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MORGANA IN A BATH OF MILK!

2008-07-24T09:57:00.001-07:00

• Morgana In A Bath Of Milk! – (or The Things we do to Models!) Last month Ian Brierley had Sarah dunking her head in a bucket of water at the Summer Show, and Katie Green was there, telling us about a forthcoming assignment involving baked beans! On the day she got off lightly – Jon Gray shot her beautifully using the new Bowens Ringflash Pro , without covering her in foodstuffs! A previous

BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY!

2008-07-24T06:46:00.001-07:00

• Bridges of Madison County! – Featured Photographer, Christopher Hartford Madison County and its covered bridges both exist. Real-life photographer Christopher Hartford has been there and photographed them. (You'll remember they were originally shot by a fictional National Geographic tog, played on film by Clint Eastwood.) Chris Hartford's equally real-life wife, Louise, brought his portfolio

HELP START A MEET-UP FOR INDY PHOTO LABS!

2008-07-24T03:45:00.001-07:00

• Help Start A Meet-Up for Independent Photo Labs! – THE PLOT to organize a sociable get-together for independent photo labs some time this year has THICKENED! Neil Taylor of the UK's minilabhelp forum has now launched a new web site specially to organize and promote the idea. If you think it's a good idea and would like to attend, speak up and say so. Get along to the new

GOVERNMENT RELENTS ON PHOTOGRAPHY!

2008-07-24T02:15:00.001-07:00

• Government Relents on Photography! – The Government has moved on from the brush-off that Home Secretary, Jaqui Smith gave the NUJ over the union's concerns about police surveillance of photojournalists. She had appeared to wash her hands of the matter, but now Lord Bassam of Brighton has said the Home Office will meet the NUJ and will contact the Association of Chief Police Officers with a

WERE YOU THERE?

2008-07-18T09:05:00.001-07:00

• Were You There? Summer Show On WebTV! – Were you interviewed at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW? PhotographyTV's latest episode features this event, and includes many of the delegates who were there. Were you one of them? Take a look and see! Did you photograph the WonderBra model? – photographer Jon Gray's world-class model at the Summer Show, Katie Green, has since gone on to win

MARTIN PARR WINS PHOTO ESPANA

2008-07-18T08:26:00.001-07:00

• Martin Parr Wins Photo Espana, Gets Honourary Doctorate! – Britain's Martin Parr (Magnum), one of our most highly regarded living photographers, has been awarded an Honourary Doctorate by his alma mater, Manchester Met. He has also just won the Baume et Mercier Award at Photo Espana. Another British winner at Photo Espana this year was Olivia Arthur (who is one of just two new photographers

PARINITA SALIAN LEAVING PHOTOWEEK!

2008-07-18T06:30:00.001-07:00

• Parinita Salian Leaving PhotoWeek! – Staff Journalist, Parinita Salian, is to leave PhotoWeek! at the end of the month to become a writer on DPReview. Pari was an invaluable provider of multi-media reporting to PhotoWeek! - working on our DVD productions as well as online video and writing. Her knowledge of photographic equipment and studio lighting was widely appreciated. She is joining one

MENCAP SNAP! AWARDS

2008-07-18T06:09:00.001-07:00

• Mencap Snap! Awards! – MENCAP held a prize-winners' party for their SNAP! Awards 2008 at the Proud Gallery in London's Camden last month. SNAP! is MENCAP's annual competition for photos of or by people with learning disabilities, sponsored by Fujifilm and supported by the Sorrell Foundation. Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes were awarded in six categories, and winning photos may be viewed here.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO LABS GET TOGETHER!

2008-07-18T04:25:00.001-07:00

• Independent Photo Labs Get Together! – A plot is afoot to organize a sociable get-together for independent photo labs at a watering hole in the North West some evening this year. The conspiracy sprung up on the minilabhelp forum this month, and is gaining ground. Forum Admin, Neil Taylor, is soliciting expressions of interest, and if the number of lab people who want to go reaches critical

RESTRICTING PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT LEGAL!

2008-07-13T16:05:00.001-07:00

• Restricting Photography Is Not Legal! – The Home Secretary has said there is no legal basis for restricting photography in public places. Unfortunately the statement was made in a more-or-less stock response to an NUJ letter alleging MET targeting of photojournalists. The NUJ alleged the Metropolitan Police Forward Intelligence Team were targeting photojournalists covering demos. The Home

NEW MEDIA JOURNALISTS EVALUATE EYE-FI!

2008-07-13T16:03:00.001-07:00

• New Media Journalists Evaluate Eye-Fi! – New media journalists in the UK have begun to evaluate simple consumer wireless video streaming and image upload technologies, such as Qik and Eye-Fi, for whisking breaking news images away from the scene. Qik enables live video casting from a mobile phone via any 3G/GPRS/Wi-fi Internet connection. And Eye-Fi SD cards automatically transmit images from

PHOTOGRAPHY TV NOT ALWAYS FREE!

2008-07-03T09:44:00.001-07:00

• PHOTOGRAPHY TV NOT ALWAYS FREE! – Peter Davey's impressive webTV initiative, photographyTV, has taken another step toward self-sufficiency by expanding its revenue model to include subscriptions as well as advertising. The new subscription model means that although Part 1 of each show will remain free, us viewers will need to pay a small amount (currently just £3 a show or £26 for twelve)

DENNIS HYLANDER COMMENTS ON PHOTOWEEK!

2008-07-03T09:09:00.001-07:00

• Dennis Hylander Comments on PhotoWeek! – Dennis Hylander, one of the best known names in UK wedding photography (he used to be famous!), has commented on last week's PhotoWeek! story on Helmut Newton: "In the very early 60s Helmut and I had our studios in the same office building known as Block Arcade in Melbourne's city centre. As a busy portrait photographer I never have enjoyed a

ALAMY IMAGES FOR A DOLLAR!

2008-07-02T08:16:00.001-07:00

• Alamy Images For A Dollar! – Stock agency Alamy has ruffled contributor feathers with its introduction last month of Limited Use, a scheme for selling images for as little as a dollar. Contributors who opted-in to new terms last Autumn, not knowing exactly what they were signing up to, now found their images exposed to Limited Use. Under the new terms, contributors were locked in, but Alamy

NIKON D700 OUT NOW!

2008-07-01T10:09:00.001-07:00

• Nikon D700 Out Now! – Nikon's vigorously rumoured new DSLR, the D700, was officially launched on July 1. We haven't handled one, we haven't even seen one for real, we don't have any first hand knowledge of it, but in true PhotoWeek! spirit, here's our expert assessment anyway! If you loved and coveted the ground-breaking available-light performance of the D3 (and you did), but the D200/D300

BOWENS LAUNCH NEW LIGHTING PUBLICATION!

2008-06-27T06:28:00.001-07:00

• Bowens launch new lighting publication! – BOWENS have launched LiteBook, a new bi-monthly publication about studio lighting. The publication is available free online, or printed copies may be picked up at BOWENS dealers. Robert Cook, Marketing Manager for BOWENS, stressed that LiteBook will always be a publication packed with attractive editorial, and never just a product brochure

HELMUT NEWTON AT TOPSHOP!

2008-06-26T03:20:00.001-07:00

• Helmut Newton At TopShop! –
TopShop toured an instant photography installation called The Newton Machine round some of its stores earlier this month. Named after the late Helmut Newton, TopShop's Newton Machine was an installation of a self-photography solution inspired by this celebrated photographer. Newton was dismissive of other photographers whose reputations he believed were based

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ -Life Through a Lens

2008-06-13T10:21:00.001-07:00

• Annie Leibovitz – Life Through A Lens! – Last week BBC One screened the one-hour biopic Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. If you missed it, today is your last chance to watch it on the BBCi Player! Life Through A Lens was screened as one of BBC One's Imagine series of programmes, presented by Alan Yentob. The film-maker was Leibovitz's own sister, Barbera. Her film traces Anna-Lou's

SUMMER SHOW SOLD OUT!

2008-06-13T10:00:00.001-07:00

• Summer Show Sold Out! – If you were lucky enough to book a seat at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW, we'll see you there in London on Wednesday! If not, it's too late now – this event has sold out, and no tickets will be sold at the gate! Demand for bookings for this bumper day of photo workshops was phenomenal this year. "It's like we have Michael Jackson coming!" www.photomart.co.uk

MITSUBISHI PRINTERS GET VISTA DRIVERS!

2008-06-13T09:30:00.001-07:00

• Mitsubishi Printers Get Vista Drivers! – Mitsubishi Electric have now released Vista drivers for their range of professional dye sub photo printers. There are drivers available for download for the CP9550DW, CP9800DW and CP3800DW. (Click the links to download the drivers.) Windows Vista now supports 77,000 printers, but many photographers have been clobbered by the Microsoft OS's lack of

MAC DRIVERS FOR SONY UP-DR200 PRINTER!

2008-06-13T09:08:00.001-07:00

• MAC Drivers FOR SONY UP-DR200 Printer! – Macintosh drivers have now been developed for the new SONY UP-DR200 fast 6"x8" event printer. Although SONY have yet to officially release them, the developers say they've passed Beta, so PhotoWeek! makes an unofficial and unsupported release candidate available to our readers here now! – Enjoy! But remember to be careful out there! Related Stories:

NO PHOTOWEEK! NEXT WEEK!

2008-06-13T08:29:00.001-07:00

• No PhotoWeek! Next Week! – PhotoWeek! skips an issue next week. We're taking our annual midsummer break. We'll be back in your in-box on Monday, 30 June! More than 15,000 individuals have signed up and dipped into PhotoWeek! over the past eighteen months. We now have a hard core readership of 7,000 opening an average of two issues a month. The readers are overwhelmingly professional

ACCESS TO SHOWROOMS RESTRICTED!

2008-06-13T08:04:00.001-07:00

• Access to Showrooms Restricted 18 June! – Due to the SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, customer access to the www. photomart .co.uk showrooms in London will be a little restricted on 18 June, as there will be workshops taking place in them. www.photomart.co.uk hope callers to the showrooms won't be too inconvenienced. [add comment]

GREEN AND YELLOW GIANTS RAISE PRICES!

2008-06-06T07:19:00.001-07:00

• Green & Yellow giants Raise Prices! – The two surviving giants of the traditional photo industry, Fujifilm and Kodak, have both announced massive global price hikes in film and paper. The increases are blamed on factors including global commodities costs – particularly of oil, but also of silver. They become effective by July this year. Photographers and photo labs are facing a double whammy

MITSUBISHI UK INTRODUCE EASYPHOTO!

2008-06-06T06:42:00.001-07:00

• Mitsubishi UK Introduce EasyPhoto! – Mitsubishi's EasyPhoto instant photo printing solution, first previewed this year at PMA in the States, is now available in a European incarnation, and is on sale in the UK. Mitsubishi Electric UK are marketing a configuration of a red CP9550DW-S tied to the new EasyPhoto touch-screen terminal unit as an entry-level digital photo finishing solution for