Author: Trent
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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…
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The Talent: Jacque Foo | dvafoto
Link: As a Malaysian man living in Doha, the scenario above is a common experience for me. Many times I, together with other Asian bachelors, have been told to leave these places while seeing Arab or Caucasian bachelors walking freely to wherever they want to go.
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Journalist blames inexperienced photographer in Steven Sotloff kidnapping | dvafoto
Link: Daily Beast published a piece by Ben Taub titled “Was U.S. Journalist Steven Sotloff a Marked Man?” In the article, Taub describes the actions of a freelance journalist (named “Alex” for the article, but later revealed to be Montreal photographer Yves Choquette) who he says compromised the identity of his fixer on the Syria/Turkey…
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Bing Image Widget – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: The courts have decided that displaying the search results (including images) for the education and benefit of the public is fair use. Now it seems that these displays can be made available to any end user for re-publication and re-distribution for non-commercial or commercial purposes.
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An interview with Trent Parke – Try Hard Magazine
Tryhardmagazine via Tryhardmagazine: http://tryhardmagazine.com/an-interview-with-trent-parke Later, a relative was flicking through the portraits, who has no idea about photography, and he said ‘So in a way the camera is playing God.’ That was it. With personal camera phones and security cameras all over cities now, nothing goes unnoticed. The camera is all seeing
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Nude Portraits | Utah Photojournalist
Link: Trevor Christensen: These are nude portraits in the sense that I, the photographer, am nude, while the subject is not.
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Dark, Unflinching Photos of Zionist Exorcisms and Healings in Swaziland – Feature Shoot
Link: Photographer Kyle Meyer met Pastor Jeffrey Mdalodze after having been beckoned to him and his assistant pastor, at which point the artist was identified as a prophet whose arrival had been foretold by divine prophecy
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Still Rich and Poor | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: Photographer Jim Goldberg and publisher Gerhard Steidl probably had current socioeconomic realities in mind when they made the decision to revise and reprint Goldberg’s Rich and Poor, which contrasts portraits of San Francisco’s elite with portraits of its poorest citizens
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Confirmed: Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 is the best performing lens ever tested by DxOMark | Nikon Rumors
Confirmed: Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 is the best performing portrait lens ever tested by DxOMark – Nikon Rumors DxOmark concluded that the $4,490 Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 lens (announced few days ago) is currently the best performing 85mm portrait lens for Nikon F mount. Here is their conclusion: The new Otus 85mm is without question the…
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zhang kechun – the yellow river | burn magazine
Zhang Kechun – The Yellow River Zhang Kechun The Yellow River ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Zhang Kechun The Yellow River play this essay Saying that it is a song might have been a popular joke. Saying that it is our mot… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/09/zhang-kechun-the-yellow-river/ Then I determined to go and follow its pace,…
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Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, TIME.com
Link: If the story of the United States has a theme so far in the 21st century, it is surely one of resilience. To hail that spirit on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, TIME revisited the people who led us, moved us and inspired us, from the morning of the attacks through the…
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‘Fatalistic Tendency’: A Photographer Copes with Thoughts of Suicide – Feature Shoot
‘Fatalistic Tendency’: A Photographer Copes with Thoughts of Suicide For Fatalistic Tendency, Dhaka, Bangladesh-based documentary photographer Tushikur Rahman visualizes his own depression through scenes of violence and confusion. In his unnerving, claustrophobic frames, he confronts the painful suicidal impulses brought on by insomnia and anxiety attacks, using his camera as a means of recording a…
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Leica Announces Leica X (Type 113) | La Vida Leica!
Today at Photokina 2014, Leica announced a further model in the Leica X line: the new Leica X – made in Germany. Featuring a new Leica Summilux 23mm f/1.7 ASPH prime lens and a sensor that is particularly large for this camera class, it captures exceptionally brilliant pictures. Its versatility is further expanded by a…
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Vlad Sokhin: Crying Meri Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea – The Eye of Photography
Link: the women of PNG are also beset by domestic violence and sexual assault at rates that are inconceivable; more than two thirds of women suffer horrific abuse at the hands of their men and many are left disfigured after being attacked with knives and axes
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Found: James Blair on Recording History | PROOF
Link: Jim Blair is an innovator, but not in the contemporary, technology-focused use of that word. Jim’s photography particularly broke new ground in content for National Geographic from 1960 to 1994. He, along with a handful of other like-minded photographers, stretched what “science” could encompass by arguing that social and environmental problems should be included in…
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Newsha Tavakolian versus Carmignac – The Eye of Photography
Link: Today I am announcing that due to irreconcilable differences over the presentation of my work, I am returning the cash award and stepping down as the winner of the Carmignac Gestion Award for photojournalism 2014, canceling all my cooperation with this foundation and its patron, the French investment banker Edouard Carmignac.
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Bumperhead – new graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez – Boing Boing
Link: A fascinatingly disjointed tale of drugs, rock and roll, and adolescence from the legendary cartoonist who co-created Love and Rockets. Read the exclusive excerpt.
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Anastasia Taylor-Lind: The Most Frightening Thing About War | PROOF
Link: Anastasia Taylor-Lind spent several weeks in August 2014 photographing in Ukraine as fighting intensified in the eastern part of the country between the Ukrainian Army and Russian-backed separatists. Her aim was to document the war as part of her ongoing Negative Zero project, focused on depopulation in Europe. She shares her experience with Proof.
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The new force in photojournalism – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: As we see with the events in Hong Kong, where an estimated tens of thousand people are in the streets, the first reaction was to shut down Instagram. It is a major shift. The Chinese government is now more afraid of the impact that a photo sharing site might have then a pro photographer…
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People of the Twenty-First Century | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: Over the course of the last 20 years, Dutch conceptual artist and street photographer Hans Eijkelboom documented fashion trends worn by people in New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Shanghai. The images, laid out into grids, are compiled into one comprehensive book, Hans Eijkelboom: People of the Twenty-First Century (Phaidon Press, 2014).