Author: Trent
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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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Alejandro Cegarra 2014 emerging talent • Stories and Trends | Getty Images
Creative Insights Creative Insights is an authentic, thought-provoking experience in imagery that sparks the imagination and inspires great ideas. via Creative Insights: https://creativeinsights.gettyimages.com After working for a year at an advertising agency, he quit to pursue photography as a fulltime profession. He has worked for Venezuela’s largest newspaper, Ultimas Noticias, as well as freelanced in…
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A United Ukraine, in Photographs
A United Ukraine, in Photographs Arthur Bondar has produced a three-part opus on his Ukrainian homeland, portraying it as he remembered it from his childhood, as one. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/a-united-ukraine-in-photographs/ Arthur Bondar is not exactly the type to take orders. He gave up pursuing a military career when he realized in college that “fighting…
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A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor
A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor Preston Gannaway’s first book delves into the lives of the residents of Ocean View, a community in flux in the shadow of a sprawling naval base. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/a-virginia-community-looking-for-a-safe-harbor/ Preston Gannaway, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, moved to the neighborhood to begin a staff job at The…
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Majid Saeedi Life in War – The Eye of Photography
Link: “As a photographer I believe it is my responsibility to show how other people live their lives…a lot of us sit at home and don’t even know our neighbors. I wanted to get closer to the normal people of Afghanistan, to live with them, eat with them and talk to them. To tell their…
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William Mortensen: photographic master at the monster’s ball | Art and design | The Guardian
William Mortensen: photographic master at the monster’s ball Ansel Adams called him ‘the antichrist’ and wanted him written out of history. But William Mortensen’s grotesque photographs of death, nudity and torture and are now having their day. Chris Campion pays tribute to a master of the macabre via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/06/william-mortensen-photography-master-macabre Ansel Adams called him…
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Howard Schatz: The Doctor Is In! — zPhotoJournal
Link: I have learned so many things in medicine that have helped me as a photographer. I learned how to insure that when a patient who was frightened about losing their vision…feel upon meeting me…that they came to the right doctor. This helps me a great deal with portraiture.
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kiana hayeri – jense degar (the other sex) | burn magazine
Kiana Hayeri – Jense Degar (The Other Sex) Kiana Hayeri Jense Degar (The Other Sex) [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Under Islamic laws, homosexuality is not recognized and is considered to be a sin. Contrary to what is… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/10/kiana-hayeri-jense-degar-the-other-sex/ Amir is 19 year old. He is a bold…
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Tri-X
Link: My habit was becoming a bit expensive and I quickly learned that if I purchased the Tri-X film in a bulk 100-foot roll and hand loaded the film cassettes myself, it drove the film cost way down, doing the math I calculated it was around a penny per frame, wow 36 cents for 36…
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People Are Laughing at Your LinkedIn Profile
People Are Looking at Your LinkedIn Profile and They’re Laughing at You I mean, come on—you like racquetball and you list “social media” as a skill? What does that even mean? You know about Twitter and you own weird goggles? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/people-laughing-linkedin-profile Browse the suggested connections, and don’t bother to think about…
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ISIS has killed 17 Iraqi journalists over past 10 months | dvafoto
Link: I’ve worked around the world for National Geographic magazine but the most elusive assignment for me has been just 50 miles from my home. In the summer of 2006 I was commissioned to create a portfolio celebrating South Carolina’s ACE Basin. It’s a special place where three rivers and a community came together to…
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Have You Started Shooting Yet? A Longterm Project is Finally Complete | PROOF
Link: I’ve worked around the world for National Geographic magazine but the most elusive assignment for me has been just 50 miles from my home. In the summer of 2006 I was commissioned to create a portfolio celebrating South Carolina’s ACE Basin. It’s a special place where three rivers and a community came together to…
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René Burri: The Keen-eyed Master « The Leica Camera
Link: The diversity offered by his outstanding work will be a constant source of delightful new discoveries. Looking back, Burri’s life was dedicated to photography – a life that has been eventful, successful, and above all, rich in good fortune. As he has often said, “photography for me has always been about good fortune.”
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Repping Instagram Photographers – Tinker Street Mobile | A Photo Editor
Repping Instagram Photographers – Tinker Street Mobile by T. Brittain Stone We’ve all heard about Instagrammers with huge followings that can bill $5000 a day for clients like American Airlines, Best Buy or the Israel Ministry of Tourism. And when you … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2014/10/27/repping-instagram-photographers-tinker-street-mobile/ artists rep Jesse Miller will give you a…
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Link: The grant celebrates the legacy of photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed when a group of journalists came under fire during fighting between rebels and General Gaddafi’s forces in Misrata, Libya in April 2011. Tim Hetherington was committed to finding new ways to tell compelling stories about politics, conflict and the human…
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Without curation, there is no photography – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: if you are a photographer, next time you disagree with an edit, keep in mind that this might be the last time you get a chance to complain. Next time, you could be facing an algorithm who will not care about your comments
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Emerging Talen – Jabin Botsford | The Visual Student
Link: I failed a bunch of classes my first semester, I just took a whole semester of general education and absolutely hated it. Next semester I decided I was going to take photography classes, because my community college had a photo program which covered all types of photography. After a year, I had to a…
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Envisioning Human Rights Part I Gilles Peress, Thomas Morley, Jean-Marie Simon – The Eye of Photography
Link: Gilles Peress raises the dilemma of human rights photography: “I keep asking myself the fundamental question: Can human rights photography, like 18th century novels, be a vehicle for empathy? Can photographs motivate viewers to engage with human rights issues and bring about real change? As we know, badly used photography can be a vehicle…
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Envisioning Human Rights Part III Stephen Ferry, Ken Light, Stephen Goldblatt, Sebastião Salgado – The Eye of Photography
Link: We’ve become such a 24/7 moving world with a constant stream of news and sound and pictures,” writes Light. “And the wonderful thing of a still photograph is you get to linger, you get to stop, you get to look, you get to think, you get to react, and it is a very different…