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James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope | TIME
James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans via Time: https://time.com/4065597/james-nachtwey-the-journey-of-hope/ From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans, James Nachtwey documents the dangerous passage
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: This is John Vink’s second of a 12 part project, produced in collaboration with ‘The Cambodia Daily’, about the wide-ranging subject of rice in Cambodia. His comprehensive exploration will address such issues as seasonal growing cycle, religion, research, tradition, commerce, social and economic impact, climate change issues and more
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Alfred Fried Award : Peace Photo of the Year 2015 title goes to Patricia Willocq – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015, worth 10 000 euros, goes to 34-year old Brussels-based photographer Patricia Willocq. The award was first established in 2013 by Österreichische Photographische Gesellschaft and Edition Lammerhuber. The belgian photographer wins Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015 with visions of a better Africa / Keynote by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.
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Matt Black Awarded 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant | American Photo
Link: Photographer Matt Black has been awarded the 2015 W. Eugene Smith grant for his long-term documentary project The Geography of Poverty. Black started the project nearly two decades ago in California’s Central Valley, where he grew up, and in 2014 set out on a cross-country trek to document poverty across America. He utilized Instagram…
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The Eddie Adams Workshop – by Michael Reaves | The Photo Brigade
The Eddie Adams Workshop – by Michael Reaves – The Photo Brigade Lexington, KY-based photographer Michael Reaves attended the Eddie Adams Workshop and shares his experience. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2015/10/the-eddie-adams-workshop-by-michael-reaves/ I am still processing (and recovering from sleep deprivation) from what was an amazing, inspirational, and challenging weekend at the Eddie Adams Workshop
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Robert Crumb Hates You | | Observer
Robert Crumb Hates You The world’s greatest cartoonist in a sprawling interview. via Observer: https://observer.com/2015/10/robert-crumb-hates-you/ The world’s greatest cartoonist in a sprawling, exclusive, lurid interview about misogyny, America, art and tushes that look like ‘two giant basketballs’
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500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy
500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy Back in July 2015, we reported that 500px had raised an additional $13 million in funding led by China’s equivalent of Getty Images, the Visual China via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/500px-expands-into-china-with-500px-me-and-some-photographers-arent-happy/ “My images have been copied to your new chinese version of 500px without my permission,”…
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Iraqi Photographers Launch Ambitious Group Project About Millions Displaced by War
Link: Metrography, an agency founded in 2009 to represent and train Iraqi photojournalists, yesterday launched a website for an ambitious group project that emphasizes the human cost of the ongoing war in Iraq and the greater Middle East, which has entered a new phase since the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014. “Map…
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Savaging Jeb! — On a Brutal Reuters SlideshowReading The Pictures
Savaging Jeb! — On a Brutal Reuters Slideshow This Reuters slideshow struck me as really different. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/10/savaging-jeb/ This week’s Reuters slide show on Jeb Bush felt to me like a real departure. The main reason being that the tone, across twenty-five largely scathing examples, seems to jump far away from the conventions…
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Scot Sothern and Muir Vidler Come Together to Explore What Lies Beyond the Cultural Mainstream – Feature Shoot
Scot Sothern and Muir Vidler Come Together to Explore What Lies Beyond the Cultural Mainstream Starting October 23rd, the Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami will unveil a new exhibition entitled The Way We See It, with photography by Scot Sothern and Muir Vidler. Both artists hone in on subjects that are unique, often living lives…
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A Legacy of Land Mines in Colombia – The New York Times
A Legacy of Land Mines in Colombia The locals call them “leg breakers,” but that’s an understatement. The land mines that dot Colombia’s mountainsides do far more damage. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/a-legacy-of-landmines-in-colombia/ The locals call them “leg breakers,” but that’s an understatement. The land mines that dot Colombia’s mountainsides do far more damage. One wrong…
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African Photography Comes of Age With Lagos Photo Festival – The New York Times
African Photography Comes of Age With Lagos Photo Festival This year’s Lagos Photo Festival goes beyond traditional photojournalism to explore how conceptual work can offer a deeper exploration of the issues facing the continent. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/african-photography-comes-of-age-with-lagos-photo-festival/ The work on show at the sixth edition of the Lagos Photo Festival, which opens in Nigeria’s…
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A Wide, Yet Intimate, View of Cuba – The New York Times
A Wide, Yet Intimate, View of Cuba While on assignment in Cuba, Angel Franco used a Widelux camera to work close to people while capturing a feeling of space. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/a-wide-yet-intimate-view-of-cuba/ Angel Franco has been a staff photographer for The New York Times since 1986. He worked on assignment in Cuba in 1994…
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Photo Community Raises Funds for Critically Injured Photojournalist | TIME
Photo Community Raises Funds for Critically Injured Photojournalist Jared Moossy was injured in a dramatic road accident via Time: https://time.com/4088697/jared-moossy-photo-fund/ Yet, it was closer to home, in South Austin, that Jared Moossy came close to losing his life. On Sept. 3, six weeks before his wedding day, while riding his motorcycle home, he was struck…
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Photoforward | The Lucie Awards Recap: International Photographer of the Year Has a Tie, and Presentations by Ann Curry, Graham Nash and Fran Drescher
The Lucie Awards Recap: International Photographer of the Year Has a Tie, and Presentations by Ann Curry, Graham Nash and Fran Drescher The 13th annual Lucie Awards (known in the industry as the “Oscars of Photography”) was held last night, October 27, in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, and got underway with “a first,” according to Susan Baraz,…
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About Photography: What the Sony A7rII taught me about my 42MP Leica M 240
What the Sony A7rII taught me about my 42MP Leica M 240 Blog by a leading professional photographer providing hands on review of camera equipment: Nikon, Leica, Fuji, Sony, plus instructional sample images. Link: http://aboutphotography-tomgrill.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-sony-a7rii-taught-me-about-my-42mp.html Yes, you read it correctly. I am writing about my 42MP Leica M 240, and, yes, I know that a…
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PhotoPlus Expo 2015: The State of Editorial Photography
Link: The directors of photography at Women’s Health, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Garden & Gun, People and GQ shared stories behind shoots and offered insights into how they work with the photographers they hire in a panel discussion hosted by veteran editorial photographer Art Streiber at PhotoPlus Expo this past week. In “The State of Editorial Photography,”…
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A ‘Family of Man’ Reunion – The New York Times
A ‘Family of Man’ Reunion To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking exhibit, the Museum of Modern Art has come out with a reissue of “The Family of Man,” its best-selling publication. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/a-family-of-man-reunion/ “It was conceived as a mirror of the universal emotions in the everydayness of life — as a…
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A passionate eye: Seeking the human condition in a war zone – The Globe and Mail
A passionate eye: Seeking the human condition in a war zone She had an alluring persona, inherited a love and talent for photography and possessed a deep desire to find the human condition within conflict and war. Dr. Anthony Feinstein explains why an iconic photograph from the Balkans’ Civil War leads him to find out…
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John Florea: From combat photographer to TV director – CNN.com
’80s TV director’s career had a dark side: Combat photographer | CNN John Florea directed some of the most famous American TV shows of the 1960s, ’70s and ‘80s, but he spent his early years as a photographer in World War II. via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/world/cnnphotos-john-florea-ww2/index.html John Florea directed some of the most famous American TV…