Author: Trent

  • Alan Chin: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away

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    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.

  • Serrano Shoots Cuba

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    Link: Andres Serrano has come a long way from submerging a crucifix in his own urine. We followed the controversial artist around Cuba as he created a new body of work, photographing the country’s influential figures, political leaders, the poor, the rich, and the dead.

  • Iconic and Unseen War Photos From Vietnam and Iraq

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    Amazing war photos from Vietnam and Iraq Two recent books offer stunning images and firsthand accounts of photojournalists in conflict zones. via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/10/photos-vietnam-real-war-photojournalists/ For every Vietnam War image seared into our memory, there are thousands more, documenting our two-decade slog through an ultimately unwinnable conflict. Vietnam: the Real War, a Photographic History by…

  • Reality on a Need-to-Know Basis

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    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…

  • PPE 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Social Media

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    Link: The theme of Thursday’s PhotoPlus Expo panel “Practicing Safe Social Media” seemed to be that social media is a necessary evil in today’s photography industry so photographers need to be smart about how they use it

  • Outtakes: Mike Smith

    Outtakes: Mike Smith

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    Outtakes: Mike Smith Outtakes is a series of interviews with contemporary photographers who have been asked to share alternate versions of some of their most me… Link: http://www.fototazo.com/2013/10/outtakes-mike-smith-by-joshua-dudley.html Outtakes comes from photographer Joshua Dudley Greer and begins today with images from Mike Smith.

  • Eugene Richards’ Notes From the Road: The Bedroom

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    Link: There was almost a pleading quality to Reverend Landers’s voice when he asked if I would take his picture. “It will go right there,” he said, pointing to a patch of wallboard hung with angel wings made of crepe paper and a cross fashioned from scraps of cardboard. “I’d be proud to be so…

  • Duane Michals: Heart of the Question

    Duane Michals: Heart of the Question

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    Duane Michals: Heart of the Question Art should be vulnerable, says Mr. Michals, who believes that images should be about what something feels like as well as what it looks like. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/duane-michals-heart-of-the-question/ Jimmy Nelson is about to release Before They Pass Away, a massive book—both physically and thematically—that’s the result of three-and-a-half…

  • Sleeping Dogs Lie

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    Link: somehow, publishers think they can afford to deliver sub-par stuff, and constantly spit in the face and dismiss the concerns of 50% of their potential customers is stunning. Like me, they think they’re awesome, but unlike me they aren’t

  • Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record bosses are blasted for ‘heartless’ layoffs

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    Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/11/04/times-herald-record-bosses-are-blasted-for-heartless-layoffs/ They made us sign vows of silence to get our severance pay. I guess they could still charge me with breach of contract for even mentioning that. You know what? F*ck you, Times Herald-Record. Sue me to get your money back. Any newspaper that muzzles its own (former) staff…

  • Michael Walker-Toye: Opening up Access

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    Link: Londoners are suspicious at the best of times, so I don’t sneak around. I observed years ago that tourists are unashamedly pushy when they want to take a photograph, so I try to be bold. Move in, lock in focus, shoot and move on. If I’m caught I’ll smile or wave, but I still…

  • Adam Krause photographs Brooklyn skinheads in his series, “Greenpoint Brooklyn Nazi Skinheads.”

    Adam Krause photographs Brooklyn skinheads in his series, “Greenpoint Brooklyn Nazi Skinheads.”

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    Life as a Nazi Skinhead in Brooklyn Photographer Adam Krause was at his local gym when he first met the guys who’d become the subjects of his series “Greenpoint Brooklyn Nazi Skinheads.”… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2013/11/adam-krause-photographs-brooklyn-skinheads-in-his-series-greenpoint-brooklyn-nazi-skinheads.html Photographer Adam Krause was at his local gym when he first met the guys who’d become the subjects of…

  • Olivier Jobard wins 2013 Tim Hetherington Grant

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    Link: French photographer Olivier Jobard has won the third annual Tim Hetherington Grant for his work “Dream of a Rain of Perfume”

  • Kathy Ryan, Kira Pollack, and Benjamin Lowy Discuss Their Use of Instagram

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    Link: Ryan and Pollack began by speaking about different ways in which their publications have used smartphone images in the last few years. For a 2010 New York Times Magazine cover story about twentysomethings, Ryan said, she commissioned smartphone images because she felt they fit the subject matter. “We never had any objections…we see it…

  • Michael Tittel: Behavior

    Michael Tittel: Behavior

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    Michael Tittel: Behavior – LENSCRATCH This week we are sharing work submitted to Lenscratch… It does not happen often, but every now and then I will catch someone sneaking a candid of me in public.  It is the photographer in me that relates to the strides taken for the perfect image, and because of this…

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    Link: Color is what drives me and how I see.  It’s the first thing I look for when breaking down a scene, and the last thing that stands in the way of a good photo.  Without it, you’re in black-and-white-land, and as much I love BW photography, there’s nothing like an oversaturated gratuitous explosion of…

  • 7 Golden Photojournalism Rules by a Reuters Chief Photographer

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    7 Golden Photojournalism Rules by a Reuters Chief Photographer | THEME via THEME | More Photography: http://www.the.me/7-golden-photojournalism-tips-by-a-reuters-chief-photographer/ What are the key tips to shooting great news photography? This video by award-winning Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj, an experienced Asia hand, shares his seven ideas on how to shoot news photos that engage audiences and tell a…

  • Flashback to the Timeless Malls of the 1980s

    Flashback to the Timeless Malls of the 1980s

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ The funny thing is, looking at Galinsky’s photos, is that we can’t tell one mall from the other. We have no way of knowing if he was in South Dakota or Indiana, Arkansas or Kansas. Without marking his slides, Galinsky, too,…

  • McClatchy updates policy on handout photos: ‘it’s important to take a stance’

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    Link: The editors of McClatchy newspapers have agreed not to publish photography issued by the White House as part of a follow-up to concerns raised by news organizations over the administration’s increasingly stringent photo policies.

  • broncos + chiefs | one day + one game

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    Link: I don’t know how I drew the long straw on these series of gigs, but I’m happy I did.  This is my third One Day One Game for ESPN the Magazine and every time it’s a complete and total visual mosh pit I never want to leave.