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    The entry period is now open for the National Press Photographers Association’s 2010 Best Of Photojournalism contest, and the rules and categories and FTP instructions have now been posted online and the Call For Entries has gone out to the world of visual journalism.

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    Chris Zedano, originally from Lima, Peru, has been living and working in New York since 2002. For this project, Staple Street, he has photographed some of New York’s most interesting characters on a street in Tribeca (Staple Street) that dates back to at least the early 19th century.

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  • On Assignment: Yemen, With Nuance

    Karim Ben Khelifa is among the many journalists who are arriving in Yemen, now that it’s at the top of the news. The difference is that he once lived there.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/assignment-18/

    Journalists are now descending on Yemen. Among them is Karim Ben Khelifa, who arrived Friday packing more than equipment. He came with a nuanced perspective.

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  • It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 2)

    The conclusion of a closer look at a child’s toy among bombed-out ruins, and at what it’s like photographing a war.

    via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-2/

    BEN CURTIS: So there should be 19 pictures, numbered 101 to 119. Basically, I spent the whole day out and then came back and sent pictures. The numbers represent the order of when I filed the photos, not necessarily when they were taken. If you look at the pictures of the very small baby, that was what I did first in the day. That’s unrelated to the bombing incident with the Mickey Mouse.

    ERROL MORRIS: Where are those taken?

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    As for shooting overexposed pictures on purpose, I personally credit every starting photographer who has ever picked up their Dad’s Nikon F2 and later wondered why after all that time in the dark room resulted in his or her photo paper still being all white; maybe except for, let’s say the dog that was sitting under a shady tree, in the picture.

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    Due to my general laziness after the holidays I see that Andrew Phelps, the fine photographer and blogger of the booksite Buffet, has beaten me to the punch by mentioning Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen’s newest publication Sanatorium.

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    Aniston’s activism was instrumental in the success of Assembly Bill 524, which takes effect from Friday, according to Democrat and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, who has revealed the actress’ horror stories prompted her to fast track the legislation.

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    Tomorrow I will be featuring your personal favorite images of 2009, but today, I share some of my own favorites

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    I have two predictions on what 2010 will bring that I wanted to share with you as we are about to close the book on 2009

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    I’ve been working recently in rural Mississippi, exploring the symbolic connection between those left behind after the Great Migrations and Mississippi being left behind as a state.

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    Hubert Blanz’s photography is digitally assembled. What makes it interesting for me is that you can see that things are not the way they should be, but the different elements of the images are still believable enough.

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  • On Assignment: Prayers in the Dark

    Damon Winter of The New York Times arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. James Estrin spoke with him at midnight Thursday.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/assignment-19/

    Damon Winter of The New York Times arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. He has been traveling through the city in a car shared with Ron Haviv of the VII photo agency and Timothy Fadek, both veteran conflict photographers. James Estrin spoke with Mr. Winter by cellphone at midnight Thursday.

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  • Media Struggle to Convey a Disaster (Published 2010)

    Reporters and news anchors rushed to earthquake-stricken Haiti, and professional reporting was supplemented with Twitter and cellphones.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/world/americas/15media.html

    In some cases, reporters and anchors were arriving well ahead of international relief organizations. In other cases, they were hitching rides with them.

    “Wherever you are,” Anderson Cooper of CNN said Wednesday night, “hug a loved one close and thank God you are not in Port-au-Prince tonight.”

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    It’s my guess that this is the new normal in air travel. Greater scrutiny, longer and slower lines, more hand inspections, and overall just a greater pain in the ass. No one would argue that we don’t need the security, and I’m sure that some very bright people within the TSA and the airlines are working hard to try and minimize hassles for travelers whenever possible. But the plain truth (or plane truth, if you will) is that flying simply isn’t a very enjoyable process any more, and it’s my intention to do as little of it in future as I can. Cars, boats and trains are slower, but hey – I can and should learn to slow-down a bit more.

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    British Photographer Simon Roberts chooses to embark on long-term, in-depth visual studies of people and the places they live. He describes his work as socio-documentary photography, which when viewed as a whole, can be seen as a rich, subjective source of visual anthropology of contemporary life.

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    “I’ve never taken an assignment,” Stock said when he addressed a gathering of photojournalism students at the University of Texas in Austin’s School of Journalism in 2009. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself, and when you’re shooting what you’re interested in shooting, you’re always going to be happy,” Stock told Magnum photographer Eli Reed’s students.

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    Daro Slakauri was born in Georgia in 1985. Her work has won many awards including 2nd Place in the Young Photographer in the Caucasus Award (Magnum Photos). Of this series, Terror Incognita, she writes, ‘Since December 1994, when war broke out between the Russian-backed central government in Grozny and a determined group of Chechen resistance fighters, Pankisi has witnessed an influx of refugees from Chechnya.

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    Photographer Jack Holton of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, was convicted Friday

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