The winners of the fifth edition of the Leica Women Foto Project (LWFP) 2024 are Luvia Lazo, Camille Farrah Lenain, Stasia Schmidt and Dola Posh.
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in Contests
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A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall
“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.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall
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European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH
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
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/european-week-jaume-llorens/
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12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers
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.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
in Books
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Episode 96: Devin Allen (Street Photography) – A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone
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
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/03/05/episode-96-devin-allen-street-photography/
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Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH
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
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/kazunari-suzuki-japan-guide-book/
http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/kazunari-suzuki-japan-guide-book/
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How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future
Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html
in Journalism
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The Associated Press Hires Its First Woman Director of Photography
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Lucy Nicholson breaks barriers.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/
https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/
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Caught in the headlight – Thoughts of a Bohemian
As giants freely plunder their work, the stock photo industry stands by, silently complicit in its own demise.
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/caught-in-the-headlight/
in Photography
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Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues – LENSCRATCH
“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.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/oli-kellett/
in Books
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Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle
Part memoir, part document of a punk-infused scene, “Wires Crossed” explores the lives of skateboarders crisscrossing the world.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/
https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/
in Books
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Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH
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
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/interview-with-peah-guilmoth/
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Seeing Photography as an African Art Form
Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/871315/seeing-photography-as-an-african-art-form/
https://hyperallergic.com/871315/seeing-photography-as-an-african-art-form/
in Photography
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Episode 94: Michelle McLoughlin (Documentary Photography) –
lle McLoughlin is a photojournalist whose work spans both the editorial and corporate worlds & Event Chair for the 2024 Northern Short Course in Photojournalism
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/02/21/episode-94-michelle-mcloughlin-documentary-photography/
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Gritty Russian Photographer Dmitry Markov Dies Age 42
Markov shot exclusively on iPhone.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/02/20/gritty-russian-photographer-dmitry-markov-dies-age-42/
https://petapixel.com/2024/02/20/gritty-russian-photographer-dmitry-markov-dies-age-42/
in Obituaries
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https://leica-camera.blog/2024/02/19/the-zebu-war/
While working on his reportage about zebu rustling in Madagascar, photographer Rijasolo dared set foot in regions that normally remain hidden to the general public.
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Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I Belong to You and You to Me – LENSCRATCH
Introduction to Aging Series I met Aline Smithson at a portfolio review in the fall of 2023 when I showed her my project about my father. When Aline generously offered me the opportunity to curate a collection of four other projects about aging that would be featured on Lenscratch alongside mine, I immediately thought about
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/beate-sass-i-belong-to-you-and-you-to-me/
http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/beate-sass-i-belong-to-you-and-you-to-me/
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Episode 35: A. D. Coleman (Historical Photography)
A. D. Coleman and the Robert Capa D-Day Project exploring the history, legacy and questions about the photographs of Robert Capa at Normandy in 1944.
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/02/08/episode-35-a-d-coleman-historical-photography/
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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/