Author: Trent
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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…
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Buying an audience – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: the cost to produce an image is of no interest to an image buyer. Wether it took 3 flights, 5 camera bodies, twenty-two lenses, five models and a crew of fifteen to produce one shot or the image was shot in a backyard with an iPhone is of no influence to the image buyers…
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Indian-American photojournalist Rajan Devadas dies in US – The Times of India
Indian-American photojournalist Rajan Devadas dies in US – Times of India NRI Achievers News: Rajan Devadas, one of the most admired Indian-American photojournalists whose lenses chronicled US-India relations for more than half a century, has d via The Times of India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/nri-achievers/indian-american-photojournalist-rajan-devadas-dies-in-us/articleshow/45666987.cms In a career spanning more than five decades, Devadas has covered US visit…
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Gunmen storm Paris satirical newspaper, killing at least 12 – The Washington Post
Charlie Hebdo suspect said to surrender; two others at large after Paris terror attack A manhunt is underway after 12 people were killed in a terror attack at the offices of a satirical paper, the country’s deadliest terror attack in modern memory. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/gunmen-storm-paris-satirical-newspaper-killing-at-least-11/2015/01/07/f358b17a-9660-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html French officials immediately raised the country’s terrorism alert to…
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Regards sur le sport #2 at Galerie Cosmos – The Eye of Photography
Link: La Galerie Jean-Denis Walter in Paris is dedicated to sports photography. It was founded a little over a year ago by JD Walter, former photo director and editor-in-chief of L’Equipe.
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Jean-Pierre Laffont: Photographer’s Paradise — zPhotoJournal
Link: This week, as Laffont heads to the 2015 FOTOfusion festival to present his work, zPhotoJournal has a conversation with the passionate and eloquent Jean-Pierre Laffont as he discusses his “Magical Mystery Tour.”
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Call for Entries: FotoEvidence Book Award | American Photo
Link: Looking back on the remarkable social documentary work they’ve supported through the years
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Video: The Technologies Inside Canon’s EF Lenses
Video: The Technologies Inside Canon’s EF Lenses If you’d like a primer on the technologies found inside Canon’s EF line of lenses, look no further than this 12-minute introduction created by Canon. We via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/01/10/video-technologies-inside-canons-ef-lenses/ If you’d like a primer on the technologies found inside Canon’s EF line of lenses, look no further than…
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Life in Lagos: The Deafening Roar of Big Religion | PROOF
Link: Robin Hammond photographed life in Lagos for the story “Africa’s First City,” which appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a series of five posts on Proof, he chronicles this city of contrasts that is fast becoming Africa’s hub of creativity, fashion, and business.
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Mark Wallace: From DSLR to Rangefinder | La Vida Leica!
In this episode of Exploring Photography, Mark Wallace explains why he’s made the switch from a Canon DSLR system to the Leica M Rangefinder system. Here he explains why the Leica is the right tool for his travel photography needs. Learn how the smaller camera helps with size, weight, security, and more earning potential. Why…
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Lightroom mobile for Android phones now available
Link: The app is pretty much a 100% free version of Word Lens, an app that blew many a mind when it was launched back in 2010. You don’t even need any kind of Internet connection for it to work.
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Doc about Trevor Christensen and the #NudePortraits – Culture – Team Heroin
Link: Hey folks, there is a cool documentary short on Trevor Christensen’s #NudePortraits project
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The Art of the Personal Project: Ryan Heffernan | A Photo Editor
The Art of the Personal Project: Ryan Heffernan As a former Art Producer, I have always been drawn to personal projects because they are the sole vision of the photographer and not an extension of an art director, photo editor, or graphic design… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2015/01/15/the-art-of-the-personal-project-ryan-heffernan/ Growing up in St. Helena, CA it…
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Shutterstock buys Rex for $33 Million – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Shutterstock’s announcement that it has acquired 60 years old UK base photo agency Rex Features for $33 million is certainly good news for Rex ( at least, their share holders) and not so much for Shutterstock. And here’s why:
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Michel du Cille’s last assignment | Poynter.
Link: Before he died, du Cille sent Poynter’s Kenny Irby his most recent batch of photos from the region and discussed his ambitions for the project
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Scott Dalton: Where the River Bends | LENSCRATCH
Scott Dalton: Where the River Bends – LENSCRATCH Looking at work from PhotoNOLA… Photographer Scott Dalton brings a visual reality to two cities, co-joined by a bridge, economic and historical connections. Brought to light in the news and in the television show, The Bridge, Juárez and El Paso are not cities of equals–they may share a…
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A Short Film on Photography Featuring Juergen Teller, Petra Collins, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Arne Svenson – Feature Shoot
Link: For Reely and Truly, London-based photographer Tyrone Lebon pays tribute to the medium by tracking down and interviewing dozens of artists and photojournalists, including Juergen Teller, Petra Collins, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Arne Svenson. Tracing a non-linear narrative, the film moves in hallucinatory frames from one photographer to the next, their disparate lives threaded together…
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Words of Wisdom for Photographers by Renowned Photojournalist Steve McCurry
Words of Wisdom for Photographers by Renowned Photojournalist Steve McCurry Last month, we shared a popular video in which photojournalist Steve McCurry talked about the danger of focusing on your destination so much that you miss via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/01/26/words-wisdom-photographers-renowned-photojournalist-steve-mccurry/ a series of videos in which McCurry shares wisdom he has learned over the decades of…