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  theatlanticcities:

  “I wanted to show a part of the Megalopolis that struck me, that showed very clearly that something is not working well for us as human beings in relation with our environment.” -Héctor Mediavilla

  A glimpse of Mexico City’s subway as seen through the lens of photographer Héctor Mediavilla.

  Known as one of the worst cities in the world in which to drive, Mexico City’s rush hours aren’t much better underground with a subway system that generates around 4 million riders a day.

  Read: Inside Mexico City’s Chaotic Underground Rush Hour

  [Images: Héctor Mediavilla]

  
  

  05/21/13

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  mpdrolet:

  From Gary, Indiana: City of Steel

  William B. Plowman

  
  

  05/20/13

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  johnvink:

  ‘Quest for Land’ exhibition…

  One year ago ‘Quest for Land’, an App for the iPad, bundling 10 years of photographs about land issues in Cambodia was released. There will be an exhibition  at Meta House, on Sothearos Boulevard (yes: in Phnom Penh) to celebrate.

  It is the first time these photographs will be featured in an exhibition in Cambodia.

  The exhibition will be open at 6:00 PM on May 29th and last for the following 2 weeks.

  The exhibition is only the tip of the iceberg though… For the full experience go to iTunes: the ‘Quest for Land’ App developed by Robert Starkweather is available at THIS LINK. It contains over 700 photographs, spread over 20 chapters, and is enriched with a text by Robert Carmichael doing some in-depth analysis about the land grabbing situation in the country, and there are slideshows with soundtrack.

  
  

  05/20/13

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  mpdrolet:

  Joe, Gulu 2012

  Anne Ackermann

  
  

  05/19/13

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  sunfoundation:

  See Inside a Butterfly Chrysalis

  Just like everyone else, you learned about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly (or moth) inside a chrysalis (or cocoon) and you desperately tried to envision what happens inside and what it looks like. Scientists who’ve opened a lot of chrysalises will tell you the caterpillar turns to goop and then a butterfly, but that’s not completely accurate, and the process of opening one destroys the structure anyway.

  
  

  05/19/13

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  michaelchristopherbrown:

  #bukavu #congo #drc #southkivu

  
  

  05/18/13

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  damienmaloney:

  visa application photography guide

  it always intrigues me to find institutional guidelines for photography, i immediately want to think about the application of this in other contexts.  or things i might find on one of these lists someday, like guidelines for facial expression.  i got to see the intake mugshot space at a police station once and they had these homemade plywood lighting boxes mounted to the wall that ensured every photograph came out flat and evenly lit without variation.  maybe ill make some bullet points about what to include/not include in the photographs i take

  
  

  05/18/13

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  (c) Vanessa Winship / Henri-Cartier Bresson Prize

  “Looking for America” in the Financial Times. The FT talks about Vanessa Winship’s new project about America and her exhibition at the Henri-Cartier Bresson Foundation in Paris. It will be published soon as the book: “she dances on Jackson”.

  
  

  05/17/13

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  mpdrolet:

  Venice by vaporetto, 1960

  Gianni Berengo Gardin

  
  

  05/17/13

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  Short film about Simon Norfolk’s Burke+Norfolk.

  “But when I watched the short documentary film, I was struck by his words, and his willingness to put his politics where his photographers were. He spoke with surprising honesty not just about what he thought of the work being produced by embedded photographers, but also about the entire war and its objectives. This is very rare to hear when it comes to working photojournalists. Most professionals prefer to hide their personal politics and opinions behind vague statements about ‘bearing witness’ or ‘asking only questions, and not offering answers’ and other such obfuscations that hide their fear of being marginalized in the rather small, cliquish and deeply conservative editorial world that is photojournalism.”

  - Asim Rafiqui writes about Norfolk and his project in a post called “Against Whispering” on his blog A Spinning Head.

  
  

  05/16/13