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In the Thick of Libya’s Brutal Fighting
Tyler Hicks has covered Kosovo, Chechnya, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the battling Wednesday in Libya ranked among the worst he has seen.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/in-the-thick-of-libyas-brutal-fighting/
When Tyler Hicks says that he has just witnessed what may have been the “thickest fighting in a single day” that he has ever experienced, with the “most firepower — coming and going,” he is describing extraordinary hostilities.
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Gwenn Dubourthoumieu is a Kishasa based photojournalist where he has worked since 2007. He contributes regularly to the Agence France Presse, Jeune Afrique magazine, and several NGO’s. He is presenting his latest work about the “Palaces of Mobutu”.
Link: Gwenn Dubourthoumieu Palaces of Mobutu | La Lettre de la Photographie
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3 BBC Journalists Report Being Tortured in Libya
The correspondents say they were physically abused and psychologically terrorized for 21 hours after being detained trying to reach the scene of a battle 30 miles from the capital.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/world/africa/10bbc.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Goktay Koraltan, said: “I cannot describe how bad it was. Most of them were hooded and handcuffed really tightly, all with swollen hands and broken ribs. They were in agony. They were screaming.”
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How To Obtain Photo & Video Location Permits
One of the most overlooked parts of any photo or video shoot is obtaining a shooting permit. This post outlines when you need a permit and how to apply.
via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2011/03/how-to-permit-photo-video-shoots/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29
One of the most consistent requests I get from readers is for info about all the paperwork and business side of the photo & cinema industries. Given that our Executive Producer, Kate, handles all that, I’ve talked her into doing a series of posts that get down to the brass tacks. This post is about that ever-important piece of paper that few photographers obtain–or even know how to obtain the location PERMIT. So here’s Kate to give you all the important info you’ll need…
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Lightroom & Camera Raw updates now available
Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 are now available as Release Candidates on Adobe Labs, adding support for the following cameras: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T3i / Kiss X5) Canon EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Ki…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/03/lightroom-camera-raw-updates-now-available.html
Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 are now available as Release Candidates on Adobe Labs, adding support for the following cameras:
Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T3i / Kiss X5)
Canon EOS 1100D (Rebel T3 / Kiss X50)
Hasselblad H4D-40
Olympus E-PL1s
Olympus E-PL2
Olympus XZ-1
Samsung NX11
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All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate
How much more of itself can the media consume?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/magazine/mag-13lede-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
“Aggregation” can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one another into the bounty of the information universe. It kind of describes what I do as an editor. But too often it amounts to taking words written by other people, packaging them on your own Web site and harvesting revenue that might otherwise be directed to the originators of the material. In Somalia this would be called piracy. In the mediasphere, it is a respected business model.
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Looking Through Afghanistan’s Closed Doors
On his latest embed in Afghanistan, Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters wanted to photograph something quiet. His essay on doorways is a masterpiece of contemplative journalism.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/looking-through-afghanistans-closed-doors/
These doorways symbolize the closed nature of Afghan society, as well as the fact that United States Marines are tolerated — but not entirely welcomed — by the local population. I suppose, in some way, they also reflect my own frustration about not having access to the people of Afghanistan while on military embeds. Photographing doors allowed me to imagine the hidden world behind them, like the line from Baudelaire’s poem, “Windows“: “Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window.”
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Joel Meyerowitz speaks of his first days as a street photographer, when he worked with Robert Frank 50 years ago
Link: “The photographer was a guy named Robert Frank” – British Journal of Photography
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Peter Tonningsen and Lisa Levine have been collaborating on a new photographic project. Peter and Lisa are friends, colleagues, and fellow teachers and they are developing a dialog about the tenuous nature of boundaries and how they can be defined, constructed, and commingled
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This is a selection of some of the outstanding work among the entries for the 2010 SJA British Sports Photograqphy Awards, sponsored by UK Sport.
Link: Page 2 « 2010 SJA British Sports Photography Awards « Sports Journalists’ Association
via: duckrabbit
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Parents Capture Daughter’s Experience With Brain Cancer
For two well-known Minneapolis Star Tribune photographers, a picture is worth so much more than a thousand words. Liz Flores and David Joles, of Minneapolis, say it’s the only way to measure their love for their daughter during a time they found themselve
Link: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/03/02/parents-capture-daughters-experience-with-brain-cancer/
For two well-known Minneapolis Star Tribune photographers, a picture is worth so much more than a thousand words. Liz Flores and David Joles, of Minneapolis, say it’s the only way to measure their love for their daughter during a time they found themselves in their toughest assignment yet.
“I never ever thought I would be on this side of the camera,” said Liz Flores.
Their daughter, Gracie Joles, was recently diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumor, just before her 8th birthday.
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The Garry Winogrand Problem (1988)
Shooting inordinate amounts of film, Winogrand charted a vast, freebooting odyssey through three-and-a-half decades of American culture.
Garry Winogrand: . . . ‘I forgot what year when Robert Frank’s book came out. He was working pretty much ar
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/03/garry-winogrand-i-dont-give-rap-about.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
Modern photography, by reason of unceasing technical advance, is eminently capable of producing a mindless accumulation of automatic images, whose meaning at best is peripheral and uncertain, whose tenor at worst is dumbly exploitative and reactionary. Photographers all too frequently make pictures so conceptually casual and brainlessly superficial that their minimal meaning is exhausted at a glance.
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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/2011/03/celebrating-international-wome.html
So, here at Lens Culture we thought we’d take the opportunity to take a look back at just some of the inspiring photography by women that we have featured over the years.
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Cracking Down on Croparazzi
A newly introduced bill in the Florida Senate would criminalize farm photography to which the owner does not consent — in writing.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/cracking-down-on-croparazzi/
Photographers — perhaps including some ghosts from Farm Security Administration days — are astir at news of a bill introduced by State Senator Jim Norman of Florida that would make it a felony to take a picture of a farm without the owner’s permission
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In any case La Gaga’s grab, horrible though it is, isn’t anything like as cutting edge as TBD make out. Bands, their agents and promoters have been foisting predatory contracts on photographers for quite some time. Here’s a list of just some acts who have presented such contracts in the recent past: Aaron Neville, Aerosmith, Avril Lavigne, Bad Company, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Cheap Trick, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, George Strait/Reba Mcentire/Lee Ann Womack, Gogol Bordello, Hellyeah, Jane’s Addiction, Jimmy Eat World, Janet Jackson, Jonas Brothers, Jonny Lang, Jordin Sparks, Katy Perry, KISS, Lady Gaga, Lenny Kravitz, Leonard Cohen, Linkin Park, Matchbox 20, Melissa Ethridge, MGMT, Mike Ness, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Paula Abdul, Queens of the Stone Age, Robbie Williams, Steven Seagal, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, Taylor Swift, The Mars Volta, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, Tom Jones, Tom Petty, Turbonegro.
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Cute Cat Camera Sticks to Almost Anything
This cute winking cat is in fact a camera. So advanced is its design that — according to the website — “There is no need for you to say ‘Cheese!’” This is because it is “no longer a camera,” but “more like a pet.” As you may have guessed from this whimsic
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/cute-cat-camera-sticks-to-almost-anything/
in Equipment
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Financing Photojournalism by Subscription
Photojournalists can either complain about the withering of financial backing for their projects, or scrape it together themselves. Emphas.is may offer hope.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/financing-photojournalism-by-subscription/
“We believe photojournalism has a large and enthusiastic following that would be willing to contribute financially when given the right incentive,” the founders declared on their Web site. “Emphas.is offers this incentive in the form of exclusive access to top photojournalists carefully selected by a board of reviewers composed of industry professionals.”
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The Well: Covering Capitol Hill from Chris Gregory on Vimeo.
via: whnpa news
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A master of feature photography, his images were clean, dramatically lit, and well composed. No one made a better group portrait. In a world of motor-driven cameras, Herde shot frugally, thinking before he pushed the button. And his captions were always impeccably neat. Photographers usually have bad handwriting. Tom Herde was an exception to the rule.
Link: Tom Herde, Award-Winning Boston Globe Photographer, 62
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