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Written by David WhiteThis is the latest newsletter from EPUK reproduced with kind permission. As it says on the tin:
“EPUK is the private email-based group, run by photographers for photographers for discussion of business
issues in the UK and Irish editorial markets. http://www.epuk.org”
Fill THIS in to sign up. One caveat: NEVER discuss kit on there. EVER. Business and deckchairs only 😉
I’m putting the newsletter up because it is a good one, and a great intro to EPUK. Already today three photographers have asked me questions which they would have known the answer to had they been an EPUK member for a little while. It is an incredibly useful resource, run entirely voluntarily, and with a fantastically diverse and knowledgeable membership (myself excluded).
Here’s the newsletter. The list is a daily email digest (or individual emails if you like, typically 20-30 a day), questions and answers, so quite different to that below.
| The EPUK Weekly News Round Up brings you the pick of the week’s   |
| photography news on the web. EPUK is the private email-based group, |
| run by photographers for photographers for discussion of business  |
| issues in the UK and Irish editorial markets. http://www.epuk.org |
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Last week, over on the main EPUK email discussion list, we discussed…
* Media accreditation for the 2012 Olympics
* Getting an ITIN number from the Americans
* Photographer friendly art galleries
* Adapting to heath and safety regulations
..and…
* Photoshelter or Photodeck ?
All photographers supplying the UK editorial market
can apply to join the main EPUK discussion list.
If you’re not yet a member, then you should be.
Join at http://epuk.org/join
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This week’s stories….
* The media take a battering in Cairo
Pro-Mubarak supporters in the Egyptian capital are responsible for
beatings, smashing of equipment and confiscation of memory cards
the BBC, NUJ and BJP report.
BBC: http://bit.ly/hMuwhp
NUJ: http://bit.ly/hFAEnI
BJP: http://bit.ly/fFJxY2
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* Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Why free and nearly free photo storage will always end in tears.
You read it here: http://bit.ly/i6bwBY
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* Flicking the wrong switch
Flickr have deleted an account belonging to a man who reported
another account for stealing images. He lost 4,000 images.
More here: http://bit.ly/etUJGZ
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* The summer of ’53
Elliott Erwitt’s eternal image of his wife, daughter and cat is
the starting point for a tribute by Misha Erwitt to his mother,
who died recently aged 82.
More here: http://bit.ly/hq1xoS
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* This blessed plot
EPUK members Brian Harris and Si Barber were among fifty photographers
who took part in the nation-wide ‘What is England?’ photography project
which ended on Februray 1st.
More here: http://bit.ly/fS86Tv
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* From the backstreets of San Francisco to the backwoods of Alaska
W.Eugene Smith award winner Darcy Padilla’s epic ‘The Julie Project’
which chronicles one woman’s struggle through a life of poverty,
abuse and AIDS, helps us understand the fractured world in which
many of the world’s poor exist.
More here: http://bit.ly/fGUND5
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* Stoddart does Photo Forum
The internationally renowned photojournalist Tom Stoddart will be
showing his work at a special Photo Forum in London on Tuesday
February 10th. Also: Got some good student protest pics? Submit
them now.
More here: http://bit.ly/fSH3FJ
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* If you have to ask …
The exhibition ‘Rodchenko and His Circle’ runs at Art Sensus,
London until March 19th. Prices for the revolutionary images
range from £1,000 to £26,000.
Hover over the squares here: http://bit.ly/fl9AuX
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* Keeping their heads when others are loosing theirs
Egyptian protesters calling for the removal of President
Hosni Mubarak have improvised their own head protection
from everyday objects.
Slideshow here: http://bit.ly/euE8rD
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And finally …
Holiday bookings
Clever cropping, crafty angles and shifty lens selection are all
in the armoury of the holiday hotel marketing departments.
More here: http://bit.ly/g6hy41
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* Current Showcase
Eric Boateng, basketball international – David Brabyn 2005
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