While I cannot speak for the leadership of the Magazine today, I think there are several required attributes that are constant – they’re the same today as they were when I was Director of Photography, and earlier.
Those attributes are intellect, passion, maturity and drive.
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Last Thursday night, Mr. Aranda returned to Yemen to cover Tuesday’s presidential election, which ends the 33-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. But first, he had another task on his plate. He wanted to meet with the subjects of the photograph, to put a face on the image that gained so much attention after the award was announced on Feb. 10.
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NPPA Protests New Tactic in Dealing with Photographers Covering the Occupy Protests – NPPA Advocacy Committee
Today, the NPPA sent another letter of protest to U.S. Parks Police Chief Teresa Chambers asking her to investigate allegations that a photographer was arrested and detained for 48 hours without being formally charged. According to press reports officers
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/02/21/nppa-protests-new-tactic-in-dealing-with-photographers-covering-the-occupy-protests/
he was kept “shackled and handcuffed” with “no food, no water” until his released by U.S. Marshall’s 48 hours later
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The issue came up this past week when a certain type of meme (a concept that is disseminated via the Internet) started appearing on Facebook, many coming from Mashable. One such meme dealt with photojournalists.
This appears to be a format where the copy remains relatively the same (except for the subject) with the photos inserted from those found on the Internet and used for the most part without permission, credit or compensation to the photographer
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Marc Shoul is a South African photographer, born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, but its own” — as the photographer characterized it in the following interview — stumbling between a heavy past and an uncertain present.
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Turning Art Into Activism
A photograph from a crisis half a world away enraged Leslie Thomas. Then she took action.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/turning-art-into-activism/?pagewanted=all
Ms. Thomas, an architect turned activist, is the founder of Art Works Projects, which uses photography to raise awareness of human rights concerns and spur action. Over the last five years it has mounted exhibitions and presented large-scale public slide projections on various themes. It has now published a book of images with accompanying posters and curriculums on the lives of women in Afghanistan. A wide-ranging retrospective opens in Slovenia on Tuesday.
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Eric Tabuchi: FAT ( A French American Trip)
Eric Tabuchi has just released a new book, FAT, A French American Road Trip, published by Matmos Press in Montreal. It’s a wonderful collection of images that bring humor to the idea of our globalized world, where the homoginization of cultural landmarks
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/02/eric-tabuchi-fat-french-american-trip.html
Eric is a modern day typologist, with an amazing range of projects. His website is an incredible reflection of the potential of looking at our world. Eric works and lives in Paris and has a long roster of international exhibitions
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Eddie Adams: I’m not one to give up negative advice like a lot of picture editors do. I think that there’s a lot of room, for anyone who’s really serious about this and who first of all to be successful in anything–and in photography it’s gonna hurt. You’re gonna cry, you’re gonna have your heart ripped out, but just don’t give up. If you have the will and the time and are really serious about this, the most important thing is you have to want it bad enough. If you want it bad enough, you’ll get good, and get to where you want to go.
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SUSIE LINFIELD: An Excerpt from ‘The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence’ (2010)
Eddie Adams, Saigon Execution, Vietnam, 1968
A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?(An excerpt from The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence)
By Susie Linfield
In 1846, Charles
These moments are in reality utterly discontinuous with normal time.… But the reader who has been arrested by the photograph may tend to feel this discontinuity as his own personal moral inadequacy. And as soon as this happens even his sense of shock is dispersed: his own moral inadequacy may now shock him as much as the crimes being committed in the war.… The issue of the war which has caused that moment is effectively depoliticised.
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A Closer Look — The Place We Live
from the book The Place We Live A few weeks ago my pal Jonathan Blaustein wrote a ” non-review ” of Robert Adams’ The Place We Live ,…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/02/closer-look-place-we-live.html
But by God, I can’t stop picking up The Place We Live, and it’s my turn to write for the blog, so here we go.
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Van Houtryve Wins at POYi, with Help from Crowd Funding | PDNPulse
Tomas van Houtryve, whose “Behind the Curtains” photo essay has won this year’s World Understanding Award at POYi, completed the eight-year project with the help of money he raised through the crowd-funding site Emphas.is. We don’t know if this is the fir
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/van-houtryve-wins-at-poyi-with-help-from-crowd-funding.html
Van Houtryve is currently using Emphas.is again in hopes of raising enough money to turn his recent work on North Korea into a book and exhibition.
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Link: British Journal of Photography
This year one photographer won two prizes – Brent Stirton, who picked up first prize in the Nature Stories and Contemporary Issues Singles categories.
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I just updated my article The Problem with Western Press Photo (scroll down to the bottom) to respond to some criticism.
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Who’d be a World Press Photo winner? Or even a juror? In recent times it’s become something of a tradition to attack both the winning photo and the contest: this year did not disappoint.
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Jim Kazanjian
Upon first look you’d think Jim Kazanjian was a photographer, albeit you’d probably also be scratching your head trying to figure out how the heck these photos have been made. I thought the same, but I was wrong – apparently he never touches a camera and would more readily call his work “composites.”
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Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
it is not surprising that the Elysée Museum of Lausanne organized this exhibition about the Photomaton five years after their exhibition “Tous Photographes”. It is part of the latest craze to attract people via their iPhone applications to seek out Photomaton machines both in Paris and New York, not to mention last year publication by La Martinière books.
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At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies
Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.
Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.
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Anthony Shadid dies in Syria: read his legacy of award-winning work
A former Washington Post correspondent, Anthony Shadid died while reporting in SyriaPulitzer Prize-winning reporter was a former Washington Post correspondent.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/anthony-shadid-dies-in-syria-read-his-legacy-of-award-winning-work/2012/02/16/gIQAt3PpIR_blog.html?wprss=rss_world
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Ninth Circuit: Photojournalist’s Access is a “Fundamental Constitutional Right” – NPPA Advocacy Committee
In another victory for photographers, the NPPA is applauding a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held that restrictions on a photojournalists’ access to a horse roundup by a federal agency may have violated her First Amendm
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/02/16/ninth-circuit-photojournalists-access-is-a-fundamental-constitutional-right/
