The selection process has been a long one. Over the years your photography changes the way you see things. That applies to editing as well. You may go through your contact sheets and be drawn to an image you took 20 years ago that wouldn’t have perked your interest back then. There have been multiple editing sessions to get the work to where it is now. I’m currently editing to create a book, so I’m hopeful to discover some gems I overlooked before.
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Sage Sohier: Passing Time – LENSCRATCH
Many artists spent the pandemic revisiting family archives, digging into familial legacies in boxes covered in dusty attics, but other artists finally found the time to revisit their own archives. The indefatigable Sage Sohier is one of those artists, who has a long legacy of documenting the human (and animal) condition close to home and
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/sage-sohier/
Many artists spent the pandemic revisiting family archives, digging into familial legacies in boxes covered in dusty attics, but other artists finally found the time to revisit their own archives. The indefatigable Sage Sohier is one of those artists, who has a long legacy of documenting the human (and animal) condition close to home and on the streets. The result of her efforts is her eighth book, Passing Time, published by Nazraeli Press and a number of upcoming exhibitions.
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Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews
Book Review Mirror City Photographs by Harry Culy Reviewed by Blake Andrews “For photographers shooting hometowns, acquaintance is a …
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/01/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html
Harry Culy’s debut photobook puts this hypothesis to the test. Mirror City collects Culy’s b/w photographs shot upon his return to Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), after ten years away. Growing up in the New Zealand capital decades earlier, he had come to know the place quite well. He’d explored the underbelly and skateboarded its sidewalks. He’d formed a sense of what it was to be a resident. He’d even made photographs of the city.
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/01/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html
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Alison McCauley: Anywhere But Here – LENSCRATCH
This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. There are always fears and inhibitions that we as people carry with us throughout our lives. Some are small and others are large, but there are nagging thoughts that stick out in our minds and mold our perception. Alison McCauley is a photographer who allows
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/allison-mccauley-anywhere-but-here/
Allison McCauley is a photographer who allows for her subjective experience to constantly be at the forefront of her intuitive-making process. In her specific body of work Anywhere But Here she unpacks an idea that has haunted her forever. She focuses on the notion that where she is right now is not where she is supposed to be, and a certainty that the next place she goes will be superior
http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/allison-mccauley-anywhere-but-here/
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photo-eye Conversations with David Emitt Adams and Jamey Stillings
photo-eye Gallery photo-eye Conversations with David Emitt Adams and Jamey Stillings photo-eye Gallery In honor of the cl…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/02/photo-eye-conversations-with-david.html
In honor of the closing of Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment, an exhibition featuring photographs by Jamey Stillings and David Emitt Adams, we are pleased to share a recent segment of photo-eye Conversations LIVE with David and Jamey. Below the video, are a few installation shots if you haven’t visited the gallery yet.
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/02/photo-eye-conversations-with-david.html
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Ian Howorth: A Country Kind of Silence – LENSCRATCH
This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. Sometimes the psychological landscape is something that is formulated in the artist’s mind from an early age. Adolescence and the struggles we all feel to fit in can be a driving factor in how we engage with the world photographically. That is the case for
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/ian-howorth-a-country-kind-of-silence/
Sometimes the psychological landscape is something that is formulated in the artist’s mind from an early age. Adolescence and the struggles we all feel to fit in can be a driving factor in how we engage with the world photographically. That is the case for the work of Ian Howorth in his monograph A Country Kind of Silence.
http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/ian-howorth-a-country-kind-of-silence/
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https://www.myjournalcourier.com/entertainment/article/hal-buell-who-led-ap-s-photo-operations-from-18638531.php
Colleagues described Buell as a visionary who encouraged photographers to try new ways of covering hard news. As the editor in charge of AP’s photo operations from the late 1960s to the 1990s, he supervised a staff that won a dozen Pulitzers on his watch and he worked in 33 countries, with legendary AP photographers including Eddie Adams, Horst Faas and Nick Ut.
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As Wars Rage in the Middle East, Anti-war Photographer Don McCullin Discusses “How Futile Violence Is”
The dean of conflict photography assesses the power of images—and his fellow image makers.
via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/don-mccullin-on-war
Recently, photojournalist Mark Edward Harris sat down with McCullin to discuss his oeuvre, their fellow photographers, and conflicts past and present. (On assignment for Vanity Fair, Harris has covered North Korea as well as the aftermath of both the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.)
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Bryan Schutmaat: Country Roads – LENSCRATCH
This week we feature projects that explore the psychological landscape. Encompassed within the psychological landscape is an intense look at the land itself and the expressive qualities that our surroundings can offer us. In photography, there has been a long history of image makers going out into the world and intently looking at what most
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/bryan-schutmaat-country-roads/
Encompassed within the psychological landscape is an intense look at the land itself and the expressive qualities that our surroundings can offer us. In photography, there has been a long history of image makers going out into the world and intently looking at what most disregard
http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/bryan-schutmaat-country-roads/
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The War the World Can’t See
From outside Gaza, the scale of death and destruction is impossible to grasp, shrouded by communications blackouts, restrictions barring international reporters and extreme challenges facing local journalists.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/world/middleeast/gaza-war-palestinian-journalists.html
There are pinholes in the murk, apertures such as the Instagram feeds of Gaza photographers and a small number of testimonies that slip through. With every passing week, however, the light dims as those documenting the war leave, quit or die. Reporting from Gaza has come to seem pointlessly risky to some local journalists, who despair of moving the rest of the world to act.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/world/middleeast/gaza-war-palestinian-journalists.html
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What Garry Winogrand Saw in Color
A rarely seen body of Winogrand’s work is more inviting than his black-and-white pictures, but no less layered or sly.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-garry-winogrand-saw-in-color
His pictures look perfectly artless, the opposite of the decisive moment and the epitome of the snapshot aesthetic. Working outdoors, mostly on the urban street, Winogrand didn’t seem to frame anything, and even when his images were thronged with people, nothing much happened in them. A man lit a cigarette, a woman reached into her purse, another woman stepped into a yellow cab. “I like to work in that area where content almost overwhelms form,” he said. The result is an avid, richly detailed, virtually unfiltered descriptiveness.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-garry-winogrand-saw-in-color
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Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2 | LensCulture
Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-2
Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The second in a two-part series.
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Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits
But, Prince made no admission of infringement.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/29/richard-prince-to-pay-photographers-over-650000-in-copyright-lawsuits/
For his New Portraits series, Prince appropriated images from users on Instagram, but he also used images that belonged to professional photographers without permission — selling them for up to $100,000 each.
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Søren Solkær: Starling and Black Sun – LENSCRATCH
For the past few years while riding my bicycle along the Mediterranean coast near my home, I was startled occasionally by the sight of a massive black cloud of small birds swooping and diving in a tight formation that swirled above me in an enthralling display of aerial pageantry. I always wondered how and why
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/soren-solkaer-starling/
As Søren Solkær movingly relates in his introduction to Starling, “Through the lens, we venture into a domain where atoms assemble into orderly arrays, molecules form intricate structures, providing a reminder that the same fundamental forces that govern the cosmos also shape the tiniest building blocks of life. In these photographs, we witness the architecture of matter and the choreography of molecules…The parallels between the vast and the miniscule are unmistakable…I hope this body of work will inspire many to strengthen or regain a sensory connection with nature.”
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Unboxing Thousands of Photos of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s
Arlene Gottfried, a sister of the late comedian Gilbert Gottfried, memorialized a grittier era of the city. Now her family wants to share her collection with the world.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/nyregion/gottfried-nyc-photos-preserve.html
Arlene Gottfried, a sister of the late comedian Gilbert Gottfried, memorialized a grittier era of the city. Now her family wants to share her collection with the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/nyregion/gottfried-nyc-photos-preserve.html
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Expert Advice and Top Tips from Pro Photographers for 2024 – PhotoShelter Blog
What’s one piece of advice you would give to aspiring or up-and-coming photographers? We asked nine experienced photographers and PhotoShelter members to share their top tips for those looking to get ahead in their photography careers. From finding your own visual voice to working with a mentor or photo assistant, each piece of advice listed…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2024/01/expert-advice-and-top-tips-from-pro-photographers-for-2024/
We asked nine experienced photographers and PhotoShelter members to share their top tips for those looking to get ahead in their photography careers.
https://blog.photoshelter.com/2024/01/expert-advice-and-top-tips-from-pro-photographers-for-2024/
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The Bay Area’s Top Pastrami Shop Has Closed
Delirama’s pastrami sandwiches were the closest thing the Bay Area had to a Katz’s or Langer’s.
Link: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950832/delirama-pastrami-berkeley-solano-closed
“Toward a Black Aesthetic: Kenneth P. Green Sr.’s Photographs of the 1960s and 70s” is on view at San Francisco’s Main Public Library through April 21. A related author talk between Dr. Tanisha Ford and Dr. Tiffany E. Barber will be held at the library on Feb. 28.
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950832/delirama-pastrami-berkeley-solano-closed
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Leica M-Magazine now available for free – Leica Rumors
All 5 issues of Leica’s “M-Magazine” are now available for free: The S-Magazine editions are also available online for free. Unfortunately, the LFI Magazine is not available for free. Older issues of the LFI Magazine can be purchased on Amazon: Related posts: The next LFI magazine will be delayed because of a “postponed product launch” […]
via Leica Rumors: https://leicarumors.com/2024/01/25/leica-m-magazine-now-available-for-free.aspx/
All 5 issues of Leica’s “M-Magazine” are now available for free:
https://leicarumors.com/2024/01/25/leica-m-magazine-now-available-for-free.aspx/
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The Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports
It used to be the most coveted real estate in sports journalism. But its power to set the agenda disappeared along with its elite photographers.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/sports-illustrated-covers.html
“When I was a kid and getting S.I., you didn’t have that immediate 24-hour news cycle just hitting you over the head,” said Nate Gordon, a former picture editor at Sports Illustrated who is now the head of content at The Players’ Tribune. “You would get that cover and you’d be like: ‘Man, this is what happened last week. That’s so cool.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/sports-illustrated-covers.html
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Episode 91: Stephen Crowley (Political Photography)
Stephen Crowley a renowned political photographer has spent his career capturing Washington, D.C. politics from his unique perspective winning 2 Pulitzers.
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/01/23/episode-91-stephen-crowley-political-photography/
Stephen Crowley is a renowned political photographer that has spent his career capturing Washington, D.C. politics from his unique perspective having hailed from a small Florida village. Crowley has decades of experience in the photojournalism world; notable roles include serving as a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1992 to 2017 and an instructor of documentary photography at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design from 2002 to 2006. Projects like “IF I WERE YOUR KING” artfully demonstrate Crowley’s take on political systems and their interaction with society. Accolades of Crowley’s include being named the White House News Photographers’ Association “Photographer of the Year” in 2002 for a portfolio that included the “Voices of Afghanistan” essay and the Pulitzer Prize as part of The New York Times staff.