Author: Trent
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Meet the Jury: Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Judge Cheriss May – Feature Shoot
Meet the Jury: Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Judge Cheriss May – Feature Shoot As part of this year’s Emerging Photography Awards, Feature Shoot is offering two major exhibition opportunities to up-and-coming photographers of all genres working across the world. Three to five photographers… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/01/meet-the-jury-feature-shoot-emerging-photography-judge-cheriss-may/ Beyond her career as a leading editorial and…
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‘Murder the Media:” How The News Media Became a Target on Capitol Hill – The New York Times
Covering Pro-Trump Mobs, the News Media Became a Target (Published 2021) “Murder the media” was scratched into a door of the Capitol. Violent protesters smashed equipment and punched a photographer. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/business/media/media-murder-capitol-building.html As Trump supporters rampaged on Wednesday, incited by the president’s false claims of a stolen election, they hit on a secondary target: journalists.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Dannielle Bowman’s “What Had Happened” Wins the Aperture Portfolio Prize
Juxtapoz Magazine – Dannielle Bowman’s “What Had Happened” Wins the Aperture Portfolio Prize There are multiple entry points into Dannielle Bowman’s What Had Happened, a series in progress. Bowman makes excellent use of the pleasures of photog… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/dannielle-bowman-s-what-had-happened-wins-the-aperture-portfolio-prize/ There are multiple entry points into Dannielle Bowman’s What Had Happened, a series in progress. Bowman…
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“The World I Wish People Knew”: Photographer Cara Romero on Redefining Contemporary Native art
“The World I Wish People Knew”: Photographer Cara Romero on Redefining Contemporary Native art This year, Romero will be installing photographs of California’s Indigenous peoples on billboards and public places throughout Los Angeles. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/612795/cara-romero-ndn-radical-imagination-grant/ This year, Romero will be installing photographs of California’s Indigenous peoples on billboards and public places throughout Los Angeles.
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Magnum Photos Promises More Investigations in Response to Harrowing Exposé
Magnum Photos Promises More Investigations in Response to Harrowing Exposé Magnum Photos has continued to come under fire for its response to allegations of the treatment of women by one of its photographers, David Alan Harvey. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/05/magnum-photos-promises-more-investigations-in-response-to-harrowing-expose/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Magnum Photos has continued to come under fire for its response to allegations of the treatment…
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Award-Winning Photojournalist Jailed For Photographing Refugee Camp
Award-Winning Photojournalist Jailed For Photographing Refugee Camp Abul Kalam is most well-known for his photography centered on documenting the life of refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh. On December 29, he was arrested via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/01/04/award-winning-photojournalist-jailed-for-photographing-refugee-camp/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Abul Kalam is most well-known for his photography centered on documenting the life of refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh. On…
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Podcast: Photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke Launches The Curious Society – PhotoShelter Blog
Podcast: Photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke Launches The Curious Society – PhotoShelter Blog A quarterly print publication of top notch photojournalism for $300 per year? Seasoned photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke believes there’s a market for it and has launched The Curious Society to prove his point. Also in the show: Congress passes the CASE Ac via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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Donna Ferrato’s Radical, Rage-Fuelled Portraits of Womanhood | AnOther
Donna Ferrato’s Radical, Rage-Fuelled Portraits of Womanhood via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13032/donna-ferratos-radical-rage-fuelled-portraits-of-womanhood-holy-book-2020 The photographer has been on the frontlines for women’s rights over the last 50 years, using her camera to document the world’s most momentous political battles
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The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism | The Nation
The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism His decades-long project of reportage in graphic form works like oral history—bearing witness to the historical traumas of his subjects. via The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-sacco-paying-land-review/ That honesty is a crucial part of Sacco’s decades-long project. Whether covering the lives of Palestinians in the occupied territories, Bosniaks and Serbs…
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California Love: A Visual Mixtape – LENSCRATCH
California Love: A Visual Mixtape – LENSCRATCH “This amazing compendium of photographs celebrating the Golden State is truly a love letter to California. One hundred and ten photographers offer intriguing photographs and perspectives on our special sliver of the west coast. At a time of Covid, wildfi via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/01/california-love-a-visual-mixtape/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 It is a brave individual…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Rebecca Norris Webb’s Night Calls
Juxtapoz Magazine – Rebecca Norris Webb’s Night Calls Studying at the International Center of Photography in New York, Rebecca Norris Webb first came across W. Eugene Smith’s “Country Doctor,” his famous… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/rebecca-norris-webb-s-night-calls/ Studying at the International Center of Photography in New York, Rebecca Norris Webb first came across W. Eugene Smith’s “Country Doctor,” his…
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Art and Creative Acts That Were Censored in 2020
Art and Creative Acts That Were Censored in 2020 Human rights experts have expressed distress that the pandemic has increased attacks against free speech, LBGTQ+ rights, and peaceful assembly. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/612222/art-and-creative-acts-that-were-censored-in-2020/ Human rights experts have expressed distress that the pandemic has increased attacks against free speech, LBGTQ+ rights, and peaceful assembly.
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The 2020 Favorite Photo Exhibition, Part 11 – LENSCRATCH
The 2020 Favorite Photo Exhibition, Part 11 – LENSCRATCH Browse the entire 2020 Favorite Photo ExhibitionPart 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/01/the-2020-favorite-photo-exhibition-part-11/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29
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Top Photos Of 2020 – Jonesblog
Link: Our world was convulsed with social unrest, violence, racism, incompetent leadership, unprecedented corruption of the highest office in the land in America, earthquakes, horrible wildfires in multiple places around the globe, and a global pandemic made worse through failed leadership in a number of countries. Pandemics are by their very nature, possible every year…
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2020 Photos of the Year | The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune’s 2020 Photos of the Year The Tribune’s photojournalists — Trent Nelson, Leah Hogsten, Francisco Kjolseth and Rick Egan — captured it all. They put their health at risk to create stunning images that showed our humanity and events that thanks to them we’ll never forget. via 2020 Photos of the Year…
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Penn State Student Photojournalists at War with University Over ‘Predatory’ Copyright Contract
Penn State Student Photojournalists at War with University Over ‘Predatory’ Copyright Contract The staff of the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian are currently battling a contract being forced upon them by school leadership, claiming it via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/12/29/penn-state-student-photojournalists-at-war-with-university-over-predatory-copyright-contract/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The staff of the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian are currently battling a contract being…
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Copyright Small Claims Has Arrived: Trump Signs CASE Act Into Law
Copyright Small Claims Has Arrived: Trump Signs CASE Act Into Law Heads up, photographers: there has just been a monumental change to the way you can defend your copyrighted photos from infringement. A copyright small via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/12/28/copyright-small-claims-has-arrived-trump-signs-case-act-into-law/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Heads up, photographers: there has just been a monumental change to the way you can defend your…
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How Trump Suppresses Photography of Covid-19 Pandemic
Hiding Covid-19: How the Trump Administration Suppresses Photography of the Pandemic The U.S. government has reinforced media restrictions at hospitals, reducing the flow of disturbing images of the pandemic. via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2020/12/27/covid-photography-hospitals/ The U.S. government has reinforced media restrictions at hospitals, reducing the flow of disturbing images of the pandemic.
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Is Substack the Media Future We Want? | The New Yorker
Is Substack the Media Future We Want? The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/is-substack-the-media-future-we-want The subscription-based news industry, the founders speculated, could someday “be much larger than the newspaper business ever was, much like the…
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Walter Velázquez
Te invito a mirar mi portfolio via Walter Velázquez: http://www.waltervelazquez.com.ar/ I simply want my photos to say something, tell stories, we live in a world that is extremely convulsed as to go through it in silence and in complicity with inequalities …