitive sailing. Culebra Heineken International Regatta --- In the Spinnaker A class, it was Chris Stanton from St. Croix who with his brothers and friends, drove their Melges 24, Devil 3, to a first in class by two points over St. Maarten's Fritz Bus, sailing his Melges 24, Coors Light. Stanton is a master of light air sailing and it showed in conditions that blew less than 10 knots the first and only day of sailing. Culebra International Dinghy Regatta -- The record junior sailor participation speaks well to the future of sailing in the Northern Caribbean. Puerto Rico's Juan Carlos Franco Monllor won the Optimist overall fleet in competitive light air conditions. "I just kept going right all the time," says Monllor, who obviously made the 'right' decision. In the Laser Radial Class, Puerto Rico's David Alfonso won handily, while fellow islander, Manuel Inserni, topped the Laser 4.7 Class. The Culebra Heineken International Dinghy Regatta marked the first regatta in the Caribbean to host an International 420 Class. St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands' sailor, Alex Coyle and crew Jozsi Nemeth, won the four-boat class. The regatta was a qualifier for the Puerto Rican team selection to the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Brazil this summer. Raul Rios and crew, Antonio Sifre, won the selection. [Open link for full report.] (webremix.info)

Reuters - Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa, was born in Swansea, Wales in 1971 and started as an arts correspondent. He joined Reuters in 2001, turning to photography in 2005 and winning the World Press Photo Award for picture of the year in 2006. In the following story, he describes his latest reporting mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

DURBAN, Nov 12 (IPS) - "I didn’t know that girls can play soccer. I thought it was a sport only for boys," says Thulile Khanyile. But after a photography and writing project changed her perception of gender roles, the 14-year-old helped start a girl’s soccer team at her high school in Nkandla, a rural area in the heart of Zululand. (webremix.info)

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Visual art essentially is any art that one can see. Visual arts include creativity such as graphic design, painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, etc. (webremix.info)

Debra Willis, one of the leading scholars of photography in the United States, is a Professor of Photography and Imaging at the New York University, with special interests in Visual Culture and Photography. (webremix.info)

Dancing forest spirits and brutal oil companies face off in 'Africas,' an audacious new photography exhibit at George Eastman House.

Ethiopia has imposed a ban on what had been billed as the Horn of Africa nation's first exhibition of nude photography, the photographer behind the show said on Wednesday. Biniam Mengesha, 28, told AFP he had been planning to show 45 photos at the unprecedented exhibition - titled "Black Diamonds." (webremix.info)

Ethiopia has slapped a ban on what had been billed as the Horn of Africa nation's first exhibition of nude photography, the photographer behind the show said Wednesday.

Entries for the seventh annual Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards have opened, which this year introduces Online Journalism. This new category is aimed at Internet and MP3-based media which produce podcasts, blogs, photography and web-based newsletters and columns (on a free access basis) that are not carried in print, radio and television. (webremix.info)

CURACAO, Netherland Antilles: Divers from all over the world are heading to the 2008 Curacao Dive Festival (May 24 – 31) to experience what Scuba Diving Magazine voted “Healthiest Marine Environment in the Caribbean/Atlantic.”  Divers will learn the tricks of underwater photography and get to swap stories. (webremix.info)

A world photography contest to highlight the role of the potato as a source of food, employment and income in developing countries was launched today by FAO and the United Nations. The contest is being held in conjunction with the UN's International Year of the Potato (IYP) in 2008. (webremix.info)

The Foreign Correspondents' Association of East Africa (FCAEA) unveiled last week its second photography exhibit, billed as a portrait of Africa usually unseen in newspapers. (webremix.info)

"Wild Earth: African Safari encompasses several great passions - photography, travel and the outdoors - and combines them into a fun and informative interactive experience"

Wild Earth: African Safari is a spectacular safari adventure set in Africa's Serengeti National Park where players can take award-winning photos of the continent's exotic wild life. via WorthPlaying

THE African Film Festival of Tarifa through the Andalusian Centre of Photography in conjunction with the non-profit organisation Al Tarab will this year hold the inaugural Photo-Africa Contest and is calling for entries from African artists. (webremix.info)

THE African Film Festival of Tarifa through the Andalusian Centre of Photography in conjunction with the non-profit organisation Al Tarab will this year hold the inaugural Photo-Africa Contest and is ... (webremix.info)

Fair trade photography : Taking a unique approach to help photographers in the developing world to reach a worldwide audience, Majority World, the ethical photo library, is celebrating the first anniversary of its formal organization. Now celebrating the first anniversary of its formation, the photography-based community interest company Majority World has seen its photo library pass the 10,000 images mark. Majority World was formed to promote professional photographers in Asia, Africa and Latin America - which areas together represent the highest concentration of population in the world (hence its title Majority World) - to the rest of the photographic community, and in particular to Europe, the UK, and USA. (webremix.info)

The Malian capital of Bamako is hosting a one-month exhibition of African photography, which opened on 23rd Nov. From Malick Sidibé to Pierrot Man, from Seydou Keita to Adama Kouyaté, this biennial festival plays tribute to the great African names in photography. (webremix.info)

SeaLife DC600 underwater digital camera : Whether you're diving the Great Barrier Reef in search of breathtaking coral or snorkeling along the crystal blue waters of the Caribbean, a camera that can stand up to the harsh underwater environment is essential. SeaLife's new DC600 6.1-megapixel CCD camera is the solution. Designed to take high-resolution images up to 200 feet underwater, it produces ultra-clear images that overcome the biggest obstacles in great underwater photography as well. Versatility is the camera's key attribute, as users can take impressive photographs under almost any conditions. You could feel confidant to take your DC600 snorkeling or scuba diving, there's no fear that water will damage or ruin the camera. (webremix.info)

The Ethiopian director of photography, Abrham Haile, received an award of 10,000 euros from the Hubalt Bals Fund, founded after a Dutch filmmaker who had a dream that the future International Cinema hub would be Africa. (webremix.info)

Links : African and Caribbean Photography

Afriphoto

Afriphoto has chosen to emphasize the exhibitions themselves in order to best present the work of its photographers and highlight their varied perceptions of Africa

Eritrean Beauty

The Dutch photographer Anne Alders has captured the everyday life of the nine sections of the Eritrean population in a superb and inimitable way. Over a consecutive period of seven years, Anne Alders travelled across Eritrea on a regular basis. Owing to the contribution of prof. dr. Jan Abbink this book of photos has obtained an anthropological and cultural value and significance.

music photography

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Alain Sèbe Images

Alain Sèbe Images has been publishing books, cards, prints and calendars dedicated to the Sahara desert and Egypt for 25 years.

Black Mirages

BLACK MIRAGES is a collection of photographs of the people of Africa by Alain Paris. Includes sections on African ebony women, dance videos, and more. Images are in black and white, and color.

REVUE NOIRE

REVUE NOIRE publisher : books and magazines on African Culture of today, and from its diaspora. Art, Photography, Literature...

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