Consider Japanese photography as a whole and it becomes evident that a large number of artists tend to express feelings of incomprehension and ambiguity towards reality and the world rather than attempt to decrypt it and objectively analyze it
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New York City-based photojournalist Steve Simon made several quiet portraits of individuals witnessing history within a large crowd watching election-night coverage in Harlem.
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Photo by Scott M. BortAs many of his classmates prepared for starting college or new jobs, 2008 Portage High School graduate Jason Follow was preparing for the U.S. Marine Corps. I met Jason in May and followed him on and off through the final days of school and through his summer before departing for Recruit Training in San Diego on Aug 12, 2008.
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photo by David BurnettMost photojournalists like to feel that what they do in their work has some historic sense to it. I mean, we’re photoJOURNALISTS. We like to think that our pictures are, as we often say, the “first draft of history.”
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I thought photographers might like to have a single, consolidated list of all the enhancements in Photoshop CS4 & Bridge CS4 that can help improve their productivity.
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I have just finished watching an advance copy of Nikon’s new DVD, Nikon School: A Hands-On Guide to Creative Lighting.
Short version: It is far and away the best resource available for those of you who want to better learn how to use your Nikon system strobes (SB-900, SB-800, SB-600, etc.) and Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS).
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Utah Democrats celebrate at the Radisson Hotel as Barack Obama is announced as our 44th President
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A journey to Africa’s most remote tribes, whose way of life remains untouched since ancient times
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Today, November 06, 2008 — Elkie Lee Taylor, 47, convicted in the robbery and murder of 64-year-old Otis Flake in Fort Worth, Texas, will be executed by lethal injection. Five other men are scheduled for execution in November. How much longer will The United States continue to execute prisoners?
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Stock Artists Alliance, which has been working on behalf of photographers who were customers of Digital Railroad’s image hosting and licensing service, tells photographers not to expect their money back any time soon.
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We’re happy to present another installment of a new series of interviews made at the Summit Workshop in Jackson, Wyoming. The series looks at the work of some of the nation’s leading photographers and editors, who offer both practical advice and plenty of inspiration. This episode features Chris Johns, Editor in Chief of National Geographic.
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Whenever a photography injustice surfaces in the news, I can’t seem to figure out what the perpetrator was thinking. Digital manipulation, falsifying information and copyright infringement. Which comes to my current situation.
On April 27, 2008, I spoke of a random encounter that got me very excited. A new friend who just happened to be from the same town in the United States where I grew up. Lee Mackay Turner showed me that my character judgement needs some serious work.
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Upstate Girls; What Became of Collar City is an ongoing documentary project that began in 2004. The roots of the epic are the coming of age stories of six young women in the post -industrial city of Troy, New York. “Upstate Girls” will be released across three platforms. A print book, feature length documentary film, and a multi-media web series that contextualize the young women’s personal stories in Troy’s important labor history will be released beginning spring of 2009. Look for updates on www.therawfile.org and a feature article in the Spring Issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and GEO MAGAZINE later in 2009.
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The LX3 is an example of a species so endangered that the we were beginning to worry it had become extinct – a compact camera that photographers can get excited about. Panasonic has included a large degree of direct control, classy styling and, more importantly, a specification that goes beyond the unthinking ‘larger screen and more megapixels’ trend.
It’s hard to tell what we’re more impressed by – the ambitious lens or the decision to sit back and spectate during this round of the megapixel race. If pixels aren’t just to become clutter on your hard drive, they must contain useful information and we’ve seen too many compact cameras that produce images that need to be down-sized to bring them up to standard. The LX3 may not have the eye-popping resolution of some of its peers but instead it’s one of the best high-ISO compact cameras we’ve seen.
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The work of Salt Lake Tribune photographers. A new photoblog, going public Wednesday or Thursday. You get a sneak peak.
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The Click should be back up to full speed Wednesday morning. It’s been a long two weeks, and it will be nice to be back.
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For our next dvafoto interview, we’re talking to Matt Slaby and David Walter Banks, both of the new collective Luceo Images. I got to know the two and their work through the excellent APhotoADay email list, and consider them among my favorite young photographers. Matt Slaby’s got one of the most contemplative approaches I’ve seen among young photojournalists, and his writing is not to be missed. David Walter Banks has some of the strongest (and sometimes strangest) use of color going. The two paired up to cover both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions for the 2008 US presidential election, and I took an adversarial approach when I asked them about their process, the value of photographing such choreographed events, and their general journalistic philosophy. My questions and their answers follow:
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One of these people is a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, the other one is a confessed genocidaire (who admitted to killing an old woman, his neighbour, because he “heard that those who confessed would be released”). But how can you tell which one is which?
These two images are taken from Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, a book by photographer Robert Lyons
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A notice on the website of Digital Railroad’s liquidator indicates the company has “received a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase the assets of DRR…with the desire to continue providing services to DRR members and customers with as little disruption as possible.”
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The first batch of Kim-is-fine photos was released Oct. 11, but they flunked the seasonal leaf test. They showed Kim inspecting a military unit near trees whose foliage looked suspiciously summery.
The photos released Sunday featured authentic autumnal colors, but newspapers in Seoul have remained dubious, seeking input from photo experts and neurosurgeons.
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