Author: Trent
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Michele Palazzi wins Environmental Photographer of the Year Award
Link: Italian photographer Michele Palazzi has been named the 2013 winner of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management’s Environmental Photographer of the Year Award for an image shot in the Gob desert of Mongolia
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CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat
CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat – LENSCRATCH CENTER’s Gallerist’s Choice Juror, Lauren Panzo is the Director at Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York. Lauren selected Bryan Schtmaat to recieved the 1st place Award for his evocative project, Grays the Mountain Sends. Tomorrow we will feature 2nd and 3rd place winners Brandon Thibodeaux and Donna…
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Alain Ernoult: Flights of Fancy
Link: I felt the end had come, I decided then to rush out of the house to make an escape, I ran into the courtyard which I discovered with horror was surrounded by a 3 meter wall and a closed gate. I pushed forward and jumped as I high as I could to start climbing…
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Alexis Lambrou’s Photos of Young Brooklyn High School Teacher
Teaching for Life Alexis Lambrou has been shadowing a young teacher whose life revolves around her students and colleagues at a Brooklyn public high school. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/teaching-for-life/ Now, she is the subject of a continuing project by Alexis Lambrou, a 22-year-old photographer who was curious about how new teachers fared in the public…
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Pulitzer Prizes 2013: Winners announced
Link: This is a list of various resources dedicated to educating photographers about Lightroom 5 public beta
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Javier Manzano first freelance photographer to win Pulitzer in 17 years
Link: “To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no…
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Expert Advice: Finding A Rep
Expert Advice: Finding A Rep By Craig Oppenheimer, Wonderful Machine One of the most common conversations we have with photographers (apart from the iPad vs. print portfolio debate) is about finding and working with reps. Many… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2013/04/16/expert-advice-finding-a-rep/ what’s it really like to have a rep and how close does that dream…
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NY Times portfolio review Pete Pin
Link: Throughout the 1980’s, over 150,000 Cambodian refugees, survivors of Pol Pot’s Killing Fields, resettled in the United States from refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border
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Let’s Be Professional About This
Link: There’s a big difference between a professional plying their trade and an amateur. In this image I see evidence of two people (in particular) reacting to an unexpected attack, an atrocity, in a professional manner. The first is the officer on the left, who unlike your average celluloid action star, has her finger in…
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Beyond the Pulitzer Prizes, the realities of covering the Syrian civil war
Link: Six staff and freelance photographers working for The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse have won this year’s Pulitzer Prizes in photography for their work and commitment while covering the Syrian civil war. BJP speaks with Javier Manzano and Narciso Contreras about the realities of working in one of today’s most dangerous conflicts
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Nordic Light 2013 Jacob Aue Sobol
Link: Magnum photographer, Jacob Aue Sobol (1976, Denmark), grew up in the suburbs of wonderful Copenhagen. At the age of 22 he graduated from the European Film College and gained entry to The Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography “Fatamorgana”.
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Globe’s Tlumacki: ‘I am dealing with trauma & trying to keep busy’ following Boston tragedy
Link: Tlumacki told me that he found himself “a little emotional, and took the yellow still photographer’s marathon bib that I wore that day, and I knelt down in front of the cross and I placed it. And I went back to my car because this was too heavy.”
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A rambling conversation with Greg Gorman
Link: If you get down to the nitty gritty – it’s about one concept: People. Relationships. Communication. Connection. That’s what gets my motor going. What’s great about meeting the wine-makers is it’s like meeting the stars I met before. They’re like my new heroes. My movie stars of today. They’re really glorified farmers – and…
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How Many Photos Are Too Many Photos?
Link: It was authorities who showed restraint and wrestled with their decision to release photos of the two suspects. They were measured in their action, waiting until they were fairly certain they had the right suspects.
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Time Lapse Intro: Part 1
Link: I was commissioned to do a Time Lapse Tutorial series late last year that was just recently published by Canon and people really seem to be enjoying it so I thought I would share it on this blog as well
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A Historic Community Dismantled In Peru
A Historic Community Dismantled In Peru Photojournalists Elie Gardner and Oscar Durand documented the historic El Ayllu neighborhood in the capital — right before it was torn down to make way for an airport extension. via NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2013/04/29/179265615/a-photographic-homage-to-perus-fading-past Elie Gardner and Oscar Durand moved to Lima, Peru, in 2010, and every time they flew in…
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A Tribute to David Goldblatt, ICP’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Honoree
Link: Now imagine a photograph by David Goldblatt. Thought so. Unless you’re a fellow South African or one of his fans, you probably drew a blank. He’s one of the world’s most honored living photographers, a man who is greatly respected and, yet, is little known. It’s a paradox.
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ICP Infinity Awards 2013: Cristina de Middel
Link: The idea of an African space program may sound funny to some, but not to Cristina de Middel. Through a mix of fact and fiction, de Middel forces viewers to reinterpret a 1960s space program in Zambia in her photobook, The Afronauts.
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You Can Tag People In Instagram Now
You Can Tag People in Instagram Now Instagram launched a “Photos of You” feature in its iOS and Android apps today. Photos of You gives Instagram users the ability tag photos with any other Instagram account. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2013/05/instagram-photo-tagging/ Instagram launched the feature, dubbed “Photos of You”, in its iOS and Android apps today. Much…
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Why Bill Gates-owned Corbis is screwing up its new acquisition
Link: Now, I doubt Bill knows, but Corbis is currently botching one of its latest acquisitions, a very promising news startup called Demotix. It’s a real shame, given his demonstrated interest in media. And given the lives and livelihoods at stake.