From Fotovision

The people who brought you the “A Day in the Life” series as well as other great photo books are starting a new project and need a freelance photo assistant. This project t will capture the human face of the global water crisis. We will be dispatching photojournalists world wide as well as acquiring photo stock from the photo community.

The Photo Assistant will also help editors in processing images for submission, be a liason with photographers and/or agencies and will perform basic photo studio tasks. This position is a great opportunity for those eager to be exposed to some of the best photojournalism around the world and work with the some of the leading photo editors in the country. It’s a small team, so the ideal candidate can gain a lot of exposure to the direction and selection of images.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to work as part of a team, pay close attention to details, be highly organized, be able to work with grace under fire and be able to communicate effectively with industry professionals. He/She must be comfortable communicating through email, telephone. Experience with making travel arrangements worldwide and in remote locations required.
This is a Mac OS X office environment and require a knowledge of FileMaker; Adobe Photoshop CS2 and FTP.

Offices are located along the Sausalito waterfront. This position would begin immediately and last through the production of the book (in mid-to-late July 2007). Please submit your resume by email to katya@againstallodds.com . Please include ‘Photo Assistant’ in the subject line of your email. You may learn more about our past project at 247mediagroup.com.

One of my images will be published in People magazine

Want to sell your images? I bet you do. There are a number of ways to do that but of the ones that will host your images, Instaproofs has my vote. Check 'em out.

Kiruba Shankar has announced PodWorks, a massive pocasting and videoblogging “unconference” in my hometown of Chennai [ok, I call it Madras] on June 9 & 10, 2007.

A candid video interview with movie director Mira Nair

The 2007 Photobloggies have been announced

Learn to write blog posts using this Firefox plug-in: PostWisdom

PhotoNotes.org is a very useful site for photophiles

For the past three weeks [I can mention it in public now], I have been serving on a jury. It was a criminal case. It had me sapped emotionally and physically. The process was long and may have seemed unnecessarily drawn out, but I understand and accept it is a function of a true democracy.

I am still in a state of shock about the events, about the victims and about the guy we six jurors sent away for … well, ever. It isn't a capital case and I am not sure I can even discuss it openly here until the sentencing, but we felt we did our duty to society in a fair and efficient manner. One menace to society is now out of the system.

So if I haven't posted here on a regular basis, you now know why. Coming up within days is some very cool art work by Arti Sandhu, an Indian textile artist in New Zealand now moving to Chicago to teach Fashion Design.

Someone said photographers make poor businessmen (or women). I tend to agree because we spend such a great amount of time looking at the world with our left brain – creating images and presenting them – that we loose sight of how to sustain ourselves to continue doing what we love to do. Take it from me, that does not have to be the case.

Laura Novak to the rescue. A terrific wedding photographer based in Wilmington, Delaware, Laura is also making a name for herself as a resource for all things business oriented. Some time ago she launched Strategy Avenue, a website that offers seminars on such important topics like how to define your target market and pricing for profit, that you can download for a fee. I'll post a review of the courses here in a couple of weeks, but I wanted to you all to check her offerings for yourself.

Now Laura has a blog that you can also follow. Do yourself a favor, if you are serious about making it in this business, bookmark the sites I have mentioned.

Design Tutorials

Resolio: Fast, Beautiful Resumes

Photography Voter [this is my favorite site of the week]. Looks and acts like Shutterseek which, however, never took off. I posted a link on the site to the Ship Breaking series that ran here. Please vote it up!

Ethnic Weddings [I have been quoted in this article.]

Skitch

Don Honl, photojournalist [and apparently a good businessman too with his own signature series accessories for photographers]

Tom Fors' Chromoholics lets you calibrate your camera so that you can get accurate colors out of it

Want to understand the use of your strobe (on or off-camera flash)? The Strobist is running Lighting 102. Starts on June 4.

Directory of free online books and free online e-books

Zenfolio: Hosting online photo galleries