Author: Trent
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Egyptian photojournalist given two-year sentence | DOHA CENTRE FOR MEDIA FREEDOM
Link: Ali Abdeen was on assignment covering protests when he was arrested, but stands accused of inciting demonstrations and spreading false news
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See the First Trailer for the Robert Frank Documentary, Don’t Blink | American Photo
Link: The Laura Israel-directed Don’t Blink made its world premier last fall during the New York Film Festival and according to our reviewer Judy Gelman Myers, the documentary offers a multifaceted view of the photographer so well known for The Americans. “This is Robert Frank the funny guy, the experimental filmmaker, the fan of the…
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Photo London 2016 : International Galleries – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion, and Connection, as captured over the course of one year by the university’s 70 photojournalism students.
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Sting of Myself – The New Yorker
James O’Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself A failed attack on George Soros is part of a new era of secretly funded political hit jobs. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself Amateurish spies like James O’Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.
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Punk Ass Motherf**kers — Cuepoint — Medium
Punk Ass Motherf**kers Iconic images of Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains and more punk rock legends, untangled by photographer Glen E. Friedman via Medium: https://medium.com/cuepoint/punk-ass-motherf-kers-d702ffecc284 Iconic images of Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains and more punk rock legends, untangled by photographer Glen E. Friedman
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Donato Di Camillo’s Playful New York City Street Portraits | American Photo
Link: Donato Di Camillo doesn’t come from a “traditional” photography background. He comes from prison.
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PHOTOJOURNALIST DAVID GILKEY, TRANSLATOR, KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN | NPPA
Link: “The hallmark of David’s storytelling around this topic was that he wanted people to know that we still have people in harm’s way every day, and while it is no longer on the front page in the way that it has been and while it’s been transitioning away from U.S. military support, that’s why…
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Pistoia : Ferdinando Scianna, At Play – The Eye of Photography
Link: To play means to wage your stakes. It means putting the world into play, taking distance from it, putting it in parentheses. Or it means using the world, using reality to invent other parallel ones, which obey different, arbitrary rules, so much more definitive because they are arbitrary. Or it means reinventing ourselves, creating…
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Harper’s boss Rick MacArthur on blogging, paywalls, his editor shakeup and the future of journalism – Poynter
Harper’s boss Rick MacArthur on blogging, paywalls, his editor shakeup and the future of journalism – Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2016/harpers-rick-macarthur-on-blogging-paywalls-his-editor-shakeup-and-the-future-of-journalism/ Every idiot who could blog, and claim to be covering…
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LOOK3 2016 : Interview with MV Swanson – The Eye of Photography
Link: I recently sat down with Mary Virginia Swanson, the new Director of LOOK3, Festival of the Photograph, to discuss this year’s festival taking place June 13-19th in the lovely town of Charlottesville, Virginia
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FotoFirst – Jon Horvath Looks at the American West Myth From the Small Town of Bliss | Fotografia Magazine
Link: 37 year-old American photographer Jon Harvath presents This Is Bliss, an ongoing body of work that compares the myth of the glorious American West with the reality of Bliss, a small town in Idaho with a population of 300 people
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Photographing Turkey’s Hidden War | TIME
Photographing Turkey’s Hidden War More than 350,000 people have been displaced via Time: https://time.com/4369374/turkey-hidden-war/ For the Turkish-born photographer Emin Ozmen, there’s little hope of a peaceful resolution to the conflict. “[It] brings a lot of anger to the young Kurds who are living in this region,” he says. “I feel that the long-term costs of…
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Paris : Gil Rigoulet, England 70-80 – The Eye of Photography
Link: I was twenty. Great Britain attracted me like a distant planet. The street was the store front, and I plunged my camera into it without inhibition. I took photos for… me. I learned to take a look, find the right distance, the right moment… I looked for words, a language able to describe such…
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Photographer Fan Ho Dies at Age 84
Photographer Fan Ho Dies at Age 84 Celebrated Chinese photographer Fan Ho died of pneumonia on Sunday, June 19th, 2016, at a hospital in San Jose, California. He was 84 years old. Born in via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/06/21/photographer-fan-ho-dies-age-84/ Over the course of his photography career, Ho was repeatedly named a top photographer in the world and…
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How Young Soldiers Saw Life in Wartime Vietnam – The New York Times
How Young Soldiers Saw Life in Wartime Vietnam A new exhibit of photos made by young soldiers in war zones features poignant images of daily life in a distant, and dangerous, land. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/how-young-soldiers-saw-life-in-wartime-vietnam/ Yet these photographs were taken not by professionals but by young grunts barely out of high school. Grinning wide-eyed…
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Step into the Bold Graphic of London’s streets – Feature Shoot
Step into the Bold Graphic of London’s streets In Rupert Vandervell’s Geometrix, the city of London is fiercely rendered in black and white. via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2016/07/step-into-the-bold-graphic-of-londons-streets/ In Rupert Vandervell’s Geometrix, the city of London is fiercely rendered in black and white. Investigating “the juxtaposition between the urban background and the human form,” the series…
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Photo Editors Weigh In on Jonathan Bachman’s Iconic Photo | PhotoShelter Blog
Photo Editors Weigh In on Jonathan Bachman’s Iconic Photo – PhotoShelter Blog Amidst a barrage of violent imagery in the past week graphically illustrating the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers, Jonathan Bachman’s image of a protest in Baton Rouge has emerged as iconic. It’s already being compared to some…
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Selected Works: Missy Prince | Fotografia Magazine
Link: 45 year-old American photographer Missy Prince gives an overview of her captivating work—a mix of landscape photographs and pictures of small, suburban, poor American communities
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‘War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are’ | TIME
‘War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are’ Anastasia Taylor-Lind reviews Michael Christopher Brown’s book, ‘Libyan Sugar’ via Time: https://time.com/4410520/libyan-war-photobook/ A review of Michael Christopher Brown’s photobook, Libyan Sugar
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Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner tells stories of people on the fringe | Berkeley News
Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner tells stories of people on the fringe For first-year journalism student Clara Mokri, ‘human stories are what drives the news’ via Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/09/dorothea-lange-fellowship-winner-tells-stories-of-people-on-the-fringe/ Growing up the daughter of a prominent Hollywood cinematographer, Clara Mokri remembers being on movie sets with her father and seeing the power a camera could wield…