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Link: Fair Warning to Photographers out there: Livebooks appears to be in serious trouble… « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
What worries me the most is the total lack of response from LiveBooks. Their last tweet was June 4th. Dead silence since. There’s no one to reach over there either. No response. So we’re left to speculate openly which is not something I like to do at all. I’m frankly uncomfortable with it – but in this case a lot of photographers stand to get really hurt if LiveBooks were to suddenly shut down their servers.
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Journalist Assassinated in Violent Russian Republic
The journalist, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, had accused local authorities of persecuting and kidnapping Muslims and was shot to death while driving his car.
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Shooting the messengers
How journalists came to be a target in the world’s most dangerous conflict zones
via British GQ: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-07/09/war-reporting/viewall
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Mads Nissen – Amazonas
Mads Nissen Amazonas [ EPF 2013 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT AMAZONAS is a raw and lyrical journey into the world’s largest rainforest. The intense documentary photographs lure …
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/07/mads-nissen-amazonas/
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
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Zooey Deschanel Bans Fans from Photographing Her While She's Singing
An ostensibly polite request found posted outside the She & Him concert at last week's Toronto Urban Roots Fest asking attendees not to snap photos or shoot video of the duo was actually pretty aggressive, as some fans who flouted the ban quickly
via Gawker: http://gawker.com/zooey-deschanel-bans-fans-from-photographing-her-while-708395267
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Brand and Branding: Communicating You
By Deb Pang DavisType in any keyword combination of “branding” and “photographers” into Google and you’ll likely get results in the tens of thousands.Most of the results lead you to articles emphasizing the importance of a logo or a business card or some
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/brand-and-branding-communicating-you
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LightZone Image-Editing Software Re-Released as Free and Open Source | PDNPulse
Remember LightZone software? For those who do not, LightZone was a photo-editing program that offered a number of groundbreaking features including full 16-bit, selective and nondestructive RAW editing in a fairly user-friendly GUI. Released in 2005, it
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/07/lightzone-image-editing-software-re-released-as-free-and-open-source.html
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Link: The economic realities of editorial photography
There are as many career paths in photography as there are food pictures on Instagram. The difference is that on Instagram, the pictures are posted for fun. When it comes to a career though, pictures are produced for profit. At least that’s how it’s supposed to be.
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Hard Labor in Nepal’s Brick Factories
Hundreds of brick factories are scattered through part of Nepal’s Katmandu Valley, where even children toil amid clouds of red dust and the heat of kilns.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/hard-labor-in-nepals-brick-factories/
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Common Ground: New American Street Photography at drkrm
Sno Cone ©Richard Bram When I got the announcement for drkrm’s recently opened exhibition: Common Ground: New American Street Photography, curated by Stephen McLaren and featuring the work of 5 photographers that I admire greatly, needless to say I was mo
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Photography’s Existential Dread
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/photographys-existential-dread/
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The Economics of Copyright Infringement in Robert Caplin vs Perez Hilton – PhotoShelter Blog
Freelance photographer Robert Caplin filed a copyright infringement and DMCA violation complaint on June 26, 2013 against Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., aka Perez Hilton. Hilton is best described as an Internet gossip blogger, who has been known to approp
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/07/the-economics-copyright-infringement-in-robert-caplin-vs-perez-hilton/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
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Link: This is Shanghai, Rob Whitworth time lapse video | Camera Obscura
Speculative… It’s a tricky concept, essentially it means working for free in the hope of being paid later. The main advantage is it allows you to work free from any restrictions or client demands. It also means no client help with regards to funding, location scouting, favours and budgeting.
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SFO Asiana Accident: The Power of David Eun’s “I Just Crashed” Tweet – Reading The Pictures
There isn’t a photo that comes close to the power of the one taken by passenger and Samsung exec, David Eun, from the brown grassy field just off the runway near the body of the plane. The question, though, is why?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/07/the-sfo-asiana-accident-the-power-of-david-euns-i-just-crashed-tweet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
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Link: Zineland by Antoine Soubrier: The Eyes | Le Journal de la Photographie
The Eyes, launched by Aman Iman Publishing on paper and electronically (iOS etc), the first paper edition of which has been announced for autumn 2013, presents itself as “the first European magazine dedicated to photography “.
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2013 LENSCRATCH Honorable Mention Student Winners: Kurt Dudley and Sarah Land
Today wecomplete h the Honorable Mentions from the 2013 Lenscratch Student Competition. Congratulations to both Kurt Dudley and Sarah Marie Land! These two photographers take very different approaches to their work. While Kurt is exploring feelings of an
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Ladakh: Life on India’s northern frontiers
The mountainous region, bordered by Pakistan and China, is one of the last remaining homes of South Asian Buddhism.
Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2013/07/201373105424979151.html