Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The first in a two-part series.
The World Press Photo Foundation will also be able to offer photography printing services thanks to Fujifilm and the competition will now offer a Fujifilm GFX 100 II and two GF lenses of choice will be provided to each of the four global contest winners.
Josef loves a challenge, a visual challenge. He had not really worked in this way before, where there had to be a clear relationship between text and image.
Dina Litovsky is a Ukrainian-born photographer living in New York City. Her imagery can be described as visual sociology, exploring the idea of leisure.
As I got older and developed my practice, I noticed a dissonance between the West’s conception of Palestinian society and the images I was making — the life I was living. In the news media, Palestinians were often portrayed as masked and violent or as disposable and lifeless: a faceless, miserable people.
This week are featuring work seen at the Los Angeles Center of Photography Exposure Reviews. Daniel Sackheim is a visual storyteller of the best kind. His photographs bring decades of seeing through his career as a director and producer, working on productions that dig deep into dark psyches. His project, UNSEEN, can only be described
As a child, I suffered a paralyzing fear of the dark. So terrified was I of imagined creatures hiding under the bed, or lurking within the dark recesses of my closet, that I would often drift off to sleep, a flashlight clutched tightly in my grip. The Irony is not lost on me that my current artistic preoccupations take me deep into seedy back alleys and labyrinths of sketchy downtown streets, illuminated by flickering streetlights that barely penetrate the darkness of an often foreboding and claustrophobic urban jungle.
Louie Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights, the environment and poverty.
Louie Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights and poverty. Today Molly will be discussing his amazing project in the Arctic and his experiences in the middle of the January 6th insurrection mob. And maybe his fishing exploits.
Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists with whom I met at Review Santa Fe in November 2023. Up next, we have Los Olvidados by Harvey Castro. Harvey Castro (b. Nicaragua) is a documentary photographer and multidisciplinary artist who employs a variety of mediums, including still and moving images, audio recordings, and historical
On November 5th, 2020, a landslide triggered by six days and nights of constant rain brought on by Hurricane Eta buried the village of Queja in San Cristobal Verapaz, Guatemala, along with an estimated 58 people. Within a few days, the municipality’s mayor, Ovidio Choc Pop, declared the area a “campo santo,” an uninhabitable graveyard ending all rescue efforts and recovering only eight bodies.
The huge list includes thousands of artists’ names; among them are scores of photographers — both living and dead — whose styles Midjourney apparently wanted to copy so that users of its AI image generator could make AI pictures in the style of that photographer.
The photographer was imprisoned numerous times during his career and subjected to a five-year ban that prevented him from working or even leaving his home without police permission.
He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.
He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.
Rudy Smith, who was the first full-time Black employee in The World-Herald’s newsroom, began his career in 1963 — the same year Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Smith retired 15 years ago today.
All that stress took a toll I think on my creativity. I am reasonably happy with my top 9 images for this year, but I can feel my creative juices atrophying some. Every creative process is variable, and people have strong and weak periods. My hope is to concentrate a little more on photography this year and think more about what I know about light and how to play with it.
Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your favorite photographs and being part of our community. A HUGE thank you to Emily Wall and Kassandra Eller for helping me upload hundreds and hundreds of photographs. We hope 2024 will be a year of creativity, joy, friendship, and love. We appreciate your support and readership over
Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your favorite photographs and being part of our community. A HUGE thank you to Emily Wall and Kassandra Eller for helping me upload hundreds and hundreds of photographs. We hope 2024 will be a year of creativity, joy, friendship, and love. We appreciate your support and readership over the last 18 years. Raising a toast to the Lenscratch Staff and all the contributors who work hard to give back to this amazing community. Now, stay in bed with a cup of coffee, and scroll away. There are 14 pages to get through.
In Hyperallergic parlance, “powerless” conjures a very specific status. Historically, our Powerless 20 list has shone a light on those who exist outside of an art world that lionizes the wealthy and the privileged, whether that’s because they’re persecuted by their governments, trapped in a rigged capitalist machine that spews riches for the very few, or just shit out of luck.
“I think part of the reason news organizations are now looking so carefully at OpenAI is because they have 20 years of history indicating that if we’re not careful, we’ll give away the keys to the kingdom,” said Andrew Morse, the publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the flagship newspaper of Cox Media Group, which is not in talks with OpenAI.
Many photographers and photo editors have been faced with a picture they don’t know the location of but would like to. And while this new AI technology helps with that task, others have pointed to privacy concerns.
Rian Dundon is based in Portland, OR and specializes in documentary photography. He is the author of: Protest City (2023), Fan (2015), and Changsha (2012)
The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.