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Like the U.S. Marine Corps, and maybe the mob, you never really leave.  Great news about a pair of former New Hampshire photographers Andrea Bruce (Concord Monitor) and Peter DiCampo (The Telegraph).  The two have become tied to VII.  According to the news release Bruce for “the distribution and resale of images” and DiCampo joins [...]

I read a Facebook post from Kevin Jacobus about an associate of ours and his experience covering the spill.  Timely and interesting in light of the recent coverage about, well, coverage.  Read about Nicolaus Czarnecki’s experience and see some of his photos here.  Additionally, read an interesting post out of Miami and see what’s been [...]

“So I grabbed my camera, because when you see police, you know something’s going on.’’ A victory for citizen journalism. Big round zero for the pros. The Boston Globe tracked down new amateur photographer William B. Carter who snapped the now famous photo of Gates on his front porch in handcuffs. Carter, a retired bank [...]

The photographers in Maine are a sturdy bunch. Andy Molloy, a staffer at the Kennebec Journal, was out on a feature the second week of July. He stopped to photograph a few guys swimming in a local watering hole near a dam. As Molloy worked the scene, one of the men swimming drifted too close [...]

Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes, two musicians, invented Kodachrome in the early thirties. God and Man. Eastman Kodak is stopping film production after 75 years. The news might be sad, but the media is having great fun with headlines thanks in large part to Paul Simon. He should get royalties for such liberal lyric [...]

Killzone, Comet Crash, Street Fighter, Red Faction: Guerrilla, God of War, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Modern Warfare, Assassin’s Creed. Slugs for the week’s news budget? Nope. Titles of the most popular video games on the market and showcased at E3 Expo. Games already use violence for entertainment. New York times Op-ed columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner [...]

At some point, the historical negative from a box scenario will slide away into digital obscurity. And I am not entirely convinced a ‘found’ file from some forgotten external drive will carry the same intrigue and significance. To me, that would just seem like sloppy digital asset management. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen [...]

A spring Friday – sun is out, no rain and still I am cranky. What to do in such sullen mood? Read BAGnewsNotes. On happy, happy, joy, joy days, the visual politics of the site veers a bit too close to the pessimistic side of the room. Not a problem today. I’m the half-glass-empty greeter [...]