Best of 2008 in photographs | National Geographic

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling

In a multimedia presentation, National Geographic Editor in Chief Chris Johns shows and describes some of his favourite photos published in the magazine last year. The short video shows some truly beautiful work, the kind of which has inspired photographers to make photography their profession as long as the magazine has been around.
National Geographic photographs are world famous for drawing the viewer in – for quiet images which speak volumes. They are as important as documents of our time as they are pieces of art. Each invites you to explore the frame and absorb the story.

Absorb.

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Read more | Comments (0) | January 13th, 2009

How photography connects us to the world: David Griffin on TED.com

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Thoughts and Theory

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds and has blossomed into an annual conference which now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers.

Some amazing talks about photography have been at TED conferences, including memorable appearances by one of my favourite photographers, Frans Lanting and a great humanitarian photographer, Phil Borges. In this talk, the photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin explains the power of photography to connect us to our world.

Check it!

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Read more | Comments (0) | August 23rd, 2008