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Berlin: Christian Chaize
Link: “Eight years ago, Portugal did present itself as a new landscape in my life – both literally and metaphorically. Since then, I have photographed exclusively along a very small stretch of its southern coastline. Returning to this specific place, I’ve sought out its nuances. In doing so, I have peeled back layers of how…
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The Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Review by Steve Huff
The Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Review by Steve Huff | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Review By Steve Huff follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and now Google + Buy the NEX-7 at B&H Photo HERE! I will start off this review of the long awaited Sony NEX-7 by saying that this…
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Winning photographs & multimedia: Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com We’re pleased to announce the winners of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011 – the best in global photography and multimedia. The nine top winners and 25 honorable mention winners represent work from 14 countries.
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Providence – Mustafah Abdulaziz and Justin Maxon
Link: “Providence” A roadtrip across America by Mustafah Abdulaziz and Justin Maxon. Produced by Peter Earl McCollough
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Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead
Link: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is “an extended meditation on the political economy of fate” as Geoffrey Batchen describes it in the essay included in the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition. Simon’s new series explores the relationships between chance, blood and fate and records the effects of a combination of factors—territory,…
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Ronan Guillou Angel
Link: With a majestic preface by Wim Wenders, Ronan Guillou’s first work arrives under the highest auspices. The fruit of a years-long trek across 17 American states (like the photographer in Wenders’ Alice in the City), Angel depicts an America in suspense.
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Camera Bits to demonstrate Photo Mechanic 5, Photo Mechanic Catalog
Link: Photo Mechanic 5: -New and improved professional look and feel with additional features in the main contact sheet view. Non-modal preview window can be kept open on a second monitor. Thumbnail strips can be either on top or on left. -Crops can now be rotated to arbitrary angles to match the…
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Good Clean Fun
Link: 5K Foam Fest in Ogden, an obstacle course full of soapy Slip’n Slides and water hazards. As if Utah doesn’t already have a reputation across the land for keeping their program clean cut.
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Pierrot Men: Poetry in Black and White
Link: Marian Nur Goni of Africultures had the chance to speak with Pierrot Men, a key figure in Madagascan photography and well beyond. He just published a monographic series retracing thirty years of work
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Halloween Photos of New York, Not on Halloween
When the City Was a House of Horrors In the late 1970s and early 1980s New York as a whole resembled a haunted house. The photographer John Conn spent those years documenting the subway system — which is to say, the dungeon in the haunted house’s basement. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/when-the-city-was-a-house-of-horrors/ The late 1970s and…
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JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART: “Camden” (2008)
Jean-Christian Bourcart: “Camden” (2008) This is absurd. I just searched the Web for the most dangerous city in the United States. By Jean-Christian Bourcart This is absurd. I just searched the Web for the most dangerous city in the United States. I wanted to rediscover that strange energy you feel in places where social rules and…
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“Security guards have no right to prevent street photography,” says Home Office
Link: The Home Office and the British Security Industry Association have published a new set of guidelines for security guards confirming that photography in public places is legal and cannot be restricted
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Robert Seale Featured in Digital SLR Magazine
Robert Seale Featured in Digital SLR Magazine – Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale Robert Seale Photography is an Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Sports Portrait, Editorial, Oil and Gas, Industrial, and Annual Report Photography studio located in Houston Texas that works for Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Editorial, Industrial, Oil and Gas, and Annual Report clients. Robert Seale…
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New festival to offer grants to photographers
Link: A new photography festival is offering up to €150,000 to photographers and photojournalists to finance new projects
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An Invisible Epidemic
Link: Misha Friedman has been photographing humanitarian crises around the world, with a recent focus on documenting the tuberculosis epidemic in the former Soviet Union
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Panasonic GX1 First Impressions
Link: at this point what I can say about the upcoming (December, 2011) GX1 is that when it comes to just about everything that I can test, the camera looks like a winner for Panasonic. If image quality turns out to be comparable or even slightly better than the G3 from this past summer, and…
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tomasz lazar – theater of life
Tomasz Lazar – Theater of Life Tomasz Lazar Theater of Life In 2008 we began working on the long term project entitled ‘Theater of life’. Themes are the changes occurring in our society under the influence of culture… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/11/tomasz-lazar-theater-of-life/ In 2008 we began working on the long term project entitled ‘Theater of…
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Watch out for rights grabs – National Geographic My Montana contest and TurnHere
Link: National Geographic’s My Montana contest features a pretty standard rights grab. It’s particularly sad to see National Geographic taking advantage of photographers in this way, especially since the organization has been so supportive of photography and photographers since the beginning of the craft