Author: Trent
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Haiti by VII
Link: Haiti has always been a land of beauty and pain, of light and darkness. When a catastrophic earthquake hit the island on Tuesday, January 12th, the world was shaken by the magnitude of the destruction and human suffering. In this story for VII The Magazine, photographers James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Lynsey Addario and Benjamin…
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Police raid offices of JMU's paper, seize 900 photos | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Link: Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha L. Garst, armed with a search warrant and accompanied by the officers, showed up unannounced about 10:30 a.m., said Katie Thisdell, editor-in-chief of The Breeze. “She said if you don’t release all of them, we are prepared to take everything out of this office — all the computers, the cameras, documents,…
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The Motorbike Diaries: Fan | Luceo Images
Link: I’ve seen a lot during my two years in Vietnam. I know what poor is and I know what discomfort is. There really isn’t a lot that catches me off guard any more. Maybe it’s that I am jaded or just accepting that some times life is shit and people suffer … period. But…
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Free 3 Day HDDSLR Cinema Workshop starts streaming on April 30th « Vincent Laforet
Link: The workshop is FREE throughout the 3 day stream.
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Idurre Alonso (Curator, MoLAA): In Conversation – The New York Photo Festival
Link: IA: Since photography in Latin America encompasses all types of aesthetics including documentary, conceptual and experimental formats, among others, heterogeneity is probably its only unifying element. What is clear to me is that Latin American photography moves in multiple ways; in some instances the works reflect the contextual realities of their site production while…
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Danny Ghitis: A Thin Line | Pangea Photo Blog
Link: From the day he died until his burial on April 18th, Poland was enraptured with mourning ceremonies. In the end the Kaczynskis were entombed at Wawel Castle, where kings and national heroes have been traditionally buried. No other modern figure lies in its catacombs. This decision went largely uncontested aside from a few protests.…
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Clint Grant, longtime Dallas Morning News photographer, dies at 93
Link: Donald C. “Clint” Grant developed a national reputation for the humorous feature photos he took of animals during his long career with The Dallas Morning News.
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A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise – NYTimes.com
A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise (Published 2010) This case pitted Mr. Gore and Current TV against Ken Light, a photojournalist and an outspoken advocate for fair compensation for journalists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23sfmetro.html The art, a photograph, belonged to a Berkeley professor, and Mr. Gore and Current TV had used it without…
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PDNPulse: Producers of New Instant Film for Polaroid Cameras To Open New York Store
Link: The Impossible Project, which in March announced the success of their effort re-engineer analog instant film packs for Polaroid cameras, will open a New York store and gallery on April 30.
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Louis Porter, Melbourne
Link: Louis Porter was born in the north of England in 1977 and has been based in Melbourne, Australia since 2001.
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Anatomy of a Winning Grant Proposal: Louie Palu's Kandahar Project
Link: The full text of Palu’s proposal is posted here on the Alexia Foundation web site. We asked judges to explain what made it a winner.
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On Assignment: One year on from tragedy, unexpected results.
Link: I was photographing environmental portraits and human portraits of a town affected by a mass shooting in March 2009. Amongst the people that I was photographing, there was a man who had lost his wife in the murders. His name is Omri and he had lost his wife, Dolores, and grieved deeply for her.…
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David Farkas Photography Blog: Using the Leica S2
Link: Even though I wasn’t out to review a new camera, but rather just use it for myself, I did take note of a few things
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l e n s c r a t c h: Adam Panczuk
Link: a project depicting the transformation of Polish village. His focus is on the relationship between human being and nature and on the essence of humanity in relation to the earth, the seasons, and passing away and birth as inseparable elements
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Legendary Picture Editor John G. Morris To Receive ICP Lifetime Achievement Award
Link: Now living in France, Morris, 93, has been called “the world’s most influential photography editor.” While working for Life magazine in the early 1940s he was Robert Capa’s picture editor on D-Day in World War II, and his friends Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour picked him to be Magnum Photos’ executive…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: ShutterSnitch for iPhone, iPad combines FTP server and automatic photo display
Link: ShutterSnitch for iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad combines an FTP server, automatic display of incoming JPEGs, pinch zooming and more into a neat app for photographers using a wireless transmitter or Eye-Fi card.
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Photoshop Action Disasters | Photos Ruined by Actions
Link: TIP OF THE DAY: Black instead of magenta in the shadows, a natural skin-tone and eyes that look real would make this kid happy again. Happy and healthy is a good look, try that instead.