From Gadget Lab, Wired.com:
This is the Tactical Bail Out Gear Bag, and everyone should have one.
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From Threat Level, Wired.com:
Sunde, The Pirate Bay’s spokesman, announced the news over Twitter Friday morning before the verdict was official. He remained defiant, and offered comfort to supporters. “Stay calm — Nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing whatsoever. This is just a theater for the media.”
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burn magazine:
They may not be paid very well, and the hours might be long. But behind the counters of McDonalds, Rays Pizza and other more anonymous fast food joints I found the workers to have a certain pride in their job.
Photographs: Sigurd Fandango
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From doug menuez 2.0:
My son had begun saying inconvenient things like, “Daddy, don’t go,” each time I headed out the door to another far-off assignment. It broke my heart of course. And at that point in my life, not much could get through my field-deadened emotions. And that meant I could no longer ignore the needs of my family for my career.
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From Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights:
Domestic Photography Winner: “Too Young to Die” by Carlos Javier Ortiz, freelancer: Featured in Ebony Magazine, this series examines the epidemic of gun violence which not only plagues lower-income, urban neighborhoods, but youth from all walks of American life. Ortiz’ artistry and sensitivity delivers a powerful look at a tough subject.
International Photography: “Birth and Death”, Carol Guzy, Washington Post: With one in eight women dying in childbirth, Sierra Leone has the world’s highest rate of maternal mortality. Carol Guzy beautifully and movingly captures the pain, desperation and grief experienced by family members dealing with the loss of a young mother, a child, or often both. She amplifies the need for adequate medical care and supplies to stem the avoidable deaths. Guzy is a multiple RFK Award winner.
via APAD.
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From Craig Mitchelldyer:
Have you ever wondered why the photos you see in Sports Illustrated are always the best pictures you have ever seen? Well, I can tell you it is because the photographers at SI are the hardest working, most dedicated, photographers I know. I had the pleasure of working as an assistant for John McDonough last week covering the NCAA Tournament at the Rose Garden and I have never worked harder in my life
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From Driving While Standing Still – The Morning News:
Begun in 1989, Andrew Bush’s “Vector Portraits” combine performance with portraiture and a disconcerting measure of intimacy in a series where the artist took portraits of other drivers—often at 70 miles per hour—with a medium-format camera attached to the passenger side of his car. An exhibition will open on Thursday, April 23 and close on Saturday, June 27 at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Julie Saul Gallery, New York, where additional large-scale work from the “Vector Portraits” series will be on view.
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From Defining Moments:
Holding a camera is not work. If someone that actually WORKS at the newspaper won an award, that would be NEWS.
via Ashley
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From Mostly True:
it doesn’t take long before these photographers stop even trying to make good pictures and just concentrate on the crap their editors want.
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From guardian.co.uk:
Austrian tourist who photographed bus and Tube stations says ‘nasty incident’ has put him off returning to London
via BoingBoing.
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From under the influence « shooting from the hip:
As my career moved along, I took more and more creative chances. I started using my wide angle lens exclusively and began to admire the work of documentary photographers. I began to understand that there was more to photography than sports and spot news.
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From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
In 2001, world-renowned photojournalist Reza Deghati (known simply as Reza by most), founded Aina, an international non-profit organization based in Afghanistan that cultivates a well-trained independent media in order to promote democracy and to help heal post-conflict societies.
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From The Year in Pictures: Luigi Ghirri:
Luigi Ghirri was born in 1943 and died in 1992, at the age of 49. During his short life he revolutionized Italian, if not European photography, but for a number of reasons he is barely known in the States. However, all this should change now that Aperture have published the first American monograph of his work titled “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It …”.
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From The F Blog: meeting photographers: Alex Majoli:
Mr Majoli, how would you describe your work? You are photographer, photojournalist, war-photographer, or documentary photographer…?
via dvafoto.
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CLICK NOTE: At first I thought that photo of the award hand-off is so awful… I’d better find something better. Then I thought, no, it’s so bad it’s awesome!From photo-eye:
More info can be found on the Hasselblad Foundation website including the transcript from the live chat with Robert Adams that took place earlier today.
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From The F Blog:
About the basic idea of The F Blog
Love of photography is the essential ingredient. The photographic image is powerful – an equally important link for communication between people as the written word or language. We want to present and promote good photography by offering a platform for photographers to show their work.
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From Gotcha TV – Fox News Crews Stalk Bill O’Reilly’s Targets – NYTimes.com:
Mr. Hoyt, one of more than 50 people that Mr. O’Reilly’s young producers have confronted in the past three years, said the interviews were “really just an attempt to make you look bad.” In almost every case Mr. O’Reilly uses the aggressive interviews to campaign for his point of view.
