Author: Trent
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Don Kirby's Dark (Room) Arts
Link: When fine art photographer Don Kirby realized that photographing the American prairie would force him to change his darkroom techniques, he embraced the challenge and produced his most technically difficult work to date.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Think Tank Photo to ship Retrospective shoulder bag series this spring
Link: Also unveiled today by Think Tank Photo is a series of three soft-sided shoulder bags and two lens changers. Called Retrospective and available in both black canvas and a patterned canvas called Pinestone, the new series is meant to evoke the classic look of earlier pro camera bags.
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Imagine: Journalist for Nintendo DS
Rakuten UK: Shop Cashback deals on the best offers & savings Rakuten Link: http://www.play.com/Games/DS/4-/10537828/Imagine-Journalist/Product.html?source=9593 Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as an international reporter, heading your own TV show Get your own press pass Have fun with the full range of journalists’ accessories: notepad, handheld recorder, mic, camera Catch your…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Lee Friedlander – Just Look At It" (2005)
Lee Friedlander: “Just Look At It” (2005) By Rod Slemmons Lee Friedlander was born in the logging mill town of Aberdeen, Washington in 1934. He began photographing in 1948 because of a “fascination with the equipment,” in his words. His first paid job was a Christmas card photograph of a dog for a local madam…
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Q&A: Mark Leong, Beijing
Link: ‘In any case, the subject was very fresh to me, exciting but also daunting because of the massive scale and steep learning curve (of which I’m still somewhere down near the foot). There has already been some good photo reportage on the trade, so when my editor Kathy Moran and I mapped out our…
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8 Ways To Get More Work From Existing Clients – A Picture's Worth
Link: Martin Vargas is a corporate/industrial photographer for 33Photo based out of Mexico City and Houston, Texas. His work is diverse, and includes a steady stream of industrial, architectural, editorial, product, and travel assignments. His marketing and promotion efforts tend to be based on generating more work from existing clients, and he has come up…
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Wonderful Machine » In Hanoi This Friday?
Link: If so you should drop by The Bui Gallery for their opening from 6-9pm featuring photographer Aaron Joel Santos‘ work. In preparation for the show, Aaron visited the gallery’s printer in Singapore to check up on the printing details, and in the process took some colorful and artful photos of the city:
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Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for photographing his own son Boing Boing
Link: Outside of the mall, Kevin was stopped by a police constable who had received a complaint from mall security that a suspicious potential paedophile had been taking pictures on its premises. The PC threatened to arrest Kevin “for creating a public disturbance” and ordered him to delete the photo of his son.
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Editorial Photographers UK | Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill: A Future Fair For Photographers?
Link: As Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill moves to the report stage, and the COPYRIGHT ACTION web site gets 60,000 page views from anxious photographers, EPUK reveals how the bill’s clause on orphan works spells an uncertain future for photographers and publishers alike.
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On Assignment: Nine Eyes on the Prize – Lens
On Assignment: Nine Eyes on the Prize How does Bruce Bennett photograph a disc moving at 100 miles per hour? With seven different cameras, Nicholas Loomis reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/assignment-27/ Bruce Bennett has been shooting with seven cameras at Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver: three at arm’s reach, with lenses of various sizes; two…
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Changing Face in Poland – Skinhead Puts on Skullcap – NYTimes.com
Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap (Published 2010) Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/world/europe/28poland.html “I went to my parents and said, ‘What the hell’? Imagine, I was a neo-Nazi and heard this news? I couldn’t…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Modern Sublime: The World of Josef Koudelka"
Link: “I try to be a photographer. I cannot talk. I am not interested in talking. If I have anything to say, it may be found in my images. I am not interested in talking about things, explaining about the whys and the hows. I do not mind showing my images, but not so much…