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Nikon And Canon To Cease Pro DSLR Production!?

The last few days has witnessed first the announcement of the end of professional photographers followed by the en masse redundancy of an entire photographic staff with yet more like actions likely to follow... So what, oh what, is to become of "professional level" camera equipment and $7,000 top of the line Canon and Nikon DSLR bodies? Why would they continue to pump money into pro level R&D and then build equipment for people that are no longer hired and no longer exist?

And will we soon have pro-level iPhones for "professional" unpaid citizen journalists, and low budget consumer models for the great unwashed?

Nobody's Fool

Try as he might, Steve Kroft couldn't trip up Julian Assange and make him sweat. The latter wasn't having it, proved himself one cool customer- and nobody's fool...

Angel Franco- The Forgotten New Yorkers

These photographs take me back to the New York I grew up with, the one without cell phones, lattes or ATMs. Yuppies were just coming into existence, gentrification was becoming a familiar word, and a ride in the subway for three months of every year meant braving 95 degree heat with 95 per cent humidity. But as Angel Franco shows us, there was another NY that went well beyond the commonality endured by all- the NY where a Presidential candidate once stood in the South Bronx and proclaimed that he couldn't do anything for its people unless they voted him in. And once empowered, established policy that ensured they would remain isolated, impoverished  and doomed. What would Presidents speak of if they had to speak only what was true?

This was not only the NY of the South Bronx- but of Harlem, Bed Sty and East New York. Neighborhoods where New Yorkers scratched out an existence anyway imaginable in the hope they would be rewarded with reliving the ordeal just one more day. Angel Franco's photographs recall some of those everyday players, reminding us of what once was, what still persists, and the lives that got lost in the transition.

Unfinished Business...

Amazing citizen journalism story from the... '40s- on NPR via Amy Stein's blog!

Photo: Charlie Lord

Meanwhile, the USA of the 21st century started with more than 44,000 Americans dying every year simply because they have no health insurance. A situation that our brand new health care bill still does not fully address...