Photography

Stock photography section

16/06/08 23:11 Filed in: Website Updates

The stock photography galleries have been revamped significantly. The collection is far from complete, but images will be updated over the next few weeks.
"I'd read a science fiction book years before about a weather prediction system that linked 64,000 minds together, and that set me to thinking about a solution," Emeagwali said at our interview the evening before he spoke at the Kwame Ture Lecture series.

Many processors, one task
"Nobody believed that it was possible to link all those processors together to work together, but I imagined it as a 16 sided hypercube in which each processor would talk to its 16 neighbours in executing the instructions."
Emeagwali set those 65,536 processors humming away on what he described as a "planet-sized problem" the flow of oil beneath the surface of the earth.
His work became part of the foundation of a technology that we now take for granted, parallel computing, the science of setting multiple processors to work on a single set of computing instructions.
In a world in which computers with two processors are almost a norm and quad and octa core systems cost just a few hundred dollars more, it's hard to imagine the world of 1990, when supercomputers were a resource you had to apply for access to and the physical boxes spanned four tennis courts.

It's compelling to note that when Phillip Emeagwali and his wife arrived in San Francisco, he chose to keep his identity quiet until the very moment that his name was announced and he rose to go to receive his award.
"I had some fears and doubts," Emeagwali said. "Would they find some reason to withdraw the award? I don't remember much about what happened, but my wife told me afterward that the room was full of shocked faces, and the presenter almost dropped the award."
Asked about his experience being black on the frontier of technology, there was a surprising response to a question he didn't seem practised in answering.
"You have to deny your black identity," he responded. "If you don't, you end up just being the only black scientist."

Difficult background
There are some troubling aspects to Phillip Emeagwali's career as even a cursory Web search will uncover. There is some doubt regarding the status of his doctorate degree and in this interview, he persisted in describing the Gordon Brown award, a prestigious achievement in its own right, as equivalent to the Nobel prize.
Emeagwali's story cries out for tidying up because the important, unassailably vital material isn't front and centre, his Web site is dated and the repetition of silly claims like being described as the "Bill Gates of Africa" are simply counter productive.
Asked directly about his doctoral degree, Emeagwali responded tangentially, "I've been a student all my life and will remain one. I created new knowledge in the fields of physics, applying Newton's Second Law to oil flows, mathematics, writing the equations to support it and computing, programming 65,536 computers to work on the task. You don't have a discovery until you apply theory to solve a problem."
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New photography blog added

16/06/08 23:08 Filed in: Website Updates

Decided to move my ruminations about photography to a new blog. The first few entries consolidate information about my photojournalism projects and contemplate an egg. Read more here...

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BitDepth 628 posted

19/05/08 19:43 Filed in: Website Updates

You could just scan a photo or you could digitize your analog images with the utmost fidelity. Read more here.

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Instant obsolesence

28/04/08 19:30 Filed in: Photography

Slowly, Polaroid is going away, the immediacy of digital photography replacing the fast fading thrill of watching a colour photo appear after a minute of almost magical developing. Read More...

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BitDepth 623 posted

14/04/08 23:23 Filed in: Website Updates

BitDepth 623, an overview of current versions of image browsing and editing software is posted here...

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New images added to the Gayelle gallery

07/04/08 23:36 Filed in: Website Updates

New images of actors and presenters for Gayelle TV have been posted here...

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Local Lives returns

31/03/08 21:40 Filed in: Website Updates

After a hiatus of almost a year, my photoessay project Local Lives returned this Sunday to the Guardian with a profile of a the Ramrick Sadhoo Chowtal Group.

To mark the occasion, I've revamped the web presence for Local Lives, with extended galleries of the first four installments and "The Return of Ramrick Sadhoo."

The other three installments will be posted over the next week.
View the new web presence for Local Lives here...

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Hosay in full swing

16/01/08 20:45 Filed in: Photography

Hosay is approaching its climax again this year. It's Flag Night tonight. Have a look at the photoessay I did on the Panchaiti camp last year here and there's a look behind the scenes at how it got put together here.

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La Fleur Morte

18/12/07 00:03 Filed in: Photography

Click on each photo to see an enlarged detail.
These images are excerpts from a larger work that is in progress in which I examine the way that flowers, the reproductive organs of plants, deteriorate after they are picked and discarded.
The first two images were selected for display in the Art Society's November exhibition for 2007 and you can view an interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie on the Gayelle Morning Show, Cock a Doodle Doo here and download the interview here. If you're curious about the slideshow I put together for my appearance, you can find that download here and view it here.

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Tapes on RAW

22/10/07 21:47 Filed in: BitDepth+

Michael Tapes offers a down-to-earth tutorial series on working with RAW files, Read More...

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BitDepth 596 posted

01/10/07 20:32 Filed in: Website Updates

BitDepth 596, examining the ramifications of Nikon's new foray into full-frame capture is posted here...

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Another Lightroom speedup

17/09/07 20:21 Filed in: Photography

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Gayelle TV interview

16/08/07 20:14 Filed in: Photography

Links and background to an interview with GayelleTV about digital photography and film can be found here. Read More...

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AMPOTT Judges' Notes, 2005

12/08/07 16:49 Filed in: AMPOTT

Just to give context to what we've been trying to do with the AMPOTT Awards, these are the Judges' notes for the first competition I worked on. These were the remarks at the awards ceremony on August 08, 2005 Read More...

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AMPOTT Judging

10/08/07 20:31 Filed in: Photography

The judges at work choosing the winning images at AMPOTT's 2007 photography competition. Read More...

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The Modern Eye

06/08/07 21:20 Filed in: Photography

Modern styles in photography can be exciting, but sometimes, I just don't get it... Read More...

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Alex Smailes & Carnival

25/06/07 20:23 Filed in: Photography

I wrote this as a section opener for Alex Smailes' photography book on Carnival. For various production and editorial reasons, all the section openers were scrapped and this never got published. Until now...
I've also written about Noel Norton here... Read More...

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Five Fingers

07/05/07 17:07 Filed in: Photography

Five fingers, bittersweet fruit of salted rhapsody Read More...

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