• Showcase: Lifting the Veil, Part Way

    Under their face veils, Catalina Martin-Chico has found four Yemeni sisters who indulge in hip-hop, blue jeans and lipstick, as Kerri MacDonald reports.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/showcase-118/

    Hip-hop. Blue jeans. Lipstick. Dreams of moving away.

    The photojournalist Catalina Martin-Chico came face to face with all these things during her visits with four sisters in Sana, the capital of Yemen. Many scenes that Ms. Martin-Chico captured were not just personal but private; too private even to include in a photo essay titled “Beyond the Veil.”

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    My arrival in Haiti was shocking…the amount of people in the streets, people wandering around wounded from the earthquake (broken limbs, open head wounds etc.)…people were now living on the streets for fear of another earthquake or due to the loss of their homes.

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    She is an artist, freelance photographer and a Lecturer in the Art & Art History Department at Cornell College.

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    My colleagues and I developed ColoRotate because, while color is
    inherently three-dimensional, all color pickers were flat. From the
    feedback we received during beta testing, it seems that those who
    engage in computer color selection and design also felt that vacuum.
    They found some features of ColoRotate especially appealing, such as
    gaining more control over foreground and background colors through
    fine-tuning with sliders, and easily creating meaningful palettes.

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    In Spring 2008, photojournalists Stephen M. Katz and Christopher Tyree visited St. Vincent’s Home for Handicapped Children in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, as part of a documentary project for the Virginia-based nonprofit Physicians for Peace. Seeing so many children in need – so many the outside world was not even aware of – frustrated and inspired the photographers. In that moment, Wéyo, which is Haitian Kréyol for “see them,” was born. Wéyo is the administer of the Truth With A Camera Workshops.

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    Today we have an interview with Erin Nicole Johnson, a photographer I find really thoughtful and funny and interesting. I think you will too. read read read. look look look.

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    The Leica M9 is, as many have suggested, simply an M7 that has a full-frame digital sensor. This is actually a key aspect of both the M9’s successes and failings. The M7-design part is the core of the success: a long-proven design sits at the heart of the M9. But the digital aspect is at the center of the failings, in my opinion.

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    Miller is a pretty low-tech guy when it comes to using a new camera like the Mark IV, but he has tried many different settings with his new cameras to come up with a system that works well for him.

    “A number of people have asked me what custom functions I am using. The settings presented here (see below) have worked very well for me shooting football. Of course everyone’s shooting style is different, but at least you can give these a try as a starting point,” said Miller.

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  • Leica M9 – Field Test and Hands-on Review – DigitalRev.com

    World’s first video of a field test of the Leica M9(http://bit.ly/Leic-M9), the first full frame rangefinder with a groundbreaking Kodak sensor and improveme…

    via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/YMok4yGluhE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0

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    Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker Ryan Enn Hughes used still images and strobes to create a unique new short film appearing online and throughout Vancouver during the Olympic Winter Games, which open this weekend.

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  • An Ogling Subversive With a Homemade Camera (Published 2010)

    Miroslav Tichy, a Czech who took pictures during the 1960s and ’70s in his hometown, Kyjov, now has a solo show at the International Center of Photography.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/arts/design/12photos.html

    The photographs are blurry, skewed, badly printed and in terrible condition: dog-eared, scratched, spotted and encrusted with who knows what. They all show girls and young women, in streets and public parks, going about their business and mostly unaware of the camera.

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  • On Assignment: Up for the Downhill

    To photograph subjects who’ll be moving past him in a flash, Doug Mills spends weeks of preparation.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/assignment-32/

    The regimen begins long before he arrives at a Winter Olympics site. Doug Mills, just shy of 50, calls himself a “survivor skier,” who must train for a few weeks to ensure he can ski safely to photographic vantages along the slopes. (You thought photographers got there by bus?)

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    “If I wasn’t a comic or television star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist,” Carey told Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch in 2005 as the photographer and his cameras followed the United States Men’s National Soccer Team.

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    A few days ago I ventured out of the city with a photographer friend of mine named Quinn Mattingly.  Our intention was to drive north to Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border for the day.  But once we hit the town of Cu Chi, I became tired of driving on the highway with the hoards of traffic leaving the city and decided to venture down an unknown road.

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  • On Assignment: Minders, Fixers, Troubles

    Yemen is a fascinating and daunting place for a Western photographer, as Michael Kamber learned. There are plenty of subjects; just not the ones you want.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/assignment-25/

    It’s New Year’s Eve in Dakar when the call comes from the editor in New York. A Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up an airliner headed to Detroit six days earlier. I’m told he’d studied in Yemen. Steven Erlanger, chief of The Times’s Paris bureau, is already there filing stories. I’m to join him immediately. I fly to Paris, pick up money and gear at the bureau, then rush back to the airport to catch a flight to Dubai. Thirty-six hours after leaving Senegal, I’m in Yemen.

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