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matt eich – fear & self loathing in america Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2013 shortlist Matt Eich Fear & Self-Loathing in America play this essay For the last eight years I have catalogued the American experience in pictures, trying to understand this country by focusing on specific places, on community and on the issues they embody. My generation lives in a constantly changing world, swept down a river of information with our eyes to the future and a shrinking awareness of the past. On a personal level, I am apathetic and I am impassioned. Assignments for magazines such as Esquire, TIME, GQ and others have taken me into places I wouldn’t otherwise be allowed. The photographs are not to be read as condemnation, but rather a call for people to question the things they hold as truth, and to challenge our notions of the world we inhabit. Bio Matt Eich was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1986 and is the oldest of four children. Related links Matt Eich

Photography Bureau of Common Goods | A creative film production company World Press Photo This project, by American photographer Stephen Ferry, was supported by the Tim Hetherington Grant, a joint initiative of World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch. Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict documents Colombia’s internal armed conflict with a focus on human rights and the struggle of Colombian civilians to resist the violence, often at great risk to their own lives. The project also looks at the history and current dynamics of the war in Colombia, while exposing the role of the distinct parties in the conflict. Colombia is experiencing one of the longest-running guerilla wars in the world with over 3.5 million people forced to flee the violence.

Photo Essays in Black and White Springfield Through the Mill Springfield, Oregon See See Havana A Cuban Odyssee Churches ad hoc Offbeat look at churches in America Mall-Aise A View of Shopping Malls Hamlets of Lane County Rural Communities in Oregon FotoFestival Naarden Visit to a Photo Festival in Holland Hobby Field A place for high-minded hobbyists Junction City Junction Along West 11th Avenue A Cross Section of Eugene, Oregon Around the Riverbank Bike Path With a 'Bent and a Box (Camera) The Riverbank Trail Seen Thru a Pinhole Selections from other Photo Essays by Herman Krieger Live Wires Sumptin' Sumpter A Day in the Life of a Mobile Veterinarian Blue River Anthology Prison Scene Hirer Education Murals of Lane County The Big Country Oregon Art Beat in Action TeleDocumentales - Mira y descarga los mejores documentales online de la red

Las fotos que Hitler quiso destruir En cualquier dictadura, la fotografía puede ser un gran instrumento propagandístico, pero hay que tener cuidado y controlar absolutamente todas las imágenes capturadas. Adolf Hitler fue uno de esos controladores de fotos. Y estas que os muestro son ejemplos de fotos que Hitler quiso destruir. Fueron tomadas en 1925, por petición del propio Hitler por Heinrich Hoffmann, fotógrafo oficial y amigo personal del Führer. Muestran a Hitler mientras escuchaba la grabación de uno de sus propios discursos. Están incluidas en las memorias de Hoffman, Hitler Was My Friend, publicadas en 1955. La primera vez que las vi, no daba crédito, me parecían sacadas de "El gran dictador" o de una obra de teatro, con esos gestos exagerados. Y menos mal que no han sido destruidas, porque son importantes documentos históricos que, de no ser por la intuición del fotógrafo, no hubiesen llegado a nuestros días.

Has A Portfolio Amazing Miniature Scenes Shot with Model Cars, Forced Perspective and a $250 P&S Model maker/collector and photographer Michael Paul Smith is a master at recreating incredibly accurate outdoor scenes using his extensive die-cast model car collection and forced perspective. Mixing up miniature cars, detail items and buildings into a scene whose backdrop is the real world, he shoots the gorgeous miniature vistas of the town he has created and named “Elgin Park” — and he does it all with a cheap point-and-shoot. Elgin Park is some 25 years in the making, as are Smith’s modeling and diorama photography skills. In an extensive interview with Fstoppers, he describes his tools, his process and the minute attention to detail that creating these scenes requires. Ironically, Smith has diagnosed himself as “math challenged,” so when it comes to properly framing the forced perspective, he simply eyeballs it. The most intriguing thing is that he does this entirely outdoors, using natural light and a 14-megapixel Canon SX280, which goes for about $250 online. (via Fstoppers)

zone system the zone system Ansel Adams was a very great photographer. He was also a lecturer in photography, and in order to help his students understand basic sensitometry, he devised the Zone System in the mid-to-late 1940s. The Zone System is based on sensitometric research carried out by many before him, especially Hurter and Driffield (1890) and Jones and Condit (1940-41). The basis of the Zone System is the division of the various tones of the photograph into Zones, as given below. I The darkest black of which the paper is capable. II The darkest black distinguishable from Zone I III The darkest tone with texture and detail IV Dark mid tones V The mid-tone, defined as an 18 per cent grey VI Light mid tones VII The lightest tone with texture and detail VIII The lightest tone distinguishable from paper-base white IX Pure paper-base white The steps between Zones III-IV, IV-V, V-VI and VI-VII are one stop each (a density of 0.30) on the print. zone system testing the bottom line Go to the list of modules