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/
Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation.
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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 2021, photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer filed a class action lawsuit against Instagram in federal court.
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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/
Siddiqui’s photos have now been collated into a new book that showcases the photos he captured in his native country of India and beyond.
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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/
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.|
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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
On the other hand, she added: “There is an advantage to being a woman, as was the case in South Africa — they don’t kill you right away, they give you a chance.”
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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/
Artist William Mark Sommer explores what it meant to be truly alone in his project, The Loneliest Highway. Taking a road trip along the Lincoln Highway in Nevada, Sommers documented spaces that felt barren and empty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in an effort to capture this new way of living — closed off and separated from one another
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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/
Given that geolocations can be time-consuming, researchers are always on the lookout for tools which can ease or automate parts of the process. That’s where new AI tools come in – particularly chatbots, with their impressive ability to find and process information.
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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
A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.
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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/
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 to Helmand Province, Neville reflects on reconciling the urge to document what is happening in his adopted home with the waves of grief, fear and horror felt as the war has unfolded in real time.
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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/
Schukar’s and Olson’s case is one of a long list of incidents where photographers were injured or mistreated during various protests in 2020.
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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
“We plan to focus even more directly on distinctive, high-impact news and enterprise journalism about how sports intersect with money, power, culture, politics and society at large,” the editors wrote in an email to The Times’s newsroom on Monday morning. “At the same time, we will scale back the newsroom’s coverage of games, players, teams and leagues.”
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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/
Artist Ari Salomon has created a project of unique typologies that reflect the symbols created to assist us in staying covid-free. As the world returns to some new form of normalcy, these remnants become part of our histories, paint and tape etched into sidewalks and floors. In viewing a collection of this new language, Solomon moves these humble gestures into a new artform of street art. The work is expanded by a zine and unique installations.
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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
Patterson’s photographs served as plainspoken time capsules of the community. In a 2008 documentary called “Captured,” which chronicles his life on the Lower East Side, he says, “Looking out on the street is like being in an aquarium, and when I look out on the street I see this activity all day long.”
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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/
All through the weekend, as I passed by, there were different people, different characters. I photographed them whenever I saw someone different. When I got the film back, I looked at the faces, and there were fourteen different people. So, I put together a zine. I printed something like twenty copies, and slipped fourteen of them into the mailbox for Gary. When I went to the barbershop next to get my hair cut—this is pre-pandemic—they said, “Gary brought in the book that you made for him.” He had brought it in to show to them. Now all the guys, when I see them, they’re like, Oh, you made that book for us! That exchange is part of my practice.
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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/
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 photographs transport us there with the same wonder she felt when she first entered Dubrow’s on a cold morning in 1975
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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
This year the holiday is extra special for me as it also marks my 40th anniversary at The Inquirer.
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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
“Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy” at ICP reveals the camera’s limitations as well as strengths when it comes to depicting romance.
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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/
Connecting with all kinds of people is the biggest gift I get from my work. If I ever have to choose only one thing I can photograph for the rest of my life there would be no doubt what I would choose. There is nothing I’m drawn to more than people.