NYT Lens: Frederic Sautereau, Stephanie Sinclair and Damon Winter (NYT) were among the top award winners at a photojournalism festival in France.

 

“The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take.” The change is to begin in January, 2011.

 

NYT Lens: Showcase: Forgotten Elephants, photographed by Canadian Brent Lewis who fell in love with elephants as a Thailand tourist in 2002. “Once the revered symbol of Thai culture, the backbone of industry and the protector of the country’s sovereignty during war, elephants now wander the streets of Bangkok, reduced to providing rides for tourists and helping their owners beg for their next meal.”

 

NYT: Revisiting the South Bronx, 35 Millimeters at a Time by photographer David Gonzalez. “Thirty years ago this summer, I returned to the South Bronx, where I grew up, with a Yale diploma in one hand and a beat-up Pentax camera in the other.”

 

The Big Picture From the Boston Globe, Scenes from Sri Lanka. “Only three months after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated in the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, signs of economic recovery and a sense of security are emerging across the country”.

 

NYT Lens: Parting Glance: Marcey Jacobson. Recently passed away at the age of 97.  She took up photography with a borrowed Rolleiflex camera, patiently exploring the colorful city, the central marketplace for the Mayan-speaking Indian villages of the region of southern Mexico.

 

NYT Lens: Showcase: On the Razor’s Edge. The first days were the hardest for Brazilian born photographer Claudio Edinger. He was appalled by the conditions at the Juqueri psychiatric hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 

NYT Lens: Behind the Scenes: In a Holy City with photography by Alfred Yaghobzadeh / SIPA.  ”When I saw my first dead body, I knew I wanted to work to the end of the story, to always be a witness to what was going on.”

 

NYT Lens: Behind the Scenes: Woodstock Memories by Bill Eppridge who photographed the Woodstock Music and Art Fair 40 years ago. “For me, it was a visual feast, a never-ending succession of moments that is impossible to forget”.

 

NYT feature: “An Ancient Society Faces New Change in Brazil” with photography by Damon Winter

 

NYT “One in a Million” Mary Elizabeth O’Donnell-Moore: The Medical Tourist by photographer Todd Heisler

 

NYT Lens: Essay: Icons as Fact, Fiction and Metaphor by Philip Gefter. “Truth telling is the promise of a photograph” Includes photographs by Mathew Brady and Lewis Hine.

 

ESPN bans New York Post reporters as commentators for it’s shows after the Post published illegally obtained nude video frame grabs of one of it’s reporters, Erin Andrews. Report from SI.com.

Update: NY Post blames ESPN for publicizing video. Report from Chicago Tribune.

 

NYT Lens “On Assignment: Afghanistan” with photography by Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder, the man behind the man in the pink boxers.

Jul 092009
 

Photo District News reports that The New York Times Magazine withdraws altered photo essay. Examples are shown where photographer  Edgar Martins, a 32-year-old Portuguese photographer based in London, flipped or mirrored images to create perfect symmetry and duplicated trees and other details to add balance for a story on abandoned construction projects around the United States that were described in print as having been produced “without digital manipulation” which ran in the July 5 edition and represented online.

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