Author: Trent
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Munem Wasif | 100Eyes
Link: Rippling sea waves, dried river skeletons and endless fields. Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Each family needs about six pitchers of water a day, and they have to walk seven miles to get it. Ignoring knee-deep mud in rainy season, braving the biting cold of winter. In the seventeen sub-districts of…
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My First Tri-Xmas | Luceo Images
Link: Today marks the beginning of a new holiday in which I am sure will catch on … or not. I hereby declare that January 9 will hence forth be referred to as Tri-Xmas Day. The premise of this holiday is to photograph personal settings on black and white film throughout the year and then…
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Martin Parr: How the other half lives | The Guardian
Link: From champagne in St Moritz to Moscow’s Millionaire fair, photographer Martin Parr – once criticised for his mockery of the working classes – turns his camera on the filthy rich.
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Induro Introduces Gimbal Heads
InduroGear : La route vers l’expertise auto – InduroGear Bienvenue sur InduroGear La route vers l’expertise automobile. La route vers l’expertise automobile. Entretenir son véhicule Devenez autonome Devenez autonome Apprenez à faire vos propres diagnostic et réparations. Diagnostiquer une panne Mécaniqu via InduroGear: http://www.indurogear.com/eblast/200910_VNR/induro_gimbalhead.html?utm_campaign=Press%20Release%3A%20Induro%20Introduces%20Gimbal%20Heads&utm_content=theclick.us@gmail.com&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eindurogear Recently, the U.S. design team at Induro, makers of the finest…
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The Online Photographer: TOP Camera of the Year 2009
Link: In acknowledgment of the old adage “different strokes for different folks,” I invited a number of our 2009 contributors to make their own picks for the Camera of the Year.
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Inside the Minds of Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel | RESOLVE
Link: Stockland Martel, founded in 1980 by Maureen Martel and Bill Stockland, is one of the best-known and respected photo-representation agencies in the country. In this interview conducted by Kristina Feliciano, who runs the Stockland Martel blog, Bill and Maureen explain how they built their auspicious roster, which includes Nadav Kander, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Doug…
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PDNPulse: Wedding Photographer Jailed for Cheating Customers
Link: Photographer Jack Holton of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, was convicted Friday
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Daro Sulakauri, Tbilisi, Georgia – Feature Shoot
Link: Daro Slakauri was born in Georgia in 1985. Her work has won many awards including 2nd Place in the Young Photographer in the Caucasus Award (Magnum Photos). Of this series, Terror Incognita, she writes, ‘Since December 1994, when war broke out between the Russian-backed central government in Grozny and a determined group of Chechen…
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Magnum's Dennis Stock, 81
Link: “I’ve never taken an assignment,” Stock said when he addressed a gathering of photojournalism students at the University of Texas in Austin’s School of Journalism in 2009. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself,…
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Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers: Simon Roberts
Link: British Photographer Simon Roberts chooses to embark on long-term, in-depth visual studies of people and the places they live. He describes his work as socio-documentary photography, which when viewed as a whole, can be seen as a rich, subjective source of visual anthropology of contemporary life.
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Flying With Camera Gear Post 25 Dec, 2009
Link: It’s my guess that this is the new normal in air travel. Greater scrutiny, longer and slower lines, more hand inspections, and overall just a greater pain in the ass. No one would argue that we don’t need the security, and I’m sure that some very bright people within the TSA and the airlines…
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With Resources Limited, the Media Struggle to Convey Disaster – NYTimes.com
Media Struggle to Convey a Disaster (Published 2010) Reporters and news anchors rushed to earthquake-stricken Haiti, and professional reporting was supplemented with Twitter and cellphones. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/world/americas/15media.html In some cases, reporters and anchors were arriving well ahead of international relief organizations. In other cases, they were hitching rides with them. “Wherever you are,” Anderson Cooper…
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On Assignment: Prayers in the Dark – Lens
On Assignment: Prayers in the Dark Damon Winter of The New York Times arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. James Estrin spoke with him at midnight Thursday. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/assignment-19/ Damon Winter of The New York Times arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. He has been traveling through the city in a car shared with Ron…
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lenscratch: Vivian Maier
Link: thanks to Chole Aftel’s blog, I discovered the work of Vivian Maier. It’s a fascinating story of a young woman who worked as a nanny in Chicago and spent her free time roaming the streets taking photographs.
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Happy Martin Luther King Day, I Wish Photos Were Allowed at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/01/happy-martin-luther-king-day-i-wish-photos-were-allowed-at-the-national-civil-rights-museum-in-memphis.html I was disappointed this morning to learn that the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis (which is housed in the motel building where Dr. King was assassinated at) that I was going to visit this morning does not allow photography.
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The Visual Student » Evolving In The Industry: Steven King
Link: the journalism sky is far from crashing down around us, although photojournalism purists would call this the end of an era. Instead, I steadfastly believe that this is a new horizon for the industry to take the undiluted craft of visual storytelling to a level that only enhances the medium. Even if the job…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: ED TEMPLETON: "Deformer and the Will to Not Be F-cked…"
Link: Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California is a much-anticipated book. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed…