Chicago native and photographer, Yvette Marie Dostatni, knows how to take a portrait. Her website showcases many fantastic series that look at communities and cultures that are off the grid, or simply overlooked.
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National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic stories take you on a journey that’s always enlightening, often surprising, and unfailingly fascinating.
via Magazine: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/your-shot/manipulation
We get a lot of letters at National Geographic. Recently we received several from readers insisting that William Lascelles’s photograph on the February 2010 Your Shot page was a fake.
Our readers were right.
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Photographer Stephen Gill: the devil in the detail
The photographer Stephen Gill ensures his pictures are shown in the best possible light – in his own handmade books
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7813330/Photographer-Stephen-Gill-the-devil-in-the-detail.html
One of Gill’s most complicated books was 44 Photographs – Trinidad, published last year. The entire book was manufactured and assembled by hand over a period of four weeks by a small production line of friends in his studio. The edition of 115 copies involved Gill and his team deconstructing a stack of vintage 1964 paperbacks he had found and hand-writing the title page, as well as several other individual processes including letter-pressing and assembling the photographic prints into handmade pockets within the book. It is a work of art in itself.
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“I have worked with many photographers in the field, all over the world,” Régis Le Sommier, deputy editor in chief of the popular French magazine Paris Match, told The Daily Beast in an email. “I believe [Veronique] is one of the most daring and promising photographers of her generation.”
Link: Veronique de Viguerie: Fearless Photographer – The Daily Beast
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Congo: 50 years, 50 faces
From the doctor to the crocodile keeper, the model to the general, Stephan Vanfleteren marks half a century of Congolese independence
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jun/12/photography-congo-stephan-vanfleteren
We get a lot of letters at National Geographic. Recently we received several from readers insisting that William Lascelles’s photograph on the February 2010 Your Shot page was a fake.
Our readers were right.
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Living in Silence
Saiful Huq Omi photographs Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh for UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7826645/Living-in-Silence.html
‘Living Silence’, a photographic exhibition of one of the world’s most enduring refugee crises, opens tomorrow at East Gallery in Brick Lane, London. From 15th to 24th June during Refugee Week, UNHCR brings ‘Living Silence’ to the heart of the Bangladeshi community in London.
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A Disaster, Privately Managed
Weeks into the oil spill, public information seems to be controlled by BP, in whole or in part.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/business/media/14carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Anderson Cooper of CNN complained about seemingly ridiculous efforts to control the story, including the fact that rescued oil-covered birds were being guarded and hidden from view by members of the National Guard. Tom Foreman, a CNN correspondent, tried to interview BP workers, but they would only say, over and over, as if working from a script, “I am only here to support the cleanup mission.” Mr. Foreman pressed and a guard intervened, saying, “You can’t do that! Sir! Stop! I can’t allow you to do that!”
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EPF 2010 Winner
Emerging Photographer Grant 2010 Recipient [slidepress gallery=”davidemonteleone_northerncaucasus”] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Davide Monteleone…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/epf-2010-winner/
I’ve been working from Chechnya to Dagestan, from Northern to Southern Ossetia, just after the war in August 2008, all the way to Abkhazia, from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea coasts, crossing geographical and political borders. My interest isn’t to cover the news that brought the region back under the international floodlights, but to carry on a considered path by making notes of the tracks left behind.
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Franco Pagetti captures the bleak mood pervading Afghanistan and its environs today. Despite the massive presence of Western soldiers, large parts of Afghanistan remain in limbo. For most ordinary Afghans, little has changed for the better, and much has changed for the worse, especially in the countryside, where the Taliban remains strong and entrenched.
Link: VII The Magazine
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Link: Steven B. Smithvia: Prison Photography
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This video by Christopher Morris was shot on December 1st, 2009, as U.S. President Barack Obama laid out his Afghanistan war strategy in an address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Link: VII The Magazine
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EPF 2010 Finalists
[slidepress gallery=”epf_2010_finalists”] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls SOME ESSAYS CONTAIN EXPLICIT CONTENT Emerging Photographer Grant 2010 Finalists pl…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/epf-2010-finalists/
This is a short preview of the essays of our 13 EPF finalists
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GREATER MIDDLE EAST PHOTO
PHOTOGRAPHY FROM OR ABOUT THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST
Link: http://www.greatermiddleeastphoto.com/
This is a short preview of the essays of our 13 EPF finalists
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Behind the lens at Stephen Strasburg’s debut
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060905327.html
Staff photographer Jonathan Newton received dozens of e-mails about his photograph of Stephen Strasburg that ran on the front page of Wednesday’s Sports section. Newton was positioned in the photographers section next to the visitors’ dugout along the third base line at Nationals Park. Here’s how he shot the picture.
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Slovakian photographer, Martin Kollar, lives in Prague and seems to have a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
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“This guy was most definitely a professional paparazzo,” the actress’s rep tells PEOPLE. “He had a large camera bag and 1000mm telephoto lens. He tailed Jodie and followed her all the way from the movie theater to the valet.”
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Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12leak.html?hp
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions. His administration has taken actions that might have provoked sharp political criticism for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was often in public fights with the press.
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Recovering the Dead in Haiti
In a devastated quarter of Port-au-Prince, Angel Franco of The Times met Sony. Together, they recorded their encounter.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/assignment-38/
When I travel I take — in this case — a Holgaroid; a Holga with a Polaroid back. It’s a plastic camera. It’s very light. And I can fit those two things in my camera bag besides all my work equipment. When I am done working, on the day before I leave, I’ll go find things of interest and keep a journal of where I’ve been. Wherever I go — across the country or around the world — I always carry a notebook or a drawing pad. I buy little Crayolas, and draw and paint in the notebooks. And I always find someone who is of interest and who has touched me and ask them, if they don’t mind, if I may take a Polaroid of them and if they would write something in the notebook about themselves and their experience. I’ve been doing that for years. I have a lot of books.
