Author: Trent
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Looking Back: Alternative Photography in the Digital Age — Panel Discussion | The Photo Brigade
Looking Back: Alternative Photography in the Digital Age — Panel Discussion – The Photo Brigade This panel on Alternative Photography addresses the increased interest in analog photography in the current digital age. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2016/09/looking-back-alternative-photography-in-the-digital-age-panel-discussion/ This panel on Alternative Photography addresses the increased interest in analog photography in the current digital age. Many…
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We’re Just Sayin: Just 8 Years Ago….
Just 8 Years Ago…. It was 8 years ago this week that i received a phone call from Katie Ellsworth, then the Washington photo editor of TIME Magazine. I ha… Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2016/09/just-8-years-ago.html It’s rare as a photographer you are in the position where time, space, and circumstance intersect, and that you can make a picture…
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On That Riot Cop/Bus Photo After Police Kill Black Man in Charlotte – Reading The Pictures
On That Riot Cop/Bus Photo After Police Kill Black Man in Charlotte – Reading The Pictures Beyond its literal meaning, the text on the bus is also a blunt commentary about where we stand in this endless cycle of violence. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/09/riot-cops-bus-photo-charlotte/ It’s an organic interpretation, framing the situation as a hardened…
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Benjamin Lowy: The photographer documenting war with a cell phone – CNN.com
The photographer documenting war with a cell phone | CNN An early adopter of mobile technology, Benjamin Lowy was the first person to have a cell phone photo make the front page of a major magazine. He has since taken this fresh approach to the front lines in Iraq and Libya. via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/project-pixel-ben-lowy/index.html People…
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Photokina 2016 Day Two and Three – Luminous Landscape
Photokina 2016 Days Two and Three – Luminous Landscape FacebookTweet Photokina Day Two and Three Report Combined reporting by Nick Devlin and Kevin Raber It’s the end of the day on Thursday. We have… via Luminous Landscape: https://luminous-landscape.com/photokina-2016-day-two-three/ The project, “Shadows of Tripoli”, aims to show daily life in this divided city, and the constant…
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Google’s Image Captioning AI Can Describe Photos with 94% Accuracy
Google’s Image Captioning AI Can Describe Photos with 94% Accuracy Well, you can add “captioning photos” to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/23/googles-image-captioning-ai-can-describe-photos-94-accuracy/ Show and Tell is in the news today because Google actually made the…
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What We See When We Look at Travel Photography – The New York Times
Link: On the visual, and psychological, contradictions of pictures from the road.
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LensRentals.com – The 13 Biggest Product Announcements at Photokina 2016
The 13 Biggest Product Announcements at Photokina 2016 Each year in Cologne, Germany, over 150,000 people travel from all over the world to attend Photokina – the world’s largest photography trade show. This is also where various photography brands work to announce their newest flagship products, which will be used by millions for years to…
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Foreign Reporters in China Face More Restrictions Now, Report Says – The New York Times
Foreign Reporters in China Face More Restrictions Now, Report Says (Published 2016) A survey by PEN America shows growing difficulties in getting news out of the country as its economic importance and geopolitical power grow. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/business/china-foreign-media-pen-america.html “Of course, we can’t compare this to the pressures felt by Chinese writers,” Ms. Nossel said. “But we…
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Flickr Marketplace Is No More | PDNPulse
Link: As to why Marketplace is on the way out, Flickr cited “consistent feedback” from users that more worked needed to be done to improve the platform.
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APAD Backyard Storytelling Grant
APAD blog We got entries from 27 different countries for the 2016 APAD Backyard Storytelling Grant, including Iran, Bangladesh & Ukraine… with issues equally as diverse as our entrants themselves. And on… via Tumblr: https://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/150745901845/we-got-entries-from-27-different-countries-for-the We got entries from 27 different countries for the 2016 APAD Backyard Storytelling Grant, including Iran, Bangladesh & Ukraine… with…
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Hands-On with the Fuji GFX 50S Medium Format Mirrorless Camera
Hands-On with the Fuji GFX 50S Medium Format Mirrorless Camera Fujifilm “won” Photokina. There’s no real doubt about that. With the announcement of the mirrorless medium format Fuji GFX 50S, they stole the show. But via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/23/hands-fuji-gfx-medium-format-mirrorless-camera/ Gasquet goes over everything—from recapping the announcement, to actually showing you the camera and describing how it…
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Bob Lynn’s Visual Journalism Leadership Book Is Now Available For Free | NPPA
Link: First published in 2013, the book draws from Lynn’s experiences at the Virginia-Pilot and from his earlier post at the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. His photo staffs regularly won in NPPA contests and the International Pictures of the Year competitions. The Virginia-Pilot was also awarded Best Use of Pictures three times under Lynn’s…
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World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx – The New York Times
World-Class Photojournalism, at Home in the South Bronx When the Bronx Documentary Center opened five years ago, Manhattan-centric curators scoffed. Not anymore. From Eugene Richards to emerging talents, the B.D.C. has created a diverse and dedicated community of photographers. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world-class-photojournalism-at-home-in-the-south-bronx/ When Eugene Richards opens his next exhibit, it will not be at…
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Is This Computer Algorithm Better Than Photo Editors? | TIME
Is This Computer Algorithm Better Than Photo Editors? “We’re not trying to replace photo editors. We’re trying to augment their work.” via Time: https://time.com/4445430/is-this-computer-algorithm-better-than-photo-editors/ Compare how TIME’s photo editors and the EyeEm algorithm ranked the following 20 images.
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Winning the White House – From press prints to selfies – The Eye of Photography
Link: “While professional press photographers continue to cover every campaign stop for major media outlets like their predecessors, they are now joined by thousands of amateur photographers,” adds Susan Carlson, Assistant Curator of ICP and van Dijk’s co-curator for Winning the White House. “With the rise of smart-phone technology and the rapid rate at which…
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Celebrating 10 Years Of Digital M Photography – The Leica Camera Blog
Link: A wonderful time, it’s the birthday of digital M photography. We would like to take this significant anniversary to share a small but nice selection of M photographers and their images whom influenced digital M photography with their inspiring pictures: Max Malatesta, Ram Shergill and Alex Webb.
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Inge Morath’s photographs featured in the book, Inge Morath: On Style.
The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers Inge Morath may have frequently photographed well-dressed people and many figures of the fashion world, but to call her a fashion photographer would be… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/09/inge-moraths-photographs-featured-in-the-book-inge-morath-on-style.html Rather than “the seasonal changes of attire,” the motif running through Morath’s best work was,…
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Highlights and Trends: Unseen Photo Fair 2016 | Disphotic
Link: Besides what was on display, was is also worth discussing is what wasn’t in evidence. Documentary and photojournalistic work in general was largely absent but that is little surprise. What was more notable was the lack of an engagement with photography’s present form as an almost exclusively digital medium. Artists are engaging with this…
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FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America | FotoRoom
FotoFirst — Philipp Gallon, a German in the US, Shows Us the Face of Rural America As a European, Philipp Gallon found that much of America is very different than what the US is typically portrayed like in movies and TV shows. via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/anthology-common-conversation-philipp-gallon/ 37 year-old German photographer Philipp Gallon presents his outsider’s view of…