Author: Trent
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The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto
Link: I was especially interested in this discussion because an old colleague of Scott and mine, Daniel Etter, recently completed an embed himself with a US Medevac unit and worked on his story Medevac, which we are also featuring in this post. I thought to ask him what his view was on the current hubbub,…
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Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil: Scott Nelson Tells What It's Like – NYTimes.com
Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil Scott Nelson, who has been in Cairo for a decade, finds reason for very cautious optimism in the events that have upended his adopted home. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/cairo-photographer-sees-hope-in-turmoil/ Scott Nelson, 40, is a freelance photographer who works regularly for The New York Times. He’s from Denver but has…
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DxOMark Sensor For Benchmarking Cameras
Link: This article thus addresses various interrelated questions: What do the DxOMark Sensor results mean? How valid are the benchmark scores? Why do large sensors outperform smaller ones? Why don’t MPixels say much about image quality? What can we learn about the cameras and industry from the DxOMark data?
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Nadav Kander by Thomas Erber | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: Nadav Kander is exhibiting together with Robert Polidori at Camera Work in Berlin. For La Lettre, Thomas Erber talked to him about his award winning series Yangtze – The Long River and the importance of exhibiting.
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Martin Bureau from Tunisia | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: His father, Henri Bureau, is a photojournalistic legend. For more than twenty years, he has shared that passion with his son, Martin. Martin now works for the AFP. In the new serie in La Lettre, ”Sons and daughters of…” – where we introduce you to a second generation photographers, he provides us with his…
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Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil: Scott Nelson Tells What It's Like – NYTimes.com
Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil Scott Nelson, who has been in Cairo for a decade, finds reason for very cautious optimism in the events that have upended his adopted home. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/cairo-photographer-sees-hope-in-turmoil/ Scott Nelson, 40, is a freelance photographer who works regularly for The New York Times. He’s from Denver but has…
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Egyptian army cracks down on photographers [update] – British Journal of Photography
Link: Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early…
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The Woman in the 'Family of Man' Family: Misha Erwitt on His Mother – NYTimes.com
The Woman in the ‘Family of Man’ Family A lot has been said about this photograph, but Misha Erwitt (whose mother and sister are shown) says its greatest meaning comes from its place in his family. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/the-woman-in-the-family-of-man-family/ “I make fewer than 50 photographs a year. For every exposure I make, I spend…
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INSI Advisory – News crews in Egypt facing increasing threats to their safety
Link: News crews covering the violent clashes in Egypt are facing increased threats to their safety, amid reports that a growing number are being targeted by protesters loyal to President Hosni Mubarak, angry at the foreign media’s coverage of the situation in the country.
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Conscientious | Moa Karlberg
Link: “The project Watching you watch me is discovering how a photographer can get as close as possible to others, without acting illegal. I have taken portraits of people through a mirror, when they are totally unaware of the camera inside. This way I get shots of people watching themselves.”
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On The Front Lines in Cairo with Photojournalist Matthew Cassel – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: Things are changing fast in Egypt right now, and freelance photographer and journalist Matthew Cassel is experiencing it head-on. Cassel, who has been living and traveling throughout the Middle East since the age of 21 and speaks near fluent Arabic, is covering the events as they unfold in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
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Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo: Nine Photographers Describe Their Experience – NYTimes.com
Link: Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible. According to interviews on Thursday with nine photojournalists…
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Shop Talk: Equipment Insurance | Prime Collective
Link: Last month I was robbed along with two colleagues of mine while we were sleeping. No one was hurt – we slept through the whole thing. But… they made off with about 10,000 in photography equipment and laptops. Luckily I was insured. After going through this experience I wanted to take the time to…
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Photo Mechanic for $60! 15th Anniversary Sale – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: Russell Frederick has been documenting the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn as part of an ongoing project since 1999. Mr. Frederick, 40, is a member of Kamoinge, a New York-based collective and is working on his first solo exhibition “Black.” Mr. Frederick spoke with me this week in New York.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon announces development of 200-400mm with integrated 1.4X teleconverter, new Speedlites and refreshed Rebel digital SLRs
Link: Today, I decided to concentrate on the chairs that people put out by the curb. In an hour of driving around the streets in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, I photographed well over 50 different types of chairs.
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Hot Fujifilm X100 Gets U.S Price, Full Specs | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Hot Fujifilm X100 Gets U.S Price, Full Specs Fujifilm’s hot, retro-tastic X100 has finally gotten a U.S launch date, a price, and a proper spec sheet. The 12.3MP camera will be available in March for $1,200. We already know about the fancy new hybrid viewfinder, which works as a big, bright optical finder and can…
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Self-Made Men: Building your own cameras – British Journal of Photography
Link: Does the everyday conformity of digital SLR cameras leave you cold? Then take a lead from the four photographers here, for whom off-the-shelf kit is just too conventional. So they decided to make their own…
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Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed, by Frédéric Chaubin
Link: Frédéric Chaubin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed published by Taschen. Frédéric Chaubin is the editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. He reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture.
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Tribune photographer loses decision in appeals court
Link: The long-debated argument over First Amendment rights and media access were at the center of a federal appeals court decision this week, which ruled police had the right to handcuff an Oakland Tribune newspaper photographer and bar him from taking pictures of a freeway crash scene.