Earlier this month The Aftermath Project announced the winners of their two $20,000 grants for 2010, as well as the finalists. Polish-born, Italy-based photographer Monika Bulaj won for her project “Afghanistan: Not Only The War,”
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Jim Denevan transforms the beaches of Northern California into expansive but ephemeral works of land art. Instead of a paintbrush, Denevan prefers a simple piece of wood or a rake.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Jim Denevan Uses Beach and Desert As Canvas | Current
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No further proof is needed that we’re in the era of the “citizen journalist” than the images coming daily from Tehran. But this gallery reminds us that most of the traumas of the last decade — as well as its triumphs — had public witnesses who were as well-equipped to record the moment as many professionals. The Times asked you to help us document the decade and you responded with some astonishing photographs and essays. Thank you.
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I am quite fortunate in having been able to use almost every Leica lens since 1925, but I actually own a very small fraction of all the lenses ever made.
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’Tis the Season for Camera Tossing
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/12/camera-toss/
Holiday snapshots can often look cheesier than a bedazzled elf sweater. Which is why, this year, we’re advocating camera-toss photography.
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The Nieman Journalism Lab has recently been publishing an intriguing series of articles exploring the relationship between the media, NGOs, and journalists, especially as more and more international and investigative journalism is produced, funded, and distributed initially or in cooperation with NGOs and charities.
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As we all know – there are a LOT of film contests out there – but I believe this one is DIFFERENT.
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The influence is not limited to photographers. At the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s 1971 Walker Evans retrospective, Robert Penn Warren spoke of the first time he had seen Evans’s work: “….Staring at the pictures, I knew that my familiar world was a world I had never known. The veil of familiarity prevented my seeing it. Then, thirty years ago, Walker tore aside that veil; he woke me from the torpor of the accustomed.”
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Walker Evans: Public Photographs (1998)”
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Harry Cock – Omstreken
Copyright Harry Cock 2006, courtesy Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht Omstreken (Environs) is the title for the twenty-five year retrospective of Dutch photojournalist Harry Cock. The Dutch word is…
via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/harry-cock-omstreken/
Omstreken (Environs) is the title for the twenty-five year retrospective of Dutch photojournalist Harry Cock. The Dutch word is used to indicate the area and localities that are surrounding you, a fitting description of the territory for Cock’s focus. Similar to Gunmar Smoliansky who photographed his local Swedish surroundings for the majority of his photographic career, Cock has been primarily interested in the everyday of his local Northern Netherlands region.
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LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2009/12/beauty-of-photobooks.html
For the second installment of Lens Culture’s new video interview series, “Conversations with Photographers”, I spoke at length with British photographer Simon Roberts about his work, and in particular about his two remarkable photobooks, Motherland and We English.
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I had the chance to shoot with the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV this past Sunday. Considering all of the focusing problems with their previous top-of-the-line professional camera, I decided to give it a proper test-drive at the Detroit Lions vs. San Francisco 49ers NFL game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
Link: Finally, Canon gets it right with Mark IV – Mangin Photography Archive
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“The Internet may kill newspapers; And that might not matter”
Can a world without newspapers survive? Sure, says The Economist. What matters is the availability and quality of the news, not the medium that delivers it.
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Photo By Matt MendelsohnCLICK NOTE: Of anything I’ve posted all week, these are fascinating looks into the experiences behind photographs by great photographers. You’ll all fixate on different photographers, but each of these is worth taking a minute of your day for. And they’re not all sports, by the way.
As this decade ends, I wanted to commemorate its passing by collecting images from these special people that have helped me over the years. I asked them to select an image of theirs that is historic, unique, revealing or memorable.
Most of all, I wanted the image to be something personal … an image special to them.
Link: Sports Shooter Newsletter Decade Collection
Here are direct links to each photographer’s story: Robert Hanashiro, Robert Beck, Matt Brown, Dave Burnett, Darren Carroll, Bob Deutsch, Dave Honl, Chuck Liddy, Brad Mangin, Rod Mar, Matt Mendelsohn, Don Miralle, Peter Read Miller, Paul Morse, Trent Nelson, Anne Ryan, Robert Seale, Wally Skalij, Pete Souza, Jack Gruber and Vince Laforet
Anne Ryan, Bob Deutsch, Brad Mangin, Chuck Liddy, Darren Carroll, Dave Burnett, Dave Honl, Don Miralle, Jack Gruber, matt brown, Matt Mendelsohn, Paul Morse, Peter Read Miller, Robert Beck, Robert Hanashiro, Robert Seale, Rod Mar, Trent Nelson, Vincent Laforet, Wally Skalij
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The strangest thing about narrowing down a year’s worth of pictures is the act of dissociating the image from the edit that it came from.
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As I look back at the past year of my photographic life, I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. In this short time here on Earth, I’ve been given the rare opportunity to build a life around my passion.
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These are some of my favorite photos from this year. Not necessarily because they are the best photos but because of what they remind me of. Photos are my memories.
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This year is an exception to that rule. This year was a growth year. I found new things, I saw my normal things differently and even started to see things as they move through the world.
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by Matt EichIt is so hard to boil a year down to a handful of photographs
