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  • Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH

    Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched - LENSCRATCH

    Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH

    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.

  • Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime | The New Yorker

    Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime

    Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime

    For as long as the celebrated photojournalist has been doing his best work, he has been grappling with the threat of blindness.

    via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/paolo-pellegrins-photographic-quest-for-the-sublime

    “To find silence, you need silence,” Pellegrin had observed, and as we drove in darkness no one spoke. An hour later, Anthony parked in the sand. Pellegrin handed me a flash and a tripod, and we set off on foot into the dunes. Here there was no sky; a thick fog obscured it. Individual particles cascaded in front of us, refracting light from the headlamps—tiny droplets, seen but not quite felt. Nearby was a brown hyena, sensed but not yet seen.

  • Artist Barbara Iweins on spending two years photographing all 10,532 objects in her house

    https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/barbara-iweins-katalog-photography-220620?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29
    The photographer undertook this mammoth task in an attempt assess the value she places on objects.

  • The 2020 All About Photo Awards | LENSCRATCH

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    Today we share the winners of the prestigious photo competition, All About Photo Awards 2020, The Mind’s Eye, organized by All About Photo.

  • 40 YEARS OF LOBA: Narelle Autio – The Leica camera Blog

    40 YEARS OF LOBA: Narelle Autio
    Saturated colours, intense light, happy people, blue seas, clouds: the Australian photographer won the 2002 LOBA for her lively picture series dedicated to beach life. Her complex compositions represent a great homage to the beauty of the Australian coastal landscape and convinced the jury, with their content and form, that the series best captured the competition’s theme of humanity’s relationship with the environment.

  • B: Q & A with Alice Christine Walker

    http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2020/03/q-with-alice-christine-walker.html
    Haha! Yes, that’s true. I approach the photobooth from the unique position of being the darkroom photographer and the subject. Well, mechanic/photographer…

  • Talking Pictures #7 Kenneth Jarecke talks with Karen Mullarkey, the legendary picture editor. – YouTube

    Kenneth Jarecke talks with legendary picture editor Karen Mullarkey about her time at Life Magazine, Rolling Stone and Newsweek (among others) and working with photographers such as Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz and Arthur Grace (among others).

  • Project XV: New Perspectives on Photography | LENSCRATCH

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    Project XV: New Perspectives on Photography | LENSCRATCH

    Each year, I teach a year long Personal Project class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography where photographers continue with or create new bodies of work, produce artist’s books or catalogs, hone their articulation and consider their influences. To say that I’m proud of these artists is an understatement–I’m amazed by their dedication to their craft and their journey as photographic artists. It has been a complete pleasure to spend 2019 with them.

  • The Decade in Pictures – The New York Times

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  • Trump’s Napalm Girl: Consequences of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter – Reading The Pictures

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    Trump’s Napalm Girl: Consequences of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter – Reading The Pictures

    We cannot know in this moment, but I suspect that this photo of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria, will stand the test of time. Given the firestorm over immigrant detention and the moral freefall of this administration, I believe Americans will look back at this photo as a tipping point of the Trump presidency. I see the photo as a marker and container for the abrogation of the country’s values in this faux immigration crisis, much like the 1972 Napalm Girl photo memorialized US disillusionment and exhaustion over Vietnam, and hastened America’s final exit from the war.

  • A Photographer’s Loving Ode to Small-Town Texas | The New Yorker

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    A Photographer’s Loving Ode to Small-Town Texas | The New Yorker

    The five decades that Keith Carter has spent documenting small-town Texas more than make up for the fact that he was born in Wisconsin. His family moved to the town of Beaumont when he was just a few years old, in the early nineteen-fifties, and his single mother took up commercial portrait photography to support them. Mesmerized by the red-tinted darkroom printing he witnessed in their kitchens growing up, he turned to photography after graduating from Lamar University with a business degree. He has since built a prolific career making art of and for the place he’s from. “My home town,” Carter has said, “is the backdrop for a rich East Texas storytelling culture, an occasional mystifying spirituality, and abundant folklore,” qualities that manifest themselves in the rich, allegorical images he produces.

  • You can now watch the entire “Everybody Street” documentary film for free on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video – Leica Rumors

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    You can now watch the entire “Everybody Street” documentary film for free on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video – Leica Rumors

    The full length “Everybody Street” documentary film is now available on YouTube (with ads). You can also stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video (or purchase the DVD from Amazon):

  • CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning – Columbia Journalism Review

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    CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning – Columbia Journalism Review

    In interviews with more than 50 people, in a CJR investigation spanning more than five months, photojournalists described behavior from editors and colleagues that ranged from assault to unwanted advances to comments on their appearance or bodies when they were trying to work. And now, as the #MeToo moment has prompted change across a range of industries—from Hollywood to broadcasting to the arts—photojournalists are calling for their own moment of reckoning.

  • The Surrealist Photos of Ralph Gibson – The New York Times

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    The Surrealist Photos of Ralph Gibson – The New York Times

    “I wanted to make photographs you could look at for a long period of time, photographs that were not ephemera, photographs that were made to last and could support a great depth of content,” he said. “That’s the opposite of working for the media.”

  • The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them | Media | The Guardian

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    The best photographs of 2017 – by the people who shot them | Media | The Guardian

    From Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, to the disaster at Grenfell Tower and a seahorse clinging to a cotton bud: photographers describe how they took some of the defining images of 2017. Selection by Sarah Gilbert

  • David Hillard: Regarding Others | LENSCRATCH

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    David Hillard: Regarding Others | LENSCRATCH

    Photographer David Hilliard has a new exhibition, David Hilliard: Regarding Others at the Schneider Gallery in Chicago that runs through December 30th, 2017. There’s something about David’s cinematic large format photographs that stand apart–it’s a special quality of light, color, and clarity that comes from analog capture, but also a profound ability to connect photographs, shaping them into small novellas with nuance and heart. The Schneider Gallery states, In Regarding Others, selections from David Hilliard’s career aim to bridge themes of youth, beauty, rites of passage, longing and aging that often saturate his evocative compositions.  Hilliard references intimate moments often drawn from his personal life while simultaneously and skillfully allowing the work to remain universally understood.

  • Emil, Towards Horizon – The Eye of Photography

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    Emil, Towards Horizon – The Eye of Photography

    The Russian Emil Gataullin is a master of poetry in black and white, and of photography that recalls that of Henri Cartier-Bresson. It dances in a balance between austerity, deliberate reserve and romantic composition. His theme: the Russian village. A life far from the great decisions scandals, everything is in the light, honest and authentic. His wanderings in the small towns and villages are strolls in an unknown land, introspective walks, a return to his childhood. His photos are neither cynical nor idealist. They are only a moment in life, a declaration of love for a Russia that begins far away from Moscow. 

  • Stephen Crowley: a Visual Historian in Real Time – The New York Times

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    Stephen Crowley: a Visual Historian in Real Time – The New York Times

    After 25 years as a photographer for The New York Times based in Washington, D.C., Stephen Crowley has retired. His incisive and revealing photographs pierced the public veneer of Washington politics, bringing the viewer into the back rooms of power.

  • A Photographer’s View of a Battle to Destroy ISIS – The New Yorker

    A Photographer’s View of a Battle to Destroy ISIS

    This fall, I spent six weeks with the writer Luke Mogelson, following an élite Iraqi police unit called the Mosul swat team as its members fought to take back their city from the forces of the Islamic State. The story, which Luke wrote and I photographed, was called “The Avengers of Mosul”—the men were seeking vengeance not just for the threat to their country as a whole but also for the murders of family members by isis. Nearly every fighter had suffered this kind of loss, and many of them had family still living in peril in Mosul. The men welcomed us on their campaign, and shared with us their provisions, their blankets and mats, their seats in the trucks, and their stories.

  • Mark Peterson: Political Theater | LENSCRATCH

    Mark Peterson: Political Theater

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    Every presidential campaign has a particular feel and color: the red, white, and blue days of JFK that ended in a sad pink boucle, the brilliant reds of Nancy Regan, the rainbow spectrum of the Obamas. But this election is perfectly captured in black and white by photographer Mark Peterson, stripping the last two years down to its bare bones, showing the warts and weirdness of democracy gone awry. The result of “the most polarized and bizarre presidential race in American history” is a new monograph, Political Theater, published by Steidl.