Alan Schaller’s Haunting Photos Explore the Isolation of the Big City
You might recognize his photos from Instagram.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/12/13/alan-schallers-haunting-photos-explore-the-isolation-of-the-big-city/
You might recognize his photos from Instagram.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/12/13/alan-schallers-haunting-photos-explore-the-isolation-of-the-big-city/
As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases of 2023 – selected by Assistant Editor, Alessandro Merola.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2023/
In the past few years, the term artist collective has become common, especially in larger cities where hubs of creativity form. At first, I did not know the purpose of a collective – they had been mentioned to me often but I had no idea what a collective was or why one would want to
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/collective-week-burn-my-eye-collective/
http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/collective-week-burn-my-eye-collective/
The Ian Parry photojournalism grant champions the work of rising photographers. Here we showcase the three recipients of this year’s awards
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2023/dec/12/hard-hitting-images-from-the-winners-of-the-ian-parry-photojournalism-grant
Among the best: Press Forward and the local news crisis goes mainstream. And the worst: layoffs and attacks on press freedom at the local level.
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/5-local-news-experts-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2023/
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/5-local-news-experts-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2023/
How much are we willing to pay to know that the source of our imagery is trustworthy? What is the value of trust in photography?
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/the-value-of-trust-in-photography/
The president of the Committee to Protect Journalists explains why Israel’s military campaign has led to an unprecedented number of deaths among members of the press in just two months.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-war-in-gaza-has-been-deadly-for-journalists
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-war-in-gaza-has-been-deadly-for-journalists
Corinne Dufka wanted to prevent atrocities, not just document them.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/12/war-photography-bosnia-rwanda-elsalvador/675929/
At any given moment, millions of people are attending his expositions, knowingly or not.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/invader-artist-profile
Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/andriana-nativio-as-we-rest-in-the-shadows
Erwitt taught himself photography as a teenager. His most famous work was defined by wit, exuberance, and irrepressible curiosity.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-elliott-erwitt-found-his-signature-humor-and-joy/
The artist captured compelling pictures of celebrities and politicians, dogs just being dogs, and the happenstance whimsy of daily life.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/860427/elliott-erwitt-photographer-with-a-sense-of-humor-dies-at-95/
A visual tour of 2023 in news, culture, and beyond.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-in-new-yorker-photography
https://www.photoeye.com/best-books-2023/index.cfm
It is with great pleasure we bring you our annual list of photobooks chosen by professionals who are deeply involved in the photobook world. This year we asked over 30 luminaries to choose, not one, but three of their favorite photobooks from the past year.
In a new edition of a long out-of-print volume, Webb draws from photographs across many locations. Here, he considers the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/alex-webb-on-reimagining-a-photobook-twenty-five-years-later/
The Vietnamese-born photographer charts how conflict embeds itself in both physical and psychological terrains.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-my-les-uncanny-images-of-war
Looooong ago, when I was early in my photography career, I discovered F-Stop Magazine (celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year!). I was always so excited to get a photograph in one of their exhibitions and feel part of a community. When I started Lenscratch, Christy Karpinski was one of the few women in a landscape
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/the-christy-karpinski-mixtape/
Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shunta-kimura-living-in-the-transition
An-My Lê speaks with Hilton Als about about how she uses photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/an-my-le-on-vietnam-the-chaos-of-war-and-the-tangibility-of-memory/
Fink, who died in 2023, moved easily between society galas and Pennsylvania farms—and his work was always full of the push and pull of life.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/remembering-the-energy-emotion-and-sensuality-of-larry-finks-photography/