Author: Trent
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Cesuralab’s Micalizzi and Majoli photograph the Egyptian revolution | dvafoto
Link: This morning I saw Newsweek’s gallery of remarkable images Alex Majoli took in Cairo last week: “The Agony and the Ecstasy”. A few minutes later I got an email from a friend at Cesuralab inviting me to look at a series of pictures by photographer Gabriele Micalizzi also from Egypt.
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PETER BESTE: "True Norwegian Black Metal" (2008)
Peter Beste’s ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’ (2008) Leather, spikes, face paint, and brandished weapons are standard and go along with a clearly stated stance of outsider-dom. King of Hell Intro from True Norwegian Black Metal, 2008 By Johan Kugelberg and Peter Beste Over the last two decades, a bizarre and violent musical subculture c via…
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Misha Erwitt: Street Smart « The Leica Camera
Link: A native New Yorker, Misha Erwitt grew up around photography and some of the best photographers in the world and was incurably bitten by the photography bug. After a career that includes an 11-year stint as a staffer for the New York Daily News and a three-year association with Magnum shooting internationally, this brilliant…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: ShutterSnitch updated to v2.0.2
Link: What Fernando Brito (a photojournalist from Mexico) seeks with his images, is that the next time someone sees a photo of a human being who has perished, they would cease looking at violent deaths as a normal, everyday occurance.
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How do you make life better at a newspaper? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Link: I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a follow up to the post about what is a newspaper photograph, offering some thoughts about how to improve life in newsprint.
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Panasonic GH2 Revisited
Link: having shot some 3,000 frames of stills and quite a bit of video, it’s time to revisit the GH2 in print and discuss my experience working with it in real-world rather than quick-first-test conditions.
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King of Spain Prize Daniel Aguilar | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: Mexican photojournalist Daniel Aguilar has won the Prize for Photography in the 2011 King of Spain International Journalism Prize, for an image taken in Haiti after the devasting earthquake last year.
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How Long Will Your Photo Prints Last? – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: What’s the real lifespan, or “shelf life” of a photographic print? Do ink-jet based prints last longer than prints made with traditional photo chemical-based processes? As a photographer selling prints, should you know the answers to these questions?
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4 Scams That Target Photographers – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: These days, anyone can become the victim of a scams or fraud – including photographers. New scams are being invented all the time, especially online, where anonymity is the norm. But there are 4 scams that target the photography world specifically, so I thought I would describe how they work, and what you can…
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World Press Photo’s Afghan War » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: It used to be you won an award and people would say nice things, at least to your face; now it’s an excuse for a mob to take to the Internet and vilify you. In the week since Jodi Bieber’s portrait of Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman disfigured by her family – who…
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Art & Photography: Elena Zhukova | Feature Shoot
Link: Elena Zhukova is a San Francisco-based photography student currently attending the Academy of Art University. Of her work, she writes, ‘The purpose of my photographs is to illustrate the magnitude and vast range of human character and individuality in fictitious ways.
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Magnum Photos' tagging game – British Journal of Photography
Link: Magnum Photos has opened up its enormous archive of images to a wider client base using the very latest keywording technology. Philip Wolmuth speaks to the agency
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Conflict Zone: A groundbreaking look at war
Link: CONFLICT ZONE is a collection of images from the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, captured by some of the world’s leading combat photographers and journalists.
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Tim Hetherington speaks to Jon Levy
via digitalcameraworld: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com Reporter, documentarian, artist, film maker or visual communicator? Tim Hetherington seems comfortable in all of these guises…
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How do you avoid making a cliché? – Picture Editor : Mike Davis
Link: Avoiding clichés requires one of two things: An original approach or an unexplored subject matter and ideally, both. In other words, figuring out a new way to make pictures of a tried and true subject is one way. This usually means telling a specific, dynamic story. The other is to discover or conceive of…
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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.
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Melissa Lyttle Appointed To NPPA's Board Of Directors
Link: Melissa Lyttle, a staff photojournalist for the St. Petersburg Times and the founder of the popular Web site “A Photo A Day” and Geekfest, has been appointed to the National Press Photographers Association’s board of directors by NPPA president Sean D. Elliot.
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New York: A photographer’s city | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: In New York: A photographer’s city, the American megalopolis is once again stripped naked. More than 300 images by emerging artists shed light on the current state of urban photography.
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Brian Lanker, 64, Loses Brief Battle With Cancer
Link: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Brian Lanker, a newspaper and Life magazine, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated photographer whose book “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America” was one of the most successful photography books ever, has died at his home in Eugene after battling pancreatic cancer for less than…