Link: The 2009 human rights photo competition for Leica photographers | Leica Rumors
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In the spirit of the spectacle, photographer John Saponara has created a new call to arms, Picture Black Friday asks photographers to get up early and head for the malls but with a camera in hand rather than wallet.
Link: Picture Black Friday 2009 – BRIAN ULRICH : NOT IF BUT WHEN
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2 Journalists Are Freed in Somalia After 15 Months as Captives
Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer, and Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance reporter, described a hellish experience, alternating between tedium and terror.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/world/africa/26somalia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Walker Evans (1903-75), whose work is currently (2000) on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, was an American photographer who produced some remarkable images, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. He is perhaps best known, rightly or wrongly, for a series of photographs he took of tenant farm families in Hale County, Alabama in 1936. Of those probably the most famous are several 8 x 10 portraits of Allie Mae Burroughs, dark hair pulled back, tightlipped, against unpainted wooden clapboards. There are not many other photos one can think of that “stand” for a moment in history and are so widely assumed to have summed up the situation of a suffering population as these do.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Walker Evans and Photography (2000)”
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Bob Jarboe, Rest in Peace
Bob Jarboe was my first real boss and mentor in the world of photojournalism. He taught me things that I didn’t even know that I needed to know. I can’t say I did much in return, unless you consider having…
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Luminous Landscape | Passionate Photographic Enthusiast
A fourteen year-old company focused on photographic education and providing a comprehensive information resource for Photo Enthusiasts around the world.
via Luminous Landscape: http://luminous-landscape.com/whatsnew/#458
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For this week’s interview feature, photographer Christian Brecheis offered to interview one of his biggest influences, Kevin Zacher. Kevin was an iconic photographer in the snowboard industry in the 90s and early 2000s, and has since brought his style of visceral storytelling to a wide world of editorial and commercial spheres.
Link: Interview: Kevin Zacher
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Stephanie Smith interned for photojournalist Ed Kashi during the summer of 2009. Smith, a senior at Ohio University, will graduate in June 2010.
Link: The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: Ed Kashi Studio
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Charis Wilson, Model and Muse, Dies at 95
Ms. Wilson was lover, muse, model, amanuensis and wife of the photographer Edward Weston and the subject of many of his best-known nude portraits.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24wilson.html?_r=1
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TWO LOOKS: Trent and Narelle
Trent Parke, a Magnum photographer from Australia, is one of the first photographers that Rebecca and I showed our Violet Isle book dummy to a couple of summers ago in Paris. There was good reason…
Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/two-looks-trent-and-narelle/
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His close-up style, influenced by Bernd and Hilla Becher, puts all of his subjects — no matter their status — on equal footing, revealing similarities as well as differences. Though well known for photographing the famous, Mr. Schoeller has always been attracted to a broader range of subjects.
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Toward the end of that fight, when the Marines and Loomis were evacuating the area, he had to make a decision. Was he only a photographer, or was he going to put down his cameras and help a young Marine, Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, who had been shot several times through the chest during the battle? Loomis remembered the admonition of veteran photojournalist David LaBelle, who always said, “Be a human first,” and helped carry Austin out of danger.
Link: PhotoMedia Magazine Online » Blog Archive » Rick Loomis: Unforgotten Casualties
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1D Mark IV in the Field.
From Jeff Ascough Jeff had a chance to take the new 1D Mark IV on location to a wedding to test the lowlight AF and higher ISO quality. I can’t think of too ma
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/11/1d-mark-iv-in-the-field/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
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Photographer Blogs I’ve Been Following – A Photo Editor
Here’s a list of blogs I’ve been reading recently. It’s always changing but some of these may be new to you: http://gregceoblog.com/ http://richardrenaldi.blogspot.com/ http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/ http://dansaelinger.com/blog/ http://spoonfedatla
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/11/24/photographer-blogs-ive-been-following/
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When I read the interview I thought it would be of interest for more people than just the Germans. In the interview, Ute and Werner talk about life as photographers in East Germany, and what photography meant for them
Link: An Interview with Ute and Werner Mahler – Conscientious
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Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day
Link: Breaking: Twelve Journalists Killed in Philippines | dvafoto
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Post temporary removed – Leica Rumors
There was a lot of confusion about the Leica student program and I received a tons of emails on this topic. I am taking this post down until I can get a clarification on all the details. Related posts: Leica’s student/educator program is now discontinued
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A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists
A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24study.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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Photography competitions are everywhere. A quick Google search will reveal hundreds of them across the world in any given month. Fabulous, you might think. I’ll enter a few and hopefully get some recognition, win a prize, be able to call myself an award-winning photographer… So I’m preparing to send off some of my very best images when the terms and conditions catch my eye. Hold on a minute, what does, “you grant a perpetual and irrevocable right to use your images worldwide and in all media without further recompense to you” actually mean?
Link: Photo Competitions: What Many Organisers Don’t Want You to Know – A Picture’s Worth
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