Nearly half a century after her own prom night, Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, went to 13 proms across the United States from 2006 to 2009 for their project “Prom.”
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Police Intimidation Watch: Photog Agrees to Community Service for Trespassing on a Public Street | PDNPulse
A freelance photographer arrested last fall while covering police action at the Occupy protest in Richmond, Virginia has reportedly agreed to complete 50 hours of community service in exchange for having prosecutors drop trespassing charges against him. P
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In order not to waste time, to all those “clients” I am now sending to them a link to this video
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In September of 2010, Arthur’s mother and only living parent passed away suddenly of cancer. With little keeping him at home, he set out to walk across the entire United States to raise awareness for breast cancer research, and to heal.
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Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot: An Interview with David Burnett, Part II
Interview by John Camp (Part I is here) John Camp: David, on your days off, do you walk around with a camera under your arm? David Burnett: About four years ago I needed a carry around camera, and ended up…
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The one thing I think I would advise young photographers, in particular, is that in most cases no one can be as hard on you as you will be on yourself. Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don’t forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life
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Finding the Moments New Yorkers Ignore
While others try to lose themselves on their commutes, Dimitri Mellos finds his pictures. He’s trained himself to notice what others block out of their minds.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/finding-the-moments-new-yorkers-ignore/?pagewanted=all
Most New Yorkers try to block out the crowds. They wear headphones, gaze at their cellphones, do anything to distract themselves from their dreary commutes. That’s when Mr. Mellos looks for photographic moments.
“Often, people ask me whether some of the pictures are staged, because they find it so hard to believe that these coincidences could be occurring,” he said. “It just means people aren’t paying attention.”
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10 Photographers You Should Ignore
Bryan Formhals lives and works in New York. He is the founder and managing editor of LPV Magazine, a thrice-yearly publication dedicated to contemporary documentary and fine art photography. Blake Andrews is a photographer based in Eugene, OR. He writes t
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03/10-photographers-you-should-ignore/all/1
how many perfectly exposed black and white vistas of snow-capped peaks or rivers snaking into the background do we need to see? Yes, nature is majestic. We get it. Saint Ansel showed us, and he did it better than you ever will, so move on already or we’ll score your performance as a negative.
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This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 and receive mentorship for the project from one LUCEO member.
Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel of four judges presided over by moderator Michael Wichita, Director of Photography for AARP Bulletin, will narrow the decision to one winner who will be announced during LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph.
The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 10, 2012.
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The Weird World of Sports
What possesses grown men to dress like movie monsters and destroy miniature cities? Sol Neelman, the quintessential weird sports photographer, aims to find out.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/the-weird-world-of-sports/?pagewanted=all
While other sports photographers head to Florida for spring training, Sol Neelman drives through the mountains of Idaho looking for K-9 keg pulls and a skijoring event (skiers, pulled by horses). His itineraries are not shaped by the N.F.L. season or the P.G.A. tour, but by the schedules of weekend warriors pursuing oddball pastimes.
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How Come Nikon Beats Canon So Badly?
I got a press release yesterday from DxOMark that says the new Nikon D800 is “now the best camera ever tested by DxOMark in terms of image quality.” “Incredibly,” the press release goes on to say, “the Nikon D800 even…
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Of the top ten cameras in overall score on DxOMark, four are Nikons (and two are Pentaxes). But Canon doesn’t have a single camera in the top 10. Canon’s highest placed camera comes in at #13. In the top 20, Nikon has eight cameras; Canon, just two. (Sony has five.) Nikon’s little entry-level DSLR, the D5100, comes in just above the vaunted (but outgoing) Canon 5D Mark II (evidently the Mark III hasn’t been tested yet).
As a side note, my most-used camera limps in at #124. (Breaks into patriotic song.)
Makes me wonder, though, why Nikon beats Canon so badly in DxOMark scores.
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Pete Brook, based in Portland, OR, is a freelance writer who focuses on the politics and social justice in photography. He writes about imagery produced within and about prisons on his own website Prison Photography. In 2011, Prison Photography was awarded a LIFE.com Photoblog Award and the British Journal of Photography recommended it among the Top Ten Best Photoblogs.
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/28/promising-waters/#1
Post-Soviet countries on the Caspian Sea face “the painful period of societal adolescence,” says Berlin-based photographer Mila Teshaieva. Twenty years after the fall of the U.S.S.R., countries in this oil-lush region continue to search for new national identities. Teshaieva’s project Promising Waters explores economic realities in three Caspian Sea states: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
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‘I think of them as parts of a novel I’m doing.’
These were the first words William Eggleston uttered when I asked what he felt he was accomplishing with his photographs
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Mark Sherratt
Mark Sherratt’s terrific new project, Train, is intriguing on several levels. As foreigners, how do we enter into a culture that is not our own and describe it in a way that is authentic and unique? Mark has captured a way to create portraits of Indian co
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/mark-sherratt.html
Mark Sherratt’s terrific new project, Train, is intriguing on several levels
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Boston paying $170k for videography arrest – NPPA Advocacy Committee
The Boston Globe is reporting that the City of Boston has paid $170,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed against them after they arrested a man for photographing police activity on the Boston Commons. The underlying case was the subject of an earlie
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/03/27/boston-paying-170k-for-recording-arrest/
An attorney who believed that the officers might be using excessive force, Simon Glik began recording with his cell phone. Police arrested Glik and charged him with, among other things, violations of the wiretap statute
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Confessions of a Veteran Spring Training Photographer
Guest blogger Brad Mangin details his 20 years covering spring training.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03/confessions-of-a-spring-training-veteran-photog/all/1
There I was, loaded down with gear and standing on the grassy field of Scottsdale Stadium for the first time. I had a camera bag full of Canon film cameras, grainy Kodak Ektapress color negative film and a heavy, brick-shaped Motorola cell phone
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Just Make the Damn Picture: An Interview with David Burnett, Part I
Interview by John Camp Introduction: I’m a writer—a novelist —and a few weeks ago my publishing company sent a well-known professional photographer out to Santa Fe to take my picture for the backs of upcoming novels…which shows a bit of…
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You can still make a living, but in so many aspects of editorial and commercial photography, the world has seen a quantum shift. A few people are doing extremely well, in most cases people who have not only talent with a camera but the ability to create an aura about themselves using social media and blogs. I am constantly amazed at the number of “comments” I see on some of the popular photo blogs. Dozens, sometimes hundreds of comments from what must truly be a large population of people with true photographic interest. Proof, I suppose that the photograph isn’t the only way to connect with your audience.
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Nikon D800 tested at DxOMark, gets the #1 spot – Nikon Rumors
After the Nikon D4 got the second best DxOMark overal score on Tuesday, today there is a new king – the Nikon D800 is now the #1 rated camera – it even got a higher score than the Phase One IQ180 digital back. The detailed stats are available on DxoMark,
it even got a higher score than the Phase One IQ180 digital back.
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/23/larry-towell/#end
Through five harrowing videos (three of which are shown here), Towell gives viewers a comprehensive look at life for citizens inside conflict-riddled Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the photographs from this project are on display for the first time in Larry Towell: Danger and Aftermath at the Museum London in Southwestern Ontario through April 1. “I wanted to look more at the social problems before I looked at what was going on militarily,” the photographer says. “The victims of the war weren’t just people who were wounded. They were the people living in the rural areas who were forced into the cities without means.”
