Author: Trent
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Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup – The New York Times
Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup (Published 2016) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is detaining journalists, while others are being fired or having their credentials revoked. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/europe/turkey-cracks-down-on-journalists-its-next-target-after-failed-coup.html One journalist, who was on vacation, had his home raided in the early morning by the police. Others were called in to…
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Papers Criticized for Using Bill Clinton Photo for Historic Hillary News
Papers Criticized for Using Bill Clinton Photo for Historic Hillary News Newspapers across the country are under fire today because of the photos they ran on their front pages yesterday. The papers were illustrating the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/07/28/papers-criticized-using-bill-clinton-photo-historic-hillary-news/ Newspapers across the country are under fire today because of the photos they ran on their front…
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The Highsmith vs Getty Saga Begins «
Link: Ed has seen all of the legal and factual issues at play in this case in many other cases. What is particularly notable here is that this is the first case he has seen where ALL of these apparent transgressions were committed in a single case. The fact pattern is almost too good to…
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The Power of Civilians and Cell Phones | American Photo
Link: The Bronx Documentary Center explores the “brave people who choose to create and share visual evidence”
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Stock photo Market : A mid-summer analysis – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Stock photo Market : A mid-summer analysis – Thoughts of a Bohemian Lots has been going on in the stock photo industry since the start of the year. Time to sit down and reveal the significant trends… via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/stock-photo-market-a-mid-summer-analysis/ As the flow of news coming out of the stock photo industry…
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Picking Tobacco Under an Unforgiving Sun in Mexico – The New York Times
Picking Tobacco Under an Unforgiving Sun in Mexico César Rodríguez has been documenting the plight of Huichol tobacco workers in Mexico, who have toiled for years exposed to the elements and chemicals. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/picking-tobacco-under-an-unforgiving-sun-in-mexico/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-4&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Picking%20Tobacco%20Under%20an%20Unforgiving%20 César Rodríguez wanted to be a photographer, but fear and self-doubt proved overwhelming. Instead, he threw himself into setting…
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Do Digitally Altered Photos Represent Fact or Fiction? – WSJ
Do Digitally Altered Photos Represent Fact or Fiction? Social media and new editing tools are recasting the digital landscape—and its rules—for photo journalism via WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/do-digitally-altered-photos-represent-fact-or-fiction-1470940019 A new wave of digital manipulation—and the blood sport of hunting for it—is roiling the world of photojournalism. Some of the industry’s biggest names and most established contests have…
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Photographer Documents Her Brother’s Battle with Schizophrenia – Feature Shoot
Link: Growing up alongside her older brother Raymond in Southwest Florida, photographer Kathryn E Harrison often felt as though her sibling was living a half life.
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Tyler Haughey photographs motels in his series “Ebb Tide.”
The Historic Midcentury Modernist Motels of the New Jersey Coast Staying overnight at one of the more than 150 motels in the Wildwoods can feel like traveling back in time. via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/08/tyler-haughey-photographs-motels-in-his-series-ebb-tide.html Staying overnight at one of the more than 150 motels in the Wildwoods can feel like traveling back in time.
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New Flophouses: Chinatown’s Internet Cafes – The New York Times
New Flophouses: Chinatown’s Internet Cafes Amid a housing crisis, the Lower Manhattan businesses serve as an unlikely safety net, where people pay as little as $7 a night for a roof over their heads. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/new-flophouses-chinatowns-internet-cafes/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-6&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=New%20Flophouses%3A%20Chinatown%E2%80%99s%20Internet%20Ca “It’s like prison,” said Harry Jumonji, describing the tense environment of Freedom Zone on Eldridge Street, where…
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Getty Images Asks Judge to Throw Out $1 Billion Copyright Lawsuit
Getty Images Asks Judge to Throw Out $1 Billion Copyright Lawsuit Getty Images has filed their official response to Carol Highsmith’s highly-publicized $1 Billion copyright claim against the company. And the gist of the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/getty-images-asks-judge-throw-1-billion-copyright-lawsuit/ “Public domain works are routinely commercialized,” writes Getty. “Publishers charge money for their copies of Dickens novels and…
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED
AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/ Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits…
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What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur
What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur Meet Storyo, the Portuguese company that is committed to revolutionize the way visual content is created and shared via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/whats-next-visual-story-telling/ The future of visual story telling session at Mobile Photo Connect this year will feature Filipe Vasconcellos, CEO of Storyo, a startup that is tackling the…
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One Syrian Photojournalist’s Last Letter, Published After His Death
One Syrian Photojournalist’s Last Letter, Published After His Death Syrian photographer, journalist, and activist Shamel Al-Ahmad knew well the risk he was taking staying in Aleppo, documenting the atrocities being via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/one-syrian-photojournalists-last-letter-published-death/ Syrian photographer, journalist, and activist Shamel Al-Ahmad knew well the risk he was taking staying in Aleppo, documenting the atrocities being perpetrated…
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After Years in Prison, Man Emerges a Talented Street Photographer
After Years in Prison, Man Emerges a Talented Street Photographer Donato Di Camillo’s “how I got into photography” story is different. You won’t hear it’s like at the camera store check out counter, and we can pretty via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/years-prison-man-emerges-talented-street-photographer/ Donato Di Camillo‘s “how I got into photography” story is different. You won’t hear it’s…
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From Boston to the world – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: Magnum photographer Constantine Manos has taken epic images that have long trascended in the minds of those who love photography.
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Facebook failed to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing over a naked photo – Business Insider
Facebook tried to prevent a 14-year-old girl from suing it over a naked photo – and failed A lawyer for the teenager, who cannot be named because of her age, compared the publishing of the photo to a method of child abuse. via Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-14-year-old-girl-lawsuit-naked-photo-2016-9 A high court judge in Belfast on Monday rejected…
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Adobe’s Lightroom camera now lets you shoot in raw from your iPhone like a pro | 9to5Mac
Adobe’s Lightroom camera now lets you shoot in raw from your iPhone like a pro – 9to5Mac Adobe’s Lightroom app continues to live on the edge of what’s possible with Apple’s various platforms, and the latest version of… via 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/13/adobe-lightroom-raw-iphone-camera/ Apple’s built-in Camera app doesn’t allow you to shoot in raw even as an option,…
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James Nachtwey’s Archive to Be Preserved at Dartmouth College | TIME
James Nachtwey’s Archive to be Preserved at Dartmouth College The archive counts hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints via Time: https://time.com/4486758/james-nachtwey-dartmouth-college/ Hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints will be preserved
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These Drone Photos Will Inspire You to Explore the World (Sponsored) – Feature Shoot
These Drone Photos Will Inspire You to Explore the World (Sponsored) Offset Artist Karolis Janulis always wanted wings, to see the world not as humans see it but as the birds do. The self-taught Lithuanian photographer plunged headlong into drone photography when the DJI Phantom hit the market, but his intended destination has always been…