Author: Trent
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Teenie Harris’s World (8 Photos)
Link: For over 40 years Charles “Teenie” Harris documented life in and around Pittsburgh’s Hill District for the influential black newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier. Affectionately called “One Shot” due to the brisk manner in which he photographed his subjects, Harris spent as much time shooting the everyday people of the neighborhood as he did the…
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Identical Twins Photographed by Martin Schoeller
Link: By using his signature Close-Up style, the portraits allow the viewer to explore the physical similarities between the pairs, complementing the story, which covered their psychological similarities
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Scapes, Photo Collage Panoramas Taken From High Places
Scapes, Photo Collage Panoramas Taken From High Places Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings and creates wonderful panoramic photo collages of the surrounding landscape. via Laughing Squid: https://laughingsquid.com/scapes-photo-collage-panoramas-taken-from-high-places/ Dutch photographer Wouter van Buuren climbs tall cranes, towers, and buildings
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Announcing the 2011 Portfolio Prize Finalists
Miklós Klaus Rózsa | Aperture Shortlisted for Aperture’s First Photobook Award 2014 This publication draws on the documents compiled by the photographer and political activist Miklós Klaus Rózsa (1954) from 1971 to 1989, consisting of an assortment of photographs taken by Rózsa as wel via Aperture: http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=13739 Thanks to all the photographers who took part…
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Mob Wives – Behind the Scenes
Link: Got a call from VH1 to do a very large scale, two-day production for Mob Wives Season 2. They wanted a very decadent, over-the-top image that represented the countdown to midnight, as well as the new season, which started on New Years Day. The idea was that this image was taken moments before the…
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Attorney details backlash against photojournalists
Attorney details backlash against photojournalists A “perfect storm” of repression has raged against photojournalists in the United States in recent years, according to an accomplished news photographer who has become an attorney representing his former colleagues. Mickey H. Osterreicher, a counsel with w via National Press Club: http://press.org/news-multimedia/news/attorney-details-backlash-against-photojournalists?utm_source=Copy+of+1-25-12+Wire&utm_campaign=1-26-12+Wire&utm_medium=email A “perfect storm” of repression has raged…
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Photographer Andrew MacNaughtan Dies, Age 47
Link: MacNaughtan was best known for photographing Canadian celebrities and musicians
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Sol Neelman’s new Weird Sports column at Wired Playbook blog
Link: Sol Neelman has just started a new Weird Sports column at Wired.com’s Playbook sports blog.
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Greenfield Wins Sundance Director Prize
Link: Lauren Greenfield won the prize for best director of a US documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for her film, “The Queen of Versailles.”
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Setting it straight: Photo manipulated
Link: The Sacramento Bee published a photograph taken during the Galt Winter Bird Festival of a snowy egret grabbing for a frog just caught by a great egret. This week we learned the photograph had been digitally altered by the photographer in violation of our standards
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behind the scenes – the rio book edit
Link: Along with doing my own work, my number one priority, is to mentor those who seek to marry art, craft, and daily life into one holistic experience
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Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny
A Testament From Guatemala’s War Years As Guatemala brings genocide charges against a former military leader, Jean-Marie Simon prepares to reissue her seminal book of photographs from that country’s bloodiest era. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/a-testament-from-guatemalas-war-years/?pagewanted=all This week, while Mr. Ríos Montt is under house arrest, Ms. Simon is reprinting her book “Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna…
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To our readers – Bryan Patrick Fired
Link: The Sacramento Bee fired longtime photographer Bryan Patrick on Friday for violating the paper’s ethics policy forbidding manipulation of documentary photographs.
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Battle of the Panoramas
Battle of the Panoramas via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/battle-of-the-panoramas New York City is long and tall, and there are a million ways to slice it. In a show called “Widely Different,” part of the inaugural exhibition of the recently re-opened South Street Seaport Museum
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Announced: Nikon D800 with 36.15 million image pixel sensor
Link: Nikon has unveiled the D800, a new camera whose headline feature is its 36.15 million image pixel full-frame sensor which, as of this writing, makes it the highest resolution available or announced for a digital SLR camera, ever.
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Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia
Siberian Memories, Warm and Real Evgenia Arbugaev returned to her childhood home intent on recapturing the memories of a snow-covered landscape that loomed large in her life. But as she traveled to Siberia she wondered, was it real? via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/siberian-memories-warm-and-real/?pagewanted=all Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place. She grew up…
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Grozny: Nine Cities (10 Photos)
Link: Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko have been working on “Grozny: Nine Cities” for more than two years
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Portraits of Congolese Wrestlers
Link: Winner of several awards in Belgium and France, Delfosse won the PDN photo annual award in 2011 for this work on Congolese wrestlers.
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Pays-Bas: Looking at jails
Link: Cruel and Unusual (Noorderlicht Photo Gallery) presents revealing, and quite unexpected photography dealing with life behind bars. For this exhibition the guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, most of which has never before been shown in Europe. As background for the exhibition Noorderlicht is publishing…