It was just a job. I was a year and a half out of college, and at the time it was just a job. I really wasn’t familiar with Leica, other than I owned a 35mm camera. But when you work here you quickly learn about Leica and what a fabulous brand it is.
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There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job. A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story. In general, that is all the 36 Hours series The New York Times is: tip-toeing that line.
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Covering the Academy Awards backstage is the most pressure-filled and difficult assignment I get each year. Dodging huge set pieces, lines of dancers, camera booms, stagehands, “A List” celebs and their handlers all while staying out of sight of the audience and most importantly staying out of the monitors in the production room where if spotted by the producers means I’ll get the proverbial hook. But the biggest challenge of all is the light.
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The changes in our business over the past few years are truly hard to comprehend. I am sympathetic to the difficulties for so many in our business as newspapers and magazines close, jobs are lost, and people struggle to see where the business of journalism is headed. While I read all the epithets, I still believe it is an incredibly exciting time to be a journalist. Never have we had so many tools and so much access to stories and people. Never have we all been so connected and yet, now more than ever, the future looks bleak to many professionals. How can this be and what do we do as professionals to find a new path?
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No Handouts
White House photographers bridle at restricted access
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/no_handouts.php
The Obama administration has barred independent photographers from a wide variety of events both potentially controversial and anodyne, ranging from yesterday’s abortion order signing, to the president’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, to his retaking of the flubbed oath of office, to bill signing ceremonies honoring female pilots in World War Two and promoting foreign travel to the United States.
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Emilio Morenatti of the Associated Press has been selected as the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism 2010 Photojournalist of the Year (Large Markets), and Greg Kahn of the Naples Daily News was picked as the Best Of Photojournalism 2010 Photojournalist of the Year (Small Markets).
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Recently test results of the Leica M9 from DxO created some consternation among M9 owners and possibly prospective owners.
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In November of 2006 I left my country for the first time. Wait, rewind. Two months earlier, I was a staff photographer for the California-based newspaper, The Sacramento Bee. I was attending a one-hour seminar about something that I have completely forgotten about. But as I was leaving I overheard a coworker that I barely knew talking about a trip he will be taking to the Philippines to visit his mother and he was even thinking about hitting up Vietnam. I walked up to him and said, “I’m going with you!” He looked stunned for a moment, shrugged his shoulders and said, “ok”. That “Ok” sealed a brotherly bond that I would shared with Bobby ever since.
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“Heres the thing, we want you to stalk him and take his picture paparazzi style. The story is already written and Ron Galella has been interviewed BUT he won’t be expecting you because we are not telling him you are coming. You are going to have to stalk him. We want you to capture him in a totally unguarded moment”
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“These photographs, shot with an iPhone I carried in my flak jacket pocket, are not about the fight for Marjah,” Guttenfelder says. “Instead, they are an attempt, during my downtime, to show something of the daily lives of Marines and Afghan soldiers as they moved through the city and set down their packs each evening in a harsh, isolated place.”
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Police in Bangladesh Close Photo Exhibit
Shahidul Alam had hoped his exhibit on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh would provoke a reaction. As David Gonzalez reports, it did.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/behind-39/
Shahidul Alam had hoped his “Crossfire” exhibit on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh would “shock people out of their comfort zone’ and provoke a response.
He got his wish.
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Experience the “moveable feast” of Paris, during the glorious light and weather period of Paris in spring or fall. No matter when you visit, the city is an experience of a lifetime. A one week workshop in Paris for students interested in exploring the rich humanistic traditions of street photography in Paris with one of the most prominent Parisian photographers today, Peter Turnley
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I have no images to show, because I live in the past, and I still shoot film. I cannot instantly stream them to you, in real time. Today was intense — the Easter Parade got a little packed for me. There were people everywhere, packed in on Fifth Avenue, around 50th. Everyone and their brother had a camera with them, and most of them were very fancy expensive 35mm DSLRs, which somewhat surprised me. The odd thing is that people were just snapping away, even from a distance. I have no idea what those people were actually going to do with all those photographs once they got them home. Would they process them and actually show them to someone, or was just the act of snapping the actual act? Very hard to tell, but I’d guess the latter.
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