TIME Magazine: Typhoon highlights illegal logging in Vietnam
TIME picked up an image from my coverage of Typhoon Ketsana a few weeks back. The story is about illegal logging, and how the Typhoon washed thousands of logs down from the mountains to the coast, pretty much exposing the illegal logging industry for all to see. Literally. Heard about this story a few weeks [...]
NYTimes: All the (digitally altered and posed) News That’s Fit to Print
I’m a huge fan of the New York Times. Growing up, heading out to the corner store to pick up the gargantuan Sunday edition was a real weekend treat. And I think that, for the most part, they’ve done a great job of adapting to the Internet. Their digital edition – in both content and [...]
Story of the year! Now if only we could find a good cover photo….
Interesting discussion going on over at Photo District News about Time Magazine’s recent Iran cover. Yes, the editors did put a disclaimer stating the image was digitally altered, and the PDN people are trying to figure out how (best guess is they turned a horizontal into a vertical by adding sky etc). But I think [...]
TIME Magazine Hero of the Environment 2008: Vo Quy
I had a really fun portrait assignment with TIME Magazine last week. They were doing their environmental heroes issue, and Hannah Beech had written about Vo Quy, a gentle, good-humoured 79 year-old ornithologist and a strong voice for environmental awareness in a country that has seen incredible urban and industrial growth in the past two [...]
TIME magazine’s Best of Asia, 2008
A few days ago I wrote about a magazine client calling up and asking if I had any stock images of the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). I did, and quickly supplied them with an online lightbox to select from on my Digital Railroad archive. Incredibly easy and efficient. That client [...]