Author: Trent
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Ami Vitale – Tools for the Freelancer
Link: The changes in our business over the past few years are truly hard to comprehend. I am sympathetic to the difficulties for so many in our business as newspapers and magazines close, jobs are lost, and people struggle to see where the business of journalism is headed. While I read all the epithets, I…
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To Flash? Or Not To Flash? « Sports Shooter Academy
Link: Covering the Academy Awards backstage is the most pressure-filled and difficult assignment I get each year. Dodging huge set pieces, lines of dancers, camera booms, stagehands, “A List” celebs and their handlers all while staying out of sight of the audience and most importantly staying out of the monitors in the production room where…
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professional tourist | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job. A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story. In general, that is all…
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NorthJersey.com: Leica president focused on big picture
Link: It was just a job. I was a year and a half out of college, and at the time it was just a job. I really wasn’t familiar with Leica, other than I owned a 35mm camera. But when you work here you quickly learn about Leica and what a fabulous brand it is.
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The art of the caption | eyecurious
Link: Choosing words to go with photographs is a big issue for us photobloggers. Some of us avoid them, others use them with caution, and some, like me, can’t seem to hold them back. Choosing the right balance between words and images is a very tricky thing and this tightrope walk often makes me think…
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History, Rock 'N' Roll and The Many Lenses of Ethan Russell – A Picture's Worth
Link: I’m appalled by all of it. I hate the celebrity culture, and everything it implies. It’s a sickness that infects the people both behind and in front of the camera. And the audience. Talk about empty calories. I’m also aware that history is not being recorded – and after all these years – I think…
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PDNPulse: Al Gore TV Challenges An Inconvenient Photographer
Link: Ken Light, the San Francisco photographer who won a judgment in February against Al Gore’s cable TV network for unauthorized use of an image, now has to fight to defend his rights again.
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2 Visual Journalists you don’t know, but should – MultimediaShooter
Link: Daniel Mercadante and Maise Crow are two of the best visual journalists at work today, see for yourself.
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Weyman D. Swagger, Baltimore Sun photographer, editor – baltimoresun.com
Link: Weyman D. Swagger, a Baltimore Sun news photographer who became the paper’s first photo editor, died of cancer Wednesday at his Halethorpe home. He was 66.
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A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac – NYTimes.com
A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac (Published 2010) He was the foremost photographer of prewar Eastern European Jewish life. But how real was the image he created? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04shtetl-t.html the collection is also a gold mine. Not only do the unpublished photographs offer a kaleidoscopic view of prewar Jewish life — women in modern dress…
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Streets of Paris: May 16th – 22nd, 2010 – Peter Turnley
Link: Experience the “moveable feast” of Paris, during the glorious light and weather period of Paris in spring or fall. No matter when you visit, the city is an experience of a lifetime. A one week workshop in Paris for students interested in exploring the rich humanistic traditions of street photography in Paris with one…
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Registration Open For NPPA's 2010 Multimedia Immersion Workshop
Link: will be limited to the first 40 applicants. NPPA’s five-day hands-on Multimedia Immersion training be held May 18-22, 2010, at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.
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NYC: Easter Parade today « Mark Tucker
Link: I have no images to show, because I live in the past, and I still shoot film. I cannot instantly stream them to you, in real time. Today was intense — the Easter Parade got a little packed for me. There were people everywhere, packed in on Fifth Avenue, around 50th. Everyone and their…
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A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us – Lens
A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us On Sunday May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.), we hope you’ll be taking a picture that will help us build a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world. We extend the invitation to everyone, everywhere. Amateurs. Students. Pros. People…
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Banksy Revealed? – LA Weekly
Link: The Zorro of street art talks about his new film, Los Angeles and, of course, Mr. Brainwash
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Iranian Memoir | Magnum In Motion
Link: In this essay by Paolo Pellegrin, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran and imagine how their life would have been if they had never left their country.