For 75 years, the workshop has drawn photographers from around the world to tell the visual story of a community.
via Columbia Missourian: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/missouri-photo-workshop-aims-to-show-truth-with-a-camera/article_6e9c89b2-5d52-11ee-a49d-a36a74459788.html
Dozens of crew members arrived early Sunday at the 75th annual Missouri Photo Workshop’s headquarters carrying coffee, cameras and computer bags
Barbara Mensch’s new photographic history, “A Falling-Off Place,” begins in the early eighties, and shows a city transformed.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/watching-the-southern-tip-of-manhattan-change-for-forty-years
She spent some two years making inroads with the market workers, visiting them as they worked at night, at first, hiding her Rolleiflex camera inside her jacket. In order to show the bosses the kind of project she hoped to do (and to convince them that she wasn’t a federal agent), she came armed with monographs by artists such as Darius Kinsey, who, with the help of his wife, produced photographs of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest from the turn of the century until 1940
Moises Saman’s new book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” attempts to unwind 20 years of covering war in Iraq.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/09/27/this-work-is-haunting-haunted-by-ghosts-history-its-casualties/
Photographer Moises Saman’s book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” (GOST, 2023) starts off with this banger of a quote from Walter Benjamin: “To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was.’ It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
The esteemed photographer has spend more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/26/corinne-dufka-war-photographer-book
As the acclaimed American war photographer Corinne Dufka sorted through the pictures and negatives for her new book, This Is War: Photographs from a Decade of Conflict, covering more than a decade on frontlines from El Salvador to Bosnia and Liberia, she once again looked into the faces she had perhaps only registered briefly years ago.
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Anna Reich’s series This Land: Landscape, Memory, and Identity on the Plains. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has a small but spirited art community. Anna Reich is one of the few fine art photographers in the area. I first met her
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/anna-reich-this-land/
My artistic practice is based on the belief that the process of creating a visual record is as valuable as the existence of one. I use the camera as a tool to translate experience and meaning, often being both celebratory and critical of photography. Much of my work from the last ten years has been socially engaged; first, investigating issues relating to cultural trauma and post-traumatic stress and second, questioning the use of land and development of unsustainable communities in the western half of the United States.
The jarring juxtapositions of Jamie Lee Taete’s collection showcase the sometimes fine line between gimmickry and genuine belief.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-playful-and-provocative-images-of-christian-tourism
It was a billboard in Branson for “Noah” that caught the British photographer Jamie Lee Taete’s eye, with the patriarch’s name floating beside his gopher-wood vessel, both framing some relevant, if irreverent, information: “back for one season only!”
Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world. From lush forests to arid deserts, the Chilean photographer seamlessly combines disparate views and moments in time into elegant, minimalist compositions. Brightly hued and rich in imagination, Grandi’s
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/benjamin-briones-grandi-memories/
Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world
Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/ice-box-model-nyc.html
Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses.
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Mark Kitsawaeng and I discuss Forgotten Space. Phanuphan (Mark) Kitsawaeng is a photographer from Thailand, currently living in Los Angeles. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Film from RSU (Rangsit University in Thailand). With a strong
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/mark-kitsawaeng-forgotten-space/
Forgotten Space is a set of photographs of children who were photographed around their homes: including the living rooms, playgrounds, and backyards. In showing the environment that is around them, the viewer sees that which the children have seen is ordinary, but of course, is not at all
The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of the Sygma news agency is uncertain. Where is it, and who owns it today?
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/where-have-the-archives-of-sygma-photographers-gone/
The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of one of the biggest photo news agencies in the world is uncertain. Who owns it today? The judicial administrator? Getty Images France? Locarchives? Visual China Group?
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Christine Back and I discuss PV Revisited. Christine Back is a New Jersey-based photographer and educator who grew up at the Jersey Shore. The seasonal nature of her home town instilled in her a keen interest in
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/christine-back-pv-revisited/
I also shared the growing series of alumni diptychs and many wished they could have gone to high school before cell phones, laptops, and social media. They settled for posing in front of my moldy, taped up Hasselblad. After the valued, yet frustrating experience of being beholden to source images, I found the freedom of shooting without those constraints immensely refreshing. I had to laugh though when most of them said they’d be back in ten years for me to shoot them again. I don’t know if I’ll be around that long, but I’ll try to hang in there until they get out of college or the army.
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Virginia Villacisla and I discuss Presencio & The Rural Kids. Virginia Villacisla was born in Burgos, a medium-sized town in northern Spain. After finishing university, she moved to Madrid to focus on contemporary photography. In 2017, she
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/virginia-villacisla-presencio-the-rural-kids/
Virginia’s personal experiences and the contrast between her rural upbringing and city life inspired her project, ‘Presencio & The Rural Kids.’ This project captures how young people interact with the rural areas they inherit from their parents. Virginia’s work has won awards in photography competitions and been featured in photography festivals and exhibitions across Spain. It has also been published in magazines like EXIT and newspapers like El País Semanal.
Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mateusz-kowalik-devil-s-rib
Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity.
Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North . • BA: Congrats on P.Nort…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2023/09/q-with-kathryn-mccool.html
Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North.
The NYPD also admitted the photographers had the First Amendment right to record police activity in public.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/09/05/photojournalists-and-nppa-achieve-historic-settlement-with-the-nypd/
The NYPD now must implement policies and trainings to avoid the wrongful arrests and harassment of members of the press. NYPD officers are prohibited from arresting, restricting, or interfering with members of the press of merely observing or recording police activity in public places. The NYPD must provide journalists with access “to any location where the public is permitted” and cannot put up tape or establish “frozen zones” for the purpose of preventing the press from viewing or recording events in public spaces.
Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, Sam Youkilis finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of “la dolce vita.”
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/la-dolce-vita-according-to-sam-youkilis/
Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, the photographer finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of Italy.
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/app-three-years-later/
The Polish photographers decided that their separate work needed to come together and live in a shared space: the Archive of Public Protests (APP). In addition, the work would be shared not only online but also in physical form, as a mass-produced newsprint publication that was going to be handed out at demonstrations: the Strike newspaper was born.
Canon is developing technology to ensure authentic images.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/31/canon-and-reuters-develop-new-photo-authentication-technology/
Utilizing the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, Reuters, Canon, and Starling Lab suggest that the pilot program can “ease concerns about content’s legitimacy.”
Utilizing the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, Reuters, Canon, and Starling Lab suggest that the pilot program can “ease concerns about content’s legitimacy.”
I was thrilled to see Liz Albert’s name on my line-up for the New England Portfolio Reviews as we had previously shared her project, Family Fictions and I am a fan of her work. She shared a new collaborative project with me, Instant Classic, created with a childhood friend and digital media artist Shane Vanoosterhout.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/liz-albert/
In my latest project, Instant Classic, my collaborator, Shane VanOosterhout, and I have been sleuthing and acquiring anonymous Polaroids circa 1960-2000. Discarded photo albums, shoeboxes packed with forgotten snapshots; images lost beneath decades of clutter. Years ago, our subjects showed up for a Christmas party, a romantic encounter, 10th-grade geometry. Responding to cues from what we perceive in these Polaroids, we add poignant and humorous phrases from our personal journals and recent conversations – inner thoughts we imagine the individuals and their observers may be thinking and feeling.
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