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    It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head– are not floating around– as– an incitement to additional violence. As a propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies

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    PMA’s annual photo industry trade show will be cancelled for 2011 and moved to January 2012 to be held alongside the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV, PDNonline has learned.

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    Alix Lambert’s fascinating documentary from 2000 about Russian criminal tattoos, The Mark of Caïn, is available under a Creative Commons license and viewable in full on YouTube.

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    “THE HUMAN MIND SHOULDN’T BE EXPOSED TO SUCH SHOCKING THINGS,” says Zed Nelson, the award-winning British photographer famous for his pictures taken in some of the most lawless areas of the world. Yet Nelson’s not talking about being arrested and locked in a hut in Sudan or even getting dengue fever with the French Foreign Legion in the jungles of French Guiana. He’s recalling his experiences backstage with Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista at 1992’s Paris Fashion Week. “I’d just come back from documenting the famine in Somalia and suddenly I was exposed to the behaviour of supermodels. It was mind-bending stuff!”

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    In just a few minutes (as of the writing of this post) we will officially enter the 3-day Memorial Day weekend. Summer has arrived, and it’s a great time to drink beers, fire up the BBQ, and think about the direction of your career. Is it going where you want it to go? Are you happy doing what you’re doing each day?

    For a lot of photographers, this is a difficult thing to think about. Most often feel powerless and unable to make a change for the better. I disagree. As long as you’re inspired, you can do anything.

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    When you think of Vienna, one doesn’t immediately think of quirky street photography, but Kay von Aspern has a gift for finding it. Born in Germany, now living in Vienna, Kay is a “Collector of Moments”. A member of the German-Austrian street photographer collective seconds2real, Kay looks for those unique juxtapositions that can only be found with the heightened visual acuity that comes from split second observations.

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    GlobalPost’s James Foley, one of the reporters in the incident, said he called out amid the barrages asking if Hammerl was ok. The answer was “No” and then there was silence.

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    Anton Corbijn has been at the top of his game as a photographer since the 1980s but, with two feature films under his belt, is establishing a reputation as a top-quality film director. Steven Pill meets the Dutch image maker.

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    I did a lot more thinking than shooting on this trip, but my camera is never far from my side, so here’s a few in passing I couldn’t pass up. 

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    During the nine days of campaigning in the lead up to Singapore’s historic general elections on May 7, photographer Darren Soh documented several rallies using the technique of a landscape photographer.

    Using a borrowed Leica S2, Soh photographed the rallies, then stitched images together to create final files that are roughly 1GB.

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    It adds support for the RAW formats of five additional digital cameras including the Nikon D5100 and Fujifilm FinePix X100.

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    Gerry Souter was a photography student from the Art Institute who came to the work as a press photographer for the Chicago Tribune in 1964. He stayed two years. In that time, he had a view of photojournalism that we will never see again.
    Since that time, he has become a media consultant and prolific author, writing over 40 books with his wife Janet.     
    Recently he privately responded to one of my blog posts, sharing some of the history of photojournalism as practiced in Chicago about 47 years ago. It was fascinating, so I asked for a “10 Questions” interview about life as a press photographer in the early 60’s. 

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    If you look through my total number of my photographic work, you’ll see that a lot of it is intimate. I call it “outside to the inside”. I don’t photograph stories, my photographs take on a mood, and have a cumulative effect, but there isn’t a beginning a middle and an end. It’s not a “story” story, it’s more a mood piece.

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    The son of a master shoemaker, Malian photographer Adama Kouyaté was born in the French Sudanese village of Bougouni (now Mali) in 1928.

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    Not only is it impressive to see manufacturers make smaller and smaller form factors these days (5k resolution in the EPIC or 1080p inside the  tiny GoPro HD!), but it is absolutely amazing what kind of footage these smaller cameras are allowing to be captured.  For most of us:  smaller cameras are clearly the future.

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    There are certain things you should never do when communicating via email with photo editors and creative directors. The PhotoShelter Research Team uncovered 14 of their biggest pet peeves recently

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    Email marketing campaigns can be very effective for photographers if done correctly. The problem is, most photogs don’t harness its full potential because they don’t understand the basics. Chances are your clients are already overwhelmed with email, so why would they want to sign up to receive more?

    For some photographers, a carefully maintained email list can yield new and repeat assignments, and enthusiasm for their images. This can be a helpful tool to prime the pump in slow times.

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    GIVE GEAR. EMPOWER THE PEOPLE.

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