Author: Trent
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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…
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Aoife Shanahan – Within the Shadows | LensCulture
Link: “Within the Shadows” is a response to being submerged in a new culture. While it is sometimes hard to ignore the alienation and disconnect often experienced in an urban setting, I try to create an alternate psychological space to occupy. The lone figure becomes an intriguing character within this space and I’m challenged to…
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GNARBOX: Offload, Edit, and Share Your Photos and Videos Without a Laptop
GNARBOX: Offload, Edit, and Share Your Photos and Videos Without a Laptop If you’ve been looking for a way to download, organize, edit, and share your photos and videos on the go without having to use a laptop, GNARBOX is a new via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/07/16/gnarbox-offload-edit-and-share-your-photos-and-videos-without-a-laptop/ If you’ve been looking for a way to download, organize,…
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Capa’s Demons – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Capa only shot 11 frames of the landing while staying at the most only 30 minutes on the beach. Coleman’s conclusion is that he must have panicked under the heavy deadly fire and quickly took shelter in a barge returning to England
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One Photographer’s Case for Large Format Film | PhotoShelter Blog
One Photographer’s Case for Large Format Film – PhotoShelter Blog Greg Miller’s large format photography has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, TIME, Esquire, Fortune, LIFE, and more. In 2008, his enthralling portraiture earned him a Fellowship in photography from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. We recently interviewed…
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Storage for Photographers (Part 2) — PaulStamatiou.com
Storage for Photographers (Part 2) How a 12TB Synology DS415+ NAS changed my digital life: Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. I captured 275GB of photos … via PaulStamatiou.com: http://paulstamatiou.com/storage-for-photographers-part-2/ Data is eating me alive. Every gadget these days can shoot photos and record video. The…
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Inside El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ | TIME
El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ Warring gangs have turned El Salvador into one of the world’s deadliest places via Time: https://time.com/3966900/el-salvador-gangs-violence/ Italian photographer Patrick Tombola, who took the photographs on these pages, has been documenting this year’s surge in bloodshed, spending time with the police, gang members and families on the front line
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Dreams crushed by a beast – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ It is 35 degrees out, and the humidity is close to 100 percent. We are tracking a freight train known as “La Bestia” (The Beast), as it rumbles from the southern border of Mexico towards the United States. This train is part of the history of migration. Hundreds of thousands have…
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Listen: Is Bruce Gilden’s ‘Two Days in Appalachia’ Poverty Porn? | American Photo
Link: Roger May, the director of Looking at Appalachia, which recently got some nice coverage on Lens, was invited on West Virginia’s “Front Porch” podcast to discuss. Embedded above, you’ll hear 20 minutes of very fair criticism exploring whether Gilden’s garish images feed into existing stereotypes that plague the region in the wake of a…
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Huge Rally Over Killing of Mexican Journalist – The New York Times
Huge Mexico City Rally Over Killing of Journalist (Published 2015) Ruben Espinosa, who worked for the prominent magazine Proceso, and four other people were found bound and tortured in an apartment in Mexico City. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/world/americas/huge-rally-over-killing-of-mexican-journalist.html Ruben Espinosa often covered politics in Veracruz, a state in southeast Mexico known to be a hostile place for…
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Slaying of Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa a new low | | Dallas Morning News
Link: Here’s the new low: Espinosa was an exiled journalist in Mexico City, long considered a safe haven from the mayhem that’s engulfed Mexico for more than a decade. More than 120,000 people have been killed or disappeared since 2006. Among them dozens of journalists (organizations use different criteria and numbers range from 50 to…
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How to Officially Register Your Photographs with the US Copyright Office
How to Copyright Your Photos in 2023 A step-by-step guide on how to officially register the copyright of your photos with the US Copyright Office. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/how-to-copyright-photos/ The Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to America from West Africa.
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Born to Make Photos – The New York Times
Born to Make Photos Harry Gruyaert’s father made film. He makes pictures. His credo: “I just physically jump into a situation and react to it, and see how things are working out.” via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/born-to-make-photos/ Harry Gruyaert, the Belgian photographer and member of Magnum, has been taking pictures for a long time. Long enough…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: The last 5 years John Vink has been revisiting some of the places and events where he took photographs 30 years ago, places which undeniably are ‘Belgian’, places and situations which are part of something which has roots going deeper than the concept of a nation
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Pics Or It Didn’t Happen — Vantage — Medium
Pics Or It Didn’t Happen Is Photography Even a Healthy Pastime? Considering Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’ via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/pics-or-it-didn-t-happen-b949795cf185 Is Photography Even a Healthy Pastime? Considering Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’
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Calais Migrants Endure Misery of ‘Jungle’ Camps | AP Images Blog
Link: After fleeing their homes in places like Sudan and Afghanistan, migrants gathered in the northern French port city of Calais endure another kind of misery in a huge and squalid makeshift camp or in scattered open-air outposts.
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What Photo Editors Want — Vantage — Medium
What Photo Editors Want One Assigning Editor’s Perspective on Hiring Freelance Photographers via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/what-photo-editors-want-15481ea3e564 Josh Lustig is the Deputy Editor of Photography for the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. He was formerly at Panos Pictures in London. Blink’s Kyla Woods wanted to know about Lustig’s transition from the role of artist rep to that of…
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Visa pour l’Image 2015 Exhibitions’ Program – The Eye of Photography
Link: The International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l’Image was inaugurated last Saturday. This week, the manifestation welcomes the professionals photojournalists from around the world. Here is the program of the 26 exhibitions presented until September 13th (free entrance).
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The Future of Photojournalism by Ed Kashi – The Eye of Photography
Link: Photojournalism is in transition as a profession and remains an unorthodox career for most. It is certainly not a stable way of life. It has always been a competitive, challenging and dangerous career path, and today it’s never been more dangerous and it’s too often deadly. And it will never return to what it…
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Why copyright should not be infinite, in a nutshell – Boing Boing
Link: Even from the perspective of a profit-seeking artist, copyright is a double-edged sword. Stronger copyright both increases the rewards from having produced a piece of work and increases the cost of creating new works.