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July 2008 
GeekFest 2008 There are some minor schedule changes, so I thought I'd repost the GeekFest line-up: If you're anywhere near Florida August 1-3, St. Petersburg is the place to be. For the nominal fee of $100, you can hang out with the APhotoADay community, which is having its annual gathering. The weekend is jam packed with some incredible speakers. So, if you're looking for some inspiration and motivation -- don't miss it:
opening night meet-and-greet BBQ at Mike Weimar's house (email me for an address) --- Friday 08.01 free time all afternoon 6pm - reception at The Poynter Institute (801 Third Street South, St. Pete, FL 33701) 8pm - dinner for organizers and speakers 10pm - Photo Slam by the Nation of Poetry at Cafe Bohemia 11pm - whenever - portfolio reviews at the Ponce De Leon Hotel --- Saturday 08.02 (all speakers at the St. Pete Times auditorium - 490 First Avenue South, St. Pete, FL 33701) 11am - Ross Taylor (Hartford Courant) 12pm - Lane Degregory (writer, St. Pete Times / tips for finding stories) 1pm - Preston Gannaway (Rocky Mountain News / 2008 Pulitzer Prize) 2-3:30 LUNCH BREAK 3:30pm - Ted Jackson (community journalism at its finest, New Orleans Times-Picayune) 4:30pm - freelance/business of photography panel (Bob Croslin, Eric Larson, Mike Weimar, Susana Raab, Mark Adams) 5:30pm - Bob Croslin (freelance photographer / lighting genius / hands-on demo) 6:30-8:30 DINNER BREAK / FREE SHOOTING TIME 10pm-whenever - portfolio reviews at the Ponce De Leon Hotel --- Sunday 08.03 (all speakers at the St. Pete Times auditorium) 11am - Michael Williamson (Washington Post) 12pm - Laura Lo Forti (the raw file / multimedia) 1pm - Eric Larson (freelance photographer) 2pm - Susana Raab (freelance photographer) 3pm - wrap up/free-time/lunch/leave
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An Alleycat in Harlem For nearly three decades, Mr. Dejean, 63, a small, neatly dressed man with intense eyes behind thin silver-rimmed frames, has been an unofficial neighborhood photographer, chronicling the famous, the infamous and the anonymous. "I've seen all the changing faces of Harlem," said Mr. Dejean, from the emergence of hip-hop to the violent rise of the crack epidemic to its current makeover as a result of gentrification.
Space Cameras From the first space journey on Oct. 3, 1962, Hasselblad cameras have played an integral part in the Space program, capturing the images that help us to understand our world and its surroundings. See the cameras that have shaped our view of the world.
For the Love of Ping Pong Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography, and has now turned his eye toward China's love of table tennis with some gorgeous black and white images. In China, ping pong is more than a sport - it's a part of daily life.
Alex Majoli: An Unvelied Secret From 1961-1987, 110 Eskimo children in 15 Alaskan villages were sexually abused by 12 priests and three Catholic Church volunteers. The secrets of the abused remained buried, until 2002, when the Catholic Church sex scandal came to light, implicating the Boston diocese, among others. Over the years, 22 of the victims have committed suicide. Today, the remaining survivors- grown and deeply troubled - are locked in a daily struggle with the residue of their trauma, and the ghosts of their tormentors. [via MediaStorm: Blog]
Supply and Demand Why your images are worthless...
Congo
The Congolese are generally not the most willing of subjects particularly when they think that the photographer will somehow profit from the exchange at their expense.
Africa as You've Never Seen It
Pieter Hugo is a young South African photographer causing a stir and winning prizes for his unsettling images of the continent's marginal people. "Some people have said to me that Pieter's subject is so dramatic that it would be hard to take a bad picture," says Biondi, "but, you know, a photographer chooses his subjects, and that, too, is an important part of having a great eye. Photographers go where their instinct leads them and then try and work out their fascination for the subject through the photographs they take. That's what Pieter's doing but in a kind of extreme way." She pauses for a moment. "He has a vision and he pursues it relentlessly. He has what it takes."
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Photojournalist sent home from Iraq Disembedded: Marines Send a War Photographer Packing
APAD T-shirts
I'd like to introduce to you, the long-awaited, much-anticipated APAD t-shirts, with a smashing new logo designed by Bill Manley. They are for sale at both Skreened and CafePress stores. The banner reads, "In Image, Truth." Skreened is printed on a slightly better quality T-shirt (american apparel) and the logo is a little more subdued... it's just an outline of the fist and the t-shirt color as the background, available in 7" and 10" logos. The CafePress shirt has a little more pop to it.... with the black on white logo design. It can also be printed on anything from a bbq apron to a baby onesie to a mug. You can order up whatever color combination and sizes you'd like from our two stores below. Get yours for geekfest today!! Our Skreened store is: Our CafePress store is: http://www.cafepress.com/aphotoaday
Drive
Andrew Bush mounted a camera to his passenger window and photographed people driving around Los Angeles. Bush's unique images of drivers has been collected into a book called Drive.
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Falling Down You've likely seen Dennis Darzacq's photos of people who look like they're falling and about to hit the ground at a high velocity. Lens Culture has a video that shows how Darzacq makes those photos; he plays a clever mind trick on viewers that makes jumping look like falling. Everything had been prepared in advance. Everything was ready. The models launched themselves into space. There is nothing false in these scenes. These moments really occurred. There is no fiction, no retouching or special effects. Photographed in the courtyards of buildings or in streets in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, in Nanterre and in Biarritz, these young people were just being themselves, simply performing jumps in a modern urban setting. And the photographer shot the images, intervening only to give a few guidelines as to their movements. However, at the moment of the leap, chance and gravity also intervened.
Hurray! Interactive Narratives is back!
Joe McNally's Blog Do you want to know how to light something? How to be inspired by lighting something? Drool over the way something is lit? If so, check out Joe McNally's Blog.
Have You Had Your Kashi Today? Mary Virginia Swanson has a great post on Ed Kashi, including a link to an interview with him on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning about his newest book Curse of the Black Gold. Go read it. Then do yourself a favor and go listen to it.
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GeekFest 2008 If you're anywhere near Florida August 1-3, St. Petersburg is the place to be. For the nominal fee of $100, you can hang out with the APhotoADay community, which is having its annual gathering. The weekend is jam packed with some incredible speakers. So, if you're looking for some inspiration and motivation -- don't miss it:
opening night meet-and-greet BBQ at Mike Weimar's house (email me for an address) --- Friday 08.01 free time all afternoon 6pm - reception at The Poynter Institute (801 Third Street South, St. Pete, FL 33701) 8pm - dinner for organizers and speakers 10pm - portfolio reviews at the Ponce De Leon Hotel --- Saturday 08.02 (all speakers at the St. Pete Times auditorium - 490 First Avenue South, St. Pete, FL 33701) 11am - Ross Taylor (Hartford Courant) 12pm - Lane Degregory (writer, St. Pete Times / tips for finding stories) 1pm - Preston Gannaway (Rocky Mountain News / 2008 Pulitzer Prize) 2-3:30 LUNCH BREAK 3:30pm - Ted Jackson (community journalism at its finest, New Orleans Times-Picayune) 4:30pm - Bob Croslin (freelance photographer / lighting genius) 5:30pm - freelance/business of photography panel (Bob Croslin, Eric Larson, Mike Weimar, Susana Raab, Mark Adams) 6:30-8:30 DINNER BREAK / FREE SHOOTING TIME 9pm - Photo Slam by the Nation of Poetry, location TBA 11pm-whenever - portfolio reviews at the Ponce De Leon Hotel --- Sunday 08.03 (all speakers at the St. Pete Times auditorium) 11am - Michael Williamson (Washington Post) 12pm - Laura Lo Forti (the raw file / multimedia) 1pm - Eric Larson (freelance photographer) 2-3:30pm LUNCH BREAK 3:30pm - Susana Raab (freelance photographer) 4:30pm - wrap up
Kabul in Transition New York Times photojournalist Tyler Hicks discusses his experiences covering the the changing capital of Afghanistan in this audio slideshow presentation by the Times.
Track Super Stars 1 race, 4 photographers, 9.68 seconds -- four Oregonian staff photographers reflect on their coverage of the men's 100 meter finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Congrats to New Magnum Members We've heard the names of the new Magnum Photos members who were elected at the cooperative's meeting in Paris last week: Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D'Agata and Alec Soth have been elected full members. Olivia Arthur and Peter Van Agtmael are new Magnum nominees. [via PDNPulse]
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