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    Photographer Jason Lee Parry has earned international attention this week as a defendant in a high-profile, $28 million lawsuit. A 16-year old model Parry photographed in sexy poses when she was just 15 is suing him for licensing the images without a model release

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    It’s impossible to know what the future will bring. But, it’s likely that the Sony A77 will be regarded as one of the most fascinating new camera introductions of 2011. The camera was announced on 24 August, and won’t be released until early October. Thanks to Sony Canada I had an opportunity in early August to spend four days field testing a pre-production camera, along with the new 16-50mm f/2.8 lens.

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    Nikon has unveiled six additions to its compact digital camera lineup. Leading the pack is the Coolpix P7100, a reworked version of the P7000 that addresses head-on that camera’s various performance and design quirks (and should result in the P7100 being the most capable RAW-shooting Coolpix ever produced), the Coolpix S1200pj, a 14 million image pixel model which can can serve as a projector too (including for an iOS device from Apple), the waterproof/shockproof Coolpix AW100 and three others.

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    Nils Orth’s Untitled Faces aren’t particularly flattering images, but regardless they’re quite compelling, rubbing against many photographic conventions.

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    Lissy Laricchia is a Canadian photographer who is known for her surreal portraiture work. Working extensively with self portraiture, she combines photography and her imagination to create unique collections of composites that tell the dreamlike stories she imagines. From book and album covers to magazine ads, her unique style has inspired a growing number of fans and recognition.

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  • ‘Tomorrow, Tripoli’

    Although Bryan Denton has been on assignment in Libya for six months, he had yet to see Tripoli until Sunday night. Mr. Denton wasn’t the only one surprised by the rebels’ speedy advance.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/tomorrow-tripoli/

    On Sunday night, the freelance photographer Bryan Denton, on assignment for The New York Times in Libya, entered the heart of Tripoli alongside advancing rebel fighters. For Mr. Denton, who has been covering the war from the perspective of the rebel fighters for six months, the experience felt almost mythical.

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    I read with great interest Mark Dubovoy’s account of using his S2 in Africa instead of the usual big lens DSLRs. By sheer coincidence, I have been out of the country too, putting my S2 through its paces as a travel camera on a workshop in Western China and I thought I’d share some of my experiences – listed here in no particular order.

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    The advertising and street photographer Mike Russell has died from cancer. He was an early practitioner of digital technology and a passionate environmentalist.

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    In July, while working for the New York Times, photographer Moises Saman journeyed into Syria as the first Western photographer to enter the country since the conflict between anti-government protestors and forces of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad began

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    Anne Hathaway rapped, “I’m a paparazzi/I don’t play no Yahtzee/I go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop/My camera’s up your crotch…”

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    In 2009 I started Against all Odds, a project documenting the HIV/AIDS epidemic among indigenous Papuans in Indonesia. Currently, Papua has the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the country, 15 times higher than the national average and the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence outside of Africa.

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    For AP photographers working on Sept. 11, none knew the big picture of what was going on. All knew only what was happening right before their eyes, that it was part of something huge, and that it was their job to record it.

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    BBC News had wrongly contended that photos posted to Twitter were “in the public domain” because they are “available to most people who have a computer.”

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    Let us remark that an increase in perspective, even one that goes hand in hand with a zooming in on the details, need not necessarily lead to a dramatic increase in size. The question remains what may have been the reason for Gursky’s predilection of giant size. Before answering this question, let us first have a look at the other characteristics of Gursky’ photos.

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    In truth, manufacturers have been locked in a decade-long race for their lives as the camera product-cycle shrank from years to months and the race to ever-greater numbers of megapixels dominated the development and consumption subcultures.  But now we find ourselves at a plateau of sorts.  The megapixel race is largely over. Cameras are actually sticking around on the market long enough for people to actually wear them out. Perhaps the paradigm is shifting back to a development pace we used to see with film.  Perhaps it’s time for some real innovation to re-enter the equation.

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    I made a “what’s in my bag” post in 2009 about my mixed kit of Nikon and Canon gear. I’ve recently sold my Nikon gear and have gone 100% Canon to the surprise of many including myself. I’ve fielded lots of questions on Twitter about it, many I have not gotten to, so I’m making this blog post to cover your questions and to take the time to talk about why I am doing all of this. In this post I’ll talk about my past kits, my current kit, why I made the switch, the gear on my wish list, and why none of this matters all that much.

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    Doolow in Southern Somalia is on the front line of an Islamic insurgency and famine now facing the Bakool and Shabelle Districts of Somalia, the most lawless nation on earth. Here staggering across harsh desert with meager supplies women and children flee, walking for up to twenty days, towards the Ethiopian border where camps are already overflowing with the victims of the first famine of the 21st Century.

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    What happens when you work as a contract freelancer for a publication and it continues to put out your work after you leave? It’s all about the fine print, innit?

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    TIME commissioned renowned aerial photographer and photojournalist George Steinmetz to document the effects of the drought in Texas, New Mexico, and Georgia. On his journey, Steinmetz quickly found that even in the driest sections of the country, the cliched idea of the bowl of cracked earth and dust was neither common nor representative of the crisis

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