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    My assignment work has taught me so much this year, but nothing more so than the fact that I love meeting and spending time with people whom I would have no reason to ever interact with were it not for this passion for shooting photographs.  No matter what our differences may be, I have something to learn from all of them, and that universal human connection always has the chance to overcome any barrier of class, culture or ideology.

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    Oddly enough, not one single image in this list of favorites are photos I shot while I was “working,” which wasn’t planned. That’s to say, no editor assigned me any of these shoots. That makes sense, though, because LUCEO is deeply rooted in personal work and that is always my top priority.

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    This has been an exceptionally emotional year.  Love was lost and new friends were found.  People died, but they were replaced with the first breath of birth.  I made mistakes and I succeeded.  I sinned and was forgiven.  I cried and I laughed.

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    This has been an exceptionally emotional year.  Love was lost and new friends were found.  People died, but they were replaced with the first breath of birth.  I made mistakes and I succeeded.  I sinned and was forgiven.  I cried and I laughed.

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    Here’s to 2011. Bring it.

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    Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright troll formed this spring, has moved beyond lawsuits over newspaper articles and begun targeting websites for the unauthorized reposting of images. First up, more than a dozen infringement lawsuits concerning the so-called Vdara “death ray.”

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    He studied the work of his mentors, immersing himself in their universe and techniques, his bedroom walls lined with compositions by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr’s color photography and witty images by Elliott Erwitt. Baudouin honed his style; on returning to Paris, he began specializing in color portraits. This work is from his series, ‘I am a parisian lady.’

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    I do not like 35 mm professional DSLR’s. I make no bones about it. In my view, they are clunky, badly designed with too many buttons and dials and levers in the wrong locations, insane menus and terrible ergonomics. To me they feel made of cheap plastic loaded with lead.  They weigh way too much for what they are.  Between the AA filters, the smaller sensors and the manufacturing tolerances of the bodies, the lenses, the autofocus systems and the positioning of the viewing screens, the image quality is not good enough for me.

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    ShutterSnitch 2.0 is a significant rework that adds a long list of new features and, more importantly, seriously improves its stability when juggling both large photos and largish collections. This new release of ShutterSnitch, which we’ve been using in beta form for some time, takes what was already a really useful workflow tool and moves it several steps closer to being a true killer app for photographers who need to send pictures from one or more wireless-capable digital cameras, or even those who simply need a better slideshow function than what’s offered in Apple’s own Photos app.

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    The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film development.

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    Can photographers win substantial compensation in a US court from a British copyright pirate? We may be about to find out, courtesy of the Daily Mail.

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    Jim Kazanjian received his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in ‘92. His BFA was completed at the Kansas City Art Institute in ‘90. He has worked professionally as a commercial CGI artist for the past 18 years in television and game production. Various clients he has collaborated with include: Nike, Adidas, NBC, CBS, HBO, NASA, HP, Intel and others. He is currently the art director at The Logic Factory, a computer game developer.

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    Andy Spyra is a young photographer who has made documenting the impacts of the war and genocide in Bosnia his project. This year, the 26-year old was awarded the Oskar Barnack Nachwuchspreis for up-and-coming photographers. During his latest reports, Andy Spyra used the Leica M9 – a camera he appreciates especially “in the context of sensitive topics.”

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  • In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice

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    on Sept. 21, the kidnappings stopped.

    That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo’s seafood restaurant and tried to abduct the 17-year-old cashier. A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.

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    Throughout your career as a student photographer people will constantly try and pay you less than you are worth. The truth is, not only are you a photographer, you are a businessperson. I know that as a student you typically don’t have many business-related costs– you don’t rent an office, you don’t have assistants, you don’t encounter the same costs a “typical” photo business would, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t treat yourself as a legitimate business person.

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    2010 ended in utter disaster: car wrecks, camera wrecks, personal wrecks. Photographically, I’ve never had a better year. There were publications, exhibitions, and awards throughout the year, and they’re continuing through the beginning of 2011.

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    Originally an optometrist, Milton was persecuted during the un-American McCarthyite inquisitions of the 1950s. With his practice in rapid decline as a consequence, he turned to photography to express his values, and for sixty years photographed the poor and the working class with a clear eye

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    in my education of African photographers, here are some of the incredibly talented ones you we should all be aware of

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    The fate of French photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, remains unclear after conflicting reports said he had died two days after being shot, in the face, by a tear gas canister while covering the civil unrest in Tunisia

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    Sarah Caron published two books about Pakistan in 2010. « Pakistan, land of the pure », a small book full of major pictures and « Pakistan à vif » (Pakistan on the edge), a long photo essay about about a country that frightens and fascinates. The result of multiple trips for this photographer

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