Author: Trent
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Kitra Cahana on Hunger in America: The Suburbs | PROOF
Link: Kitra Cahana travelled to the suburbs of Houston, Texas, to photograph people who get by with the assistance of food pantries—meaning they often don’t have enough food, or don’t have a enough nutritious food to keep them healthy. She talks about some of her experiences in the featured video and the conversation below.
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I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or…. — BagNews
Link: I don’t want to talk about iconic photos. It’s too easy to distance oneself by turning the photo into an object. Of course, that’s unavoidable here in our daily exploration of the role and the meaning of pictures in our visual culture and our visual media. Just not this time.
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Shooting from the Hip SF Style – SF: The Hip
Link: Just like in Chicago, SF: The Hip will consist of a heavy dose of iPhone street photography mixed with my daily work at the San Francisco Chronicle and some occasional musings about the state of photojournalism.
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Photographing on the Ground in Gaza
Photographing on the Ground in Gaza Sergey Ponomarev has encountered a war routine in Gaza, documenting the destruction and casualties of the latest conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/gaza-city-sergey-ponomarev-israel-photos/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Sergey Ponomarev, 33, is a freelance photographer covering the conflict in Gaza on assignment for The New York Times. He grew up in Moscow and Ireland and…
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» Photojournalist seeks $15K to get his book about the Philadelphia Inquirer published JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/07/30/photojournalist-seeks-15000-for-his-book-about-the-newspaper-industrys-struggles/ Photojournalist Will Steacy, who has spent the last five years documenting the Philadelphia Inquirer’s challenges, is trying to raise $15,000 for “Deadline,” a book he hopes to have published by the end of the year
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Photographers Cover Opposing Sides of Israel-Gaza War – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As the death toll rises in the war between Israel and Hamas, TIME LightBox profiles two photographers who have spent weeks covering the opposing sides: Andrew Katz interviewed Oliver Weiken of European Pressphoto Agency and Olivier Laurent spoke with Getty Images’ Andrew Burton.
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Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed) — BagNews
Link: The gist of the argument is that Hicks and the other Western photographers could easily seek out and photograph Hamas fighters, and thus balance out the coverage, but they have been too bullied and intimidated to do so.
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Bud Glick: A photographer looks back at a decades old series about life for the Chinese residents of New York (PHOTOS).
New York City Snapshots From Chinatown in the ’80s More than 30 years ago, Bud Glick set out to photograph the New York Chinese community as part of the New York Chinatown History Project, now the… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2014/08/bud-glick-a-photographer-looks-back-at-a-decades-old-series-about-life-for-the-chinese-residents-of-new-york-photos.html More than 30 years ago, Bud Glick set out to photograph the New York Chinese…
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Photos From Both Sides of the Gaza Conflict
Photos From Both Sides of the Gaza Conflict Two photographers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, described how they cover the current conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/photos-from-both-sides-of-the-gaza-conflict/ Uriel Sinai is an Israeli freelance photographer covering Israel during the current war, while Wissam Nassar, a Palestinian freelance photographer, has covered the Gaza side of the conflict for The…
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Guillermo Cervera: Focus on Ukraine « The Leica Camera
Link: I always tell the story about a drawer full of Playboy magazines that belonged to my father. He was a former navy officer. Those photographs where much better than today’s Playboys. When he discovered I knew about them, he moved them away and filled the drawer with National Geographic magazines! So I kept looking…
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Explore Pyongyang North Korea Like Never Before in Mind-Bending ‘Flow-Motion’ Hyperlapse
Explore Pyongyang North Korea Like Never Before in Mind-Bending ‘Flow-Motion’ Hyperlapse The ‘Enter Pyongyang’ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the public two hours ago as of this writing, and already it has over via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/08/09/explore-pyongyang-north-korea-like-never-mind-bending-flow-motion-hyperlapse/ The ‘Enter Pyongyang‘ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the…
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Somehow this isn’t Tim and Eric
Link: The ‘Enter Pyongyang‘ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the public two hours ago as of this writing, and already it has over 3,500 upvotes on Reddit and almost half a million views… ON VIMEO!
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Worth a read: Journalist recounts her sexual assault by a colleague on her first night in Ukraine | dvafoto
Link: Last week, Balkanist magazine published an account by a young presumably-British journalist’s of her sexual assault by a colleague on the night of her arrival in Kyiv, Ukraine, to cover the political situation there. The piece is well worth a read, raising important points about what women face working in the male-dominated field of…
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News Shooter | BBC Wildlife Director John Downer & the technology of ‘spy-cam’ filmmaking
BBC Wildlife Director John Downer & the technology of ‘spy-cam’ filmmaking – Newsshooter By site editor Dan Chung: Sensory: BBC Wildlife Director John Downer & the technology of ‘spy-cam’ filmmaking from Getty Images on via Newsshooter: https://www.newsshooter.com/2014/08/13/bbc-wildlife-director-john-downer-the-technology-of-spy-cam-filmmaking/ During the interview BBC Wildlife Director John Downer talks about how consumer cameras like the GoPro are used…
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» Philadelphia Daily News changes its cover after it’s criticized on Twitter JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/08/14/philadelphia-daily-news-changes-its-cover-after-its-criticized-on-twitter/ Based on reader reaction [to the cover on the left] we’re changing our front page image — so we actually do listen
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Photographing on Ferguson’s Streets
Photographing on Ferguson’s Streets Covering the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., has proved challenging as police restrict access and, in some cases, arrest journalists. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/photographing-on-fergusons-streets/ Whitney Curtis was not surprised by the outpouring of anger and emotion after a police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager in Ferguson, Mo. As a…
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Getty photographer arrested, released in Ferguson | Poynter.
Link: “I want to be able to do my job as a member of the media and not be arrested for just doing my job,” Scott Olson said in a statement from Getty Images. The company “condemns Scott’s arrest,” vice-president for news Pancho Bernasconi said.
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Chinese Journalists Bemoan Decline Of Traditional State-Run Newspapers, Rise Of State-Run New Media | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Link: “These days, being a journalist is more about getting pageviews than it is about actually scrubbing out all the information deemed too sensitive for the masses,” she added.
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Zed Nelson’s ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ Depicts the Mélange of Cultures in a Gentrifying East London Neighborhood – Feature Shoot
Zed Nelson’s ‘A Portrait of Hackney’ Depicts the Mélange of Cultures in a Gentrifying East London Neighborhood For many of our readers the story of waves of hipsters gentrifying previously undesirable neighborhoods, eventually and circumstantially pushing out the previous communities, will be a familiar one. For photographer… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/08/zed-nelson/ As Nelson writes in…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules
Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules” Glen E. Friedman, who was most recently featured in our special Beastie Boys issue, will be releasing a book of his iconic photographs “MY RULES…. Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/watch-glen-e-friedman-ian-mackaye-discuss-photos-in-my-rules/ Raised in North Carolina and educated in California, the Brooklyn-based photographer Bryan Derballa…