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Inspiring Photographers

Links for March 13, 2007

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Photography Promotion Trust: “An earnest amalgamation of a group of like-minded photographers, committed to using photography as a binding medium, to promote awareness and knowledge, and empower the lives of the underprivileged children/youth by understanding, identifying and collectively addressing their problems against their respective social and natural environments, is what comprises the PPT.”

Creative Capital, “a New York City-based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields.”

Two Kashmiri photojournalists: Yasin Dar, Rafiq Maqbool were mentioned in Ross Taylor‘s blog. [Via Melissa Lyttle]

Sean Flanigan, a Tacoma, Washington-based photographer just returned from a quick eight-day trip to India. “The people are gorgeous,” he says. Check out his work [more to come, he promises].

Dolce Et Decorum Est?*

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International Women's Day came and went by quietly. A few websites mentioned it. Jason Kottke had a link to a photo exhibit called Women of Our Time.

Blank Noise Project attempted to “to understand how different women ( across age groups/ cultures/ communities) have dealt with street sexual harassment in their everyday lives.”

And Mike Davidson asks “What EXACTLY About This Ad Is Offensive?”

“The ad shows a man and a woman, presumably about to have sex, with four other men at various levels of undress looking on. There's no denying that the ad is extremely racy and people are well justified to be offended if strikes them negatively, but from a design perspective, I'm interested in *exactly* what elements of the ad push it over the line.”

Sexy or Sadistic? Here is the image:

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You decide. Take the poll.

*With apologies to Wilfred Owen, the author of the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est, for the title of this post.