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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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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In order to create this series, Every Living Thing, Drew photographed local roadkill in a dark studio by torchlight. She exposed the film for 15 minutes against backdrops of previously photographed landscapes printed onto large sheets. After shooting, the animals were given a proper burial in her large backyard.
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This is first part of a series about photographer couples, called “Two of a Kind.” Part one features Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber.
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Changing Face in Poland: Skinhead Puts on Skullcap (Published 2010)
Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/world/europe/28poland.html
“I went to my parents and said, ‘What the hell’? Imagine, I was a neo-Nazi and heard this news? I couldn’t look in the mirror for weeks,” he said. “My parents were the typical offspring of Jewish survivors of the war, who decided to conceal their Jewish identity to try and protect their family.”
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On Assignment: Nine Eyes on the Prize
How does Bruce Bennett photograph a disc moving at 100 miles per hour? With seven different cameras, Nicholas Loomis reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/assignment-27/
Bruce Bennett has been shooting with seven cameras at Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver: three at arm’s reach, with lenses of various sizes; two mounted in the rafters, pointing down to the goals; one clamped to the stanchion that holds the goal-indicator light behind a net; and one inside the net itself.
“It’s kind of like playing piano,” said Mr. Bennett, who is the director of photography for hockey imagery at Getty Images.
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As Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill moves to the report stage, and the COPYRIGHT ACTION web site gets 60,000 page views from anxious photographers, EPUK reveals how the bill’s clause on orphan works spells an uncertain future for photographers and publishers alike.
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If so you should drop by The Bui Gallery for their opening from 6-9pm featuring photographer Aaron Joel Santos‘ work. In preparation for the show, Aaron visited the gallery’s printer in Singapore to check up on the printing details, and in the process took some colorful and artful photos of the city:
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Martin Vargas is a corporate/industrial photographer for 33Photo based out of Mexico City and Houston, Texas. His work is diverse, and includes a steady stream of industrial, architectural, editorial, product, and travel assignments.
His marketing and promotion efforts tend to be based on generating more work from existing clients, and he has come up with a strategy for doing so.
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Outside of the mall, Kevin was stopped by a police constable who had received a complaint from mall security that a suspicious potential paedophile had been taking pictures on its premises. The PC threatened to arrest Kevin “for creating a public disturbance” and ordered him to delete the photo of his son.