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Verve Photo, which is devoted to documentary photography, highlighted the image by young Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter, along with a story about it written by Depoorter. Here’s an excerpt:

“I took this picture during my second trip through Russia in the winter of 2008/2009. I met the woman a few days before, in the train, on my way to Vladivostok. We managed to meet again when I crossed her little village. As always, she didn’t speak English and I didn’t understand Russian but the moments with her were very quiet, intense and powerful.  I spend the night on her coach in her small old house. We watched pictures from the past and she invited me for a walk in her neighborhood. It was dark and freezing cold. We had to walk arm in arm because of the ice. She gave me one of her old bags to put my camera in, to protect me against thief’s.  In a little cold cafe that looked down over a frozen lake where some people where doing slipping tricks with their cars, we drank tea and walked back home.  Back in the warm house, she gave me a flowered pajama, watched the Russian The bold and the Beautiful and went to sleep.”

Link: http://vervephoto.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/bieke-depoorter/

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Le Lettre de la Photographie interviewed Kathy Ryan, director of photography for The New York Times Magazine, about “Photographs of the New York Times Magazine,” an exhibition that is debuting at Les Recontres d’Arles and that will be published as a book this fall.

Link: http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/3243/kathy-ryan-thirty-years-of-new-york-times

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At Dodge & Burn, Qiana Mestrich wrote of purchasing Photography’s Other Histories. The book explores “the extraordinary diversity of nonwestern photography,” to borrow a phrase from the volume itself, and is a reminder that the Euro-American lens is not the only valid one through which to view the world.

Link: http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-wishlist-of-photography-books.html

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Longtime photo consultant/marketing guru Mary Virginia Swanson highlighted “Five important deadlines between July 13-17!,” including the Photobook Now self-publishing competition and Photolucida Critical Mass 2011.

Link: http://mvswanson.com/calendar-five-important-deadlines-between-july-13-17.html

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Photo consultants/bloggers Stella Kramer, Julie Grahame, and Allegra Wilde announced that they’re launching an online TV show called In the Loupe that is dedicated to photo news and opinions. The initial episodes were shot at Doug Menuez‘s Menuez Archive Projects headquarters in Chelsea, and the trio have posted a trailer—shot at the WIN-Initiative studio—so you can get a taste of what’s to come.

Link: http://intheloupetv.tumblr.com/

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The Photography Post featured New York City–based photographer Manjari Sharma’s
“Darshan” project, in which Sharma is photographically re-creating images of nine Hindu gods and goddesses. Above is the first image, Maa Laxmi, the goddess of wealth, good fortune, and prosperity. Sharma is trying to raise funds to complete the project, and the post includes a short video in which she makes the case for contributing.

Link: http://thephotographypost.com/blogs/post/rachel/breaking-boundaries-manjari-sharmas-darshan-1954

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At Conscientious, Joerg Colberg rightly praised Phaedra Call’s series of portraits of an elderly woman, titled “I Was Emily Dickinson,” calling it “one of the most memorable photography projects I’ve seen in a while, shot and presented beautifully.”

Link: http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2011/07/phaedra_call/

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