Archive for the ‘Guest Blog Posts’ Category

Michael Agel: On Tour with Jamie Cullum

© Michael Agel

After shooting many rock concerts, it was a special and exciting job for me to accompany Jamie Cullum on his promotional tour for his new album “Momentum.” I had backstage access with him and his band in Cologne, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris. Since they were promotional concerts, they were held in very small clubs on [...]

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Aaron C. Greenman: Peeling Back the Sprout

© Aaron C. Greenman

The romantic districts and glorious museums of Paris, the booming economy and ethnic energy of London, but what about Brussels? Capital of Europe? Flemish and Walloon tension? Beer? Waffles? Definitely not the capital of sunshine. In the shadow of its bigger, more outwardly impressive sisters, Brussels continues along as a quieter and largely unknown city, [...]

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Daniel Zvereff: Inside Bodegas

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Zvereff is a freelance designer, illustrator and photographer. He travels to the far corners of the world documenting his journeys through images and journals. I am originally from the West Coast, so bodegas were a strange and curious thing to me. Entering my local corner store is like being transported to another country: the smells, [...]

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Rob van Keulen: The New Leica M, The Perfect Museum Camera?

© Rob van Keulen

I could use the new Leica M camera with a few special lenses all day. To try it out, I had the world’s best standard lens, the Leica APO-Summicron-M 50 mm f/2 ASPH. and the super bright Noctilux-M 50 mm f/0.95 ASPH. To try the new Live View focusing capability of the camera, I got [...]

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Restless Collective: Documenting a Specific Time and Generation

© Morrigan McCarthy

With this post we pick back up with Morrigan McCarthy and Alan Winslow of Restless Collective on their three year journey around the world to document the lives of Millennials. Restless Collective is a photography and multimedia collective formed by Alan Winslow and Morrigan McCarthy in 2010 as an umbrella for joint projects. Right now, [...]

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Tom Stoddart: Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan

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Tom Stoddart has traveled to more than 50 countries and documented such historic events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Siege of Sarajevo and the election of Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s first black president. His in-depth work on the HIV/AIDS pandemic blighting sub-Saharan Africa won the POY World Understanding Award in 2003. In [...]

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Aaron C. Greenman: A Candid View Of The Holy Lands, Part 2

© Aaron C. Greenman

This is the second part of a two-part blog post about Aaron C. Greenman’s recent work in Israel, with the first part concentrating on Jerusalem and the second part the Israeli countryside. As written about in the earlier post, the term “the Holy Lands” ‑ depending on your place of origin, education and religion ‑ [...]

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Daniel Zvereff: The Tigers are Gone

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Zvereff is a freelance designer, illustrator and photographer. He travels to the far corners of the world documenting his journeys through images and journals. “The Tigers are Gone” is a journal based around a ten day motor-bike trip throughout northern Sri Lanka. My aim was to catalogue a place that is now welcoming peace, after [...]

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Yayoi: Picture = “After”

© Yayoi Okada

We are born on Earth… We press the shutter… We look at the pictures… Photo remains after we have died and The same applies to these photos. After the water has fallen, After the car and man has passed, After the icicle fell.   私は ひとり遊びが好き. 写真は 私にとっての ひとり遊び. 前 瞬間 後… それらは私に 無限の想像力を与えてくれる。 そして 私の喜びは あなたと共有する事で頂点に達する. I like to play lonely games, [...]

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Aaron C. Greenman: A Candid View Of The Holy Lands, Part 1

© Aaron C. Greenman

This is the first part of a two-part blog post about Aaron C. Greenman’s recent work in Israel, with the first part concentrating on Jerusalem and the second part the Israeli countryside. The term “the Holy Lands” ‑ depending on your place of origin, education and religion ‑ conjures up different places and images to [...]

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Stephen Bartels: Uniquely Doing What He Loves

© Stephen Bartels

This is a guest post by Bob Callway, who has his own production company Nilsfilm, which produces corporate promos and documentaries. Most, recently, he has been producing/directing for DisneyXD. As one of the first photographers to be invited to contribute to the Leica blog/Facebook page, I have been fortunate enough to communicate and become “friends” with many [...]

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Daniel Zvereff: Negative Thirty-Four In Harbin

Woman © Daniel Zvereff

Daniel Zvereff is a freelance designer, illustrator and photographer. He travels to the far corners of the world documenting his journeys through images and journals. Harbin is the tenth most populated city in China. Located above the 45°N latitude, the winters are bitterly cold and long. I traveled to Harbin in January, when the city [...]

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Nick Rains: Faces in the Forest – Papua New Guinea

Young Warrior © Nick Rains

My work for Orion Expeditions takes me to some genuinely exotic parts of the world. My last Leica Blog post about Eastern Russia is a good example of that.  Back when I first started shooting with the S2 I was conducting a photography workshop on board the ship as part of a visit to Papua [...]

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Roger Coulam: Travelling Light

© Roger Coulam

For many years I carried around a huge backpack loaded with lots of things that I “might need.” The problem with this is that even the smallest bag or pack has the ability to act like Grannie’s magic handbag and can hold an incredible amount of “stuff.” The sides can be stretched, dividers cut, bent, [...]

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Peter McCollough: The Town Of Iqaluit

© Peter McCollough

Last year on an assignment for Facebook Stories I had the opportunity to travel to the small town of Iqaluit, the capital of the Nunavut territory in Arctic Canada. The population of Iqaluit is very low, about 7,000 people – 60% of whom are ethnically Inuit. The town is quiet, small, the community is tightly [...]

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