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	<title>the black snapper &#187; USA</title>
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		<title>At Times Witty, Touching, And Downright Shocking</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/24/at-times-witty-touching-and-downright-shocking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zoe Strauss's America shines a light on the often unseen people and places in the United States today. Once in a great while, a photographer and their photographs break new ground and people sit right up and take notice. Zoe Strauss is such a photographer. The Philadelphia native who has brought us searing images of that city's marginalized people and places on the fringe of society, has taken her no holds barred, up close and personal style of photography to the roads less traveled across America.]]></description>
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		<title>Fear And The Abandonment Of America&#8217;s Inner Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Down These Mean Streets" examines fear and the abandonment of America's inner cities. Photographing only at night with a large format view camera, I work in a set routine by walking between the airport and central business district of each city I photograph. My focus is the neighborhoods you wouldnt want to be in at night; the part of town you drive through - not to.]]></description>
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		<title>Life At The Waypoints Of America’s Truckers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Hurry Up &#38; Wait" is an ongoing collection of images exploring the obscure and anonymous life of America’s trucking culture.  Driving for a year in our own tractor-trailer, we focus on the banal repetition and periods of isolation from constant movement on the road. These images are a byproduct of the world we entered and a glimpse of the places eighteen-wheelers are allowed. We are constantly faced with the same landscape regardless of location, from moments of obliged waiting in truck stops to backing into the docks of a warehouse. This is where we photograph.]]></description>
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		<title>The Need To Be Connected To Something Greater</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/19/the-need-to-be-connected-to-something-greater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["American Faith," by Chris Churchill is an enlightening look at American’s conception of Faith in this fraught era. Churchill does not pretend to create a comprehensive cross-section of citizens but, nonetheless, this project is a collective portrait.]]></description>
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		<title>A Longstanding Traveler, Wanderer And Seeker</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/18/a-longstanding-traveler-wanderer-and-seeker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this series, photographed over two years of travel, Justine Kurland focuses on the distinct, nomadic subculture of the hobo. Her images of trains, train-hoppers, and the American West allude to a hobo mythology developed in folk songs and literature. Kurland's method combines a documentary process with romantic idealism, giving her images a naturalism inflected by utopian fantasy.]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit Is A Bankrupt City</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/17/detroit-is-a-bankrupt-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't forget to trun up the volume when viewing Daimon's audio slideshow on Detroit in (economic) crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>Being On The Edge Between Two Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/09/on-the-edge-between-two-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elie Domit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a mother of a teenage daughter I have been watching with awe her passage from girlhood into adulthood, with all the complications that it entails. As I am observing her and her girlfriends, I became fascinated with the transformation taking place, with the adult personality shaping up and with an insecurity and a self-consciousness that are now replacing the carefree world those girls had live in so far. I started photographing them in group situations, and quickly realized that they were so aware of each other’s presence, and that their being in a group affected very much whom they were portraying to the world. I also realized that under an air of self-assurance, those young women were often very fragile, self-conscious and confused. While their bodies were developing fast into women’s bodies, they were still young girls who suddenly thought they had to behave like adults.]]></description>
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		<title>Starvation Caused By A Diet Of Human Trash</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/01/13/starvation-caused-by-a-diet-of-human-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Smets</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 146 &#8211; Cow Camp Idaho, Happiness In Isolation</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2009/12/23/day-146-cow-camp-idaho-happiness-in-isolation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Artur Eranosian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cow Camp, Idaho. The closest grocery store is about an hour drive away. You can go for miles and miles in any direction without finding any signs of civilization. At the end of each year, during 'round up', this place is packed with people who help bring the cattle down to the valley before the frost of winter takes over. It's August 2009 now and it feels like Cow Camp is the most desolate place in the world. For six months, this is the place that Gene and Josh, two young cowboys, call home.]]></description>
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		<title>The Loss And Rebirth Of My Family</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2009/11/27/day-120-the-loss-and-rebirth-of-my-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glen Erler: Family Tree is a project about the loss and rebirth of my family. I moved from Southern California to England fourteen years ago and while visiting family members back home, I started photographing the people and places that were important in the shaping of who I am today.While I’ve been living in England, many of my relatives on both my fathers and mothers sides have passed away. This made me realize the impact death has on the lives of those remaining.]]></description>
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