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Respect. Magazine

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Browsing the shelves of a book store last night I found a new publication called Respect. Magazine.
It’s a photography centric hip-hop publication featuring lots of great portfolios of people who have photographed hip-hop for years and isn’t juiced with ads. Not sure if it’ll be around for the long haul but it looks good and [...]

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Leveling Appalachia

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Chad Stevens, a professor at UNC and a classmate/instructor friend of my from when I was at grad school in Athens has recently put out a piece with Yale and Mediastorm that studies the effects of mountaintop removal, which is a really important issue to me. Also, fellow Chicago photog Daniel Shea has some images [...]

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Gigi Cifali

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

NPR’s Picture Show Blog is a good place to see good work. Just when I think I’m completely sick of looking at photography I see a project that revitalizes and excites me. Today that project was Gigi Cigali’s Absence of Water. Great project that tells a story just as well as any traditional newspaper picture [...]

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How some people who feed your brain think…

Monday, August 17, 2009

Recently I posted over on the APAD blog a little article quoting some editors over at SELF magazine speaking about the photoshop retouch work that goes on for their magazine covers, or specifically, their latest cover with Kelly Clarkson. Former classmate Andrea Morales pointed it out to me via facebook.
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The current value of photographs

Saturday, July 18, 2009

$7 ….?? So agrees Sotomayor. This court ruling, in which Sotomayor had connections to the defendant (never disclosed) says effectively that a photojournalist’s original work that were lost by Corbis were worth $7 a piece. They lost a lot of images, so he walked away with a $100,000+ settlement, but this is nothing in terms [...]

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Classmates: Dinara Sagatova

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Dinara, an interactive media student (disclaimer, she’s also my girlfriend) here at Ohio University has just finished a website about the former nuclear test site of Semipalatinsk polygon in her home country of Kazakhstan.

It’s a pretty fascinating site, which is the culmination of research and two trips to the region where she went to villages [...]

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@ Burn Magazine: One of the worst environmental disasters ever.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Something that is encouraging about the plethora of online publishing options out there today is that professional journalists can put their work out there more easily, and in the case of photographer Carlan Tapp, he has managed to get his essay on the TVA Fly Ash spill up at David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine. Sure, [...]

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Dark Tourism

Sunday, April 26, 2009

In a moment of boredom I was browsing through this year’s World Press Photo winners and I was brought back to a series that interested me initially when I looked at the winners a month or two ago, but one that I didn’t quite “get” at the moment, pretty much because I only fleetingly glanced [...]

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Removing Mountains – NPR

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Chicago based photographer Daniel Shea has a really nice body of work on an issue that’s bothered me internally since I’ve lived in Appalachia … unfortunately I’ve not come up with a good way to tackle the subject since it’s always seemed to big and looming to add to my already chaotic grad school schedule.
I [...]

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War photo ban lifted

Friday, February 27, 2009

It is never good to see the effects of war, and when it hits home it is worst, but it is also when it is most poignant.
The ban on photos of the deceased U.S. soldiers as they reenter the country has finally been lifted, putting the decision in the hands of the families and not [...]

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