Link: jeroen hofman – playground | burn magazine

My new project is called Playground. The Netherlands have several training facilities where members of the Fire Brigade, the Police Force and the Ministry of Defense are trained and prepared for a wide range of possible scenarios. Within the boundaries of these grounds it’s all just practice or ‘play’. Outside of them however, things are a lot more serious. My aim was to capture these facilities and the people who are trained there.

Link: Alex Arbuckle’s Complex Relationship with the NYPD – NYTimes.com

“I felt that the depiction of the cops and protesters was mostly sensationalist and reductive,” said Mr. Arbuckle, 21. “It seemed like the only protesters who showed up in the news were the wild, trouble-making fringe elements, and the only cops who showed up in the news were the ones shouting and tackling protesters.”

Link: Rebecca Norris Webb: ‘My Dakota’ – LightBox

Looking again at the work now that My Dakota is finally a book, I realize that I was photographing this particularly dark time in my life in order to try to absorb it, to distill it, and, ultimately, to let it go. Not only did my first grief change me, but making My Dakota changed me as well, both as a human being and as a bookmaker.

Link: Martin Parr Tourism Inc | La Lettre de la Photographie

For 20 years, Reporters Without Borders has been fighting for freedom of the press. They regularly publish fundraising photo albums devoted to selected photographers, with sales profits going to financing their actions. Martin Parr’s work is being featured in the latest album to be released. If this choice could at first seem surprising, it is no less justified. Indeed, this Magnum photographer has a unique style. Tourists are his main subjects.

Link: Country Fair Photos Parade Jolly Brits, Tarts and Chintz | Raw File | Wired.com

Arnhel de Serra’s photos are like the British equivalent of a good New Yorker cartoon: quirky and insightful.

Link: Magnum 62 : 1970s – 1990s, the mutation | La Lettre de la Photographie

1970s and 1980s: The world of photojournalism and documentary photography is changing

Link: Magnum 62, : the young generation | La Lettre de la Photographie

In more recent decades, the photographers of the Magnum agency have been faced with many changes and challenges in the professional and technical sphere of photography. Magnum was founded on ideals of copyright but today, with the impact of digital imaging, popular understanding of an image’s value has changed

Link: New York – Tokyo-Ga : Invisible existences | La Lettre de la Photographie

The second chapter of the project Tokyo-Ga is entitled Invisible Existences. Whereas the first chapter preferred distance, this chapter prefers closeness and black-and-white. In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project.

Link: 30y3 – spanish photography now » Óscar Monzón – Sweet Car

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