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    Q&A: Boone Speed, Portland – Feature Shoot:

    Boone Speed is a professional photographer based in Portland, Oregon. Highly regarded for his painterly photographic aesthetic and minimalist sensibilities, Speed has been singled out by establishments like Patagonia, Nike, National Geographic Adventure and Nixon to help tell their stories. Boone’s photographs have been the subject of editorial and commercial campaigns, ranging from adventure travel essays and action sports exclusives, to intimate portraiture and fine art. Boone is also a principle architect in the evolution of the sport of rock climbing.


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  • remembrance | Redlights and Redeyes:

    Defeated, I drove to my second murder assignment of the day – and all I was given was a photo assignment to head to the home of the aforementioned Dejuan Williams to see if there was anything to photograph at all.  I found the home finally, not because I had the address, because I didn’t, but because I found the 18 year-old’s faded blue Buick parked in the driveway with a few roses and some hand written notes on it.


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  • The Three Types of Photojournalist « Perfesser Kev:

    I’ve long felt there are three types of photojournalist out there. Which are you? Or two? Or three?


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    AFTER STAFF – Sol Neelman, diversifying to support a ‘weird sports’ personal project | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:

    Photographer Sol Neelman left a staff job at The Oregonian in 2007 after ten years as a newspaper photojournalist. Although he’s won a Pulitzer and been honored twice by POYi, Sol does not claim to be an expert at the “After Staff” transition — and that’s exactly why I wanted to share his story. Burnt out on low-paid editorial, exploring commercial and wedding, and pursuing the personal project he’s passionate about, Sol echoes the experiences of almost every photographer I talked to for this project.


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    Typhoon Morakot – The Big Picture – Boston.com:

    After forming as a tropical depression over the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 km east of the Philippines on August 2nd, Typhoon Morakot built in power and moved quickly west. Over the past several days, the storm has passed over the Philippines, Taiwan and Mainland China, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage due to high winds, flooding and mudslides. Southeast China evacuated nearly 1 million people ahead of the storm, after Morakot broke many records in Taiwan, dumping a total of 2.5 meters (100 inches) of rain on the island. At least 40 people are known to have died so far, but hundreds remain missing – many from one village in Taiwan, reportedly engulfed by a mudslide during the storm


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  • AFTER STAFF – Where were you on staff and what are you doing now? | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:

    We asked a wide variety of former staff photographers the same question, and here’s what they told us. Please share your own stories — as you can see, you’re not alone.


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  • As Dubai’s Glitter Fades, Foreigners See Dark Side – washingtonpost.com:

    Jaubert said he heard whispers about Dubai’s darker side — the abuse of desperate laborers from impoverished Asian lands, the jailing of the occasional Westerner who crossed a sheik — but “I brushed it all off. I saw glamour. I saw marble columns, mirrors and money.”


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  • ::: The Travel Photographer :::: “Intro To Multimedia Storytelling” Class:

    Three participants in my Intro To Multimedia Storytelling class at the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop (FPW) produced stunning slideshow photo essays, and I thought it would be interesting to write about their contrasting photographic and personal styles.


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  • Amazing work by Seamus Murphy. Here’s the gallery:

    Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Digital Journalist.
    Here’s a link to the story introduction:

    Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible – Story Introduction:

    Seamus Murphy describes photography as “part history and part magic.” This brief description could be a title for Murphy’s entire archive, as he is the embodiment of the soulful photojournalist. A native of Ireland, he has worked extensively in the Middle East, Europe, Russia and the Far East, Africa, North and South America, and has to date won six World Press Awards. Murphy’s work spans years and continents, but we have chosen to concentrate on the area that captivated him perhaps the most in recent years—Afghanistan. His recent book, “A Darkness Visible,” published in 2008 by Saqi Books of London, is a retrospective of his work in that country since 1994.


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    AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW – “Interview with Bruce Gilden”:

    Bruce Gilden: I guess I’d be classified as a street photographer beuse I work in the street. In fact, if you saw me on the street, you would see a very active, energetic person who probably, while taking a picture, would be jumping at somebody in a certain athletic mode, in a certain dance. All photographers do this, I guess. There could be a film made on the dance of photography, and I think I, in my special way, made a contribution to that.


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  • An updated list of not yet released Nikon lenses based on product numbers | Nikon Rumors:


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  • The Enemy Among Us – The Digital Journalist:

    For the next 10 days I watched daily life of soldiers and locals unfold, took cover from incoming fire, went on patrols and listened vicariously to intelligence gleaned from radio chatter between Taliban fighters led by their notorious commander, Abdul Rahman. His goal was to maneuver a re-take of the town. Charlie Company was here to make certain that didn’t happen. The game was one of cat-and-mouse.


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  • We’re Just Sayin’ – The Digital Journalist:

    I am teaching a workshop in L.A. in a couple of weeks and for lack of a better title, I called it “Developing Skills as a Magazine Photographer.” My heart was honestly engaged in finding a proper title but somehow that is where I ended up. Even as I write, I think about what it means, and what this world of “magazine photography” is all about, and what it has become. Maybe those skills are as much about survival as they are about photographic esthetics. Of course, there are myriad stories these days about the death of journalism (in general) and the death of photojournalism (in particular) and I must say that having lived through a couple of those death periods already, I’m not quite sure just where this one fits in.


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  • Revisiting the Death of Photojournalism, Part II: THE WIRES – The Digital Journalist:

    The precipitous decline in budgets at magazines and newspapers is now threatening the ability of the wires to continue to service these members and clients. For photojournalists, these developments are genuinely alarming, since the wires collectively represent their biggest single employer in the industry. For society, the effects of pressures on the wires, in their unique role as the provider of first resort for our news, could be devastating.


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    Camera Corner: Olympus E-P1 Review – The Digital Journalist:

    The Austin, Texas, Bergstrom Airport TSA officer walked toward me with focused intent in his eyes and I wondered about possible laws I may have unknowingly broken. His first spoken words were exact. “Sir, what kind of camera is that? I don’t believe that I’ve seen that one before!” We talked for a while. And so it goes. That happens a lot with an Olympus E-P1 hanging around my neck.


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  • Bill Owens – Part 1 « Altamont Apparel
    via Jason Campbell


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    AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Mary Ellen Mark – 25 Years (1990)”:

    Mary Ellen Mark is a photographer who believes that her strongest essay will be her next one. In a sense, all her work is one journey to that “best” story, which she may never reach or let herself acknowledge. She works with an edge, a haunting dissatisfaction: Could the pictures be better? What is important? Does she have it? Has she gotten to the core? Modest by nature, she uses the word perhaps a lot and the phrase “I was lucky” a great deal. But the success of her career is the result of more than luck – rather, it’s a knowing rush toward the unknown.


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  • Lament for a Dying Field – Photojournalism – NYTimes.com:

    When photojournalists and their admirers gather in southern France at the end of August for Visa pour l’Image, the annual celebration of their craft, many practitioners may well be wondering how much longer they can scrape by.


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    The Sun News Online | Crime watch:

    The suspect , who later spoke with Daily Sun said: “I have regretted my action because I now know that the devil does not give good ideas. See the disgrace that I am now subjected to.” Explaing how he super-imposed his photographs in the pictures of the stars, he said, “it is very simple, I did the photo trick in Oluwole area of Lagos. I just told them to super-impose me with the photographs of the celebrities.”


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    Dangerous Minds | To My Great Chagrin: Brother Theodore Documentary Screening in Los Angeles August 11th:

    To My Great Chagrin reconciles the cryptic, oddly comic fury of Brother Theodore’s on-stage persona with the stranger-than-fiction chronology of his life. Directed by Jeff Sumerel.


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