Author: Trent
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Phase One releases Capture One 6.2
Phase One has upgraded its raw workflow applications Capture One Pro and Capture One Express to vers
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Elisabeth Biondi In Conversation with Adriana Teresa, FotoVisura
Link: Categorizing photography is controversial. For example, the category of ‘photojournalism’, in my opinion, is an exceedingly narrow definition. It traditionally demanded that photography be defined as close to events as they unfolded avoiding interpretation. When I started working with GEO in the 70’s, it meant something extremely narrow and factual, and today we might,…
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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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Al Jazeera’s Matt Allard – Covering The Disaster In Japan
Link: When the teams finally came together, we loaded up with food and water so we would be self sufficient and then split into two teams to head up north. We drove for hours through the cold night. It was pitch dark as there was no electricity in the affected areas and we were shaken…
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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.
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The LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition 2011
Link: Welcome to the 2011 LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition. I am always excited to see how photographers choose to express themselves through self portraiture. A big thank you to all the contributing photographers for sharing your inner and outer selves, your humor, your life, and revelations. The genre of self portraiture is a universal expression of…
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PDN Gear Review: Fujifilm FinePix X100 Digital Camera
Link: Combining the latest in technology with a retro-cool look and feel from 45 years ago, the Fujifilm FinePix X100 is perhaps the most highly anticipated camera of the year
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Martin Schoeller Shoots The Time 100 (video)
Link: Ashley Macknica has worked as a freelance photo editor at Jane Magazine and New York Magazine. In part two of our webinar series entitled How We Hire Photographers, Ashley discusses the important of persistence and “repetitive exposure” in getting a photo editor’s attention.
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Weekly Collection 88
Link: Fuji says that the X100 was designed by photographers, for photographers. Even Fuji themselves consider the X100 the “professionals choice” and at $1200 it is priced up there with some very good DSLR cameras, but those who are interested in this camera are NOT interested in a big old DSLR. Nope, those who want…
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The Fuji X100 Digital Camera Real World Review by Steve Huff
The Fuji X100 Digital Camera Real World Review by Steve Huff | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo The Fuji X100 Real World Review Does it live up to the Hype? By Steve Huff WooHoo! The Fuji X100 is HERE and my review is EARLY! The Fuji X100 has been one of the most anticipated camera…
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500px Shows Promise as Sort of a More Artistic Version of Flickr
For the past week or so I’ve been spending some time playing around with the photosharing site 500p
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“Billions wasted and nothing achieved: nothing, nothing, nothing achieved…”
Thanks @simoncroberts for turning us on to this: In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of n
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Rodrigo Abd, Feature Photography Award
Link: The Feature Photography Award for “best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme” was given to Rodrigo Abd of Associated Press for his story on an emergency room in Guatemala.
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Lynsey Addario – Olivier Rebbot Award
Link: The Olivier Rebbot Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books” was given to Lynsey Addario for her National Geographic story “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”.
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Collection of thoughts in Osama bin Laden death photo debate
Link: Martijn Kleppe has compiled a good and broad-ranging list of writing and reactions about the images surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden.
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In Tender Moments, a War's High Cost
In Tender Moments, a War’s High Cost Marcus Yam and Philippe Brault win the first-ever World Press Photo multimedia awards. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/in-tender-moments-a-wars-high-cost/ Many poignant ways have been found to express the cost of wartime deployment on the families left behind. Few have affected me as immediately as a moment in “The Home Front”…
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World Press Photo releases iPad app of winning images
Link: It costs $4.99. Right now, the app has the 350 winning images and an interactive map of locations of the pictures, in addition to captions, photographer biographies and camera information (which seems like a weird thing to include).
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A Family Tragedy in a Neo-Nazi Home
A Family Tragedy in a Neo-Nazi Home Julie Platner counted on Jeff Hall as entree to the National Socialist Movement. She could not have counted on how the story would end. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/a-family-tragedy-in-a-neo-nazi-home/ It took about six months, Julie Platner said, to persuade anyone in the neo-Nazi movement to let her photograph the…
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Family asks for access to missing photographer
Link: The fate of UK-based photojournalist Anton Hammerl remains unknown, 37 days after he went missing in Libya
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Money and Art, Art and Money
Link: Amongst the many things that he said he noted that today most photographers seemed to be thinking about their careers (gallery shows) first and about their photography second. He argued that was the wrong approach.