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Brian Parillo: Skyscrapers of Downtown LA

As the clouds are rolling over the skyscrapers of downtown LA, it’s 3:30pm on a Sunday afternoon in the month of March. It’s empty down here for the most part. The business crowd won’t be back until tomorrow so driving around looking for potential shooting moments makes things feel a little safer on the driving [...]

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David Julian: Canon Beach

On a recent road trip down the Oregon coast, I spent a day at infamous Canon Beach. To say that it’s a magical and pho­togenic place is an under­statement. The sur­rounding public- access coastline draws over 20,000 people a year, yet much of it can easily be seen with hardly a soul upon it. On [...]

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Andrew Prezioso: The Night Before Irene

Looking to break into the photojournalism profession, I’m always looking for some standout image. Though I’m more comfortable shooting sports, when we had Hurricane Irene hit Richmond this past fall, I was ready to go shoot the storm. This image is actually from the day before the storm, right at dusk. I have never seen [...]

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Colin Gallagher: Winter in Central PA

This shot was taken after the only real snowfall this year in Central PA. Failure to set an alarm led to a late start, missing sunrise by a good 3 hours. Grumbling that I may have missed and frozen beauty before the sun did its work, a friend and I hopped into his Subaru and [...]

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Dipayan Bhattacharjee: Human Rights

A man crossing one of the busiest streets in the city with a load on his back which he has to deliver at a shop on the opposite side of the street, and that probably weighs ten times more than his own weight. I was out on the streets trying to get a subject to [...]

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Andy Newman : In the age of Instagram, what sets a professional photographer apart?

“I had photographed Abigail as a part of a series I was doing where I connected to strangers through Craigslist and had them come to my studio for a portrait. After I took her portrait for the Craigslist project, I asked her if she would ever consider modeling for a shoot. She said yes. The [...]

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