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Permission required?

Submitted by TJ
Question: 

Hello, I'm currently working on a short article (somewhat a summary for your book) to be posted in my blog (in Arabic). However, because of the lack of material from my side, I would love to take examples for each assignment from your website to be displayed in the post when it is due - if done, a mention for the resource will be due of course (as the article is already a summary of your book in the first place). Thus, I'd kindly like to request a permission to use some shots from this website. Thanks! TJ

Answer: 

TJ, this sounds like a very nice project. The copyright for images on this site is retained by the photographers. As a registered user you can contact them directly for permission to use their work.

Does a picture necessarily fit in one category?

Submitted by Anne-Laure Marie
Question: 

Is it possible that a picture we take doesn't fully fit in one of the category? Or could it be that it fits in several categories? Sometimes I take a picture and I am not able to say what attracted my eye the most, sometimes it is just a little bit everything, a general scene...

Answer: 

Of course that's the case. The point of the catagories is that we are proposing a set of training assignments, and when people do the assignments, they submit images correspond to the assignment catagory.

The Book

“This is not your usual ‘how to be a better photographer’ book. It takes you into deeper water. It requires investigation and commitment to areas new to you. Among other things, you will think about perception in new ways. If you read this book with care, and without skepticism, it will radically expand your thinking, seeing, and photography.”

—Jay Maisel, photographer
and author of Light on America