Eliza French and Jeff Charbonneau’s exhibition of their new series, Playground, was the must-see exhibition on the opening night of The Month of Photography in Los Angeles, at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station. The exhibition is on view until May 5, 2010.
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It’s one thing to pick your strongest pictures. It’s another to sequence them. The two actions are either side of a coin. If both aren’t done well the result sucks. Ok. Maybe it doesn’t suck, but the result won’t be what it could be if you pick lesser pictures or don’t put them in a sequence that sings.
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In this essay by Paolo Pellegrin, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran and imagine how their life would have been if they had never left their country.
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A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us
On Sunday May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.), we hope you’ll be taking a picture that will help us build a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world. We extend the invitation to everyone, everywhere. Amateurs. Students. Pros. People who’ve been photographing for a lifetime or who just started yesterday.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/about-3/
Where will you be on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours U.T.C. ?
Wherever you are, we hope you’ll have a camera — or a camera phone — in hand. And we hope you’ll be taking a picture to send to Lens that will capture this singular instant in whatever way you think would add to a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world.
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Thank all that is good for San Francisco, home of the 10th annual BYOBW (Bring Your Own Big Wheel) race.
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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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via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/04/picasa-increases-album-limit-from-1000-albums-to-10000-albums.html
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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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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.
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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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