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DCist Exposed Photography Show 2009 Open for Entries
It’s that time of year again! The third annual DCist Exposed Photography Show is now officially open for entries. After two successful years, at Warehouse in 2007 and Civilian Art Projects in 2008, we’re proud to announce the 2009 show will be held at The Gallery at Flashpoint, located at 916 G Street NW. Flashpoint, a project of the Cultural Development Corporation, is a nonprofit art gallery dedicated to new and emerging artists — a perfect partner for our show.

from DCist. continues here…

Dai Sugano created THIS sad and beautiful multimedia piece for the San Jose Mercury News. It is called “Left Behind.”

The staff at the Mercury News is consistantly doing moving and thoughtful multimedia stories. “The Chance to Break Free” is another powerful story from India.

Pete Souza.

Jay Westcott just sent me this story. Congrats Pete.

Im pretty crafty so i was thrilled when Puck sent me THIS LINK to how to build a foam diffuser for a hotshoe mounted flash.
Chuck Gardner, the guy who made the how-to for the diffuser also has a lot of basic photography info, lighting and camera tutorials on his site.

Bill Putnam has a post about Leica lenses on an Panasonic Lumix G1 camera. you can peep it on his blog right here.

i just got this email from Laura Brunow Miner at JPG.

over the past couple of months i have gotten so many emails from people who have discovered me via JPG. it makes me sad to see them close their doors. i wish the whole crew there the best of luck wherever they head.

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LBM said:

Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

The one thing we’ve been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and support shared among members made it a community in the truest sense of the word, and one that we have loved being a part of for these past two years.

We wish we could have found a way to leave the site running for the benefit of the amazing folks who have made JPG what it is, and we have spent sleepless nights trying to figure something out, all to no avail. Some things you may want to do before the site closes:

- Download the PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections. We’ll always have the memories! www.jpgmag.com/downloads/archives.html
- Make note of your favorite photographers. You may want to flip through your favorites list and jot down names and URLs of some of the people you’d like to stay in touch with. You may even want to cut and paste your contacts page into a personal record.
- Catch up with your fellow members. Our roots are in this humble flickr forum and we recommend going back to find fellow members, discuss the situation, or participate in another great photo community. www.flickr.com/groups/jpgmag/
- Keep in touch. This has always been much more than just a job to each of us, and we’ll miss you guys! We’ll be checking the account jpgletters@gmail.com in our free time going forward. We can’t promise to reply to every email (since we’ll be busy tuning up our resumes) but we’d love to hear from you.
- Stay posted. Although the magazine is ceasing publication, we’ll be updating you on what’s happening with your subscription early next week.

We’re soggy-eyed messes, but it is what it is. At that, JPGers, we bid you goodbye, and good luck in 2009 and the future.

Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in Chief

Ben thanks for sending me this.

Dallas Morning News Photojournalist/Videographer Sonya Hebert and reporter Lee Hancock spent a year exploring efforts to improve end-of-life medical care. They interviewed experts and attended national and regional conferences and trainings in palliative care and gained unprecedented access to Baylor University Medical Center’s palliative-care team, spending months attending team meetings, observing patient visits and interviewing clinicians, patients and families. In late May and early June, they shadowed the team around the clock for three weeks. Every patient, family member and staffer named or photographed gave prior permission, and unless indicated, the stories are presented in the order that events occurred.

The work is exceptional. This sort of inspiring work is a grand example of what the possibility if for newspaper’s telling stories on the web. you can see it here (you may have to log in to their site. sorry, but it is worth the effort.) and i recommend you share if with everyone you know.

File Magazine.

Getty Images now has a YouTube channel. the best part (IMHO) are the Photographer’s Journals. check it here.