Photographer David Chancellor has won the Taylor Wessing Photography Prize for his portrait of a huntress. There’s something fabulous about that word. Here’s the winning picture. I do love it, with the matching of the hair to the landscape and the horse, and the way the image feels like it was plucked right out of the Museum of Natural History’s dioramas.
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Nick Turpin started the In-Public website in 2000 to foster a community of practicing street photographers. The recently published 10: 10 Years of In-Public features the work of the 20 photographers who now make up In-Public. In-Public is very much a 21st century endeavour, a virtual convergence of street photographers on four continents with a shared interest who have influenced one another’s individual practices. As Turpin writes in the introduction, “We grew with the internet and benefited enormously from the way it circumvented the gatekeepers of the art and publishing worlds that had traditionally decided who would or would not reach an audience”.
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Learning Photography From Margaret Mead
Ken Heyman took his cues from a prominent anthropologist. And the author, Mark Bussell, took his cues from Mr. Heyman.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/learning-photography-from-margaret-mead/
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More than two years after photojournalist Trent Keegan was killed in mysterious circumstances in Kenya, police have finally charged a man for the murder after a documentary maker helped solve the mystery
Link: Documentary leads to arrest in Keegan murder mystery (update) – British Journal of Photography
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Found photos with writing on them.
Unemployment, wars, terrorism, natural disasters — times are hard, there’s no question. But times have been harder. We’ve been through worse and bounced back. If nothing else, I hope this week’s Talking Pictures helps, in some small way, to put our own problems in perspective.
Link: mental_floss Blog » Talking Pictures: Times of Trouble
via: Boing Boing
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10 was published to commemorate 10 years of In-Public, the international street photographers’ collective, featuring 10 images from each of the 20 photographers.
Link: 10 Years of In-Public
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the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself.
You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to market yourself and make sure the business is making money. People graduating today find themselves swimming in a vast pool of freelancers, and a good photo education is one that teaches photographers a lot more than how to shoot pictures.
Link: 12 Things Photo Students Need To Know/Study Before Graduation – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Donald Weber’s Interrogations
Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics
Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2010/11/donald-webers-interrogations.html
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Get to Know Our Favorite Photobloggers
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/11/favorite-photobloggers/
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Surprise! Feds stored thousands of checkpoint body scan images after all
US agencies have long defended the use of body scanning devices at airports with the promise that all images will be discarded as soon as security staff have viewed them. Last summer, the TSA claim…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/04/surprise-feds-stored.html
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No 1Ds IV? [CR1]
The hits keep on coming. It has recently been suggested to me that there will not be a 1Ds Mark IV at all. The 5D Mark III (or whatever it’s called) will be
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/11/no-1ds-iv-cr1/
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Kendrick Brinson’s series, Sun City, takes a look at what our parents or grandparents are up to when we are not looking. At it appears that they are having fun and making making the most of their golden years in a closed-gate culture of golf carts and lawn bowling.
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The idea came up to take the effort a step further by setting up an entire website to sell João’s prints and help raise funds. We donated an account and photojournalist/web designer David Brabyn donated the design and configuration work. Together, David and Greg worked very quickly to gather some of João’s best work and design a website around it – that website launches today. Please take a look and consider helping out.
Link: Support Wounded Photographer João Silva – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Hearst 8×10 Award Winners – A Photo Editor
2011 Award Recipients Nicholas Mendise (New York, NY) Devin Tepleski (Victoria, Canada) Christoph Engel (Karlsruhe, Germany) Jonathan Smith (Brooklyn, NY) Gareth Kingdon (Cardiff, Wales, UK) Victor Yuliev (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Rena Effendi (Baku, Aze
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/11/08/hearst-8×10-award-winners/
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Nikon launches global NPS website – Nikon Rumors
Today Nikon launched new global NPS (Nikon Professional Services) website located at http://nps.nikonimaging.com. TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new Nikon Professional Services (NPS) global website today, November 9, 20
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2010/11/09/nikon-launches-global-nps-website.aspx
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“If it’s not your life then get the fuck out” – A Chat with Glen E. Friedman (2010)
Jay Adams @ Glen E. Friedman
“So my advice is if you really love (art) keep doing it, and if it’s not your life then get the fuck out of it.”
By Daniel Rolnik, November 2010
D: You are known for using your Pentax k1000 camera, but what fi
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/11/interview-interview-with-glen-e.html
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Photographer Robert Bergman: Outsider looking in
Sean O’Hagan: Bergman’s street portraits of unidentified Americans have been compared to the Old Masters. Yet recognition has been a long time coming
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/02/robert-bergman-photography
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The many faces of an Iranian Cindy Sherman
Tara Inanloo has taken a series of self-portraits ‘to represent the different Iranian women inside myself’. Now she is in grave danger if she goes back to her country
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/07/tara-inanloo-iran-photography-protest
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Alain Delorme was born in 1979. He graduated from Gobelins in Paris with a degree in Photography. He also has a Master of Science and Technology in Photography from the University of Paris VIII. In this series, ‘Totems’, the composites are recreated on the basis of 6,000 images taken in Shanghai during two art residencies.
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Mary Shannon Johnstone is doing the hard work. She’s taking a look a something none of us want to see, so if the subject of euthanized animals is more than you can visually tolerate, then best not continue.