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Tonight (January 8th), the Hasted Hunt Gallery (cleverly named for owners Sarah Hasted and W.M. Hunt) in Chelsea opens what looks to be a great exhibit — Contradictions in Black and White, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. It'll be worth the trek in the cold weather, I promise!

Check out this awesome photo by Joshua Lott. Joshua is a freelancer who makes all kinds of great pictures, and recently covered the presidential campaign. He also started a new photoblog last month — the cleverly named lottsafotos. I love this photo of two dolls on a phone wire, taken in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Three separate and unrelated photographer-police run-ins occurred, remarkably, within less than a week at the tail end of 2008.

Rapper Kanye West makes a resolution to get along better with those who are constantly on his trail looking to get the best photo of him they possibly can (a.k.a. the dreaded paparazzi). This following what has been a string of incidents between West and various photographers, the last of which leading to his (I believe) unjust arrest.

This blog post has been contributed by Jared Polin, a freelance photographer featured in Rolling Stone. Visit Jared's website.

                                

This blog has been contributed by Steven Hight , self-described painter turned photographer based in San Francisco.

I have a somewhat unique approach to photography in that I shoot using two separate-but-connected cameras; a digital SLR and a Kodak Duaflex III twin lens reflex camera from 1950. I shoot digitally through the viewfinder section of the old twin lens reflex to get some rather startling and genuinely vintage-looking images.

When trying to understand global conflicts, it’s easy to get lost in the politics and become somewhat desensitized to the experiences of people living though the violence. A transcendent exhibit by VII called “Georgia: The August War” provides a searing look into the week-long violent conflict between Georgian and Russian forces.

Forever in pursuit of what Kanye West calls the prized "money shot," paparazzi photographers have always clashed with celebrities from time to time. But lately there seems to be a trend toward photographers taking these incidents to court.

Editor's note: The following tip on bin and browser manipulation in Soundtrack Pro is excerpted from Apple Pro Training Series: Soundtrack Pro 2, by Martin Sitter, published by Peachpit Press.

• Exploring the Bin and the Browser

Paravue just announced a new image masking tool called Turbo Mask, a plug in for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended that significantly streamlines the process of cutouts. Turbo Mask will be available in late May 2007 for $249 USD. The product will be available for Windows and Mac Universal.