Author: Trent
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Debating the Rules and Ethics of Digital Photojournalism – NYTimes.com
Debating the Rules and Ethics of Digital Photojournalism The disqualification of a large number of images from this year’s World Press Photo contest has generated a debate over the need for more explicit rules on what is — and what isn’t — acceptable in digital photography. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/world-press-photo-manipulation-ethics-of-digital-photojournalism/ Hoping to forge a conversation…
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Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYC with Lee Friedlander | PDN Photo of the Day
Link: In 2006, Lee Friedlander was hired by New York Times Magazine Director of Photography Kathy Ryan to photograph backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta and Proenza Schouler shows
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A Lost Soviet Tribe, Scattered by Stalin’s Whim — Vantage — Medium
A Lost Soviet Tribe, Scattered by Stalin’s Whim After 70 years, a Georgian Muslim minority has yet to return from forced deportation. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/a-lost-soviet-tribe-scattered-by-stalin-s-whim-ad169fb83360 After 70 years, a Georgian Muslim minority has yet to return from forced deportation
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Bela Doka – Fan Club Putin | LensCulture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/bela-doka-fc-putin They spend hours chatting on the internet about their hero and even go to university wearing Putin T-shirts. I was really shocked at how they could feel such intense love for him.
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Watching a Shaky Cease-Fire in Ukraine – The Atlantic
Watching a Shaky Cease-Fire in Ukraine Earlier this month, a cease-fire agreement was signed in Minsk, Belarus, after long talks between leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France. Heavy fighting ensued right before the deadline, and sporadic violence continues even now, more than a week later. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/shaky-cease-fire-in-ukraine/385783/ Heavy fighting ensued right before…
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Blow-Up: Behind the Most Famous Film on Photography | American Photo
Link: A new exhibition and book offer fresh perspectives on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 cult classic about the ambiguity of images
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The Photography Show 2015 – 30 Under 30
The Photography & Video Show 2024 The show that brings photography, film and content creation to life. via The Photography Show 2024: http://www.photographyshow.com/Content/30-Under-30/5_47/ Chosen from a shortlist of 60, which itself had been whittled down from 664 entrants, the standard of images from the winning 30 has shown that there is a collection of extremely…
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Lisa Krantz: The Toll of Obesity — zPhotoJournal
Link: Last week, Krantz’s story: “A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity,” won the Community Awareness Award at the 72nd POYi photography contest. (See link below) The poignant story was first published in the San Antonio Express-News where she is a full time staff photographer. It documented the struggles of one man’s battle with obesity
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▶ BEST NEWS BLOOPERS FEBRUARY 2015 – YouTube
Link: Funny news bloopers to hit the internet this month including the Sphincter Lady, the Forgetful Man, Fifty Shades of Grey Guy, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Samantha Hoopes, Dog vs. Weatherman, Cat attacks reporter and even Obama Rape Suspect Lady
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Antonio Gonzalez Caro – Garum | LensCulture
Garum – Photographs and text by Antonio Gonzalez Caro | LensCulture Every springtime, off the coast of southern Spain, fishermen gather to catch the bluefin tuna—the fiercest and most dangerous variety—using the ancient practice of “Almadraba via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/antonio-gonzalez-caro-garum “Almadraba” is the name given to a type of ancient fishing art that has existed since…
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Documenting Selma, From the Inside – NYTimes.com
Documenting Selma, From the Inside The best-known images of the civil rights era were often dramatic and shocking, intentionally so, to jar a nation into action. But James Barker provided a quieter, insider’s perspective to the daily struggle. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/documenting-selma-from-the-inside-2/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog A timely new show at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, “Selma…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Selektor Issue III: Missy Prince
Juxtapoz Magazine – Selektor Issue III: Missy Prince [Prince] takes the tradition of the American road trip down by a semi-tone and invents an everyday road trip. Not an ego trip, not a drive-through per… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/selektor-issue-iii-missy-prince/ In their third publication, French publisher Selektor features Portland-based American artist Missy Prince. The images, all shot on…
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Death of Ray DeMoulin (Former Kodak’s Director) – The Eye of Photography
Link: Today, the world lost one of the photographer’s best friend. Photojournalists, editors, curators, gallery owners, publishers, are all in mourning. Ray DeMoulin, who was loved around the world, died last night
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Cologne: Reflections from the 80s by Jamel Shabazz at Hardhitta Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Link: Hardhitta Gallery is presenting its first exhibition of American photographer Jamel Shabazz through March 29th, 2015. The exhibition Reflections from the 80s will showcase eighteen photographs of New York City’s street vibes over the course of the decade.
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Duane Michals : The Unknown Portraits – The Eye of Photography
Link: Duane Michals’s poetic body of work, celebrated for its existential series, is filled with portraits shot both on commission and as part of his personal exploration of the genre. However, they represent only a small part of his oeuvre, appearing here and there in books and magazines. The current exhibition at the DC Moore…
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Death of Jean-Luc Manaud (1948-2015) – The Eye of Photography
Link: Jean-Luc Manaud (1948-2015), the “Lord of the desert,” as he was called, died on February 28th. From Chad to Mali, the Sahara is in mourning. Manaud was born there, in the southern Tunisian city of Gafsa, where he lived until he was fifteen. His photographs are imbued with a familiarity with those surroundings. There’s…
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Ilan Godfrey: Legacy of the Mine « The Leica Camera
Link: Born in Johannesburg in 1980, Ilan Godfrey is a South African photographer who devoted himself to an extensive photographic project on the mine, which is central to understand present-day South Africa and its history. This in-depth work gave birth to a book in 2013, “Legacy of the Mine“, where he especially questioned the entangled…
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Smithsonian Magazine’s 2014 Photo Contest – The Atlantic
Smithsonian Magazine’s 2014 Photo Contest The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the finalists in their 12th annual photo contest, selected from more than 26,500 entries. They've kindly allowed me to share several of these images here. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/smithsonian-magazines-2014-photo-contest/387385/ The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the finalists in their 12th…
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Video Pick: Chris Jordan’s “Midway,” on Beauty in Environmental Activism
Link: Chris Jordan, the photographer and conservationist, has spent his career exploring the harmful consequences of our thoughtless consumption and the pollution we create, while also making images that are often eerily beautiful. At the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National Conference in New Orleans on March 13, he showed a trailer and clips from…
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The Allure of Dark Tourism – The New Yorker
The Allure of Dark Tourism The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas travelled the world to document sightseers at Auschwitz, Chernobyl, and other disaster sites. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-allure-of-dark-tourism The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas was travelling in Sri Lanka when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, killing more than thirty thousand people on the island within…