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    A photographer once told me that a picture is not art unless you create exactly what you intended from start to finish.  I fought him on this statement.  It’s about the unknown, the surprise.  The extra lens flare that you didn’t expect.  The roll of film that didn’t advance all the way.  The bird that suddenly flew into your frame at the moment of exposure.  It’s the unknown details that help form greatness.  

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    Photographer Marco Vernaschi has gotten himself into quicksand, and taken the otherwise respectable Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting with him. And all I can think about are the forces, commercial and personal, that compel individuals to transgress boundaries of common decency, and institutions that celebrate these by publishing them.

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    Donald C. “Clint” Grant developed a national reputation for the humorous feature photos he took of animals during his long career with The Dallas Morning News.

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    From the day he died until his burial on April 18th, Poland was enraptured with mourning ceremonies. In the end the Kaczynskis were entombed at Wawel Castle, where kings and national heroes have been traditionally buried. No other modern figure lies in its catacombs. This decision went largely uncontested aside from a few protests.

    Strangely, as I went around to different memorials I noticed very few tears or obvious grief. The atmosphere was respectful, but from my experience Polish culture seems reserved in daily life relative to other cultures. Without  prior knowledge, a tourist may have thought he was approaching a cultural festival in the center of Krakow.

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    IA: Since photography in Latin America encompasses all types of aesthetics including documentary, conceptual and experimental formats, among others, heterogeneity is probably its only unifying element. What is clear to me is that Latin American photography moves in multiple ways; in some instances the works reflect the contextual realities of their site production while in others they reference global issues. Certainly Latin American Photography today does have a multicultural character and moves beyond local artistic circuits.

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    The workshop is FREE throughout the 3 day stream.

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    I’ve seen a lot during my two years in Vietnam.  I know what poor is and I know what discomfort is.  There really isn’t a lot that catches me off guard any more.  Maybe it’s that I am jaded or just accepting that some times life is shit and people suffer … period.  But today got to me.  Some thing so small and seemingly meaningless piled up against hunger, death and suffrage.  A fan.

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    Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha L. Garst, armed with a search warrant and accompanied by the officers, showed up unannounced about 10:30 a.m., said Katie Thisdell, editor-in-chief of The Breeze.
    “She said if you don’t release all of them, we are prepared to take everything out of this office — all the computers, the cameras, documents, everything,” Thisdell said last night

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    Haiti has always been a land of beauty and pain, of light and darkness. When a catastrophic earthquake hit the island on Tuesday, January 12th, the world was shaken by the magnitude of the destruction and human suffering. In this story for VII The Magazine, photographers James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Lynsey Addario and Benjamin Lowy provide a heart-wrenching look at this disaster and its aftermath.

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    Only a small percentage of photographers register their work with the copyright office. ASMP wants that to change.

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    This week showcases work by Alex Prager.

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    View the destruction along a quarter-mile stretch of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the main commercial arteries in the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  By DAMIEN CAVE with photographs by MAGGIE STEBER for The New York Times.

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  • Matjaž Krivic: Mali (& Baaba Maal!)

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    Here’s another post on Matjaž Krivic’s work. This time, it’s Mali that he shares with us in this lovely audio-slideshow-movie (he calls it multivision…not a bad name.).

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    There are three accessories for managing lighting we wouldn’t want to live without: the Manfrotto QSS 1004BAC light stand, the Horizontal Flash Mounting Bracket from Michael Bass and the Hoodman HoodLoupe 3.0. Here’s why.

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    It’s hard to believe but my 20th high school reunion is only a few months away. I was an avid photographer starting in junior high, and in fact, sitting on one of my bookshelves is a bunch of albums filled with pictures from the 1980s — literally, a veritable hot tub time machine.

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    In Jane Hilton’s intimate portraits, these 21st century cowboys are removed from these competing narratives, and from their beloved outdoors, and we encounter them in that most surprising location: the bedroom. Ever since she was first invited to supper by Johnny Green, a veteran cowboy who sold horses to John Wayne (every cowboy worth his spurs has a John Wayne story), Hilton was captivated by the interior life of men who spend their life outside. Her eye was drawn to the stuffed elk heads, the belt buckle collections, the stirrups strung above the bed that brought the spirit of the land into their domestic space.

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