Author: Trent
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Notes from the Field: Camille Lepage in South Sudan
Link: I met Camille Lepage in South Sudan last September when I arrived in the capital Juba on a two-week assignment. She had already been living there for almost two months, and has been there ever since. She was a huge help in getting our story off of the ground and filling my colleague and…
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2013 LUCEO Student Project Award Announced
Link: We are excited to announce the 4th annual LUCEO Student Project Award. We have great things planned for the students entering this year
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After Puberty and Before Manhood: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Mike Brodie is easy to mythologize. A teenager-turned-supertramp (a term usually used to describe youth eager to travel by whatever means and for as little money as possible) Brodie became a darling of the photography world after carting an old Polaroid…
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a week with wolverines | espn the mag
Link: I love gigs for this client. ESPN the Magazine sent me to follow around the University of Michigan Wolverines for a week as they entered a tough stretch of games in the BIG 10. I travelled with the team on their plane and buses all day with full access to whatever we needed. Quite…
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In a fast moving world… We could all do with a roll of 36 exposures
Link: There’s no “delete” button in film… no way to erase your mistakes… no “do over” button. Your masterpieces and more often than not their very opposites are a matter of record for all to see the moment you press that shutter. And that makes you take things a bit more seriously. If…
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Unique photography project gets strong reception in Iran
Unique photography project gets strong reception in Iran Azadeh Akhlaghi’s “By an Eye Witness” is a unique undertaking in the country. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/03/07/unique-photography-project-gets-strong-reception-in-ira/ Azadeh Aklhaghi’s “By an Eye Witness” is a unique undertaking in a country that has become known for its rich and diverse documentary photography scene, which draws on a wide…
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Les Boutographies 2013 Gilles Picarel
Link: Because of their homosexuality, these young people have been disowned by their families. Living in the streets, marginalized, the threat of danger and insecurity is constant
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A Trip to Iran
Link: Amos Chapple is a travel photographer who made the following pictures over the course of three visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran between December 2011 and January 2013
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Study exposes social media sites that delete photographs’ metadata
Link: Facebook and Twitter consistently remove the metadata from images, a new study by the International Press Telecommunications Council has revealed. Google+, meanwhile, comes out on top
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photographs 1930 – 1945
Link: Her pictures testify to her “unquenchable desire to be present when history is being made”, as she herself put it. Bourke-White wanted to be the “eyes of the age”. For Life magazine, then one of the best known and most ambitious ventures in photojournalism, she travelled around the whole world.
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After 57 Years of Marriage, Evocative Photos Tell a Story of Love, Commitment and Repetition
Link: Italian photographer Marina Rosso shot this project from 2009-2011. We asked her how she managed such close access to her subjects. Turns out, Licia and Ryan are the photographer’s grandparents
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Intricate Photomontages of Famous Landmarks: From the Eiffel Tower to the Brooklyn Bridge
Link: German photographer Thomas Kellner has been producing large-scale works that piece together monuments, palaces, museums and landmarks in a signature style that he has been perfecting for years
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Justine Kurland’s Beautiful Photos Taken On a Five-Year Road Trip With Her Young Son
Link: Justine Kurland is a fine art photographer based in New York. The short essay above is excerpted from the book, How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood.
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Stalked for Protecting Copyright, Author Gets Restraining Order
Link: Victims of ELI’s attacks–including stock photo agencies and attorneys who help them enforce copyright– are cheering, but doing so quietly, for fear of fueling renewed attacks if they speak up. Chan and his attorney say he is being denied his rights of free speech, and that he is the victim of judicial overreach and…
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Magdalena Sole
Link: They were thought to be lost forever. After an incredible journey, 4500 negatives from the legendary photojournalist Robert Capa and his friends Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, resurfaced in New York in 2008
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Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency
Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/iraq-wars-10th-anniversary-occupation-and-insurgency/100476/ ‘s entry focuses on the period during which the majority of the war took place, after the 2003 invasion and just prior to the 2011 withdrawal
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In Memory – The War in Iraq, Ten Years On
Link: Peter Turnley covered the first Gulf War in 1991, and was present from the first day of this latest war in Iraq which started yesterday March 19, 2003. I worked as an unembedded photojournalist in Iraq for the first five weeks of the war and spent much time in southern Iraq, near Basra, arriving…
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NYT’s front-page Instagram: Maybe not the end of photography
Link: So yes. That was me in the locker room bathroom shooting portraits of the New York Yankees players with my iPhone.