Gallery: This Week in Photography
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In our inaugural weekend roundup of the most interesting developments in the photo world, we visit with internet cat sensation Lil' Bub, see the first Holga image taken from space and plug you in to the poppin'-est books, exhibits and awards. Lil Bub ------- Currently the most internet cat that ever did cat, Lil Bub has not only [built a media empire](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/lil-bub/), but she's also wormed her way into the hearts of the WIRED photo department. All the dreams came true this week when Her Furriness stopped by the WIRED offices in San Francisco for a photo shoot and cute overload. *Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired*
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JPG Glitch ---------- Glitch art is so hot right now, and this [addictive Github project](http://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/) let you import your JPG files and glitch the hell out of them. There are sliders. It is fun. Do it. Thanks to [Georg Fischer](https://github.com/snorpey) (aka Snorpey) for stealing some hours from us this week.
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Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Shortlist Announced ------------------------------------------------- Whittled down from 5,410 submissions entered by 2,435 photographers, the [four shortlisted photographers](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/12/portrait-katie-walsh-taylor-wessing-prize) for the [Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize](http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site13/index.php) hosted by the National Portrait Gallery in London are Anoush Abrar, Dorothee Deiss, Spencer Murphy and Giles Price. The Twittersphere gave a lukewarm reaction to the choices but that won't bother the eventual winner who'll take away £12,000. To be announced on November 12. *__Above__: The Twins by Dorothee Deiss.*
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NASA Gets an Instagram Account ------------------------------ America's favorite government space agency launched one of the most "they don't have one yet?" Instagram accounts this week, with over 170,000 followers already at the time of this writing. Among the many gems is the above photo. Notice the frog flying from the blast of the rocket. [Go check it out right now](http://instagram.com/nasa). We'll wait. *Photo: NASA*
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Photo Editors Remember 9/11 --------------------------- 9/11 has come to be, among many other things, a yearly moment of reflection for photo editors around the country. It was a singular time that the profession was in the spotlight. Every newspaper in the country was running stories and photos from the attack and so it's a day that we look back at and ponder. What worked and what didn't? What is our role as photo editors on a daily basis and in times of crisis? What is the power of photography and how should it be used?
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25th Annual Visa pour L'Image Winners Announced ----------------------------------------------- One of the most prestigious photojournalism festivals [Visa pour L'Image announced its winners this week](http://www.visapourlimage.com/content/festival/awards/CP-Prix2013.pdf), with the [News Award going to Laurent Van der Stockt](http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2293334/laurent-van-der-stockt-wins-visa-dor-news-award) for his work in Syria on the use of chemical weapons. The winners were announced as this year's festival comes to a close in Perpignan, France. *__Above:__ Jobar, Damas, Syria, 13 April 2013. Rebel fighters of Liwa Tarhir al Sham just get chemical gas from Syrian Army on the front line of Jobar. Altale, druze from Suweida, on the right. Photo: Laurent Van der Stockt.*
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*New Photography 2013* Opens at MoMa ------------------------------------ For those who are generally suspicious of art as a human endeavor, move along, nothing to see here. For those of you who fancy yourselves the gallery type, we'd like to point you in the direction of [*New Photography 2013* at MoMa](http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/newphotography/). The exhibit features modern and conceptual photos by Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde and Eileen Quinlan. *__Above:__* Untitled. *2013. Chromogenic color print, 16 1/8 x 20 1/16″ (41 x 51 cm). Courtesy the artist; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; and Johann König, Berlin. Photo: Annette Kelm.*
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Photos of an Execution ---------------------- *TIME* published [harrowing images](http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/12/witness-to-a-syrian-execution-i-saw-a-scene-of-utter-cruelty/#1) of Islamic militants publicly executing, by decapitation, a young Syrian in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo, on August 31, 2013. Graphic images such as these exist online for those that want to find them and so the debate this week has been if mainstream media should be publishing them. We think *TIME*'s decision is justified inasmuch as photography's role in revealing the (horrifying) realities of war should not be neutered. But think about how these violent images stand in stark contrast to the sanitized images of the War on Iraq as the U.S. military strategically limited the breadth of imagery over the course of that war. This contrast in treatment makes BagNewsNotes' question *[Why All the Syrian Execution Imagery in the Major Media Lately?](http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/09/all-that-syrian-decapitation-in-the-media-lately-the-new-abnormal-graphic/)* all the more pressing. *__Above:__ A young Syrian man kneels blindfolded before anti-regime rebels publicly executed him in the town of Keferghan, near Aleppo, on August 31, 2013. Photo: Agence LeJournal/SIPA via TIME.*
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Sergio Larrain Photo Book ------------------------- Magnum member and seminal street photographer [Sergio Larrain has a new book coming out on Aperture](http://www.aperture.org/shop/books/sergio-larrain-books) that looks quite amazing. We're tingling with anticipation. We don’t know much about the allegedly reclusive Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain, but we've ordered a copy of his book after seeing only four photographs and finding the following quote on the Magnum website: "A good image is created by a state of grace. Grace expresses itself when it has been freed from conventions, free like a child in his early discovery of the reality. The game is then to organize the rectangle." What’s not to like. *__Above:__ A bar in Valparaíso, Chile, 1963. Photo: Sergio Larrain/Magnum.*
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DRONE: The Automated Image -------------------------- We all know it's not just humans making images these days. For its 13th edition, [Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal](http://www.moisdelaphoto.com/theme.html), curator Paul Wombell gets to grips with robots, surveillance, inhospitable territories, war and artists' reactions to them. Peering at our anxious present and potentially disconcerting future, *DRONE* is a pioneering program for a photo-festival. The stellar line-up of artists including Raphaël Dallaporta, Trevor Paglen, Thomas Ruff, Tomoko Sawada, Cheryl Sourkes, Penelope Umbrico, Wassink Lundgren and Donovan Wylie will help us decide if cameras really do "have a life of their own." *__Above:__ Jana Sterbak, Stanley Dog, 2010. Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan.*
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Holga In Space -------------- We've finally done it. [We've put a plastic toy camera in space](http://www.dirkfletcher.blogspot.com/2013/09/i-couldnt-be-any-happier-to-share-with.html). It's a lot more work than just looking at the NASA Instagram feed, but we appreciate the effort put in by Dirk Fletcher and his team. Go read about how they did it and watch the video. *Photo: Dirk Fletcher*
