Bangkok Red
I arrived in Bangkok the morning after 21 people (up to 23 now) were killed in clashes between “red shirt” protesters and the military. Our Bangkok-based team were run pretty ragged, and I came in to help shoulder the load for the week (even though they had really done all the heavy lifting the night [...]
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Blog surgery
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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Did World Press Photo disqualify Stepan Rudik for the right reason?
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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12 eyes are better than two
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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World Press disqualification – Stepan Rudik
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 [...]
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World Press Photo 2010
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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NEWWORK MAGAZINE & Communication Arts
Those Olympic Diving images are still making the rounds late in the year. Very happy to see them pic
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Yesterday Vinacapital held their annual investor’s conference at the Sofitel Metropole in Hano
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TIME Magazine: Typhoon highlights illegal logging in Vietnam
TIME picked up an image from my coverage of Typhoon Ketsana a few weeks back. The story is about ill
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Bangkok Red
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