The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund announced that photographer Irina Werning from Argentina is this year’s recipient of its $30,000 grant for Humanistic Photography for her project Las Pelilargas.
This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the International Women in Photo Association (IWPA) Awards. Today is Alena Grom, a Ukrainian photographer, whose series Stolen Spring was one of four finalists in the Professional Category. A very personal project, Alena Grom, like the women she photographs, are survivors of the
Today is Alena Grom, a Ukrainian photographer, whose series Stolen Spring was one of four finalists in the Professional Category. A very personal project, Alena Grom, like the women she photographs, are survivors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Grom poses the woman in front of decorative backdrops to mask (or highlight) the damages of war, just as was done by post World-War II photographer Michael Nash to mask Polish ruins.
This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the The International Women in Photo Association (IWPA), a French non profit aiming to create global change and reach gender equality and women empowerment, awards prizes to visual storytellers from around the world. Today is Natalia Garbu, a photographer from Moldovia, whose series
Today is Natalia Garbu, a photographer from Moldovia, whose series Moldova Lookbook, received an Emerging Finalist Award. Natalia Garbu gives us an insider look into a small country’s multi-dimensionality, the old and the new, the formal and informal.
“At closer inspection it appears that the source has manipulated this image,” wrote the AP in a so-called kill notification. AFP cited an “editorial issue,” and said that the photo “may no longer be used in any manner.” News outlets that had run the photograph, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, subsequently took it down.
Guyana-born and England-raised photographer Ingrid Pollard is this year’s Hasselblad Award Recipient. Pollard, an internationally acclaimed photographer, receives a Hasselblad flagship camera and lenses, a unique gold medal, and SEK 2,000,000 — over $196,000.
The Leica Gallery in Los Angeles has just opened Broad Strokes III, featuring the work of Joan Haseltine, that will run through April 8th. This is the 3rd iteration of Leica exhibitions that celebrate women in photography, and the exhibition also features the work of Julie Pacino, Javiera Estrada, and Nathalie Gordon. Haseltine with present
Some years after losing my husband, I decided to reinvent my life, so I purchased a small ranch in Montana and a camera, neither of which I knew how to operate. I began visiting small towns at night. A woman standing alone on the streets after dark with a camera naturally aroused suspicion and distrust in these old Montana towns. I was stopped and questioned, and even the police were called. I felt vulnerable and very alone.
“We’re all being manipulated in the mall,” the photographer Stephen DiRado says. But his photos elicit a certain nostalgia, almost in spite of themselves.
There’s a reason that the mall’s corporate honchos—who had signed a contract giving him free rein to document daily life there—“freaked out,” in DiRado’s words, when they first saw the results. Where was the evidence of all the fun that they sponsored? The clowns? The Santa Claus?
Guest Editor and German photographer Melanie Schoeniger shares a week of European photographers whose work she finds inspiring. Schoeniger’s sensibility is translated through the work she shares; all the photographer’s work has a sense of mystery, interconnectedness and wonder. Schoeniger states: Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy, and powerful mood is in Jaume
Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy, and powerful mood is in Jaume Llorens’ images. In his series Gaia, he juxtaposes ethereal impressions and mesmerizing patterns of the natural world: A blurry blossom meets a hazy cloud, Queen Ann’s lace reveals the same pattern as a flock of birds, a meadow in interplay with a wave.
From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous image making, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.
From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.
Not just the second amateur photographer to grace the cover of Time magazine with his photo of the Baltimore Uprising in 2015, Devin Allen has TWICE made the cover! An oustanding street photographer, Devin has also embraced painting and sculpture. Hi new multi-media exhibit “A Piece of Me Died With You” reflects on the losses
One of the most exciting parts of my recent visit to Japan was working with photographic artists at the T3 Tokyo Photo Festival. I was thrilled to meet Kazunari Suzuki and get to know his fabulous work. Suzuki shared a project that has all the elements that I am drawn to: old postcards, typologies, and
His project, Japan Guide Book, encapsulates a deep dive into iconic and ubiquitous structures that tourists see over and over again in Japan. He deftly removes the objects or landmarks to highlight their shapes and presence in the photograph.
All that has come to pass, more or less. Everyone is online all the time, and just about everyone seems interested in, if not obsessed by, national and world happenings. But the traditional media that Mr. Fidler was championing do not receive much benefit. After decades of decline, their collapse seems to be accelerating.
The Associated Press (AP), winner of 58 Pulitzer Prizes and one of the world’s most essential and significant news agencies, has named veteran photojournalist Lucy Nicholson its next Director of Photography. Nicholson is the first woman ever to assume the role.
When all is said and done, and the stock photo industry landscape is a complete devastation, some will gather once more and look at each other in a “what the F**K did just happened” moment.
“I’m looking for a moment where individuals are dwarfed by what surrounds them, appearing lost but searching for something. They then go on their way, whichever direction that may be.” Oli Kellett‘s Cross Road Blues, has recently been published by Nazraeli press. Cross Road Blues coincides with a solo exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art, London.
Waiting for a Sign focuses on Kellett’s iconic Crossroad Blues series of large-scale portraits of people waiting at crossroads in urban cities across the globe from London to Mexico City and numerous across North America.
The minute I found skateboarding, I was immersed in a world of creative people—even as far back as middle school. Having a skateboard was the ticket into a new world. There were these two punk guys I had always steered clear of. I thought these guys wanted to kick my ass. But once I had a skateboard under my arm they were like, “Hey, come hang out with us.” They gave me a cassette tape with Dead Kennedys and other bands. My mind was blown. The Beautiful Losers cluster—I think we are all loathe to call it a “movement”— was the same
In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of beauty is resistance to a world often at odds with joy and
In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of beauty is resistance to a world often at odds with joy and perpetual growth.