Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Camera Bits releases Photo Mechanic 4.6.2.2 public beta
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Many of the photos from my first days in Oaxaca are of walls. Photographing the layers of paint and history and decay and culture was natural because of the beauty of the textures and colors, but it also gave my brain a chance to soak in the scene without intruding in a new place where I was mute.
Link: Mexico: The Walls of Oaxaca… and beyond. | Luceo Images
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Time uses RED camera to shoot cover !!! — duckrabbit
Well, so what. Whoopdedoo. How exciting for all those involved. I read a few days ago about how Time mag…
in Ethics
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A city where anything was possible. Sand too hot? Then build a beach with underground refrigeration.
As the orgy of building ground to a halt earlier this year, the photographer Lauren Greenfield set out to tell the story of Dubai and the foreign workers who make up most of its population.
Link: Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Robert Frank’s The Americans still shocks, 50 years on
A detailed exhibition currently at the New York Met reveals the extraordinary power of the photographer’s eye, finds Sean O’Hagan
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/30/robert-frank-the-americans-exhibition
in Photography
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BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned for taking photographs in Westminster.
Link: BBC News – BBC photographer on being stopped by police
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Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype
Having realized “there was much more to Iran than just political turmoil and religious fundamentalism,” Paolo Woods set out to capture it, as Eirini Vourloumis reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/showcase-84/
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The Joop Swart Masterclass has been organized by World Press Photo every year since 1994 and is established as one of the most prestigious events of its kind. The Masterclass is a gathering of some of the most experienced individuals in photojournalism with 12 young, promising photographers. The goal of Masterclass is for the masters to share and pass on their knowledge and experience to the younger photographers.
Link: The Visual Student » The Joop Swart Masterclass: Matt Eich
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Supreme Court upholds Obama ban on release of detainee torture photos
The US Supreme Court today rejected an appeals court ruling that ordered the release of photos that document war-on-terror prisoners being tortured by U.S. military personnel. At first, President O…
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Notes from a news-site paywall attempt
New Zealand’s National Business Review stuck a paywall in front of its website back in mid-July, betting that enough readers would stick around and pay for “quality” that it would…
in Journalism
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TWO QUESTIONS: On Writing and Crowded Frames
For November, we decided to include TWO QUESTIONS from two West Coast photographers, Stella Kalaw and Minh Carrico (find out more about them below). In this same vein, please feel free to leave TW…
Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/two-questions-on-writing-and-crowded-frames/
in Photography
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For Novice Journalists, Rising Risks in Conflict Zones
Two freelancers, who were kidnapped and held for 15 months, went to Somalia with fewer resources than their counterparts from major news organizations.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/media/30somalia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
in Journalism
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The gangs of Rio
Corrupt cops, brutal drug lords and a charismatic pastor … photographer João Pina documents the battle to control Rio’s slums
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/29/brazil-drugs-trade
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andrei liankevich – belarus portfolio
[slidepress gallery=’andreiliankevich_belarusportfolio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Andrei Liankevich Belarus Portfolio…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/andrei-liankevich-belarus-portfolio/
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I once read a review of a new Mercedes in a car magazine which described it as having been “carved from a solid block of unobtainium”. That’s how the S2 feels to me.
I don’t think that I’ve ever described a camera as sensuous, but with the S2 I’m tempted to. Though it’s a large camera, it feels “right” in ones hands. Every photographer that I handed the S2 had the same reaction – an instant smile.
in Leica
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Spending time with Duane Michals recent book, 50, was essentially re-experiencing much of my own photographic life, having come of photographic age with his Somnambulistic period. His fascination with dreams, dreamlike states and dream-walking precedes our current interest with making connections to memories. He is whimsical, elusive, sensitive, cerebral, witty, caustic, introspective, challenging and seemly always on the move, pushing boundaries along a zigzag course of his own making.
in Books
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Dave LaBelle | The Lesson from Francis Gardler on Vimeo.
This video is an excerpt from Francis Gardler’s Ohio University masters project on Dave LaBelle, one of his teachers from Western Kentucky University. The video features interviews with LaBelle and several of his students. Gardler is a former Photojournalist-In-Residence at Western Kentucky.
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Canon EVIL? [CR1]
EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) 43rumors says they have it on good authority that Canon is about to release a Canonet GIII style digital cam
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/11/canon-evil-cr1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
in Equipment
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First I must warn you that this exhibition includes some “graphic images”. These are images that were not composed to conceal the results of violence. I urge you not to recoil and ask you to study these images. Try to conjure them up whenever you see a newspaper headline reporting deaths or injuries. Even if it is demoted to the back pages because too small a number of people were affected, or happened too far away.
What has been concealed in this essay are the captions. They are located every dozen or so images. This is to challenge you to face the horrible reality of conflict without immediately consulting the caption to make sure it was the other side that was the perpetrator. Alongside the images appear testimonies gathered from Israeli and Palestinian survivors, which chain the images to the context of loss.
Link: 100Eyes: Beware the Consequences of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine