Photo Industry
Pieter Hugo Wins Discovery Award At Arles
The EUR25,000 prize was the big award given out at the Recontres d'Arles, which wrapped last week.
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Who's Shooting What
The photographers and creatives behind new work for Gold Peak Iced Tea with Anomaly, Old Spice with Wieden + Kennedy, Chase with McGarry Bowen, Miller Lite with Upshot and more.
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F Award Goes to Leonie Purchas
Photographer Leonie Purchas of the U.K. won for an essay about her family. The F25 Award went to Abdul Munem Wasif of Bangladesh.
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People On The Move
New creative leadership at WPP Group, McCann Worldgroup and TBWA\Chait\Day, Getty's CFO takes a bow, Masterfile's new marketing manager, Jonas Karlsson's syndication deal and Icon news.
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Disembedded: Marines Send a War Photographer Packing
The photojournalist Zoriah was removed from his embed this month after a graphic blog post about a suicide bombing in Iraq. (With an audio slide show.)
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Nik Launches Silver Efex Pro B&W Conversion Software
New plug-in for Photoshop and Aperture uses U Point Technology for precise B&W control.
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Aurora In Deal To Distribute Agence VU Photography
Aurora will become the U.S. distributor for Paris-based Agence VU. VU represents over 80 photographers around the world.
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Phase One Announces P 65+ Full-Frame Medium Format Camera System
Phase One is introducing the P 65+ digital back and camera system, a full-frame 645 medium format system based on an advanced new chip platform.
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Who's Shooting What
The photographers and creatives behind new work for Nokia for Lowe Singapore, IBM for Ogilvy, Mercedes for Mekley & Parnters, Pepsi with TracyLocke, Mazda with Doner LA, Tanqueray gin with VCCP London and a lot more.
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Newspapers Plan Corrections Over Iran Missile Photo
Newspapers and Web sites around the U.S. were duped into running a propaganda photo handed out by the Iran Revolutionary Guard that turned out to have been digitally manipulated.
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Kenya Police Say They Have Five Suspects in Keegan Death
Police are calling the crime a robbery, but still won't name the suspects, saying they have not been charged. Trent Keegan was found murdered on May 28.
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People On The Move
Blender hires a new director of photography, Paul Melcher's new job with Rex Features, new advertising creatives at Energy BBDO, Carat and R/GA, plus much more.
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National Geographic Wins Another Appeal in Greenberg Case
A federal appeals court that said a year ago that National Geographic did not infringe Jerry Greenberg's copyright has affirmed that ruling after a re-hearing.
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Getty Will Offer Some Flickr Photos For License
A new partnership unites Getty Images, the biggest stock photo agency, with Flickr, which has 2 billion digital images.
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Q&A: Jonathan Klein of Getty Images and Kakul Srivastava of Flickr
The heads of two major photography brands, Getty Images and Flickr, explain the partnership between the companies and what it means for photographers.
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Hasselblad Pushes the Megapixel Envelope with New 50MP H3DII-50 camera
50-megapixel Kodak sensor in H3DII-50 system is twice the size of largest "full-frame" DSLR chips.
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Data Robotics Launches Upgraded Drobo "Storage Robot"
Second generation storage device includes two FireWire 800 ports.
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Kathryn Cook Wins Inge Morath Award
The $5,000 award will go to support Cook's project on the effects of the Armenian massacres in Turkey.
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VJ Villafranca Wins Ian Parry Scholarship
Vicente Jaime "VJ" Villafranca, a freelance photographer in Manila, Philippines, has won the 2008 Ian Parry Scholarship.
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Who's Shooting What
The photographers and creatives behind new work for Four Seasons with Mullen, Miller Lite with Arc Worldwide, T-Mobile with Publicis, Southwest Airlines with GSD&M and more.
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