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Along with doing my own work, my number one priority, is  to mentor those who seek to marry art, craft, and daily life into one holistic experience

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WHY – Nikon D4 Release Video from Corey Rich on Vimeo.

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Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of a hands on review of the new Fuji X Pro-1.

Yesterday I had a chance to get a hands-on with a pre-production Nikon D4 at the company’s UK headquarters. James Banfield of Nikon UK demonstrates the video functions in the video below.

Video #7 Get Social helps you plan for your interactions with the 800 million people on Facebook, 300 million on Twitter, and 400 million on Google+. The numbers sound daunting, but it doesn’t have to be – we’re not saying that every social media outlet will work for every photographer. But there’s enough evidence to suggest that a strong social media campaign can translate into real marketing exposure and revenue. Check out the video below for more.

Using a fat Chinese man, a large backpack, a baseball cap and the hood from my sweatshirt, I attempted to hide myself.

I was sandwiched in between the beefy man and a f-stop Satori backpack jammed with gear on the rear of his motorcycle. He drove me down a dark dirt road in the middle of the night near the uniquely autonomous village of Wukan, Guangdong Province, China.

I was hiding from police and those who might not want attention drawn to the small village of about 13,000 people.

Photo Raw interviewed Stanley Greene at the Visa pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism.

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If your photography is your occupation, then you need to treat it like a job, not a hobby. This means maintaining a level of professionalism and accountability in your photo business. There are several things that every business needs, and we address those in #4 Fix Your Finances.

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The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground is a photo book by photographer Lyle Owerko featuring fine art photographs of vintage boomboxes

Some of us start to break a sweat when we even hear the words “marketing plan”. There’s no need to get tripped up on terminology, but every smart marketer understands that you need multiple campaigns through multiple channels to get on people’s radars. Putting together a list of current and future marketing activities will help you in your efforts to get noticed, sell photography and in general, power your photo business. So here’s video #3 Create a Marketing Plan.

Next in our 9-video series is #2 Determine Your Audience & Addressable Market. This section asks you consider your intended audience and the relative size of that audience: Who are your potential customers and what are their needs? Is your audience big enough to sustain your business? These are the key questions that you’ll need to consider in order to truly target your market and build a stronger photography business.

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Nearly nine years of war in Iraq have produced a growing cadre of world-class, homegrown Iraqi news photographers. Some started out with little technical knowledge but a strong desire to document their country’s experience. Within months, they were producing work that became increasingly crucial to the world’s understanding of Iraq. These are the stories of five of those photojournalists, with a sampling of their images.

Ben Lowy on the second-best fake news show on television*. (There’s a short commercial first.) He was there because he got an assignment from Rolling Stone to cover the Daily Show for an article, and they were impressed with him when they got to know him.

Steve Fine, the legendary Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated, doesn’t waste time sugar-coating things – he has an opinion and he knows what he wants. Having been at SI for over fifteen years, Steve has amassed a lot of entertaining stories that he shares with us in this interview, as well as a ton of incredible sports photography and insights into what photo buyers want.

Jonathan Yi’s amazing video review of Canon’s C300… via Laughing Squid