Monthly Archives: February 2007

Printable Cold Sores

via Wooster Collective: Why don’t we just see them for what they are? They are regular people just like us, they just have a team of retouchers waiting at the ready. Printable cold sores allow us to take action! Bring

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The Stuff Sam Nunn’s Nightmares Are Made Of

NYT Magazine: By now we can too readily imagine the horror of terrorists exploding a nuclear weapon in a major American city: the gutted skyscrapers, the melted cars, the charred bodies. For Sam Nunn, however, a new terror begins the

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Agenda

NYT Magazine: A studio visit to an artist in Beijing is often like 10 studio visits in Brooklyn. In China, you don’t find a painter, and a sculptor, and a video artist, but rather one artist who is working on

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Ja-Ja should know how street gangs operate: he runs one

The Observer: Last week, in a remarkable insight into the world of gangs and how teenagers get dragged in, The Observer spent two days with Kerr and other members of the PDC, a group of young men who, throughout the

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Beyond Baghdad, Beyond ‘the Surge,’ War Still Simmers

NYT: The letter from Al Qaeda in Iraq to the members of the local police was clear. Come to the mosque and swear allegiance on the Koran to Al Qaeda, the letter warned, or you will die and your family

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Jeff Wall – The Luminist

NYT Magazine: One thing that Wall knew for certain when he took up the profession in the late 1970s is that he would not become a photojournalistic hunter. Educated as an art historian, he aspired instead to make photographs that

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Jeff Wall – The Luminist

NYT Magazine: One thing that Wall knew for certain when he took up the profession in the late 1970s is that he would not become a photojournalistic hunter. Educated as an art historian, he aspired instead to make photographs that

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POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year

Tyler Hicks, New York Times. Here.

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Who's killing Putin's enemies?

The Observer: One day, at the Ninth Municipal Hospital in Grozny, the Chechen capital, Anna Politkovskaya encountered a 62-year-old woman named Aishat Suleimanova whose eyes expressed ‘complete indifference to the world’, as she wrote in a typical piece. ‘And it

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Trolley Square Shooting – Vanessa Quinn

The hardest part of covering the Trolley Square tragedy was the funerals. I did three in two days. First was the service for Vanessa Quinn, a woman who lived life to its fullest. It was “Nessa,” as she was known

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Trolley Square Shooting – Candelight Vigil

After photographing at the Talovic home I was assigned to the candlelight vigil at the downtown library. I arrived early enough to scout things out. The atrium of the library is a multi-level affair. There was a podium set up

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Trolley Square Shooting – Talovic Family

Now that I’ve escaped from the tragedy of last week into the calm of this week, it’s hard to go back and revisit the assignments I had covering the Trolley Square shooting. By the end of the week I felt

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Canon announces EOS-1D Mark III

RobGalbraith: Canon has taken the wraps off their next 1-series digital SLR. The EOS-1D Mark III is a 10.08 million image pixel, 10 fps digital SLR that offers so many improvements over the model it replaces that it’s best to

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For Youths, a Grim Tour on Magazine Crews

NYT: In Collinsville, Ill., Daniel Burrus scrolled through digital photographs of bloodied faces as he described how, on a crew he helped manage for several years, men who missed their sales quota were forced to fight each other. In Flagstaff,

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In Somalia, Violence Is Status Quo

NYT: It is hard to believe, but Somalia is actually becoming a more violent and chaotic place. This is not how it was supposed to be. Nearly two months ago, an internationally supported transitional government ousted the Islamist movement that

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Interview: SCOTT STRAZZANTE

A Photo a Day: Since October 2001, besides a couple studio shoots, I have not used a strobe once. Why? First, I want to document reality and that includes the light, If something happens in a dank dark room, I

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More Housekeeping

Fixed the links on this page. Contact, Site Map, etc. Those buttons on the right now work again.

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TBA

Last week sucked. Among other things, I shot three funerals in two days. I’ll write about all that soon, probably tomorrow. Unless I go skiing with the boys. We’ll see. The site is always on my mind, and you will notice

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Lights, Bogeyman, Action

NYT: But the source of his dark-hued lens on life, Mr. Fincher suggested, might be as simple as that original bogeyman. “It was a very interesting and weird time to grow up, and incredibly evocative,” he said. “I have a

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Anna and the Astronaut Trigger a Week of Tabloid News

PEJ: For the first time this year, “tabloid gold” fever seized at least some of the news media last week in a significant way, according to PEJ’s News Coverage Index from February 4 to February 9. Though it only made

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