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Backstage, Lumix Photofestival, Germany

Craig photographs Melissa getting ready at the Lumix Photofestival. If he wins a third Pulitzer, we will print this out, make him sign it and sell it for a lot of money 🙂

Lumix Photofestival for Young Photographers Roundup

All the gloom and doom about the demise of print media was put aside last week after spending a few days in Hannover, Germany at the 3rd LUMIX festival for young photojournalists.  The sophisticated and thoughtful work I saw there – and more than that – the commitment...

Flying a Camera on a Kite over the Statues on Easter Island

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/43508552[/vimeo] Melissa did a video that chronicles my difficulties putting a camera (and eventually in frustration, a computer) up on a kite string to shoot an aerial photograph. I needed a different angle on the Moai of Easter Island because...

Melissa at Lumix Photofestival in Germany

These are just a few photographs from the archives Melissa has been scanning for her talk at LUMIX. LUMIX Photofestival The third LUMIX festival opens June 13 in Hanover, Germany, with lectures by Joankim Eskilden (Denmark) and Melissa Farlow (USA).  Other speakers...

Strange Family Interactions with the Country of Japan

The famous photographer, Robert Capa, was a guest on my grandfather's radio show in New York in the 1940s. The book he is holding is on my shelf at home just below a shelf of the books that my grandfather wrote. Three of the more successful of my grandfather's books...

John Moore Video

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/21372525[/vimeo] We've known John since he was an intern at the Pittsburgh Press where we all worked... We've vacationed in Africa together and kept up pretty well until he started covering conflict zones... and for years, we would only see him...