Category: Editor’s Choice
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The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner: Massoud Hossaini
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Columbia University has announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners—and they include Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing took the title in the category of breaking news photography.
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Nordic Light 2012 Contact Press Images
Link: For over three decades Contact Press Images has promoted and distributed the work of some of the finest award-winning photojournalists and documentarians in the world
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Tokyo-Ga : Ensemble c’est tout
Link: In solidarity with the recent events that have shaken Japan, the curator Naoko Ohta has conceived a large-scale photography project. One hundred photographers roamed the streets of Tokyo to take the pulse of this bustling metropolis turned gathering place.
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Look3 Report: Stanley Greene on Luck, Film and Supporting Young Photographers
Link: A central theme of many of Greene’s stories was the recurring role that chance has played throughout his career, in large and small ways. “I honestly believe photography is 75 percent chance, and 25 percent skill,” he said in response to a question from an audience member toward the end of the talk. “In…
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Trang Bang: 40 Years Later
Link: It’s difficult to explain to someone who has grown up in the world of digital photography just what it was like being a photo-reporter in the all too recently passed era of film cameras. That there was, necessarily, a moment when your finite roll of film would end at frame 36, and you would…
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Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY
Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY – LENSCRATCH Sometimes you come across work you fall in love with, work that resonates with you in such a deep way, and you begin seeing the world through the lens and point of view of a great image maker. I have been a…
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The New York Times’s War Photojournalists Showcased at Photoville
Bringing Photographs of War to the Brooklyn Waterfront The New York Times spotlights a decade of war photojournalism at Photoville, an immersive photo exhibition opening today in Brooklyn Bridge Park. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/exhibiting-a-decade-of-war/ Photographers for The New York Times have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning and continue to do…
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A Tyranny of Ones
Link: There just didn’t seem to be enough hours in the day that I could manage so that the work load of both shooting and file management was done with confidence and competence. In addition, I was exhibiting signs of retrograde camera envy. Besides the digital cameras at hand, I wanted to shoot with my…
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Bruce Davidson: Thoughts On A Lifetime With Leica
Bruce Davidson: A Lifetime with Leica Renowned photojournalist and Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson has been acclaimed for over half a century for his searing images of street gangs, circus performers… via Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/45721468 Well, there are two things I’ve never done: I’ve never been under fire in a war and I never learned how to…
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The Boy from Troy by Brenda Ann Kenneally
Link: There was an uneasy identification between the two of us that grew into friendship over the next eight years while I continued to document Kayla, Sabrina and their friends who lived as a family on the same block. A family, I discovered, that was formed largely in response to increasingly punitive legal, moral and…
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lens culture: Paris Photo 2012
Link: Lens Culture is pleased to present a high-resolution slideshow preview of 276 photographs that will be featured at Paris Photo 2012 in November. This is the largest and most important photography art fair in Europe — so in many ways, this is what the international art market looks like right now for photography.
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Graphic Photographs of Commuters at Berlin Central Station
Link: I use a form of robotic image acquisition. I usually set up a camera very much like a scientific experiment, to obtain technically optimized input, triggering the shutter automatically whenever suitable subjects enter the field of view. Those images, typically recorded by the thousands during the first stage of a project, are the building…
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Athens Photo Festival 2012 : Colin Delfosse
Link: Edingwe, Dragon, City Train, Mbokotomo : the “legends” of Congolese wrestling invent themselves on a daily basis in the outskirts of Kinshasa.
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Beat the Press – The New York Times
Opinion | Beat the Press (Published 2015) Because it’s open season on journalism — from the left and right — powerful partisan voices have emerged, injecting lies into the public arena. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/opinion/beat-the-press.html I’d like to believe that this video snippet was just another absurdity of campus life, where the politics are so vicious, as…
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Best News Bloopers 2015 – YouTube
Link: Fernando Moleres’s project ‘Melting Landscapes’ reduces the Arctic region’s vast vistas—towering icebergs, massive glaciers, snow-swept ice sheets—to their most minimal elements. The biggest challenge was having enough cloudy, gray days to achieve just the right look.
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Emil, Towards Horizon – The Eye of Photography
Link: 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…
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The Surrealist Photos of Ralph Gibson – The New York Times
Link: “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.”
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CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning – Columbia Journalism Review
CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning When Vox revealed in late January that Patrick Witty left National Geographic, where he was deputy director of photography, after an investigation for sexual harassment, an issue that’s long been discussed in private was catapulted into the open: Photojournalism has a sexual harassment problem. In interviews with more…
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Project XV: New Perspectives on Photography | LENSCRATCH
Project XV: New Perspectives on Photography 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 sa via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/project-xv/ Each year, I teach a…