| Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day to be Celebrated April 29, 2007
[Feb 01, 2007] Trento, Italia, January 19, 2007 - Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD), a global event celebrating the fantasy, art, fun and experience of lensless photography, will occur on April 29, 2007. All photographers around the world will be invited to take a picture with a pinhole camera during the 24 hours of Sunday April 29 and upload it to http://www.pinholeday.org. A photo by each artist will become part of the international Web gallery on the WPPD site. The event is open to all photographers throughout the world, to every no-lens photography aficionado and to those who have never practised this creative and fun technique before. Pinhole photos are taken without any lens but simply through a small hole, about the size of the period at the end of a sentence. Photos can be made using cameras made from ordinary stuff such as shoeboxes, peeled tomato cans or tea boxes.
Kodak to Cut More Jobs, Complete Overhaul in 2007
The camera and photography company expects to make restructuring payments of $575 million to $625 million in 2007, raising the total cost of an overhaul first announced in January 2004. Kodak expects total restructuring costs of $3.6 billion to $3.8 billion from the program, with job cuts of 28,000 to 30,000 positions. As of the fourth quarter, Kodak had eliminated 23,400 jobs under the plan. Kodak last updated its restructuring plan in August, when it said it expected to cut 25,000 to 27,000 jobs and take total charges of $3 billion to $3.4 billion. Kodak aims to complete a tough and expensive shift away from its traditional film market, where sales are declining, to digital products and services. The company introduced earlier this week a long-awaited line of inkjet printers and replacement cartridges.
Canadians embrace digital photography more than ever in 2006
A new report from the Canadian Imaging Trade Association (CITA) says that 2006 sales of digital still cameras in Canada topped 2005 numbers by 20%. According to CITA, manufacturers shipped about 3 million digital cameras to Canadian retailers, compared to 2.5 million the year before. The industry had predicted a continued slowing of digital camera growth for 2006, as between 2004 and 2005. Prior to that, growth had been dramatic as Canadians switched en masse from film-based cameras to digital cameras. Annual digital camera unit estimates by CITA are as follows: 2006 - 3,000,000 2005 - 2,500,000 2004 - 2,300,000 2003 - 1,500,000 2002 - 880,000 The digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera sector led the increase with 145,000 units shipped, about 50 percent higher than 2005.
Peter Piller
The German-born photographer Peter Piller (b.1968), who teaches photography and art at the High School for Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig, has made his name not so much as by the photographs he takes as by the collections of photographs he assembles. He has amassed his collection of 6,000 images from newspapers, business, school and other institutional archives, and he arranges selections of them to create imaginary narratives. About 12 of these assemblies are being shown at the Kunstverein.
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Alphabet City after Snow Storm
Jeremy Sparig has been behind cameras since he was sixteen. His commitment to photography developed after he began documenting the hard lives, idiosyncratic personalities and boundless love of his maternal grandparents. From here he was attracted to the forms of documentary photography, finding that depicting social problems could led to stimulating social change. While his work continues to depict social themes, Sparig has moved away from a focus on social and cultural marginality towards images of humor, joy, faith, celebration, tradition and beauty. Sparig grew up in Denver Colorado, and currently lives in New York. His travels have led him across the US, and through Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Israel and Jordan. More cover art:
Jerry and Orrin Zucker, The Strange Trip Nick Fox-Gieg, The Story of Enoch Jack Feldstein, The Loser Who Won Hilla Lulu Lin, Rising of the Sunset Loren Ellis, The World Cares Andy Alpern, Fisherman Jenny Krasner, Power Play X Zohar Nir-Amitin, unexisted things exist in my head Ahron Weiner, Ad Infinitum #167 Melissa Shiff, The Medium is the Matzo Lilian Broca, Queen Esther Doug Fogelson, Deluge Peter Azrak, untitled Art.
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