Author: Trent

  • An elderly couple in Spain kissed through plastic film because of COVID-19. An AP photographer just won a Pulitzer for photographing the moment. – Poynter

    An elderly couple in Spain kissed through plastic film because of COVID-19. An AP photographer just won a Pulitzer for photographing the moment. – Poynter

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    An elderly couple in Spain kissed through plastic film because of COVID-19. An AP photographer just won a Pulitzer for photographing the moment. – Poynter Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti won the 2021 prize in Feature Photography for his yearlong work in Spain photographing the elderly. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/an-elderly-couple-in-spain-kissed-through-plastic-film-because-of-covid-19-an-ap-photographer-just-won-a-pulitzer-for-photographing-the-moment/ Emilio Morenatti began photographing the elderly…

  • Focus on Vernacular: The Anonymous Project. – LENSCRATCH

    Focus on Vernacular: The Anonymous Project. – LENSCRATCH

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    Focus on Vernacular: The Anonymous Project – LENSCRATCH We recently talked with Lee Shulman, Film director, Founder and Curator of The Anonymous Project. He was kind enough to give Lenscratch an interview on the process of collecting photographs, building stories and entering so many people’s lives several dec via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/06/focus-on-vernacular-the-anonymous-project/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 We recently talked with…

  • Blind – Edward Grazda: A Diary of Afghanistan Before the United States Came to Call

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    Edward Grazda: A Diary of Afghanistan Before the United States Came to Call For more than 20 years, from the start of the Soviet-Afghan War through the rise of the Taliban and their control of the country, Edward Grazda photographed Afghanistan. The photographs he made show an Afghanistan going through great changes, and mirror w…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Ghanaian Photographer James Barnor’s “The Roadmaker”

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Ghanaian Photographer James Barnor’s “The Roadmaker” The Roadmaker is a new retrospective of work by photographer James Barnor drawing from across his career, demonstrating his modernism and inherent ski… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/ghanaian-photographer-james-barnor-s-the-roadmaker/ The Roadmaker is a new retrospective of work by photographer James Barnor drawing from across his career, demonstrating his modernism and…

  • Laissez-Faire – Photographs by Cristiano Volk | Interview by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

    Laissez-Faire – Photographs by Cristiano Volk | Interview by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

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    Laissez-Faire – Photographs by Cristiano Volk | Interview by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture In this feverish photographic hallucination, Cristiano Volk takes a critical look at capitalism, capturing the signs and symbols of our consumerist culture in electric shades of neon via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/cristiano-volk-laissez-faire In this feverish photographic hallucination, Cristiano Volk takes a critical look…

  • Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle – LENSCRATCH

    Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle – LENSCRATCH

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    Focus on Vernacular: Greg Sand: Chronicle – LENSCRATCH To begin this week of celebrating artists using vernacular or found photographs, we need to describe this ever expanding genre. We use the term vernacular to illustrate this week’s images because they employ the visual language of the everyday, photograph via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/06/greg-sand-chronicle/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Artist Greg Sand has…

  • Cai Dongdong – History of Life – burn magazine

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    Cai Dongdong – History of Life Cai Dongdong History of Life Captured through the eyes of ordinary Chinese citizens before, during, and after the cultural revolution and curated by one of China’s most talented visual artist… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2021/06/history-of-life-cai-dong-dong/ Captured through the eyes of ordinary Chinese citizens before, during, and after the cultural revolution and curated…

  • A harrowing and humanising portrait of America’s opioid crisis

    A harrowing and humanising portrait of America’s opioid crisis

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    A harrowing and humanising portrait of America’s opioid crisis As America enters its third wave of the opioid epidemic, a new exhibition brings together the work of four photographers to grapple with the ongoing questions surrounding the crisis.  via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/a-harrowing-humanising-portrait-of-the-us-opioid-crisis/ As America enters its third wave of the opioid epidemic, a new exhibition…

  • Remnants of an Exodus – Photographs by Al J Thompson | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

    Remnants of an Exodus – Photographs by Al J Thompson | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

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    Remnants of an Exodus – Photographs by Al J Thompson | Book review by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Returning to his childhood neighborhood of Spring Valley, Al J Thompson’s first book is a loving testimony to a shifting landscape and the faces of those living in it via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/al-j-thompson-remnants-of-an-exodus Returning to his childhood neighborhood…

  • Talking Business with the “F*ck Gatekeeping” Crew – PhotoShelter Blog

    Talking Business with the “F*ck Gatekeeping” Crew – PhotoShelter Blog

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    Talking Business with the “F*ck Gatekeeping” Crew – PhotoShelter Blog In April 2021, photographers Carmen Chan, Emiliano Granado, and Jared Soares launched Fuck Gatekeeping, a “professional photographic knowledge base” composed of a website and Instagram account to share their business experience with other photographers. A via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/06/talking-business-with-the-fuck-gtekeeping-crew/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 In April 2021, photographers Carmen Chan,…

  • Blind – Revisiting “Minamata,” W. Eugene Smith’s Final Photo Series

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    Revisiting “Minamata,” W. Eugene Smith’s Final Photo Series The new film Minamata starring Johnny Depp explores the final chapter of Smith’s career. Here, his widow Aileen Mioko Smith recounts their extraordinary work. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1352/Revisiting-Minamata-W-Eugene-Smiths-Final-Photo-Series The new film Minamata starring Johnny Depp explores the final chapter of Smith’s career. Here, his widow Aileen Mioko Smith recounts their extraordinary…

  • Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be

    Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be

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    Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/648474/stop-filming-us-congo-documentary-colonialism/ Sembène, meanwhile, offered an eviscerating criticism of both, famously accusing them of looking at Africans like insects. Sembène’s opening question to Rouch…

  • The Media Spectacle of Suffering Surrounding India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe

    The Media Spectacle of Suffering Surrounding India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe

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    The Media Spectacle of Suffering Surrounding India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe The most gruesome images of COVID-19’s wrath in the Western press have originated from the formerly colonized nation and stand in contrast with an imageless COVID-19 crisis in the United States. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/646133/the-media-spectacle-of-suffering-surrounding-indias-covid-19-catastrophe/ The most gruesome images of COVID-19’s wrath in the Western press have…

  • “Photographers are the ones who see everything” – Columbia Journalism Review

    “Photographers are the ones who see everything” – Columbia Journalism Review

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    “Photographers are the ones who see everything” Reuters photojournalist Adnan Abidi on shooting Delhi’s COVID-19 crisis via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/adnan-abidi-india-delhi-covid-19.php?a=home-hero&utm_source=cjr-org&utm_content=homehero Sometimes people say these photos are beautiful, but I just want to show people what’s happening. Right now you don’t want to show people how good you are, with composition or whatever. What matters…

  • Class Action Lawsuit Targets Instagram Photo Embedding | PetaPixel

    Class Action Lawsuit Targets Instagram Photo Embedding | PetaPixel

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    Class Action Lawsuit Targets Instagram Photo Embedding The lawsuit targets copyright infringement tied to Instagram embeds. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/05/26/class-action-lawsuit-targets-instagram-photo-embedding/ In a report from Reuters, the complaint alleges that Instagram’s embedding tool allowed publishers to display copyrighted images without obtaining permission from artists or paying a licensing fee. The class-action lawsuit could include “many thousands” of…

  • A dream of Europe: the photographer capturing the refugee crisis for over five years

    A dream of Europe: the photographer capturing the refugee crisis for over five years

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    A dream of Europe: the photographer capturing the refugee crisis for over five years Since Spring 2015, Jacob Ehrbahn has been documenting the worst refugee crisis in recent history. He is determined to make sure the issue, which is still devastating lives, does not fade from public attention. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-photographer-capturing-five-years-of-the-refugee-crisis/ Since Spring 2015,…

  • Deanna Dikeman: Leaving and Waving – LENSCRATCH

    Deanna Dikeman: Leaving and Waving – LENSCRATCH

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    Deanna Dikeman: Leaving and Waving – LENSCRATCH Some photo projects are organic, made for personal memory keeping or a desire to document familial events, large and small. I have been a long time friend and fan of Deanna Dikeman and have so enjoyed the decades long documentation of her family doing ord via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/05/deanna-dikeman-leaving-and-waving/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29…

  • Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China

    Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China

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    Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding people to testify about their experiences in rural villages over the past seven decades. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/648374/jia-zhangke-swimming-out-interview/ Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding…

  • These 11 Photographers Are Challenging the Mental Health Stigma – Feature Shoot

    These 11 Photographers Are Challenging the Mental Health Stigma – Feature Shoot

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    These 11 Photographers Are Challenging the Mental Health Stigma – Feature Shoot One in five US adults experiences mental illness each year. I happen to be one of them. At least 8.4 million Americans provide care to an adult with an emotional… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/05/these-11-photographers-are-challenging-the-mental-health-stigma/ These artists have explored mental health in different ways…

  • Scenes from Work as Photojournalists are Increasingly Caught Up in the Protest Field – Reading The Pictures

    Scenes from Work as Photojournalists are Increasingly Caught Up in the Protest Field – Reading The Pictures

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    Scenes from Work as Photojournalists are Increasingly Caught Up in the Protest Field – Reading The Pictures These photos of Columbian photographer Luis Robayo demonstrate how much photojournalists can be absorbed by the protests they cover. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2021/05/photojournalists-moving-targets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28Reading+The+Pictures%29 That’s how AFP photographer Luis Robayo captions two Instagram posts featuring recent images of himself…