Author: Trent
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Indian Cinemas (10 Photos)
Link: In the Spring of 2010 and 2011, photographer Katherine Newbegin traveled alone to India where she began a series on cinemas. Most were still currently in use at the time Newbegin photographed them. But in the larger, more developed cities, she says these aging cinemas were harder to find because they are disappearing rapidly…
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Live from Bed-Stuy (10 Photos)
Link: “In 1999, as I walked out my apartment, I saw a transformation taking place. New street lights? What is this about? As I searched for answers, I saw and heard of more changes starting to occur in my neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (street vendors were being moved, the Franklin Avenue shuttle was being rebuilt…
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The Boy from Troy by Brenda Ann Kenneally
Link: There was an uneasy identification between the two of us that grew into friendship over the next eight years while I continued to document Kayla, Sabrina and their friends who lived as a family on the same block. A family, I discovered, that was formed largely in response to increasingly punitive legal, moral and…
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David Turnley’s Documentary, ‘Shenandoah’
Link: It was a tragedy that touched upon several great national themes — the dislocation wrought by fading industry, the turmoil of immigration, the endurance of sports — and David C. Turnley, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, was there to grapple with them all. He turned the story of the murder and how it shook the…
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Flesh Love: Photographs of Vacuum-Wrapped Tokyo Couples
Link: On a kitchen floor in Tokyo, Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi spends 10-20 seconds photographing couples that he meets in nightclubs. He arranges them like pieces of meat inside bags meant to store futons and blankets. He then seals their conjoined bodies inside the bag using a household vacuum that sucks out all of the…
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Growth – wilma hurskainen
Link: Growth is a project in which I reconstructed and re-photographed pictures that my dad took of me and my three little sisters when we were children. I tried to make the new photograph look as similar as possible to the old one: the place and the composition are the same, and so are our…
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David Ryle
8. David Ryle Contact David Ryle Arch 348 No.37 Ermine Works London E2 8BF Telephone +44 (0)20 3487 0701 david@davidryle.com Mobile … Link: http://listbyjon.blogspot.com/2012/08/8-david-ryle.html
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Portraits of School Children in Classrooms Taken Around the World
Link: This ongoing series by English photographer Julian Germain, entitled Classroom Portraits, began in schools in North East England in 2004. Since then, Germain has taken large-scale portraits of classrooms from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and has amassed an impressive 450+ portraits of schoolchildren in over 20…
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LUCEO Splits In Half, Raises Questions About Viability of Photo Collectives
Link: As of Friday, photographers Matt Eich, Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks are no longer members of LUCEO, a photo collective which we’ve been following for quite some time.
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Noor to celebrate five-year anniversary at Visa pour l’Image
Link: Noor is to unveil a new website and book project at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival to mark the photo agency’s five-year anniversary
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Gun Nation Revisted
Link: Over a two-year period I encountered scenes both bloody and harrowing: hospital emergency rooms, morgues and the confused aftermaths of random shooting sprees. After every new massacre, the newspaper headlines were always the same: “We thought we were the safest place in America.”
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Canon EOS 3D X?
Link: The rumours are starting to fly with Photokina around the corner. Below is the first spec list of a camera said to be Canon’s big megapixel entry.
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Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War
Link: The bombing in Damascus “emboldened the rebels to go on the offensive, for a moment suggesting that a perfect storm would lead to the imminent fall of the regime,” Saman wrote to me from his home base in Cairo. “Here we are a month later, with people dying at a rate of about sixty…
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Photographers Rights – Covering the Upcoming National Conventions
Link: Know when to back off. It’s all well and good to quote case law and scream about your rights (and believe me, I’ve seen plenty of photographers whip out these old chestnuts,) but at some point it’s not going to be enough and you’ll be faced with having to either keep shooting knowing you…
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A Tyranny of Ones
Link: There just didn’t seem to be enough hours in the day that I could manage so that the work load of both shooting and file management was done with confidence and competence. In addition, I was exhibiting signs of retrograde camera envy. Besides the digital cameras at hand, I wanted to shoot with my…
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Christopher Anderson
Link: In this episode of Picture Perfect, VICE visits Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson at his studio in Brooklyn to talk about some of his past work and the life-changing experience of boarding a handmade boat that sank in the Caribbean. He tells us that his current project of photographing New York is part of his…
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Aaron Huey’s ‘Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project’
Photographing, and Listening to, the Lakota Facing criticism for presenting a limited view of life on the Pine Ridge reservation, Aaron Huey let its residents tell their own stories. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/photographing-and-listening-to-the-lakota/ A few months after the Lens piece was published, Mr. Huey received over 40 letters from students at the Jesuit-run Red Cloud…
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Luca SidroSolos in the city
Link: Solos in the city, is an analysis on the close relationship that exists between men and the environment in which they live. Modern places, mostly cities, suburbs