life:
Today, when seemingly everyone carries a digital camera or smart phone, and the 24/7 news cycle’s appetite for pictures from around the globe grows by the hour, professional photography has never been more relevant or more important. With that in mind, LIFE.com is proud to honor — in our first annual Photo Blog Awards — the Web’s 20 most compelling, most consistently insightful and surprising photography blogs.
All of these best-in-class sites feature mind-blowing pictures by established masters and sparkling new talent, while engaging visitors with the sort of informed, passionate points of view that we expect (and rarely encounter) in the blogosphere.
We’ll feature a number of these sites here on Tumblr today, but, in the meantime, click here to see the full list of winners: LIFE.com’s 2011 Photo Blog Awards
I lied about the last post being the last post. Here is a longer list of great blogs.
Some Links
Obviously I haven’t been keeping up this blog at all lately. It’s a lot of time that I haven’t and won’t have. Though I won’t be sharing anymore images with you I want to share some of the websites that I keep up to date with because of the photography they feature so if you appreciated the photojournalism I was posting please check out these blogs:
The Big Picture (Boston Globe)
Photo Journal (Wall Street Journal)
Burn Magazine (features up and coming photographers from varied disciplines)
Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands: The Work of Bruce Haley - NYTimes.com See the other images in the slideshow
I find it interesting that a government is making propaganda of the image of a man that disagreed with and resented that government so strongly that he attmepted to publicly burn himself to death.
A handout picture released by the Tunisian Presidency shows Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali (2nd from left) looking at Mohamed Al Bouazzizi (right), during his visit at the hospital in Ben Arous near Tunis on December 28, 2010. Mohamed Al Bouazzizi, a 26-year-old university graduate, who was forced to sell fruit and vegetables on the streets, doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on December 17, which left him in a serious condition with severe burns. Days of rioting in Tunisia by mostly jobless and frustrated young people protesting violently against the government has exposed the crippling unemployment problem in the north African country. (TUNISIA PRESIDENCY/AFP/Getty Images) (via An uprising in Tunisia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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A man looks at inscriptions written on the walls in the burnt and looted house that belonged to the nephew of ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Hammamet, some 60 kms south-east of Tunis, on January 19, 2011. (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images (via An uprising in Tunisia - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
A demonstration is held against the country’s new government in Tunis on January 18, 2011. (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images (via An uprising in Tunisia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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A man lies injured during a demonstration in Tunis on January 18, 2011. (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) (via An uprising in Tunisia - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
A demonstrator argues with a policeman during a protest in the center of Tunis on January 17, 2011. Hundreds of people rallied in central Tunis on Monday to demand the abolition of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s ruling RDC party as police fired volleys of tear gas to break up the protest. “We don’t want anyone from the old party in the new government. That includes the prime minister,” one protester told AFP on condition of anonymity. (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) (via An uprising in Tunisia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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People hold a Tunisian flag during a protest in Tunis on January 18, 2011. Riot police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters today at a small protest rally against Tunisia’s new government in the centre of the capital. AFP/ Getty Images / Fred Dufour (via The Frame: Tunisian ministers quit; police break up protest)
Tunisians clash with riot police during a demonstration in Tunis on January 18, 2011. AFP/ Getty Images / Fred Dufour (via The Frame: Tunisian ministers quit; police break up protest)
STUDENT STRIKE: A student protester was detained by riot police at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan Wednesday. Students demanded that university officials eliminate a new $800 yearly fee that went into effect in January. (Ricardo Arduengo/Associated Press)
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
