Category: News
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Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Sentenced to 18 Years for Murder | PDNPulse
Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Sentenced to 18 Years for Murder | PDNPulse Zwelethu Mthethwa, the South African photographer convicted of murdering a sex worker in April 2013, was sentenced today to 18 years in jail. Judge Patricia Goliath said the “callousness, cruelty and brutality” of the crime warranted more than the 15-year via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/06/photographer-zwelethu-mthethwa-sentenced-18-years-murder.html Jack…
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2017 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
Internet Trends Report 2018 Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. via Kleiner Perkins: http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends A Portuguese photographer, Daniel Rodrigues — who only five years ago was unemployed and had to sell his gear to buy food and pay the rent — has…
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Inside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement That Brings the Fight to White Supremacists | Mother Jones
Inside the anti-racist movement that brings the fight to white supremacists ”This is a war and we intend to win.” via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/anti-racist-antifa-tinley-park-five In less than two minutes, the anti-racists had unleashed a flurry of destruction. A mosaic of smashed glass covered the floor. Blood polka-dotted the ceiling. Three people required medical care.
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Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Found Guilty of Murder | PDNPulse
Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Found Guilty of Murder | PDNPulse A court in South Africa has convicted photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa of the 2013 murder of Nokuphila Kumalo, 23, a sex worker, in a suburb of Cape Town, several South African newspapers have reported. Bail for Mthethwa, a graduate of the Rochester Institu via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/03/photographer-zwelethu-mthethwa-found-guilty-murder.html Bail…
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How You’re Making Facebook a Money Machine – The New York Times
How You’re Making Facebook a Money Machine The social media addiction of customers is feeding astonishing profits. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/upshot/how-youre-making-facebook-a-money-machine.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 What you do when waiting for the bus or avoiding work goes a long way to explaining a tectonic shift in business and media.
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What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death? – NYTimes.com
What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death? The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written. Link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-really-know-about-osama-bin-ladens-death.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&referer=&_r=0 The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written
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Photography Team at Olympics Cycling Event Robbed in Rio de Janeiro
Photography Team at Olympics Cycling Event Robbed in Rio de Janeiro Photography safety is a growing concern leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This past weekend, a group of photographers were via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/19/photography-team-at-olympics-cycling-event-robbed-in-rio-de-janeiro/ Four women, among them human rights activist Nadia Vera, were also murdered along with the…
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Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU – Bloomberg Business
Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU – Bloomberg Business Google also started pointing users searching for photographs (of a celebrity, for example) to large high-definition images presented in an easy-to-scroll-through carousel. Photo agencies such as Getty Images, which had its own photo search engine, saw their traffic plummet. Even worse, some Getty clients stopped…
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Photojournalist Loses Life’s Work After Burglars Steal Hard Drives
Photojournalist Loses Life’s Work After Burglars Steal Hard Drives Camera gear may be expensive and painful to have stolen, but your photos are priceless and devastating to lose. A photographer’s worst nightmare just via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/07/15/photojournalist-loses-lifes-work-after-burglars-steal-hard-drives/ They contained an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 photos captured over the course of his 35 year photography career.
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Steve McCurry’s Assistant Charged In $654,258 Print, Book Theft | NPPA
Steve McCurry’s Assistant Charged In $654,258 Print, Book Theft Photographer Steve McCurry’s assistant Bree DeStephano, 32, has been arrested and charged for theft and related offenses, according to Chester (PA) County district attorney Tom Hogan. DeStephano is charged with stealing prints, books, and other items from via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/steve-mccurrys-assistant-charged-654258-print-book-theft stolen prints included some of McCurry’s…
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Seymour M. Hersh · The Killing of Osama bin Laden · LRB 21 May 2015
The Killing of Osama bin Laden · LRB 20 May 2015 Would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad… via London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international…
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Unsold Google Glass Units To Be Donated To Assholes In Africa | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Unsold Google Glass Units To Be Donated To Assholes In Africa This gesture will help tens of thousands of poor and needy men, women, and children across the continent who have never had the opportunity to walk around looking like a pompous jackass all day long
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The Islamic State issues guide on when it’s okay to beat your sex slave – The Washington Post
The Islamic State issues guide on when it’s okay to beat your sex slave The jihadist organization supposedly published a pamphlet with 27 guidelines for how to treat your female slave. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/12/the-islamic-state-issues-guide-on-when-its-okay-to-beat-your-sex-slave/ The pamphlet says it is permissible to capture any “unbelieving” women and have sex with her “immediately” if she is…
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Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa’s Murder Trial Delayed Again
Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa’s Murder Trial Delayed Again | PDNPulse The trial of photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who has been charged with the 2013 murder of an alleged sex worker in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, has been postponed six months because no judge is available, the Daily Maverick newspaper reports. Mthe via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/11/photographer-zwelethu-mthethwas-murder-trial-delayed.html…
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Obama denounces killing of journalist James Foley and pledges ‘justice’ – The Washington Post
U.S. staged secret operation into Syria to rescue Americans Senior White House officials meeting on purported beheading of American journalist James Foley. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-weighs-response-to-apparent-execution-of-american-by-islamic-state/2014/08/20/e33558a8-287d-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?wprss=rss_world President Obama said Wednesday that the United States “will be vigilant and we will be relentless” against Islamic State militants and would “do what’s necessary to see that justice…
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Accent of James Foley’s executioner prompts a reckoning in Britain – The Washington Post
Executioner’s accent prompts a reckoning in Britain American journalist’s apparent killer is recognized by Londoners as one of their own. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/accent-of-james-foleys-apparent-executioner-prompts-a-reckoning-in-britain/2014/08/20/5edd7b44-07fc-4dad-9700-2dcb793b075d_story.html?wprss=rss_world Security officials in London have been sounding the alarm for more than a year over the large number of foreigners in Syria, with the chief of Scotland Yard telling reporters last…
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Life in the Valley of Death – NYTimes.com
Life in the Valley of Death In Srebrenica, the remains of those killed in the genocide keep turning up, unsettling the reconciliation between Muslims and Serbs. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/29/magazine/srebrenica-life-in-the-valley-of-death.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Srebrenica has come to symbolize the Bosnian war’s unspeakable brutality and the international community’s colossal failure when confronting it. Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN
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Former Hallmark Institute Owner Pleads Guilty of Fraud, Tax Evasion
Former Hallmark Institute Owner Pleads Guilty of Fraud, Tax Evasion | PDNPulse George J. Rosa III, the former owner of the Hallmark Institute of Photography, the photography school in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, pled guilty March 11 to charges of bank fraud and tax evasion, according to a report by Springfield, Massachusetts, TV s via PDNPulse:…
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What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden Our supposed ally had a special desk devoted to managing Osama bin Laden. How can the U.S. fight extremism when we’re unable to confront it where it really lives? Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/magazine/what-pakistan-knew-about-bin-laden.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 On our fifth and last day in Quetta, four plainclothes agents detained my photographer colleague at his hotel.…
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The story behind the “Too Cool To Do Drugs” pencil
The story behind the “Too Cool To Do Drugs” pencil This amusing picture, of an anti-drug propaganda pencil whose message is subverted simply by sharpening it, been doing the rounds. The truth is stranger than some of the fictions that accompany it:… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/the-story-behind-the-too-coo.html In this webinar, Adobe Lightroom organizing master Peter Krogh…