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Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH

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

Portfolios & Galleries

Benjamin Briones Grandi
Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around

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.

Art & Design

Danny Cortes
Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH

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

Portfolios & Galleries

Mark Kitsawaeng
Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone? – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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?

Photojournalism
Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH

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.

Portfolios & Galleries

Christine Back
Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH

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.

Portfolios & Galleries

Virginia Villacisla
Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture

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.

Portfolios & Galleries

Mateusz Kowalik
Q & A with Kathryn McCool

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.

Interviews

Kathryn McCool
Photojournalists and NPPA Achieve Historic Settlement with the NYPD

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.

Access & Censorship
A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy

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.

Portfolios & Galleries

Sam Youkilis
APP: Three Years Later

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.

Photojournalism
Canon and Reuters Develop New Photo Authentication Technology

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.”

Software & Technology
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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.”

Contests
Liz Albert and Shane VanOosterhout: Instant Classic – LENSCRATCH

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.

Portfolios & Galleries

Liz Albert, Shane VanOosterhout
Evelyn Hofer’s Tender Gaze

A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/evelyn-hofers-tender-gaze/

A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.

Portfolios & Galleries

Evelyn Hofer
Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages

The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at MOMA, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian capital as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/lagos-glimpsed-from-seven-vantages

The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at moma, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian capital as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.

Photography
The Problem with Helmut Newton

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-problem-with-helmut-newton/

You could argue that what I described in the preceding paragraph is bad enough for it to disqualify the man’s photography. I would certainly agree. But Newton’s photography actually is a lot worse for additional reasons that I’m hoping to make clear in the following.

Ethics

Helmut Newton
Unearthing the History of Anaheim

William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/unearthing-the-history-of-anaheim

William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.

Portfolios & Galleries

William Camargo
Patrick Hamilton, ex-AP and Reuters photographer who covered Central American wars, dies at 74

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.

via AP News: https://apnews.com/article/patrick-hamilton-central-america-war-photographer-132a92e416fde93ec8b809bb1910f653

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer

Obituaries

Patrick Hamilton
In the Footsteps of Her Grandfather, An Artist Digs for Fossils

Following in her grandfather’s footsteps, the photographer Sarah Wilson digs for fossils in the West Texas desert.

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/08/in-the-footsteps-of-her-grandfather-an-artist-digs-for-fossils/

The photographer Sarah Wilson’s grandfather, Dr. John A. Wilson, was a paleontologist whose work took him to some of the most remote and rugged landscapes of the West Texas desert. About a year before he died, he gifted her with three boxes, filled with the Kodachrome slides he’d made during digs throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, and used during his time as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Portfolios & Galleries

Sarah Wilson