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Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomb-like cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.
“All this treatment is carried out in the framework of a religious regime, justified by claims of protecting the state,”
If people have concrete ideas as to how to make anything at Visa or around Visa better, more engaging, more…
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Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomb-like cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.
“All this treatment is carried out in the framework of a religious regime, justified by claims of protecting the state,”
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For me, photography should present a new way of seeing. If a photograph doesn’t challenge how I already view the world, then that photograph has little or no value for me.
Link: Justin Guariglia, Photographer for National Geographic Traveler Magazine, part 1 « The Leica Camera
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Mr Leroy complains that duckrabbit has ‘slandered‘ both himself and the photographers who appeared at the festival. Of course technically it’s not possible to ‘slander’ Mr Leroy because slander is spoken, not written, but I think we can all get his point. You can be the judge of whether this debate was worth having and whether, given the evidence and opinion presented both by duckrabbit and Mr Leroy, our response to the attack on Morel was justified.
Journalism is dependent on asking questions. It was not duckrabbit but William Klein who suggested that Visa resembles ‘a festival of shanty towns without context.’
Lara Jade Coton was awarded almost $130,000 damages against Burge and his company TVX after a Florida court found that Coton – who generally goes by her professional name of Lara Jade – had suffered personal and professional humiliation, harm to her career and damage to her physical health as a result of his actions.
Link: Brit Photographer Screws Texas Pornographer » The Russian Photos Blog
Relations between photo agencies and contributors can be a tricky matter, especially when it comes to royalty percentages. When the agency is a microstock distributor with a crowd-sourcing base it doesn’t take many false steps to turn that cuddly community into a howling mob. And when those steps come from a Chief Operating Officer whose PR skills elicit comparisons with Tony Hayward and Gerald Ratner the results can be, well, explosive.
Combining the zine ethic and media-savvy dynamism of FIGJAM street culture with the networking energy of its Perth-based creator Mark McPherson, Hijacked 1 is a compelling trawl through contemporary US and Australian photographic practice.
The authors of Street Photography Now, in association with the Photographers’ Gallery, have launched a year-long project calling on all street photographers to “record the world we live in”
Link: Street photographers gear up for year-long project – British Journal of Photography
A couple weeks ago, I was listening to a story by NPR’s Planet Money team about “Toxie” a toxic asset they had purchased to follow and help tell the story of the recent financial meltdown. One of the mortgages in Toxie was on a home bought for investment
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landscapes_in_sw_florida.html
Many homes there are empty and have been for years. Huge developments sit partially completed among densely built up neighborhoods and swampland. A guest stated that there were “enough housing lots in Charlotte County to last for more than 100 years”. Boom and bust residential development has drastically affected parts of southwest Florida for decades now, and I spent some time (with the help of Google Earth), looking around the area.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093000535.html?wprss=rss_world
His mouth is pursed. He is wearing a black Maoist-style track suit. His hair, parted in the middle, flows up on both sides, giving his hairline the profile of an “M.” Dozens of delegates stand behind him. Two seats to the left of the Young General sits Kim Jong Il.
many metal health plans no longer cover rudimentary procedures such as girls rocking their boys
Link: Quiet Riot Speaks Out Against Nation’s Poor Metal Health Care | America’s Finest News Source
The New York Times’ multimedia series One in 8 Million won an Emmy Award in the “new approaches to documentary” category on Monday night. The series is a collection of stories told with audio and photography that portray everyday New Yorkers.
James Estrin talked with three of the series’ producers : the staff photographer Todd Heisler, the senior multimedia producer Sarah Kramer, and the photo editor Meghan Looram.
From the Working series
By Gregory Crewdson
A family of three carefully unfolds rolls of sod onto their barren front yard transforming it into a small domestic oasis. A man ascends a bare, undersized tree in an absurd attempt to prune its dead leave
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Bill Owens made these photographs, and many others, in various suburban communities in Northern California throughout the early 1970s. In 1973 they were compiled in the classic book, Suburbia. These photographs are as strange and compelling now as they were thirty years ago.
UPDATE Jean Francois Leroy has emailed duckrabbit to say he will be responding within the next 48 hours. Some of…
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But Morel didn’t post any pictures on Twitter. Nobody ever has, because – as most 10-year-olds could explain to the NPPA – Twitter is a text message system: it can’t host pictures. Morel’s pictures were posted to Twitpic, an entirely separate legal entity from Twitter, with entirely different terms and conditions; therefore it is the Twitpic terms that are applicable in the Morel case. That’s the kind of very basic legal point one might expect a lawyer to notice.
Jean-François Leroy has been forced to weigh in, one more time, on the legal case pitting Agence France Presse against Daniel Morel, after he refused to support the freelance photographer
Link: AFP v. Morel: The debate rages on – British Journal of Photography
I walked into a bar with my camera. I had my iPhone. Not a Holga. That would have been the trifecta. To save face, I did walk in there with a sizable posse of other photojournalists, visual artists, and editors during this past weekend’s Geekfest in St. Petersburg. For those that don’t know, Geekfest is a weekend of photo juiciness and inspiration put on by aphototday.org founder, Melissa Lyttle (above).
Link: so a geek, an iPhone, and a 5d walk into a bar | Redlights and Redeyes
Must be that time of the year/decade, because I can smell the schadenfreude in the air. Mayhill Fowler is a Huffington Post blogger who claims to have written the “one big story out of the last presidential election to live on.” She understands that the b
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I walked into a bar with my camera. I had my iPhone. Not a Holga. That would have been the trifecta. To save face, I did walk in there with a sizable posse of other photojournalists, visual artists, and editors during this past weekend’s Geekfest in St. Petersburg. For those that don’t know, Geekfest is a weekend of photo juiciness and inspiration put on by aphototday.org founder, Melissa Lyttle (above).