Author: Trent
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Wooster Collective: Banksy's Opening For The Simpsons
Simpsons via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/DX1iplQQJTo?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0 Carl Kleiner is a still life photographer based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Vandalog » Neck Face Returns This Halloween
Link: Neck Face is back with a new solo show, Into Darkness – which in true Neck Face fashion is naturally opening this Halloween. The show will feature his latest series of drawings, paintings, and sculptures. While maintaining the hand style and imagery now considered his trademark, this body of work introduces new elements into…
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The Visual Student » Internship Perspective: The Herald
Link: It was then that I lost the sense of guilt that used to come from making pictures that didn’t have an actual narrative. I started to become more comfortable with ambiguity and with the sort of timelessness.
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Finding Clarity in Ambiguity: Matt Eich on Rich-Joseph Facun – NYTimes.com
Finding Clarity in Ambiguity So a photographer walks into a bar. And, in the case of Matt Eich, he emerges with a newfound way of looking at the world. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/finding-clarity-in-ambiguity/ It was then that I lost the sense of guilt that used to come from making pictures that didn’t have an actual…
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l e n s c r a t c h: Kurt Jordan
Link: “You want to save it, you should niche it”. From old timers stock gurus to young green microstock expert, they all tell the same tale of potential success : dig yourself into a deep hole where no one else can reach you and stay there.
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Broken Manual « Alec Soth
Link: Un-possible retour is a project in which I am reconstructing and re-photographing selected family photographs in the attempt to reconnect with the past. Drawing from a collection of family snapshots, I focus the attention sharply on the concept of aging while ensuring a consistency of location and use time as a collaborative partner, accepting…
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Friday Shout-Outs, Winking Smiles, and Rousing Toasts – A Picture's Worth
Link: Congrats to the photographers of Facing Change, a nonprofit collective of well-respected writers and photojournalists “who have come together out of a sense of responsibility,” their website reads.
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Petit Le Mans: UGA Photojournalism Workshop | Luceo Images
Link: I was inspired by the students’ energy and their creativity. I laughed a lot with the girls (there was only one male student) I got to know over the day. I pointed out new ways of seeing–layering images, shooting reflections, ways to give images more depth. I was absolutely thrilled to see some students…
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Winners announced: Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2010
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com The top award winners for 2010 are: Portfolio Category Grand Prize: Jessica Hines 2nd Prize: Carolle Benitah 3rd Prize: Louisa Marie Summer Single Image Category Grand Prize: Martine Fougeron 2nd Prize: Albertina d’Urso 3rd Prize: Anne Berry
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Inside North Korea: No one said anything
Link: Suddenly, to the accompaniment of loud brass music, soldiers started marching and filling the square. I took a look back at the balcony where Kim Jong-il was supposed to be seated. I spotted him and to his left was his son, Kim Jong-un. Using my long lens, I kept shooting for a while. It…
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Aperture 3.1 Arrives – MUCH Faster, Many New Features | Aperture Users Network
Link: This is a huge update performance wise. Everything is faster. Zooming, Library switching, everything. Apple clearly spent a lot of time working on the bugs and issues that Mac Create members (and others) have submitted. But there are also a ton of new features, some of which is not immediately obvious from the support…
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Picnic With Sergey | Bruce Gilden | Magnum In Motion
Link: Here’s another picture-heavy post from another amazing warehouse party in Brooklyn. The theme this time was The Forbidden City. Most party-goers and art installations kept with the theme, but others loosely interpreted. Either way, there was a lot to see.
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Tim Hetherington, HOST Podcast
Link: Listen to the audio from his talk below while viewing a slideshow of his work.
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Power of Photojournalism 1/2
Link: In February 1993, Darcy Padilla was photographing a team of doctors and social workers in San Francisco who cared for people with AIDS who were too sick to make it to a clinic. She envisioned the story as an updated urban version of W. Eugene Smith’s epic 1948 photo essay “Country Doctor.”
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FT Magazine – How Annie got shot
Link: The Annie Leibovitz story, however, is more than a tale of a photographer who got absorbed into the high-spending world of the people she portrays. It is a reflection of something unexpected – that, despite all her celebrity and talent, Leibovitz lacks earning power as an artist.
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The Transformation Of Pathology Into Pathos Or The Military Does What It Does And It Does It We « The Spinning Head
Link: What confuses me is the thought behind the video and comments: Michael Kamber is surprised that a system meticulously designed to censor the likes of him, is…..censoring him. Isn’t this precisely what this system is designed to do?
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New York Times photographer severely wounded in Afghanistan – British Journal of Photography
Link: Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, has been severely wounded in Afghanistan after he stepped on a mine, the newspaper has announced
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Lightroom 3.3 and Camera Raw 6.3 Available on Adobe Labs « Lightroom Journal
Link: This release also introduces the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader. The Lens Profile Downloader is a free companion application to Photoshop CS5, Photoshop Lightroom 3, and the Camera Raw 6 plug-in. It allows customers to search, download, rate and comment on the online lens correction profiles that are created and shared by the user community
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It's Mystery Photo Contest Time! – A Picture's Worth
Link: How many photo contests did you get emailed about today? Some photo contests take themselves a little too seriously. This isn’t one of them.
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Personal Projects: Stephen Voss talks about his “91 Days” project | dvafoto
Link: Stephen Voss, a photographer based in the Washington DC area, announced a personal project earlier this year called 91 Days. For the 91 days of spring he would make one 4×5 instant picture a day in his backyard and send it to those who sent in an email asking to reserve a day.