Link: PDNPulse: Dan Wetuk Memorial To Be Held at Sun Studios Jan. 8
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I have a feeling we will be hearing a lot more about Alex Kisilevich in the future. His website reveals a number of smart and interesting projects, and I’m quite sure that’s the tip of the soon-to-be iceberg.
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The Kalish now accepting applications for 2010 – deadline May 15
Can you work hard and have fun at the same time? Are you looking for a workshop you can afford? Would you like to work elbow to-elbow with some of the best
via MediaStorm Blog: http://mediastorm.org/blog/?p=1563
The 2010 Kalish is open for business and accepting applications for the 21st edition of this venerable visual editing workshop. It’s an opportunity to learn cross-platform/multimedia skills from a faculty of Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning visual editors.
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Hearst Corporation’s history of working with photography’s pioneers and rule breakers continues with the 2nd Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial – an international competition saluting the next generation of talent, which will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the web, design and photography.
Link: Hearst 8×10
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Britain’s police “descending into obvious madness.”
On Christmas Day, police in the U.K. rounded up tourists taking photos of the royal family at Sandringham church and confiscated their cameras. At The Independent, Dominic Lawson’s dismay sub…
On Christmas Day, police in the U.K. rounded up tourists taking photos of the royal family at Sandringham church and confiscated their cameras. At The Independent, Dominic Lawson’s dismay subsides to confusion: Britain’s police are “descending into obvious madness,”
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a new option called Endless Memory that enables the card to automatically delete the oldest photos and video from the card once it has confirmed they’ve been successfully transferred to their destination.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: 8GB Eye-Fi Pro X2 wireless memory card introduced
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Photograph Elaine Huguenin was challenging a 2008 ruling by New Mexico’s Human Rights Commission(NMHRC).
Link: Photographer Loses Bid to Refuse Same-Sex Wedding Jobs
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This has been a momentous year for media. In my previous four posts on the revolutions in the media economy, I have used the present uncertainty to take a fresh look at the past many now view nostalgically. This critical view demonstrated that newspapers have always been commercial enterprises rather than altruistic associations, they were in decline many years before the Internet restructured the conditions of publishing, and that the practice of investigative journalism is something we need to create as much as we need to protect. In this context, photographers who believe that their practice is defined by an editorial paymaster committed to documentary work are going to have a very hard time.
Link: dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers
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In a way, this completes a full circle for McSweeney’s founder and editor Dave Eggers, who, in his 2000 book A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, recalled doing freelance design for the San Francisco Chronicle to pay rent. While journalism struggles to redefine itself on the Internet, Eggers maintains that “print is a more calm, and maybe even civilized, delivery vehicle,” and wants the Panorama to demonstrate things print can do that web content can’t. The day after the Panorama’s release, The A.V. Club called up Eggers to find out what his favorite things are about newspapers.
Link: Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers | Books | Interview |
The A.V. Club
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POV: Gulf Photo Plus (Dubai)
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/01/pov-gulf-photo-plus-dubai.html
Here are questions the organizers may want to think of. Why aren’t the talented and courageous Palestinian photographers, who risk their lives to document the daily horrors of Gaza, also invited? Why doesn’t GPP also invite some of the immensely talented Bangladeshi documentary photographers who document the impact of poverty and floods on their homeland? Why don’t you invite the Kashmiri photographers…why don’t you also invite the emerging Afghan photographers…the incredibly prolific Indian photographers? The Malaysians…the Iranians?
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‘We’ll miss our Michelle’
We are still speaking of her as if she is alive, for it is so difficult to accept that our beloved colleague is gone. Michelle Lang, young, smart, engaged to be married, “a helluva journalist,” as our editor- in-chief said Wednesday amid the t
via www.calgaryherald.com: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Somnia/2397999/story.html
We are still speaking of her as if she is alive, for it is so difficult to accept that our beloved colleague is gone. Michelle Lang, young, smart, engaged to be married, “a helluva journalist,” as our editor- in-chief said Wednesday amid the tears that flowed in the newsroom, killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
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A Visual Interview with Peter Turnley
Peter Turnley is by any measure one of the most accomplished photographers of his generation. My interest in his work—and hence what you’ve read about him here on TOP—has centered around his personal work, in books such as Parisians and…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/01/a-visual-interview-with-peter-turnley.html#more
Recently, I got wind of the fact that Peter Turnley is now teaching photo workshops in various locations around the world—workshops that people like you and I can attend—and that reports from participants had been, in a word, glowing. So I approached Peter (through my friend Steve Rosenblum, who has collected some of Peter’s work) and asked him about an interview.
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“As the temperature in London plummets, my thoughts turn to the homeless who have to endure below freezing conditions out on the streets,” reports Helen Soteriou. “I knew Blek Le Rat is an artist passionate about highlighting this issue, so I contacted him to ask a few questions.”
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Exclusive Interview: Blek le Rat on Homelessness | Features
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“2010 the mistery will be revealed”: new Leica cinema lenses! – Leica Rumors
Update #2: the domain name cw-sonderoptic.de is registered to Rainer Schnabel (perform a whois check for cw-sonderoptic.de) and of course he works for Leica: see this Google search. Update: a picture of some of those Leica cine lenses could be seen here (
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Ilan Godfrey’s projects about life in South Africa took my interest recently, partly due to how close to home they were for me.
His ‘Living With Crime‘ project looked at victims of crime in South Africa, who have suffered a horrendous ordeal or lost a loved one due to violent crime.
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Showcase: Disposed Of
During Japan’s boom, these men built towers and highways. Shiho Fukada has found them waiting in meal lines and collecting cans, as Miki Meek reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/showcase-101/
Japan’s economic boom once kept the men in the Kamagasaki district of Osaka busy working on buildings and highways. Now they pass the time waiting in free-meal lines and collecting cans.
“It’s become a dumping ground of old men, where alcoholism, poverty, suicide and loneliness prevail,” said Shiho Fukada, a freelance photojournalist.
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Iran sentences reporter Zeidabadi
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010301960.html?wprss=rss_world
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CES 2010: Samsung Joins Rangefinder Fray With Large-Sensor NX10
Samsung has jumped the CES 2010 gate and announced a new, rangefinder-style camera a couple days before the gadget-fest begins. The NX10 joins the Olympus Pen and the Panasonic GF-1 in a growing segment, made up of cameras with large, DSLR-sized sensors i
Samsung has jumped the CES 2010 gate and announced a new, rangefinder-style camera a couple days before the gadget-fest begins. The NX10 joins the Olympus Pen and the Panasonic GF-1 in a growing segment, made up of cameras with large, DSLR-sized sensors in mirror-less, compact bodies.
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Pocket Wizard Fixes Reliability Issues With Tin-Foil Hats
Pocket Wizard makes radio-frequency remote controls for camera flashes. These off-camera strobe triggers are the choice of professionals as they have a reputation of being bulletproof, firing the speedlight every single time, over and over and over. That
Better news for those who paid around $420 per receiver/transmitter pair, Pocket Wizard will, in “mid to late November” (yes, in ten months) take another $30 of your cash for the plastic, umbrella-mountable AC7 RF Shield. And remember, you’ll need one for every flash you buy. Way to go, PW.
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