Author: Trent

  • Photojournalism Contest Entry Flowchart

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    Link: “Fishing comes a lot easier to me than photography,” Mr. Arnold said. “The mental stress of trying to be creative all the time is pretty taxing. Fishing is massive physical stress. But being a captain, running a boat and making it all work — it just comes to me instantly.”

  • Jim Goldberg: Postcards from America, Magnum Miami

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    Link: Magnum Miami’s purpose is to examine the citizens of Florida around the time of the U.S. presidential election. It is part of  the Postcards from America  project where Magnum photographers have come together to work collaboratively. Previously, we’ve featured Mikhael Subotzky and Bruce Gilden’s reportage. In this next installment, Jim Goldberg discusses his participation in the…

  • How I Learned to Stop Loving the DSLR: Review of the Sony RX1

    How I Learned to Stop Loving the DSLR: Review of the Sony RX1

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    How I Learned to Stop Loving the DSLR: Review of the Sony RX1 – PhotoShelter Blog Ever since I purchased my first DSLR in 2001, it’s been difficult to go back to a point-and-shoot camera because of the poor image quality. In the film days, there wasn’t as drastic a difference between SLR and point-and-shoot…

  • Angela Strassheim

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    Link: “In planning for eight to ten weeks of nonstop overland travel throughout most of Ethiopia and literally all of the tiny African nation of Djibouti, I’ve had to muster the wisdom of Job — and nearly 30 years of working on complicated stories in over 80 countries — tapping as much extreme foresight as possible; When…

  • Intriguing Portraits of Tajiks, the Isolated People of Taskurgan

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    Link: Since 2009, Chinese photographer Li Xinzhao has spent several months capturing the lives of Tajiks, the isolated people of Tashkurgan who live amid the snow-capped Pamir mountains in Western China near Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan borders.

  • Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all

    Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all

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    Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all Google Maps rolls out a detailed may of the secretive state. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/01/28/google-releases-detailed-map-of-north-korea-gulags-and-all/ The new map labels everything from Pyongyang’s subway stops to the country’s several city-sized gulags, as well as its golf courses, hotels, hospitals and department stores.

  • ‘Antonia’s Garden’ Photos are a Beautiful Meditation on the Relationship Between Mother and Child

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    Link: Antonia’s Garden is a quiet and contemplative series by Montreal-based photographer Marisa Portolese that gracefully explores familial identity, abandonment, displacement, and domestic life

  • Grants Fellowships and Contests for Photographers

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    Link: NPPA’s most prestigious honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, has been presented this year to two of the industry’s most likable and significant trailblazers, longtime photojournalist Charles W. “Chick” Harrity, retired from U.S. News & World Report Magazine, and Dennis Dimick, the executive environment editor and the interim director of photography for National…

  • Winners Announced for the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest

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    Link: The winner of the short was Pep Bonet from Noor Images and the online feature Stephanie Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock from VII Photo Agency. Both contain striking still images woven together with reasonable video. The emphasis is clearly on the photography rather than the video.

  • Martin Kollar | JENREN

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    Link: “Take your eyes for a walk. Anytime I get off my keister and go looking around and engage people, something always happens,”

  • Emerging Talent – Ian Bates

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    Link: Its really tough figuring out whether or not I want try to get a job at a newspaper (if there are any jobs available) or if I want to put my energy into building a freelance business. Right now I am aiming towards trying my luck at being a freelance photographer but I’m not…

  • More Nikon D4x rumors

    More Nikon D4x rumors

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    More Nikon D4x rumors – Nikon Rumors In addition to the D7000 successor, Nikon is rumored to announce a new D4x DSLR this year (the camera may have a different name, we will call it D4x until we get more info). Here are the rumored details: Same body as the Nikon D4 36 MP sensor without AA…

  • Hitchhiker Gives Psycho the ax!

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    Link: If you did not know anything about paparazzi your impression might be very different: A young woman surrounded by young men, in a very defensive posture, looking terrified – that’s imagery we usually attribute to assault, to the presence of physical or emotional violence.

  • Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist

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    Link: The jury for the World Photography Organisation announced 44 shortlisted photographers today for the Sony World Photography Awards 2013. These were selected from over 122,000 entries this year. Lens Culture is pleased to present a high-resolution slideshow of all of the finalists. Enjoy!

  • Leslie Baldwin

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    Link: Leslie Baldwin is one of the most sought after photo editors in Texas.   She shares her insights, favorite TM covers, and advice on approaching photo editors.  ” You have to be totally passionate and dedicated or you’re going to get steam-rolled. Next comes perseverance and patience. Oh, and be nice!  That’s very, very important.”

  • Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep

    Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep

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    Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep In Rio de Janeiro the government has created an ambitious plan called “Pacification,” which is designed to clean up that city’s image by cutting down on the drug trafficking and violence in its hundreds of shantytowns. Since February of 2012, Spanish phot via WIRED:…

  • The Run-on of Time

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    Link: After more than forty years as a photographer, I’ve been repeatedly told it’s time to consider  putting together a retrospective. But I remain hesitant. It’s not  the pictures, though there are a lot of ordinary ones. When you look back, you realize how many people you’ve lost touch with, how many people have either…

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  • An Hour of Magic Strangeness in the Park: Antonio Xoubanova’s Casa de Campo

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    Link: Antonio Xoubanova’s Casa de Campo offers itself up as an hour of strange magic spent wandering in the park – as a momentary retreat from the monotonous pressures of the city and the crumbling national economy, in favour of a little time spent ruminating on the occasionally harsh but more often graceful anachronisms of…

  • Disaster Photography: When is Documentary Exploitation?

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    Disaster Photography: When Is Documentary Exploitation? Photographers who produce spectacular images of Detroit, Chernobyl, and other ravaged areas have sparked disagreements whether they are exploiting others’ misfortune—or just covering the bad news… via ARTnews.com: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-debate-over-ruin-porn-2170/ Photographers who produce spectacular images of Detroit, Chernobyl, and other ravaged areas have sparked disagreements whether they are exploiting others’…