The National Press Photographer’s Association has a handy guide that covers the basics of covering both conventions, ranging from what to do if you’re arrested to how to stay safe in a crowd to dealing with the heat. The guide also includes a brief survey of local and federal ordinances and laws that will apply to people on the scene and educated guesses on how police may treat journalists based on recent actions of police in Chicago during the NATO summit protests earlier this year
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Link: “Went the Games Well?” Seamus Murphy’s Olympic Short Film : The New Yorker
As a special tribute to this year’s summer Olympics in London, the photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy set out to create a short film that would capture the city’s new spirit
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Criminalizing Photography
In a conversation with James Estrin, Mickey H. Osterreicher, a lawyer for the National Press Photographers Association, discusses a troubling trend of arrests for photography in public spaces.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/criminalizing-photography/
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Q: “You never got your ass kicked for taking a picture?”
A: “Occasionally I will. But usually what I’ll say is, [in an overtly upbeat, ingenuous voice] ‘May I take your picture? I’m from Memphis!’
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Link: The Day the Mountain Light Faded – The Photo Society
This past weekend marked the tenth anniversary of the tragic death of Galen Rowell and Barbara Rowell. I can still remember the shock I felt when I heard the news on August 11, 2002 that the Rowells, both friends and colleagues at the National Geographic and beyond, had died in a plane crash near their home in Bishop, California
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Google Changes Search Engine to Penalize Copyright Infringers | PDNPulse
Starting this week, web sites that have received high numbers of removal notices for unauthorized use of copyrighted content will rank lower in Google’s search results, the search engine giant announced on its Inside Search blog on Friday. Because Google
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/08/google-changes-search-engine-to-penalize-copyright-infringers.html
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Yard Sale Photos Reveal Our Insatiable Need for Stuff
When most of us look at yard sales we see piles of junk and the occasional deal. But when photographer Greg Ruffing looks at yard sales he sees the sociological underpinnings of America.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/greg-ruffing-yard-sales/
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/13/last-launch-dan-winters-and-the-shuttle-program/#1
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They Know They Are Being Watched?
The photographer Gail Albert Halaban takes pictures of people through their windows, with their permission.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/they-know-they-are-being-watched/
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Link: Portraits of ‘Preppers’ Readying for the Apocalypse | Feature Shoot
Emil Hartvig, a documentary/art photographer based in Copenhagen, recently returned from the Midwest where he photographed ‘preppers’ in their homes and surrounds. Preppers are those who are actively preparing for the end of the world—for society as we know it to collapse
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Link: Overburdened: Central Falls, RI | Luceo Images
As I develop this project and continue to visit more cities in bankruptcy to speak with the people who live there, I am touched by the sheer weight of burden and the levity in small moments of daily life used to get by. Meals shared amongst neighbors, extended family day care (and night care for shift workers) where cousins take care of one another, religious halls with nightly events all help to make ends meet, and make life a little less heavy.
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Link: 2012 London Olympics: The Final Week – In Focus – The Atlantic
The 2012 Summer Olympics come to their conclusion this weekend, and the 10,000 athletes from 200 national Olympic committees around the globe who have gathered in London for the 17-day event will soon be returning home. Collected here are some small glimpses of the final week of the games — moments of triumph, exhaustion, dejection, celebration, and much more. [55 photos]
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Link: Scenes from the top of the city. – Photographs – NYTimes.com
It’s one of the unspoken rules of summer in New York: if you can’t get out of the city, go up. In search of open space, better views and relief from the heat and noise, New Yorkers take to the rooftops. These pictures — all posted on Instagram, all submitted by readers last month — are glimpses of life on top
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Link: lens culture: Andy Freeberg, Guardians
photographs by Andy Freeberg
In the art museums of Russia, women sit in the galleries and guard the collections. When you look at the paintings and sculptures, the presence of the women becomes an inherent part of viewing the artwork itself. I found the guards as intriguing to observe as the pieces they watch over.
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Link: Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno’s Prison Photo Puzzle « Prison Photography
In 2012, Swiss photographer Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno documented – alongside journalist Jean-François Schwab – three prisons: Prison Champ-Dollon and Prison La Brenaz in Geneva and Bochuz Prison in Vaud, Switzerland. The result was the series Puzzle Carcéral.
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Link: Awesome Geek Expo Portraits Showcase Playful American Characters | Raw File | Wired.com
With an anthropological approach, Warga — who has bylines with This American Life, NPR’s All Things Considered, American Public Media’s Weekend America, and PRI’s The World — has photographed attendees at over a dozen expos and conventions, including cat ladies, comic-book heroes, sex freaks, steampunks and zombies.