Author: Trent
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AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas" (2006)
Link: As for “new documentary,” I find some of these approaches of interest, particularly the focus on a more distanced “aftermath,” rather than “decisive” moments of engagement. I still feel the dividing line is when photographers re-enact, which is closer to the tradition of docudrama than reportage. Sometimes it is very effective but defining the…
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Photographing Fabienne: Part Five – Interview with Edward Linsmier « Prison Photography
Photographing Fabienne: Part Five – Interview with Edward Linsmier PART FIVE IN A SERIES OF POSTS DISCUSSING PHOTOGRAPHERS’ ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF FABIENNE CHERISMA IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2010. Edward Linsmier was in Ha… via Prison Photography: https://prisonphotography.org/2010/03/14/photographing-fabienne-part-five-interview-with-edward-linsmier/ As far as I know of the situation, all the photographers…
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How To Take Photos Of Africa Or Where Intent And Ideas Collide « The Spinning Head
Link: So many questions were left answered that I could not help but feel that there was more to this story than just a bunch of Africans attacking a dead elephant as maggots would.
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Producing multimedia that supports the still image | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
Link: China-based photographer Ryan Pyle loves the still image and has continued to make his on film, even when trekking in remote areas. That hasn’t overshadowed his interest in multimedia though, which he’s been experimenting with recently. You can see the results below, where Ryan also shares his thought process in producing his first audio…
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Satomi Shirai, New York
Link: Since I started semi-immigrant life, I have experienced two worlds, with two different cultures and systems: that of Tokyo/Japan and that of New York. I came to perceive things in both of these worlds by comparing each one. In my work, the presence of certain objects questions my memories, and my understanding, or lack…
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Dossier Journal » Ryan McGinley Interview
Link: This Thursday, Ryan McGinley will have his third solo show at Team Gallery. An exhibition of new work, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, will run from March 18 through April 17 and will be accompanied by a monograph published by Dashwood Book. David Strettell, the book’s publisher (also, of course, the owner of the…
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Paying the M.D. a Visit » THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF SPORTS
Link: After nearly 3 weeks of taking photos every day at the Winter Olympics, well, I needed some serious help editing. So I decided to pay Mike Davis a visit. It’s fun and enlightening how just two hours of editing can bring clarity to such a large and broad body of work. Here’s what Mike…
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The Visual Student » Student winners from the 67th POYi
Link: the student winners from the 67th Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition
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Registration Open For NPPA's 2010 Multimedia Immersion Workshop
Link: Seats Limited To The First 40 People
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Lighting It Up in Austin with Robert Seale – A Picture's Worth
Link: Robert Seale showed some fantastic images and discussed his transition from newspaper to magazine to freelance. We had a very spirited panel discussion with Deborah Cannon, Darren Carroll, Eric Hegwer, Jack Hollingsworth, Taylor Jones, and Robert Seale.
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Combat Photography, Wounded Warriors & The Long Wait for Help – A Picture's Worth
Link: We caught up with PhotoShelter member Stacy Pearsall last week at the 2010 D.C. Shoot Off. Stacy is a retired Air Force Staff Sergeant and two-time winner of the Military Photographer of the Year award. She did three tours of duty in Iraq.
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Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Begins Sunday
Link: Winners of each day’s categories will be announced daily here on the NPPA Web site. The Sports Photojournalist of the Year will be judged on Tuesday, and the Photojournalists of the Year (Large and Small Markets) and the winner of Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” will be announced at the end of the week.
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Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
Link: she was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.
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Editorial Photographers UK | Image manipulation – a five step scale of what is, and what is not acceptable.
Link: To retouch or not to retouch is not so much a question as an ethical decision all photographers take when they sit in front of their images on a computer screen. Neil Turner, who was one of the first photographers in Britain to embrace digital photography, clarifies what should be considered with regard to…
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Getty's Quinn Rooney Named BOP's 2010 Sports Photojournalist Of The Year
Link: Judges for NPPA’s 2010 Best Of Photojournalism contest started picking winners in the competition’s first day of Still Photography and Web categories on Sunday at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and this morning they’ve announced their pick for the Sports Photojournalist of the Year.
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Johnnie Behiri shoots National Geographic “Earth explore” desert adventure on 7D « DSLR News Shooter
Link: When National Geographic approached and asked me to make a film about their “Earth explorer bag collection” I had no doubt that the Canon 7d was the right tool for the job.