Author: Trent
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The rise and fall of an Internet sensation
Link: Thomas Bruso’s already unpredictable life took an abrupt detour. It was the day he ceased being Thomas Bruso and became Epic Beard Man, Internet sensation.
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B: Street Photographer tournament
Street Photographer tournament This spring Tyler Green conducted an interesting experiment on Modern Art Notes . He chose 32 nominees for Greatest Living American Abstra… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2010/05/street-photography-tournament.html I’ve decided to set up a similar tournament for Street Photography. I’ve chosen 64 of the best Street Photographers in history, seeded them, and designed a tournament bracket.
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PDNPulse: NYPH: Advice for Emerging Photographers (And Others)
Link: The Aperture Foundation’s two-part seminar on Strategies for Emerging Photographers began Thursday afternoon with presentations by three artists who have taken advantage of community building, grants and other opportunities in advancing their careers. Denise Wolff, an Aperture book editor who hosted the seminar, began by noting the importance of “staying in touch with the…
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Adrian Valenzuela does the Derby. | A Photography Blog
Link: I planned on lighting the rink with multiple lights but quickly learned that Roller Rinks built way back when don’t have electrical codes of today. The only available outlet I found was at a DJ booth pretty far from the track. I was only able to use one light that night, but it was…
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7 Mistakes To Avoid as a Photographer – Assignment Chicago
Link: In the almost 20 years I’ve been shooting, I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I’ve seen colleagues do the same, to the extent that we remark on them and try to find ways to solve them. I’ve tried to highlight the 7 below that seem to be the most common or the most dangerous…
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with Yann Gross
Link: Almost everybody wants to belong to a group or a family and share their daily life activities/experiences. To define their own identities is important for every human being and to be part of a community is universal… I’m interested how people interact and behave in a group, the use of symbols or dress codes.
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The Motorbike Diaries: The Children of Rach Gia | Luceo Images
Link: Millions of flies cover the ground. As I walk they fly up and back down again like an ocean wave. Every other second they land on me. I constantly swipe them away until I just give in to the feeling of an insect crawling on my skin. I look at the people in the…
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Thomas Hawk » Is Imagelogr.com Trying to Be the Largest Copyright Infringer of All Time?
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/05/is-imagelogr-com-trying-to-be-the-largest-copyright-infringer-of-all-time.html Imagelogr claims to be scraping the entire “free web” and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available…
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Arizona Photojournalist Randy Reid, 49
Link: Photojournalist Randy Reid, who was a staff photographer for more than two decades at the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette, died May 19 after a long battle with cancer. He was 49.
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New Photo Essays from Peter Turnley
Link: I have just updated my website with 12 new photo essays, made in recent times. I am passionate about visual story telling in photo essay form, and about the process of creating a visual narrative that can ask as many questions as affirm answers. I am also passionate about trying to make 2 and…
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Student Project Award – The 10 Finalists | Luceo Images
Link: With this being our first year for the Award, we didn’t really know what to expect. But we were completely blown away with the turn out – 43 different schools and universities were represented, spanning the globe from the US to Germany to Bangladesh to Denmark to the UK. We were also very pleased…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon releases firmware v2.0.7 for EOS 5D Mark II
Link: Fukase’s images are grainy, dark and impressionistic. Often, he magnifies his negatives or overexposes them, aiming all the time for mood over technical refinement. He photographs flocks from a distance, and single birds that appear like black silhouettes against grey, wintry skies. They are captured in flight, blurred and ominous, and at rest, perching…
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Paparazzi Success Secrets: Insider Tips, Patience, and Exclusivity – A Picture's Worth
Link: Just because I am not breaking any laws does not always mean I am welcomed by the crew to shoot candid photos. If I am discovered shooting and they decide they don’t want images getting out, they may go to great measures to prevent me from getting my shots. Some ways a film production…
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LIFE Photographer Myron Davis, 1919-2010
Link: Davis’s archive contains thousands of subjects, including a photo essay on an Iowa farm boy and his dog, the last photos of film comedienne Carole Lombard at an Indiana war bond rally (her plane crashed on the way back to California), as well as portraits of General Dwight Eisenhower, President Franklin Roosevelt, and famed…
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Insult to Injury: AFP Suing Photographer It Stole Images From
Link: It’s hard to explain a mind-blowing mess like this one, but AFP is suing a Haitian photojournalist for “antagonistic assertion of [his] rights” after it distributed his news-breaking earthquake photos all over the world without his permission.
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Lu Guang Wins National Geographic Photography Grant
Link: “His work is a testament to the power of how a single photographer, armed with a vision, can really [communicate] to the rest of the world,” says Kurt Mutchler, Executive Editor of photography at National Geographic.
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Oskar Barnack Award Winner Jens Olof Lasthein « The Leica Camera
Link: The pictures are made in Abkhazia, one of the small breakaway republics of Georgia. I went there because I was curious about life in a country which didn’t formally exist: What is life like in a country marked by war, isolation and not recognized, with no or limited possibilities to travel abroad or having contact…
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Photo Essay: Muse by Jocelyn Bain Hogg
VII Photo – VII Foundation VII VII is synonymous with courageous and impactful journalism. In 2001, the dawn of the digital era enabled the creation of VII Photo Agency. It drove VII to prominence during the aftermath of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the c via VII Foundation: http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=1128 Choosing…
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Mostly True: Free Milk
Link: In the midst of all of this, photographers have made the collective decision, I suppose following the lead set by publishers, to try and keep their customers happy by working for free.