A true legend.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/08/james-nachtwey-on-a-photos-social-value-and-forgoing-a-family-for-his-work/Legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has appeared on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper to reflect on his career — discussing the importance of photography and his own personal sacrifices.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
