Author: Trent
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Chobi Mela – Chobi Mela VIII: Asia’s Largest Photo Festival | LensCulture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/chobi-mela-chobi-mela-viii-asia-s-largest-photo-festival The 8th edition of Bangladesh’s photography festival Chobi Mela will focus on the theme of Intimacy. Featuring the work of more than 30 artists (hailing from 22 different countries), the festival’s artistic program will offer an exciting mix of Asian…
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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…
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Pete Muller – A Tale of Two Wolves: Men, Masculinity and Violence | LensCulture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/pete-muller-turning-tides-congo-s-war-against-the-m23 Congo presents but one illustration of the relationship between embattled masculinity and violence that I believe exists in various forms throughout the world. In order to reduce violence, it is essential to critically explore the context from which male aggression…
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Andrew Esiebo: Social Identities and Cultural Imaginaries in West Africa Through the Barbershop Lens « The Leica Camera
Link: Born in 1978, Andrew Esiebo is an acclaimed Lagos-based photographer whose work has been exhibited and published worldwide. Devoting his photo/multimedia work to urban societal issues, he recently turned his gaze to West African barbershops. Their spaces, styles and practices revealed themselves extremely rich to explore issues such as (male) social identities, collective imaginaries…
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Want to Pitch a Photo Editor? Do This Before You Hit Send | PhotoShelter Blog
Want to Pitch a Photo Editor? Do This Before You Hit Send – PhotoShelter Blog Freelance photo editor and photographer Wendy George (pictured above) has been in the business for the past four years – two of which she spent as a full time photo-ed at the Huffington Post, and currently she’s freelancing for iHeartRadio as…
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Growing Up in Ecuador’s Mystical Mangroves | PROOF
Link: very muddy jungle gym.” That’s how photographer Felipe Jácome describes the soaring mangrove trees in Cayapas Mataje Mangrove Reserve in northwestern Ecuador. Their roots, twisted and gnarly and towering, are the fantasy of any child who grew up climbing trees, playing house in their roots and swinging from their branches.
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Instagrammer: ‘I am very happy my photo was selected’ | Poynter.
Link: The rules and ethics of user-generated content are tricky and, in many cases, it seems newsrooms are making them up as they go along.
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World Press Photo to Become a Think Tank for Photography | TIME
Learn How World Press Photo Plans to Evolve Into a Think Tank Lars Boering, World Press Photo’s new managing director, speaks to TIME LightBox about the organization’s future via Time: https://time.com/3692479/world-press-photo-lars-boering-interview/ Lars Boering, the new managing director at World Press Photo, speaks to TIME LightBox about the photojournalism organization’s future
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Josef Koudelka, Twelve Panoramas, at PACE McGill Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Link: “There is something somber and disquieting about Koudelka’s panoramas,” says Julian Cox, head curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
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» Chicago Sun-Times cuts its video team JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2015/02/03/chicago-sun-times-cuts-its-video-team/ When the photographers were laid off nearly two years ago, the newspaper said there was a need to shift to online video
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An Eye-Tracking Study That Makes Me Want to Jump Out of my Skin [Video] – Assignment Chicago
Link: “There is something somber and disquieting about Koudelka’s panoramas,” says Julian Cox, head curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
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Olympus Air: A 16MP Camera That Uses Your Phone as Its Live View Screen
Olympus Air: A 16MP Camera That Uses Your Phone as Its Live View Screen Olympus has officially announced the Air, a 16-megapixel camera that looks more like a teleconverter that has a sensor stuffed into it. The device acts as via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/02/05/olympus-air-16mp-camera-uses-phone-live-view-screen/ You may recall that Sony announced a similar product back in 2013…
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Fukushima, no go zone : Carlos Ayesta & Guillaume Bression – The Eye of Photography
Link: The more than 80,000 residents who evacuated the areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant have all felt the temptation to return to their homes, schools or businesss. And they have all struggled to recognize these familiar places turned hostile. The years of absence, the rodents, and the effects of the earthquake and tsunami of…
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Nikon D810a DSLR camera for astrophotography officially announced | Nikon Rumors
Nikon D810a DSLR camera for astrophotography officially announced – Nikon Rumors Nikon officially announced their new D810a DSLR camera designed for astrophotography (see pre-order options): Nikon D810a sample images Price: $3,799.95 Shipping will start in late May, 2015 Nikon D810a videos: Nikon D810a (left) vs. Nikon D810 samples comparison: Press release: Stellar Resolution: The Nikon D810A Captures the Cosmos…
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When Your Backyard Is ‘Big Heaven,’ Love of Wildlife Is Second Nature | PROOF
Link: Ibex. Chamois. Ermine. Grouse. Red foxes. As a teen, Stefano Unterthiner spent countless hours observing these animals in Gran Paradiso National Park, an hour or so drive from his home in Italy. His uncle Paolo, a passionate nature lover and photography buff, would take hikes with his best friend, Luciano, a park ranger, and…
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Bulent Kilic, from Taksim to Kobane – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ “You know, for years, you go on assignments, on missions. You are away for weeks, months. Sometimes you have no shower, no sleep, no food. Sometimes you risk your life. It’s good to know that someone recognises that, recognises the work.”
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A very politically correct winner – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Boring. Blaaaaah. That is the first word that comes to mind when looking at the winner of the World Press Award, circa 2015. Don’t get me wrong, this year’s committee, led by Michele McNally, probably the best photo editor of our generation, was full of talent. But it was just that, a committee. And time…
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Close Up: Photographer Ben Curtis | AP Images Blog
Link: Ben Curtis is AP’s East Africa Photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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No image is safe : The Baidu edition – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Enters Baidu, the chinese Google, who recently went public on the US market with a historical IPO. Baidu , like its western counterpart, offers a dedicated Image Search, at http://image.baidu.com/ . But unlike them, it offers a download option right in the thumbnail images. With one click, users can download to their desktop any image…