• Noor has issued a call for submissions to join the Amsterdam-based photo agency

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    in May I began designing a piece to hand out at Review Santa Fe. Since Matt Slaby was also joining me there we decided to combine our work into one piwxw, so that we could push one another’s work while sharing our own new projects. Midway through the design, I realized that this could also be the model for our larger magazines. The name hit me immediately: 2×2: 2 Projects by 2 LUCEO Photographers 

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    Since 1996, the “Voies Off” Festival organizes an event aimed at promoting emergent contemporary photography during the professional week of the Rencontres d’Arles. Arles becomes, for a week, the city of photography.

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    In 2002, with the help of the Luma Foundation, the Festival des Rencontres d’Arles created an Award to encourage artists. In 10 years, more than 50 nominators have come to present their promising artists, promoting diversity.

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  • Twin-Lens Holga Sees Double

    Holga’s TIM looks like an alcoholic Englishman after a particularly nasty Friday-night brawl, eyes half closed and all but a single tooth knocked from his stupid grinning mouth. And like that violent drunk, TIM will also stumble through life seeing double

    via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/twin-lens-holga-sees-double/

    TIM, from Holga, is available now and will cost you a very reasonable $50 or $60, depending on whether you opt for the flash or not.

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    Joel Hawksley is off to a fast start. With two quarters to go before he graduates from Ohio University (OU) with a degree in photojournalism, Hawksley has already been working as a staff photographer for two years. And he’s compiled an impressive portfolio of photographs in that time.

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  • 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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    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

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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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