I had my M8 stolen in a mugging a couple of years ago, a drug user once pulled a knife on me in an alleyway behind Chungking Mansions, and three pimps chased me down the road once, and another drug user punched me last year, but Hong Kong is generally very law abiding and people are very friendly too
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Announcing Luminance 2012: A Very Different Photography Event – PhotoShelter Blog
We love photography. And although taking a picture is still as simple as pressing a button, the creation and consumption of images at all levels has changed drastically in the past decade, year, and even months. Most photo conferences focus on gear and te
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Link: British Journal of Photography
Photographers have less two weeks to enter this year’s Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/16/faces-of-protest-for-trayvon-martin/#1
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A Postcard From Rochester
Last May, five Magnum photographers (Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky and myself) and the writer Ginger Strand, set out from San Antonio, Texas in an RV named Uncle J…
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/a-postcard-from-rochester/
Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Webb, Bruce Gilden, Donovan Wylie, Jim Goldberg, Larry Towell, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Susan Meiselasin Photography
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Take pictures. You aren’t going to create any cool pictures by just thinking about ideas. Go outside, talk to people and be a part of the community you live in. The best pictures you will produce are ones where you are just wandering around, explore something new, or assigning yourself to go shoot
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Decision Makers – A Conversation with W.M.Hunt
W.M. Hunt – Bill Hunt – is a self described champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant, who lives and works in New York City. His book “The Unseen Eye: Photographs…
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Photo Project Aims to Capture a Day in the Life of the World
The world is invited to take photos of their lives on this coming May 15 and submit them to a global documentary project called ADAY.org. Backed by Desmund Tutu and Swedish pop-star Robyn, among others, the effort aims to create a crowdsourced snapshot of
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Beautiful Tourists
This week’s “Journeys” issue had me thinking about tourist destinations in the United States—and the photographers who’ve captured them while …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/sightseeing-usa.html?currentPage=all
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David Guttenfelder, Ambassador – Reading The Pictures
I imagine the North Koreans look at these factory shots and feel that Guttenfelder is paying them respect, capturing an ethic of hard work and industry, perhaps believing also that the photos must counter perceptions the country is barely scraping by.
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
The Pobeda (“Victory”) gallery is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the work of a young photographer, Alexey Kiselev. This is his first solo exhibition. Why him? “It’s a combination of chance and circumstance,” says Nastia, the gallery’s director of communications. “It worked out well.” No kidding. Never have I seen Pobeda so packed with excited young people
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
Mikhael Subotzky’s road leads us to a prison, one located right in the middle of an intersection, right in the middle of a city, it radiates out from the prison. You would have to be South African to imagine such a concept. Subotzky, 31, is fascinated by prisons. He has made it an important theme of his reportages, highly acclaimed in his native South Africa and abroad (Arles, New York, London). A book has already been made from this 2006 reportage, Beaufort West. In 2007 Subotzky joined the prestigious Magnum photos agency
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Breaking Through: Top Tips from the New Pros – PhotoShelter Blog
Every year, PDN magazine hand picks the top 30 new and emerging photographers to watch, and this past March the School of Visual Arts hosted a seminar featuring several photographers from the 2012 list, along with other heavy hitters in the industry. I ha
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2012 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Ten Photographers | PDNPulse
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships. The winners include ten photographers: Elizabeth B. Barret, Peter Bogardus, Stephen DiRado, Dornith Doherty, Douglas DuBois, Wendy Ewald, John Goss
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/04/2012-guggenheim-fellowships-awarded-to-ten-photographers.html
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OLD Nº 9
Chegou a OLD Nº 9! Esse mes apresentamos os portfolios de Rodolfo Tucci e Wenderson Fernandes. Alem de uma entrevista com Cassio Vasconcellos!
via Issuu: http://issuu.com/felipeabreu/docs/old_9
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The C500 shares an almost identical body design to the C300 but is a much higher end Cinema camera inside. The C500 shoots uncompressed 4K RAW (4096 x 2160-pixel) 24,25,30,50 and 60fps video to an external recorder in 10-bit 4:4:4 using 3G HD/SDI connections. Step the camera down to 2K and it will shoot 12-bit RGB 4:4:4 up to 60 fps.
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combines the body and still image features of the EOS-1D X with the ability to record up to 4K (4096 x 2160 pixels) video at 24fps, as well as 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixels) at up to 60fps
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Canon EOS-1D X & EF 24-70 f/2.8L II Delays Officially Confirmed
From Canon We previously reported that the Canon EOS-1D X had been delayed until June and the new EF 24-70 f/2.8L II delayed until July, both have been confirm
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Cinema EOS 1D & EOS C500 for NAB
NAB 2012 Canon will be introducing two new cameras for NAB. I’ve been reading a lot of the tips coming in and trying to make sense of it, thankfully someone el
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