Author: Trent
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Stunning Photos of Alaska’s Four Seasons Photographed Through One Window
Stunning Photos of Alaska’s Four Seasons Photographed Through One Window “A meditation on one scene” is how Anchorage-based photographer Mark Meyer describes An Alaska Window, his collection of images he has been making for almost a year through the original sash windows with single pane glass in his 100-year-old log house. He tells us the…
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AP pulls two Navy Yard shooting photos it can’t verify
Link: They were credited to Don Andres. NBC News interviewed someone with the same name and identified him as a legislative aide to U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada.
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John Gossage Interview – Part 1
John Gossage Interview – Part 1 John Gossage: I was just coming over to answer the phone, and I was thinking, “What if the interview is just all lies?” Jonathan Blaustein: Lies? I’m just interested in things tha… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/23/john-gossage-interview-part-1/ Let’s just say, in the US, though of course it’s a world-wide…
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The Photographers on Photography
Link: Chances are if you walked past a National Geographic photographer on the street, you wouldn’t know it—and that’s how they like it. As photographer and Editor at Large Michael “Nick” Nichols puts it, “I want people to remember the pictures, not my name or what I look like.” But as part of our 125th…
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pittsburgh: walking on hallowed ground
Link: Despite its yellow bridges, Pittsburgh is well-suited to black and white photography.
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Photography as Advocacy: Origins of a Journey
Link: Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment when you decide to change the rest of your life. For photographer Marcus Bleasdale, it happened one London morning in 1998 when he walked into the office where he was working as an investment banker. “Even at that point, I had long known I wouldn’t stay in…
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iPhone 5S Review for Photographers
Link: You could be forgiven for not getting too excited about the camera in Apple’s new flagship iPhone 5S. They’ve put dozens of tweaks into it, but not a single one sounds… sexy. It’s still 8 megapixels, it still doesn’t zoom, and the phone’s still the same size as last year. Do all the little…
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Pumpjacks: Photographs of Oil Seen from Space by Mishka Henner
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Eighteen Pumpjacks is part of a larger project I’m working on related to the impact of American industry on its landscape. From the lofty heights of imaging satellites orbiting earth, the abstract forms created by oil fields resemble the shapes and…
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SDX Foundation Funds National Police, Journalist Training
Link: The goal of the program is to foster greater understanding and awareness of the right to take photographs and record video in public without being interfered with, harassed or arrested.
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Peter Turnley: French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris
Link: In his new book “French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris,” he reveals moments of poetry and beauty he witnessed as a street photographer during the past 40 years of documenting the city of love, which is his adopted home.
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Copyright Report Recommends $30K Small Claim Damage Cap
via NPPA: A key lesson for photographers attending the Missouri Photo Workshop, and for all documentary photographers, is that time matters. It’s just not possible to drop into the lives of people and expect that your pictures will honestly reveal the character of your subjects
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Renegotiating a Complex History – Stacy Kranitz’s Portrait of Central Appalachia
Renegotiating a Complex History – Stacy Kranitz’s Portrait of Central Appalachia Stacy Kranitz’s work “As It Was Given To Me” is a complex and evocative body of work made in central Appalachia that places the photographer squarely in the middle of the conversation. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2013/10/renegotiating-a-complex-history-stacy-kranitzs-portrait-of-central-appalachia/ Stacy Kranitz’s work “As It Was Given To…
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Who owns the copyright to Vivian Maier’s street photography?
Link: Maier’s photographic legacy now is worth thousands, if not millions, of dollars, so the state and the stewards of the various Maier collections have a compelling interest to maintain and exercise their ownership of these materials. It will be interesting to see how this legal situation plays out over the coming years.
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Rob Hornstra denied Russian visa; Moscow exhibition of The Sochi Project cancelled
Link: You can’t eat ‘reach’ and we can’t pay salaries with ‘brand awareness’. I don’t pretend to know other people’s business models or strategies. But successful business practices are always about having a close understanding of the costs of what you produce and the origins and mechanics of your revenues and more than anything else…
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L’entretien. Prix Bayeux : James Nachtwey débarque en Normandie
Link: The first bit of advice I would give to someone who aspires to cover wars is not to do it. Are you really sure you know what you’re getting into? Have you thought deeply about the potential consequences for yourself and for your family? Why don’t you find something else to do that would…
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Lynn Johnson on the Heroic Nature of Humanity
Link: Lynn Johnson first recognized the extraordinary power of photography huddled in her school library as a child, looking through the Farm Security Administration’s iconic photographs of the Great Depression
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The Non-Conformists: Martin Parr’s Early Work in Black-and-White
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ “In the 70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white,” master photographer Martin Parr tells TIME. “Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.”
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The Big Picture: America in Panorama (6 Photos)
Link: “At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the ‘strange and compelling medium’ of panoramic group photography,” Princeton Architectural Press said in a statement about its new book, The Big Picture.
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Alan Chin: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away
Link: Alan Chin is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his new project Toishan, China: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away. Chin’s project will take him back to his family’s home in the Toishan region of China, an area that is undergoing rapid development since his first visit in 1989.
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Reality on a Need-to-Know Basis
Link: Now I have this further distinction, whether to go with stills or video. At 15 seconds, an Instagram video is almost more like a shifting still—in between a still and a video. I can open a window to our other senses. For me it’s the sound even more than the motion. It feels less…