newyorker:

Bipolar: Scott Sternbach at the Earth’s Extremes

In 2008, the photographer Scott Sternbach travelled to the world’s southern extreme to create “Antarctic Souls,” a project that focussed on the thirty-odd researchers, biologists, cooks, pilots, and boat captains who are involved in a federal project to study the effects of global warming on the region. Sternbach, who currently serves as the director of photography at LaGuardia Community College, has long dreamed of visiting the far north as well. He recently got his chance thanks to a grant from CUNY, which sent him to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Alaska, where he spent eight weeks photographing one of the state’s last living tribes, the Neetsaii Gwich’in.

- Click through to read about Sternbach’s experience, and for more photographs from his time among the Neetsaii Gwich’in: http://nyr.kr/tSXoTz

This is interesting.

rowchygogo:

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: 100 Years of Polar Mystery

Self-portrait by professional travel photographer Herbert Ponting, hired by Scott, as he photographs the Terra Nova in pack ice, December, 1910.

An amazing series of photos through this link. Very interesting stuff.

Friend and photographer Karinna Gylfphe

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minusmanhattan:

New ad campaign by Olympus.

Just wanted to say how much I both disagree and agree with this statement. On one hand, it sounds as if Olympus is just trying to sell cameras by telling folks that their phone aint up to snuff when it comes to proper photography by using a cooking analogy. On the other hand, they are making another statement entirely, suggesting that the photographer or the chef is the true artist! Who say’s a meal made with 2 minute noodles can’t be the best creation ever? Who’s to say a shot taken with a cell phone camera is sub-par to one taken with a DSLR? The artist is the artist! The tools are merely just tools! HA!