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    There was a point in my life where I thought about not pursuing a career in photography, but APAD quickly reminded me that choosing a different path wasn’t right for me. I love photography and am passionate about it just like the people on APAD and more importantly the ones that come to Geekfest.

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    Bradley Peters is one of the winners of this year’s Conscientious Portfolio Competition. A recent graduate from Yale, his work marries what might be thought of as the currently dominant Yale aesthetic (which often involves staging photography) with the flash-heavy, completely spontaneous kind of photography that has been very popular in Britain. Ultimately, such a simplifying description really doesn’t do anyone a big favour, but it might serve well to come up with a first, crude description of the work – and knowing what I know now after having done the conversation with Bradley it’s not even that far off!

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    Pieter Hugo is a photographer that consistently offers imagery that is startling, mezmerizing, and other worldly. His new series, Nollywood, is no exception. Hugo takes a look at the third largest film industry in the world, but it’s very different than world of movie-making we are familiar with. Movies are produced and marketed in a week, using low cost equipment, basic scripts, actors cast the day of the shooting, and improvised locations, with no permits necessary.

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  • Shooting Sequences | Chase Jarvis TECH | ChaseJarvis

    Watch as award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis spells out all the steps of a commercial photo shoot from concept and contracts to delivery of final images….

    via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/OniB0L2-U6M&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

    The words came to Ernesto Bazan as he stirred awake one morning in Palermo.

    “You need become a photographer.”

    Guided by that revelation, the 17-year-old boy decided his future.

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    It’s an interesting thing to ponder: what happens to our work and photographic legacy when we pass on? Tracey Baran passed away in 2008, at 32, far too young an age.

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    Canon has revealed the details of its next 1-series digital SLR, the EOS-1D Mark IV. The new model is an evolution of the EOS-1D Mark III and features a 16.06 million image pixel, 1.3x crop sensor, top ISO of 102,400, 1080p video with external stereo mic jack, a revamped 45-point AF system and a wider-gamut, 920,000-dot rear LCD. All of this is inside a body that’s essentially identical in appearance and control layout to the camera it replaces.

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  • 7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity (Published 2009)

    A Times reporter, David Rohde, and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in Pakistan. This is the first installment in a five-part series offering his account.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html

    Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world.

    I had written about the ties between Pakistan’s intelligence services and the Taliban while covering the region for The New York Times. I knew Pakistan turned a blind eye to many of their activities. But I was astonished by what I encountered firsthand: a Taliban mini-state that flourished openly and with impunity.

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    These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

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  • Showcase: Infernal Landscapes

    Lu Guang, a Chinese freelancer, has won this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project, “Pollution in China.”

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/showcase-65/

    Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath.”)

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    Shoot, Photography of the Moment is a compelling look at a wave of photographers who deliberately present seemingly offhand images in a fine art or editorial context, and thus strive to create “perfectly imperfect” images.

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    Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. He moved to London after high school, where he studied Photography at the London College of Printing. In the early Sixties he started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. His series of Italian beach panoramas began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy. Massimo started to observe his fellow countrymen very carefully. He depicted a “sanitized, complacent view of Italian normalities, at the same time revealing “the inner conditions and disturbances of normality: its cosmetic fakery, sexual innuendo, commodified leisure, deluded sense of affluence, and rigid conformism.

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    “These are sick, sick individuals,” Ridell added. “God bless them for saving our industry.”

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    Full-resolution photos taken with the D3S by photographers Bill Frakes, Vincent Munier and Shigeo Gomi have been posted for download

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    My first reaction to Dutch photographer Otto Snoek’s new book, Why Not, was that Rotterdam was off my travel list. Even so, it’s immediately evident that Mr. Snoek is a master of urban street photography, and after further consideration, Rotterdam represents many contemporary urban centers that draw residents from all over the world. Snoek’s style is similar to Martin Parr, but his subject matter is more universal. He synthesizes many things at once—compassion, humor, and an acute ability to observe human behavior.

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    In a recent piece by David Carr in The New York Times, he details a nerve-wracking, agonizing management move, where everyone at a newspaper in New York’s Westchester County was made to reapply for their jobs. Some got rehired. Some didn’t. That is, they were fired in an around-the-bend manner. Obviously, for those let go, that stings. But what caught my eye were the comments from those who survived, who made the cut. Even for those who’d kept their jobs, the mood was grim. Some were disgusted. Bitter. Afraid, in days ahead, to make waves. Not a great way to work. Not a great way to put out a paper. As one staff writer put it, “I don’t feel like a winner even though I still have my job.” As another admitted, “Everyone in our business has to live with this uncertainty going forward.”

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  • Shooting video with the Nikon D3 – Nikon Rumors

    Nikon D3 can already shoot video. Stop motion video that is and the results are worth seeing. I wanted to publish this post before the Nikon D3s is released next week. Here is the explanation from Andrew Kornylak (blog): I’ve been doing this over the last couple years with an off-the-shelf D3 and D2X. It’s […]

    via Nikon Rumors: https://nikonrumors.com/2009/10/10/shooting-video-with-the-nikon-d3.aspx/

    Nikon D3 can already shoot video. Stop motion video that is and the results are worth seeing. I wanted to publish this post before the Nikon D3s is released next week.

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    The photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure. When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent.

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    The new rule, contained in a Sept. 19 directive from the Combined Joint Task Force in Bagram, Afghanistan,  simply states:  “Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S. personnel killed in action.”  Period. 

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    The app is free. Happy shooting!

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