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Jing Huang, born in Guangzhou and now a resident of Shenzhen, China, was just named as the recipient this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award. His self-selected portfolio of 12 black-and-white fine art images shot with his beloved Leica M4-P were chosen from over 2,000 entries.
Link: Jing Huang: Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award Winner 2011 « The Leica Camera
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The Navigator: Don’t shoot? But it’s a public space.
The Navigator examines the risks of taking photos in public places while traveling.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-navigator-dont-shoot-but-its-a-public-space/2011/06/13/AGbD5GWH_story.html
“I used to deal with one of these a month,” says Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). “Then it was weekly. Now it’s almost every day. Citizens are being told that they can’t take pictures out in public — whether it’s a building, a bridge or a train.”
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Temporarily Unavailable
Those two words seem to be the order of the day for just about any photography related equipment that is desirable these days. What is happening to the supply chain? What is happening to manufacturers? Is the system totally broken?
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Modern Agonies in Ancient Mexican Villages
To find out more about the immigration crisis in California, Matt Black traveled — arduously — through a remote region south of Mexico City.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/modern-agonies-in-ancient-mexican-villages/
Matt Black, 40, who has spent years documenting the migrant population in the Central Valley (“Oaxacan Exodus“), could very well see the effects in California. But for “People of the Clouds,” he wanted to understand what has happening on the other side of the border.
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Melanie Light is an American writer and former co-founder of Photovision, a non-profit organization devoted to promote documentary photography. She also teaches. Her last two works are Night at the Met with photographer Larry Fink, Mad Day Out, on the Beatles’ photographs (Stephen Goldblatt). She has sent us her text on photojournalism today, which we find remarkable, and are publishing it in La Lettre.
Link: Mélanie Light, thoughts on Photojournalism | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off
An Apple patent describes a system for allowing venue owners to override compliant cameras. The patent describes using an infrared signal that compliant cameras would detect; in the presence of thi…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/16/apple-patents-mobile.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
This is part of an increasing trend to designing hardware and software that allows remote parties to override the instructions of the owners and users of devices. This trend, coupled with the increasing degree to which devices are privy to our secrets, our sensitive information, and even our biological functions, worries me an awful lot.
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Deborah Schwartz – The Art Of The Keeper Promo – A Photo Editor
by Heidi Volpe Deborah Schwartz of DSReps is well known for sending out impressive promos that can’t possibly be thrown away. When I heard this years was a box of prints representing each of her photographers I had to see it and ask her a few questions ab
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/06/16/deborah-schwartz-the-art-of-the-keeper-promo/
Deborah Schwartz of DSReps is well known for sending out impressive promos that can’t possibly be thrown away. When I heard this years was a box of prints representing each of her photographers I had to see it and ask her a few questions about it.
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LOOK3 2011: A Defining Moment for LaToya Ruby Frazier | PDNPulse
At this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier made her intentions as an artist and activist clear in a powerful presentation of her work that combined diaristic snippets about her relationships with her
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/look3-2011-a-defining-moment-for-latoya-ruby-frazier.html
At this year’s LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier made her intentions as an artist and activist clear in a powerful presentation of her work that combined diaristic snippets about her relationships with her grandmother and mother with stories about the community of Braddock, PA, where she was raised.
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The artists’ artist: reportage photographers
Leading snappers choose their favourite living reportage photographer
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/15/artists-artist-reportage-photography
Leading snappers choose their favourite reportage photographer of all time
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Ephemera
By Ctein Over the past several weeks, many readers have raised concerns about the permanence of photographs, whether film or digital. Truly, they have every reason to be concerned. It’s a problem that has bothered me ever since Henry Wilhelm…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/ephemera.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
In the real world, no modern photographic medium, analog or digital, has shown itself to be durable. It only lasts when ordinary people take measures that are, well, extraordinary.
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Ft. Lauderdale Photo Ban: Bought and Paid for by Hollywood? | PDNPulse
Citing First Amendment violations, a Florida publisher and the Society of Professional Journalists have filed suit against the city of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and its police chief over the city’s temporary ban on photography in a public area around a Holl
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/ft-lauderdale-photo-ban-bought-and-paid-for-by-hollywood.html
“Warning. No Trespassing. Photography of this area is strictly prohibited. Strictly enforced by FLPD. Violators subjet (sic) to arrest. City Ordinance 16-1”
City police officers are reportedly being paid by the film producers to guard the periphery, and enforce the photo ban.
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“Synergy was the Trojan horse with which FitzSimons and Kern attacked the values of journalists, cut costs and set their focus on local news because it was often cheaper to produce,” writes Mr. O’Shea.
Link: O’Shea blasts ex-Tribune execs, current editor in new book | Poynter.
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Over the course of his 18-year career, acclaimed Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup has covered many of recent history’s defining human rights and conflict issues with his camera. His work reflects his belief in photojournalism’s role as an instrument of witness and memory to incite change and the necessity of telling the stories of people who are rendered powerless to tell their own.
Link: Jan Grarup: Leica Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2011 « The Leica Camera
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From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman, on assignment for The New York Times, was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime.
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A Most Beautiful Little Lens
Lovers of the iconic and legendary “fast 50” will no doubt be delighted that the Micro 4/3 system continues to bear fruit in providing options, with the new Leica 25mm DG Summilux ASPH lens for Micro 4/3 just announced. When…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/a-most-beautiful-little-lens.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
Lovers of the iconic and legendary “fast 50” will no doubt be delighted that the Micro 4/3 system continues to bear fruit in providing options, with the new Leica 25mm DG Summilux ASPH lens for Micro 4/3 just announced.
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To combat his sense of helplessness, he decided to distribute fifty disposable cameras to survivors displaced by the tsunami who had been evacuated to shelters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/14/corey-arnolds-fish-work/#1
Well before Corey Arnold ever thought about photography, he fished. As a child, he dressed as a fisherman for four consecutive Halloweens, and once brought a dead 3-foot Mako shark to school for show-and-tell. He knew he wanted to be a professional fisherman, even if he didn’t understand what that actually meant. What was a recreational escape for his father became an identity for him.
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For photographers familiar with TinEye’s reverse image search engine, Google’s announcement today of a new reverse image search engine should be welcome news.
Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Google Adds Reverse Image Search
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Six photographers – Ivor Prickett, Guy Martin, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Shiho Fukada, Kacper Kowalski and Mads Nissen – have been selected to become part of the Panos Pictures agency
Link: Panos Pictures adds six new members – British Journal of Photography
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