Friday Shout-Outs, Photos Seen and Sales Made

This week we visit a scary abandoned amusement park; a fun video App; an Australian photo exhibit; and some props for a great cause. Plus I even get to slip in a “tequila-told-ya-so.”

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.

 

SORRY FOLKS, PARK’S CLOSED.
Skip Bolen is a New Orleans-based photographer who normally shoots musicians, architecture and lifestyle images. But his personal projects include documenting the disappearing historic landscape of his city.

One fantastic example of this are his haunting images of the abandoned Six Flags amusement park in East New Orleans – five years after Hurricane Katrina.

 

I TOLD YOU SO!
Guadalajara-based photographer Ben Olivares specializes in shooting pictures of the world of tequila. Although he’s been a PhotoShelter member for a long time, he never really used it to its full potential. I’ve been pestering him to get his website together, and he finally did.

It was great to get this email from him the other day:

“Hi Grover, I finally got the time to set up my PhotoShelter account for sales, and the first week I sold more than $700 :):)”

Awesome. Muy chido, guey!

(Full disclosure: I have 3 of his prints framed and hanging on the walls of my home. I’m a fan.)

 

WHEN RAIN FALLS IN THE DESERT

Australian photographer Peter Carroll has a photo exhibition that’s part of the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney. The official opening of the event is Monday, May 16th at 6pm.

The year 2010 was the wettest on record in Central Australia, and Carroll documented the changes that the rain brought to a desert landscape.

“This exhibition documents a rare moment in time when on one of these visits received close its annual rainfall in a single night. It was October 14, 2010. Captured in the rain at dawn, the images on display are an attempt to share the experience of witnessing a truly remarkable natural event.”

 

APP CONGRATS
New York-based photographer and PhotoShelter member Fiona Aboud and her husband just released “Videolicious“, a free (and super cool) app for the iPhone and iPad. It’s an automated video editing application, and it looks like a lot of fun.

“You pick your videos/shots, talk about them, and choose your music and then the app does all of the editing,” she said.

Fiona’s smiling face (above) is also shown in the example screenshots in the iTunes store.

 

MAGNUM EMERGENCY FUND PROFILED
TIME.com’s “LightBox” recently wrote about The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, and interviewed Magnum Foundation President and photographer Susan Meiselas.

“The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund (EF) was founded to keep a critical visual culture–documentary photography–alive, by supporting and mentoring independent photographers. The “emergency” refers to the disintegration of media’s ongoing support of long-form, in-depth documentary photography, and the need for more editorial support for photographers who commit to working on critical issues.”

PhotoShelter is a proud partner of the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, and we’re thrilled to see this level of exposure for such a worthy cause.

 

 

 

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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.