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Next generation
Take 700 portfolios from 120 of the world’s top colleges, select the best 80, and what do you have? A pretty good indicator of where photography is headed… William Ewing and Natalie Herschdorfer, curators at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, explain the thinking behind their second worldwide survey of graduate talent, Regeneration 2. And Diane Smyth talks to our selection of 10 of the most promising photographers among them.

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Acclaimed Nikkor AF-S 85mm f/1.4 G revamped, Nikon reveals new DSLR
Nikon today unveiled four Nikkor lenses and a new digital SLR.

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Exodus
It is as old as humanity and yet it’s becoming increasingly demonised in the West. BJP profiles five different photographers whose stories focus on the realities of migration, shot by Alixandra Fazzina, Moises Saman, Lauren Greenfield, Kadir van Lohuizen and Espen Rasmussen.

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Corinne Day, star of British fashion photography, dies
Corinne Day hit the headlines in 1990 with a grungy shoot for The Face featuring a then-unknown Kate Moss. She built a highly respected career in fashion and art over the next years but has died, tragically young, after a long illness.

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Win a London show!
Roll up, roll up - deadline extended on BJP's prestigious International Photography Award...

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Bull's eye!
Technical prowess and a nose for a good story ensured Charlie Mahoney made a killing with a well-timed story on bullfighting.

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Go local!
Whether it was terrorism or financial collapse, the crises we faced this decade took on worldwide proportions. Photographers have responded with projects on globalisation but, says Paul Wombell, there's also a counter trend towards the local, which defies the logic of international homogenisation

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Gerry Badger reviews Tate Modern's Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera
There are lenses everywhere, in the hands of the medium’s giants and the CCTV cameras of the state and big business. A major show at Tate Modern gives Gerry Badger cause for contemplation.

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Cosina joins Micro Four Thirds camera/lens standard
[Updated] Micro Four Thirds gets a boost with news that Cosina is joining the standard, announcing its first lens will be an ultra-fast 50mm equivalent prime.

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Visa Pour l'Image: New York's Finest
He's an ex-cop photographing cops. Antonio Bolfo's project is a very recent addition to the Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival, whose director says is the best work on the police he's seen since Leonard Freed

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Calling all wedding photographers
BJP's first ever wedding photography competition is open for another month.

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A tale of two cities
Photo festivals have proliferated around the world in the past decade, but two very different incarnations – Photo España and Rencontres d’Arles – still set the measure.

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Olympus adds to Micro Four Thirds system with two new zoom lenses

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Photographers' Gallery to close down for a year, answers criticisms

Now that it’s closing for the next year, we asked the director of The Photographers’...

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Cologne show features masters past and present

Think Photokina and you think photography kit. But this year feast your eyes on something...

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Visa Pour l'Image: Astrada's back with new chapter in ongoing project

Photojournalist Walter Astrada is back at Visa Pour l'Image with the next part of his Violence Against Women project. He tells BJP how he gained access to his subjects, who live under intense psychological pressure

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When the waters rose...

Currently based in Pakistan, Alixandra Fazzina was caught up in the unfolding disaster when the country started to flood. She tells BJP what happened, and how she's recording events

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Hasselblad H4D-40 camera tested

Hasselblad’s latest H-series camera delivers 40 megapixel medium format capture at a keen price. But it’s the H4D-40’s True Focus technology that really caught the attention of Adam Woolfitt, who tried it out it at Land Rover’s test site in the Midlands

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Home work

Tessa Bunney talks through Home Work, a study of domestic labour in and around Hanoi recently published by Dewi Lewis

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Do it yourself

It’s no secret to anyone, the editorial market is in crisis. So when Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra embarked on a five-year project, he turned to an unlikely source of funding. Olivier Laurent investigates.

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Martin Parr presents the Brighton Photo Biennial

Martin Parr, who has been selected as the curator of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2010, discusses his choice of artists for the six-week-long photo festival

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Nikon 16-35mm wide-angle tested

Is the 16-35mm f/4 G ED VR zoom another class-leading lens for Nikon? And how does it compare to the much-praised 14-24mm f/2.8 G?

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Photography courses

Lou Siroy, picture editor of The Times' Travel section, sees red on two very different photography courses

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#Buy My Photo

Social networking sites can be treasure chests of content for news agencies, but they can also become a source of embarrassment, especially when fake images find their way into print. Picture editors tell us what processes they have in place to cut down on that happening.

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