Author: Trent
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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…
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Modern Day Explorer Documents the World’s ‘Micronations’ – Feature Shoot
Modern Day Explorer Documents the World’s ‘Micronations’ Drawn to small places with improbable histories, photographer Léo Delafontaine could be described as a modern day explorer. Upon the discovery of the Principality of Sealand, a military platform situated on international waters, with a population of four and ruled by a constitutional monarchy, he knew this would…
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Internship Perspective: Sofia Jaramillo, Jackson Hole News&Guide | The Visual Student
Link: There are many lessons I have learned while shooting this past year. One is that if you look for it, there will always be beautiful moments within tragedy and sometimes these are the most important.
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UNC reaches settlement with Justin Cook over copyright infringement, will also hold public forum about creative rights | dvafoto
Link: life for the U.S. officials and military personnel who oversaw the Panama Canal Zone was “a kind of paradise,” said the Madrid-based photographer Matías Costa, who has made several visits to the region in recent years for his project “Zonians.”
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PPE 2014: Building a Career in Fine-Art Photography
Link: Edelman reminded the audience that artists can “always raise prices but can’t lower them.” Photographers should start low, and if an edition sells quickly the price should increase slowly.
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China Now Lu Guang – The Eye of Photography
Link: Since the reforms, Chinese society has changed. The technical and scientific standards have been raised, and the quality of life has improved overall. But the speed and magnitude of the changes have created new problems, the worst of which is pollution.
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The Photojournalist Who Stared Down Ebola – The Daily Beast
The Photojournalist Who Stared Down Ebola His disturbing images are what despairing victims and survivors in Liberia hoped the world would see. An interview with Getty Images’ John Moore, speaking from his quarantine. via The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/08/the-photojournalist-who-stared-down-ebola.html His disturbing images are what despairing victims and survivors in Liberia hoped the world would see. An…
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Mild-Mannered Reporter Suddenly Transforms Into Incredible Unemployed Man | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Link: Upon receiving word of the Unemployed Man’s situation, sources confirmed that his arch-nemesis, the Viral Man—operating from deep within his News Aggregator Lair—smiled, nodded, and said that all was proceeding according to plan
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Paris Photo 2014 : Khalid Al Thani Language without Words – The Eye of Photography
Link: The exhibition “Language without Words” is an exclusive insight into the current work of Qatari photographer Khalid Al Thani. Following its preview at Paris Photo 2014, “Language without Words” will be shown in a larger comprehensive form in London in 2016.
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Syria’s ‘hospital’ of horrors – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ The “hospital” where I took these pictures is a makeshift clinic set up in the basement of a building, managed by the Unified Medical Office of Douma, which was created in 2013 to coordinate private medical care in the area. The hospital treats the war wounded from throughout Gouta and serves…
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Mois de la Photo 2014: Michael von Graffenried, Bierfest, at Galerie Esther Woerdehoff – The Eye of Photography
Link: Michael von Graffenried’s new series, Bierfest, can make you happy and sad at the same time. If humanity can sink so low, it can also elevate itself like, for instance, through the pictorial achievement in this series which celebrates all its “characters”.
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With $10,000 Grant, Photographer Orchestrates Panoramic of Mile-Long Street
Link: Sean Busher was looking for a project to herald the return of The Light Factory—a non-profit gallery and photo education center in Charlotte, North Carolina–when he hit upon an audacious idea: Recruit dozens of volunteers to create two panoramic images of both sides of Charlotte’s historic main drag
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Léonard Pongo – Uncanny & Magical: Exploring the Congo | LensCulture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/leonard-pongo-uncanny-amp-magical-exploring-the-congo#slide-15 “The Uncanny” is a documentary project made in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the elections in 2011. This story offers a vision of the country, as experienced from within. Through my photographs, I am trying to show the broad,…
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Nish Nalbandian – On the Ground in Syria: A Photojournalist’s Perspective | LensCulture
On the Ground in Syria: A Photojournalist’s Perspective – Photographs by and interview with Nish Nalbandian | LensCulture Documentary filmmaker turned photojournalist Nish Nalbandian speaks about the importance of narrative, the “flow state” of working in conflict zones and the state of the photo industry today via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/nish-nalbandian-on-the-ground-in-syria-a-photojournalist-s-perspective As the Syrian Civil War drags…
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Venezia defends itself, 1915-1918, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venezia – The Eye of Photography
Link: A century after the beginning of First World War, “Venice defends itself 1915 – 1918”, curated by Claudio Franzini and based in Palazzo Fortuny, tells us the unusual situation of the city at the time of the Great War with 350 original photos from the Archivio Storico Fotografico of the Fondazione Musei Civici di…
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Flickr Taking Heat from CC Photographers for Selling Their Work as Wall Art Without Compensation
Flickr Taking Heat from CC Photographers for Selling Their Work as Wall Art Without Compensation Flickr — a site that sometimes seems like the punching bag of the photo community — is again taking heat from photographers, this time over their recent via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/11/25/flickr-taking-heat-cc-photographers-selling-work-wall-art-without-compensation/ The photos are being sold for profit, but none of…
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Hong Kong International Photo Festival – The Eye of Photography
Link: For nearly three months, Hong Kong is shining a spotlight on photography with the Hong Kong International Photo Festival. With exhibitions, conferences, educational programs, workshops and other events held in several locations throughout the city, photography fans and professional alike can rejoice.
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Magnum Foundation’s #PhotoEX Symposium Now Available Online | American Photo
Link: Luckily, if you missed this free-of-charge event (or just want to revisit any of the discussions or projects presented that day) you can. Magnum Foundation has just released a series of videos featuring each of the presenters from Photography, Expanded as well as a few shorter interviews with the day’s presenters about their takeaways.
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What’s Your Niche: Stephen Crowley, Political Photojournalist
Link: I’m not emotionally attached to any piece of equipment. Sometimes music is better with a cello and other times it’s more effective if you play it on a banjo