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From Danish Photoshop Debate Leads To Disqualification:
Ethical questions surrounding photojournalists’ use of Photoshop in image processing is not a controversy confined to the American market. Currently the embroilment rages in Denmark, where at least one photojournalist has been disqualified from a contest because it’s been determined that his image manipulation went too far.
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From Picking Battles « Perfesser Kev:
Late last week a story from the U.K. revealed a point where photojournalism balances between public service, free speech, national security and intense journalism competition.
Robert Quick, the U.K.’s most powerful counter-terrorism officer, resigned after being photographed as he stepped from a car at 10 Downing Street, holding secret documents in plain sight.
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From Zack Arias – Atlanta based editorial music photographer » GPP Group Shot = Pressure That Can Make Diamonds:
I wanted to make a picture that was a tribute to some of the photographers in the photo and I wanted to keep with the OneLight theme so I decided I would get everyone in the auditorium and light them individually with one light and then comp them together in post.
via Joe McNally.
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From Memorial Day: Adventures in Multimedia | Momenta:
Developing multimedia skills will be the focus of this intensive 3-day workshop. Students will choose whether they wish to work on audio or video production. Hands-on instruction in recording audio or video will produce a short multimedia piece on a topic relating to the weekend’s events.
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From Sebastiao Salgado: A Conversation | Leica Rumors:
Who is Sebastiao Salgado? I will just say that his Leica M7 camera set is currently selling on ebay for US $130,680.00:
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From Photofocus:
Several freelancers as well as some credentialed photojournalists were jailed for days without charge or trial in the days immediately after September 11. New York Mayor at the time, Rudy Giuliani, seemed to declare war on photographers. He had the police block off more than a square mile surrounding the World Trade Center, calling it a crime scene. The Mayor ordered that anyone with a camera who even stopped or stood still near the area should be arrested and jailed.
Why did he do this? Was the former Mayor trying to get back at a press who was not always kind to him? Giuliani likes to think of himself as a serious photographer. Did he want to save the photo opportunities for himself?
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From SuperTouch:
As a director of some of the most acclaimed highbrow B-movies of all time, Supertouch amigo JOHN WATERS needs no further introduction. Quietly working the night shift as a fine artist for years now, the Baltimore-bound obsessive’s hard work has finally landed him a spot in the most hallowed hall of the modern art world, namely, the GAGOSIAN GALLERY, where the artist’s solo “Rear Projection” show opened to a throng of Hollywood players, weirdos, fanboys and girls, and well-wishing lookie-loos on Saturday nite
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From Ovation TV: Make Life Creative:
Ovation is running the Genius of Photography series again this week as well as some other great shows. The Eloquent Nude that tells the story of Charis Wilson and Ed Weston. Photographers at Work: Portraits has profiles of McCurry, Lacombe, Jay Maisel and others..
Submitted by Jason.
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photo by David BurnettFrom We’re Just Sayin: Frank at the National:
We photographers all wish we could get someone to just pay us to wander and shoot great pictures.
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From The Media Equation – Newspapers Begin to Push Back on the Web – NYTimes.com:
Robert Thomson, the editor of The Wall Street Journal, was equally blunt, though in service of the original argument. “There is no doubt that certain Web sites are best described as parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the Internet,” he told the newspaper The Australian last Monday.
in Journalism
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From Adobe and Nikon | Nikon Rumors:
I am not sure what this statement exactly means, but the bottom line is “Nikon intends to cooperate with Adobe”
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From lens culture: Suburban Slovakia by Andrej Balco:
This is the point of departure in this photo-essay by the Slovak photographer Andrej Balco. Who are these people in these prefab buildings? Is there a prevailing type, perhaps even a prefab person? These unavoidable questions, automatic reflexes, are a natural response to something as stereotypical as the prefab high-rises, providing a starting point from which Balco undertakes his photographic exploration of these stalls for everyday Slovakian life.
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From FT.com / Weekend / Reportage – A photographer aims his lens at a Rio prison:
When photographer Gary Knight turned his lens on Brazil’s penal system, he found brutality, overcrowding and a controversial evangelist pastor with a strange power over inmates.
via Travel Photographer.
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From DARIUS HIMES » CENTER announces winners:
This year, the winner of the Santa Fe Prize is Hiroyo Kaneko
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From Reporter, VA clash over patient interview – CNN.com:
The “cops” demanded that he turn over his tape, Schultz said. The public affairs officer, angered when another veteran offered Schultz his phone number, demanded that Schultz hand over all his equipment or “I’m going to get ugly,” he said.
