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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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  • To celebrate the founding of America we present a unique look at The United States by Antonin Kratochvil.

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  • Spotlight on David Walter Banks

    TID: Thanks for sharing your thoughts behind this image, David. For the next couple of weeks we’ll take a look at one image, and where it …

    Link: http://imagedeconstructed.blogspot.com/2011/07/spotlight-on-david-walter-banks.html

    My approach for making these images is actually quite different from how
    I normally go about making images. In other projects, and most of my daily
    work, I attempt to put as much of myself as possible into the photographs to
    the point that every image is almost a self-portrait in a way. I shoot very
    objectively and work to create an intimate connection with my subjects,
    whether it’s a close friend, complete stranger, or even a place or object

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  • ::: The Travel Photographer :::

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    Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

    “What’s it like photographing a National Geographic story?”

    It’s a question frequently asked and to be honest, a rather intriguing one because a National Geographic story — the process from beginning to conclusion — is not always what we might think.

    For one thing, I tend to get very wet and ruin equipment.

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  • Muhammed Muheisen, 30, the chief photographer in Pakistan for The Associated Press, has been taking pictures for a decade. His work has been included in Pictures of the Day more than 80 times since the Lens blog began in 2009. But it wasn’t until last year that Mr. Muheisen felt as if he’d truly found his footing in photography, when he took to the streets in search of scenes of daily life.

    Link: Quiet, but Telling, Scenes in Pakistan – NYTimes.com

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/01/phil-bergersons-shards-of-america/

    Phil Bergerson’s book Shards of America explores the culture of the United States through an investigation of it’s streets. In twenty years of road trips across America, Bergerson photographed window displays, everyday objects and street scenes in a formalistic, documentary style. The resulting book is a unique look at the things that make up American society. TIME spoke with Bergerson as he is working on his second book, Sublime Encounters, to discuss his process and inspiration.

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    Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

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    Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/

    Some reporters in the rotating pool of journalists who chronicle the president’s movements are sending tweets and TwitPics before the pool reports go to all of their colleagues, and that’s creating problems

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  • Last year I had the opportunity to travel with the Leica S2 from White Mountain National Forest nestled on the East Coast of the United States, in New Hampshire to be specific, to Olympic National Park (ONP) on the West Coast in Washington state. I was also equipped with three lenses — Summarit-S 1:2.5/35 mm ASPH, Summarit-S 1:2,5/70 mm ASPH and APO Elmar-S 1:3.5/180 mm — in order to evaluate whether the system qualified as a replacement candidate for my tried and true Arca Swiss 4×5 view camera.

    Link: An Evaluation of the Leica S2 in White Mountain National Forest and Olympic National Park « The Leica Camera

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  • Jay Maisel’s building tagged with “Kind of Bloop” cover art

    According to this Hyperallergic blog post citing an anonymous source, someone in New York City paid someone else to plaster the building where photographer Jay Maisel lives with posters featuring a…

    via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/jay-maisels-building.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag

    Over a pixelated reworking of the photo, the text, “All Art is Theft.”

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  • The war photographer’s biggest story: themselves — duckrabbit

    Is the ‘best’ story a war photographer can provide these days – the one that will get the most space…

    via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/07/the-war-photographers-biggest-story-themselves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+duckrabbit/Nrks+(duckrabbit)

    Is the ‘best’ story a war photographer can provide these days – the one that will get the most space – themselves?  Not just any photographer though. They need to be western and preferably English speaking. And not just any story. They need to be kidnapped, shot, sexually abused or blown up. If they want to hit the chat shows they also need to be a survivor.

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  • The war photographer’s biggest story: themselves — duckrabbit

    Is the ‘best’ story a war photographer can provide these days – the one that will get the most space…

    via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/07/the-war-photographers-biggest-story-themselves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+duckrabbit/Nrks+(duckrabbit)

    Is the ‘best’ story a war photographer can provide these days – the one that will get the most space – themselves?  Not just any photographer though. They need to be western and preferably English speaking. And not just any story. They need to be kidnapped, shot, sexually abused or blown up. If they want to hit the chat shows they also need to be a survivor.

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  • A Closer Look — Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars)

    from Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars) Issue two of Alec Soth’s Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars) was a challenge…

    Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/06/closer-look-lonely-boy-mag-no-2-boys.html

    Issue two of Alec Soth’s Lonely Boy Mag (No. A-2 Boys and their Cars) was a challenge for me to digest

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  • LensCulture – Contemporary Photography

    Discover and share the best in contemporary photography

    via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2011/06/hcb-2011.html

    This is the first time in the history of the Award that a female photographer has won.

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    Matt Siber’s Untitled Project transforms images made in the traditional documentary style by stripping away the text of all visible signage, and digitally reconstructing it in an adjacent frame.

    Link: Matt Siber: The Untitled Project (8 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day

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