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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.

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    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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    Stockland Martel, founded in 1980 by Maureen Martel and Bill Stockland, is one of the best-known and respected photo-representation agencies in the country. In this interview conducted by Kristina Feliciano, who runs the Stockland Martel blog, Bill and Maureen explain how they built their auspicious roster, which includes Nadav Kander, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Doug Menuez, and what makes them decide to work with a new photographer.

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  • InduroGear : La route vers l’expertise auto – InduroGear

    Bienvenue sur InduroGear
    La route vers l’expertise automobile.
    La route vers l’expertise automobile. Entretenir son véhicule
    Devenez autonome Devenez autonome Apprenez à faire vos propres diagnostic et réparations. Diagnostiquer une panne Mécaniqu

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    Recently, the U.S. design team at Induro, makers of the finest tripods money can buy, introduced a tripod head for sports, wildlife and nature photographers who work with very long, heavy telephoto lenses. It’s called a gimbal head, and the key to its success is the ability to easily balance heavy camera/lens systems. It does so by positioning the equipment at its center of gravity and essentially making it “weightless.” This provides a level of control, ease of handling and freedom of movement not possible with any other support system.

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    In acknowledgment of the old adage “different strokes for different folks,” I invited a number of our 2009 contributors to make their own picks for the Camera of the Year.

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    From champagne in St Moritz to Moscow’s Millionaire fair, photographer Martin Parr – once criticised for his mockery of the working classes – turns his camera on the filthy rich.

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    Today marks the beginning of a new holiday in which I am sure will catch on … or not.  I hereby declare that January 9 will hence forth be referred to as Tri-Xmas Day.  The premise of this holiday is to photograph personal settings on black and white film throughout the year and then save it all to be developed during the days leading up to Tri-Xmas Day.  And on the 9th, you present your gifts to the world.

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    Rippling sea waves, dried river skeletons and endless fields. Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Each family needs about six pitchers of water a day, and they have to walk seven miles to get it. Ignoring knee-deep mud in rainy season, braving the biting cold of winter. In the seventeen sub-districts of southwestern Bangladesh, the normal flow of water has been ripped to shreds by the dagger of ‘Development’.

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    Timothy Briner was born in 1981 in Chesterton, Indiana and currently lives in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of the Hallmark Institute of Photography Grant and this project, Boonville, has been supported by Cannery Works.

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    You probably already know Christopher Morris‘ work. One of the founding members of VII, his conflict photography is unparalleled and his recent work on American politics, including the book “My America,” has redefined visual coverage of the White House. You might not know that Morris has been making videos in addition to his still coverage of American politics.

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    My own views about the power and benefits of multimedia fusions of still photography with audio and video were challenged by others who claimed that film, print media, and gallery walls still afforded more creative control over content messages and superior aesthetics to that offered by digital media. While I see multimedia fusions as opening the possibilities for deeper, more complex story narratives, some of my fellow masters saw the fusions as degradations of the intentionality of still photography when practiced by highly skilled professionals.

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