Author: Trent
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YPF 2015 : Fatemeh Behboudi & Nafise Motlaq, Mothers and Fathers of Iran – The Eye of Photography
Link: Two Iranian woman photographers reinterpret each in her own way the enduring Motherly love for lost sons and of the towering Fatherly figure above daughters.
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Close Up: Photographer Jae C. Hong | AP Images Blog
Link: Jae C. Hong is a staff photographer at the Associated Press currently based in Los Angeles. Hong first joined the AP as a photo intern and was hired full time to cover Las Vegas shortly after completing his summer internship.
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Video: Copyright & Your Rights – Straight Talk on the Facts vs the Fiction | PhotoShelter Blog
Video: Copyright & Your Rights – Straight Talk on the Facts vs the Fiction – PhotoShelter Blog This week talked to photographer Jack Reznicki and IP attorney Ed Greenberg, who have been favorites in the industry for their no-bull, get-straight-to-the-facts approach to explaining and making sense of the confusing world of legal jargon and copyright…
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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…
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CHIPP 2015 Le World Press Chinois : Results – The Eye of Photography
Link: The following is drawn from the Jon Ronson’s foreword to the book “Playground,” by James Mollison, which is out April 30th from Aperture.
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Les Boutographies 2015 : Laurence Rasti, There are no homosexuals in Iran The 2015 Jury Prize – The Eye of Photography
Link: Hundreds of Iranian homosexual refugees transit by Denizli, a small Turkish town, where they put their lives on hold while waiting to find a country where they can freely live their sexuality. In this context of uncertainty, where anonymity is the best protection, this work questions the fragile notion of identity and gender. It…
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Your Commute Is Beautiful, and Adam Magyar Can Prove It — Vantage — Medium
Your Commute Is Beautiful, and Adam Magyar Can Prove It Techno-inspired portraits from our invisible moments. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/your-commute-is-beautiful-and-adam-magyar-can-prove-it-44bbc5b235ab Maybe that’s why Adam Magyar’s work is so impactful. Using eye-grabbing photographic techniques, he stretches the fleeting moments spent in these interstitial spaces into sprawling, meditative strips of film and video. Even though waiting for the…
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Egypt Photojournalist Describes Detention of Over 600 Days – ABC News
Link: Shawkan’s older brother, Mohammed, said Tuesday the letter was sent last weekend. He described his brother as a broken man who has no access to books, only eating and sleeping in a small cell that houses 12 other prisoners.
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Ryuichi Ishikawa: Winner of the Prix Kimura Ihei – The Eye of Photography
Link: A Hasselblad dangling from his neck, Ishikawa captures portraits from his daily life: the marginalized, the poor, the homeless, drug addicts, transexuals. They occupy the lowest rung in a deeply hierarchical society.
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Tracing the Dark Roots of Border Smuggling | PROOF
Link: Very few photographers have the gift of finding beauty within conflict. Photographer Dominic Bracco II believes that it’s important to humanize the individuals involved in violent confrontations. One of his photographs in particular illustrates this principle—a striking image of a murdered man and pregnant woman embracing in a dark vehicle in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.…
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Wal-Mart of Photography Entrepreneur facing $90 million in lawsuits | dvafoto
Link: This remains one of the strangest photography-related stories I’ve run across.
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Behind 60 Minutes’ decision to air video of sarin gas victims in Syria | Poynter.
Link: The story Sunday night warned viewers that “If you have young children watching right now, that is usually a good thing. But this story is not for them. The pictures you are about to see are agonizing.”
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Kill thy neighbour: Alex attack brings home SA’s shame – Times LIVE
TimesLIVE Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper. via TimesLIVE: The brutality of South Africans turning on their neighbours was brought home yesterday morning as people stood by while a Mozambican man was stalked, stabbed and killed as he lay in township filth,…
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Worth a look: The Groundtruth Project and Foreverstan | dvafoto
Link: Groundtruth has published their most recent project, Foreverstan, a current and nuanced look at the United States’ longest war. There’s an introduction video embedded above, but the project website is really worth a look
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Germany: Service by Platon at Jablonka Galerie – The Eye of Photography
Link: “Service” took many weeks to develop but Platon’s enthusiasm for the project never faltered. He rose to each photographic challenge, no matter what difficulties a shoot presented. Like a house being built, stone by stone, the photographs were crafted into a sequence of spreads that in the end added up to an exceptional essay.…
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David De Vleeschauwer – Searching for a Human Side in North Korea | LensCulture
Searching for a Human Side in North Korea – Photographs by David De Vleeschauwer | LensCulture A portrait of “the Hermit Kingdom”—a photographic effort to pierce the veil of mutual misunderstanding and find something human beneath the grandiose propaganda and widespread misinformation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/david-de-vleeschauwer-searching-for-a-human-side-in-north-korea Lost in this sea of misunderstanding are, of course, the…
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PDN’s 30 2015 : New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
Link: As you read through our 16th annual PDN ’s 30 feature, you’ll notice these photographers shared some of the “Key Lessons” they’ve learned, “Best Advice” they’ve received and “Biggest Challenges” they’ve overcome. These footnotes to the photographers’ stories are honest, insightful, sometimes funny and, we hope, useful to photographers at all stages of their…
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Why TIME Chose an Amateur Photographer’s Image for Its Cover
Link: It is just the third time the magazine has used amateur images on the cover. It’s generated a lot of publicity for TIME, which issued a press release about Allen’s photo the day the issue came out. “[Allen’s image] was just beautifully composed and it was compelling, and it caught my eye immediately and…
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How Instagram Changed Street Photography | American Photo
Link: Those traditional gatekeepers in the world of street photography—the museum curators, the gallerists, the newspaper and magazine editors—still hold significant sway. But through Instagram, photographers have found that amassing a vast following can provide a fast track to those power players who, in previous generations, would have been elusive, if not impossible, targets.
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The 76th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards – The Eye of Photography
Link: The 22 award-winning entries for the annual Overseas Press Club Awards depict a world in which entire nations and millions of people have been torn apart by newly intensified forces of nationalism, extremism, disease and environmental degradation. Al Jazeera America, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times won multiple awards. The Robert Capa…