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    If you are a believer of the prophecies in the Christians holy writ, then we are indeed in the end time. Barely two months ago, Sunday Sun exclusively reported the story of a man in Lagos, who claims to be Christ’s only viceroy on earth, revealing the unpleasant happenings in his enclave. Yet, before our very eyes, another one has emerged, brazenly proclaiming himself the Jesus Christ that true believers are earnestly expecting.

    Amazingly, unlike Jesus of Nazareth, the Enugu State-born ThankGod Chukwuma (his earthly name) is married (for the third time) and has children.

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    Marsea Goldberg is the owner of New Image Art gallery in Los Angeles. For 15 years she has been showing the work of some very notable artists and is an important part of the history of this as-of-yet-unnamed art movement. I met her in 2000 and New Image Art became one of the first galleries I showed at. Over the years I have seen some beautiful shows at her gallery- Swoon, Herbert Baglione, The Date Farmers, Alex Kopps and Ed Templeton come to mind but the list goes on! Here’s to 15 more years!

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    Yesterday Adobe released the latest version of Lightroom, Lightroom 2.3, as well as Camera Raw 5.3.

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    Eric Draper spent the last eight years alongside George W. Bush as the chief White House photographer. Draper, 44, who had covered the 2000 campaign for The Associated Press, took the White House from film to digital as he met world leaders and mixed it up with Britian’s Prince Philip. He also received an unexpected farewell gesture from No. 43 earlier this week. Here are excerpts from a telephone interview with Draper, who spoke from his home in Alexandria, Va.

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  • What’s the biggest scam in photography? Judging purely on angry comments I get and see when the topic is raised, it’s photo contests with portfolio reviews running a close second.

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    It’s only fair to link to PDN’s response, “Rob Haggart Writes a Poor Headline.”


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    Now that the source material for the iconic Barack Obama campaign image, produced by Shepard Fairey, has been identified, the fair use fun can begin. The photographer says that he doesn’t want to make trouble. But some in the art world have been gunning for Fairey, arguing that he’s not just a bad artist, but not an artist at all.

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    Erich Salomon, who was one of the inventors of modern reportage (there were no books, classes, or online discussion groups to take advantage of, he simply DID it on his own) owned not only the cameras, but the will and inventiveness to use them. He made candid photography what it has become today. So when I pick up one of my old German cameras, I can only wonder what it must have seen

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  • Bill Winfrey, who shot a famous photo of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 for the Dallas Morning News, died January 15 at age 75

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  • Earlier this week, we aired a Boing Boing video episode in which we visited Shepard Fairey’s gallery in LA, and spoke with him about the most well-known of his works, the Obama poster. That episode was shot as another artist’s work was being hung on the walls: legendary punk / hiphop / skate culture photographer Glen E. Friedman. Together, Shepard and Glen were also working on a collaboration together that brings Shep’s visual style together with some of Glen’s most iconic images.

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  • How a Swiss émigré’s cross-country road trip changed photography.

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    When Steve Winter’s name was read out as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 at a gala at London’s Natural History Museum in November 2008 it was the culmination of a dream that began when he was a boy in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “From the time I was eight years old,” Steve reveals, “all I ever wanted to be was a National Geographic photographer. I always saw the magazine and watched National Geographic television specials and became fascinated by the great world out there, by all the other cultures and people.” He adds, ironically: “But never in a million years did I ever think I would end up photographing animals.” CPN’s John McDermott spoke to him about his career and his photographic pursuit of snow leopards.

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    illustrator Thomas Fuchs and designer Felix Sockwell have put together 100 iconic mini-tales of a GOP in disarray

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  • Police Say School Shooter Had Troubled Past, History Of School Shootings

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    65#06 Beijing, Great Wall of Mutianyu, 2006, photographed by Thomas Kellner. Kellner explains his process

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    In a new view of an American Presidential Inauguration that’s never been shot or seen before, photographer Chuck Kennedy from the McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service today made this image of President Barack Obama taking the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States.

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    Oh dear. After my scoop “identifying” the source photograph and photographer of Shepard Fairey’s iconic HOPE poster, Purchase College digital photography teacher Nathan Lunstrum came up with a different image that appears to be a better and less convoluted match.

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    go to MyInauguralPhoto.com, powered by online photo editing software provider FotoFlexer, and pretend you were there, right behind the new president of the United States as he was sworn in.

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