Category: Editor’s Choice

  • On Assignment: Taking Time Out to Heal

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    Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:

    On Friday, from the American Hospital in Istanbul, Lynsey Addario sent the following message to Michele McNally, an assistant managing editor.

    Hi just got to turkey and am in american hosp here. What a gigantic difference from pakistan! Its like I’ve spent the last five days in a cave! They have me strapped up in this figure 8 sling, trying to pull my bones apart. Doctors now are discussing surgery. Collar bones banging into each other and it is sooooooooo painful.

    The Times is gathering a fund to give to the six children of the driver, Raza Khan, for whom he was the sole provider.

  • Lens Blog

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    Lens Blog – NYTimes.com says:

    Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century.

  • CHICAGO'S LESSER KNOWN ARTS HISTORY LESSON or OG ART GALLERY

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    WE ARE SUPERVISION says:

    Every city has its own gang history, part of Chicago’s are Gang cards, most prominent in the 70’s and early 80’s, back in the day when a gang was more of a neighborhood crew then what it is today.  Fists, bats, and bottles days, before guns became the norm in the gang.  Most of the gangs were just about the neighborhood and hanging out together.  Stock art from the printer as well as some hand drawn illustrations were the back bone of many of the cards.  Some cards are pretty humorous, with some off the wall illustrations, logos, sayings, and rhymes.  They don’t make them like they used to…

    via BoingBoing.

  • Muscle March for Wii

    Via plus1mag

  • Fake DHS "photography license" for fake no-photos laws

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    Matthew Williams says:

    In the event you’re stopped by overzealous law enforcement or security officials attempting to enforce fictitious laws, I’ve designed these fictitious and official-looking Photographer’s Licenses.

    Via BoingBoing

  • State of the Art: A Few Wise Words About Photojournalism

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    Eliane Laffont says:

    “Photojournalism” is a word that evokes heroic stories and the call of adventure. It is a mirror of the world and a witness to its time. When Jean Pierre  and I—along with our French partners — created the photo agencies Gamma in 1968 and Sygma in 1973, we wanted to redefine the nature of photojournalism and reveal and explain the world’s great events. We consciously built a new platform. And it was not by chance that these two photo agencies grew so quickly. We were successful because we invented a new way of reporting the news and a new way of working with photographers that, despite many challenges, is still alive today.

  • Worth a Look: “Our World At War” by the photographers of VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross

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    dvafoto says:

    VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross have just unveiled their globe-spanning project documenting current humanitarian crises, “Our World At War.” The work includes: Lebanon by Franco Pagetti, Afghanistan by James Nachtwey, Haiti by Ron Haviv, Caucasus by Antonin Kratochvil, Liberia by Christopher Morris, Colombia by Franco Pagetti, Philippines by James Nachtwey, and Congo by Ron Haviv.

  • Photo Essay: Breathing Dust – Gaza Strip

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    VII says:

    Trauma, frustration and violence has become part of the identity of the people who live trapped in this man-made vacuum.

    Via dvafoto

  • Will Steacy – BOMBLog

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    BOMBLog says:

    Will Steacy is like the lovechild of Charles Bukowski and Dorothea Lange. I first saw his work when he won the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award. His writing drew me closer. The son of a Philadelphia reporter, he is the author of the first blog I was ever compelled to read in its entirety

    Via APhotoEditor

  • rodrigo cruz – the promised land

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    burn magazine says:

    Every year, thousands of Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras illegally enter Mexico via the southern border with the goal of reaching the United States in search of a better life. The journey is long and full of dangers, traveling for days as they cross the country atop the “beast”, as they call the train that takes them to Mexico’s northern border.

  • Matt Black: A Commitment to Truth

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:

    I think that the collective understanding of this country is very superficial, and big parts of it are just left out, deemed unimportant. It’s not just about being unfair; it’s something that makes for the kind of places where things are allowed to fester. It’s a whole other world, an alternate America. To the extent that my photographs can play a part in addressing some of that, I’m more than proud.

  • PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:

    DEAN BRIERLY INTERVIEWS THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE SHAPING THE PARAMETERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY — FROM OLD SCHOOL TO NEW GENERATION, TRADITIONAL TO CUTTING EDGE.

    Via lenscratch.

  • Robert Seale Photography Blog

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    Robert Seale Photography Blog says:

    Portrait specialist Robert Seale offers behind the scenes stories, photographs, and lighting tips and tricks. Robert photographs people for advertising, annual reports, and magazines.

    Via August Miller.

  • With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like

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    David Pogue says:

    But imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?

    Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It’s a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.

  • Dima Gavrysh – uganda’s forgotten war

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    burn magazine says:

    For over two decades a sectarian rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan people and government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children. Based in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LRA has continued to terrorize northern Uganda since the late 1980’s, forcing millions of people to abandon their homes for dire conditions of internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.

  • Making better panhandling signs for a homeless man – Boing Boing

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    Check it out here

  • Bathtub IV « Keith Loutit


    Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

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    Passionate Photographer

  • Everything old is new again…..Photography 180.


    From The Visual Science Lab:

    I asked my favorite graphic designer for some insight and I was startled by what I heard.  She said, “It’s faster and easier to get my ideas down on paper.  It’s also less sterile.  When I try to concept on the computer it seems to me that the machine gets in the way.  The presets push you to conform.  The screen makes you filter in assumptions about how things will ultimately look on paper.  Designing on paper just feels right”.

    All this “regression” in the arts mirrors what I hear from more and more photographers.  We were so enthusiastic about the promise of “no cost” digital that we swallowed the program “hook, line and sinker.”  In retrospect we’ve done one of the stupidest business moves imaginable.  We moved from a mature, repeatable and robust system of making images that yielded exquisite quality (and which most practitioners had already paid for the infrastructure and amortized ) into a system that gives us only one advantage:  We can do all this stuff quicker than ever before!

    Check it out here

  • Human landscapes from above

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    From The Big Picture:

    Photographer Jason Hawkes returns to The Big Picture once more, this time venturing away from London (seen previously here and here). Recently, Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans – below.

    Check it out here

  • Backstage at Galliano

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    From PDN Photo of the Day:

    Today we present seven psychedelic fashion photos from photographer Mark Leibowitz’s current “Backstage at Galliano” exhibit, which opened as a private event April 25 in downtown Manhattan. The show includes 17 limited-edition prints created backstage at John Galliano’s fall-winter ’08 and spring-summer ’09 ready-to-wear shows in Paris.

    Check it out here.