Author: Trent
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Drugs, Big Hair, and Communism: Belgrade Nightlife in the 80s | VICE | United States
Drugs, Big Hair, and Communism: Belgrade Nightlife in the 80s As Serbian photographer Miladin Jelicic “Jela” puts it, ” The 1980s in Belgrade were not golden, they were silver.” Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/znm94w/belgrade-1980s-photos-miladin-jelicic-876 I meet up with Jela and his wife, Nadja, at their home in Belgrade. They were both integral parts of the scene back then.…
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We Are Surveilling (and Photographing) Your Tweets — Vantage — Medium
We Are Surveilling (and Photographing) Your Tweets We’ve scraped tweets from all across the United States. Now they’re in a book and you can peep us peeping at others. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/we-are-surveilling-and-photographing-your-tweets-167a490e952e We’ve scraped tweets from all across the United States. Now they’re in a book and you can peep us peeping at others.
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Amnesty condemns 800-day detention of Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan, demands release – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online
Link: Amnesty International said Egypt’s continued detention of photojournalist Shawkan “exposes the rank hypocrisy behind [the authorities’] claim to uphold press freedom”
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An Insider’s Account of How The New York Times Video Team Reported the Paris Attacks — Vantage — Medium
An Insider’s Account of How The New York Times Video Team Reported the Paris Attacks Solid contacts, quick editing of citizen-made footage and sharp-witted freelancers are key to delivering timely and accurate video. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/an-insider-s-account-of-how-the-new-york-times-video-team-reported-the-paris-attacks-89f0a30f4b32 Calling on solid contacts, editing citizen-made footage in quick turnaround and hiring sharp-witted freelancers are key to delivering timely,…
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Stacy Kranitz Is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year 2015 | TIME
Meet TIME’s Instagram Photographer of 2015 For her use of the app as it was originally intended via Time: https://time.com/4100278/stacy-kranitz-instagram-photographer-of-the-year-2015/ She uses Instagram as “it was intended to be used,” as Matt Black put it: “To witness things as they happen.”
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Britons will need copyright licenses to post photos of their own furniture / Boing Boing
Link: The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 is set to kick in, and with it will come an extended term of copyright for designer objects, such as furniture, which will endure for 70 years after the creator’s death — meaning that you’ll need a license to post photographs of your own belongings.
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Photo Brigade Podcast #87 with Ron Haviv | The Photo Brigade
Photo Brigade Podcast #87 with Ron Haviv – The Photo Brigade On this episode Robert sits down with acclaimed war photographer Ron Haviv of VII Photo Agency in New York. They talk about his background in photography that led to covering conflicts and natural disasters around the world, his new book “The Lost Rolls”, the…
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Inside The Danish School of Media and Journalism – the global incubator of great photojournalists | British Journal of Photography
Inside The Danish School of Media and Journalism – the global incubator of great photojournalists – 1854 Photography “I remember my time at there as intense. It was hard work, and we experimented a lot, but I also remember having a lot of fun and being constantly immersed in photography, says award-winning photojournalist Laerke Posselt of…
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Pennsylvania Steel Town Memories – The New York Times
Pennsylvania Steel Town Memories While Pittsburgh enjoys a renaissance, Pete Marovich returned to the nearby steel town of his youth to see how it has coped after its life-sustaining industry fled. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/pennsylvania-steel-town-memories/ A year ago, Pete Marovich began noticing articles boasting about a Pittsburgh “resurgence.” He knew these pieces weren’t telling the…
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The History of Police Ride-Along Photography and a New ApproachReading The Pictures
The History of Police Ride-Along Photography and a New Approach As concern has escalated over police violence and race relations, attention has risen, too, over how photojournalism depicts the issue. Read on. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/12/police-ride-along-photography-keyssar/ As concern has escalated in America over police violence and race relations, attention has risen, too, over how…
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Mariano Silletti – Ludovicu « burn magazine
Mariano Silletti – Ludovicu Mariano Silletti Ludovicu Ludovicu’s disappearance. Ludovicu arrived in Montescaglioso (Italy), with his family, from Romania. Ludovicu was 57 years old and he was suffering from Alzheimer. One day… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/12/mariano-silletti-ludovicu/ Ludovicu’s disappearance. Ludovicu arrived in Montescaglioso (Italy), with his family, from Romania. Ludovicu was 57 years old and he…
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Documenting Rape in India – The New York Times
Documenting Rape in India When Smita Sharma photographs rape victims who have been shunned and ostracized in India, she connects with them by sharing her own story of sexual assault. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/documenting-rape-in-india/ At night, vivid memories of sexual abuse haunt Smita Sharma’s dreams. During the day, they motivate her to document the stories…
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Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala – The New York Times
Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala Although the golden age of professional wrestling has faded in Guatemala, on weekends some hard-core devotees don masks and meet at a garage turned arena. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/wrestlings-daily-struggle-in-guatemala/ Everyone loves a winner. But as everyone knows, somebody has to lose. Indeed, for Guatemala City’s wrestlers, life itself is a…
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The American Landscape, From Space: Denver, the Rockies, and Colorado Captured by DigitalGlobe’s Satellite – The Atlantic
You Must See This Stunning New Photo of Colorado, From Earth’s Orbit The American landscape as you’ve never seen it before via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/a-new-kind-of-landscape-photography/421287/ WorldView-3 is one of the most advanced privately owned Earth-observing satellites in use. It’s owned and operated by DigitalGlobe, a corporation that supplies imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency…
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Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism — Vantage — Medium
Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism Valencia, Hefe, X-Pro II — such obscure names are familiar to the hundreds of millions monthly active Instagram users around the world, including a growing population of photojournalists who are… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/put-a-filter-on-it-instagram-as-photojournalism-1319e21481e8 And as social media and photojournalism continue to evolve and intertwine, Instagram is still…
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Our Favorite Documentary Photographs of 2015 – The New Yorker
Our Favorite Documentary Photographs of 2015 Each of these photographers found the pieces that helped us see the whole more clearly. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/our-favorite-documentary-photographs-of-2015 These photographers’ styles are as varied as their subject matter, but each has the talent vital to any documentarian: to find the pieces that help us see the whole…
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Eyewitness To History — Vantage — Medium
Eyewitness To History In conversation with Benjamin Lowy via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-ppd-master-series-benjamin-lowy-eyewitness-to-history-5b013edef43 When I first started photography, I carried a ton of cameras and I wanted everyone to know that I was a photographer. Now I just want the smallest camera and I want everyone to think I’m just another tourist. I don’t want to stand…
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Most Prominent Photo Objects of 2015: The Life JacketReading The Pictures
Most Prominent Photo Objects of 2015: The Life Jacket Who knows how many powerful images were published this year of life jackets either worn or discarded by migrants via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/12/2015-the-life-jacket/ Because of all the year-end “best of” lists, I was half-joking the other day when I tweeted, why not “photo objects of the…
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Let Me Represent You — Vantage — Medium
Let Me Represent You Pete Muller shares their passions, motives and images in new CNN documentary series about conflict photographers via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/pete-muller-let-me-represent-you-a6855026aa8a Pete Muller shares his passions, motives and images in new CNN documentary series about conflict photographers
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The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut – The New York Times
The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut New York Times editors pore over tens of thousands of the year’s images to come up with the best and strongest collection. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/times-year-in-pictures-2015-meaghan-looram-jeffrey-scales-lens/ The New York Times Year in Pictures 2015, published online this week, was edited by the deputy photo editor Meaghan Looram…