Author: Trent
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Obit: “I’m still called Nereo” | The City Paper Bogotá
Obit: “I’m still called Nereo” | The City Paper Bogotá An epic life is revealed: Colombia’s legendary photojournalist Nereo López (1920-2015). via The City Paper Bogotá: https://thecitypaperbogota.com/features/im-still-called-nereo251301/ Born in a small town along the Colombian coast in 1920, Nereo López is widely considered one of the pioneering greats of Colombian photojournalism and a man who…
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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.
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The Future of Photojournalism by Roberto Koch – The Eye of Photography
Link: They have learnt how to deal with all this, from still photography to their own videos, from web-docs to new ways to present images, using all the potential of new technologies. A contemporary photojournalist is a producer who provide the money to create stories to be sold , an art director that will find…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: a photography and video commission started in 2013 with the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Majoli, Jonas Bendiksen, Olivia Arthur and Gueorgui Pinkhassov
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Rediscovering Albania: A Photographer’s Tribute to His Homeland | TIME
Rediscovering Albania: A Photographer’s Tribute to His Homeland. Albanian photographer Enri Canaj revisits his motherland via Time: https://time.com/4023940/albania-photos/ Albanian photographer Enri Canaj revisits his motherland
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Pascal Maitre : Lifetime Achievement Visa d’or Award 2015 – The Eye of Photography
Link: The laureate is Pascal Maitre (1955), french photographer from Cosmos agency
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Perpignan 2015 : ANI’s picks, Albert Bonsfils – The Eye of Photography
Link: Six Points explores the relations between China and North Korea in several Chinese border cities which are bathed by the waters of the Yalu and Tumen rivers, a natural border between the two countries.This is my personal experience while working there I noticed how different this border looks, from the DMZ in South Korea.…
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Documenting Child Marriage for Over a Decade—and Still Going | PROOF
Link: Photographer Stephanie Sinclair has been photographing the issue of child marriage for 13 years
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Photographer Joey L.’s Photos of Kurdish PKK Fighters Deleted by Instagram
Photographer Joey L.’s Photos of Kurdish PKK Fighters Deleted by Instagram Back in June, we shared a series of photos by Joey L., who made a dangerous trip to Kurdistan to point his camera at the Kurdish guerrilla groups fighting via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/09/16/photographer-joey-l-s-photos-of-kurdish-pkk-fighters-deleted-by-instagram/ Joey also returned to Instagram to repost one of the deleted photos,…
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12 Outstanding Documentary Photography Projects to See at Photoville 2015 | American Photo
Link: Brooklyn’s fourth annual free outdoor photo festival, Photoville, opens its gates for the second and final weekend later today. This year’s festival features over 60 exhibitions housed inside shipping containers and plastered on the outside walls, a number of hands-on workshops as well as panels. It’s also a pretty great places to brush shoulders…
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Tribute to Denis Roche by Catherine Derioz & Jacques Damez – The Eye of Photography
Link: He is dead, and the lesson of darkness doesn’t exist, just as the title of one of his exhibits at the gallery asserted. He is here in our heart. His oeuvre shaped us. It stands the test of time. With the word silence, thank you Friend.
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Making New Memories in the Aftermath of a Quebec Train Disaster – The New York Times
Making New Memories in the Aftermath of a Quebec Train Disaster Michel Huneault photographed the train explosion in Lac-Mégantic and then returned to document how the small village coped. He has received the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies for the project. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/making-new-memories-in-the-aftermath-of-a-quebec-train-disaster/ Arriving within a day, photographer Michel…
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Christian Werner – 74: The Yazidis’ Plight | LensCulture
74: The Yazidis’ Plight – Photographs and text by Christian Werner | LensCulture Threatened by genocidal violence from the Islamic State, the Yazidi people are desperately struggling not just for their religious identity—but their very existence via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/christian-werner-74-the-yazidis-plight Christian Werner is one of the 50 best emerging photographers for 2015, as voted by the…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: Editions lamaindonne presents the work of Ljubiša Danilovic in this book entitled Le Desert Russe (The Russian Desert). As the author explains, “By 2050, Russia will have lost a third of its current population. The largest country in the world will then have just a hundred million citizens.
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How Does It Feel To Have 10 Magnum Photographers Document Your Town? | American Photo
Link: In 2012, ten Magnum photographers descended on Rochester, N.Y. for three weeks. To the group, Rochester looked like the perfect place to continue its Postcards from America project, where a set of photographers headed out to create an archive of a place in a short time frame.
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This Week in New Media | A Photo Editor
This Week in New Media by Jonathan Blaustein It’s the beginning of October. The leaves on our Aspen trees are about to turn gold. My son, aligned with their calendar, will turn 8 the same week. Things change, but c… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2015/10/02/this-week-in-new-media/ I received an email from a regular reader, Brandon Tauszik,…
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Bologna : Foto/Industria 2015 Hong Hao – The Eye of Photography
Link: My Things. The project that I started in 2001 is a photography series created by scanning objects. I’ve been working on this project for 12 years. 12 years, in the Chinese traditional concept, represents the period of transmigration in cycles of different fates and destinies. The process of producing works for this series is an assignment associated…