Through blogs, file-sharing and social networking functions on the Internet, dozens of eyewitness reports, some coming from within the two besieged hotels, delivered information faster than conventional media and challenged some of its reporting. Twitter, a user-generated service that delivers text message-sized “tweets,” for instance, reported that there was still gunfire inside the Taj Mahal long after Indian media had said it was finished. Others transcribed lists of casualties from the hospitals faster than mainstream media could access it.
While some hailed the online reporting as “a social media experiment in action,” much of the information on Twitter was woefully inaccurate. Reports of casualties in the thousands were wrong. So too, apparently, was a report that the government had asked Twitter users to stop reporting for fear that they too might help the attackers.
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Photographer Michael Itkoff traveled through cities around the world, and when he found a richly complex location, he and his assistant waited for the right stranger to walk onto the set.
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The best assistance I could ever render to dwarfs is to be their friends, perhaps if they happen to be my course-mate. Aside that, I cannot shop for dwarfs, com-m-on. Though I like to watch them in their very funny statures because they are quite funny and portable to walk with. I also like them because, many of them have great dreams while some of them are great achievers. Most dwarfs don’t limit themselves in their life pursuit. Most of them are very serious and work harder than people with greater heights
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Michael Rubenstein, is over in Mumbai, India, and was there as the attacks escalated – he ended up distributing photos through The New York Times, and is now featured in an audio slideshow talking about his experience
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Kevin German
Outside the RingsMy work from the Olympics was published in the quarterly Netherlands magazine Eyemazing today. Eyemazing was recently awarded the Lucie Award for Photography Magazine of the Year.
Below is the interview that was published along with the 12 pages that featured my work.
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Here is the long promised audio from Platon’s speech at the Eddie Adams Workshop from a few weeks ago. It’s well worth a listen.
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Armando Rodríguez, at El Diario newspaper, was the top crime reporter in the deadliest city in Mexico. He had seen it all. But this was different. This was personal. Earlier this month, someone had hung the decapitated body of a local drug thug from a bridge on the airport road. Later the head appeared downtown at the Plaza of Journalists, wrapped in a plastic bag, carefully placed at the foot of a statue of a newsboy hawking papers.
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One of Supertouch’s favorite promising Brooklyn-based artists is DAN WITZ, a classical painter who straddles the very disparate worlds of “fine” and “Street Art” with incredibly unique and separate bodies of work.
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View winners from the 2008 International Photography Contest, plus honorable mentions from each category.
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I’ve had a chance to get a hold of the 5D MKII on several occasions – seven to be specific (2 of those nights were spent shooting the first film, Reverie.) I’ve felt compelled to try to create something with it each time I’ve had the camera in my hands. And I will admit this camera has brought me back the closest to the feeling I had at the age of 15 when I had my first camera and a few rolls of Tri-X to burn through. Simply put – it’s so much fun and pure.
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photo by William EgglestonSometimes an exhibition is many years in the making. Case in point
is the show I’m opening next week which deals with the ongoing influence the great photographer August Sander had and continues to have on photography. Most active from the early 1900s through the 1920s, Sander’s credo was simple: “I am not concerned with providing commonplace photographs like those made in the finer large-scale studios of the city, but simple, natural portraits that show the subjects in an environment corresponding to their own individuality.”
