Author: Trent
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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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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…
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Khaled Hasan Terror beat of Acid
Link: In the last few years, acid attacks have reduced but they continue. Hundreds of women become victims each year
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A notice doesn’t help: Facebook still gets rights to your pictures
Link: “You only have 3 ways out of this agreement with facebook: 1. Don’t have a facebook account, 2. Negotiate a special agreement with facebook (good luck!), or 3., Delete your facebook account”
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Eros Hoagland’s Photographs of the Mexican Drug War Along the Border
A Reckoning at the Frontier The human toll of Mexico’s violent drug trade is portrayed in haunting, cinematic fashion by Eros Hoagland. His images — and how he works — reflect that struggle, as well as a more personal one. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/a-reckoning-at-the-frontier/ “I wanted to develop my own desert look,” said Mr. Hoagland,…
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All photographs are flukes: the problem with photography competitions
Link: In rewarding one picture, we are congratulating a photographer on merely one ‘fluke’ they have experienced, on one single effort they may have exerted to produce one image, that is questionable as to how much input was given from other people, and that in itself gives no indication as to whether the person really…
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Fernando Moleres and the Empathic Eye in Sierra Leone
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres traveled to Sierra Leone determined to document what he describes as “disastrous” conditions at the penitentiary
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Caleb Cole
Link: The images in Odd One Out began as found photographs, purchased in antique stores and estate sales, of groups of people during special events, reunions, and family gatherings. The photographs are the spoils of a hunt, the proceeds of afternoons spent looking into the eyes of people I do not know and who may no longer…
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Ethics Matters » Subway photo
Link: First, I cannot look into the heart of another man and judge him. If the photographer thought in the panic of the moment that flashing his strobe would alert the train driver, so be it. I do not know how far he was from the victim or how fast the train was going or…
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Photographer: ‘All I can hear is that man’s head against that train: Boom! Boom! Boom!’
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/12/05/photographer-all-i-can-hear-is-that-mans-head-against-that-train-boom-boom-boom/ The photographer who shot the subway horror photo that appeared on yesterday’s New York Post cover says he’s “surprised at the anger over the pictures, of the people who are saying: Why didn’t he put the camera down and pull him out?”
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Questions? Answers.
Link: I will occasionally receive emails from students or photographers just starting out on their professional or freelance paths and I always try to be helpful and answer any questions they might have. Lots of folks have helped me out over the years and I’m happy to do what I can to share what I’ve…
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Cyrille Weiner
Link: “He has lived in the down-on-its-luck small city in northeast Pennsylvania for 69 years — his entire life. He started taking pictures of car wrecks for the local newspaper while he was in high school and ran a photo studio from his house for more than 35 years. In between the weddings, portraits and…
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photo-eye’s best photo books of 2012
Link: The result is a list of Best Books that contains between 150-200 titles — not exactly a tidy top 10. But we don’t see this as a problem; we aren’t seeking consensus or a ranking. For us, Best Books is about discoveries
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Contemplative Portraits and Landscapes Explore Working People of the American West
Link: Equipped with a large format view camera, and inspired by the poetry of Richard Hugo, I’ve aimed to hint at narratives and relay the experiences of strangers met in settings that spur my own emotions. Ultimately, this body of work is a meditation on small town life, the landscape, and more importantly, the inner…
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Social Life at Beach
Link: But the stunt took a horrific and unexpected turn on Friday, when the nurse who answered the call, 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha, was found dead, an apparent suicide.
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Marieke ten Wolde’s Photos of a Changing Tibet
Capturing the Accelerating Change in Tibet The Dutch photographer Marieke ten Wolde has made frequent trips to Tibet, in search not of vistas and costumes but of a society that is changing so fast she has had to consult her diary to remember if she had been there or not. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/capturing-the-accelerating-change-in-tibet/ Like…
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Lightroom 4.3 Now Available
Link: Once again we are upon the photography contest season. And every year I hear photographers ask “Do photo contests matter?” In the opinion of this photo editor, they do! But just don’t take my word for it; here are what some prominent industry professionals think about the value of contests and what you can…
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News orgs circulate Facebook profile, photos of unconfirmed shooter
Link: Some of Ryan Lanza’s Facebook friends started pointing out that he was still posting messages (after the shooter had already died), specifically denying involvement. But by then, his photo was retweeted thousands of times and many news orgs published it.
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Jeppe Bøje Nielsen’s Photos of the Gatherings at Lourdes
A Photographic Vision in Lourdes To secular sorts, the spectacle of pilgrims flocking to Lourdes in France can be puzzling. For Jeppe Boje Nielsen, photographing it was challenging — and humbling. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/a-photographic-vision-at-lourdes/ To secular sorts, it’s a hard thing to grasp. For Jeppe Bøje Nielsen, a Danish photographer, it was a challenge.…
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Stroll
Link: The photos of North Korea gathered here were taken recently either by official photographers, or by western photographers under government supervision, their subjects and movement restricted