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Tamar has some photos in the new issue of Chaos Magazine. Check out the first image below and please click on it to see the full spread on her blog!

I went to a Moto Cross track in Piru, CA.  His name was Josh.  This is his passion.

I had some gold painted weights left over from a shoot so this is the image I made when I caught my assistant jammin out to some tunes and lifting!

Racquetball and flying hats, Long Beach CA.

I managed to get out to Venice Beach one recent afternoon. It was foggy and gorgeous and the surfers were taking advantage of the waves.

Congratulations to TIAPB founder Tamar Levine and contributor Justin Carrasquillo for their inclusion in this year’s PDN Photo Annual! Both are featured in the Stock Photography section of the issue.

Tamar’s underwater fashion story (p.139):

Justin’s surf and dirt bike images (pp.141 and 142):

Apologies for the crummy images – I blame PDN for not posting a winners’ gallery online. What’s up with that PDN? Please check out Tamar and Justin‘s sites to see these wonderful images as they should appear, along with the rest of their awesome work.

I spent a few weeks in Treviso, Italy in 2006. At the end of each day, I would spend time watching Italian kids practice soccer. I was amazed my the talent and discipline the young athletes possessed. These photographs are a few memories I have, from my cold fall evenings I would spend observing them.

I hope this isn’t illegal, but I made some animated gif’s for this assignment. Long story short, I got a little video camera. I still don’t understand how to use video editing programs, but I do know Photoshop. So I put these little guys together. I definitely plan on doing more soon.

*pardon the large file sizes and the small visual size. I didn’t want them to be too huge, so I scaled them down.

Christopher Dibble photographed and created a video portrait of artist Jeff Sheng, photographer of the series and book “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for East Village Boys. You can read the article and see Jeff’s images on the EVB site: http://www.eastvillageboys.com/2010/05/04/jeff-sheng-dont-ask-dont-tell/

This is Jess. She races bikes.

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This Is A Photo Blog has recently added a few new contributors, and we’d like to introduce them to you:

A finalist in Nikon International’s 2009 “Emerging Talent” contest, Justin Carrasquillo is based in L.A. and loves shooting cars, landscapes, urban life, and the occasional pet.

Lauren Ward splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, but you can be sure to catch her online on the Urban Outfitters blog or roadtripping with musician friend Robert Francis.

Originally from India, New York’s Manjari Sharma has been receiving attention for her intimate series of images, The Shower Series, a photo from which was one of PDN’s “Photo of the Day” features in 2009.

If you’re out and about in L.A., you’ve probably run into Melissa Manning who’s been featured on VH1 and whose society photos have been published monthly in Flaunt Magazine.

Please join us in welcoming Justin, Lauren, Manjari, and Melissa to This Is A Photo Blog and keep an eye out for their contributions in the coming months!

Please let me know if you want one I would be more than happy to mail it out. Cheers

Title: Sports

Assigner: Corey Seeholzer

Description: The assignment for April is “SPORTS” or “SPORT” as the Europeans say. I remember having sports assignments in school and finding it a challenge to make it work for myself because it wasn’t something I was particularly interested in. So, I guess the fun part of this assignment for the non-sporty among us will be making it ours. This could be anything from live action stuff, to a portrait of an athlete, a fashion story with sport theme, shot of an empty stadium . . . you get the idea. Have fun, and I look forward to seeing your posts!

I shot the International Pillow Fight day in Downtown LA.
I love these girls in the first shot. The calm before the storm…

Jennifer shot Politician Anthony Weiner and Chef Jason Weiner (Almond NYC) for Edible Manhattan.

To see more outtakes please click here.

This is a documentary series about Los Angeles Bike Polo. I shot these images during two tournament in two months. The images have been compiled into a book, aptly titled L.A.B.P. To see more of the story, check out http://christopherdibble.com and click on the Bike Polo section.

Breaking In

Sticks

Play

Rest

Bye

I moved to California about two years, and the west coast still seems like a strange place to me. The sunlight is different here, and I don’t know the names of any of the trees. These are from an ongoing project where I try to make sense of the foreign environment I ended up in.

I spent a few days in the hospital last month, right after this was assigned. Armed with nothing more than a few magazines to keep me entertained (I didn’t expect to be there as long as I was), I took the following shots of my surroundings to keep busy and fight boredom.

[photos ©Andrea LaBarge Mills]