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PDN - January 2009

January 02, 2009 - The Money Issue More »

© david bowman

Picture Story: Recessionscapes

January 02, 2009 - The October 23 issue of TIME featured a photo spread on the Mall of America, the country's largest indoor retail facility, by Minneapolis photographer David Bowman. Bowman's mall-scapes accompanied a feature article on the faltering U.S. economy titled "Living in a World with Less Credit." More »

© blake discher

Negotiating Tips for a Tough Economy

January 02, 2009 - How to bargain to get what you're worth, without alienating clients. More »

© Finn O'Hara Photography

9 Ways to Stretch Your Marketing Budget

January 02, 2009 - Self-promotions are costly, but there are ways to make sure you get the most bang for your marketing dollar. More »

© 2005 vedros and associates

Q&A: Survival Stories

January 02, 2009 - With a recession upon us, photographers are starting to feel the hardship of tighter advertising and editorial budgets. To help them find coping strategies, we asked three veteran photographers how they managed to survive the post-9/11 recession six years ago. Here's what they told us. More »

The $3,000 Studio

January 02, 2009 - We sent photographers on a virtual shopping spree. They managed to stock a complete digital studio for only $3,000—with some caveats. More »

© Larry Sultan / courtesy of Stephen Wirtz Gallery and Janet Borden Gallery

Deconstructing Disneyland (and Other Illusions)

January 02, 2009 - A magazine assignment brought Larry Sultan, the photographer renowned for exploring American myths, to "The Happiest Place on Earth." More »

© land rover / photo by Andy green

Behind the Lens: Slippery Conditions

January 02, 2009 - We take you to the Italian Alps, where the Land Rover Discovery 3 and two frosty companions are pressing onward through the snow. In this shoot for print, outdoor and online media, the vehicle appears ready for a trek to the ends of the earth, or at least to the nearest ski lodge. More »

© Janus Capital Management llc

The Reality Show

January 02, 2009 - To land advertising jobs, photojournalists have to prove to ad agencies and clients that they can bring more than photographic talent to a shoot. More »

© ups / photo by Saverio Truglia

Client Meeting: The Power of Storytelling

January 02, 2009 - A look at the photography commissioned by Story Worldwide, which produces custom magazines, Web sites and newsletters for its clients. More »

Publisher-Reported Ad Pages Drop 9 percent in 2008

January 02, 2009 - For all of 2008, publisher-reported ad pages in consumer magazines fell 9 percent, with all categories feeling the pain of the broad-based economic slump. More »

© Antonin Kratchovil / vii

A New Platform: Rowing Against The Current

January 02, 2009 - Veteran photojournalist Gary Knight becomes the crusading editor of a new quarterly journal. More »

© 2008 Nick Vedros / Vedros and associates

End Frame: Time for Personal Work

January 02, 2009 - The three photographers we interviewed for “Survival Stories” all had the same advice for how to ride out a recession: Keep working and keep shooting. More »

© Michael Hall

Personal Work: Climate Change: Looking Back

January 02, 2009 - A re-evaluation of his life and career and a brush with death led Michael Hall to embark on an ambitious personal project documenting our changing world. More »

© Barbara Karant

Benefit Book Project: Off Track Pets

January 02, 2009 - Architect and design photographer Barbara Karant ventures into advocacy with a book about greyhounds that have retired from the racetrack. More »

© Rafael Fuchs

Technically Speaking: Rafael Fuchs Shows His Flair for Flare

January 02, 2009 - The unusual use of a softbox distinguishes a celebrity portrait. More »

© dave moser

Right Stuff: David Moser's Packaged Promos

January 02, 2009 - A promo in a sardine can is the first step in this photographer's viral marketing campaign. More »

© qualcomm / landscape photos by Vincent Laforet

E-Project: Click, Zoom, Action

January 02, 2009 - Atmosphere BBDO and Vincent Laforet combined tilt-shift photography and video to create an interactive Web site. More »

© software-asli.com / photo by anton ismael

Behind the Lens: Get Real

January 02, 2009 - When software retailer Software-asli.com came to Jakarta-based agency Bates141 looking for a way to promote the release of Adobe Photoshop CS4 to the Indonesian market, the Bates team had the idea to recreate a Photoshop desktop using real (not digital) materials. More »

© AT&T / photo by Pete Barrett

Behind the Lens: Fully Charged

January 02, 2009 - At first glance, an image in AT&T's recent "More bars in more places" campaign appears to be a serene beach scene. But on second or third look, you notice the five lounge chairs that are arranged in a row from smallest to largest (like the bars on a cell phone). So are the five clouds, five bottles of water, five suntan lotion tubes and five pails that are all placed throughout the scene. More »

Photo © Adam Moran

PDN - December 2008

December 02, 2008 - The Action Issue More »

© L'Oreal Paris / photo by Sarah Silver

Behind the Lens: Hair to [Dye] For

December 02, 2008 - The concept was basic: To photograph three models and show off their sleek, glossy tresses for a campaign hawking L'Oreal's Féria a "multi-faceted shimmering colour" hair dye. Once the photographer Sarah Silver, who is known for the movement in her fashion and beauty images, came onboard, suddenly a simple hair color shot took on depth, motion and incredible shine. More »

© thomas dworzak / magnum photos

Picture Story: Thomas Dworzak's "Georgian Diary"

December 02, 2008 - Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak was scheduled for surgery to repair a herniated disk suffered in Iraq when the news broke that Russia had invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia on Friday, August 8. The following Monday, two days after surgery, Dworzak was on a Turkish Airways flight to Tblisi, the capital of Georgia. More »

© neil leifer

Baseball's Glory Days

December 02, 2008 - Legendary sports shooter Neil Leifer revisits the good ol' days of baseball in a new book by Taschen. More »

© jeff curtes

Where The Action Is

December 02, 2008 - We take an inside look at the opportunities for photographers at three companies with huge stakes in the action-sports industry: Red Bull, Smith Optics and Burton Snowboards. More »

© erik almås

E-Project: Where the Wild Things Are

December 02, 2008 - Erik Almås melds science and fashion in composites of images shot on-location and in his San Francisco studio. More »

© Peter Leverman

Technically Speaking: Peter Leverman Adds Light Touches to His Locations

December 02, 2008 - Switching formats and light sources in two location shots. More »

© jesse frohman

Touch of Class: Being Kneedy

December 02, 2008 - L.A. retoucher Conrad Rotondella enhances a beauty shoot with some post-production makeup. More »

© Karen Kasmauski

Exposures: Nursing School

December 02, 2008 - Veteran healthcare journalist Karen Kasmauski documents nurses worldwide at the behest of Emory University. More »

© Gratiane De Moustier

Exposures: Visiting Odile

December 02, 2008 - Young photographer Gratiane de Moustier explores issues of loneliness among the elderly by documenting the life of a woman close to her heart. More »

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