Author: Trent
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What Buyers Want from Photographers
Link: Our free e-book “What Buyers Want from Photographers” is a compilation of information gleaned from our survey of 500 photo buyers and editors that we created in conjunction with our friends at Agency Access. The 40-page PDF is deigned to help photographers fine tune their marketing efforts and portfolio website with direct guidance from…
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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Pencil: BREAKING NEWS
Link: For the record, this was billed as: World Extreme Pencil Fighting Championships WXPFL VIII: Hard Wood. ”The Schoolyard Sport of Pencil Fighting goes Pro! Pencil vs. Pencil Until Somebody Breaks!”
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei
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Tim Hetherington
Two years ago I was working as a Sundance producer for Park City’s KPCW radio station. One of my pri
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Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post
Link: These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
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Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya Photograph by Matt Stuart.Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Wat via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html As recently as yesterday, Hetherington tweeted about “indiscriminate shelling”…
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For What It's Worth
Link: Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed yesterday in Misrata, Libya. I didn’t know Tim. I respected his work and how he went about creating it. I did know Chris. He was a friend and a man I deeply admired.
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War Photographers Change Focus
Link: I have talked a lot over the years to war photographers about their work. But I had to wonder this week when it becomes too much. In several interviews, some of the best visual artists of this generation talked about how they realized it was time to step away. They’re still focused on conflict…
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Great Balls Of Fire!
Link: Yep, this was my first trip to The Bluegrass State, an eye-opening, eyebrow-singeing voyage to photograph the semi-annual Machine Gun Shootout in the sticks outside of Louisville.
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The Chris Hondros photograph that changed me
Link: I remember my mother pulling a picture out of our local Seattle Times newspaper for me, running large on the third page. A news picture tucked inside the paper, sitting on its own, was odd to see. It was as if the editors thought they had to get a great picture published even if…
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Flavor Flav pulls name from Iowa fried chicken restaurant : SFGate: Daily Dish
Link: But Flav isn’t giving up on the catering business – he’s secured a deal to open Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor in Las Vegas next month. The venue will feature a restaurant, a bar, a studio and a stage for live performances.
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Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 now available
Link: Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.
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Kamber response to Teru's attacks | Lightstalkers
Link: Though you were in New York, thousands of miles away from where the two were killed, you immediately publicly criticized these photographers—both with decades of experience—for their own deaths. Your Facebook post reads, “Four guys hit with the same round were too close together.” In fact, they may have been climbing into a truck…
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GeekFest, a brief history of
Link: GeekFest. The most frequently asked question is “what is it?!” Well, it’s the best little photo conference with the worst, geekiest name out there.
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Winners announced in Sony World Photography Awards
Link: While Argentinian Alejandro Chaskielberg won the top prize at the Sony World Photography Awards, more than 30 photographers have received commendations in 13 professional categories
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When does a photograph become dishonest?
Link: Several people have mentioned this lately so I thought I’d start down a path on the subject here. Honesty in photography is an issue that has been around for decades and will never go away but it’s only an issue in the purist of journalistic environments. Which makes sense, I guess.
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Night Life (3 Photos)
Link: The residents of communities in Ghana live half of their lives in the dark, without electricity, from the time the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6 am. “Life Without Lights” began as a brief story idea for DiCAmpo while he was living & volunteering in rural Ghana. During that time DiCampo says,…
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Agnes Dherbeys Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Link: ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. Winner: AGNES DHERBEYS Freelance for The New York Times – “Violence Erupts in Thailand” THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD – Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books. Winner: LYNSEY ADDARIO, National Geographic – “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”…
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Untouchable blood-camera goes to Africa for HIV portrait series
Link: Wayne Martin Belger created the blood camera, which incorporates HIV-infected blood that acts as a red filter for portraits of HIV+ people.