Attack on Journalist Starts Battle in Pakistani Press
Accusations that the country’s spy agency was involved in the attack have led to a divisive debate and demands that a television station be shut down.
Accusations that the country’s spy agency was involved in the attack have led to a divisive debate and demands that a television station be shut down.
Publisher Kehrer Verlag has just released Kodak City by Swiss photographer Catherine Leutenegger with texts by A. D. Coleman, Catherine Leutenegger, Joerg Bader, and Urs Stahel. The project not only examines “a city once central to photography but now mar
As a teenager, Alexandra Crockett was a fan of metal music. She said she originally got into Swedish death metal, Norwegian black metal, and East Coast…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/04/25/alexandra_crockett_metal_cats_looks_at_the_relationship_between_metalheads.html
The fire alarm chirped voraciously, like a cricket in a bad mood. Immediately, every eye in the room was focused on me, the idiot that opened the fire door. I saw them staring. Rather than hide, which was my natural instinct, I raised my hand and waved it
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2014/04/25/new-york-portfolio-review-part-1/
The New York Times photojournalist happened to be nearby when Islamist militants launched an attack on shoppers inside an upscale Kenyan mall — he rushed inside and took photos as the event unfolded.
Larry Fink moved to Greenwich Village from suburbia in 1958, finding like-minded renegades among the Beat Generation.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/far-out-and-close-up/
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Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine released the American journalist Simon Ostrovsky on Thursday, three days after he was taken prisoner in Slovyansk while reporting for Vice News.
via The Lede: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/american-journalist-released-by-ukraine-separatists/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Photojournalist Tyler Hicks of The New York Times is the recipient of the 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his photographs of a terrorist attack on the upscale Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya last year. The same picture story by Hicks won
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/tyler-hicks-awarded-2013-robert-capa-gold-medal-award
Leica is celebrating its 100th birthday by launching an entirely new camera system. Born out of a design partnership with Audi, the unibody Leica T is an APS-C-sensored minimalistic masterpiece.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/leica-t/
Link: Leica T System Impressions and Use
The word sexy is one that I have never used before in relation to a camera. Not no how. Not ever. That’s just not the way that I speak or write. But when I recently attended a meeting in New York with senior Leica management, and the new Leica T was put in my hand for the first time, my reaction was emotional rather that pragmatic. “Wow, this is one sexy camera,” are the words that I remember saying, and then I sat for some 10 minutes fondling the camera. Yes, fondling, also a word that I have never used before in a camera review.
Garry Winogrand’s 25-year retrospective, currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., includes Winogrand’s iconic images of everyday Americans—New Yorkers out on the street, lone figures in busy airports, and eerie scenes of we
via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/24/a-visit-to-garry-winogrands-retrospective/
Link: PDNPulse » Leica Launches Leica T (Typ 701) Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera System (Hands-On Review)
After a few days of testing out the snazzy and compact Leica T, I actually found it to be quite a good camera for street photography, with a responsive but sublimely quiet shutter that makes it a solid alternative to Leica M rangefinders. And at just under $2,000 for the Leica T camera body, it’s approximately $5,000 less than a full-frame Leica M9 digital rangefinder.
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Update: The Leica T is now officially announced. Pricing and pre-order options can be found here. The official website for the new Leica T camera is now live at http://www.s.leica-camera.com/Photography/T-System/The-Leica-T-Story (update: the site is now
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2014/04/23/leica-t-website-now-live.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaRumors+%28LeicaRumors.com%29
Sergiy Lebadynskyy Euromaidan (2014) I couldn’t give any other answer to the situation happening in Ukraine except for this one. The feeling that I was missing something very important, which I had…
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via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/moises-samans-return-to-iraq.html#slide_ss_0=1
Link: Conversation With Abelardo Morell and Peter Essick | PROOF
In this edition of Conversations, photographers Abelardo Morell and Peter Essick each discuss their personal approach to photographing in National Parks. The two are exploring contemporary versions of early photographic processes in order to reenvision vistas that are so familiar they have become part of public consciousness, Morell using a camera obscura and Essick through a wet-plate collodion process.
Turning 18 is the start of an important year for young Israelis. They typically finish high school, become legal adults, and get the right to vote….
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/04/22/natan_dvir_photographs_arab_teenagers_in_israel_for_his_series_eighteen.html
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