Crab-fisher-turned-photographer Corey Arnold has an interview and images up at NPR.

Via Amy Stein

Portfolio of Mary Ellen Mark, American social photojournalist and portrait photographer.

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Kipp Wettstein, new york photographer, hand builds his own large format cameras for himself and some well-known friends.

Magnum lost two great photographers in the past month.

• Burt Glinn 
• Philip Jones Griffiths

Aperture has recently released PhotoArt, a collection of over 120 modern photographers.

Available at Amazon.

Public voting is now open for Le Prix de la Photographie Paris People’s Choice Awards.

Vote here.

In the Chinese city of Yanji, just a few kilometres from the North Korean border, one of the most risky journalistic endeavours ever undertaken is taking shape.

A North Korean citizen is being trained in the techniques of using a hidden camera.

Read more at the BBC.

German portrait photographer Olaf Blecker sits down with the F Stop to discuss his craft.

The Getty has acquired Irving Penn’s master set of prints from his series, The Small Trades. Penn considered these blue-collar portraits some of the most important of his long and influential career.

Article in the NY Times.

The latest issue of Vanity Fair features recreations of Alfred Hitchcock films by a few photographers.

Above: The Birds by Norman Jean Roy