Author: Trent

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    Link: The ad used a photo of a pot of gold, captioned with “Your pot of gold is right here baby. Report unlicensed software and GET PAID.” The photo used in the ad was of a cake baked by Cakecentral user Bethasd

  • The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld (Part 1)

    The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld (Part 1)

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    The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld (Part 1) The former Secretary of Defense’s most famous quip is explored through the impressions of the journalists who covered him for years. via Opinionator: https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-1/ I was often struck by the difference between Rumsfeld and Robert McNamara. McNamara said that he never answered the question he was asked but…

  • Musings: Michael Christopher Brown in Congo

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    Link: While working on a project that was a mammoth photo editing task—our Congo story, published on our News site—I came across Michael Christopher Browns’s ironically lovely images from the Congo, taken between 2012 and 2013. The original news story is an 11,000 word piece that dives deep into Congo’s conflicted and violent history, and…

  • Boston’s Stanley Forman: Worst Fire Call I Ever Heard

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    Link: The scanner traffic was intense, actually frightening to hear. And then that long, deadly silence.

  • Between Twilight and Dawn

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    Link:       The world of professional photography has been scratching its head trying to figure out why so many casual photographers are having as much success, if not more, than they are. After all, on one side you have experience, adequate equipment, preparation, knowledge and on the other, well, we don’t really know.

  • Lynsey Addario on the New Female Face of Afghanistan

    Lynsey Addario on the New Female Face of Afghanistan

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ The first time I visited Aghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims. At the time, the Taliban had banned photography of any…

  • Shutterstock taking a beating ?

    Shutterstock taking a beating ?

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    Kaptur Magazine The news magazine about the visual tech space. Everything from content marketing, computer vision, deep learning, virtual reality, 3 D, photo, video featuring breaking news, analysis, commentary, stats, reports, white papers on research, start-ups, investments, exits, IPO’s written by industry experts. If its visual and on the web, it’s here. via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/…

  • Where the Streets Have No Children

    Where the Streets Have No Children

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    Where the Streets Have No Children A chance mention of a small Ecuadorean town with no children and a handful of old residents set Santiago Arcos on a mission to document its dwindling life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/where-the-streets-have-no-children/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&#/1/ The tail end of a radio report stayed with Santiago Arcos from the moment he heard it…

  • Josh Haner – Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize Winner

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    {{(global.pageOgTitle) ? global.pageOgTitle : global.pageTitle}} {{(global.pageDescription) ? global.pageDescription : global.pageDefaultDescription}} Link: {{global.pageCanocialUrl}} Awarded to Josh Haner of The New York Times for his moving essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost most of both legs and now is painfully rebuilding his life.

  • Through the Lens: New Photography

    Through the Lens: New Photography

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    Through the Lens: New Photography – LENSCRATCH Los Angeles is gearing up for all things photography with Paris Photo Los Angeles opening on the 24th, MOPLA (month of photography in Los Angeles) well underway, and on April 25th, the Los Angeles Center of Photography will hold a gala celebration, featuring the work of eleven Southern California…

  • Notes From the Road: John Stanmeyer in Jerusalem

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    Link: Photography possesses intervals, moments of timelessness, where the benevolence of the world around us offers fleeting touches of visual poetry upon the commonplace. Yet for unruly reasons, we can become too blind to see or feel their significance.

  • Narayan Mahon’s ‘Lands in Limbo’: Somaliland

    Narayan Mahon’s ‘Lands in Limbo’: Somaliland

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    Somaliland’s Long Game via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/somalilands-long-game He told me, “In all of these places, people accept their position in the world: We are here, no one will recognize us, but we are just going to keep our heads down. Maybe one day it will happen; there’s an outlook of it being a long…

  • Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas

    Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas

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    Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas The Overseas Press Club has honored several photographers for their coverage of conflicts that have spanned decades, or almost escaped attention. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/recognizing-outstanding-photojournalism-overseas/ In an interview today, Mr. Hicks spoke of the many great war photographers who have won the Robert Capa gold medal, including David Douglas Duncan, Larry…

  • Twenty Years After Apartheid

    Twenty Years After Apartheid

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    Twenty Years After Apartheid Joao Silva came of age as a photographer as his native South Africa was navigating a treacherous path to democracy. Twenty years later, he reflects on what has — and has not — changed. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/twenty-years-after-apartheid/ In a sprawling South African township stands a tall slab of polished stone…

  • PJL: May 2014 (Part 1)

    PJL: May 2014 (Part 1)

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?

  • Running Food, Taking Photos

    Running Food, Taking Photos

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    Running Food, Taking Photos When his photo career stalled, Robert Larson took a nightclub job – where he discovered new faces and scenes in the blur of action between the kitchen and the club. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/running-food-taking-photos/ While Mr. Larson started out taking pictures in the nightclub area, where bands and burlesque shows entertained…

  • New service will rate the authenticity of digital images

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    Link: The Izitru website and iOS app can “distinguish an original JPEG file captured with a digital camera from subsequent derivations of that file that may have been changed in some way,” according to the company.

  • Saints, Sinners and Side Roads

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    Link: Stettinius’s “self-described ‘pathological curiosity’ makes for an entirely unpredictable series of photographs, while the small size of the gelatin silver prints emphasizes their detailed nature and enhances the mysterious quality generated by his choice in cameras (namely, the increasingly popular Holga film camera),” Robin Rice Gallery said in a statement about his third solo exhibit,…

  • Times photo staffer’s invention: the streaming backpack

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    Link: It is quite literally a backpack that allows photographers to send their photos to editors without having to be physically on site, or having to individually upload, color-correct and input caption information for each image.

  • The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Best of 2014: The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive This unique archive documents Russian criminals’ tattoos and their coded meanings. Included in the collection are more than three thousand tattoo draw… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/the-russian-criminal-tattoo-archive/ In these incredible images the nameless bodies of criminals act as both a text and mirror, reflecting and preserving the…