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Turkish Yogurt War: Image Rights

Photo Courtesy The BBCThe BBC reported that an elderly Greek discovered that his image was being used to sell Turkish yogurt in Sweden, and considered not only a personal affront, but a breach of his right to keep his image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation. Minas Karatzoglou claims that [...]

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VII Magazine

Photo © Ashley Gilbertson-All Rights ReservedThe announcement that the VII Photo Agency launched VII The Magazine has already been reported and blogged about for a few days already. The magazine is a syndicated online publication with photo stories and interviews with VII photographers. The beta version of VII The Magazine is presented in the Herald [...]

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Matjaž Krivic: Mali (& Baaba Maal!)

Here’s another post on Matjaž Krivic’s work. This time, it’s Mali that he shares with us in this lovely audio-slideshow-movie (he calls it multivision…not a bad name.). Matjaž just returned from an overland road trip from Slovenia to Nepal via Senegal (Dakar to Katmandu), which took him 13 months of living and photographing out of [...]

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Eating in Shanghai – San Fah Tang Restaurant

In terms of choices of outlets, The Cool Docks can’t beat Xin Tian Di. Still there is quite a dizzying variety of places to satisfy most palate. There is a Greek Tavern here, a fine dining restaurant, Starbucks, a wine bar, many cafes and pubs. I was looking for a place to have a simple [...]

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Bali: Second Post

We attended a large cockfight in the Blahbatuh area, where about 200-300 men (all men) were gesticulating and yelling their bets at the competitors. In essence, cockfighting is illegal in Bali, except in very limited circumstances which I suppose this was one. However, it’s my understanding that for this particular event, the police had been [...]

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