Whenever a photography injustice surfaces in the news, I can’t seem to figure out what the perpetrator was thinking. Digital manipulation, falsifying information and copyright infringement. Which comes to my current situation.
On April 27, 2008, I spoke of a random encounter that got me very excited. A new friend who just happened to be from the same town in the United States where I grew up. Lee Mackay Turner showed me that my character judgement needs some serious work.
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Upstate Girls; What Became of Collar City is an ongoing documentary project that began in 2004. The roots of the epic are the coming of age stories of six young women in the post -industrial city of Troy, New York. “Upstate Girls” will be released across three platforms. A print book, feature length documentary film, and a multi-media web series that contextualize the young women’s personal stories in Troy’s important labor history will be released beginning spring of 2009. Look for updates on www.therawfile.org and a feature article in the Spring Issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and GEO MAGAZINE later in 2009.
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The LX3 is an example of a species so endangered that the we were beginning to worry it had become extinct – a compact camera that photographers can get excited about. Panasonic has included a large degree of direct control, classy styling and, more importantly, a specification that goes beyond the unthinking ‘larger screen and more megapixels’ trend.
It’s hard to tell what we’re more impressed by – the ambitious lens or the decision to sit back and spectate during this round of the megapixel race. If pixels aren’t just to become clutter on your hard drive, they must contain useful information and we’ve seen too many compact cameras that produce images that need to be down-sized to bring them up to standard. The LX3 may not have the eye-popping resolution of some of its peers but instead it’s one of the best high-ISO compact cameras we’ve seen.
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The work of Salt Lake Tribune photographers. A new photoblog, going public Wednesday or Thursday. You get a sneak peak.
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The Click should be back up to full speed Wednesday morning. It’s been a long two weeks, and it will be nice to be back.
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For our next dvafoto interview, we’re talking to Matt Slaby and David Walter Banks, both of the new collective Luceo Images. I got to know the two and their work through the excellent APhotoADay email list, and consider them among my favorite young photographers. Matt Slaby’s got one of the most contemplative approaches I’ve seen among young photojournalists, and his writing is not to be missed. David Walter Banks has some of the strongest (and sometimes strangest) use of color going. The two paired up to cover both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions for the 2008 US presidential election, and I took an adversarial approach when I asked them about their process, the value of photographing such choreographed events, and their general journalistic philosophy. My questions and their answers follow:
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One of these people is a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, the other one is a confessed genocidaire (who admitted to killing an old woman, his neighbour, because he “heard that those who confessed would be released”). But how can you tell which one is which?
These two images are taken from Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, a book by photographer Robert Lyons
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A notice on the website of Digital Railroad’s liquidator indicates the company has “received a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase the assets of DRR…with the desire to continue providing services to DRR members and customers with as little disruption as possible.”
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The first batch of Kim-is-fine photos was released Oct. 11, but they flunked the seasonal leaf test. They showed Kim inspecting a military unit near trees whose foliage looked suspiciously summery.
The photos released Sunday featured authentic autumnal colors, but newspapers in Seoul have remained dubious, seeking input from photo experts and neurosurgeons.
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At the end of each summer, it has been a tradition at the Sports Shooter Newsletter to have several students share their experiences working at an internship.
Teresa Prince, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jonathan Moore, Getty Images
Patrick Smith, The Baltimore Sun
Luke Harris, Skagit Valley Herald
Carlos Delgado, Erie Times-News
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Little Timmy is our four foot tall dummy all dressed up in his halloween costume holding a bag of candy. Armed with a couple of hidden cameras and a wireless microphone we set off to pull pranks in the neighborhood with our fake kid trick or treating
Via Urban Prankster.
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Via Magnum Photos
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Legendary B-movie actor Bruce Campbell plays himself in the new film MY NAME IS BRUCE, which opens theatrically on October 31 in New York. MY NAME IS BRUCE doesn’t have a standard issue release date because we’re doing something for the film that doesn’t seem to be done anymore. Campbell is traveling to every opening city to be at the opening theatre for the first night or two. As such, Bruce is working his way across the country between November and December, in a new city every few days. (Who else nowadays goes on a two month PA tour?)
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At ten past four in the afternoon, Thursday 23rd October 2008, a seismic shift occurred in the photo department at The Sydney Morning Herald. The remaining members of Team ZimmerTM, the elder statesmen of Herald photography, surrounded by their photographic colleagues and a few senior reporters, were farewelled with modest gifts and mudcake. Farewelled alongside them were two of the best sport shooters the world has seen. The Herald had just lost over a century of experience in one fell swoop. There was barely a dry eye in the place.
End of an era: from right; Tim Clayton, Peter Morris, Craig Golding and Bob Pearce.. Via Rob Galbraith.
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Three years ago Vice Editor Andy Capper brought Gavin Watson out of self-imposed exile and uncovered hundreds of unpublished photos. The pair collaborated to produce a new book called Skins & Punks – Lost Archives 1978–1985, which we’re proud to say has now been released.
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emember Nick Turpin, who did those beautiful SB-800-lit street portraits of thriller writers for Arena Magazine?
Now, he has ditched even those and is shooting his current month-long campaign for Samsung using only a cell phone. No DSLRs, no flashes, no female assistants holding long poles. And he is not even in control of what he is shooting — you are.
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The Big Vinyl Yeti will be available for preorder on Thursday, October 30th at 11am PST. All orders placed during the following seven days will be guaranteed a Yeti figure and will receive a free black Yeti Ice Cave tee. Limit one shirt per customer.
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“There is no photography allowed. You must put away your camera or cellphone before approaching the signing table.”
