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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!)

    travel photographer

    Link: https://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/matjaz-krivic-mali-baaba-maal.html

    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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    There’s a parallel to what’s happening in the publishing world. You can stay put and keep doing things as you have in the hopes that your newspaper won’t eliminate you. You can assume that the clients you had before the economy tanked will come back when the economy returns. You can keep making and presenting pictures the way you always have because that’s always been fine.

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  • Riddle? Yes. Enigma? Sure. Documentary? (Published 2010)

    Banksy, the pseudonymous British street artist, is laboring in a new documentary to convince audiences that he’s playing it straight.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/movies/14banksy.html

    The thing is, both Banksy and Mr. Guetta are pretty unreliable narrators. The immediate scuttlebutt was that Mr. Guetta either didn’t exist at all, that he was in cahoots with Banksy or that he was Banksy himself. Even aficionados of the scene were unsure what to think.

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    TIP OF THE DAY: Black instead of magenta in the shadows, a natural skin-tone and eyes that look real would make this kid happy again. Happy and healthy is a good look, try that instead.

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    ShutterSnitch for iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad combines an FTP server, automatic display of incoming JPEGs, pinch zooming and more into a neat app for photographers using a wireless transmitter or Eye-Fi card.

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    Now living in France, Morris, 93, has been called “the world’s most influential photography editor.” While working for Life magazine in the early 1940s he was Robert Capa’s picture editor on D-Day in World War II, and his friends Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour picked him to be Magnum Photos’ executive editor. He joined NPPA in 1958.

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    a project depicting the transformation of Polish village. His focus is on the relationship between human being and nature and on the essence of humanity in relation to the earth, the seasons, and passing away and birth as inseparable elements

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    Even though I wasn’t out to review a new camera, but rather just use it for myself, I did take note of a few things

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    I was photographing environmental portraits and human portraits of a town affected by a mass shooting in March 2009. Amongst the people that I was photographing, there was a man who had lost his wife in the murders. His name is Omri and he had lost his wife, Dolores, and grieved deeply for her. Omri is turning his house into a museum of remembrance for his wife and her life and leaving town. As soon as I met him, I knew that we would connect. Softly spoken, firm and extremely direct, Omri communicated in a way that I understood… Direct.

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