Link: PDN launches digital photo magazine for women | dvafoto
Photo District News have launched a new photography-focused digital magazine for women called Pix, a few screenshots from which are presented above. It’s a doozy
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Link: Anatomy of sports photography — chicagotribune.com
Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante discusses the joys and challenges of his sports photography work.
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For an Exiled Cuban Photographer, Freedom Was in Color
Omar Rodríguez Saludes called himself “a blind photographer,” since he never saw prints of his work. His photos, which showed another side of Cuba, led to a prison sentence and his exile.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/freedom-was-in-color/?pagewanted=all
Journalism was the reason for his imprisonment. Specifically, everyday shots of Havana life, far from the gleaming tourist hotels and beaches. His world showed a crumbling city with haggard faces, presided over, Oz-like, by billboards with revolutionary slogans
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What to know about covering the conventions
If May’s NATO Summit in Chicago is any indication, journalists covering events outside the national political conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C., later this summer can expect that everyone–mainstream media, bloggers, citizen journalist
Link: http://cpj.org/security/2012/07/what-to-know-about-covering-the-conventions.php
Both Tampa, which will host Republicans August 27-30, and Charlotte, which will host Democrats September 3-6, have established security zones around their respective convention centers. Those ordinances also ban a long list of items deemed to be potential weapons, so journalists who might come prepared with gas masks may find they are violating the new restrictions by carrying one
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Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually
Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.The companies said they were working around the cl
Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data, according to data provided to Congress.
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Årets Bild: The Swedish Press Photography Awards
The annual press photography competition – known as ‘Årets Bild’ – grew out of tradition that began in the 1940s. Each member of the Swedish Press Photographers Club (Pressfotograferna’s Klubb) brought a photograph to their Christmas dinner. Over tea and biscuits the members voted for their favourite image.
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Link: Arles 2012, A Failed Festival | Le Journal de la Photographie
Arles 2012 is dead. Long live Arles 2013. Whatever will happens then, couldn’t possibly be worse than this.
Let’s not be hypocritical or too well behaved. Let’s say out loud what everyone else has been saying under their breath. This year’s festival was a failure.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/07/09/after-the-spring-women-of-the-revolution/#1
Witnessing the upheaval firsthand, photojournalist Sarah Elliott set about documenting those who have had most to gain — and to lose — from the transformations of the Arab Spring: women. The revolutions in both countries, which were aimed at toppling an encrusted, deep-seated authoritarianism, presented women “with opportunities they had never before imagined,” says Elliott. Women massed on the frontlines of protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square; in Libya, some were on the frontlines as well — with machine guns.
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Link: Tour de Panoramic (8 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
In Paolo Pellizzari’s The Broad Way,” the photographer captures bright-colored panoramic landscapes around the world. He uses a Noblex camera, which captures a 135 degree view that corresponds to the natural sweep of the human eye. Rich in detail, each photograph illustrates a scene of daily life, making the viewer feel a part of the scene. Pellizzari’s photos are on view at Anastasia Photo until August 31.
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Link: Isadora Kosofsky wins Inge Morath Award – British Journal of Photography
US photographer Isadora Kosofsky has won the Inge Morath Award for her work on the elderly, the Magnum and Inge Morath Foundations have announced
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Link: Les Russie(s): Stanley Greene and Yuri Kozyrev | Le Journal de la Photographie
From Stanley Greene’s “Red October”, a post-cold war period dating back to 1993 to the tragic events of Bezlan in September, 2004, photographed by Yuri Kozyrev, the exhibition also demonstrates the different subjects covered by these photographers, otherwise known for their coverage of conflict
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Olympic Athlete Photographer Joe Klamar Brushes Off Criticism – A Photo Editor
“I was under the impression that I was going to be photographing athletes on a stage or during press conference where I would take their headshots for our archives,” he explained. “I really had no idea that there would be a possibility for setting up a st
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/07/05/olympic-athlete-photographer-joe-klamar-brushes-off-criticism/
I work for a news agency and I wasn’t taking pictures for a Nike ad
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Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Camera Bits releases public beta of Photo Mechanic 5
New features include optional automatic image import when a memory card is mounted, video playback (including frame grabbing on the Mac), a non-modal preview window, streamlined photo transfers and various IPTC/XMP metadata improvements. Photo Mechanic 5 also has a refreshed user interface and a new application icon.
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Magnum Photos Announces 3 Nominees | PDNPulse
Members of Magnum Photos held their annual general meeting this week at the Rencontres D’Arles photo festival in France, and selected three new nominees for the photo collective. The three are varied not only in their experience but in the kind of work th
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/07/magnum-photos-announces-3-nominees.html
The work of these three photographers might represent the different kinds of work now produced by Magnum members. Two years ago when we reported on Magnum’s choice of two news photographers as nominees, Alec Soth, a Magnum photographer, wrote us to say: “One of the reasons I wanted to be in Magnum is because of the diversity of approaches to the medium. There is such a broad spectrum within the agency that these lines between ‘art’ and ‘photojournalism’ have blurred beyond recognition.”
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Link: Youth, Freedom, Love and Summertime Photographed in Los Angeles | Feature Shoot
‘Stay Cool is a collection of an entire summer’s worth of images. The idea behind it was not simply to document subjects or happenings but to document the essence of an experience, to try and capture the feelings of youth and freedom and love and summertime and Los Angeles
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Robo-cams go for Olympic gold
Is it possible to get 11 photographers into a box and put them in a position where you could never place a photographer? Normally, it would be absolutely impossible. But nothing is impossible when it comes to the Olympic games.
via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/07/04/robo-cams-go-for-olympic-gold/
At the upcoming Olympics for the first time we are using robotic cameras made specifically for the high elevated roof positions than can only be covered by a remote camera and not by a photographer.
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Hiding, and Seeking, a Photo Book
The street photographer André J. Hermann takes Instagram pictures, prints them and binds them in a book. Then he hides them, leaving photo clues for enterprising followers.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/hiding-and-seeking-a-photo-book/?pagewanted=all
For the past two months, he’s been taking his Instagram images, printing them, bundling them into books, and hiding them in nooks and crannies around San Francisco. He’s hidden 16 one-of-a-kind books, and he’ll hide four more over the next few weeks.
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Link: ‘Does Magnum Photos still make sense?’ A report. – British Journal of Photography
Magnum Photos celebrated its 65 years by holding its annual general meeting at Rencontres d’Arles. It was an opportunity for photographers to come together to discuss Magnum’s future in an ever-changing market. Olivier Laurent reports from the conference