• PDNPulse: On Lack of Diversity in Photography, and in PDN:

    Yesterday some blogs circulated a note about the fact that of the 24 judges of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual contest, all of them are white. It’s a valid point ,and one that everyone who works on PDN’s contests has given a lot of thought. While the lack of any judges of color wasn’t intentional, it is regrettable.


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  • Threat Level | Wired.com:

    An Associated Press reporter’s official reprimand over an innocuous comment on his Facebook page has sparked the ire of union officials. They are now demanding that AP clarify its ethics guidelines and are also urging reporters to watch who they add to their friends lists.


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  • Carl Kiilsgaard – burn magazine:

    For more than three years I have documented rural poverty in eastern Kentucky through the eyes of the White family. Their roots in Whitesburg run deep through the generations and into the depths of the mines. Richard White, his wife Tammy, their three children, and Richard’s nephew Derrick Collins all live together in a mobile home. The son of a coal miner, Richard has experienced the problems of eastern Kentucky firsthand.


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    Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    Stephen Crowley has just returned from covering President Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany and France. These tetraptychs convey the round-the-clock cognitive dissonance of such a journey, with its multiple agendas and audiences — “Bilats and Tea,” Mr. Crowley calls it, using the diplomatic jargon for a bilateral talk. He also assembled a verbal scrapbook of impressions, drawn from press communiqués, pool reports and news accounts.


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  • Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:

    The video above is from a Discarted.com altercation with a private security guard over a photographer’s right to shoot in public


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    David Walker – PDN:

    Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe re-photograph old Western landscape images to create collages that break the boundaries of time and space.


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  • Nikon AF DC Nikkor 135mm f/2.0D lens discontinued | Nikon Rumors


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    NPPA: 2009 Women in Photojournalism Contest Winners
    photo by Djamila Grossman
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    voiceofsandiego.org:

    Today, we launch a new feature in Credentialed that we call “Perspective.” We’ll be regularly bringing you Q&A’s with talented local photographers in our community and featuring some of their work here. We kick off the feature with questions for Matt Mallams, a self-proclaimed “graphic documentary” photographer, who is consistently making waves in the national photo community.


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  • Seattlepi.com:

    “Taking photographs of objects or people in plain view is not a crime. Police should not presume that it is a suspicious act, and should not overreact by detaining people for taking pictures,” said Sarah Dunne, legal director of the ACLU’s Washington chapter.


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  • Boston Globe Workers Reject Deal On Pay Cuts – NYTimes.com


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    Tim Hussin:

    I just got back to NYC from the shootout. They gave us about 2 and a half days to shoot. The story topic was rituals and the single topics were architecture and cable car. I’ll post some more words later when I have time, but I just wanted to get the photos up for all that are interested. I placed 1st with these images.


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  • dispatches / War and Photography – Part 6


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  • PDNPulse:

    This afternoon Apple announced the latest iPhone, the “3G S,” which features a 3 megapixel, auto-focus still camera and new video capabilities.


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    Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

    That it follows the Pen’s stylings is significant, if only in nerdy kind of way. The MFT sensor is one half the size of a 35mm frame (and a slightly different shape, too). The Pen eked 72 shots out of a 36 exposure roll of 135 film by using the same trick. I’m pretty excited about this camera. If it can bring DSLR handling and image quality to a tiny package, it could be the Leica M of the 21st century, and as Olympus has a special event in London scheduled for June 25th, we may not have long to wait.


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    JONATHAN TAGGART – News Photographers Association of Canada:

    I was awarded a scholarship to a Magnum Workshop in Toronto in May of 2008, and while I was there I was fortunate enough to work with the Canadian photographer Larry Towell. I’ve always admired his work, but what I found most insightful was hearing him speak about his experiences in the field and about his working methodology. The best piece of advice he gave his students was we should expect to spend half our time shooting and the other half editing, because it is through the editing process that depth of narrative is created.

    Although I might revise that to say, “expect to spend a third of your time gaining access, a third shooting, and a third editing.”


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    Fred R. Conrad – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    Since Polaroid no longer makes either film, I often wonder about the photographers whose work was most identified with Type 55 and 665 — how are they doing and with what.

    Photo by Bill Burke


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  • America’s Finest News Source


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  • Blaine Harden – washingtonpost.com:

    A North Korean court sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday


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  • The Independent:

    The seminal German picture magazines of the early Thirties and the invention of a small camera, the Leica, spawned a select group of key photographers: Erich Salomon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lucien Aigner is of that vintage, but is one of the least known “pioneers of photojournalism”.

    It was the acknowledged “god- father of photojournalism”, Stefan Lorant, who commented of his fellow countryman: “What sets him apart from other ‘picture takers’ is his fervent dedication to his work. He belongs to a minuscule band of camera artists who do not press the button in a mad rush but ponder and think before they let the shutter go.”


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