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Finnish Arts Council Award: Gary Wornell

Ellie Kennard, one of our Prodig Listmoms, writes… I am incredibly proud of my brother, Prodig member Gary Wornell, an artist and photographer who has just been presented with an award in Finland where he now lives. “YLE Finnish Broadcasting … Continue reading

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Rodney in Haiti

Prodig member Rodney Rascona cover the Tsunami in South East Asia in 2004. Now he is on his way to Haiti around the third week of February, covering his first assignment for a period of about two weeks. Rodney will … Continue reading

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Photographer = Film maker

You may have noticed that Rii Schroer took second place in this year’s SUN Awards. But she also makes short films. We thought you’d like to see one.

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The joys and tribulations of tearing around Africa

By Norman Childs – The joys and tribulations of tearing around Africa. The former created by those who already know the continent through significant experience. The latter, by those who don’t and expect it to be exactly like Europe traversed … Continue reading

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Social media for Photographers

Does a photographer need to bother with social networking – Blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, yada yada yada – ?… Don’t we have enough to do with sourcing work, keeping up with cameras, software, client relationships, tax returns and the whole … Continue reading

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Quick guide to Twitter for mobile

Here’s a very brief intro to some applications and services which will help you Twitter on mobile devices as well as on your regular computer. • Dedicated Twitter applications allow you to organize your Twitter communications efficiently. • Don’t worry … Continue reading

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Jorge Para: High Impact Lighting

“Sexy, stylish, and ever-quotable Miami photographer Jorge Parra is creating the “new Latin chic,” a sophisticated, upscale look that showcases the heady verve of Latin culture. His imagery for clients such as Ray-Ban, Avon, Johnnie Walker, Christian Dior, and L’Oréal … Continue reading

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look: Love in the first person

I’ve had Media Storm in my bookmarks for some time now but I haven’t checked it out for a while. A link on Rob Galbraith’s site prompted me to do so and I can thoroughly recommend that you do the … Continue reading

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Podcast: Geert van Kesteren – Iraq Embed

In this, our third podcast from the LOOK07/Redeye symposium The Democratic Image, Geert speaks in compelling depth of the difficulties of being a photo journalist in this area of conflict, and his insights into being an Iraqi attempting to live … Continue reading

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RAM – can Photoshop CS3 cope?

Prodig subscribers have recently been asking ‘Is PS CS3 able to cope with more RAM?’. Adam Jerugim and Russell Williams, from Adobe, have contributed these answers… Photoshop can and does take advantage of more than 2GB of RAM. What you’ll … Continue reading

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AOP Awards at Sadler’s Wells report

photo: Tim Flach © – one of the ‘Judges Choice’ winners Dylan Jones, editor of GQ magazine, hosted the 24th AOP Photography Awards at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London last Monday March 26th 2007. Nearly one thousand guests attending this showcase … Continue reading

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Stacks of CS3 fun

Well not so much fun as some pretty nifty soft shoe shuffling with the new features of Photoshop Extended, courtesy of Martin Evening with a little help from John Nack. Martin has found a novel use for combining Image Stacking, … Continue reading

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Jill Greenberg video profile

Jill Greenberg became notorious for her portrait series of children crying “End Times”. But the work she created at the beginning of her career took advantage of Photoshop before it was a household name and formed the groundwork for the … Continue reading

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What the Photoshopper

From WhattheDuck.net

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