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National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010
National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html
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National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010
National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html
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National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010
National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html
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Open Society Announces 2010 Audience Engagement Grant Winners | PDNPulse
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project yesterday announced the winners of this year’s Audience Engagement Grants. Founded in 2005 with the name “the Distribution Grant,” the grant seeks to engage communities and decision makers in human rights a
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/11/open-society-announces-2010-audience-engagement-grant-winners.html
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Panos Announces Worldwide Search for Three or Four Photographers | PDNPulse
UK agency Panos Pictures has put out a call for portfolios from social documentary photographers interested in joining the agency. The deadline is March 1, 2011. Although Panos lists more than 100 photographers on its roster, director Adrian Evans says a
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/11/panos-announces-worldwide-search-for-three-or-four-photographers.html
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Leica V-Lux 2 review: the Leica movie camera – Leica Rumors
Specs at a glance Lens: Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 4.5–108 mm f/2.8–5.2 ASPH (wide-angle f/2.8–f/8, telephoto f/5.2–f/8 ), full frame equivalent to 25–600 mm, 24x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom, 14 lenses in 10 groups) Sensor: 1/2.33″ CMOS with 15.1MP (effecti
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If you see a cheap Leica S2 (or is it an R8?) for sale in Budapest, call Brad Pitt – Leica Rumors
x17online reports that Brad Pitt’s Leica S2 camera got stolen in Budapest. The same website shows a series of pictures of the actor with what appears to be a Leica R8 camera (and not S2). At least we know that Mr. Pitt is shooting film ? Related posts: Ho
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A little while ago, Benjamin of duckrabbit fame sent me an email, telling me about Ivor Prickett and his story about Abkhazia. I like Ivor’s work very much, and since there currently is so much talk about how photojournalism is presumably dead (or maybe not) and about the relationship between photojournalism, documentary photography and what we call “fine art” photography (for a lack of a better term), I approached him to talk about his work.
Link: Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with Ivor Prickett
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Is social media a waste of time, or are photographers actually using it to help them build their businesses and make real money?
Link: 4 Photographers Describe Their “Social Media Workflow” – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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New Photos from Martin Parr…
Link: Black Country Stories | Martin Parr
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Photographer #163: Andreas Laszlo Konrath
Andreas Laszlo Konrath, 1981, UK, currently lives in Brooklyn and is a portrait photographer. His main focus lies on identity and youth. He …
Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2010/11/photographer-163-andreas-laszlo-konrath.html
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dominic bracco II – life and death in the northern pass
[slidepress gallery=’dominicbracco_lifeanddeathinthenorthernpass’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Dominic Bracco II Life an…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/11/dominic-bracco-ii-life-and-death-in-the-northern-pass/
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In WDC, on assignment. Down-time. Check email. Friend request. Wander to Facebook. Oh, it’s someone from Baptist Town. Confirm. A post on her wall makes me stop. It says “RIP Butta”. Confused, but not yet alarmed, I go to another person’s page. A post on Nikki’s wall says the same. My blood runs cold. Find my phone, start dialing numbers. Sylvester Hoover, the man who owns the one business in Baptist Town, a convenience store and laundromat, is the first to answer. “Yeah, Butta’s dead” he tells me. “He was shot and killed yesterday.”
Link: In My Back Yard: Baptist Town is Butta Town | Luceo Images
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Someone asked me this week how to stay fresh when making pictures of the things you’ve photographed many times. The question is a variation of how you avoid burnout, except its applied to individual settings instead of the breadth of what you photograph.
The answer to the question can apply to both contexts.
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Photographer Lyle Owerko’s new book The Boombox Project, published this fall by Abrams Image, began as a series of still-life photographs of old portable music players he shot on white seamless. The images of the visibly used boomboxes, which allow close examination of their design—knobs, dials, equalizers, speakers and other components—are compelling, nostalgia-inducing cultural documents.
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The first thing I noticed on going to see Joao at the Walter Reed (after all the uniforms, of course) is that there are dispensers with antiseptic hand gel everywhere. And god forbid you try to enter a patient’s room without cleaning your hands. The obsessive hygiene is like a sickness itself, to the ignorant eye, what with people washing their hands compulsively. The bacteria they most fear is a little critter called Acinetobacter baumannii.
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If you thought that Emilio Morenatti would have had enough of the world’s hot spots after he lost his left foot in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan 15 months ago, then you’re not thinking like a photojournalist.
Link: Photographing Cholera’s Awful Toll in Haiti: Emilio Morenatti Returns to Work – NYTimes.com