• Canon Powershot S100 Is a Low-Light Hotshot

    Take a popular camera line, whether compact or entry-level SLR, and you can be sure that it’ll be updated every year. Whether it needs to be or not. Sometimes, though, these incremental updates hide some genuinely big changes. So it is with Canon’s new S1

    via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/09/canon-powershot-s100-is-a-low-light-hotshot/

    Take a popular camera line, whether compact or entry-level SLR, and you can be sure that it’ll be updated every year. Whether it needs to be or not. Sometimes, though, these incremental updates hide some genuinely big changes. So it is with Canon’s new S100.


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    Conscientious:

    If we get back to the complaint about all those photographs, the first thing we might want to realize is that Joachim Schmid talked about too many photographs in the world before Facebook was born. In 1989, he said “No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!” (quoted from the book I’m going to review here)


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  • Domenico Foschi

    I grew up in Los Angeles, left it for many years to live in New York City, and returned to raise my family. I have been all over this city, and feel like there are very few stones unturned, but discovering the work of Domenico Foschi, I am humbled by his

    via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/09/domenico-foschi.html

    Domenico looks at the everyman, the mechanic, the lovers, the homeless, the barista, the businessman with the same curiosity and reverence. The images are timeless, timely and evocative.


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  • Withdrawal of Database on Doctors Is Protested

    The public use section of the government’s National Practitioner Data Bank provided information on doctor oversight, trends in disciplinary actions and malpractice awards.

    Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/health/16doctor.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

    Three journalism organizations on Thursday protested a decision by the Obama administration to remove a database of physician discipline and malpractice actions from the Web.


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  • Ethiopian Journalist Flees Country Over Exposure in WikiLeaks Cable

    An Ethiopian journalist has reportedly fled his country after government authorities interrogated him over a WikiLeaks cable in which he was mentioned. It appears to be the first confirmed case in which someone identified in the raw, unredacted files that

    via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/ethiopian-journalist-flees/

    According to the BBC, Argaw Ashine, a journalist who reports from Ethiopia for the Kenya-based Daily Nation, said that Ethiopian police summoned him for questioning after he was named in an October 26, 2009 U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks.


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  • On Recession Road

    Photocasting across America with Michael S. Williamson: A Washington Post photojournalist has spent the year traveling around the country, meeting people whose lives have been altered by the flattened economy.

    via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/on-recession-road/2011/04/18/AFyDpj5D_gallery.html#photo=1

    Washington Post photojournalist Michael S. Williamson is documenting his year-long cross-country journey armed only with a smartphone.


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  • Damon Winter – Where Steel Meets The Sky – A Photo Editor

    We were so taken by Damon Winter’s photo essay in the New York Times Magazine that we recently featured on The Daily Edit (Where Steel Meets The Sky) we decided to ask him a couple questions about it: Heidi: How long did the project take? I was given acce

    via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/09/15/damon-winter-where-steel-meets-the-sky/

    We were so taken by Damon Winter’s photo essay in the New York Times Magazine that we recently featured on The Daily Edit (Where Steel Meets The Sky) we decided to ask him a couple questions about it:


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  • poynter:

    Because now anybody can publish, and anybody turns out to really mean “anybody.” That includes teams, leagues, athletic organizations, agents and athletes themselves – all those who used to speak through sportswriters. As a result, the rules of the game are swiftly being rewritten


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  • 1197, An iPhoneography and Mobile Photography Conference

    Bolt | Peters and Blurb are honoring the date the first camera phone photo was taken, June 11, 1997, with a one-day conference dedicated to iPhoneography

    via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/1197-an-iphoneography-and-mobile-photography-conference/

    Speakers for the event include Emmy Award-winning journalist Richard Koci-Hernandez, entrepreneur Philippe Kahn, phoneographer Jessica Zollman, photographer Lauren Lemon and several more.

    This one-day conference happens October 22, 2011 in San Francisco and tickets are available now.


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  • conscientious:

    It is time to reveal the winners of the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2011. This year, the jury consisted of Caroline von Courten (FOAM Magazine), Michael Mazzeo (Michael Mazzeo Gallery), and myself. Find more information about Caroline and Michael here. Without further ado, the winners are…


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  • Kramer O’Neill

    Kramer O’Neill is a Brooklyn-based photographer, animator and editor. But he is also a wonderful street photographer creating work that feels nostalgic, yet modern, truthful, yet mysterious. His first book, Pictures of People and Things 1, was published t

    via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/09/kramer-oneill.html

    Kramer O’Neill is a Brooklyn-based photographer, animator and editor. But he is also a wonderful street photographer creating work that feels nostalgic, yet modern, truthful, yet mysterious. His first book, Pictures of People and Things 1, was published this summer, and his second, Till Human Voices Wake Us, a series of beach and underwater photographs, will be released in Autumn. He is a founding member of the strange.rs photo collective.


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  • Shutterbugs:

    Shutterbugs is a comedy web series about a group of obsessive photographers. It centres on analogue photographer Chloe and her socialite best friend Samantha. Together they get into trouble as they trespass, steal and bend the truth during their various photography exploits.

    via dvafoto


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  • Burmese Photojournalist Sentenced to 10 More Years | PDNPulse

    Burmese photographjournalist Sithu Zeya, who was sentenced last year to 8 years in prison for violating Burma’s immigration laws and “Unlawful Associations Act,” was sentenced yesterday to an additional 10 years for violating the country’s “Electronics Ac

    via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/09/burmese-photojournalist-sentenced-to-10-more-years.html

    Burmese photographjournalist Sithu Zeya, who was sentenced last year to 8 years in prison for violating Burma’s immigration laws and “Unlawful Associations Act,” was sentenced yesterday to an additional 10 years for violating the country’s “Electronics Act,” the Burmese magazine-in-exile Irrawaddy has reported.


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  • Canon Announces the PowerShot S100

    London, UK, 15th September 2011 – Canon today announces the launch of the new PowerShot S100 – a powerful, versatile and highly compact camera offering phot

    via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/09/canon-announces-the-powershot-s100/

    Canon today announces the launch of the new PowerShot S100 – a powerful, versatile and highly compact camera offering photographers extensive control and leading image quality. The most advanced PowerShot S-series model to date, the PowerShot S100 surpasses the high standards set by its acclaimed predecessor, featuring a new f/2.0 Canon lens and an enhanced HS System, which combines an elite high-sensitivity sensor with the very latest in Canon processing technology – DIGIC 5.


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  • Mexico: two tortured, murdered as warning to those using social media and blogs to report narco-crime

    In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico yesterday, bloggers and Twitter users who share information on crimes of drug cartels and related gangs received a gruesome warning. The tortured bodies of two people in the…

    via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/09/14/mexico-two-tortured-murdered-for-using-twitter-blogs-to-report-narco-crime-bodies-hanged-from-bridge-as-warning-to-others.html

    In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico yesterday, bloggers and Twitter users who share information on crimes of drug cartels and related gangs received a gruesome warning. The tortured bodies of two people in their mid-twenties “hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge” were found with posters warning various sites that publish news of narco-terror incidents to stop, or suffer a similar fate.


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  • Photographer #379: Zhang Xiao

    Zhang Xiao, 1981, China, studied Architecture at Yantai University. Between 2005 and 2009 he worked for the Chongqing Morning Post and has s…

    Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/09/photographer-379-zhang-xiao.html

    Zhang Xiao, 1981, China, studied Architecture at Yantai University. Between 2005 and 2009 he worked for the Chongqing Morning Post and has since been active as a freelance photographer. His project Coastline focuses, as the title describes, on the Chinese coastline which is 18000 kilometres long.


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  • Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker

    In 1992, The New Yorker published its first full-page photograph, a 1963 image of Malcolm X by Richard Avedon. Tonight, “Beyond Words: Photography in The…

    via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/09/beyond-words-photography-in-the-new-yorker.html

    In 1992, The New Yorker published its first full-page photograph, a 1963 image of Malcolm X by Richard Avedon. Tonight, “Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker” opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery, chronicling the history of photography in our pages, from that Avedon portrait up through this past year. The show is curated by our former Visuals Editor, Elisabeth Biondi


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  • WhatWasThere, a Crowd Sourced Historical Photo Map of the World

    WhatWasThere is an ambitious project to create a crowd sourced interactive photographic map of the world that includes present day and archival photos.

    via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/whatwasthere-a-crowd-sourced-historical-photo-map-of-the-world/

    WhatWasThere is an ambitious project to create a crowd sourced interactive photographic map of the world that includes present day and archival photos. Photos, tagged with their location and year, are uploaded by WhatWasThere members on the website and via an iPhone app. Uploaded photos can be viewed on a Google Map of the world. WhatWasThere is by Enlighten Ventures of Ann Arbor.


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  • BJP:

    Peter Brook, the man behind the Prison Photography blog, dedicates his time to the analysis of photography in sites of incarceration. Now he’s taking his work on America’s roads


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  • Lens:

    Greg Constantine learned a great deal about the Nubians in Kenya when he spent a month photographing them in Kibera, an expansive and well-documented Nairobi slum. He poured over a rare collection of archival photographs collected from community members. He helped shape a comprehensive, and largely unseen, visual narrative of the culture.


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