Author: Trent

  • POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year

    POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year

    Tyler Hicks, New York Times. Here.

  • Who's killing Putin's enemies?

    The Observer: One day, at the Ninth Municipal Hospital in Grozny, the Chechen capital, Anna Politkovskaya encountered a 62-year-old woman named Aishat Suleimanova whose eyes expressed ‘complete indifference to the world’, as she wrote in a typical piece. ‘And it is beyond one’s strength to look at her naked body. She has been disembowelled like…

  • Canon announces EOS-1D Mark III

    Canon announces EOS-1D Mark III

    RobGalbraith: Canon has taken the wraps off their next 1-series digital SLR. The EOS-1D Mark III is a 10.08 million image pixel, 10 fps digital SLR that offers so many improvements over the model it replaces that it’s best to describe it as a new-from-the-ground-up camera. Here.

  • For Youths, a Grim Tour on Magazine Crews

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    NYT: In Collinsville, Ill., Daniel Burrus scrolled through digital photographs of bloodied faces as he described how, on a crew he helped manage for several years, men who missed their sales quota were forced to fight each other. In Flagstaff, Ariz., Isaac James sat with his wife and newborn daughter as he told how he…

  • In Somalia, Violence Is Status Quo

    In Somalia, Violence Is Status Quo

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    NYT: It is hard to believe, but Somalia is actually becoming a more violent and chaotic place. This is not how it was supposed to be. Nearly two months ago, an internationally supported transitional government ousted the Islamist movement that ruled much of the country and steamed into the capital with great expectations. But confidence…

  • Interview: SCOTT STRAZZANTE

    Interview: SCOTT STRAZZANTE

    A Photo a Day: Since October 2001, besides a couple studio shoots, I have not used a strobe once. Why? First, I want to document reality and that includes the light, If something happens in a dank dark room, I don’t want it to look pretty, I want it to look dank and dark. I…

  • Lights, Bogeyman, Action

    Lights, Bogeyman, Action

    NYT: But the source of his dark-hued lens on life, Mr. Fincher suggested, might be as simple as that original bogeyman. “It was a very interesting and weird time to grow up, and incredibly evocative,” he said. “I have a handful of friends who were from Marin County at the same time, the same age…

  • Anna and the Astronaut Trigger a Week of Tabloid News

    Anna and the Astronaut Trigger a Week of Tabloid News

    PEJ: For the first time this year, “tabloid gold” fever seized at least some of the news media last week in a significant way, according to PEJ’s News Coverage Index from February 4 to February 9. Though it only made up two days of coverage, the sudden death of the Playmate turned heiress turned reality…

  • Radical Islamic Extremists Snowboard Into U.S. Embassy

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    The Onion: American security is not certain how Al-J’Aqasse was allowed to build their custom snowpipe-ramp setup across the street from the embassy, but banners and promotional materials scattered across the blast zone point to the involvement of radical, extreme-sports-beverage bottler Sunni Delight. Here.

  • Paperboy gets tossed this week

    Gamespot: The game, originally released in 1984, featured a bicycle-handlebar-shaped controller that was used to control a neighborhood newspaper-delivery boy. As gamers tried to keep customers happy with well-placed newspapers, they could also earn points by preventing thieves from breaking into homes, knocking over tombstones, or breaking the windows of nonsubscribing houses. The Xbox 360…

  • From Subculture to Major Industry: Mike Warnke and The Roots of Christian Stand-Up Comedy

    From Subculture to Major Industry: Mike Warnke and The Roots of Christian Stand-Up Comedy

    WFMU’s Beware the Blog: Mike Warnke is one of the most famous figures in American Christianity. However, unless you’re a Christian, a Satanist, a scandal fiend, obsessive internet troll, or a vinyl collector, there is still a good chance you don’t know his tale. Mike Warnke is a stand-up comedian. A Christian stand-up comedian. And…

  • Mexican drug war's brutality celebrated on YouTube

    LA Times: In 2005, the Dallas Morning News obtained a copy of a DVD showing unknown kidnappers interrogating four men allegedly working for the Gulf cartel. One of the captives is executed on camera. A Mexican official told the newspaper that video was part of a rival cartel’s “counterintelligence strategy.” The video of that killing…

  • A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

    A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

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    LA Weekly: Bastards starts in the present, then leaps back to the great African-American migration from the South to the West in the mid 20th century. It chronicles the racism black folk encountered upon their arrival, and how they slowly carved neighborhoods and communities of their own. News to many will be the fact (also…

  • Fake Alfa in police net

    Fake Alfa in police net

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    Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: A fraudster known as Kamoru Adeyemi who specializes in duping people through mystical means has had his secrets blown open. The police nabbed him when he was about to collect a supposed gold necklace from his victim, a 16-years-old girl. The police who acted based on information by…

  • Azamat Clothed

    Azamat Clothed

    LA Weekly: As we’ve seen from British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, one actor’s deadpan dedication to heavily accented cultural naiveté in the face of unsuspecting victims can do wonders. But actor Ken Davitian, who played Borat’s bearded and oversized film producer, confidant and…

  • The long awaited… Magnum Photos Blog

    The long awaited… Magnum Photos Blog

    Journal of a Photographer: I was assigned to create the Magnum Blog… The first step back home was to do a layout and design for it. Once the design was ready I started the technical implementation. That proved to be a bigger challenge then I expected. I mean this was not the first blog I…

  • World Press Photo Winners

    World Press Photo Winners

    Amazing collection of winners. An unflinching take on the world. The best photojournalism. Here.

  • Prewar Intelligence Unit at Pentagon Is Criticized

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    NYT: The long-awaited report by the Pentagon’s acting inspector general, Thomas F. Gimble, was sent to Congress on Thursday. It is the first major review to rebuke senior officials working for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for the way intelligence was used before the invasion of Iraq early in 2003. Working under Douglas J. Feith,…

  • Cranberg wants a serious probe of why the press failed in its pre-war reporting

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    Nieman Watchdog: The shortcomings of Iraq coverage were not an aberration. Similar failure is a recurrent problem in times of national stress. The press was shamefully silent, for instance, when American citizens were removed from their homes and incarcerated solely because of their ancestry during World War II. Many in the press were cowed during…

  • In Books, a Clash of Europe and Islam

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    NYT: The resulting stir within the usually well-mannered book world spiked this week when the president of the Circle’s board, John Freeman, wrote on the organization’s blog (bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com): “I have never been more embarrassed by a choice than I have been with Bruce Bawer’s ‘While Europe Slept,’ he wrote. “It’s hyperventilated rhetoric tips from actual…