Author: Trent
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Photoville 2012: Stephen Dupont
Link: The exhibition is on urban gangs and criminals in Port Moresby capital of Papua New Guinea. It looks inside the world of cults and kustom and tribal culture
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The Stone Throwers of Palestine
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Last week, seven Palestinian men sat for Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer Oded Balilty in a home in the West Bank village of Bilin. Against a black backdrop, one man posed with a taut slingshot, two small pebbles resting in the sling.…
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The New York Times’s War Photojournalists Showcased at Photoville
Bringing Photographs of War to the Brooklyn Waterfront The New York Times spotlights a decade of war photojournalism at Photoville, an immersive photo exhibition opening today in Brooklyn Bridge Park. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/exhibiting-a-decade-of-war/ Photographers for The New York Times have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning and continue to do…
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Death of Horacio Coppola
Link: Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, of the 20th century Bauhaus movement, died Monday in his home town of Buenos Aires. He was 105.
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For soldier’s family, heartache without end
Link: In one of the most iconic battlefield images ever captured on film, two wounded Operation Desert Storm soldiers in an evacuation helicopter have just learned who’s in the bloody body bag at their feet. It’s their friend and Catherine’s high school sweetheart, Andy Alaniz. The photo eventually helped Catherine learn the truth about how…
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Judge rules against Nikon in controversial ‘comfort women’ case
Link: Nikon has been forced to reopen a controversial exhibition on Korean comfort women in Japan after a judge found in favour of the photographer
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Photographers protest Stone Roses concert rules
Link: Press photographers, backed by the National Union of Journalists, are calling for a boycott of the Stone Roses reunion concerts in protest of rights-grabbing photography rules
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Shahidul Alam by John G. Morris
Link: I regard My Journey as a Witness by Shahidul Alam as the most remarkable book by a single photographer since a messenger brought me a first copy of The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1952. It is not that the two books should be compared, although they are approximately the same weight.
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Cracking updates from illustration favourite Luke Best
Cracking updates from illustration favourite Luke Best Link:
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Corbis steps back from Visa
Link: The financial loss for Jean-François Leroy is 11 500 €. This drop by drop of bad news clouds seriously the future of Visa
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Portraits of Patagonian Cowboys
Link: Mustafah Abdulaziz is a documentary photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He has been a member of the international photography collective MJR since 2008. This work is from his series, Patagonian Cowboys.
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Chicago Sun-Times ends Journatic relationship as dozens of fake bylines discovered at more papers
Link: Fake bylines now have been found on stories at four news organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune, an investor in Journatic and a client. Journatic used fake bylines in stories for the Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, and at Hearst’s Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle
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A Few Thoughts on Highlights, Shadows, Whites & Blacks
Link: So here’s a new tutorial on 4 of the most interesting new controls in Lightroom. It’s free, just for the asking. Simply drop your e-mail address here, and I’ll shoot you the link to the online tutorial.
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Police Intimidation Watch: University of California to Pay Photog $162,500 for Wrongful Arrest
Link: UC Berkeley police arrested photographer David Morse at the scene of a protest at the home of the University of California chancellor. Police allegedly told Morse they wanted his camera in order to identify protesters who committed acts of vandalism at the scene
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Sony RX100 Review
Link: The summary judgement for me is that the new Sony RX100 is hands-down the most appealing pocket-sized digital camera yet. Capable of producing DSLR grade images, it’s hard to find much to fault with this small pocket wonder. While it is too pricy for many, given that it will almost certainly be a second…
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World Press Photo embarks on multimedia fact-finding mission
Link: World Press Photo has commissioned researcher David Campbell to lead an international survey on multimedia productions within photojournalism. He speaks with Olivier Laurent about his goals
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Otto Shulze: The Wonder of The Streets
Link: The street is truly at the core of my work. The wonder and the random encounters of the streets are at the heart of my fascination with photography – especially within the context of the human condition. This is where it started for me and where I still go to this day for inspiration. To me, there…