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We're Just Sayin: China On My Mind
But in the end, the change needs to take place in your own head, your own creative center. Trying to understand and see something for the umpteeth time, and make it look new and exciting, is the ultimate challenge all photographers face, and even more so in the two weeks of the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, it’s more than easy to just slip into some kind of modified version of “I did this 4 years ago already.. what am I doing here?”
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Editorial Photographers UK | Photographer killed in South Ossetia
Alexander Klimchuk has become the first photographer to die in the war in South Ossetia. He was 27.
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Photography as a Weapon – Errol Morris – Zoom – New York Times Blog
As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and apologies. For me it raised a series of questions about images.[1] Do they provide illustration of a text or an idea of evidence of some underlying reality or both? And if they are evidence, don’t we have to know that the evidence is reliable, that it can be trusted?
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Lenovo unveils ThinkPad W700 laptop geared to pro photographers
Lenovo today has unveiled the ThinkPad W700, a widescreen 17 inch Windows laptop that has been developed expressly for the working digital photographer
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Magnum Photos – Susan Meiselas – Photography – New York Times
Susan Meiselas is looking a bit shaken. She has just heard that her trip to Guinea, scheduled to start the next day, has been canceled; her driver there has been assaulted and is fleeing the country. She is working with Human Rights Watch photographing child domestic workers, and clearly someone didn’t like it.
Her assignment was meant as a sequel to her photographs of Indonesian maids in Singapore last year. “It’s a strange thing to have your knapsack filled with film and cameras and be stopped on track,” she said.
She was in this southern French city to help commemorate the 60th anniversary of Magnum, the photographers’ agency she joined at 26. Some of her work, which covers a range that includes war in Nicaragua and sadomasochism in New York, is on display alongside that of her Magnum colleagues at the city’s annual photographic festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles.
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Nollywood (Nigerian movie biz) captured in Pieter Hugo's photos – Boing Boing
Photographer Pieter Hugo, whose work I’ve blogged about before, has a spectacular new series of images out about Nigeria’s homegrown movie stars.
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War in South Ossetia – The Big Picture – Boston.com
On Thursday, August 7th, Georgian armed forces entered into the breakaway region of South Ossetia to assert Georgian governance of the region – a de facto (yet largely unrecognized) independent republic that has support from neighboring Russia. Russia responded on August 8th by sending its own military into Georgia – not only into region of South Ossetia – but also into the nearby breakaway republic of Abkhazia and deeper into Georgia itself. Many Airstrikes and ground skirmishes have taken place since, with several parties calling for a cease-fire, but no agreement as yet. Those paying the highest price for the war are the South Ossetian civilians, which may have suffered (depending on who is reporting) between 100 and 2,000 deaths to date
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Beijing Olympic 2008 opening ceremony giant firework footprints 'faked' – Telegraph
As the ceremony got under way with a dramatic, drummed countdown, viewers watching at home and on giant screens inside the Bird’s Nest National Stadium watched as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks processed gloriously above the city from Tiananmen Square.
What they did not realise was that what they were watching was in fact computer graphics, meticulously created over a period of months and inserted into the coverage electronically at exactly the right moment.Check it out here.
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Local Media in a Postmodern World: A Reasonable View of Tomorrow – The Digital Journalist
As the disruption to the mass media business models of traditional media becomes more acute, more and more veteran journalists are beginning to ask how the business of news will be funded. Of course, this question comes from a belief that professional news — that which is funded by advertising — is a permanent institutional structure, and this is problematic at best. Now that advertisers are voting with their money, journalists are crying “foul” and desperately seeking another model to sustain what increasingly comes off as a sense of entitlement.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: More on the Whole Simon Blint Fiasco
How sad, for you Thomas. And, everyone rallying around your opinion here. Is there any justice at all to a one-sided rant? This to me is where blogging loses it’s credibility, by the second. I see that you tried to make some grand statement about the rights of photographers, but your method for doing so is selfish, immature, and actually rather cruel. Do you know Simon Blint? Do you have any idea of what it means to be able to safely and securely bring art to the masses? I do, on both accounts. I have worked at SFMOMA. You have used this incident to construct a rather flimsy soap box.
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Tim Hussin: fresh air
Every so often, I need to dump all this crap out of my head. I’ve spent so much time learning and assimilating so much into the way I shoot that I just need to forget. To let go of everything and just shoot the way I want. To not have to worry about deadlines and expectations. Standards and content. The pictures might be worthless, but at least it instills some new sense of freedom and rekindles that passion that I sometimes lose when photography starts to become work.
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Stepfather in a torture mess
The pastor, who spoke to Daily Sun had this to say, “I am the shepherd of the church. I do repair handsets, so one of my members gave me a handset. I told him to return it or face the consequences. The boy dared me and could not return the handset. So, I got angry and decided to deal with him.”
He continued: “Actually, when I was beating him, he was unruffled, which made me to resort to a higher punishment. I only tied his two hands to the back and locked him up in a room without food and water so that he could learn his lessons. Unfortunately, I did not know that the hands would be destroyed. I am not happy but I believe in miracles. I know God will intervene and heal him.”
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Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Photography is Not a Crime
from the ever-quotable Thomas Hawk:Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SF MOMA is a first rate a*hole.
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Battle Cry – Taunting the Bear – NYTimes.com
The border between Georgia and Russia, in short, has been the driest of tinder; the only question was where the fire would start.
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Russia widens attacks as world pleads for peace in South Ossetia | World news | The Observer
The latest moves come amid concern over the civilian death toll on both sides, which appeared to have reached 2,000 yesterday. The first horrific images began emerging from the Georgian town of Gori, bombed yesterday by Russian jets, where up to 60 civilians died when bombs landed on two apartment blocks in a town that Georgia has been using as a military staging post for its assault on South Ossetia.
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John Edwards scandal rocks US media | World news | The Observer
When former presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted to having an extramarital affair this weekend he faced an outpouring of recrimination. But a lot of ire has now been aimed at the mainstream media in America, which did not report on the story even as it became a national talking point on the internet and late-night television.
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