Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed American photographer and long-time photojournalist. McNally is known worldwide for his ability to produce technically and logistically complex assignments with expert use of color and light.
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Video featuring terrific advice from This American Life’s Ira Glass on having the tenacity to get better at the creative work you’re passionate about — even through the times when you know what you’re making isn’t as good as you’d like.
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This is the way that the internet works. Put your photos online and if you are any good, someone, somewhere, somehow will technically violate your copyright. It *will* happen. And you have two choices with what you can do about it. You can get worked up and get upset and let it eat at you, or you can let it go and move on content that you are making the world a more beautiful place.
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Hasselblad today announced a whopping new camera, the H3D11-50. That’s right, they’ve done it again. 50 megapixels of goodness this time around, creating a 300MB file with each click of the shutter
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This is a short film depicting the normal goings-on of a small town 4th of July celebration.
A time-lapse compilation of a parade and a small neighborhood setting off fireworks.
Music by John Phillips Sousa and Branford Marsailis.
Photographed with a Nikon D2x on July 3-4, 2008
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Rick Smolan, the photographer and book packager behind the “Day in the Life of” series, has one of the great photo stories of all time to tell. I use the word “tell,” because the story is best heard and not just seen. And now you can hear him tell.
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Last week I posted a little something on the controversy surrounding Fox News and it’s decision to doctor photos of a New York Times reporter and editor. The reporter, Jacques Steinberg, had written a piece about an apparent weakening in Fox News ratings. The doctored images made him and his editor, Steven Reddicliffe, look bad in a silly way—yellowed teeth, big noses, etc.
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A week ago, during the 61st Annual General Meeting of Magnum, two new nominees were welcomed into the circle of Magnum Photographers. Once a year, the photographers from Magnum travel to Paris, London or New York for their Annual General Meeting (AGM). The 2008 AGM took place at the end of June in Paris. One day of the AGM is reserved to look at submitted portfolios and to decide upon new nominees, associates and members.
English photographer Olivia Arthur (28) and American-Dutch photographer Peter van Agtmael (27) are the new nominees for 2008.
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View the “Pakistan” Feature Gallery by John Moore
View the “Iraq” Feature Gallery by John Moore
View the “Pan-American Highway” Feature Gallery by John MooreView the “Afghanistan ‘Frontline Helmand’” Movie by John Moore
View the “Iraq ‘Camp Cropper’” Movie by John Moore
View the “Zimbabwe – Photographer’s Journal” Movie by John Moore
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If the photojournalism community can be said to be a network of extraordinary witnesses, it is interesting to see one of those individuals rise to prominence within the community itself. Such is Getty photographer John Moore, who in his second decade of international work has emerged as one of the finest photojournalists of his generation.
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Among serious contenders for the title of Worst Movie of All Time, the winner in the Sci-Fi Musical genre is without any doubt Menahem Golan’s masterpiece The Apple.
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If you’re anywhere near Florida August 1-3, St. Petersburg is the place to be. For the nominal fee of $100, you can hang out with the APhotoADay community, which is having it’s annual gathering. The weekend is jam packed with some incredible speakers. So, if you’re looking for some inspiration and motivation — don’t miss it
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If clothes make the man, do tight clothes make the man a homosexual? A Brooklyn-based rap group thinks the current trend in hip-hop—medium tees and sagging jeans cinched tightly below the hips—is causing some confusion. And they are not alone.
Members of the rap group Thug Slaughter Force—three brothers and two friends calling themselves Drama, Filthy, Tempa, Rebel, and Blanco the Don—walk the streets of Brooklyn in XL T-shirts with the words “Tight Clothes” slashed through with a red stripe: their message of protest against what they see as the move away from traditional baggy clothing and toward tighter-fitting outfits in today’s hip-hop. The “No Tight Clothes” campaign is their latest idea in a decade of trying to make it in the rap game.
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This evening at the Tampa Tribune, editor in chief Janet Coats sat in a rolling chair in the center of the newsroom while everyone gathered around for the latest news on layoffs.
She went over the list of who was layed off and why. Then she reexplained that 10 more layoffs were to come in the following weeks and how the newsroom would start reorganizing around its new business model.
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After a recent period being embedded with the United States Marines in southern Afghanistan, I stopped in Kabul to wander the streets and take photos of a city forever in transition. The Western presence was something not tolerated during Taliban rule, so there have been some changes.
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four Oregonian staff photographers reflect on their coverage of the men’s 100 meter finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
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He said: “My problem in life is women. A he goat is better than me. I don’t know whether it is a curse on me, when I see a beautiful woman, it would look as if I will die if I don’t sleep with her. I must say that is what pushed me into robbery.”
Grace said he could spend N100,000 on a lady. He said: “I take my women to expensive places. Girls love money. If I go to bank to withdraw some money and I see a beautiful lady on the way, I swear I must pick that lady. I can spend N100,000 on her.”
He revealed that his greatest undoing in life was women.
“Women have spoilt my life and destiny. If I will have the opportunity of coming to this world again, I will be a Reverend Father so that I won’t have the dream of frolicking with women.”
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