Friday Shout-Outs, 8 Things Worth Shouting About

We’ve got tons of shouting to do this week, so let’s get started. Put on your earplugs because I am about to shout directly into your ear about all the cool/interesting stuff going on in PhotoShelterLand.

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.

WINNING THE WHITE HOUSE (PHOTO CONTEST)
Congrats to Logan Mock-Bunting, Bill Clark, Andrea Bruce, and Astrid Riecken for walking away with a ton of awards in The White House News Photographers Association’s Annual “Eyes of History” competition.

• Mock-Bunting, a photographer working with Aurora Photos, won 3 awards, including 1st place in Sports Action, and 1st place in Sports Story.
• Clark, a photographer for CQ Roll Call won 4 awards, including first place in the Portrait/Personality category.
• Bruce, a photographer for The Washington Post, won 2 awards, including 2nd place in the Feature category.
• Riecken, a freelance photographer, won 2 awards, 1 in Portrait/Personality and the other in Pictorial.

ON THE GROUND IN JAPAN
No matter where in the world news breaks out, there’s always a few PhotoShelter photographers on hand to document it. This is certainly the case in Japan, where an earthquake and tsunami has taken a heavy toll.

Some photographers currently covering the events are:

• Robert Gilhooly, a photographer and writer based in Tokyo, Japan.
• Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, a photographer specializing in editorial, corporate, portrait and NGO photography assignments and commissions in Tokyo, Japan.
• Tony McNicol, a photojournalist in Tokyo, who has been posting updates to his blog.
• Torin Boyd, an American photojournalist based out of Tokyo, Japan.
• Gianni Giosue, a photographer based in Tokyo who covers social issues in Asia.

SEEN MAGAZINE #4
SEEN Sport Magazine, an online photo-savvy magazine, has just released issue #4 that features content from several PhotoShelter members.

In this issue, they did a really interesting interview with boxing promoter Don King; covered the Superbowl featuring images by Rob Tringali; and Eoin Mundow traveled to Barcelona to shoot (and write) an exclusive from inside their youth academy.

MIDWEST PHOTO SUMMIT
Brian Morowczynski, a Chicago-based photographer and storyteller, is busy helping to organize this year’s Illinois Press Photographers Association Midwest Photo Summit, to be held at Northwestern University on April 8-10.

The three-day event they’re planning sounds like it’s going to be inspiring, impressive, and defintely worth attending.

They’ve assembled an amazing lineup of speakers like Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalists Alex Garcia, author of the Assignment Chicago photo blog at the Chicago Tribune, along with Patrick Ferrell of the Miami Herald. Former Chicago newspaper photographer Candice Cusic will speak about how “Getting Laid Off Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” and Dallas Morning News sports virtuoso Louis DeLuca will bring his portfolio to share. Additionally, Detroit Free Press Deputy Director of Photography and Multimedia Kathy Kieliszewski will share some of the Emmy Award-winning work from her team.

They’ve expanded the event by adding programming on Sunday for the first time, with a variety of workshop sessions that dig into the technical and business side of the photo business. Former ASMP President Susan Carr will talk about licensing, contracts, and rates. Wedding photojournalist Kevin Weinstein will discuss his approach to highly-stylized weddings.

Life Magazine shooter and photojournalism legend Art Shay will be on hand to share his tales of photographing the iconic events and personalities of his six decades behind the camera.

NEW SITE LOOKIN’ GOOD!
Multimedia photojournalist Scott Indermaur has been hard at work constructing his new website – a WordPress/PhotoShelter/Graph Paper Press triple-combo, and it’s looking pretty well tricked-out.

His photography, blogging, video/multimedia, and social media efforts are all nicely channeled through one website.

Nice job, Scott. Keep it up!

STILL LIFE, STILL POINT
Marko Susla was accepted into a show called “Still Life: Ordinary and Extraordinary” at the Still Point Art Gallery, and was named an “Artist of Distinction.” This earned him a slot as a Gallery Artist starting in April this year.

The Still Point Art Gallery is a virtual art gallery run by Christine Brooks Cote. The various activities of the Gallery, including the exhibitions, their printed publication “Still Point Arts Quarterly”, their blog, and networking functions, are designed to show art to a variety of audiences and to promote the artists and their art.

GLAD WE COULD HELP!

Europa Newswire just posted a nice article on their blog titled “Europa Newswire and Photoshelter,” about how they are able to run their business successfully by using PhotoShelter as one of their tools.

Europa Newswire is a Brazilian Wire Service and Photo Agency with journalists in various parts of Brazil and in the world. They provide original and exclusive pictorial content from the United Nations and sorted Radio Content from Around the World.

“PhotoShelter has revolutionized the way we do business with our clients and the way in which we appeal to the general public.”

That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing this.

A POD VILLAGE
Check out the quirky location in Taiwan that Craig Ferguson photographed, the pod village in San-zhr.

He made two trips there, and each was later featured on his blog (San-zhr Abandoned Hotel) and (Return To San-zhr).

“This development is sadly no longer there, having been razed in early 2009,” he writes. “What few people know however is that there was another pod village development constructed as well. These are a different style and layout. Most of them are a more squarish design with only a few being the round flying saucer style.”

Culture | Futuro Taiwan – Images by Craig Ferguson

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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.