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James Duncan Davidson

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James Duncan Davidson is a photographer, author, and software developer. Duncan has been a photographer for TED since 2009, was the photographer for Mission Blue, and led the TEDxOilSpill Expedition.

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Setting up for TED2013: Backstage photos

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Setting up for TED2013: Backstage photos

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A monumental amount of effort goes into setting up for TED. This year’s iteration in Long Beach is no different. Construction of our stage started on Wednesday, and it wasn’t long before the entire Long Beach Performing Arts Center was full of the buzz of technicians, workers and artists getting ready for next week.   []

Tech report: Thunderbolt in the Media Cave

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Tech report: Thunderbolt in the Media Cave

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All photos by James Duncan Davidson, who writes: In the lower right photograph, there are twelve 12TB Pegasus R6 arrays. That’s 144TB total. It’s a tenth of a freaking petabyte of usable space. Backstory: During a TED conference, we create a lot of data — five days of high-res video from nine cameras, tens of []

Lo-fi photos from TED2012

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Lo-fi photos from TED2012

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To document TED, the photo team uses every camera at hand. Big digital SLRs with huge lenses are perfect for photographing the stages, but some moments can simply sing when captured with an iPhone and processed with Instagram. Here are a few of my favorites from TED2012 that I collected while in between sessions. Duncan []

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Shooting the Full Spectrum speaker portraits

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Keeping with the spirit of the Full Spectrum Auditions earlier this week, TED photo editor Mike Femia and myself—photographer Duncan Davidson—decided to add something a bit new and different to our photo coverage of the event. The result is a set of speaker portraits that we made in the break between the afternoon rehearsals and []

More lo-fi photography from TED2011

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In the middle of TED, I’m almost inseparable from my big Nikons. In the spirit of continuing my little lo-fi TED photography project, however, I kept snapped off a few frames every time I pulled out my iPhone to stay in touch with the rest of the media team during the event. Here’s a batch []

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Lo-fi photography at TED2011

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Usually when I’m photographing at TED, I’m using heavy digital SLRs with lots of lenses. This year, however, I’m also making a few fun photos with the most modest of cameras, my iPhone using the Instagram app. Here are a few of my favorites so far as the team gets the venue ready for TED. []