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    When War Reporters Document Peace The VII Foundation presents a new book by photographer Gary Knight. Imagine: Reflections on Peace (also published in French as Imagine: Penser la paix), created in collaboration with several photo reporters and journalists, is a collection of 200 images accompanied by reflections on the imperfect construction of peace.

  • LeBron James Slams Photog with $1M Countersuit in Copyright Fight

    LeBron James Slams Photog with $1M Countersuit in Copyright Fight

    LeBron James Slams Photog with $1M Countersuit in Copyright Fight In December 2019, Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar LeBron James posted a photo by courtside photographer Steve Mitchell to his Instagram and via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/12/26/lebron-james-slaps-photographer-with-1m-countersuit-in-copyright-fight/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 In December 2019, Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar LeBron James posted a photo by courtside photographer Steve Mitchell to his…

  • 2020 winners | Yunghi Grant

    2020 winners Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving The 2020 Yunghi Grant! * Andrew Cullen  Rory Doyle Goncalo Fonseca  Alisha Jucevic Stephanie Keith * Five photojournalists selected t… via Yunghi Grant: https://yunghikim.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/2020-winners/ Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving The 2020 Yunghi Grant! * Andrew Cullen  Rory Doyle Goncalo Fonseca  Alisha Jucevic Stephanie Keith

  • Arquitectura Libre – Photographs by Adam Wiseman | Essay by Erin Lee | LensCulture

    Arquitectura Libre – Photographs by Adam Wiseman | Essay by Erin Lee | LensCulture

    Arquitectura Libre – Photographs by Adam Wiseman | Essay by Erin Lee | LensCulture Photographer Adam Wiseman explores the fanciful freestyle structures that are built throughout rural Mexico without regard for building codes or classical ideas of beauty in architecture via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/adam-wiseman-arquitectura-libre Photographer Adam Wiseman explores the fanciful freestyle structures that are built throughout…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Village People: Jindřich Štreit’s Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Village People: Jindřich Štreit’s Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside Jindřich Štreit has long been one of the most important figures in Czech photography. Though he has made many visually powerful series with photo… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/village-people-jindrich-streit-s-photographs-of-the-czechoslovak-countryside/ Jindřich Štreit has long been one of the most important figures in Czech photography. Though he has made many…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Steven Sweatpants: Back to Basics and the Year of the Protest Photo

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Steven Sweatpants: Back to Basics and the Year of the Protest Photo “This is the first night that the city had established a curfew. I remember my mom telling me to watch my back when I went out that night. I didn’t kn… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/steven-sweatpants-back-to-basics-and-the-year-of-the-protest-photo/ “This is the first night that the…

  • Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 – The New York Times

    Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 – The New York Times

    Number of Journalists Killed for Their Reporting Doubled in 2020 At least 30 journalists were killed this year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 slain as a direct result of their work. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/world/americas/mexico-journalists-killings-double.html At least 30 journalists were killed this year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 slain…

  • Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture “The skyscrapers are vertical signatures that penetrate the evening sky all glass and reflective. Water pools on their surface creating an impermeable glare as one winces into the crow’s nest of their rapacious skyward capacity” I think of the via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2020/12/marten-langes-ghost-witness-a-spectral-and-transitional-architecture.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marten-langes-ghost-witness-a-spectral-and-transitional-architecture I feel…

  • One Photo 2020: The Power Of A Moment – PhotoShelter Blog

    One Photo 2020: The Power Of A Moment – PhotoShelter Blog

    One Photo 2020: The Power Of A Moment – PhotoShelter Blog This year has brought new challenges, new adventures (even if they were spent at home), new things to be grateful for and a new outlook on the year ahead. In 2020, we’ve also seen incredible examples of unity and togetherness, despite so many of…

  • Magnum’s moment of reckoning – Columbia Journalism Review

    Magnum’s moment of reckoning In the nearly three years since the #MeToo movement transformed journalism, Magnum Photos, the world’s most prestigious photo agency, has portrayed itself as an industry leader. Magnum issued a code of conduct for its members in 2018, and its CEO boast via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/magnum-photos-david-alan-harvey.php But even as Magnum touted…

  • A Christmas Portrait – The Leica camera Blog

    https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/12/21/marksteen-adamson-a-christmas-portrait/ In an attempt to pay tribute to each of his family member’s individuality, the British photographer created a somewhat different Christmas Portrait.

  • New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis | The New Yorker

    New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis | The New Yorker

    New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis Photographers for the magazine in 2020 located surprising forms of artistry within the pandemic’s constraints. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/new-yorker-photography-in-a-year-of-crisis Among the many extraordinary challenges posed by 2020 were a few that were peculiar to photographers. When the pandemic hit, journalists who write for a living could…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Eli Durst’s “The Community”

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Eli Durst’s “The Community” What began as an initial desire by Eli Durst to photograph the insides of church basements quickly expanded into a much broader series examining the f… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/eli-durst-s-the-community/ What began as an initial desire by Eli Durst to photograph the insides of church basements quickly expanded into a…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Woman Go No´Gree: Colonialism and White Feminism in West Africa

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Woman Go No´Gree: Colonialism and White Feminism in West Africa With her project Woman Go No´Gree Gloria Oyarzabal asks, “Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological se… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/woman-go-no-gree-colonialism-and-white-feminism-in-west-africa/ With her project Woman Go No´Gree Gloria Oyarzabal asks, “Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual…

  • Podcast: NYT’s The Year in Pictures 2020 – PhotoShelter Blog

    Podcast: NYT’s The Year in Pictures 2020 – PhotoShelter Blog

    Podcast: NYT’s The Year in Pictures 2020 – PhotoShelter Blog The New York Times recently published their annual Year in Pictures, and Sarah and Allen discuss their favorite photos, the role of editing in making sense of the world, and what they missed. We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/12/podcast-nyts-the-year-in-pictures-2020/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29…

  • Holiday Gift Guide: Recommendations from Jim Richardson, Lindsay Adler and More – PhotoShelter Blog

    Holiday Gift Guide: Recommendations from Jim Richardson, Lindsay Adler and More – PhotoShelter Blog

    Holiday Gift Guide: Recommendations from Jim Richardson, Lindsay Adler and More – PhotoShelter Blog On a mission to get the perfect holiday gift for the photographer in your life? We know the world of photography gear and accessories can be a little overwhelming. So why not ask the experts? No one knows more about photography…

  • These Photos Are Painful, But We All Need to See Them – Feature Shoot

    These Photos Are Painful, But We All Need to See Them – Feature Shoot

    These Photos Are Painful, But We All Need to See Them – Feature Shoot Last summer, the photojournalist and animal rights activist Konrad Lozinski went undercover to document life inside an integrated pig fattening barn in Poland. “This photo was taken during the daytime,… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/12/these-photos-are-painful-but-we-all-need-to-see-them/ Last summer, the photojournalist and animal rights…

  • Congo in Conversation chronicles important stories from the country’s rising reportage photographers

    Congo in Conversation chronicles important stories from the country’s rising reportage photographers

    Congo in Conversation chronicles important stories from the country’s rising reportage photographers The recently published monogram features 35 reportages and 15 photographers’ work over a climactic six months as the pandemic hit the Democratic Republic of Congo. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/congo-in-conversation-photography-publication-161220?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 The recently published monogram features 35 reportages and 15 photographers’ work over a climactic six months…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Radio Juxtapoz, ep 061: Steven Sweatpants is Taking the Photos of a Generation

    Juxtapoz Magazine – Radio Juxtapoz, ep 061: Steven Sweatpants is Taking the Photos of a Generation It’s apt that in a year of so much turmoil, angst and chaotic worry that we end 2020 on a street corner in the Bronx, NYC. The year took an interestin… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/radio-juxtapoz-ep-061-steven-sweatpants-is-taking-the-photos-of-a-generation/ It’s apt that in a year…

  • The rebel photographer who battled the Stasi

    The rebel photographer who battled the Stasi

    The rebel photographer who battled the Stasi During the ’70s and ’80s, Harald Hauswald shot from the hip, secretly documenting life behind the Berlin Wall. This is his story. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/harald-hauswald-east-german-photographer-untold-story/ During the ’70s and ’80s, Harald Hauswald shot from the hip, secretly documenting life behind the Berlin Wall – and making powerful…