This is an unpublished and ongoing story about mixed martial arts culture.
Link: heavyglow: Fight Night
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‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’ — duckrabbit
If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably…
I’m wracking my brains to imagine how he (or someone else) could have got it so wrong, and how no-one else has spotted it? Of course it rains on large parts of Kenya. Kenya has a rainy season but there’s not been enough of it and in some places the rain didn’t come at all. That’s something altogether different from the notion that Kenya hasn’t seen any rain at all for several years.
The photos themselves are powerful but leave me cold.
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Statesman staff photographers Jay Janner, Rodolfo Gonzalez and Ricardo B. Brazziell recall their photo coverage of the Fort Hood shootings and aftermath in this video produced by Jenni Jones.
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Photo Editor Robyn Lange sent me a note the other day alerting me to these camouflage images by Liu Bolin, which she thought I would like. And I did indeed! I also found out that Robyn is a hilarious emailer, and has some excellent perspectives on freelance photo editing. So, I made her do a formal interview for le blog. I hope you like! Here we go.
Link: We Will Now Interview Photo Editor Robyn Lange. | A Photography Blog
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Michael Wolf’s project, “Architecture of Density,” focused on Hong Kong’s exteriors, but when people began to ask him what the insides of the buildings he photographed look like, he decided to bring his camera indoors. Through a friend, he met a social worker who took him around Shek Kip Mei, which was scheduled to be demolished because of its age.
Link: Showcase: A Room of Everyone’s Own – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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This is a blog about photojournalism, so I want to tell my story about how I photographed this historical event. At 2:21 pm I was in downtown Austin covering a funeral when I got a news alert on my cell phone about the shooting in Killeen. Eleven minutes later I got a call from my editor telling me to hit the road and follow staff photographer Rudy Gonzalez who was already on his way there.
Link: Tragedy at Fort Hood – Collective Vision | Photoblog for the Austin American-Statesman
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BigShot Kit Camera, Like Crack for Kids
What do these phrases mean to you? “Circuit board”, “gearbox”, “dynamo and battery”? If your answer is “digital camera” then you are either cheating or you already know about the BigShot, a kit camera designed to let kids learn about digicams by building
It comes in parts, ready to be assembled (by kids, but I can’t wait to get my hands on one), and teaches you along the way how these things work. It’s not quite the transparent view you get from making an old analog camera, where you can see how everything works, but it’s as close as you can get from a machine that uses circuit boards.
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During a recent “Navigating the Downturn” dialogue at the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Communication, four panelists discussed how to approach photography from a business perspective.
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How do the revolutions in the media economy (detailed in the first and second post of this series) affect photojournalism? Given both the crisis in the distribution of information and the new opportunities for the structure of information, what futures are there for photojournalism?
Link: dispatches / Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures
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The picture, by Nicole Bengiveno, ran at the top of The Times’s front page on Wednesday. What made Specialist Hill such a compelling focal point was not just his agonized posture. It was the low angle from which Ms. Bengiveno deliberately photographed him and the softer focus in which Ms. Bengiveno deliberately cast his comrades.
Link: On Assignment: Liability, Meet Asset – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Celebrity photographer Tony Echevarria reportedly got in a fight with Mike Tyson yesterday
Link: PDNPulse: Paparazzi Photographer Gets In Fight With Mike Tyson
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It’s with sad hearts that we lost a great person to tragedy this week. One of my closest friends, former SportsShooter.com member and fellow photographer, Chris Livingston, 36, was struck by a car and killed Monday, Nov. 10th, 2009 while riding his bike and training for a triathlon. He is survived by his wife Catherine, and their 2-year-old son Benjamin.
Link: I lost a Great Friend
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Congratulations to the winners of The 6th Annual Altpick Awards!
We want to acknowledge and thank all of the entrants, voters, judges and sponsors for their participation in this year’s show. This year’s submissions were amazing and it has been reported that the voting was challenging. See the winners and all of the entries for yourself!
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The Canon EOS 7D Review
The Canon EOS 7D – The Camera We Want to Love By Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou Note: To see all future reviews please note this blog is no longer active, please visit us over at oop…
via Darwin Wiggett: http://darwinwiggett.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-canon-7d/
Again to our eye the 7D files look soft and mushy compared to the snap in the other two files. Of course we expected the flagship Mark III to outperform the mid-priced 7D but we did not expect the entry level Rebel to better the 7D especially when the Rebel’s 12MP files were interpolated to 18MP!
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Showcase: See and Be Seen
Yes, it’s a bad time for aspiring photojournalists. But it’s not the worst of times. And David Alan Harvey is among those who are trying to make it better.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/showcase-76/?src=tw
On the other hand, it’s a wonderful time to be a young photographer. Multimedia storytelling allows you to be the author of your own stories. You can publish your work on your own Web site and on sites like Burn, Visura and 100 Eyes, for the world to see.
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With summer internships and graduation looming six months away, assembling a portfolio is the essential piece in applying for internships and jobs. But it’s hard. Photographers constantly wrack their brains looking through bodies of work. Which images should they use? In what order? What does this image convey? What does the portfolio, as a cohesive unit, say about the photographer as an artist and a photojournalist?
