Link: In the Footsteps of Ghosts | Luceo Images
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Link: Photographs of Yemen in Transition | Feature Shoot
Alex Potter is an emerging photojournalist who has worked primarily in Minneapolis, MN and Yemen. After graduating university with a nursing degree she decided to follow her calling rather than the advice of others and turned to a life in photography.
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Link: Magnum Photos member and photographer Martine Franck has died – British Journal of Photography
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Review Santa Fe: Cristina De Middel
Over the next month, I will be sharing some of the photographers who attended Review Santa Fe in June. Review Santa Fe is the only juried review in the United States and invites 100 photographers to Santa Fe for a long weekend of reviews, insights, and c
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Hipstamatic Lays Off All but Core Employees
Toy camera app company Hipstamatic has fired all but 5 of its core staff, including engineers and designers, The Next Web has learned. The company had been staffed up and working on a new release, but has only released one update in the last several month
via The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/16/hipsta-dramatic-hipstamatic-lays-core-employees-including-designers-engineers/
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Link: David Griffin – What it Takes – The Photo Society
There are many people taking photographs. There are some who are very good. But there are only a few who are great. Your first task is to move yourself from the many, to the few, since NGM only works with the latter. To become a great photographer is your first task
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Instagram 3.0’s New Maps Feature: A Privacy Wake-Up Call?
Instagram certainly seems to be following in its soon-to-be parent company Facebook’s ethos of “sharing more is better.” Among a handful of mostly minor updates, Instagram 3.0, out today on iOS and Android, adds a photo mapping feature that plots all of y
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/instagram-3-0-update-maps/
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On the Beach with Martin Parr
For over forty years, Martin Parr has photographed beach culture around the globe. From the world-famous waterfronts of Cannes and Copacabana to the lesser…
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/on-the-beach-with-martin-parr.html#slide_ss_0=1
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The whole situation reads like a microcosm of what’s been happening at newspapers across the country as staffs are gutted and institutional knowledge is lost in favor of cheap and quick content.
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Following today’s news that Getty Images has been sold for $3.3 billion to The Carlyle Group, BJP speaks with CEO Jonathan Klein about what’s to come for the company
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Link: John Langmore: Photographing the Mystery of Oaxaca « The Leica Camera
John Langmore is an Austin, Texas based photographer most noted for his long-term work on East Austin and Oaxaca, Mexico. He grew up in a family of great photographers – most notably his father, Bank Langmore, who established himself as one of the preeminent photographers of the American West in the 1970s. A professional and enthusiastic photographer, John has many interesting things to share in this interview.
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Jeff Lipsky Interview – A Photo Editor
By Chris Orwig, Faculty at Brooks Institute APE Ed Note: I’ve worked with Jeff quite a bit in the past, so when I heard about the inspiring lecture he gave at Chris Orwig’s class I asked if he would conduct an interview for us. He’s an amazing person to w
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/08/15/jeff-lipsky-interview/
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/15/walker-evans-american-photographs/#1
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Daylight Photo Awards: Muge’s “Going Home”
Earlier this month, I served as a juror for the annual Daylight Photo Awards, which, along with a winner—Aaron Vincent Elkaim, for his body of work …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/daylight-photo-awards-mu-ge-going-home.html#slide_ss_0=1
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Link: A Cast of Characters Photographed Across America | Feature Shoot
Roger Kisby: With no money coming in and gas prices at an all-time high, I took off on a cross-country road trip. I didn’t have a set plan of where to go or what to shoot; I just knew that I wanted to travel and take photos before I returned to New York to start a new chapter in my career.
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Link: Conscientious Extended | The Single Photograph
Ask any photographer what they’re working on, and they’re sure to tell you about their project. It’s almost as if these days photographers don’t take pictures any longer, they take projects
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Syria, ‘on the Verge of Collapse’
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/syria-on-the-verge-of-collapse/100352/