Author: Trent
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Photojournalists’ images can speak louder than words
Link: The pictures. Photojournalism. Images that tell stories so rich you may not even need to read the words under the photos.
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Vincent Laforet | An Interview
Link: “I’ve Always Thought That If You Have Nothing But Perfect Shots You’re Almost Impeding Yourself As A Filmmaker.” -Vincent Laforet
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Does The NY Times’ Sochi Photo “Firehose” Do Photogs a Disservice?
Link: It funnels images by Times photographers and from the paper’s wire service feeds, and evidently there will be roughly 14,000 images per day coming through the, ahem, hose.
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Fantastic Photos of Chechnyan Culture From a Young Phenom
Fantastic Photos of Chechen Culture From a Young Phenom Goodbye, My Chechnya, is Diana Markosian’s project about Muslim girls coming of age in Chechnya. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/02/diana-markosian/ If young photographers want to succeed, they would do well to heed this word of advice from acclaimed photographer Diana Markosian: Get as far away from the photo…
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Tony Fouhse: Same Old Story
Tony Fouhse: Same Old Story – LENSCRATCH To say that I love the photographs by Tony Fouhse might be an understatement. I am a long time fan of his insightful and powerful projects on drug addition and those on the margins, but the work featured today goes further back into his amazing archives. Though almost…
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Inside Irish Nomad Communities
Link: German photographer Birte Kaufmann has spent time over the last three years with a family of Irish gypsies, referred to as The Travellers, staying in their Volkswagen camper. Traditionally the Travellers were accepted in their country, like migrant workers, but in today’s world, they live on the fringes of society.
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Tsuyoshi Ito interviews Andrew Moore
Tsuyoshi Ito interviews Andrew Moore – LENSCRATCH Photographer Tsuyoshi Ito, program director at Project Basho, interviews the amazing Andrew Moore today. Project Basho is excited to bring Andrew Moore to Philadelphia as the keynote speaker for the ONWARD Summit lecture series on Saturday, March 1st. Working with large format color photography, Moore creates images that…
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Link: “Transition,” by Los Angeles-based photographer Lauren Marsolier, is currently on display at Galerie Richard in New York City through March 1. The French-born photographer created the series in response to a period of upheaval and transition in her personal life
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More Context, More Respect: On that Devastating Photo from Syria of the “Palestinian Refugee Camp”
Link: If you follow online news or social media, you are probably aware of this wrenching photo from Syria that gripped the world yesterday. This TIME headline reflected the language and the simple message transmitted by so many others: One Picture Sums Up Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis
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Jason Langer Interview
Jason Langer Interview Jonathan Blaustein: I noticed on your bio that you were born in Arizona, and raised in Oregon. But it looks like you lived on a kibbutz in Israel for four years. Is that right? Jason Langer: Yes, b… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2014/02/26/jason-langer-interview/ A lot of what I do now is try…
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Suspicionless searches at US border: the next battleground for press freedom
Link: US Customs and Border Patrol agents can detain American citizens for hours and seize laptops and phones without evidence or suspicion of wrongdoing. This has happened to a number of journalists, and press advocates worry that the frequency of these incidents is increasing.
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Amid more layoffs, Sun-Times rehires four photographers
Link: Rich Chapman, Brian Jackson, Al Podgorski and a fourth photographer whose name was not confirmed are expected to be rehired under terms of a contract settlement reached in November between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild.
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Getty Image’s Gamble
Link: Getty Images announcement today that it has put 35 Million of its 80 million images up for free is no surprise. Here’s why .
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“Yangtze, The Long River” by Nadav Kander
Juxtapoz Magazine – Yangtze, The Long River by Nadav Kander This breathtaking body of photographs taken by Nadav Kander has won him the Prix Pictet prize back in 2010 as well as our adoration. Its best we allow… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/yangtze-the-long-river-by-nadav-kander/ Nadav Kander is an Israeli photographer who is internationally renowned for his unique landscapes. In…
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Baltimore police forcibly remove Sun photo editor from a shooting scene
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/03/07/baltimore-police-forcibly-remove-sun-photo-editor-from-a-shooting-scene/ So why doesn’t Walmart just follow GettyMart’s example? Why not make 35 million products available for free like GettyMart has? Won’t that solve their shoplifting problem? After all, if you listen to the official word out of GettyMart, they see no other way to combat their electronic shoplifting except…
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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem
Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (Published 2014) In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html Cool exists at the ineffable confluence of smart people, big money and compelling product. You can buy it, but only…
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Why The US Government Hasn’t Released Photos Of UBL’s Corpse
Why the White House hasn’t released photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when it comes to the subject of the late Osama bin Laden and why the White House has not via SOFREP: https://sofrep.com/news/why-us-govt-hasnt-released-photos-ubl-corpse/ There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when…
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Halliburton to media: We grant interviews only if you agree not to portray us in a negative light
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/03/20/halliburton-will-let-reporters-interview-employees-only-if-they-agree-not-to-portray-halliburton-in-a-negative-light/ I never planned on becoming a photographer. But just like a great photo, it was a matter of coincidence… a combination of, “right time, right place”. I was lucky. For the past forty years, I’ve been a commercial photographer. Those assignments introduced me to people that I never thought…
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Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages
Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages The company acknowledges scanning the emails of Apps for Education users and faces allegations in a federal lawsuit that it built “surreptitious user profiles” for advertising purposes. via Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html “This should draw the attention of the U.S. Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and…
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Witness: Andrea Bruce in Damascus
Link: I had no idea what to expect when I first entered the regime side of Syria’s bloody civil war. Images from inside the city of Damascus have been scarce and journalists are rarely granted legal access.