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If the photojournalism community can be said to be a network of extraordinary witnesses, it is interesting to see one of those individuals rise to prominence within the community itself. Such is Getty photographer John Moore, who in his second decade of international work has emerged as one of the finest photojournalists of his generation.
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Among serious contenders for the title of Worst Movie of All Time, the winner in the Sci-Fi Musical genre is without any doubt Menahem Golan’s masterpiece The Apple.
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If you’re anywhere near Florida August 1-3, St. Petersburg is the place to be. For the nominal fee of $100, you can hang out with the APhotoADay community, which is having it’s annual gathering. The weekend is jam packed with some incredible speakers. So, if you’re looking for some inspiration and motivation — don’t miss it
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If clothes make the man, do tight clothes make the man a homosexual? A Brooklyn-based rap group thinks the current trend in hip-hop—medium tees and sagging jeans cinched tightly below the hips—is causing some confusion. And they are not alone.
Members of the rap group Thug Slaughter Force—three brothers and two friends calling themselves Drama, Filthy, Tempa, Rebel, and Blanco the Don—walk the streets of Brooklyn in XL T-shirts with the words “Tight Clothes” slashed through with a red stripe: their message of protest against what they see as the move away from traditional baggy clothing and toward tighter-fitting outfits in today’s hip-hop. The “No Tight Clothes” campaign is their latest idea in a decade of trying to make it in the rap game.
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This evening at the Tampa Tribune, editor in chief Janet Coats sat in a rolling chair in the center of the newsroom while everyone gathered around for the latest news on layoffs.
She went over the list of who was layed off and why. Then she reexplained that 10 more layoffs were to come in the following weeks and how the newsroom would start reorganizing around its new business model.
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After a recent period being embedded with the United States Marines in southern Afghanistan, I stopped in Kabul to wander the streets and take photos of a city forever in transition. The Western presence was something not tolerated during Taliban rule, so there have been some changes.
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four Oregonian staff photographers reflect on their coverage of the men’s 100 meter finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
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He said: “My problem in life is women. A he goat is better than me. I don’t know whether it is a curse on me, when I see a beautiful woman, it would look as if I will die if I don’t sleep with her. I must say that is what pushed me into robbery.”
Grace said he could spend N100,000 on a lady. He said: “I take my women to expensive places. Girls love money. If I go to bank to withdraw some money and I see a beautiful lady on the way, I swear I must pick that lady. I can spend N100,000 on her.”
He revealed that his greatest undoing in life was women.
“Women have spoilt my life and destiny. If I will have the opportunity of coming to this world again, I will be a Reverend Father so that I won’t have the dream of frolicking with women.”
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What would evil minds not do to realize money? For a long time now, four women have been running a syndicate that specializes in renting babies for public display, with whom they solicit alms from the sympathetic public.
But today the game is up for the quartet, as the long arm of the law has finally caught up with them.
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Mugabe, the only leader this country has known since its break from white rule nearly three decades ago, agreed to remain in the race and rely on the army to ensure his victory. During an April 8 military planning meeting, according to written notes and the accounts of participants, the plan was given a code name: CIBD. The acronym, which proved apt in the fevered campaign that unfolded over the following weeks, stood for: Coercion. Intimidation. Beating. Displacement.
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A video shot by a commando posing as a journalist recorded the rescue of 15 hostages in a daring operation that was celebrated Friday from Colombia to as far away as Paris, where French leaders welcomed the best known of the hostages, Ingrid Betancourt.
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Photo by Zoriah
After the post was online, I was told that the Marine Corps would not allow even the pants or shoes of a injured or killed Marine to be depicted in images. This was a rule I had never been told or even heard of. I refused to remove the blog post. It seemed insane to me that the Marines would embed a war photographer and then be upset when photographs were taken of war.
A few minutes later my embed was terminated and a convoy was arranged, despite a fierce sand storm, to bring me to Camp Fallujah where I would wait for the first flight out of the Marines area of operation and into the Green Zone.
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The hostages, who had been divided in three groups, were taken to a rendezvous where two disguised MI-17 helicopters piloted by Colombian military agents were waiting. Betancourt said her hands and feet were bound, which she called “humiliating.”
At first she thought the pilots were from a relief organization. Then she saw their Che Guevara shirts and assumed they were rebels.
Only when they were airborne did she notice that Cesar, who had treated her so cruelly for so many years, was naked and blindfolded on the floor.
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You’re 20 years old. You’ve just won the College Photographer of the Year award, and then your girlfriend becomes pregnant. Is this the beginning or the end? Matt Eich picked up his camera and precociously declared, “Nothing good comes without some sort of struggle.”
Not only is Matt an Eddie Adams Workshop alumnus, but he won the top prize in 2006 — a $10,000 grant from Nikon, the primary sponsor of the workshop to follow his own vision and shoot what he wanted. If Matt is representative of the new guard of photojournalists, we’re in good shape.
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When experienced from many different perspectives, is the instant when a photograph is taken still just a single moment?
Barbara Probst’s diptych and triptych photos, taken at the same time from different cameras and points of view, offer multiple versions of a split second.
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I had brought a Nikon D300 on the trip with me, and when he saw it he asked if I knew the story of Nikon’s recent DSLR resurgence. Apparently, (at least according to my friend) in about 2005 Nikon’s board had a break with the company’s senior management. After some 50 years as a dominant player in the Pro camera market Nikon was losing not only marketshare but also “face”, because of Canon’s dominant position in almost every market segment, but particularly with regard to Pro cameras and Nikons lack of a full-frame competitor to Canon 1Ds series. In short – Canon had been cleaning Nikon’s clock, and the board was pissed.
It seems (or so the story went) that the board removed some of Nikon’s more conservative senior management and replaced them with more aggressive “Young Turks”, along with a mandate to rebuilt Nikon’s reputation and market position.
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Photo by Robert Hanashiro / Sports Shooter
The Los Angeles Times’ Wally Skalij covered the recent Boston Celtics – LA Lakers NBA Finals. Sports Shooter sat down with him to discuss the trials and tribulations of covering this highly anticipated match up, Skalij had covered the Lakers four previous appears in the Finals.
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