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    Elena Zhukova is a San Francisco-based photography student currently attending the Academy of Art University. Of her work, she writes, ‘The purpose of my photographs is to illustrate the magnitude and vast range of human character and individuality in fictitious ways.

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    Magnum Photos has opened up its enormous archive of images to a wider client base using the very latest keywording technology. Philip Wolmuth speaks to the agency

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    It used to be you won an award and people would say nice things, at least to your face; now it’s an excuse for a mob to take to the Internet and vilify you. In the week since Jodi Bieber’s portrait of Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman disfigured by her family – who may or may not have been members of the Taliban – arguments have raged over World Press Photo’s decision to award their premier prize to the image.

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    These days, anyone can become the victim of a scams or fraud – including photographers. New scams are being invented all the time, especially online, where anonymity is the norm. But there are 4 scams that target the photography world specifically, so I thought I would describe how they work, and what you can do to avoid falling for them.

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    What’s the real lifespan, or “shelf life” of a photographic print? Do ink-jet based prints last longer than prints made with traditional photo chemical-based processes? As a photographer selling prints, should you know the answers to these questions?

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    Mexican photojournalist Daniel Aguilar has won the Prize for Photography in the 2011 King of Spain International Journalism Prize, for an image taken in Haiti after the devasting earthquake last year.

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    having shot some 3,000 frames of stills and quite a bit of video, it’s time to revisit the GH2 in print and discuss my experience working with it in real-world rather than quick-first-test conditions.

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    I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a follow up to the post about what is a newspaper photograph, offering some thoughts about how to improve life in newsprint.

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    What Fernando Brito (a photojournalist from Mexico) seeks with his images, is that the next time someone sees a photo of a human being who has perished, they would cease looking at violent deaths as a normal, everyday occurance.

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  • Peter Beste’s ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’ (2008)

    Leather, spikes, face paint, and brandished weapons are standard and go along with a clearly stated stance of outsider-dom.

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    Intro from True Norwegian Black Metal, 2008

    By Johan Kugelberg and Peter Beste

    Over the last two decades, a bizarre and violent musical subculture c

    via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2011/02/peter-beste-true-norwegian-black-metal.html

    Photographer Mark Laita’s “Created Equal” is a series of portraits of Americans juxtaposed in rather provocative diptychs.

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    A native New Yorker, Misha Erwitt grew up around photography and some of the best photographers in the world and was incurably bitten by the photography bug. After a career that includes an 11-year stint as a staffer for the New York Daily News and a three-year association with Magnum shooting internationally, this brilliant L.A. based photographer now has a show at the Leica Gallery that he hopes to use as a springboard into the world of art photography. He modestly says he’s not an artist, but his engaging work proves otherwise. Here, in his own down-to-earth, unvarnished words, is his fascinating narrative.

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    This morning I saw Newsweek’s gallery of remarkable images Alex Majoli took in Cairo last week: “The Agony and the Ecstasy”. A few minutes later I got an email from a friend at Cesuralab inviting me to look at a series of pictures by photographer Gabriele Micalizzi also from Egypt.

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    Freelance photographer Daniel Morel, who has found himself in the middle of a legal fight after his images of last year’s Haiti earthquake were distributed by Agence France Presse without authorisation, won two World Press Photo awards

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    Damon Winters’ iPhone-taken story, A Grunt’s Life, was awarded 3rd place Feature Story in the 2011 Pictures of the Year International. This has been met with controversy. Many, including most prominently Chip Litherland, say the pictures aren’t photojournalism and that they don’t represent what was in front of the camera, others, such as Logan Mock-Bunting, say that the images violate POYi’s rules that stipulate, “No masks, borders, backgrounds or other artistic effects are allowed.”

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  • Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya

    The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning.

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    The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and rescued by British commandos; and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively in the Middle East and Africa.

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    Yemeni authorities are cracking down on journalists and photographers as Marco Di Lauro, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, tells BJP he was detained and deported from the Middle-Eastern country

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    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

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    TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr is documenting the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Nahr, represented by Magnum, arrived one day after the 8.9-magnitude quake, and spent the first night with several other journalists on the floor of a house in Fukushima. “Quite a sight, six guys huddled together like sardines covered in blankets,” he said.

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Brian Lanker, a newspaper and Life magazine, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated photographer whose book “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America” was one of the most successful photography books ever, has died at his home in Eugene after battling pancreatic cancer for less than two weeks. He was 64.

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    12 thoughtful, harsh and heartfelt stories around the subject of war. Stories whose content and multimedia delivery should not be missed.

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    While I’ve known it before to some degree, it has become increasingly clear to me that I am creating the family images I make to leave a record for my daughter. To know where we’re headed we have to know where we come from. Hopefully some day these photographs can serve as a foundation for her to better understand her roots and that no matter what happens in life, her mother and me love her more than she could ever know.

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