This thought occurred to me most recently when Matt Eich was in Portland for the opening of a showing of his pictures at Blue Sky Gallery. Matt was carrying his camera, a Canon 5D Mark II with a 35 mm f1.4, as he almost always does. He set it on the table in front of me when we were having drinks. And there it was, a piece of machinery so well used that there’s a lot worn silver around the edges and a ding or two. The lens glass was spotless, however.
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Currently on Display – PART SIX
Currently on Display is our on-going weekly feature investigating the individual works that are included in the show currently on display at…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/03/currently-on-display-part-six.html
The featured images this week are: Eva, La Porge, France 2003 by Jock Sturges, Torn Poster, Road to Villa Real, 1995 and Donkey Grazing, Road to Miranda, 1995 by Mark Klett and August 25th, Spring Bamboo Boat by Don Hong-Oai.
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DIY IR SLR Trigger Is Simple, Easy, Cheap
With a very simple bit of workshoppery, and a $5 companion app from the App Store, you can turn you iPhone or iPod Touch into an infrared remote for your Canon SLR camera. It works like this. The DSLR.Bot application sends a signal to the headphone jack o
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/diy-ir-slr-trigger-is-simple-easy-cheap/
With a very simple bit of workshoppery, and a $5 companion app from the App Store, you can turn you iPhone or iPod Touch into an infrared remote for your Canon SLR camera.
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Photographer #256: Txema Salvans
Txema Salvans, Spain, 1971, is a documentary photographer with a special interest in how we humans spend our free time. He enjoys the positi…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/03/photographer-256-txema-salvans.html
Txema Salvans, Spain, 1971, is a documentary photographer with a special interest in how we humans spend our free time.
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There are times when friends ask what I’m doing, I tell them and find myself laughing as they process what I just said:
“Yeah, I’m going to Québec to photograph downhill ice skating.”
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Some of the commenters seem to think I am using news as an opportunity to make art. It is the opposite. I have been covering news for a long time and it frustrates me that people do not respond to it. I am trying to use cinematic techniques to make people connect to and care about news, not using news as an opportunity to make cinematic pieces.
Link: DSLR News Shooter | Tsunami Aftermath video – my response to the debate
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San Quentin Prison Portraits a Compulsion and a Springboard for Stefan Ruiz
I was interested to discover that photographs of San Quentin inmates played a formative role in Stefan Ruiz’s career. At 4:45mins, Ruiz talks about his position as an art teacher at San Quent…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/stefan-ruiz/
Ruiz likes to “work with the person.” From telenovela actors to hospital patients and clinicians and from rodeo queens to refugees, Ruiz has connected with his subjects through a transparent discussion about what they can achieve together with a device that records and stores their likeness.
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lea meilandt – the maguires
[slidepress gallery=’leameilandt_themaguires’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Lea Meilandt The Maguires play this essay The number of poor families in the …
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Portraying the Maguires is an ongoing project; the aim is to document the life of the family as it evolves over the years.
The project won a second prize in Danish POY and a third place in Winephoto 2010
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I can’t help but think about all the photographers I’ve talked to recently, especially commercial/editorial ones, who have told me about the immense business problems. A lot of people really don’t know whether their businesses will survive.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Ping Pong with Michael Itkoff, Round 6
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Sakamaki was returned to the group and told he was going to be arrested — “They said, ‘You know why.’”
“I said, ‘For being a journalist and taking pictures?’ They said, ‘Yes.’”
Link: Q. Sakamaki recounts fear and beatings during detainment in Egypt | dvafoto
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Libya: Woman struggles to tell foreign journalists of kidnapping, rape by Qaddafi militia
“A Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/26/libya-woman-struggle.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
Her name is Eman al-Obeidy. CNN’s Nic Robertson was present, and his tweeted account is screengrabbed here. “CNN camera was violently snatched, systematically smashed to pieces and video footage stolen,” he wrote. “Some journalists were beaten in blatant display of regime thuggery.”
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An Interview with Billy Maynard (2011)
Billy Maynard Q & A – Trans/Tender
How old are you?
19Where were you born?
AucklandWhat do you want to explore in your work now and in the future?
I want to photograph a feeling I’ve had building inside since a young age. But without construvia AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/03/interview-billy-maynard-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Americansuburb+(AMERICANSUBURBX)
I want to photograph a feeling I’ve had building inside since a young age. But without constructing any of the pictures deliberately. So far I have found this feeling is most often found in outsiders and fringe dwellers. I find myself more comfortable with outcasts. The feeling is growing bigger in me, so the pictures will follow.
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Goran Tomasevic of Reuters arrived in Libya on Feb. 23, having covered the upheaval in Egypt. (“Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo,” Feb. 4.) These images, presented in chronological order, convey some sense of what a tumultuous month it has been. Kerri MacDonald interviewed Mr. Tomasevic by e-mail last week.
Link: Thirty Days on the Ground in Libya: Goran Tomasevic’s Extraordinary Month, in Pictures – NYTimes.com
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Los Angeles photographer, Zoran Milosavljevic, really knows his hometown. Literally, block by block. He has completed a seven year series, The Wilshire Project, exploring a city and it’s inhabitants using a sixteen mile boulevard as it’s axis.
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The Bayeux Calvados Awards for War Correspondents is calling for entries for its annual contest, which rewards the best conflict writing and photography
Link: War photography contest calling for entries – British Journal of Photography
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Photog Reflects on Images of Oil Spill Drowning
Last July, while America was coming to terms with the fallout from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, China itself was dealing with the largest oil spill in its history in the city of Dalian. During the spill, a fatal act of bravery was caught on film by
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/03/photog-reflects-on-images-of-oil-spill-drowning/
“Had I not taken these picture of Zhang Liang, his sacrifice would have perhaps gone unnoticed and people would not have been aware of the extent of the oil spill,” says Lu Guang in Through the Lens: the Dalian Oil Spill, a short video produced by Greenpeace.
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Color | Realize the promise of population genomics – Color
Color Population Health is the industry leading, genetics-driven platform that enables personalized care delivery to improve health at scale.
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Color is a new location-based social photo-sharing app for the iPhone and Android. Or something. I installed it and couldn’t make heads or tails out of it, and even if I could figure out the app, I can’t see why I’d ever want to use such a service.
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Philip Poupin, a photojournalist based in Afghanistan, has covered conflict and human rights issues for six years, most recently covering the conflict in Libya from the rebels’ side.
Link: Blood and Tears in Libya (9 photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
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The discussion around photographing corpses can quickly lead to the argument that journalists in these situations are vultures, they’re exploiting the suffering of locals, they’ve become heartless, blood-thirsty creatures looking for the most sensationalist stories. I fundamentally disagree, with some caveats that I’ll touch later.
Link: Thoughts on Situations Involving Bodies | Andrew Burton
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