• Photographer’s Showcase: Michele Palazzi & Alessandro Penso — Migrant Workers Journey

    photo-eye is please to announce a portfolio from the winners of the Center Project Launch competition — Migrant Workers Journey by Miche…

    Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/07/photographers-showcase-michele-palazzi.html

    Selected by juror Dewi Lewis of Dewi Lewis Publishing, Michele Palazzi & Alessandro Penso’s work documents the conditions of migrant workers in Italy. Coming to Italy from various locations in Africa, the workers often move around the country based on the harvest season, picking everything from melons to citrus, kiwis to tomatoes. Starting in August or September, the tomato harvest can be particularly brutal.

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/06/embodiment-a-portrait-of-queer-life-in-america/#1

    In 2004, photographer Molly Landreth began a project documenting the diverse lives of queer Americans. Collaborating with filmmaker Amelia Tovey in 2009, the two traveled across the nation, producing portraits and multimedia displaying the varied states of LGBTQ life in America. LightBox spoke with Landreth and Tovey about their hopes for the project, which now consists of more than 80 portraits and 18 short films.

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  • Finding an unauthorized use of your photograph on the web is upsetting. But what can you do about it? You can contact an attorney for assistance. But if you haven’t registered your photo in advance of the infringement, then you won’t be eligible for statutory damages. Attorneys will take such cases on contingency only under certain circumstances. It then will cost a lot to pursue the infringement when paying the attorney an hourly fee. In the alternative, you can send a cease and desist and/or a demand for payment yourself to the infringer. But such letters are often ignored.

    Fortunately, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) gives you another option. Enacted in 1998, the DMCA implemented treaties signed at the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva conference. It addresses many issues, one of which affects photographers directly in this situation. The DMCA states that while an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is not liable for transmitting information that may infringe a copyright, the ISP must remove materials from users’ websites that appear to constitute copyright infringement after it receives proper notice. Unlike other copyright infringement remedies, your copyright does not have to be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office for you to take advantage of this DMCA provision.

    Link: Two Easy Steps for Using the DMCA Takedown Notice to Battle Copyright Infringement – NPPA

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    In the series entitled Republic, the Rencontres is presenting six contemporary Mexican photographers: Enrique Metinides, Maya Goded, Dulce Pinzon, Daniela Russell, Inaki Bonillas and Fernando Montiel Klint.

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  • Leica Camera AG and FCDA announce cooperation – Leica Rumors

    Solms, Germany (July 6, 2011) – Leica Camera AG announces a multi-faceted collaboration with Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA), a non-profit collective of prominent photographers and writers who have come together to explore the United States duri

    via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2011/07/06/leica-camera-ag-and-fcda-announce-cooperation.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LeicaRumors

    Sharing a commitment to supporting independent documentary photography, Leica and FCDA will present a number of photographic projects to be featured online on at www.leica-camera.com and www.facingchange.org, as well as in LFI Magazine, books and travelling exhibitions beginning in July 2011.

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  • This video displaying the work of the award winners and finalists is being screened at Rencontres d’Arles, the Arles Photo Festival, but you are getting an exclusive viewing of the film here on the Leica Camera Blog.

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  • Tips For Talking To Police Searching Your Computer or Phone

    Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a tip sheet for talking to the police when they are searching your computer or phone as part of their Know Your

    via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/tips-for-talking-to-police-searching-your-computer-or-phone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+laughingsquid

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  • Facing Change: Documenting America is a non-profit collective of dedicated photojournalists and writers coming together to explore America and to build a forum to chart its future. Mobilizing to document the critical issues facing America, FCDA teams will create a visual resource that raises social awareness and expands public debate.

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  • British tabloid News of the World illegally accessed the messages left on the cellphone mailbox of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, then deleted them to allow more to arrive.

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  • IPad-owning photographers should stop reading right now (well, not right now, or you won’t know what to do next) and go download PhotoForge 2, a rather splendid update to the already decent photo-editing app. Better still, if you already bought the iPhone version, the update is free — the app is now universal.

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    In the panorama that leads from the Revolution to today, one figure stands out, a part of photographic history, winner of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith and Hasselblad Foundation prizes, and certainly most characteristic above all of what might be considered “Mexican photography”. Her name is Graciela Iturbide.

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  • The VII photographer Christopher Morris has responded to my post ‘The War Photographers biggest story: themselves‘, which I published a few days ago, and which seems to have hit a nerve.

    I’m posting his comment in full below as well as a response from Asim Rafiqui, who recieved The Aftermath grant in 2009.

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    The Chain’ is the latest project curated by Stuart Pilkington, (curator of The Alphabet Project and the 50 States Project).

    Stuart invited 107 photographers from around the globe to participate in the project at the beginning of 2011.

    And in February 2011 each photographer submitted a title/instruction to inspire a photograph by another person in the project. The photographers were connected like links in a chain. They were asked to respond to the title set by the person directly behind them. The title they set was directed to the photographer directly in front of them

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  • In response to concerns expressed by the NPPA the TSA has sent a letter regarding photography, videotaping and filming at airport security passenger screening checkpoints

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  • Koreans is one of the doyennes of the work of Chris Marker featured this year in Arles, telling a story through images and text of a trip to North Korea in the late 1950’s. A walk through the everyday life of people that despise today’s keyhole journalism.

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    The Empty Quarter Gallery cordially invites you to

    MEET RAWIYA @ MENASART FAIR

    13th to 16th July

    RAWIYA is a photography collective founded by five female photographers from across the Middle East. RAWIYA presents an insider’s view of a region in flux balancing its contradictions while reflecting on social and political issues and stereotypes.

    RAWIYA, meaning ‘she who tells a story’, brings together the experiences and photographic styles of Tamara Abdul Hadi, Laura Boushnak, Tanya Habjouqa, Dalia Khamissy and Newsha Tavakolian.

    Link: MENASART fair, Beirut

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    Born in 1969, Christophe Calais begins his career at the national newspaper France-Soir in 1990. In 1992, he becomes a staff photographer at VSD Magazine and covers international news for six years, with a particular interest in Rwanda, a country on which he still reports today. Rewarded by the Scoop d’Angers Festival in 1997, his work on Rwanda has led to the publication of a book Le cri des morts, le silence des vivants and to an exhibition at the 1998 Perpignan Festival of Photojournalism as well as a projection at that same Festival in 2002 and 2004. In 1998, Christophe decides to become a freelancer and his work is published by several international magazines. In 2002, he is the co-author of a documentary on Rwanda, based on his photographic work. His new book, Rwanda, le pays hanté is published in 2006 and exhibited at the group show “Pour une photographie engagée” at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Six years ago, Christophe started to work on a long-term project about refugee resettlement in America. Part of this work was nominated for a Visa d’Or in 2003, exhibited at Honfleur Festival in 2004 and shown at the “Africa Fast forward” exhibition in Brussels in 2009.

    Link: Christophe CALAIS

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    Price: $75

    To Benefit: The Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of Philadelphia’s homeless, abandoned, and unwanted animals. PAWS is working toward making Philadelphia a city in which every healthy and treatable pet is guaranteed a home.

    Link: Katrina d’Autremont | collect.give

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    La Bella Italia is calling you for this magnificent photography experience through the gorgeous hillsides of Tuscany. This exciting documentary travel workshop will teach you how to take beautiful travel photographs in a stress-free environment. Private tours of family-run wineries, off-the-tourist-map villages with bustling street life and twilight dinners at historic villas will set the scene for your images to shine.

    Explore the sun drenched fields of Tuscany while our award winning staff help you perfect the fundamentals of quality travel photography. With nightly lectures and slideshows, we work with each student personally, no matter your skill level, to bring your photography skills to the next level of sophistication. With hands-on support from our guides and staff, you will have a team of professionals behind you every step of the way.

    Link: Tuscany 2011: Wine Country Travel Photography

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  • Andy Adams is passionate about is the ever changing world of photobooks…in Andy’s words and a video of his recent lecture are below:

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