Author: Trent

  • Muma Paduri – The Leica camera Blog

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    Link: In eastern Serbia, belief in a world of magic is still very much alive. Equipped with his M Typ 240, Joan Alvado set off in search of traces of Muma Paduri – the Mother of the Woods.

  • Nat Geo’s Editor-in-Chief Answers Her 7 Most-Asked Photography Questions

    Nat Geo’s Editor-in-Chief Answers Her 7 Most-Asked Photography Questions

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    Nat Geo’s Editor-in-Chief Answers Her 7 Most-Asked Photography Questions Susan Goldberg has been editor in chief at National Geographic for seven years. In the history of Nat Geo, which started in 1888, she is the 10th editor via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/02/04/nat-geos-editor-in-chief-answers-her-7-most-asked-photography-questions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Today, when everyone has a camera with them 24/7 (their phones), anyone can get lucky…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Devil’s Promenade: Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley’s Portrait of the Ozarks

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Devil’s Promenade: Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley’s Portrait of the Ozarks Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendar… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/devil-s-promenade-antone-dolezal-and-lara-shipley-s-portrait-of-the-ozarks/ Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks…

  • Blind – Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian Story

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    Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian story For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1216/Antoine-Agoudjian-An-Armenian-Story For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire “I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax. “Most pass through the town on th… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/maria-lax-some-kind-of-heavenly-fire/ “I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax.…

  • Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

    Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture

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    Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/richard-andrew-sharum-campesino-cuba These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Edouard Taufenbach, Régis Campo, and the Movement of Swallows

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Edouard Taufenbach, Régis Campo, and the Movement of Swallows Twice a year, swallows cross the Sahara and the Mediterranean to reach sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Observing their migrating journey, photographer… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/edouard-taufenbach-regis-campo-and-the-movement-of-swallows/ This series is an experiment at the crossroads of artistic and scientific uses of photographic and musical mediums. Between formal…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – RIP, Ricky Powell, The Original Lazy Hustler and Legendary NYC Street Photographer

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – RIP, Ricky Powell, The Original Lazy Hustler and Legendary NYC Street Photographer One of the great legends of NYC street photography and culture, the “Lazy Hustler” himself, Ricky Powell, has died today at the age of 59. The iconic… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/rip-ricky-powell-the-original-lazy-hustler-and-legendary-nyc-street-photographer/ One of the great legends of NYC street photography and culture,…

  • Olivia Arthur – now can we talk about Magnum Photos and child abuse? — duckrabbit

    Olivia Arthur – now can we talk about Magnum Photos and child abuse? — duckrabbit

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    Olivia Arthur – now can we talk about Magnum Photos and child abuse? — duckrabbit Investigation into the promotion and sale of child abuse images sold on Magnum Photos website. via duckrabbit: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/2021/01/olivia-arthur-now-can-we-talk-about-magnum-photos-and-child-abuse/ I found the following photos after searching the word ‘rape’ on the Magnum archive.

  • Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves | The New Yorker

    Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves | The New Yorker

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    Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves His simple passion to document took him everywhere. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/corky-lees-photographs-helped-generations-of-asian-americans-see-themselves Corky Lee often described his life’s work as “photographing Asian Pacific Americans.” It was a simple passion that could take him anywhere. For nearly fifty years, New Yorkers never knew where they might…

  • Blind – Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind

    Blind – Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind

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    Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind — Blind Magazine Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015. His book Crimson Line is a meditation in scarlet on industrial pollution, creat via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1210/Trent-Parke-The-Crimson-Wind Australian photographer…

  • Tennessee Bill to Make ‘Offensive’ Nonconsensual Photos Illegal

    Tennessee Bill to Make ‘Offensive’ Nonconsensual Photos Illegal

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    Tennessee Bill to Make ‘Offensive’ Nonconsensual Photos Illegal Tennessee state lawmakers working together with the Sullivan County District Attorney’s Office have introduced a bill to the state legislature that seeks via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/29/tennessee-bill-to-make-offensive-nonconsensual-photos-illegal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 This new law would target those who are taking “embarrassing” or “offensive” images of people in public but would apparently not target…

  • Blind – The Egyptian Revolution, Ten Tears Later

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    The Egyptian Revolution, Ten Tears Later Ten years after the Revolution, she is coming out with a new version of her book In The Shadow of the Pyramids, which at the time portrayed the emotional chaos the photographer felt when, in 2005, she left the U.S. to return to Egypt, where she experienced the political…

  • Blind – Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America

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    Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America “I was born a communist,” says photographer Larry Fink, who turns 80 in March. The self-described “Marxist from Long Island” who first rose to critical acclaim with Social Graces, a series of work that contrasted life in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, when the artist has lived since the…

  • Fujifilm Unveils the Medium Format GFX100S: 102MP, 5-Axis IBIS, $6,000

    Fujifilm Unveils the Medium Format GFX100S: 102MP, 5-Axis IBIS, $6,000

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    Fujifilm Unveils the Medium Format GFX100S: 102MP, 5-Axis IBIS, $6,000 Fujifilm has announced the GFX100S, a camera that takes the “groundbreaking ideas” of the GFX100 and rethinks them with a focus on portability. The result via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/27/fujifilm-unveils-the-medium-format-gfx100s-102mp-5-axis-ibis-6000/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Fujifilm has announced the GFX100S, a camera that takes the “groundbreaking ideas” of the GFX100 and rethinks…

  • A Small Voice Podcast – 143 – Tom Stoddart

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    https://bensmithphoto.com/asmallvoice/tom-stoddart Tom Stoddart is an award-winning British photojournalist whose work has appeared in many of the most pretigious international magazines and newspapers. He is widely regarded by editors and his peers as one of the world’s most experienced and respected photographers. His international frontline assignments have included almost every major conflict and natural disaster over…

  • A Small Voice Podcast – 142 – Michael Christopher Brown

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    https://bensmithphoto.com/asmallvoice/michael-christopher-brown American photographer Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington. After moving to New York City in 2005, he joined the Italian photo agency Grazia Neri in 2006. He then moved to Beijing, China, in 2009 and over the next two years put together a series of works…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994 In a year when millions of Americans poured into the streets demanding changes in police strategy, training and deployment, the Bronx Documentary Cent… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/joseph-rodriguez-lapd-1994/ On February 5th, the exhibition will be available to view online at lapd1994bdc.org.

  • Sony Unveils the Alpha 1: 50MP at up to 30FPS, 8K Video, $6,500

    Sony Unveils the Alpha 1: 50MP at up to 30FPS, 8K Video, $6,500

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    Sony Unveils the Alpha 1: 50MP at up to 30FPS, 8K Video, $6,500 Sony has announced the Alpha 1 mirrorless camera, a camera that combines all of Sony’s top technologies into one body, creating a 50-megapixel camera that via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/26/sony-unveils-the-alpha-1-50mp-at-up-to-30fps-8k-video-6500/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 It can shoot up to 30 frames per second – the fastest shooting speed…

  • A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career

    A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career

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    A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career The late photographer, who left behind more than two million images, spent her life in search of the elusive iconic frame. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/mary-ellen-mark-the-book-of-everything/ “Mary Ellen would never have made this book,” Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator of more than thirty…