Category: Editor’s Choice

  • Iran's Disputed Election – The Big Picture

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    The Big Picture:

    Following up from last Friday’s entry about Iran’s Presidential Election, Tehran and other cities have seen the largest street protests and rioting since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Supporters of reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, upset at their announced loss and suspicions of voter fraud, took to the streets both peacefully and, in some cases, violently to vent their frustrations. Iranian security forces and hardline volunteer militia members responded with force and arrests, attempting to stamp out the protests – meanwhile, thousands of Iranians who were happy with the election outcome staged their own victory demonstrations. Mousavi himself has been encouraging peaceful demonstrations, and called for calm at a large demonstration today (held in defiance of an official ban), as Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has just called for an official inquiry into accusations of election irregularities.

  • Benjamin Lowy: Iraq | Perspectives

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    PDN Photo of the Day:

    Here are 14 photographs from Benjamin Lowy’s ongoing Iraq | Perspectives project which he began in 2005. Shot from the confines of a Humvee, Lowy creates a tableau vivant of life in Iraq offering a glimpse into the bleakness and desolation of a country ravaged by war.

  • Wooster Collective: Banksy Vs. Bristol Museum.


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    Wooster Collective

  • carl kiilsgaard – the white family

    Carl Kiilsgaard – burn magazine:

    For more than three years I have documented rural poverty in eastern Kentucky through the eyes of the White family. Their roots in Whitesburg run deep through the generations and into the depths of the mines. Richard White, his wife Tammy, their three children, and Richard’s nephew Derrick Collins all live together in a mobile home. The son of a coal miner, Richard has experienced the problems of eastern Kentucky firsthand.

  • 2009 Women in Photojournalism Contest Winners

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    NPPA: 2009 Women in Photojournalism Contest Winners
    photo by Djamila Grossman
    Via dvafoto

  • Tweeting Too Hard

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    Tweeting Too Hard

  • lance rosenfield – thirst for grit [EPF Finalist] | burn magazine

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    Lance Rosenfield – burn magazine says:

    With ‘Thirst for Grit’ I offer a vignette of modern-day, small-town rodeo cowboys in Texas. I traveled endless hot and dusty miles crisscrossing this oft-lonely expanse, following the itinerant ways of these men who live a life of legend and little. They share a special bond, a camaraderie with one another that seems to center on respect, loyalty and toughness. While mostly well-mannered gentlemen, rodeo riders can also be as wild and rough as the beasts they ride, and sometimes skate the edge of social rule when it comes to the bottle and women.

  • Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen

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    Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:

    There was not just one “tank man” photo. Four photographers captured the encounter that day from the Beijing Hotel, overlooking Changan Avenue (the Avenue of Eternal Peace), their lives forever linked by a single moment in time. They shared their recollections with The Times through e-mail.

  • Showcase: “Liberia Retold”

    Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:

    Tim Hetherington is a British photographer, writer, filmmaker and television journalist who has captured the chaos and tragedy of the Liberian civil war in his new book, “Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold” (Umbrage Editions, 2009). He has combined reflective, square-format documentary photography with oral testimony and memoir.

  • Secrets and lies – Tomas van Houtryve in North Korea

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    panos.co.uk says:

    Adopting the persona of a Belgian chocolate magnate, complete with disguise and funny accent, Tomas van Houtryve made his second trip to North Korea in February 2008. Despite his credentials as a foreign businessman keen to invest in the country, he faced hours of interrogation, was threatened by apparatchiks, and at one point was almost exposed as a journalist. His bold tactics gave him access to factories, hospitals and government offices, some of which had never before been seen by a Western photographer. He was also able to catch a fleeting glimpse of the lives of ordinary people.

    Via dvafoto

  • 86 Iconic Images Ruined With Technology

    CLICK NOTE: I’m speechless.

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    Gizmodo says:

    For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to alter famous and iconic photos by placing technology where it doesn’t belong. We have some absolutely awesome results, so onward! Check out your top three winners and then a gaggle of hilarious images in our Gallery of Champions.

  • michael christopher brown – sakhalin [EPF Finalist]

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    burn magazine says:

    Photographed predominantly in the broken, rusted, skeletons of communities around Sakhalin Island, Russia, these images explore the wintry atmosphere of a remote land and its people, long scarred from the Soviet era and left behind in modern times.

  • World Press Photo: 470,214 Pictures Later

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    World Press Photo: 470,214 Pictures Later says:

    I wonder if World Press Photo is peeling away from reflecting the media as it is, and is rather reflecting the media the way we wish it were. Of the 376 images awarded prizes this year, I would be curious to know how many have been published in a paid-for context. Maybe all of them. Maybe. But the overall impression that I’m left with from the 470,214 images that I have seen entered into the contest in the current decade, is that they reflect a form of photojournalism that is now more romantic than functional.

    Via Conscientious

  • Our red cloth na im be our guns

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    Daniel Alabrah of The Sun News On-line says:

    “Will you be willing to tell me your name?” I asked politely, smiling warmly. He responded almost immediately in pidgin English, laced with heavy Ijaw accent.

    “They call me Two-minute Fighter.”
    What a name, I muttered to myself, ready with the next question.
    “Why Two-minute Fighter?” I threw another one, as I tried to settle down.
    “It is because of the way I operate,” he retorted.
    Somehow, this reporter sensed that his initial suspicion had subsided and the following encounter ensued.

  • PDN Photo Annual 2009 Winners Gallery

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    PDN says:

    We proudly present the winners of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual. The images in this gallery were submitted from an international group of exceptional photographers. Even though we’re in the daily business of pictures, the entries we receive for the Photo Annual never cease to amaze us. We at PDN applaud this group of professional photographers—both new and seasoned—on the work they’ve submitted. Despite hardships in this industry, you’re traveling, finding inspiration, producing work that is fresh and exciting, and continuing to contribute at a level that is at the pinnacle of professional photography. After all, if there is any group that can find solutions to challenges, it’s the creative contributors we’ve come to know over the years, and the newcomers we’re eager to support.

  • jenn ackerman – trapped [EPF Finalist]

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    burn magazine says:

    The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go.

  • World Press Award Interviews

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    World Press Photo says:

    Each image awarded by World Press Photo tells its own story. But there is much more to tell. About what it was like to work in a war zone, or what restrictions were placed on a photographer at a major sports event. Or about what happened before and after a winning image was made. In our interviews with prize-winners you can hear the full story first-hand.

  • American Photography 25 Chosen

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    American Photography 25 Chosen Galery
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  • American Photography 25 Selected

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    American Photography 25 Selected Galery
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  • Driftless: Stories from Iowa by Danny Wilcox Frazier

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    MediaStorm says:

    Life in Iowa can be punishing. Many Iowans expend their lives sweating over soil and spilling the blood of livestock; they endure the hardships associated with a life inextricably bound to the ups and downs of nature. Today, those challenges and a shift in our nation’s economy have pushed the youth of rural communities to migrate to the metropolises of America. Those left in the wake of this out-migration continue their lives, seemingly unchanged from the generations that preceded them, and entombed in obscurity.