How the San Francisco Chronicle shone a bright light on the Honduran drug trade – Poynter
The Chronicle tracked the drug trade into tiny towns where top dealers live in mansions — work that earned an inaugural Poynter Prize
The Chronicle tracked the drug trade into tiny towns where top dealers live in mansions — work that earned an inaugural Poynter Prize
Photography is a powerful journalistic tool, providing visual evidence and evoking emotions that urge us to understand the experiences of others. Here, ProPublica’s Sarahbeth Maney offers suggestions for aspiring visual storytellers.
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/tips-aspiring-visual-storytellers-photography-photojournalism-flint-michigan
Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/
https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/
Authenticity tech relies upon sensor-level fingerprints.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/11/15/this-new-device-establishes-content-authenticity-using-any-digital-camera/
Book Review Dogbreath Photographs by Matthew Genitempo Reviewed by Blake Andrews “Matthew Genitempo’s method has always relied on int…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/11/dogbreath-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/11/dogbreath-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html
The Bigger Picture – The Leica camera Blog:
Her timeless pictures reflect her ability to not only document specific moments, but to also create images that today – detached from the original occasion – reveal much more about the personality portrayed and the sensitive machinery of political staging. We spoke with the great photographer about her beginnings and her experiences.
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/long-sunset/
Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/here-then-and-now-richard-mcguire
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/here-then-and-now-richard-mcguire
Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bearing-witness-to-american-exploits
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bearing-witness-to-american-exploits
Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land:
A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived.
In his first-ever US museum survey, the Indian artist experiments with the possibilities of documentary images—and expands into painting and video.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/
https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/
(318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube:
A Conversation with Robert LeBlanc and former LIFE editor-in-chief Bill Shapiro
In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of death and divorce, individuals are more complicated than the worst thing happening to them.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-grandsons-urgent-chronicle-of-family-life-in-small-town-ohio
“Social Studies,” a documentary series by Lauren Greenfield, follows a group of young people, and screen-records their phones, to capture how social media has reshaped their lives.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/into-the-phones-of-teens
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/into-the-phones-of-teens
A look at the work of the recipients of this year’s Ian Parry photojournalism grant
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/05/ian-parry-photojournalism-grant-2024-in-pictures
As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/florence-mars-a-forgotten-eyewitness-to-civil-rights-era-mississippi
One must be ambidextrous in opening this beautifully and cleverly crafted monograph about a mysterious island by the creative duo, Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese. Their creation, “Thinking Like an Island” , published by Overlapse, provokes the viewer to engage in a visual and mental jigsaw puzzle with psychological overtones. The book is a feast
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/11/gabriele-chiapparini-and-camilla-marrese-thinking-like-an-island/
http://lenscratch.com/2024/11/gabriele-chiapparini-and-camilla-marrese-thinking-like-an-island/
These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2024-photobook-awards/
https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2024-photobook-awards/
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/anna-and-jordan-rathkopf-her2-the-diagnosed-the-caregiver-and-their-son
In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.