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    Camille Silvy and contemporary portraits

    Social networking, photo manipulation, self-promotion - Camille Silvy was a master of them all, long before the invention of Photoshop or the arrival of Facebook. Peter Hamilton profiles...

    Photography 27 Dec 2010

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    Independent thinking

    The editorial market is changing. With fewer pages reserved for photography and declining revenues, independent photo agencies have been forced to adapt, testing strategies that will help...

    Photo Agencies 23 Aug 2010

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    A Shore thing

    He hung out with Andy Warhol in his teens, experimented with vernacular imagery in his early twenties and had his first solo show at the Met in New York at the tender age of 24 – all before...

    Documentary 01 Dec 2010

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    DIY photobooks

    There’s a quiet photobook revolution going on, says Bruno Ceschel, whose Self Publish, Be Happy initiative, which we first reported on in June, has become a worldwide phenomenon

    Books 16 Dec 2010

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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...

    Fine Art 16 Aug 2010

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    Everything is illuminated

    We visit Wolfgang Tillmans at his east London studio, ahead of his retrospective exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London

    Fine Art 20 Jul 2010

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Daniel Blau announces winners of 5 Under 30 competition

The five winning photographers will exhibit work at the Daniel Blau gallery in Hoxton in July

Exhibitions 11 Jun 2013

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The life and soul of Gigi Giannuzzi

Gigi Giannuzzi, the daring publisher and founder of Trolley Books, who died last year, left a lasting...

Obituary 24 May 2013

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Magnum Photos launches photobook masterclass

Magnum Photos members David Alan Harvey and Mark Power will be holding a masterclass on the art of the...

Seminars 24 May 2013

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EyeEm photo-sharing app aims to enable photographers to sell their images

Ever since Instagram fumbled its terms of service, photographers have been looking for alternatives. And with EyeEm’s plans to introduce new ways for its users to sell their images, the Berlin-based...

Media 09 May 2013

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Image Singulières festival presents Cédric Gerbehaye's Winter in Sète

Documentary photographer Cédric Gerbehaye received carte blanche to document Sète, which hosts, each year, the Image Singulières photography festival

Festivals 08 May 2013

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Photobooks for children: Are you sitting comfortably?

Photography books for kids have traditionally been niche but, finds Diane Smyth, children’s increasing visual sophistication, along with a few proven commercial successes, could be about to change all...

Books 07 May 2013

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Geert van Kesteren's Why Mister, Why? released for the iPad

Ten years after the start of the Iraq invasion, photojournalist Geert van Kesteren is revisiting his celebrated photobook Why Mister, Why? in an iPad app. He speaks with Olivier Laurent

Books 17 Apr 2013

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Pecha Kucha: The art of speed-talking about photography

Pecha Kucha is a talk format that allows speakers six minutes and 40 seconds to showcase 20 slides — and it’s proving wildly popular, having now been adopted at events running in nearly 600 cities...

Lectures 16 Apr 2013

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RISC: Training reporters how to save lives

Tim Hetherington’s death might have been avoided if his colleagues had had some basic first aid training, believes Sebastian Junger, who is determined some good will come of his friend’s loss. He set...

Photojournalism 15 Apr 2013

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Shared history: The Commons initiative celebrates its fifth anniversary

The Commons, launched by the Library of Congress and Flickr to open up archives of long-forgotten images, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The results of this social experiment are overwhelming,...

Copyright 20 Mar 2013

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Labyrinth Photographic's second anniversary exhibition enters its final days

The east London-based analogue hand printing lab showcases work by over 70 of its clients in its second A Year In Development exhibition

Exhibitions 14 Mar 2013

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I Dream of Congo exhibition opens in London

A new exhibition at London's Conway Hall represents a unique attempt at getting photographers and writers to discuss, and raise awareness of, issues affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo

Exhibitions 12 Feb 2013

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