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    Fuji says that the X100 was designed by photographers, for photographers. Even Fuji themselves consider the X100 the “professionals choice” and at $1200 it is priced up there with some very good DSLR cameras, but those who are interested in this camera are NOT interested in a big old DSLR. Nope, those who want the X100 are looking for something fresh, new, exciting, small and classic. As I recently found out for myself, the X100 is all of that and more.

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  • via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/500px-shows-promise-as-sort-of-a-more-artistic-version-of-flickr.html

    For the past week or so I’ve been spending some time playing around with the photosharing site 500px and am really starting to like it. The site has been around awhile (since 2003) but went through some major redesigns, most notably in the Fall of last year. The result seems to be a very elegant photosharing community that is far more focused on fine art and artistic oriented photography than Flickr is.

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    Ashley Macknica has worked as a freelance photo editor at Jane Magazine and New York Magazine. In part two of our webinar series entitled How We Hire Photographers, Ashley discusses the important of persistence and “repetitive exposure” in getting a photo editor’s attention.

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    Combining the latest in technology with a retro-cool look and feel from 45 years ago, the Fujifilm FinePix X100 is perhaps the most highly anticipated camera of the year

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    Welcome to the 2011 LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition. I am always excited to see how photographers choose to express themselves through self portraiture. A big thank you to all the contributing photographers for sharing your inner and outer selves, your humor, your life, and revelations. The genre of self portraiture is a universal expression of our humanity and ourselves. So express yourself!

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  • The top 7 complaints of the Fuji X100 and how I get around them. By Steve Huff. | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo

    OK guys, here you go! Decided that since the Fuji X100 has been so popular, and because I get so many e-mails on it asking me about the “quirks” that I would write up a list of the top 7 complaints on the camera (from users and reviews, not necessarily ME

    via Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo | Hi-Fi Audio Reviews: http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2011/05/11/the-top-7-complaints-of-the-fuji-x100-and-how-i-get-around-them-by-steve-huff/

    Decided that since the Fuji X100 has been so popular, and because I get so many e-mails on it asking me about the “quirks” that I would write up a list of the top 7 coplaints on the camera, and what I do to get around them (well, they are not really issues for me in the first place as you will soon see).

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    Amongst the many things that he said he noted that today most photographers seemed to be thinking about their careers (gallery shows) first and about their photography second. He argued that was the wrong approach.

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    The fate of UK-based photojournalist Anton Hammerl remains unknown, 37 days after he went missing in Libya

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  • A Family Tragedy in a Neo-Nazi Home

    Julie Platner counted on Jeff Hall as entree to the National Socialist Movement. She could not have counted on how the story would end.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/a-family-tragedy-in-a-neo-nazi-home/

    It took about six months, Julie Platner said, to persuade anyone in the neo-Nazi movement to let her photograph the group. About 10 months into her self-assigned project, she interested The New York Times in the topic, having already developed numerous contacts with the National Socialist Movement.

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    It costs $4.99. Right now, the app has the 350 winning images and an interactive map of locations of the pictures, in addition to captions, photographer biographies and camera information (which seems like a weird thing to include).

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  • In Tender Moments, a War’s High Cost

    Marcus Yam and Philippe Brault win the first-ever World Press Photo multimedia awards.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/in-tender-moments-a-wars-high-cost/

    Many poignant ways have been found to express the cost of wartime deployment on the families left behind. Few have affected me as immediately as a moment in “The Home Front” when 12-year-old Isaac Eisch almost lets down his brave-soldier demeanor as he speaks of his father, Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch, who is half a world away in Afghanistan.

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    Martijn Kleppe has compiled a good and broad-ranging list of writing and reactions about the images surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden.

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    The Olivier Rebbot Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books” was given to Lynsey Addario for her National Geographic story “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”.

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    The Feature Photography Award for “best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme” was given to Rodrigo Abd of Associated Press for his story on an emergency room in Guatemala.

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    In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs reimagine or respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary conflict. Conceived as a collaborative project with Burke across time, this new body of work is presented alongside Burke’s original portfolios.

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

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    As the EF announced the latest round of photographers it would be supporting, LightBox spoke to Magnum Foundation President and photographer Susan Meiselas who heads up the EF, about its mission, and the challenges facing documentary photography today.

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    Still searching for something more creative and fulfilling he began blogging in 2007 and later started the Berlin Black and White blog in July 2010. “After I turned to Berlin and Leica I have been extremely lucky,“ he says with a smile. “I have deliberately tried to eliminate all sources of error by doing things the right way and working with the equipment that I feel good working with. That‘s very important not only in photography, but overall. So when things don’t succeed I only need to look in one direction to get it right, at myself.”

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    Debate sponsors Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party will only allow photos to be taken in the moments ahead of the debate tonight and not during the event itself

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    Christian Anderson is a humanist and an artist all rolled into one terrific photographer. He is widely known for his editorial and advertising work, but has a host of book projects, including Son, featured below.

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