William Keo’s powerful images reveal how he perceives the outskirts of Paris: a place of contrasts.
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The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine
Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-photographer-searching-for-freedom-in-palestine/
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Instagram Beats Photographers’ Copyright Case Over Embedded Images
Instagram dodges again.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/19/instagram-beats-photographers-copyright-case-over-embedded-images/
in Copyright
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The Stunning Work of a Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Killed by the Taliban
His untimely death serves as a reminder of the dangers war zone photographers face.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/18/the-stunning-work-of-a-pulitzer-winning-photographer-killed-by-the-taliban/
in Books
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Behind the Byline: PD photojournalist Beth Schlanker on covering local stories of past decade
Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges. But a career in photojournalism wasn’t what she originally set out to do.
via Santa Rosa Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/press-democrat-photojournalist-beth-schlanker-on-the-devotion-to-community/
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French war photographer Marie-Laure de Decker dead at 75
Marie-Laure de Decker, the French model who stepped behind the camera to become an internationally recognised war photographer, has died at the age of 75, her family said Saturday.
via France 24: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230715-french-war-photographer-marie-laure-de-decker-dead-at-75-1
in Obituaries
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Isolationism in Photography: William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway – LENSCRATCH
What does it mean to be alone? To be isolated from the people and things we hold dearest? Since the pandemic, it seems like we all have an answer to this very question. Some people embraced the mandatory isolation while others struggled being forced to be
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/isolationism-in-photography-william-mark-sommer-the-loneliest-highway/
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Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation? – bellingcat
Chatbots such as BARD and BING try to mimic the techniques used by open source researchers — with very mixed results.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/07/14/can-ai-chatbots-be-used-for-geolocation/
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Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life
A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/agnes-vardas-storyboard-of-french-village-life
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Art and Aid, Postcard from Ukraine | Mark Neville
As a British artist living and working in Ukraine, Mark Neville shares an account of his experiences in a country that has now been under siege for more than 500 days. Known for his long-term, immersive documentary projects in various places, from Glasgow
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/art-and-aid-postcard-from-ukraine/
in War
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Freelance Photographers Sue Over Injuries Suffered in 2020 Police Riots
The photographers were working for The New York Times and Getty Images.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/10/freelance-photographers-sue-over-injuries-suffered-in-2020-police-riots/
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The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department
Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/business/media/the-new-york-times-sports-department.html
in Sports
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Ari Salomon: 6 Feet Apart – LENSCRATCH
This week we are featuring projects seen at the Medium Photo Portfolio Reviews. If a future anthropologist were to go back in time to 2020 and look for clues to a world wide pandemic, the masks and gloves and hand sanitizers would be deep into landfills,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/ari-solomon-6-feet-apart/
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The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian
For four decades, Clayton Patterson has been the neighborhood’s most dogged artist-archivist.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lower-east-sides-folk-historian
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Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines
The inveterate zine-maker speaks about his artistic practice, learning under Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and why “everything is worth photographing.”
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ari-marcopoulos-on-the-essential-art-of-zines/
in Books
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Marcia Bricker Halperin: Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria – LENSCRATCH
Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white phot
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/marcia-bricker-halperin-kibbitz-nosh/
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An extra special Fourth | Scene Through the Lens
Staff photographer Tom Gralish looks back at four decades at The Inquirer.
via https://www.inquirer.com: https://www.inquirer.com/photo/pulitzer-photojournalism-tom-gralish-photographer-newspaper-photographer-20230703.html
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Love and Loss Through the Photographer’s Lens
“Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy” at ICP reveals the camera’s limitations as well as strengths when it comes to depicting romance.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/arts/design/icp-photograpy-and-intimacy-exhibition.html
in Photography
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Photographers on Photographers: Barry Schwartz in Conversation with Jana Ašenbrennerová – LENSCRATCH
Jana Ašenbrennerová is a Czech photojournalist currently based in San Francisco. Her specialties include social documentary and environmental portraiture. She dedicates her time to international reporting, pursuing independent projects primarily in Africa
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/photographers-on-photographers-barry-schwartz-in-conversation-with-jana-asenbrennerova/