Author: Trent
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Aleppo: Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini
Link: As I entered the city, the noise of the shelling and aerial strikes brushed past my ears, and smoke from rooftops engulfed the skyline. I was surprised to find that daily life kept on going between the heavy crashes of nearby mortar fire.
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A Fetishist’s Guide to the Monochrom
Link: When Leica asked me to shoot with the Monochrom and articulate my impressions, I knew I could follow one of two paths: either I could look at the camera strictly within the confines of my own specific fetishes, or I could use it more liberally in situations where I wouldn’t normally be motivated to…
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Adam Ferguson’s Travels in Iraq
In Postwar Iraq, Neither War Nor Peace The Australian photographer Adam Ferguson discusses recent travels through Iraq, where he found neither war nor peace 10 months after American soldiers left. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/in-postwar-iraq-neither-war-nor-peace/ This is postwar photography in the context of an American presence, but Iraq is still at war with itself. In these…
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Nikon Unveils New AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR Lens
Link: the camera adds a new EXPEED 3A image processor, allowing it to shoot up to 15 frames per second with full autofocus tracking for moving subjects.
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Nikon Intros 14.2-megapixel Nikon 1 V2 Flagship Compact System Camera
Link: the camera adds a new EXPEED 3A image processor, allowing it to shoot up to 15 frames per second with full autofocus tracking for moving subjects.
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Athens Photo Festival 2012: Christian Vium
Link: The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe
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Los Mismos Ladrones
Link: The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe
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Athens Photo Festival 2012 : Colin Delfosse
Link: Edingwe, Dragon, City Train, Mbokotomo : the “legends” of Congolese wrestling invent themselves on a daily basis in the outskirts of Kinshasa.
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St Brieuc 2012: Tribune libre – Thomas Haley
Link: where is this « new generation » of photographers when it comes to defending our profession ? Why is it that we don’t see them in our professional organizations or journalist unions ? We kow that the professional situation is rotten, we hear the endless laments, but where is the committment?
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Tany Kely Homo Urbanicus
Link: it looks pretty clear the Romney campaign doctored a photo of a rally in Nevada this week to make the event, and crowd size look bigger
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The 2012 LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition
2012 LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition – LENSCRATCH HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Thank you so much for your wonderfully creepy submissions to the 2012 LENSCRATCH Masks and Costumes Exhibition. I find it very comforting to know there are so many photographers willing to color outside the lines! A HUGE thank you to my very capable editorial…
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Photography in East Germany 1949-1989
Link: The European Month of Photography began in Berlin in mid-October. One of the main exhibitions of the program is the one organized by the Berlinische Galerie on art photography from the German Democratic Republic. It collects 260 photographs taken by 34 different artists.
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Joel Meyerowitz by Jonas Cuénin
Link: For the past five decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the streets of the world, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to accept color photographs as works of art.
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Last Days on the Road with Obama by Brooks Kraft
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ This was the eighth presidential campaign that Kraft has photographed, and his sixth for TIME
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Root of the Nation: Zhang Kechun Photographs China’s Yellow River
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As a boy, he read about the mythic river. As a man, he went to find its source. Chengdu-based photographer Zhang Kechun has spent much of the last two years on the banks the Yellow River, the waterway considered both the cradle…
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Yan Morvan : Gangs Story
Link: Look at the Gangs Story, his most recent book. For the past 35 years, he has photographed the fringes of society which he finds so fascinating. Over these 279 pages and 140 photographs, you see the evolution of our society, from the white greasers of the 1970s to today’s uprooted immigrants
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Journalists face conflict when covering Israel-Gaza attacks
Link: Journalists have been wounded, censored and prevented from leaving the Gaza strip while covering five days of air strikes and bombings from both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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Proving That Print Still Rules in Sports Photography
Proving That Print Still Rules in Sports Photography – PhotoShelter Blog You know it’s not just any old game when ESPN The Magazine sends 13 photographers and 30 writers to cover the faceoff between Louisiana State University and Alabama University. The two teams are arguably the biggest rivals in college football, making for an instantly…
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Stock agency Alamy cuts photographers’ commissions
Link: “Alamy, the London-based stock imagery company, has announced that it will cut photographers’ commission rates from January 2013 “
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Fred R. Conrad Captures Joel Meyerowitz
On Assignment: Photographing the Photographer Would Rembrandt tell Picasso how to pose? What happens when one photographer — Fred R. Conrad — is sent on assignment to do do a portrait of not just any photographer, but Joel Meyerowitz, whose color work changed contemporary photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/photographing-the-photographer/ “Most of us are much more…