Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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2009 UN World Drug report – The Big Picture
2009 UN World Drug report The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per- via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/2009_un_world_drug_report.html The 2009 United…
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Showcase: Stirring Images, No Names – Lens Blog
Link: Showcase: Stirring Images, No Names – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: “Beware the Cost of War,” a show opening Friday at the Blackall Studios in London, will be conspicuous for many reasons — one of them being what it lacks: captions and credits next to the images, which were taken both by Israeli and Palestinian…
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carl bower – chica barbie | burn magazine
carl bower – chica barbie [slidepress gallery=’carlbower-chicabarbie’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Carl Bower Chica Barbie play this essay The pageants of Colombia are a p… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/10/carl-bower-chica-barbie/ The pageants of Colombia are a petri dish for examining the nature of beauty and how we cope with…
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Behind the Scenes: Suffering, Writ Large – Lens Blog
Behind the Scenes: Suffering, Writ Large A show at the United Nations about victims of sexual violence in Congo conceals identities but elevates the victims to a size larger than life, as Kassie Bracken finds. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/behind-20/ The photography in “Congo/Women” — together with essays and video interviews online — explores the systemic…
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Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City – Brenda Ann Kenneally
Link: Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City – Brenda Ann Kenneally – Digital Journalist: As a journalist and activist I have dedicated my life to exploring the how and why of class inequity in America. I am concerned with the internalized social messages that will live on for generations after our economic and social…
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On Assignment: Under the Radar in Kandahar – Lens Blog
On Assignment: Under the Radar in Kandahar Tyler Hicks of The Times has learned to be careful of where he points his camera in this southern Afghanistan city, and to rely heavily on his translator and driver. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/on-assignment-2/ Tyler Hicks has three rules when photographing in a dangerous, unstable city like Kandahar,…
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lenscratch: Arlene Gottfried
Link: lenscratch: Arlene Gottfried: I’ve been seeing Arlene Gottfried’s name (and book titles) for sometime, but really didn’t know that much about her. So I thought I’d dig a little deeper…
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Showcase: National Geographic Image Collection – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Showcase: National Geographic Image Collection Celebrating 12 decades of coverage, with images from the magazine on subjects like exploration, science, wildlife and diverse peoples. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/showcase-62/ The newly published National Geographic Image Collection (Focal Point) is a beautifully curated selection of images celebrating 12 decades of coverage of exploration, science, wildlife and diverse…
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lenscratch: Susan Anderson
Link: lenscratch: Susan Anderson: Los Angeles photographer, Susan Anderson, has a new project, High Glitz, spotlighting the spectacle of children’s beauty pagents. The series has just been published by powerHouse, and is opening as an exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles on October 24th.
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The Blitz kids – Derek Ridgers – The Observer
The Blitz kids Photographer Derek Ridgers who documented the rise of the Blitz kids and the New Romantic scene in London in the late 70s and early 80s, guides us through his pictures via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/oct/04/photography Photographer Derek Ridgers, who documented the rise of the Blitz kids and the New Romantic scene in London…
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Gaters Football » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS
Link: Gaters Football » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS: Thankfully, Boyd called me Saturday morning and suggested a roadtrip down to Eugene in his rig. While he was covering the Ducks game, I wandered around the Autzen parking lot shooting tailgaters. We (Boyd) left PDX so early, I had 7 hours to do my thing.
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Showcase: Finding Priya Ramrakha – Lens Blog
Showcase: Finding Priya Ramrakha The work of a pioneering Kenyan photojournalist is rediscovered by a relative with hopes of finding a broader audience. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/showcase-finding-priya-ramrakha/ Priya Ramrakha was killed 41 years ago on a roadside while covering the Nigerian Civil War for Time-Life. This Kenyan photojournalist was among the first African contract photographers…
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China celebrates 60 years – The Big Picture
China celebrates 60 years China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or un via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/china_celebrates_60_years.html China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of…
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Behind the Scenes: A Camera as Therapy – Lens Blog
Behind the Scenes: A Camera as Therapy Alexandra Avakian has led a fearless life, covering uprisings, civil war, famine and genocide. What she discovered in the shower one day, however, chilled her. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/behind-18/ On Sebastian’s seventh birthday, in October, I underwent a lumpectomy, followed by four months of intensive chemotherapy and then…
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A little portrait series I’m working on……. at thoughts.and/or.etc
Link: A little portrait series I’m working on……. at thoughts.and/or.etc:
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Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) – The Big Picture
Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) About a week ago, Typhoon Ketsana (known in the Phillippines as “Ondoy”) made landfall, and according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), Ketsana dropped 455 mm (17.9 in) of rain on Metro Manila in a sp via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/typhoon_ketsana_ondoy.html About a week ago, Typhoon Ketsana (known in the Phillippines…
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Showcase: Sisyphean Days in Cuba – Lens Blog
Link: Showcase: Sisyphean Days in Cuba – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: The words came to Ernesto Bazan as he stirred awake one morning in Palermo. “You need become a photographer.” Guided by that revelation, the 17-year-old boy decided his future.
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Newspapers still producing great journalism | dvafoto
Link: Newspapers still producing great journalism | dvafoto: The Dallas Morning News’ exceptional “Choosing Thomas,” chronicles the story of T.K. and Deidrea Laux’s choice to bring their son into the world knowing he would die soon after birth. The piece will leave you in tears. Journalism this intimate and powerful is a rare thing, indeed.
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FACES OF THE CRISIS by Nacho Corbella (Masters Thesis)
Link: The 37th Frame – Celebrating the Best of Photojournalism » FACES OF THE CRISIS by Nacho Corbella (Masters Thesis): a professional thesis project completed by Nacho Corbella in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.