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Report Sees Journalists Increasingly Under Attack
The Committee to Protect Journalists said 70 news workers were killed on the job last year, a 43 percent rise from 2011.
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2013 LENSCRATCH Self-Portrait Exhibition with a Twist
Happy Valentine’s Day. I thought it was an appropriate day to share self-portraits and start spreading a little love around our photo community, or at least make some new friends. As you know, if your work is featured in this post, you are asked nicely
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News photo of Iran’s new radar-evading jet looks photoshopped
Photoshop Disasters says: “Introducing Iran’s fancy new Qaher-313 radar-evading jet, seen here lazily superimposed over a generic photograph of Mount Damavand.” Iran: not-so-steal…
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2014 Northern Short Course Contest Winners
Click on category title for multiple picture categories to see the winners.2014 Multimedia winners available here
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/31277
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LightBox | Time
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Link: Portraits of Baltimore’s Untouchable ‘Twelve O’clock Boys’ | Feature Shoot
The Twelve O’clock Boyz – so-called because of the vertical wheelies many of the dirt bike riders pride themselves on, sometimes ride in packs 100 strong through the poor and run-down neighborhoods of Baltimore, creating a new improvisational urban sport that has become legendary in the city
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‘Americans’: The Book That Changed Photography
In 1959, Robert Frank’s The Americans dramatically altered how photographers looked through viewfinders and how Americans saw themselves.
via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100688154
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New Zealand-born photographer Robin Hammond won this year’s FotoEvidence Book Award for his work Condemned, which documents the bleak conditions faced by mentally ill people in African nations
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/13/everyday-life-in-the-hood-new-york-1970-1973/#1
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Link: Interview: Pete Brook on the Road | dvafoto
In 2011 Pete Brook took his blog Prison Photography on the road. He used Kickstarter to successfully fund his trip, and produced a number of interviews with photographers, prisoners and activists, gave six lectures and visited three prisons. Last year the project grew in to the exhibition Cruel and Unusual at Nooderlicht in the Netherlands, with a newspaper-style exhibition catalogue and an upcoming Prison Photography on the Road (PPOTR) book.
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iStockphoto Terminates Top Contributor in Aftermath of Getty/Google Deal – PhotoShelter Blog
Earlier last month, we learned that Getty agreed to licence some 5,000 stock photos to Google, and paid the image creators a one-time fee of $12. In response, members of the Microstockgroup forums planned to deactivate their photos and images on iStockpho
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/12/auto-defensa-rough-justice-in-mexicos-lawless-mountains/#1
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Silver Eye 2013 Keystone Award: Ross Mantle
Ross Mantle is a recipient of the Silver Eye Center for Photography $1,000 Keystone Award for a Pennsylvania artist for his series California, Pennsylvania. Drawing inspiration from the structure of short stories and the classic genre of the road trip, Ro
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Picturing the End of Analog
The factories that churned out billions of rolls of film have imploded — much like the market. Robert Burley deftly captures the passing of an era.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/picturing-the-end-of-analog/
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Link: Lausanne: Gilles Caron Le conflit intérieur | Le Journal de la Photographie
Through the 150 prints and documents selected from the archives of the Fondation Gilles Caron and a few private collections, we witness the major historical events covered by Caron, from the Six-Day War, May 1968 and Biafra to his disappearance in Cambodia.
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Wire Services Dominate Sports Categories (so far) in POYi Judging | PDNPulse
Wire service photographers are dominating the sports division prizes of POYi, as the judging moves into its second week. POYi judges selected News Division winners last week, including the top prize of Newspaper Photographer of the Year, won by Paul Hanse
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/wire-services-dominate-sports-categories-so-far-in-poyi-judging.html
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Swiss photographer in legal battle to publish photobook
In Jesus’ Name, produced in 2012, is Christian Lutz’s third book in a series documenting power around the world. In 2007, the Agence Vu photographer published Protokoll on political power, and Tropical Gift in 2010 on economic power. In Jesus’ Name docume
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2243026/swiss-photographer-in-legal-battle-to-publish-photobook?WT.rss_f=All+the+latest+articles+from+BJP&WT.rss_a=Swiss+photographer+in+legal+battle+to+publish+photobook
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Guy Martin, CJ Chivers Give Testimony in Inquest Into Tim Hetherington’s Death | PDNPulse
The Coroner’s Court in Westminster, UK, carrying out an inquest into the death of photographer Tim Hetherington concluded that his death was “unlawful,” The Independent reports. The photojournalist and documentary-film maker died April 20, 2011 in a mort
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/guy-martin-cj-chivers-give-testimony-in-inquest-into-tim-hetheringtons-death.html
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