Julian Abram Wainwright blog

Been having some major bugs with the blog, will be trying out new templates for a while until I find the right one. Stay tuned…..

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So, there’s a lot of debate online about the disqualification of Stepan Rudik’s 3rd place Sports Feature story. Seems everyone’s in agreement that WPP was right to disqualify him. However some people (like the erudite Asim Rafiqui) are arguing that Stepan’s heavy use of toning/post-processing and extreme crop (looks about 1/30th of the full frame) [...]

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The other night I met up with photographers Justin Mott, Niek Milder, Trong Tung Nguyen, Aaron Joel Santos and Jeff Holt for what’s starting to become a semi-regular, bi-monthly gathering to discuss our work. And drink whiskey. My, the two just go hand-in-hand so well…. Anyway, like a lot of photojournalists, I spend a lot [...]

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It had to happen sooner or later. The warning signs were there, as year after year people debate the fine line of some winners of press awards. Stepan Rudik’s series that won 3rd prize in Sports Features has been disqualified for altering content.

Stepan wasn’t disqualified for the toning, but for the removal of a foot [...]

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The results are in from World Press Photo 2010, and you can see them here. There are photography contests, and there are PHOTOGRAPHY CONTESTS, and WPP is the photography contest, so right now photographers, editors and readers around the world are viewing the results. And no doubt, many of them are thinking something along the [...]

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Still February, so maybe a little early for spring cleaning, but it’s been about 26 degrees and sunny every day this past week, so better get crackin’, it may be summer before the start of March.

Really just a quick and dirty way to test my new ringflash.

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