What’s even worse, it appears that the IOC is trying to argue with Giles that even using the *word* Olympics in his photostream is somehow some sort of violation.
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Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Bureaucratics:Sushma Prasad is an assistant clerk to the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar, India. Her desk is relatively neat, but behind her is a chaotic pile of irretrievable facts buried in hundreds of tattered paper files. Prasad is one of fifty civil servants Jan Banning photographed in Bolivia, France, Yemen, Russia, Liberia, India, China, and Texas. They engage us as individuals, but Jan Banning has titled his series of color portraits after the system in which his subjects labor: Bureaucratics.
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In Failed Strike on Saudi Prince, A New Fear of Al-Qaeda’s Tactics
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603711.html?wprss=rss_world
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Link: Photojournalist Ami Vitale on the Nikon D300s and top tips for learning video « DSLR News Shooter:Using the D300s was one of the first experiences I had shooting video, but what struck me is how easy it was to learn. Within one day, I was able to pick up the basics of shooting. It was liberating and exciting to explore the possibilities of story telling with more than just still images and audio. Now I feel as if there is a whole world of opportunities to explore.
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Link: stjoenews.net | Lawhon knew how to capture a moment:Ival Lawhon Jr., a dogged photographer who captured three decades of fires, floods and poignant personal moments, died Saturday night. He was 61.
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Link: Baseball Stock Photography: Mangin Photography Archive:I am a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area where I regularly shoot assignments for Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos. My work keeps me busy from the first pitch of Spring Training to the final out of the World Series. When not shooting, I enjoy attending San Francisco Giants games in my season ticket box seats and working on SportsShooter.com, the online resource for sports photography, of which I am a founding owner.
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Paparazzo Threatens Legal Action Against Penn
WENN.com Sean Penn is facing the threat of legal action from a paparazzo he allegedly attacked on Friday afternoon. Jordan Dawes filed a police report against the Milk star, who reportedly kicked t…
via Daily Dish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=48962
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Link: A Conversation with CPC 2009 Winner David Wright – Conscientious:Of course, I had been familiar with David’s work for a while – given Pause, To Begin. But with Alebtong, Uganda he clearly seemed to be upping the ante of his work quite a bit. There is no text on David’s website, so I did not know the background story of Alebtong, Uganda, but I became immediately intrigued – and this, for me, is one of the criteria for good photography: When you want to know more, when the work draws you in and makes you ask questions.
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Link: Missouri Photo Workshop | MPW.61 | Photojournalism & Documentary Photography:During the first stretch of crisp fall weather in 2009, from September 27 through October 3, 31 photographers, 12 faculty and 16 University of Missouri School of Journalism students blanketed Festus and Crystal City to document life in these small towns, fine-tuning their story-telling skills in the tradition of Cliff and Vi Edom and six decades of photographers that came before them. The photographers journeyed to Missouri from Dominican Republic, Canada, India, Romania, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and all points domestic to explore small-town life in Missouri.
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Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia:This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national identity. The book is curated and published by Chris Boot, a former Magnum director in London.
Alec Soth, Alex Majoli, Antoine d’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Jonas Bendiksen, Mark Power, Martin Parr, Martine Franck, Paolo Pellegrin, Thomas Dworzakin Books
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Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers
Copyright Chris Jordan 2009 courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery and Prestel Verlag In the Old Testament of the Bible, there are the numerous stories of the Prophets who have an unpopular message for their…
via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/chris-jordan-running-the-numbers/
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Sugar and Spice and all things not so nice
Garry Gross, Richard Prince and the story behind the Brooke Shields photograph
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/03/brooke-shields-nude-child-photograph
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Link: The Visual Student » Preparing for Barnstorm XXII: Melissa Lyttle:It’s true what you hear. You will not sleep. You may miss meals while on assignment. Be prepared for both. Bring some granola bars or other snacks to keep in your camera bag. Get some sleep before you get there so you don’t come in already spent. I hate seeing students sleep through some great presentations because they stayed up all week before the workshop reworking their portfolios, and they’ve stayed up each night at the workshop drinking crappy beer and chatting with friends. But when those lights go out in the barn, eyes close, heads go down… and a lot of powerful pictures and inspiration are missed.
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The Blitz kids
Photographer Derek Ridgers who documented the rise of the Blitz kids and the New Romantic scene in London in the late 70s and early 80s, guides us through his pictures
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/oct/04/photography
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Link: Brian Blanco -Gearing-up for and Covering Protests, Riots and Affrays:Well, I’m certain there are things I’ve failed to mention and no doubt the next one of these things I cover I’ll learn a few more tricks and tips but, again, that’s the nature of the business. The bottom line is that no photo of a bunch of anarchists is worth getting hurt over. These things can and do get dangerous and it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that because it’s not in some far off war zone that it’s safe.
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The Battle of Wanat | Inside the Wire
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100303048.html?wprss=rss_world
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