Category: Video & Multimedia
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Inside CPOY: In & Out with Leah Beane
Link: In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret…
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Rob Hornstra talks about his process and books | dvafoto
Link: Another dva favorite, there’s a short video interview up on vimeo with Rob Hornstra talking about his process and how his books come together. Definitely worth a watch.
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Soviet proto-Photoshop ca. 1987
Link: It has now been nearly ten months since the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble and claiming over 300,000 lives. In the time since, Haiti’s government, the United Nations, and many other aid agencies have struggled just to keep the population healthy and fed as it tries get back on its…
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Canon Professional Network – Previous Editor: Sports
Link: In July 2010 CPN readers from around the world submitted their sports images to Editor’s Choice for review by Sports Illustrated’s Photography Editor James K. Colton.
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Respect and Obey Authority
Link: This has been an exceptionally emotional year. Love was lost and new friends were found. People died, but they were replaced with the first breath of birth. I made mistakes and I succeeded. I sinned and was forgiven. I cried and I laughed.
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Intel Visual Life : The Sartorialist
Link: By the time the micro-blogging mischief was over, the North Korean tweets had ranted to its 10,000-plus Twitter followers about profligate nuclear weapons spending and lavish Kim Jong Il drinking parties – hosted “while 3 million people are starving and freezing to death.” A video also had been posted on North Korea’s official YouTube…
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Tim Hetherington's film Diary
Link: ‘Diary’ is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It’s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media.
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How 4 Successful Photographers Sell Their Prints – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: We do a variety of educational webinars each month, and last week we did a special one that will be of interest to anyone who is, or wants to be, selling prints. Allen digs deep into the print sales tactics of several very different photographers – showing that although they may do things differently,…
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Chase Jarvis LIVE Re-Watch: a convo with Vincent Laforet
Link: Christopher Morris is familiar with working in controlled environments. From following the rigid protocols of the White House to the totalitarian bubble of North Korea, he has captured lyrical and telling moments under watchful eyes and strict boundaries. Over the last two weeks, Morris, a TIME contract photographer, has been on assignment in Libya…
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Getty's John Moore On Covering "Epic" Battles In Libya, Arab World
Link: Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya – might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out…
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Sundance winner Danfung Dennis previews Condition ONE – a DSLR based virtual reality system for news
Link: Fresh from his documentary win at Sundance, cinematic journalist Danfung Dennis has announced some early details of his next project called Condition ONE. It looks to be a highly immersive virtual reality video project which Danfung hopes will allow viewers to experience news events more fully.
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Video: Adobe Shows Photoshop Concept for iPad
Link: Judges Bert Fox, Sue Morrow, and Chris Wilkins will pore over the hundreds of entries during the next four days selecting the best of newspaper and magazine picture editing.
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Why the Leica M9 is a better camera (video)
Link: Mr. McConnell’s story, which includes 50 images, won a World Press Photo award this year but has yet to be exhibited outside Spain. Mr. McConnell, who is represented by Panos Pictures, worked for three years as a press photographer in Northern Ireland before traveling through Australia, Asia and Africa, where he is based. He…
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Al Jazeera’s Matt Allard – Covering The Disaster In Japan
Link: When the teams finally came together, we loaded up with food and water so we would be self sufficient and then split into two teams to head up north. We drove for hours through the cold night. It was pitch dark as there was no electricity in the affected areas and we were shaken…
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Martin Schoeller Shoots The Time 100 (video)
Link: Ashley Macknica has worked as a freelance photo editor at Jane Magazine and New York Magazine. In part two of our webinar series entitled How We Hire Photographers, Ashley discusses the important of persistence and “repetitive exposure” in getting a photo editor’s attention.
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In Tender Moments, a War's High Cost
In Tender Moments, a War’s High Cost Marcus Yam and Philippe Brault win the first-ever World Press Photo multimedia awards. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/in-tender-moments-a-wars-high-cost/ Many poignant ways have been found to express the cost of wartime deployment on the families left behind. Few have affected me as immediately as a moment in “The Home Front”…
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Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube
Link: Alix Lambert’s fascinating documentary from 2000 about Russian criminal tattoos, The Mark of Caïn, is available under a Creative Commons license and viewable in full on YouTube.
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“Billions wasted and nothing achieved: nothing, nothing, nothing achieved…”
Thanks @simoncroberts for turning us on to this: In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of n
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Cameras are getting smaller – and the footage is getting more amazing
I keep finding myself working with smaller and smaller cameras (see RED EPIC )- and I continue to be
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Keep moving: photographers embrace filmmaking
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…