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    Ed Kashi, who has just joined the prestigious VII Photo agency, talks to BJP about his six-year foray into the complexity of the Niger Delta

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    ImageRights, a visual search firm that assists photographers in identifying unauthorized photo usage online, has added a free service level in addition to the paid tiers they currently offer. At no charge, a photographer can upload up to 10,000 photos to ImageRights. The company will then continuously monitor news sites, popular blogs and other online locations for usage of those photos and generate a report for the photographer when a match is found. If the usage is an infringement, then starting next month the photographer can opt for ImageRights to handle the extraction of compensation from the offending site, with the revenue being split between the photographer and the company.

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    I was perusing Marge Casey Agency’s sporadic but worthwhile tumblr the other day and found a link to Claudia Goetzelmann jumping up and down on set with an attractive man who was also jumping up and down, all to the music of the Unicorn. Needless to say, I had to share.

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    I realized that I went back to those two frames from the 11th hole and egads something was terribly amiss. The man (caddie?) behind the golfer in the looser crop had disappeared from the more tightly cropped version. I opened both images and zoomed into that details and it was really quite easy to determine that the image is the same but one had been doctored with software to remove the other man.

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    Donald Weber takes a heart wrenching look at the city of Zholtye Vody in Ukraine. Located near two nuclear waste sites and an enrichment factory in the hub of the Soviet Union’s uranium mining and enrichment area, the homes were built using highly contaminated materials. With a higher radiation level than Chernobyl, over half the population of 60,000 people suffer from some sort of radiation sickness.

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    There are some amazing resources for photographers to learn more about protecting their copyright.  We’ve taken a stab at gathering up *some* of the best resources we’ve found – mostly from industry organizations, government and nonprofits, and a few voices of wisdom in the industry.

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    “I can’t believe I wasted half my life helping Tipper put warning labels on this stuff when I could have been seeing these guys do their thing live,” Gore said of W.A.S.P. “They used to whip raw meat at the audience. How bad-ass is that?”

    “Cause I’m burning, burning, burning up with fi-ire! ” added Gore, screaming the lyrics to “Wild Child.”

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  • North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup

    North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.

    via The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7918468/North-Korean-football-team-shamed-in-six-hour-public-inquiry-over-World-Cup.html

    North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.

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  • An Illicit Whole Earth Catalog at J.F.K.

    Taryn Simon spent five days photographing the world’s material underbelly as it made its way through a New York airport. Miki Meek explains.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/behind-49/

    Passengers, airliners, workers, baggage, cargo, taxis and trains flow ceaselessly through Kennedy International Airport.

    Taryn Simon recorded another ceaseless flow — one the public rarely sees: contraband detained and seized from international flights.

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    Although Assange has since spoken in a way that could suggest WikiLeaks was a journalistic collaborator in the effort, the traditional journalists don’t agree with that description.

    At a press conference on Monday, Assange said that, along with The Guardian, “we had Der Spiegel and New York Times and us in a collaborative basement, if you like, working on this material.” The WikiLeaks website speaks of the three outlets as its “media partners.”

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    With the July 22 decision by the World Court in the Hague that Kosovo’s unilateral secession from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, we thought it would be an opportune moment to look back at Joachim Ladefoged’s powerful body of work on the Albanians during the Serbian conflict from 1997 to 2000. During the war, some 12,000 people from Kosovo were killed, of whom 4,000-7,000 were Albanians, and up to 700,000 Albanians from Kosovo took refuge in the neighboring country of Albania.

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    “National Geographic has learned of the tragic death of Wes Skiles, the accomplished underwater photographer, cinematographer and explorer with whom we’ve worked frequently,” the National Geographic Society said in a statement today. “The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident, which occurred following the conclusion of a scientific research expedition related to marine life off the east coast of Florida. Our thoughts are with Wes’ family.”

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    Here is part two of the interview with Mugur Vărzariu who embodies the definition of a compassionate photographer: “I only press the shutter release when I can help my subjects.”

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  • Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge

    In his pictures and his words, Stanley Greene is outspoken. Michael Kamber interviewed this freewheeling figure.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/shoptalk-7/

    I wanted to set the record straight. I kept hearing people say, “Chechnya was when you really started to be a photographer.” And that’s not true. I was shooting back at the Berlin Wall, but nobody knew about it. I fell through the cracks. I wanted a way to say that my influences are not the ones you think they are. They are about painting. They are about music. They are about other things. The way I’ve been shooting really hasn’t changed since back in the ’70s, before all these new photographers emerged. My old work, like rock and roll, really nails it.

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    I am so happy to have photographs of my grandfather with his first great grandchild. They will serve as the key to Madelyn’s memory of him. Below a journal entry I found from the last time I saw my grandfather and a few photographs from that visit, nearly three years ago. Please forgive this self-indulgently loose edit of family photos. A scrapbook if you will.  

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    National Geographic has closely documented the journey of the final roll of Kodachrome manufactured, down to its being processed.

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    Last week the official PhotoShelter WordPress plugin was born – a free, public download that allows PhotoShelter users to streamline their blogging workflow by embedding photos and slideshows directly into the body of a blog post without leaving WordPress. Here’s a rundown of the main features of the plugin, plus a short review of how I use the plugin to save lots of time and improve my SEO.

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    Yo I had 5’000 dollars this morning I got 2,300 dollars now and i did even by sh*tWhat the f*ck is going on

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    As we head into fall (and I am sooo happy about that), I want to put a call out to photojournalists/documentarians with projects needing a platform. I will be curating an issue of a soon-to-be released online magazine, and am looking for material to publish.

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  • Dave Anderson in New Orleans

    John Schwartz tells why Dave Anderson decided the best way to cover the scope of Katrina was through a single city block.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/dave-anderson-in-new-orleans/

    What can one block tell you about a devastated city?

    Plenty, says Dave Anderson, 40, a photographer who chronicled the lives of people reclaiming their homes after Hurricane Katrina in the newly published “One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds” (Aperture).

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