PDN - January 2012

Online News Digest

for unpaid royalties. Others say they’re owed
money, too. http://bit.ly/tiJRNM
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Krisanne Johnson Wins 2011
W. Eugene Smith Grant
The $30,000 will support “I Love You Real Fast,”
her ongoing project on young women in Swaziland.
Dominic Bracco has won a Smith Fellowship.
http://bit.ly/nS7Vc T

Eros Hoagland Wins Grant for Conflict Photographers

Hoagland won a special $20,000 Aftermath Grant to support a personal project about how photographing conflicts has affected his own life. http://bit.ly/s3MSNi

Lucie Awards Honor Lifetime Achievements The recipients at the October 24 ceremony included Eli Reed for Documentary Photography, Dawoud Bey for Portraiture, Bill Eppridge for Photojournalism, Nobuyoshi Araki for Fine Art and Rich Clarkson for Sports. http://bit.ly/rJMJJd

Rock and Roll Photographer Barry Feinstein Dies Feinstein, who made classic photographs of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Steve McQueen, George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died in October at the age of 80, after he was hospitalized for an infection. http://bit.ly/qOuaHw

AP Photog Dies After Being Injured Ed Reinke died October 18, two weeks after sustaining head injuries from a fall while covering an auto race in Sparta, Kentucky. He was 60 years old, and had been an AP photographer for more than 25 years. http://bit.ly/raHUc6

Getty Loses Round in a Trademark
Infringement Case
A federal court rejected the stock agency’s bid
to dismiss a claim over unauthorized use of a
trademarked air freshener product shown in a series
of stock images. http://bit.ly/vP43LU

Rihanna Settles Lawsuit with David LaChapelle The photographer dropped his $1 million copyright infringement claim over Rihanna’s music video “S&M” after she agreed to pay an undisclosed settlement fee. http://bit.ly/ocesVF

Yuri Kozyrev Wins 2 Prizes for Libya Coverage For his coverage of the Libyan war, the photographer won the the Photo Trophy and the Public Prize for photography at the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre, a four-day festival devoted to war reporting, which takes place in Bayeux, France. http://bit.ly/p2XRH3

PDNEWS
WHAT’S YOUR NICHE?
EVAN JOSEPH
PHOTOGRAPHING
EXCLUSIVE REAL ESTATE
THE FORMER ART STUDENT AND SELF-DESCRIBED PERFECTIONIST FELL
INTO ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHANCE. BY APPROACHING
IT LIKE ART RATHER THAN A COMMODITY, HE ATTRACTS AN UPSCALE
AND LOYAL CLIENTELE. BY DAVID WALKER

When developers and brokers Wan T IMaGes of high-end real estate in the new York area, evan Joseph is one of their go-to photographers. he’s photographed the homes of lenny kravitz, naomi Campbell, rupert Murdoch, bob Costas and harry belafonte, among others. he also shoots architecture and interiors for top-tier real estate developers and corporate clients, including The W Corporation, The ritz-Carlton and the Trump organization. on the side, he recently produced a book of aerial cityscapes called New York City at Night.

Joseph built his career on his dual obsessions with fine art and digital imaging technology. he studied painting at vassar College and the slade school of Fine art in london, and worked in an art gallery after college. “I was this wide-eyed kid talking art with financiers, helping them find just the right $250,000 picture for above the couch,” Joseph says.

by his mid 20’s, he says, “I felt further and further from my goal of being an artist. I felt like I was

on the wrong side of the fence.” digital imaging
technology was in its infancy, and Joseph was fas-
cinated by the possibilities. In the late nineties, he
quit his gallery job to work for Popular Photography
magazine testing new digital cameras and im-
aging software. at the same time, he enrolled in
the Interactive Telecommunications
program at new York University.
“I’ve always had interest in formal
realism, and I’m really into developing
technique, like someone who wants
to play chess really well. It all came
together in grad school,” Joseph says.
he set up a Web design com-
pany after graduation, with visions
of flashy, big budget projects. “but
we took what we got. one job was
to build a real estate Web site, and
I asked, ‘Where are the photos going to come
from?’ They said, ‘our photographer just quit. do
you know anyone?’”

“I raised my hand,” Joseph said. “They had an old medium-format film camera. I was like, ‘What am I going to do with this thing?’” With the client’s

Above: The interior of filmmaker Joseph Scarpinito’s penthouse apartment at the Pearline Soap Factory building in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood. Opposite: The Chrysler Building from a helicopter at night.