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    ‘Diary’ is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It’s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media.

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    Freelance photographer Daniel Morel and CBS have settled their legal fight, a couple of week after a judge issued an order that put the Haiti-based photographer in a stronger position

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    By the time the micro-blogging mischief was over, the North Korean tweets had ranted to its 10,000-plus Twitter followers about profligate nuclear weapons spending and lavish Kim Jong Il drinking parties – hosted “while 3 million people are starving and freezing to death.” A video also had been posted on North Korea’s official YouTube channel that showed a caricature of Kim Jong Eun driving in a luxury sports car, running over women and children on the side of the road.

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    There’s a lot of good work at the recently published 30Under30 Women Photographers online exhibition. The site showcases the diverse work of 30 young female photographers.

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    The moment that we have is the only moment we will ever have, insofar as it is fleeting. Every breath counts. So does every moment and perception. It’s a way to be alive. I am involved with the idea of reaching deeply into the pulsing matter of what it means to be alive and being vulnerable and seeing if I can cast an emotional legacy about being human.

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  • The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square

    How saturation media coverage of the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square fueled the perception that the war had been won and diverted attention from what in reality was just the start of a long and costly conflict.

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    The media have been criticized for accepting the Bush administration’s claims, in the run-up to the invasion, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The W.M.D. myth, and the media’s embrace of it, encouraged public support for war. The media also failed at Firdos Square, but in this case it was the media, rather than the government, that created the victory myth.

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    We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims to have had a revelation from God and laid down his weapons and renounced violence. Many years later, now a preacher, he returns to Liberia to begin “a crusade” to redeem his past. We are with him when he does so.

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    We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims to have had a revelation from God and laid down his weapons and renounced violence. Many years later, now a preacher, he returns to Liberia to begin “a crusade” to redeem his past. We are with him when he does so.

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    Roman Meffre and Yves Marchand are two young French men who spent five years taking pictures of the city of Detroit, the world’s now
    abandoned car construction capital.

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    This is a printer many photographers have been waiting for: a machine which includes all the technological advances in head design, print algorithms and ink formulation of the 7900/9900, in a 17 inch configuration with a roll-holder. In the 4900, Epson has produced all of that and  more.

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    A judge has ruled that Twitter and Twitpic’s licensing terms do not extend to third parties, that Morel has a valid copyright infringement claim, and that any information identifying the copyright holder (so-called “copyright management information”) must be distributed alongside copyrighted material.

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    Welcome to the Photo Follies 2010 Awards, the Premier Photo Industry Contest In This Universe Or Any Universe Yet To Be Discovered™. Entries were judged by a jury consisting of leading industry figures, including former deputy assistant night picture editors, photo agency interns and Flickr Pro members.

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    Does the everyday conformity of digital SLR cameras leave you cold? Then take a lead from the four photographers here, for whom 
off-the-shelf kit is just too conventional. So they decided to make their own…

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  • Hot Fujifilm X100 Gets U.S Price, Full Specs

    Fujifilm’s hot, retro-tastic X100 has finally gotten a U.S launch date, a price, and a proper spec sheet. The 12.3MP camera will be available in March for $1,200. We already know about the fancy new hybrid viewfinder, which works as a big, bright optical finder and can also be flipped into electronic mode, or used […]

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    Fujifilm’s hot, retro-tastic X100 has finally gotten a U.S launch date, a price, and a proper spec sheet. The 12.3MP camera will be available in March for $1,200.

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    Today, I decided to concentrate on the chairs that people put out by the curb.
    In an hour of driving around the streets in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, I photographed well over 50 different types of chairs.

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    Russell Frederick has been documenting the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn as part of an ongoing project since 1999. Mr. Frederick, 40, is a member of  Kamoinge, a New York-based collective and is working on his first solo exhibition “Black.” Mr. Frederick spoke with me this week in New York.

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    Last month I was robbed along with two colleagues of mine while we were sleeping. No one was hurt – we slept through the whole thing. But… they made off with about 10,000 in photography equipment and laptops. Luckily I was insured. After going through this experience I wanted to take the time to write about equipment insurance, which even if you have renters insurance or home owners insurance is worth getting because often times these policies will not cover you while you are traveling. Plus they often have higher deductibles.

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    Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible.

    According to interviews on Thursday with nine photojournalists in Cairo, it is often hard to photograph demonstrators for President Hosni Mubarak, because they are so openly hostile to journalists. On the defensive, photojournalists also find themselves traveling in packs (which they do not typically like to do), staying away from whole sections of Cairo (which is anathema) and donning helmets (which raises the likelihood they will be mistaken for government spies).

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    Things are changing fast in Egypt right now, and freelance photographer and journalist Matthew Cassel is experiencing it head-on. Cassel, who has been living and traveling throughout the Middle East since the age of 21 and speaks near fluent Arabic, is covering the events as they unfold in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

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    “The project Watching you watch me is discovering how a photographer can get as close as possible to others, without acting illegal. I have taken portraits of people through a mirror, when they are totally unaware of the camera inside. This way I get shots of people watching themselves.”

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