Author: Trent
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The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive
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…
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Times photo staffer’s invention: the streaming backpack
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.
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Anthony Suau’s Organic Rising | PROOF
Link: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Anthony Suau had these same questions when, in 2008, he returned to the United States after spending 20 years living in Europe. “I realized that I basically couldn’t eat the food, specifically the meat. It just tasted terrible. I found myself very quickly gaining weight. I didn’t understand what was going…
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embracing the cliche – Shooting from the Hip
Link: At my day job, I need my work to appeal to a wide range of photographic IQs. But, with my street work, I guess I am aiming to please the photo literate and when, I make an image that is too popular, in a weird way, I don’t feel as good as when I…
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Remembrances of Camille Lepage | dvafoto
Link: A number of publications and individuals have published thoughtful remembrances of Camille and her work in the past few days (and I’m sure many more in French, as well), and I thought it’d be good to collect the links here
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B: Photobooks Retitled to Become Bestsellers
Photobooks Retitled to Become Bestsellers Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/05/photobooks-retitled-to-become.html Lurking on the eccentric and strange is a specialty on New York-based photographer, Martin Cartagena. His candid shots of the diverse cast of characters that make up The Big Apple are striking and revealing. It seems as long as there are 8.3 million people occupying New York there…
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Post Processing Panoramas
Link: I used to use Photoshop’s Lens Correction filter to make vertical or horizontal lines parallel. But for the last couple of versions, Photoshop has provided the Adaptive Wide Angle filter, which is even more powerful. Lens Correction assumes there is a single vertical and a single horizontal direction and all of the image is…
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Photo Editor Texts
Photo Editor Texts texts between photojournalists and their photo editors back in the office. email submissions to… via Tumblr: https://photoeditortexts.tumblr.com/?og=1 texts between photojournalists and their photo editors back in the office. email submissions to photoeditortexts@gmail.com
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George Steinmetz’s Eye From the Sky | PROOF
Link: What is it like strapping yourself into the equivalent of a leaf blower, getting a running start, then taking off into the air with a camera in your hand?
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Michael Schmidt 1945-2014 | Conscientious Photography Magazine
Michael Schmidt 1945-2014 via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/michael-schmidt-1945-2014/ I cannot think of any other contemporary German photographer who has dealt with the country he was born into as deeply as Schmidt
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Facebook Photos Employee Posts Step-by-Step Instructions for Stealing Grad Photos
PetaPixel | Photography and Camera News PetaPixel is a photography news site that covers photo and camera news, reviews, inspiration, and education. via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/05/28/facebook-photos-employee-posts-step-step-instructions-stealing-grad-photos/ Jesse Chen, a software engineer, graduate of UC Berkley and member of the Facebook Photos team who saw nothing wrong with posting detailed photo theft instructions on his blog for…
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Blink: 21st Century Rolodex – The Eye of Photography
Link: Blink is the visionary—and yet, now that it exists, obvious—idea of Julien Jourdes and Matt Craig, former photo editors at the Wall Street Journal. It brings together media professionals of all stripes: editors, agencies and, remarkably, freelancers.
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Steve Schapiro Once Upon a Time in America – The Eye of Photography
Link: For years, Steve Schapiro was a photographer for LIFE magazine. Francis Ford Coppola noticed Schapiro’s work in 1972 and invited him to take pictures on the set of The Godfather, then continued with The Godfather II, The Godfather III, The Great Gatsby, Taxi Driver and Chinatown, among others. Schapiro worked extensively on the subject of cultural changes in American society…
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Working at Vice Media Is Not As Cool As It Seems
Working at Vice Media Is Not As Cool As It Seems Vice Media is one of the hottest media properties in America. It's the counterculture empire that even Rupert Murdoch could love. Vice's founder, Shane Smith, has speculated his company could raise tens of billions of dollars. So why are its employees so broke and…
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National Geographic Photographer Pays a Stunning Tribute to Ansel Adams’ Work
National Geographic Photographer Pays a Stunning Tribute to Ansel Adams’ Work It’s been just over three decades since the passing of Ansel Adams, but his legacy lives on in the hearts and minds (and on many of the walls) of those he via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/06/04/natgeo-photographer-pays-a-beautiful-tribute-to-ansel-adams-work-in-the-ansel-adams-wilderness-photo-book/ Peter Essick, decided to pay tribute to the renowned Group…
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Viviane Dalles Wins the Canon Female Photojournalist Award – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Canon Female Photojournalist Award has just been awarded to the 36-year old French photographer Viviane Dalles
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Embracing Change: Magnum Photos in the Age of Instagram – Feature Shoot
Embracing Change: Magnum Photos in the Age of Instagram On June 17th, photography fans can collect a piece of Magnum history for the bargain price of $100. Tagged #MAGNUMSquare on Instagram, the flash, two-day sale will offer 44 museum quality (6×6) prints from Magnum’s famous photographers, all signed, at a price affordable to a wide…
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» Storm chaser defends his photo of young Nebraska tornado victim JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/06/18/photojournalist-defends-his-photo-of-young-tornado-victim/ Storm chaser/photographer Mark Farnik has been criticized for his photo of a young tornado victim from Nebraska – what he calls “the most powerful, yet most difficult to make and look at image of my photojournalism career
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Crimson on White: Hunting the Polar Bear | TIME
Images of a Polar Bear Hunt Poverty drives Inuit in Canada to hunt and kill polar bears via Time: https://time.com/2891891/hunting-the-polar-bear/ Ed Ou spent four months in 2013 photographing Inuit communities in Nunavut, the northernmost territory of Canada
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Picture Editor Mike Davis On Clarity of Voice in Today’s Media Landscape
Link: “I think now there is a greater need for picture editors and people who can craft visual narratives [to] help photographers develop [their work],” Davis says, “at a time when there are fewer of us than there have [historically] been.”