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JR has become one of the world's most recognized artists, turning his projects into citywide events, and even better, participating with the local…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/jr-brings-inside-out-to-paris
Milos “Sholim” Rajkovic is like a Belgradian anti-war Terry Gilliam, who produces the most remarkable surreal animations made from decomposed heads — authority figures like genera…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/18/milos-sholim-rajkovic-sur.html
Josef Koudelka has traveled the globe, photographing on his own terms. But as he puts the world in his viewfinder, the world shapes him in return.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/josef-koudelka-formed-by-the-world/?_r=0
“Jason Landry deftly describes the photographic journey from the inside out with his perceptive, humorous, and poignant essays on the people, events, and photographs that have shaped his life. His astute observations and reflections are at once meaningful
Link: Philippe Schneider – where we live matters | burn magazine
We often perceive slums as dark dens of poverty and despair, where juvenile delinquents, and squatters wander aimlessly amongst makeshift structures. We draw a clear distinction between the slum dwellers and ourselves: they are the “other”. In 2007, for the first time in history, the world’s population was more urban than rural. Of this urban swell, one out three one billion people around the world lives in a slum
Exciting news for all of us who love wringing maximum dynamic range & quality out of our images: “For the better image quality and flexibility of raw photos,” writes CNET’s Stephen …
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/11/phones-adding-raw-image-support.html
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/11/technology-and-photographic-art.html#slide_ss_0=1
Colleagues know San Francisco-based photographer Jake Stangel as a person who is open with information, advice and encouragement for his peers and aspiring shooters. Occasionally over the past few years Stangel has answered questions and offered “Pro Tips
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/11/pro-tips-for-photographers-with-jake-stangel.html
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Link: Musings: India’s New Drug Subculture | PROOF
His decisive moment to pursue photography came while he was walking through a central part of New Delhi and heard someone screaming: “The masses of people opened up, and in the middle of the road there was this man whose right leg, his right foot, looked like it had been ripped off freshly … he was basically sitting there begging for money, screaming for money.”
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/11/18/mexicos-narco-cultura-glorifing-drug-war-death-and-destruction/
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Life-lessons-in-the-hell-of-Tacloban
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/11/chile-photographs-pinochet-history.html#slide_ss_0=1
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Saner “El Cenit Del Venado” @ Fifty24MX Gallery, Mexico City
Over the weekend, Saner opened his newest exhibition “El Cenit Del Venado” at Fifty24MX Gallery in Mexico City. This new body of work consisted of acrylic paintings, ink drawings and sculptures, all presented in a dim lit setting. Saner wrote about the exhibition saying, “The zenith refers to the time when the sun and the moon aligns in the sky above us, and it´s used as a metaphor of those instants where the human being is able to get out of the daily routine and be present, being able to connect with the Great Spirit.”
Ranger With Tusks of Killed Elephant , Amboseli, 2011 Nick Brandt has long been dedicated to photographing the vanishing wildlife of Ea…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/11/interview-nick-brandt.html
Brooklyn photographer Nolan Conway spent three weeks exploring the culture of the United States’ largest retail chain and the people who loiter there. Waking Up at Walmart is a series of portraits featuring curious characters and vagabond tales, all clust
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/11/portraits-of-people-camping-in-walmart-parking-lots/
‘A visual shock. For the first time in its history, Libération is published without photographs. In their place: a series of empty frames that create a form of silence; an uncomfortable one. It’s noticeable, information is missing, as if we had become a m
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2307127/french-newspaper-removes-all-images-in-support-of-photographers
Link: Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case | Threat Level | Wired.com
In a 30-page decision (.pdf) Judge Denny Chin of New York ruled that Google’s move to digitize millions of university and commercially available books is on its face a violation of the owners’ copyrights. But Google’s limited use of the work makes the scanning “fair use” under copyright law, Chin ruled.