Author: Trent
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A rock is a roc is a roque
Link: Through June 15, the gallery Magasin de Jouets in Arles will welcome three talented young contemporary photographers who confront their worlds, attitudes and practices through complementary pieces of work. Ulrich Lebeuf, Stéphane C. and Olli Berry give us the world as they see it
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Sean Kernan’s Noirish Prison Photographs
Breaking Into Prison Sean Kernan wanted to take pictures inside a prison. To his surprise, the warden let him in and left him to wander. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/breaking-into-prison/?pagewanted=all Sean Kernan’s noirish photo essay on prison life was not the result of careful planning, research or even an interest in issues of incarceration. It was…
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Covering the Suddenly Hot War Between the Sudans
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ TIME photographer Dominic Nahr has been on assignment in South Sudan’s ironically named Unity State, whose northern edge includes disputed boundaries with its enemy Sudan — one of which is marked only by a white cargo container
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Bordeaux 2012 Christopher Héry
Link: He leads us to the heart of the Africa we rarely see, the Africa of industry, of metallurgy. Here in Nigeria, where labor is harsh and demanding, boilermakers rub shoulders with the glitzy starlets of Nigerian Bollywood
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Olympics’ security guards “trained to deter people from taking photographs”
Link: A manager for G4S, a security firm, has said that security guards working to protect the Olympic site in London are trained to deter people from taking photographs, it has been claimed
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Nordic Light 2012 Contact Press Images
Link: For over three decades Contact Press Images has promoted and distributed the work of some of the finest award-winning photojournalists and documentarians in the world
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Nordic Light 2012 Kirsten Klein
Link: Kirsten Klein is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed photographers and possibly its best landscape photographer.
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Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web
Link: Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo…
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Airport 4-Sight Rolling Camera Bag
Link: Welcome the Airport 4-Sight™, the most convenient, lightweight solution on 4-wheels. With the introduction of the 4-Sight, Think Tank Photo has created an entire new category of lightweight rolling camera bags. Think Tank Photo set out to design a more ergonomic roller to reduce fatigue and strain on traveling photographers. The result, the first…
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IN BED WITH INVADER
Link: Shot in winter 2011, this movie invite you to spend one night in Paris with the street artist Invader.
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AP pulls falling bear photo after copyright dispute between student photographer, newspaper
Link: On Saturday the Associated Press issued a “photo elimination” of Andy Duann’s falling bear pictures, advising its members to “eliminate from your systems and archives” AP’s “Campus bear” photos shot by Andy Duann and credited to the CU Independent, the student publication of the University of Colorado Boulder, where Duann is a student
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University of Colorado will no longer demand copyright from students
Link: “I’ve personally apologized to [student photographer] Andy Duann for the mistaken assumption that the CU Independent owned the copyright to the falling bear photo, and the resulting controversy that ensued. At Andy’s suggestion, we’re working on a new policy that will assign use of content to the CU Independent but allow content producers to…
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On the Hipstamatic Journalist
Link: The problem here is that using a Hipstamatic/Instagram app is not at all “a different aesthetic than people are used to seeing” – everybody and their grandmother are now using those apps or filters. On top of that, these apps mimic old film cameras. So it’s not a different aesthetic at all – it’s…
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Agence France Presse vs Morel: “AFP Got Caught With A Hand In The Cookie Jar And Will Have To Pay”
Link: It’s unlikely anyone will ever step forward to claim the credit for that particular piece of ingenious public relations, for it’s clear that AFP and Getty are already bracing themselves for a crushing defeat. Buried deep in their memorandum is a plea to the court that should it find in Morel’s favour, damages should…
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A Few Thoughts for the Weekend:-)
Link: This is a business of bounces, sharp turns, unexpected events, lean times, occasional joyous celebrations, and bouts of euphoria measured in slices of seconds. No matter what, be it an excellent day in the field, or a humdrum day filing pictures or doing billing, it is punctuated almost incessantly with the intrusive reality of…
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What to expect from Leica next week: M9-M, X2, 50mm Cron, V-Lux 40
What to expect from Leica next week: M9-M, X2, 50mm Cron lens (updated) – Leica Rumors This is an update to my previous post on my expectations and rumors for the Leica announcement in Berlin next week. Leica M9-M Monochrome rangefinder: All black camera body with no red dot or any other markings on the front,…
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Eric Dessert’s other China
Link: Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that from 2002 to 2009, Eric…
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Music Photographer Jim McCrary Dies at 72
Link: Jim McCrary, the former A&M Records staff photographer who shot the cover of Carole King’s Tapestry and other rock-and-roll albums, died on April 29, 2012, “of complications from a chronic nervous system disorder,” the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 72 years old.