Author: Trent
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Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture – The Eye of Photography
Link: Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to great…
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Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. – The Washington Post
Facial recognition technology is everywhere. It may not be legal. Privacy advocates and representatives from companies like Facebook and Google will meet in the District to try to set rules for how companies should use this powerful technology. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/06/11/facial-recognition-technology-is-everywhere-it-may-not-be-legal/ Anticipating the importance of this information, Texas passed a law in 2001 that…
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The 10 Best New Photography Books of Summer 2015 | American Photo
Link: Photobooks on young womanhood, the chaotic landscape of Las Vegas, coffee-farming in South America, and more in American Photo’s roundup of the season’s best
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Posing Questions of Photographic Ethics – NYTimes.com
Posing Questions of Photographic Ethics In the aftermath of this year’s debates over manipulated photos, a new show sets out to explore the history of altered images in photojournalism. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/posing-questions-of-photographic-ethics/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Most curators hope to get glowing reviews and popular acclaim when they mount an exhibit. Michael Kamber, on the other hand, is…
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Nancy Andrews: The Innovator — zPhotoJournal
Link: I try to teach people to explore. I try to show that it’s good journalism to know your audience through the tools we can use to understand them. It is good journalism to be able to capture a moment in video with your phone, because for most, the option would be to NOT capture…
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The remains of Armageddon: Revisiting the sites of America’s atomic arsenal – The Washington Post
The remains of Armageddon: Revisiting the sites of America’s atomic arsenal Exploring the remains of the Cold War and nuclear arms race that are hidden in plain site across American landscape. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/06/18/the-remains-of-armageddon-revisiting-the-sites-of-americas-atomic-arsenal/ Veteran photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo of European Press Agency has been documenting many of these site–hidden in plain site–for the…
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The Eyes #4 : Do it yourself, Spanish culture in times of crisis – The Eye of Photography
Link: Faced with a social and economic unprecedented crisis , a cultural and institutional environment that offers too little money , the young Spanish photographers have decided to take the bull by the horns and say loud and clear : “Do it yourself ! “ Creating networks, publishing houses , and photography schools ……
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In Focus: Ebru Yildiz’s Final Days and Nights at Death by Audio | American Photo
Link: Last fall when Ebru Yildiz learned that one of her favorite Brooklyn venues, Death by Audio, would be shuttering its doors documenting its final weeks was a no-brainer. “I just felt like I had to be there,” she says. “When I started taking photos I realized how big of a project it was going…
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On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz’s Head — BagNews
On Pointing a Handgun Directly at Ted Cruz’s Head – Reading The Pictures These photographs make a point by turning the gun lobby’s central argument back onto itself. If “more guns” is your only response to rampant gun violence, then at some point a law of averages dictates that innocent people are going to end…
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French Photographer Wins 2015 Remi Ochlik Award | TIME
French Photographer Wins 2015’s Remi Ochlik Award Edouard Elias won for his work on the Foreign Legion in Central African Republic via Time: https://time.com/3935680/french-foreign-legion-edouard-elias/ Named after a photographer who was killed in a rocket attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, the Rémi Ochlik Award is given each year to a young photojournalist who has produced…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: Michael Christopher Brown has been made an Associate Member Carolyn Drake has been made a Magnum Nominee Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee Newsha Tavakolian has been made a Magnum Nominee Max Pinckers has been made a Magnum Nominee Richard Mosse has been made a Magnum Nominee Lorenzo Meloni has been made…
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Laurent Cipriani’s “Along the Road!”: A unique look at the Tour de France (PHOTOS).
The Most Exciting Part of the Tour de France Is the People Who Watch It If photographing the Tour de France doesn’t sound difficult enough, imagine doing it while riding on the back of a motorbike travelling up to 60 miles… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2015/07/laurent-ciprianis-along-the-road-a-unique-look-at-the-tour-de-france-photos.html If photographing the Tour de France doesn’t sound difficult enough,…
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Of Drought and Man in the West – The New York Times
Of Drought and Man in the West Documenting the water crisis in the West, a photographer confronts distress, beauty and man’s complicity. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/of-drought-and-men-in-the-west/ Four photographers – Christaan Felber, Bryan Schutmaat,Jake Stangel and Michael Friberg – were enlisted by photo editors Luise Stauss and Ayanna Quint to document man’s mistakes and their consequences. Mr. Friberg, who has lived…
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Joan Cornellà
Link: Meridith Kohut is one of the most sought-after and prolific photojournalists in the world, and she almost missed her calling.
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Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 – Finalists’ Portfolios « The Leica Camera
Link: The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 received thousands of entries from photographers all over the world. This video shows the portfolios of the award winners and finalists
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Searching for the Real Face of Ebola | PROOF
Link: This wasn’t a routine National Geographic assignment. It could be deadly, very deadly. Many news organizations wouldn’t send their personnel to cover it. But we did. We sent Pete Muller. And it was his unflinching yet intimate and fearless photographic approach that made this coverage so special.
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Ljubljana : James Nachtwey at Slovenia Press Photo – The Eye of Photography
Link: I spent the entire day right in the middle of the chaos and barely managed to survive. That night I made my way to the TIME office, dropped off the film and after the initial edit for a special issue of the magazine, I never looked at it again. My heart had been broken.…
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The People by Laura El-Tantawy – The Eye of Photography
Link: Laura El-Tantawy recently released a newspaper version of her book, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. This new format offers a different experience from the book, taking away the personal narrative in favor of the words of the people. And this, in Arabic, because it’s the language of the revolution, as well as the photographer’s first language.
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90 Days in 90 Seconds: Follow a National Geographic Photographer
90 Days in 90 Seconds: Follow a National Geographic Photographer Want to experience the life of a National Geographic photographer? While on assignment for the magazine, photographer David Guttenfelder shot one second via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/07/14/90-days-in-90-seconds-follow-a-national-geographic-photographer/ Want to experience the life of a National Geographic photographer? While on assignment for the magazine, photographer David Guttenfelder shot…