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    Damon Winter and Shaul Schwarz are veteran photojournalists, and have seen more death and misery in foreign lands than most professional soldiers and aid workers would see in 10 lifetimes. But they were both unprepared for the catastrophe they found in Haiti in early January.

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    Here is a sampling of images that strike me as the best from the aftermath in Haiti. In them you can see the way events have evolved from a stunned people in the initial confusion and makeshift rescue efforts with few tools or supplies, to the spontaneous self-organization of survivors and caregivers, the relatively hasty collection and burial of the dead, and finally to the arrival of international response teams offering sophisticated relief.

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    Have we become so squeamish as to not accept the tragedy depicted in the many sad images emerging from Haiti? We send our young men to war, but we run from the reality of war when we see these men in action, wounded and sometimes dead. The horror of war is inescapable. It does not go away if we ignore it. Similarly, we cannot escape the images from natural disasters. If we turn away from the pictures an earthquake or tsunami brings, does it mean they did not occur? It does not.

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    First and foremost on the board’s list of priorities was NPPA’s advocacy effort. The board saw advocacy as the most effective way to help the greatest number of photographers. Therefore the board approved a large increase in NPPA’s advocacy budget. The committee, along with the NPPA’s general counsel, Mickey H. Osterreicher, will spend 2010 using increased resources to address First Amendment and intellectual property issues on both the federal and local levels.

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    As the Indianapolis Colts get ready to take on the New Orleans Saints this Sunday in Super Bowl XLIV, Photographer Rob Tringali is preparing to attend what will be his 20th Super Bowl, an event that, after all these years, still gets him excited.

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  • Essay: Too Many Angles on Suffering?

    At one point there were almost certainly too many photographers in Haiti. But which point? Patrick Witty and several leading photographers wrestle with the issue.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/essay-13/

    At one point there were almost certainly too many photographers in Haiti. But which point?

    This question is scarcely new. It attends every war, every conflict; each famine, disaster and political upheaval.

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    ‘In any case, the subject was very fresh to me, exciting but also daunting because of the massive scale and steep learning curve (of which I’m still somewhere down near the foot). There has already been some good photo reportage on the trade, so when my editor Kathy Moran and I mapped out our coverage, we did our best to add new angles, looking at the loopholes of wholesale animal harvesting, captive breeding, and the exotic pet trade.

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  • Lee Friedlander: “Just Look At It” (2005)

    By Rod Slemmons

    Lee Friedlander was born in the logging mill town of Aberdeen, Washington in 1934. He began photographing in 1948 because of a “fascination with the equipment,” in his words. His first paid job was a Christmas card photograph of a dog for a local madam named Peggy Plus. He later a

    via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2010/02/theory-lee-friedlander-just-look-at-it.html

    It has become increasingly difficult to see photographs as the visible world has been almost completely plastered over with lenticular representations of itself. Strangely, as the photograph becomes the world, it disappears — or perhaps more accurately, it loses its informative opacity

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    Also unveiled today by Think Tank Photo is a series of three soft-sided shoulder bags and two lens changers. Called Retrospective and available in both black canvas and a patterned canvas called Pinestone, the new series is meant to evoke the classic look of earlier pro camera bags.

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    When fine art photographer Don Kirby realized that photographing the American prairie would force him to change his darkroom techniques, he embraced the challenge and produced his most technically difficult work to date.

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    The National Press Photographers Foundation, Inc. has awarded multimedia editor Rick Valenzuela of The Phnom Penh Post the 2010 Gordon Yoder Award of $1,000 to assist with the expense of tuition and attending the National Press Photographers Association’s 2010 NewsVideo Workshop in Norman, OK, in March.

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    In recognition of our mutual interest in documentary and fine art photography, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University have started an international competition, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established.

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    San Francisco photographer Ken Light won a small claims judgment of $588

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    PicScout has pioneered a digital fingerprinting technology called PicScout ImageIRC™ (index, registry and connection platform).  Image buyers and creative pros who use PicScout’s ImageExchange™ browser add-on see an (i) icon on every fingerprinted image, anywhere it resides online. Anytime a potential buyer is perusing blogs and social networks, news sites, and even search engine results and encounters an image fingerprinted by PicScout, they see the (i), can click for more information, and click to your website to immediately license or purchase the image. Starting today, 8 million images that are priced for online sales by PhotoShelter photographers will begin the fingerprinting process through PicScout. PicScout makes image buyers happy because the search for new photography that’s ready to license is easier than ever. ImageExchange gives them a path to buy it directly from the content creator on PhotoShelter.  PicScout makes photographers (and other visual artists) really happy too, because they now have a new way to attract new buyers, regardless of where their content may reside online.

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  • Essay: A Home 8,000 Miles Away

    The photographer Alan Chin lives in New York but Toishan, in southern China, is his ancestral home — and a frequent subject of his work.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/essay-14/

    The more time I spend there, the more it begins to feel like some kind of home, illusory as that might seem. Despite the persistent poverty and the vast chasm between Gongmei and my life in New York, I can foresee a time when Toishan might become like Tuscany, a picturesque region rich in history and architectural heritage, a vacation getaway. For now, though, it is still part of the forgotten rural China, engulfed in a crisis that is quiet but sustained.

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