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VII’s Marcus Bleasdale: “If you look into somebody’s eyes, that will tell you a lot more about how the person feels than showing a hacked off limb.”
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patrick winfield polaroid composites – via WoosterCollective
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Jeff Riedel is intense. Shooting with a 4×5 on location with lights and multiple set-ups per day can be pressure enough
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Deanne Fitzmaurice, a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle, talks to John McDermott about two of her most famous stories
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For the first three days in Mogadishu, Pep Bonet sat in a safe house and waited. “Luckily we had some whiskey and some movies, otherwise we would have gone crazy,” he says.
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This 36-year-old Nigerian won first prize in the Spot News category at the 2007 World Press Photo awards.
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The IHSA filed a countersuit Wednesday in Sangamon County Circuit Court asking a judge to declare that it had the right to impose limits on how newspapers use photos and to restrict their access to games if the papers don’t comply.
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Having covered the Iraq War on and off since 2004 for the New York Times, freelance photojournalist Michael Kamber says he’s come to regard the conflict as “the pushbutton war.”
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This documentary series [2000-2007] takes a look at the everyday life of a people, famous for their stoicism, living in a kind of bubble. As they struggle to define themselves in the post-Soviet era, fast rivers of change swirl and flow around them, just
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I showed this to my students last week, and apparently most of them agreed with me — this is not your average Soundslides.
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A unique photography exhibition in central Berlin is showing the work of six young Iranian women. Their styles and vision differ hugely but all of the photographs deal with identity — and many turn the traditional views of Iranian women on their head.
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Devoting the bulk of the front page to one story may smack of tabloidism to some, bringing to mind screaming headlines about the latest blood and gore. The reality at the Tribune-Herald is vastly different.
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And when he saw the images captured by Photographer Robert Inglis — including a clear photo of an officer firing a lethal shot at one of the bovine — that left no doubt where the photo would go.
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Danville police Officer Jerry Zeidler shoots one of the two cows that escaped from a trailer along Route 11 near the Danville Middle School on Tuesday morning.
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There’s a lot of talk of citizen journalism – but who in his right mind would sign away all rights to his or her photos? So as a citizen journalist you get to work for free?
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The poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power.
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Photojournalism is made up of a small number of photographers. Everyone knows everyone else. Everyone talks to everyone else.
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MU photojournalism chair David Rees called the center “an unparalleled documentary photojournalism resource.”
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Here’s how I see the competition right now. Canon has dominated the digital SLR market, but Nikon is coming on strong.
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When Li Zhensheng interviewed for a position as a photographer at the daily newspaper in Heilongjiang province in China in 1963, it was his physical appearance that got him the job.
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a collection of photographs collected from ebay
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The quality of her prints has much to do with Kramer’s meticulous, old-school darkroom technique, which involves a Jobo drum processor that she bought at a swap meet and repaired herself with skateboard parts.
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This shot was honored as the best animal picture in the National Geographic Society’s 2007 Global Photography Contest, which was conducted in partnership with the English-language edition and 23 local-language editions of National Geographic magazine.
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How is that even remotely possible? The medium certainly looks alive, well and, if anything, overpopulated.
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the appetite for intelligent debate on this art form has never been greater. What better way to feed it than by enjoying some of 750 books distributed on the subject in Britain this year? These are my favourites.
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271 are dead after an Onion News Network Special Investigative Report on airport security.
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What is wrong with us? I say us. We. Photojournalists. I am not exempt. Why does it seem like we’re never truly happy? Never fully satisfied?
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The photography book market has been steadily expanding, and people know it. As far as I know, most photo books were always printed in small editions (a few thousand maybe), simply because the demand for them was so small.
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Chocolate Bunny by Sander Plug – via WoosterColelctive
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WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: 365 Days #336 – Sound 8: Background Music For Your Personal Movies (mp3s)I’m a huge, HUGE collector of “Music for/Music to” records. This one comes like a piece of collecting heaven, where even the tracks have titles like “Music For Travel Scenes”, “Music for Water Activities”, “Music for Family Fun”, etc.
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Nikon has finally caught up with Canon on autofocus with the Nikon D3/D300, at least in theory.
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My last visit to Iraq was six months ago and as I returned to Baghdad on Saturday for a month-long embed, I wondered if anything had really changed.
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Throughout the years of 2000-03 the award-winning photographer Nicolai Howalt followed young Danish boys boxing in Denmark and abroad. The result is the book ‘Boxer’. The book portrays a series of young boxers in the moment before and after the match.
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Warren Jeffs: “All the ordinance work since father’s passing has to be redone and there’s many men that were sent away that do hold priesthood and their families will need to be put back.”
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How many of you have boxes and boxes of old slides and negatives sitting on a shelf in a closet somewhere gathering dust?
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Taryn Simon’s new show and book, “An American Index” goes about documenting secret places in America that have rarely been seen by the public eye: the bureau of engraving and printing, a cryogenics facility, a hymenoplasty, a site for testing firework
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All told, the United States has spent an estimated $500 billion to fight drugs – with very little to show for it. Cocaine is now as cheap as it was when Escobar died and more heavily used.
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Recently I spoke with Brooklyn-based photographer Michael Schmelling about the curious stories behind two of his most recent projects and about his relationship with photography in general
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The excitement of seeing those images for the first time, and the beauty of them being captured on film, was well worth the wait.
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In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic’s forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. He called it ethnic cleansing.
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Marco Trezzini and the crew at VR Way Communications, a Switzerland-based company have published a new issue of VRMag, which is chock-full of panoramas, information and ideas, both commercial and journalistic.
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Nigel has well and truly nailed it.
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An exhibition of more than fifty photographs from the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings, Goodbye Coney Island? traces the evolution of this fabled part of New York over the past 125 years.
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Don McCullin toured war zones with a couple of Nikon Fs in a canvas bag. Today’s photojournalist probably carries more kit than the soldiers he’s tailing.
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Imagine what the sports sections would be without high school sports coverage. Any way you look at it, the photos that we take on a day-to-day basis are some of the only publicity your sons and daughters will ever have.
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Got the opportunity to cover the Republican CNN YouTube Debate for The New York Times the other day up in St. Petersburg. photos by chip litherland
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In his memoirs, Israel Through My Lens, David Rubinger describes walking home camera-less one day in 1947 and witnessing a British Mandatory building being blown up by the Irgun. “Since then I have never left home, not even once, without taking my camera.
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The National Newspaper Association Contest awarded Ken Blackbird, staff photographer for the Cody Enterprise, first place for Best Breaking News Photo, 2007.
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Philip Jones Griffiths, who’s seminal work Vietnam Inc. publised in 1971, defines goals for the thinking photojournalist.
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Darin Mickey’s first book is a personal document of his father’s life and work. A family memoir as much as portrait of a salesman and the suburban midwest, Stuff I Gotta Remember Not to Forget
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“It is said that the camera never lies, but according to new research published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, the camera not only lies, but those lies can lead to the creation of false memories.
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The French Communist Party organized Taro’s funeral, which tens of thousands attended: she was hailed as an antifascist heroine and is thought to be the first woman photographer to be killed in war
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Bilal Hussein began his Associated Press career with a burst of jarring pictures from Fallujah.
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This is hands down, my new favorite blog. I know it’s a one-note joke, but it’s perfect. Guy responding to Craigslist Missed Connections ads with those simple four words. With a mouthful of Baby Ruth and water, I nearly choked to death when I burst out laughing and half the candy bar went into my lungs. Thanks to WFMU’s Beware the Blog for the link. Here’s a sample and the link follows:
it was about 1 am on monday night/tuesday morning. you were wearing a magenta colored dress and lime green shoes. i usually don’t like hipster looking girls but you were adorable. we had a couple staredowns but i’m way to shy to do anything about it. i was the tall skinny white guy with a Mets hat on and a blue and white tattoo on my forearm. e-mail me if you think this is you.
Re: To the girl I saw at the Lorimer St. L platform – m4w – 25
That’s my girl, asshole.
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Juxtapoz:
Ryan Heshka is an old soul trapped in the body of a 36-year-old. A Vancouver transplant via Manitoba, he has spent the better part of the last decade painting canvases featuring pin-up girls fighting space invaders, giant creatures battling for dominance, and outlandish landscapes that look like they were torn out of a 1930’s comic book. For Heshka, vintage is not something that is old, but rather an object that is timeless, and he translates that concept vividly to his paintings and commercial work. Juxtapoz caught up with Heshka as he was putting the finishing touches on a few paintings for his up-coming show NEO PULP at Orbit Gallery in Edge Water, NJ opening June 23.
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Washington Post:Karl — a.k.a. John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington — held a news conference at the National Press Club yesterday to respond to President Bush’s new sanctions against his regime. In his hour-long presentation, he described a situation in his land that bore no relation to reality.
Genocide in the Darfur region? “The United States is the only country saying that what is happening in Darfur is a genocide,” Ukec shouted, gesticulating wildly and perspiring from his bald crown. “I think this is a pretext.”
Ah. So what about the more than 400,000 dead? “See how many people are dying in Darfur: None,” he said.
And the 2 million displaced? “I am not a statistician.”
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great piece on david alan harvey’s blog, talking about William Albert Allard. Allard is a pure photographer. I first saw him speak in 1989 and I could probably recite several choice Allard quotes from memory eighteen years later.A great read:
the first words i ever heard out of william albert allard’s mouth were “why didn’t this guy win?” he stomped across the room, grabbed one of my b&w 16×20 prints and held it up for all to see…”___dammit , this guy shoulda won!!”…..we were in minneapolis , allard’s hometown, for a “College Photographer of the Year” contest sponsored by the NPPA…
i was in grad school at the Universtiy of Missouri and i had been previously judged as “second place” in this nationwide contest….allard did not think i was judged fairly….and allard always speaks out…always..
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dead time pacifies:
I went to Burnt Ramen in Richmond. Burnt Ramen reminds me a lot of 924 Gilman circa 1991. I am not a big fan of that place.
It is in a poor neighborhood which serves to keep away the more normal weekender kids that all go to Gilman these days, but it is also packed full of wasted teenagers smoking cigarettes that incidentally are all probably banned from Gilman.I went to see Bad Reaction and Broken Needle. Both great bands full of great dudes. However, the bands are pretty much secondary to this “review.” Just as the bands are most likely secondary to getting drunk for the Burnt Ramen crowd.
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From the NYT Magazine:The more we talked over the following 18 months, however, the more painful his adolescence began to sound. Apatow was always small for his age, and he grew adept at making fun of himself before others could. He began audiotaping “Saturday Night Live” when he was 11, transcribing the show and then trying to figure how they made it funny. When TV Guide arrived each week, Apatow would underline all the comics scheduled to appear on “The Mike Douglas Show.”
Apatow’s childhood hero was Steve Martin. On a summer trip to L.A., Apatow persuaded his grandparents to drive by Martin’s home until Apatow spied his hero in the driveway. Martin wouldn’t give him an autograph, so Apatow wrote him an angry letter saying it was his patronage of Martin’s projects that allowed him to live the high life. A few weeks later, Martin sent Apatow a copy of his book “Cruel Shoes” with an apology: “I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I was speaking to the Judd Apatow.”
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Every Sunday I go through the list of new releases on Netflix. Here are two that I’m sure you’ll soon be renting:
Nothing ever happens in the tiny Orange County, Calif., town of Blanca Carne, but that’s about to change. Hella Burger’s evil mascot, Horny the Clown (Van De La Plante), is on a murderous rampage. Tired of seeing her friends slaughtered by Horny’s meat cleaver, 17-year-old Mackenzie (Leighton Meester) decides to put an end to his killing spree. Nicholas D’Agosto, Lola Glaudini and Larry Joe Campbell co-star in this darkly comic terror-fest.
The Greatest Tractor Show on Earth Ever (2007)Some titles say it all, and this document of the Cheffins Tractor Millennium is no exception. All told, 1,958 tractors turned up for this extravaganza in the summer of 2000. The event was capped off by the great dynamometer horsepower challenge, which pits modern tractors against vintage machines. Participants include John Deere, Fordson, Marshall, Doe and Caterpillar. Relive the magic of this thrilling event for tractor enthusiasts.
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There are profiles of six photographers on Canon Europe’s professional website. Most interesting to me was the profile of Swedish photojournalist Per-Anders Pettersson, who has been doing fascinating work from the Congo (that’s his photograph above), where millions of people have died in conflict since 1997 with almost no international attention. You can read Pettersson’s profile and see his photos (and a video) at this link.The other photographers profiled are: Kai Pfaffenbach, Martin Eisenhawer, Bill Frakes, and Alessandra Meniconzi.
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I’ve been staring at this photo by Florida photojournalist Chip Litherland for a few days now. I kept a browser window with his blog open, intending to post it. His blog always has something cool on it.Link:
Redlights and Redeyes
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Nuruddin Farah, in the NYT:
My subsequent meetings with the Islamists and their sympathizers were equally frustrating. There was no discussion of the peace plan that had brought me back to Somalia. Instead, the discussions centered on matters they deemed important: whether theaters should be open; whether girls could be permitted to wear jeans or go about unveiled; whether tea houses should play music, or young men watch soccer on television. There was no serious talk of governance.
What struck me in these conversations was the presence of Arabic. These men, I surmised, had received their education in Sudan, Libya or Kuwait. For the first time since the Middle Ages, Arabic was the lingua franca in Mogadishu; Somali was practically a second language.
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From Wooster Collective:
BiPed spotted this new piece yesterday in South London. While it hasn’t been confirmed, it has Banksy written all over it.
BiPed writes:
“The photo is quite misleading as the stencil is actually about 9ft high -you can just make out the top of a security fence on the left.”
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