Friday Shout-Outs, Winking Smiles, and Rousing Toasts

This week we offer a huge boatload of congrats, including to a whole group of photographers who have formed an inspiring new collective, and several others who have recently achieved some impressive accomplishments. There’s plenty of great things to share in this edition of Shout-Outs.

Shout-Outs are a regular Friday thing, and you can be part of it, too. Send us suggestions! If we think it’s worth shouting about, it will show up here in the blog on a Friday. To submit something, scroll to the bottom to see how.


FACING CHANGE

Congrats to the photographers of Facing Change, a nonprofit collective of well-respected writers and photojournalists “who have come together out of a sense of responsibility,” their website reads.

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The journalists of “Facing Change: Documenting America” (FCDA), will “cover and publish under-reported aspects of America’s most urgent issues and distribute the work through a innovative online platform while highlight the efforts of individuals and organizations working to affect positive change.”

The FCDA was profiled yesterday by James Estrin of the New York Times Lens Blog, in an article titled “An F.S.A.-Style Collective for Troubled Times,” where he draws the similarity between this and the Great Depression-era Farm Security Administration photographic project.

“Today, in another time of economic distress and social upheaval, a group of veteran photographers, inspired by the F.S.A., has banded together to create a lasting record of the era and, like their forebears, to introduce America to Americans,” Estrin writes.

“The newly formed Facing Change collective will finance photographic projects on social issues; projects that would otherwise have a hard time finding sponsors,” he said.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

David Burnett
Alan Chin
Danny Wilcox Frazier
Stanley Greene
Brenda Ann Kenneally
Andrew Lichtenstein
Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu
Carlos Javier Ortiz
Lucian Perkins
Anthony Suau

The website already has a host of interesting stories, and there’s an area of the site where people can license images, as well as propose a story idea to the FCDA.

AT THE RESCUE SCENE
Several photoraphers from Archivo Latino have a collection of images that show the incredible rescue of 33 Chilean miners, who were trapped for 70 days in a collapsed mine.


Chile trapped miners: the impeccable rescue – Images by Archivolatino.

GREAT PROFILE
Congrats to photographer Will Austin, a Seattle-based architecture, industrial and travel photographer. He was recently profiled by HDRI software company Unified Color for his HDRI work.

FOR THE (2nd Place) WIN
TIm Grimshaw, a travel and landscape photographers based in New York, recently won 2nd Place in the ‘Travel and Tourism‘ category of the International Photography Awards 2010 (IPA) for his series of Patagonia images (of the Perito Moreno Glacier) in Argentina.

“The Perito Moreno series was a selection of photos that I took at the end of last year while traveling around Patagonia in Argentina,” Grimshaw said. “Truly incredible place, and I still find myself looking at the images and reminiscing!”

“All the images were made with a tilt-shift 45mm lens which I took on the trip along with a Canon 24-70mm lens.”

RED & GOLD
Nick Griffin, a freelance travel, portrait and reportage photographer is currently based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He recently tipped me off about his organization, Red & Gold, who just started to use PhotoShelter to handle the sale of prints and image licenses.

“We use all fees generated from the sale of images and 20% of all income generated from commissions to give scholarships (mainly to women) to go to school in the developing world,” he said.

Griffin has been running the project successfully since 1997, and plans to expand the effort by introducing new photographers to the team and sell more prints and licenses.

“Until now, we have exclusively funded scholarships from our fee income and not through the sale of stock,” he said.


PAKISTAN PROJECTS
Wendy Marijnissen, a freelance photographer from Antwerp, Belgium, is currently busy shooting in Pakistan, photographing the aftermath of the devastating floods and continuing on her project, ‘Every Woman Counts‘ that deals with childbirth and maternal mortality in Pakistan.

Both of these projects are in progress (she will continue shooting until the end of November), but we can take a peek at the wonderful images she’s created thus far.


Pakistan floods – Images by Wendy Marijnissen

Great job, Wendy. Keep up the good work!

NOBEL PRIZE REACTION
Boston-based photographer Dominick Reuter shot pictures of Economic Sciences 2010 Nobel Prize winner Peter A. Diamond PhD reacting to news of his winning of the prestigious award.


Photo by Dominick Reuter/MIT News Office



I am always looking for things to include here in our Friday Shout-Outs – so if you have anything you think is worthy, let me know. One great way to do that is to post a note to Twitter with my name in it (@heygrover) and that way I won’t forget it later. Don’t have Twitter? Email me, grover-at-photoshelter-dot-com.


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