February 2011
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My portrait Telegraph Magazine
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My photos Geographical Magazine
Sitting on the Fence
In an attempt to shore up the porous 4,095-kilometre frontier it shares with
Bangladesh, India is constructing a barbed-wire border fence to prevent smuggling
and illegal immigration. But this poses problems for many Indian farmers, whose
fields are sandwiched between the fence and the border itself – yet offers little
security, as gaps in the unfinished barrier allow those...
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My article Telegraph Magazine Gaza Strip
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Article at Telegraph online
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My portrait Telegraph Magazine Annie Leonard
Annie Leonard – The Anti-Consumerist Filmmaker. Telegraph Magazine, May 2010.
read it here
Image © Julian Lass 2010
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Crowdfunding
Emphas.is is a platform where photographers rather than journalists find funding for their projects. You put your profile and proposal up, try and attract investors and then, when you’re reached your money target, do your project and send your investors personal emails and blog updates on your progress. Following on from the success of crowd funding sites such as...
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Should you post your photographs or articles on your website or blog before offering them up for sale?
If you post your articles, or your photographs onto your blog, you may be surprised to hear they’ve been published, regardless of how many people read your blog.
This is a dilemma of the blog age. On one hand, you want to advertise your services on your blog. On the other hand, by...
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In this world
the poet is anathema
the thinker a fool
the artist an escapist
– Henry Miller
According to the scientists, the inability to focus helps ensure a richer mixture of thoughts in consciousness. Because these people struggled to filter the world, they ended up letting everything in. They couldn’t help but be open-minded.Jonah Lehrer, Wall Street Journal
Can’t focus? ...
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The Point of Perception by Madi Boyd
Image © Julian Lass 2011
Madi Boyd is a London-based artist whose sculpture ‘The Point of Perception’ is a collaboration with neuroscientists to explore the limits of human sight. I saw the piece at Kinetica 2011, London, last week and that’s where the above photo’s from.
To view the sculpture, you enter a dark room through a black curtain, but the far wall is brightly...
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What is success?
Image © Julian Lass 2011
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value Albert Einstein.
It’s easy to focus on success, especially when you’re struggling and broke. So, exactly what is it I want from my photography?
Colin Pantall asked a number of photographers ‘what is success?’ recently on his blog.
David Campbell, Professor of...
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Crowdfunding - what do you think?
Heartfelt pleas, or just clever advertising to fund foreign jaunts? Be interested to hear your thoughts.
I notice the way Gary pictures himself leafing through a book of photos. I think, he must be dedicated to his photography. But I also wonder if it is his portfolio he’s leafing through. I never see.
The voiceover is a male: American, I believe. I’m starting to wonder if it is...
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Crowdfunding - what do you think?
Heartfelt pleas, or just clever advertising to fund foreign jaunts? Be interested to hear your thoughts.
I like Pogo. As I watch though, I feel unnerved by the non-sync between voice and lips. I think, he’s got an actor to do the voiceover. Or perhaps he’s revoiced it himself. I think, I feel more distanced from him because of it. I don’t know why I should want to feel close...
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