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Dr. Donald Pettit speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

Luminance Session Two: Photography’s New Frontiers

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 12, 2012

Cory West, engineering manager for Facebook photos started off the second morning session with a discussion about social photography. Some time back he was interested in the relationship between memory and quality of life. After coming across various articles about the way that we remember things (it turns out that as a result of having instant access to information, we've begun to optimize our memories by not remembering facts in order to better remember how to FIND facts), he decided to do a social experiment with his photos. He photographed 7,000 photos at 27 different social events and posted 950 curated shots on Facebook. He received 880 incidents of participation on 400 of the 950 posted photos. What he found surprising was that 55 percent of the activity was from people he didn't know. When he looked at the data, the numbers did make sense, as he had many more friends of…

Amy Dresser speaks at Luminance. Photo by Michael Treola.

Rant: I Love Photography, PhotoShelter Luminance Conference Begins

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 12, 2012

PhotoShelter, a leader in photography websites, is holding its inaugural photo conference, Luminance, this week. We are excited to be here covering it. We'll be posting here throughout the conference, also follow us on @MediaStorm for updates, hashtag #luminance. The day started out with PhotoShelter co-founder, Allen Murabayashi telling us loosely how the conference came to be. He brought it all back to a blog post he wrote some time ago called "Rant: I love Photography" where he talked about the photos that moved him, like one of a Japanese teenager levitating, among others. He told us that we are in a golden age of photography and it's an exciting time to bring people together to discuss what's happening in the industry, and what's next. Session One: The Manipulators The first segment of the morning focused on what Murabayashi calls "the manipulators," who spoke about the effect photo manipulation is having on…

One Week Left to Apply for FotoWeek DC International Awards Competition

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 10, 2012

FotoWeekDC's International Awards Competition is looking for extraordinary work. This year's competition honors professional and emerging photographers from the DC area and around the world. FotoWeekDC is now accepting entries in the single image, series, multimedia categories, and two new categories for 2012: Photo Book Competition and Modern-Vintage Category, Photo Competition (Images captured with Brownie, Polaroid, Holga, Diana, Lomography, pinhole cameras and mobile devices). Winning Entries Receive: Cash prizes totaling $26,000 Exhibition during the FotoWeekDC Festival Great online exposure Also, the People's Choice Award is back by popular demand. Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of industry experts, who will select the top three winners in each category. In the People's Choice Category, the 20 images with the highest number of votes across all categories will receive one subscription to FotoPage Annual Subscription and online exposure through a top 20 feature on FotoDC.org's People's Choice Gallery. Applications due by September…

AI-AP Motion Art Awards Deadline Approaching

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 7, 2012

American Illustration-American Photography (AI-AP), the leading juried annuals in North America, introduces the inaugural International Motion Art Awards to celebrate photographers, illustrators and designers who make their work move in all media. As a natural (and long-awaited) spin-off to the American Photography and American Illustration award annuals, the IMAAs honor the artist's original and singular vision. Submission Details Eligibility Dates: All work created or broadcast within the 12-month period from September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012. Entry Fees: $25 - all self-initiated, unpublished, personal work in any category; $75 - all commissioned and commercially produced projects in any category; $10 - all work created by a full- or part-time undergrad and graduate students. Submission Deadline: September 21, 2012. Jury: An independent jury will view all work submitted in every category and select the winning collection. Submissions: Online submissions accepted now at www.ai-ap.com/cfe/motion/. About IMAA In recognizing the author's "eye" and "hand"…

PhotoShelter Hosts First Luminance Conference in New York

Post author:Lisa Jamhoury
Post published:September 7, 2012

Next week PhotoShelter will be hosting Luminance 2012, a fresh new conference that will bring together leading voices from across industries to answer the question: What’s next for photography? This two-day conference will feature two dozen top speakers from a variety of organizations that help to create, consume and define photography in a myriad of ways. Each speaker will present a 20-minute TED-style talk on a topic relevant to their area of expertise. A brief Q&A will follow each session. Photographers, technologists, designers and those who care about the direction of photography are encouraged to attend. Conference Details Date: Sept. 12 - 13, with kickoff events on Sept. 11 Where: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York City Registration: www.photoshelter.com/luminance/register. Speakers PhotoShelter recently finalized there speaker roster with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, who will discuss his role capturing some of the most iconic images from the International Space Station, as well as…