Author: Trent
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Photobooks on Kickstarter: 5 Great Projects Worth Funding Right Now | American Photo
Link: The month’s best crowdfunding campaigns, including urban cave dwellers, disappearing relics of the American road and more
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24 Hours in Ferguson — Businessweek
Link: The world watched as the streets of Ferguson, Mo., erupted in anger at news that a grand jury had declined to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager. The 24 hours that followed filled the town near St. Louis with both peaceful protests and skirmishes with police, calls for change…
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Moving Pictures and Opportunity for Change – NYTimes.com
Moving Pictures and Opportunity for Change An innovative collaboration that began with documenting the lives of teenagers who were victims of sex trafficking hopes to not just engage viewers, but also to spur them to act. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/moving-pictures-from-the-screen-to-action/ “The Long Night,” a film produced by Brian Storm, directed by Mr. Matsui and funded…
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Best Photobooks of the Year 2014 | American Photo
Link: American Photo picks the most original and beautiful books of 2014 that reflect the current trends in photography.
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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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David Strick, backstages – The Eye of Photography
Link: For the past forty years, David Strick has studied the mysterious phenomenon that is Hollywood, examining its artificiality and its affect on the world beyond the city limits. Strick has just started a blog where he combines the media’s image of Hollywood with his own in order to give an insider’s view of the industry.…
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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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The Telegraph’s David Rose wins Photojournalist of the Year – Telegraph
The Telegraph’s David Rose wins Photojournalist of the Year Stunning photographs from the Kiev frontline by The Telegraph’s David Rose win him the prestigious Photojournalist of the Year title at the British Journalism Awards via The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10651803/The-Telegraphs-David-Rose-wins-Photojournalist-of-the-Year.html When a photographer needs to fasten a camera onto a thirty-foot pole to capture a bird in…
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Targets by Herlinde Koelbl in Bonn – The Eye of Photography
Link: Koelbl spent the last six years in military training camps on every continent, photographing the targets soldiers use to prepare for combat. Boring? Hardly. The photographs reveal many economic, cultural and political differences
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Belgian photographers in Angkor Photo Festival & Workshop – The Eye of Photography
Link: A few Belgian photographers were chosen to exhibit their work for the 10th edition of the Angkor Photo Festival. Marie Sordat and Sébastien Van Malleghem were among them
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Philippe Schneider – Where We Live Matters | LensCulture
Philippe Schneider – Where We Live Matters | LensCulture We often perceive slums as dark dens of poverty and despair, where criminals, juvenile delinquents, and squatters wander aimlessly amongst ramshackle, makeshift structures. We draw a clear distinction between the slum dwellers and ourselves: they are the “other”. This is how slums across the world have…
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Miradas, Contemporary Mexican Photographers at BDC – The Eye of Photography
Link: To counter the stereotypical image of Mexico largely created by the American media, the Bronx Documentary Center is exhibiting the work of four Mexican photographers and one Chicano. Chuy Benitez, born in Houston, Texas, decided to represent the cultural diversity of his hometown, where he is seen as not quite Mexican and not quite…
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Lianzhou Foto Festival 2014 Part III – The Eye of Photography
Link: To counter the stereotypical image of Mexico largely created by the American media, the Bronx Documentary Center is exhibiting the work of four Mexican photographers and one Chicano. Chuy Benitez, born in Houston, Texas, decided to represent the cultural diversity of his hometown, where he is seen as not quite Mexican and not quite…
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William Daniels Wins 2014 Tim Hetherington Grant | TIME
William Daniels Wins 2014 Tim Hetherington Grant The photographer has spent the last year documenting the impact of strife in Central African Republic via Time: https://time.com/3629619/william-daniels-tim-hetherington-grant-world-press-photo/ The photographer has spent the last year documenting the impact of strife in Central African Republic
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Judges, Frontrunners Revealed in Sony World Photography Awards 2015 | American Photo
Link: Picture editors from the New York Times Magazine and VICE are among the jurors for one of the world’s biggest photography contests
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Camera of The Year 2014
Link: The Internet has given us many glorious things: streaming movies, multiplayer games, real-time information and videos of cats playing the piano. It has also offered up some less edifying creations: web-borne viruses, cybercrime and Charles C. Johnson.
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The War Over the US Government’s Unreleased Torture Pictures | WIRED
The War Over the US Government’s Unreleased Torture Pictures Even as President Obama denounces the “enhanced interrogation” employed by the CIA and outlined in a scathing Senate report, his administration continues blocking the release of some 2,100 photographs taken in Iraq and Afghanistan depicting alleged torture. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/war-us-governments-unreleased-torture-pictures/ Even as President Obama denounces the…
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Flickr Sorry for Selling Creative Commons Photos as Wall Art, Will Stop and Refund All Sales To Date
Flickr Sorry for Selling Creative Commons Photos as Wall Art, Will Stop and Refund All Sales To Date Flickr is apologizing for its decision to sell Creative Commons photos as wall art. The images have been pulled, and all sales made with CC photos will be via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/12/18/flickr-sorry-selling-creative-commons-photos-wall-art-will-refund-sales-date/ In a message posted today to…
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American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud – NYTimes.com
American Culture, Riding a Mushroom Cloud In “Chewing Gum and Chocolate,” Shomei Tomatsu explored the attractions and contradictions of American culture and the military in postwar Japan. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/american-culture-riding-a-mushroom-cloud/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The photographer Shomei Tomatsu was drawn to ninja and samurai movies as a child in post-World War II Japan, even though teachers forbade students…
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Special Books : Minutes to Midnight, par Trent Parke – The Eye of Photography
Link: “I’ve been influenced by all sorts of things,” Parke said in a 2007 interview. “Music videos have been great. There is this Icelandic group Sigur Rós – their music is just very sad and melodramatic. Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead and those sorts of bands and their cutting-edge film clips have influenced me. They…