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TRAPPED: The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go. This project goes inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit at the Kentucky State Reformatory to see how a state is meeting the needs of this growing population.
Alice Gabriner, chief picture editor and acting director of photography for Time, will become White House photo editor and deputy director for the photo office. Time has now churned through three directors of photography in less than three years under managing editor Richard Stengel.
It is also interesting that by submitting photos to the official McDonald’s Flickr photo pool you are basically giving McDonalds a free unlimited irrevocable license to use your photographs any way they’d like to both now and in the future.
Canon’s new DSLR, the 500D, is the latest in a line of hybrid still/video DSLRs, joining Canon’s own 5DMkII, Nikon’s less capable D90 and Panasonic’s GH1. This trend is obviously set to continue, but do we want it?
Canon today has introduced the EOS Rebel T1i, an evolution of the Rebel XSi that incorporates a 15.06 million image pixel CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 processor and three inch (diagonal), 920,000 dot rear LCD into a body that’s nearly identical to its predecessor. For pro photographers, though, the main attraction of Canon’s newest entry-level digital SLR may well be its ability to capture HD video with sound, making it a budget alternative to the EOS 5D Mark II for Canon still shooters wanting to capture moving pictures with their SLR.
The late photographer Eddie Adams took pictures of hundreds of celebrities and politicians — everyone from Fidel Castro to Mother Teresa to Arnold Schwarzenegger (whom he captured in a bathtub with a rubber duck) — but some of his most searing portraits come from his work during the Vietnam War.
I’m sure a lot of people are wondering about my case with the AP over the Obama HOPE poster. I can’t talk about every aspect of the case, but there are a few things I want to discuss and points I’d like to make.
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Over 4000 people were murdered in relation to drug violence in Mexico last year.
Residents and rescue workers evacuate from the centre of earthquake-hit Beichuan county,Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. Thousands fled amid fears a lake would burst its banks in Beichuan, near the epicentre of China’s earthquake in which a total 50,000 people may have died, a Reuters photographer said. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt. People were told to flee to the hillsides in a public announcement. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Last month, we presented the results of our research with over 550+ photo buyers discussing what they liked/disliked in photographer websites. Following on the heels of that information, Grover has been out and about presenting this information in seminars, and I finally cajoled him with a can of Sapporo into sitting at my computer and speaking into a mic for an hour to bring the video to you.
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Scott Streble decided to dedicate a day to making free portraits for Minneapolis job seekers.
Photojournalism and the documentary tradition is alive and well, but like Frank Zappa once said about jazz, “Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
