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/
The glamor of WWE it is not.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/03/photographers-brutal-images-from-small-pro-wrestling-shows/
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-lifeless
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/
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/
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-movement
The Ocho Puntas in Barcelona can be seen as an outdoor altar. Spanish photographer David Salcedo chose this meeting place for his artistic series with the Leica Q2.
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-underground
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/
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-flood
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/
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-fingerprints
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 spe
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/earth-week-becky-wilkes-ditched/
‘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/
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/
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.
Over fourteen issues between 1968 and 1971, the downtown broadsheet “Newspaper” recruited a stunning list of contributors to chronicle the times in pictures.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-little-paper-with-an-outsized-visual-impact
The Hand in Nature: a week of photographs that manipulates how we see and foresee our environment. Photographs help us process what is happening in the world, and this week we’ll be following photographers whose work inspects humans’ impact on the earth.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/margaret-lejeune-thirteen-hours-to-fall/
Ekow Eshun, Tanisha C. Ford, Tyler Mitchell, and Antwaun Sargent on the visionary photographer whose images and activism helped popularize the slogan “Black Is Beautiful.”
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-kwame-brathwaite/
Five photographers reveal a complex and ambivalent portrait of a mysterious place in this collection of photography from Appalachia.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/04/photography-from-appalachia-5-projects-explore-a-complex-place/