Author: Trent
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Samuel Aranda’s Photo From Yemen Wins the Photo of the Year
A Painterly World Press Photo Winner Samuel Aranda had to slip into Yemen carefully as he covered last year’s unrest. His patience was rewarded today when one of his images was chosen Photo of the Year by World Press Photo. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/a-painterly-world-press-photo-winner/?pagewanted=all “I got back to my place and I saw the photo…
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‘Conflict Zone’ Showcases Photography From Iraq and Afghanistan
Two Wars, Seen Many Ways Originally conceived as a fund-raiser for Joao Silva, “Conflict Zone” — which opens in New York on Friday — has become a collaborative effort to show the humanity in war. The New York show is dedicated to Chris Hondros, who believed in photographing shared human experiences. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/two-wars-seen-many-ways/…
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World Press Photo: A judge’s top tips for future entrants
Link: Photojournalist Patrick Baz was one of the judges in this year’s World Press Photo. With authorisation from the organisers, he took to Twitter to give unprecedented insights into the judging. BJP selects some of his best tweets.
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World Press Photo Winners 2012
Link: Lens Culture is pleased to present the winning photos here. Our high-resolution slideshow of the winning images shows the most detail.
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Emotionless
Link: The new crop of world press winners is out and as in every year many reflections come to mind. Reminiscent of Eugene Smith’s Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath , the winning image, from Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda lacks all the required W’s that makes a great news photograph. By looking at it, you have…
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Telegraph’s picture editor caught in copyright infringement blunder
Link: A deputy picture editor for The Daily Telegraph’s website has been caught arguing that editorial staff is not required to gain clearance for the use of images online due to the nature of the industry, BJP can report.
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In ‘Act of Valor,’ a Secret Military World, Approved for Public Viewing
In ‘Act of Valor,’ a Secret Military World, Approved for Public Viewing Much chatter, and some complaints, among the military and veterans about a new film featuring active-duty Seals, “Act of Valor.” via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/in-act-of-valor-a-secret-military-world-approved-for-public-viewing/?pagewanted=all “One of these days if you keep publishing how you do this, the other guy’s going be there…
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Don’t Like Me
Don’t Like Me Lots of chatter online about how photographers should embrace sharing their work and stop complaining about copyright. All started by this post (here) by the king of HDR (Trey Ratcliff) who says: A… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/14/dont-like-me/ I can’t blame them for their rapture, because they and many others have discovered…
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Reactions to Samuel Aranda’s World Press Photo-winning image
Link: The winners of World Press Photo 2012 were announced on Friday, and while no awards went to anything as controversial as an iPhone or Google Street View series, there have been varied reactions to Samuel Aranda’s winning image of a woman in a niqab comforting an injured man in Yemen
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Photographing the Pleasures, and Terrors, of Kissing
One Kiss, Many Meanings A kiss is just a kiss — and yet so much more, as James Friedman learned over seven years asking friends, family, and strangers to kiss for him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/one-kiss-many-meanings/?pagewanted=all In “Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing,” James Friedman encounters the expressions of love, lust, intimacy and friendship through subjects…
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Portraits of Hip Hop Artists from the Early Days
Link: Dana Lixenberg lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. She studied photography at the London College of Printing and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam
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Talk with Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett
Link: Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett were at Foto8 on 13 February to speak in conversation with Jon Levy. They discuss past work, their time in Tahrir Square and how that led to them covering events in Libya.
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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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Happy Birthday Duane Michals
Link: For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.
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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…
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Cuba: Ernesto Bazan’s Self-Publishing Photography Philosophy
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ For every boon that Ernesto Bazan has received, he can point to a parallel moment where he gave to someone else. “I strongly believe that in life, the more you give, the more you get back,” the Sicilian-born photographer said. “There’s…