Images as a way to connect with people: photographer Jacob Aue Sobol’s pictures have captured numerous encounters. Arrivals and Departures America is a journey through all of the 50 United States. However, the series is primarily an encounter between the people there and Sobol himself.
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Arrivals and Departures America – The Leica camera Blog
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Chronolocation: Determining When a Photo was Taken Using Facebook, Google Street View and Assorted Tiny Details – bellingcat
Chronolocation: Determining When a Photo was Taken Using Facebook, Google Street View and Assorted Tiny Details – bellingcat
Social media posts, mapping tools and a being aware of small but important details can help researchers determine when an undated image was taken.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/05/08/chronolocation-determining-when-a-photo-was-taken-using-facebook-google-street-view-and-assorted-tiny-details/Essentially, any aspect of a source image could be of use, provided that it has changed over time. Sometimes clues will be so obvious that it’s possible to immediately figure out the rough date of the source image from one detail alone.
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Remembering Bruce McCall, Satirist and Compleat Canadian | The New Yorker
Remembering Bruce McCall, Satirist and Compleat Canadian
For McCall, the business of getting it down right was a form of self-salvation.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/remembering-bruce-mccall-satirist-and-compleat-canadianNot having Bruce here to shock and appall (and, secretly, to delight) with such praise is part of the grief of losing him. All we can do is continue to look at his utterly inimitable visions—at the lonely polar explorers sharing an abandoned Antarctic opera house with a pair of disconsolate penguins—and be grateful that he came south to astonish us
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Bruce McCall’s “Safe Travels” | The New Yorker
Bruce McCall’s “Safe Travels”
McCall’s friends and colleagues reflect on the late artist’s zeal for life.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-05-15Bruce McCall, the artist behind the cover for the May 15, 2023, issue, died on May 5th, at the age of eighty-seven. McCall, who insisted upon chewing his beloved Groucho Marx cigars long after a taste for tobacco stopped being even remotely acceptable, was a dear friend and a poet at heart
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EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset | PetaPixel
EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset
Midjourney might have to reveal exactly what photos it used to train its model.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/01/eu-law-to-force-ai-imagers-to-disclose-copyrighted-photos-in-dataset/According to a report from the Reuters news agency, companies such as Midjourney will have to reveal the material used to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. It will be the same for generative language models like ChatGPT.
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A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows | PetaPixel
A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows
The glamor of WWE it is not.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/03/photographers-brutal-images-from-small-pro-wrestling-shows/Photographer Michael Watson has spent the last decade traveling to small, independent wrestling shows capturing the brave men and women who put their bodies on the line night after night.
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Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless | The New Yorker
Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless
The mysterious photographs in the book “Case Closed” are more interested in the conditions under which human beings exist than in the lives they live.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/thomas-wagstroms-pictures-of-the-living-and-the-lifelessOne of Thomas Wågström’s pictures has been hanging on the wall above my desk for many years. The picture shows a black surface of water, the patterns and whorls in it, the ceaseless motion that here is fixed in a final pattern, like a sort of rug, in this case a rug woven out of light and shadow. But the picture holds more than that, for at its lower left edge one glimpses the face of an animal: the slit of an eye, a muzzle, a bit of fur. It appears to be a seal, and it is on its way up through the blackness, and in the very next instant, one might imagine, it will pierce through the water. But it hasn’t done so yet; the slit of the eye and the muzzle hover just below the surface and seem almost a part of it.
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How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine
How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine
In this Op-ed, independent photography director Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/how-ai-imagery-is-shaking-photojournalism/In this Op-ed, independent photography director and educator Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.
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Photojournalist’s Final Moments Revealed After His Missing Camera Resurfaces After 16 Years | PetaPixel
Photojournalist’s Final Moments Revealed After His Missing Camera Resurfaces After 16 Years
The photographer’s final moments were captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning image.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/26/photojournalists-final-moments-revealed-after-his-missing-camera-resurfaces-after-16-years/On September 27, 2007, veteran Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai was taking photos of anti-military protests in Yangon, Myanmar at the height of the Saffron Revolution — when he was fatally shot by soldiers who opened fire on demonstrators.
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The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement | The New Yorker
The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement
Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-photographer-of-the-black-is-beautiful-movementKwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.
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A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground | The New Yorker
A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground
Adam Zhu’s book “Nice Daze” depicts amorphous social configurations, fleeting experiments in style and thrill-seeking, and elevated forms of doing nothing.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-coming-of-age-in-new-york-citys-undergroundTwo varieties of nostalgia merge in Adam Zhu’s photo book “Nice Daze.” The imagery, shot between 2013 and 2020, beginning when the artist was just sixteen, forms something like a yearbook, though not one associated with any institution. An impressionistic chronicle of the recent past, it follows Zhu’s friends and his friends’ friends—a multigenerational group of skateboarders, graffiti writers, artists, musicians, and attendees of crowded parties—around New York’s East Village, Lower East Side, and Chinatown.
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The Global Winners of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest | PetaPixel
The Global Winners of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest
The 2023 World Press Photo Contest global winners showcase the power and importance of photojournalism.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/20/the-global-winners-of-the-2023-world-press-photo-contest/Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka’s startling and riveting photo Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike, shown above, has won the 2023 World Press Photo of the Year award.
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Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects on the manifold ways the climate emergency is affecting communities across the world—and how we can visualize these urgent stories of devastation
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/gideon-mendel-fire-floodA powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects on the manifold ways the climate emergency is affecting communities across the world—and how we can visualize these urgent stories of devastation.
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Announcing the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist
Announcing the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist
Here are the shortlisted artists and finalists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-2023-aperture-portfolio-prize-shortlist/Aperture’s support of emerging photographers and other lens-based artists is a vital part of our mission. The annual Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography—identifying contemporary trends in the field and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition.
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I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Using photography to come to terms with a concussion, Jacob Black’s images teeter between clarity and confusion to explore the dreamlike way he sees the world post-accident
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-black-i-can-t-wipe-sunrise-down-my-jumper-to-get-rid-of-fingerprintsUsing photography to come to terms with a concussion, Jacob Black’s images teeter between clarity and confusion to explore the dreamlike way he sees the world post-accident.
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Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH
Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH
The bodies of work that I will be sharing during Earth Week are linked by this thematic lens: making the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques. Each body of work speaks to a different aspect of the climate and ecological crisis: loss of place;
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/earth-week-becky-wilkes-ditched/“Ditched” explores the implications of our throwaway society through the examination of debris meticulously collected for one year during the drought of 2014 to 2015 from the shoreline of Eagle Mountain Lake, near Fort Worth, TX. Following in the footsteps of the archeologist, Augustus Rivers, who first insisted that all artifacts, not the just the beautiful or unique be collected and catalogued, I photographed every item found along one mile of newly exposed lakefront. These artifacts speak to me and I seek to understand their journeys and account for each of them.
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Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row | PetaPixel
Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row
‘I champion the underdog because I grew up as one’
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/04/photographers-powerful-portraits-of-las-notorious-skid-row/Suitcase Joe has invested time getting to know and photographing the often vulnerable people who live in tents that line the streets immediately east of downtown L.A.
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Leica M11 Monochrom: Black and White 60MP Photos up to ISO 200,000 | PetaPixel
Leica M11 Monochrom: Black and White 60MP Photos up to ISO 200,000
A new digital monochrome rangefinder.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/13/leica-m11-monochrom-black-and-white-60mp-photos-up-to-iso-200000/“The Leica M11 Monochrom is built on a tradition of excellence, from a legacy of exquisite craftsmanship, innovation, and iconic design to the ethos of the Leica M family: ‘Made in Germany’ with a focus on the essentials: Das Wesentliche,” Leica says.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2023 | boris eldagsen
I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the comeptitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not. We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter – or would this be a mistake? With my refusal of the award I hope to speed up this debate.