• Testing new funding models for photojournalism, Part I

    As most people know, an increasing number of news organizations are abandoning in-depth reporting in favor of entertainment and celebrity stories. At the same time, the few media that remain dedica…

    via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: https://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/testing-new-funding-models-for-photojournalism/

    I am also participating in the beta testing of a new social micro-payment called Flattr. If you register with Flattr, you choose to pay a small monthly fee. You decide the amount yourself, and at the end of the month the fee is divided up between all the pages you choose “flatter.”

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    Guantanamo’s Camp Justice is a place where you can sit at your laptop or by your phone only if there’s a member of the military within earshot.

    It’s a place where you can go to court only in the custody of a military public affairs officer. Inside, if there’s only one escort — this happened recently — and somebody has to go to the bathroom, every reporter has to leave court, too.

    It’s a place where a soldier stands over your shoulder, looks in your viewfinder and says ‘Don’t take that picture, I’ll delete it.’

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    Nikon has announced the Speedlight SB-700, a new shoe-mount flash unit that incorporates a revised control layout, 24-120mm zoom range, recycle time of 2.5 seconds at full power, the ability to act as a master flash for up to two groups of wireless remote Speedlight

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    Nikon has announced the Speedlight SB-700, a new shoe-mount flash unit that incorporates a revised control layout, 24-120mm zoom range, recycle time of 2.5 seconds at full power, the ability to act as a master flash for up to two groups of wireless remote Speedlight

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    Olympus has unveiled what could be its last mirror-based digital SLR – the E-5, which boasts a 12.3-megapixel sensor

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  • Mapping Traffic’s Toll on Wildlife (Published 2010)

    Projects in California and Maine ask people to photograph and locate dead animals to understand the impact of roads on the environment.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13roadkill.html

    To Ron Ringen, a retired veterinarian, roadkill is a calling.

    Nearly every week for the last seven months, Mr. Ringen, 69, has driven the roads north of this college town near Sacramento, scanning the pavement for telltale bits of fur and feathers.

    Pulling over, Mr. Ringen gets out, snaps photographs and uses his GPS device to record the precise location where creatures met their end.

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    There has been a huge craze storming through the tech world for a while now: The ability of shooting high-end, high-definition video with a dSLR camera.
    At first, it was a bit of a novelty, and people didn’t really know what the hell to do with it. Then, some photographers realised that it’s actually sort of nifty, and that you can achieve incredible results on a tidy budget. Then, finally it went all a bit silly, and a lot of videographers leapt on the bandwagon.
    Personally, I think it’s a waste of time and a complete fad. I’ll tell you why.

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    Bruce Jackson was first drawn to work in prisons during the folk revival of the 1960s. Inspired by folk music collectors like the Lomaxes, he set out to capture work songs sung by African-American convicts, going first to Midwestern prisons when he was a graduate student in Indiana, and later to Texas state prisons while a fellow at Harvard. Over many years and in many prisons, he found and recorded the songs he was looking for, conversations with inmates, guards, and wardens, and thousands upon thousands of photographs.

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    Sports photography is big business and shows no sign of slowing down. Getty images is on the path to controlling every image that you will see coming out of a US sports competition, and everything around it. ( remember, Tiger Woods first public appearance ?)

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    The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit British organization that is working with WikiLeaks on the documents.

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    We’re very pleased to present the 2010 SEO Cookbook for Photographers with newly updated information, profiles of photographers who have succeeded with SEO, and a handy dandy checklist to make sure you’re getting the most from SEO. We’ve expanded sections that discuss sitemaps and talk pretty extensively about enlarging your online footprint to increase SEO.

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  • Sling-O-Matic Camera Bag Features – Think Tank Photo

    Think Tank Photo introduces the Sling-O-Matic Series camera bag, the photo industry’s first selection of sling bags that can be easily switched back and fort…

    via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/hMfS8M7AHXY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

    Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, and the result is both witty and unmistakably political and echoes the book, Where’s Waldo. Liu says he began the series after authorities shut down Beijing’s Suo Jiacun (Artist Village), in 2006. “At that time,” Liu told the Daily Mail, “contemporary art was in quick development in Beijing, but the government decided it did not want artists like us to gather and live together.” The photographs require him to pose for as long as ten hours while his collaborators perfect his painted disguise.

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    This year’s winners are: Stefano De Luigi of Italy for “TIA – This is Africa”; Miquel Dewever-Plana of France for “The Other War”; Edwin Koo of Singapore for “Paradise Lost: Pakistan’s Swat Valley”; Darcy Padilla of San Francisco, for “The Julie Project”; and Jerome Sessini of France, for “So Far from God, Too Close to America.”

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    I finally got a chance to get up-close and personal with the Pentax 645D. My sense is that this camera will be a bit of a game-changer.

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    Nothing is more important than the trust of photographers. Since they are not employees, but freelancers, photographers often operate from a disadvantaged position. Remember that:
    · You are the photographers’ advocate. No one else will be.
    · You are the photographers’ counselor, explaining the magazine to them and them to the magazine.
    · You are the final arbiter when disagreements arise with other members of the staff.

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    I have been searching for the “in between” – whatever lies geographically as well as culturally between my world here in the midst of Europe and my long term focus of interest in the Middle and Near East.

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  • Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station

    Christoph Bangert wanted to try something new for portraits he was taking in Afghanistan. He used film.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/shooting-film-in-an-afghan-police-station/

    Christoph Bangert took some highly unusual photographic accessories with him to Afghanistan earlier this year. He’d never used them professionally before. And their presence in his camera bag aroused the suspicion of more than one security guard.

    They were rolls of Plus-X and Tri-X film.

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    Robert Adams is preeminent among the many photographers who have concerned themselves with the urban development of the once-wild lands of the American West. He began to photograph on the Colorado high plains in 1965, and the subjects of his broad body of work have included the spreading of tract houses along the Rockies; strip malls, parking lots, freeways, cheap motels and garishly lit discount houses; abused land and brutalized animals; the defunct orange estates of outer Los Angeles; the ruined forests of coastal Oregon, and the adult and child citizens of the new West as he finds them, often enough, marooned in bleak trailer parks or graceless rooms.

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    I met Linda Covello when I worked at Newsweek and she was shooting for cover stories about American kids. She is first and foremost a portrait photographer with a great connection to people and their environment. Linda is also a serious film buff, and after talking to her about Restrepo, the award-winning film from photographer Tim Hetherington and writer Sebastian Junger, I asked her to write about her feelings.

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    Invisible borders is a photographic project that is organised and executed annually by as many as 10 Nigerian photographers

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