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A Photo Editor
A Photo Editor is the most professional and comprehensive site of the bunch. Former editor Rob Haggart has grown the blog, making it arguably the best resource on the Web. It's great for students, professionals, or anyone who loves the art and craft of photography. The site keeps abreast of all photo-related news, and fosters constructive discussion. It also helps aspiring and new professionals by sharing real-life business experiences from seasoned pros. On top of that, A Photo Editor regularly posts interviews with top working photographers such as Dan Winters and Jesse Burke, and covers everything from fashion and art photography to editorial portraiture and documentary.
Tumblr
Tumblr is no secret, but it remains the best way to share photos. It gives you the curated experience of a magazine, without the publishing costs and content restrictions. For photographers who need a place to post their work, Tumblr is great because it lets you assign a theme to your photo blog (unlike, say, Facebook, where you’re limited to one type of layout and feel). The generic layout ends up being better for snapshots of family and friends; if you want something more, you’ll need to present your photos artfully. Tumblr also has built-in social sharing devices that give your blog the potential to go viral--even more so than on Flickr.
If you’d just like to look at photos and get ideas, Tumblr is the best way to lose 5 hours of your life. If you're bored, I suggest those on the humorous side, such as “Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes” or my personal favorite, “Accidental Chinese Hipsters.” On the other end of the spectrum are serious photographers who are using Tumblr as a way to share work that they love; the site can be a great way to discover new work. Photographer Emiliano Granado and the photo collective MJR both have eclectic taste in photography as well as in art, fashion, and music.
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PhotojournalismLinks
If you’re a news junkie like me, you'll think this blog is a wonderland. PhotojournalismLinks is a labor of love from photographer Mikko Takkunen, who has worked for the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Takkunen scours the Internet and finds every online gallery, every interview, every multimedia piece related to photojournalism on the Web from the past week. The site has so much content, I’ve never looked at more than a fraction of the links. The unpretentiousness of the simple list format lets the work speak for itself.
A recent post has interesting work from Panos photographer Andrew McConnell about surf culture in Gaza, and a beautiful piece about the women of the Egyptian revolution from Rena Effendi on the Newsweek website. The quality of images from contemporary journalism is astounding, and the democratization of photography through digital cameras (and now phones) has only added to the work out there. PhotojournalismLinks gives you all of it.
