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Peter Macdiarmi,
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photojournalism,
reportage,
year in review
by Peter Macdiarmid
on Feb 7, 2012
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I have just completed my seventh year as senior news photographer for Getty Images in the UK — And, as the video below will show you — what a year!
I started at Getty Images in January 2005, which also was a year full of interesting and exciting assignments: The funeral of one Pope and the election of another, the general election in the UK (Tony Blair’s third as Prime Minister), the wedding of Prince Charles ...
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I photographed Happy Mondays from inception to disintegration. On their first trip to New York in 1987, Shaun Ryder told me that they’d gone straight to 42nd St. (it was pretty dangerous back then and was virtually a no-go area after dark). They’d bought some beers and were walking down the street drinking from the bottle when a police car stopped alongside them. The cops quickly realized they were English and one told them they couldn’t drink ...
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by Jacleen Boland
on Jan 26, 2012
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Greetings from Sundance!
This is my 10th year volunteering for the Sundance Film Festival. Apparently I will receive a keychain to commemorate this milestone, but I don’t come here for the gifts.
I come for the energy, the movies and my fellow volunteers who have become like family to me. And, I come to be surrounded and inspired by amazing and brilliant filmmakers, artists and musicians who are constantly innovating. It’s a labor of love and one that I ...
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Did you know Getty Images has a fashion blog, Of the Moment, where you can discover sartorial perfection, as seen through the lens of some of the world’s most accomplished photographers? Check it out… and get your Fashion Week fix.
A model walks the runway during the Thom Browne Menswear Autumn/Winter 2013 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 22, 2012 in Paris, France. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images, 137566103)
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Archival Imagery,
Axl Rose,
blog,
Getty Images,
GnR,
Guns n Roses,
Hollywood Rose,
LA Guns,
Marc Canter,
Rock!,
Slash
To get this close, it helps to have connections. Growing up in Los Angeles with his best friend Saul Hudson (aka Slash), photographer Marc Canter was able to document the rise of both the guitar god himself and the band that made him famous: Guns n’ Roses.
Along with portraits of the band shot by Canter’s business partner Jack Lue, Getty Images now represents the definitive pictorial history of early-era GnR through their heyday.
You can view ...
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