{"id":659,"date":"2009-05-21T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=659"},"modified":"2009-05-21T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:54:08","slug":"ny-times-photo-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Photo Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a certain regard for the NY Times <\/em>– and after all it paid my bills for a few years recently when I worked for one of the companies it owned. It’s certainly one of the papers I look to as a paper of record and have often linked to, example when I wanted to know more out about Boris’s Turkish great-grandad<\/a>. They obviously have an excellent photo-editor, and some of the features they’ve commissioned about photography and photographers have\u00a0 certainly been of interest.<\/p>\n

So it’s not surprising that their photojournalism blog, LENS<\/strong>, introduced on May 15, has some decent work on show. Just a shame that the unusual design makes it so difficult to find it.\u00a0 Blogs – and browsers – are just not made to scroll sideways.<\/p>\n

Of course you can – as many do for this blog – rely on a RSS feed to let you know what is there, but LENS is a fairly active place, and the feed only displays the last ten posts – three or four days.<\/p>\n

LENS isn’t perhaps a very good choice of name either. Too generic, this site doesn’t at the moment get on the top page of ten when I google it.\u00a0 >Re:PHOTO or Re-Photo brings this site up as No 1 as it should be!<\/p>\n

And perhaps too many of us will be wondering who Len was anyway or if it’s a site for wearers of small glass discs on the eye or that town in France or…\u00a0 But I am pleased to see that Lens Culture still came above it in my Google search.<\/p>\n

One post worth a look (there are others) is\u00a0 by Ozier Muhammad<\/a>, “58, a staff photographer for The Times, has been photographing Harlem since he moved to New York in 1980.<\/em>”\u00a0 Its perhaps unfortunate that this work is only present as a slide show, making it difficult to pick out individual images and meaning that those who haven’t got 3 minutes 40 second may miss some of the better work. It’s a nice slide show, but I’d like also to be able to the thumbnails and jump to the work I want to see, or at least to click through the pictures at my own pace.<\/p>\n

Incidentally should anyone be wondering why this site is called >Re:PHOTO<\/strong> you can read a little more about it and me on the About >Re:PHOTO<\/a> page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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