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2010 The Year in Pictures
Below is a link to a retrospective slide show of my work this year, including my trip following the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Vietnam, a visit to the bizarre Republic of Kalmykia, the food crisis i…
via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: http://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/2010-the-year-in-pictures/
a retrospective slide show of my work this year, including my trip following the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Vietnam, a visit to the bizarre Republic of Kalmykia, the food crisis in Niger, protests and rural landscapes from France, the floods in Pakistan and the American Ballet’s historic visit to Cuba
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So wouldn’t it be grand to be free from the burden of filling someone else’s expectations in making a picture, to set out to make a picture that you’re not sure will work, that you can’t exactly see before you release the shutter.
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Tips on Black & White Post Production [Scott’s Guest Post]
In today’s guest blog post, Scott answers a popular question about making great black & white images, with our latest Seattle 100 aesthetic as the case study.
via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/12/tips-on-black-white/
Here’s to 2011. Bring it.
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This Christmas Duckrabbit Does Not Want Your Donations — duckrabbit
Is this what photography on the web is going to come down to? Nearly every week we see a new…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/12/this-christmas-duckrabbit-does-not-want-your-donations/
I am being asked to to support photographers who message me on FACEBOOK to ask for contacts in Ethiopia because they want to ‘photograph malnutrition’. Wankers.
To support photographers who have their cameras stolen whilst grave digging for awards in Africa. Mentalists.
To support photographers who will end up offering their pictures to charities for free. Charities that won’t be able to use them anyway because the fetishization of suffering through aesthetic is a turn off to audiences.
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The app contains some of my favorite images from my day as a staff photographer at the New York Times, and each image is accompanied by a video of me sharing the story behind the images, as well as many technical challenges that I faced and how I overcame them.
Link: VISUALS App is Live – Looking to the Future « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
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Newspaper Lawsuit Factory Sues Over ‘Death Ray’ Image
Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright troll formed this spring, has moved beyond lawsuits over newspaper articles and begun targeting websites for the unauthorized reposting of images. First up, more than a dozen infringement lawsuits concerning the so-call
Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright troll formed this spring, has moved beyond lawsuits over newspaper articles and begun targeting websites for the unauthorized reposting of images. First up, more than a dozen infringement lawsuits concerning the so-called Vdara “death ray.”
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Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change
A Yin’s reward for living in a village of gers has been the chance to record a vanishing way of life in China. Sim Chi Yin interviews him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/mongolian-diptychs-tell-of-profound-change/
A Yin is documenting his home province of Inner Mongolia. He is a self-taught anthropologist-photographer who has made it his mission to record the last of the nomads there. The phenomenal changes he captures tell the broader story of China’s transformation. Mr. Yin was cited by the National Geographic All Roads Film Project in 2007. Sim Chi Yin, a photographer and writer based in Beijing, interviewed Mr. Yin for Lens.
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Each year, I try to work on something different.
One year was a photo column, another year I worked on portraits and last year I actually used my strobe while doing on a story.
My new thing in 2010 was street photography.
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Photographer #186: Maxwell Snow
Maxwell Snow, 1984, USA, is a young photographer who’s works are not always easy to digest. For his project It’s Fun to do Bad Things he ma…
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2010/12/photographer-186-maxwell-snow.html
Maxwell Snow, 1984, USA, is a young photographer who’s works are not always easy to digest. For his project It’s Fun to do Bad Things he made three series, one on latin gang members from downtown La, one on the Ku Klux Klan and one on Black metal musicians from Scandinavia.
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The last two months or so has been a wild ride at Luma Labs, the camera accessory company that I’m a co-owner of with Greg Koenig. To give a bit of background, we launched our company with an improved camera sling last year called the Loop to a warm reception. It did well and was a great product, but we knew it could be better. So we dug in, did our homework, and came up with a second-generation Loop that improved on every single aspect of the original, including having a bad-ass new connector that took a lot of collaboration and design work to come up with.
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Rijasolo has been on Leica’s radar. He won first place in Leica Fotografie International’s “35mm Wide Angle” competition and also had a portfolio of his work published in the April 2010 issue of the magazine. His latest work, the highly personal, “Miverina” retraces six years of photographic tussling with the changing face of Madagascar, the country to which the photographer Rijasolo is connected by his family history.
Link: “Miverina”: Rijasolo’s Photographic Return to Madagascar « The Leica Camera
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For the 10th consecutive December, the magazine has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas.
Our digest of short entries refracts the light beam of human inspiration, breaking it up into its constituent colors — innovations and insights from a spectrum of fields, including economics, biology, engineering, medicine, literature, sports, music and, of course, raw-meat clothing. Happy thinking!
Link: The 10th Annual Year in Ideas – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
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Geoff Dyer on Trent Parke (2008)
Photography is a generous, abundant medium and Parke is a voracious photographer.
By Geoff Dyer
I was introduced to the work of Trent Parke (born in Australia in 1971, a member of Magnum since 2007) by a mutual friend, the photographer, Matt Stua
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/12/trent-parke-geoff-dyer-on-trent-parke.html
Photography is a generous, abundant medium and Parke is a voracious photographer. Keeping track of what he’s been up to since the publication of these two books can be a little difficult. He is amassing a vast quantity of pictures, working on multiple projects, which are still in the process of being arranged, edited and exhibited.
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Interviews: Laura Moya of PhotoLucida
Photolucida ‘s Critical Mass has established itself as one of the foremost photo competitions, drawing applicants world wide for …
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/12/interviews-laura-moya-of-photolucida.html
photo-eye was fortunate enough to catch Photolucida’s executive director Laura Moya at a lull between Critical Mass jurying cycles and ask a few questions about the competition, jurying process and how the Critical Mass books come to be.
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Daylight Magazine and Bite! Magazine are pleased to present “50PM” a monthly collection of fine art photography portfolios with themes that are close to us all, developed especially for the iPad.
Link: 50pm – the iPad photography magazine by Daylight and Bite!
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NGS Photo Contest Winner: Does It Look Real to You? | PDNPulse
Aaron Lim Bon Teck of Singapore has won the $10,000 grand prize in the 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest with an image of the eruption of Indonesia’s Gunung Rinjani volcano. It’s an impressive shot, but it’s hard to believe this panoramic image
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/12/ngs-photo-contest-winner-does-it-look-real-to-you.html
It’s an impressive shot, but it’s hard to believe this panoramic image was created without High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR) and some stitching.
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Congress Hears WikiLeaks Is ‘Fundamentally Different’ From Media
The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act, a former federal prosecutor told lawmakers Thursday. “By clear
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-and-espionage-act/
photo-eye was fortunate enough to catch Photolucida’s executive director Laura Moya at a lull between Critical Mass jurying cycles and ask a few questions about the competition, jurying process and how the Critical Mass books come to be.
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It’s not easy to narrow down 365 days of imagery from assignments, projects, and our personal lives. This could be done with different photos, but each of us attempted to sum up 2010 in five images.
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1976, Nathan Harger received his B.F.A. in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He completed his M.F.A. in photography at Parsons the New School for Design in 2008.
