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Juxtapoz Magazine – Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present

Juxtapoz Magazine – Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present
Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real-estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With fo…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/anastasia-samoylova-and-walker-evans-a-photo-dialogue-on-florida-past-and-present/
Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real-estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With forms of nature and culture found nowhere else, Florida is unique. It is also among the most elusive and misunderstood of places. Anastasia Samoylova has photographed Florida on intensive road trips. Walker Evans (1903–75) photographed it over four decades. Twisting the visual clichés, these two remarkably discerning observers convey Florida’s dizzying combination of fantasy and reality.

August 18, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Anastasia Samoylova, Walker Evans
Russia’s Republic of Grief | The New Yorker

Russia’s Republic of Grief
One of the country’s poorest regions, Dagestan, is also the region that has lost the most men to the war in Ukraine.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/russias-republic-of-grief
The Moscow-based photographer Nanna Heitmann recently travelled to Dagestan to talk with families and friends of the deceased. She found people who were deeply traumatized by loss, but who for the most part kept up a patriotic front. Parents, in particular, were adamant that their sons had died in a heroic cause. They spoke, as the Kremlin has done, about Ukrainian fascism and decadence—to some extent, perhaps, authentically, as Dagestan is a deeply religious and conservative society. More than one family mentioned Stalin as a man who could have handled this situation properly.

August 18, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Nanna Heitmann
Photographers on Photographers: Su Ji Lee in Conversation with Kensuke Koike – LENSCRATCH

Photographers on Photographers: Su Ji Lee in Conversation with Kensuke Koike – LENSCRATCH
“If I have many ingredients in my refrigerator, I can cook everything I want. But some ingredients may never be used. If I find only a carrot inside, I must cook it in the best way possible by chopping, grating, roasting, boiling, frying, drying, etc. With many ingredients I would probably never discover that the
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/08/photographers-on-photographers-su-ji-lee-in-conversation-with-kensuke-koike/
How does one come across non-archival photographs? There are boxes and boxes of strangers’ faces ready to be picked up in antique stores, flea markets, or even weekly garage sales. Though they might have been forgotten by one, it never goes discarded through Koike. With additive motion and revealed subtraction to the found images, strangers tend to warp, mutate, or remobilized. When I first came across his works in my freshman year of college, I was in awe to witness his treatment of guiding the viewers into possible lifeforms of still strangers, introducing a new paradigm to image appropriation. Through Photographers on Photographers interview, I had the pleasure to take a peep behind his curtain, a tricky visible world.

August 17, 2022

Photography

Kensuke Koike, Su Ji Lee
A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time | The New Yorker

A Buffalo Photographer’s Dignified Look at the Passage of Time
In three decades, Milton Rogovin and his wife, Anne, captured changes in one upstate neighborhood, while also reaching deep into grand abstractions of nature and time.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-buffalo-photographers-dignified-look-at-the-passage-of-time
Milton’s photographs from the neighborhood originated in 1972, when he was invited to visit the home of a patient, and continued as he and Anne developed relationships with others they met. The elements of personal connection and social history, implicit in Milton’s earlier images, are rendered explicit in his series “Lower West Side Triptychs” and “Lower West Side Quartets.” For those projects, the Rogovins sought out people Milton had photographed in the nineteen-seventies and photographed them again during the course of three decades

August 11, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Anne Rogovin, Milton Rogovin
One Year Later: The 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners – LENSCRATCH

One Year Later: The 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners – LENSCRATCH
Over this past year, I’ve had the pleasure of celebrating, corresponding and zooming with the 2021 Student Prize Winners. Last summer, I met Allie Tsubota in Providence and she walked me through her studio at RISD. Through these awards, I always feel like I learn so much about what the next generation is experiencing and
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/one-year-later-the-2021lenscratch-student-prize-winners/
If I had to share any advice with current students about life after school, it would be to first allow yourself to feel everything that you need to feel. Honestly, post-grad depression is very real, and it can often leave people (myself included) feeling quite lost and confused during that period. I went through it all, but I came out on the other side, so here are some more tips that I learned along the way and that helped me get through this period:

August 8, 2022

Photography
The 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner: Mackenzie Calle – LENSCRATCH

The 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner: Mackenzie Calle – LENSCRATCH
It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner, Mackenzie Calle. Calle was selected for her project, The Gay Space Agency, and is currently attending the Documentary Photography and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography. The Honorable Mention Winner receives: $250 Cash Award and a
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/the-2022-lenscratch-student-prize-honorable-mention-winner-mackenzie-calle/
With science fiction, there are endless storytelling possibilities. You can be limitless in your imagination. For The Gay Space Agency, I wanted it to be visually playful and other-worldly while also engaging in a serious analysis of the culture that represses the LGBTQ+ community in astronautics and aerospace

August 3, 2022

Contests

Mackenzie Calle
ABQ – Photographs by Lewis Khan | Interview by Wesley Verhoeve | LensCulture

ABQ – Photographs by Lewis Khan | Interview by Wesley Verhoeve | LensCulture
Lewis Khan’s latest project transports him to a desert city, thousands of miles away from his London home and locally-based projects
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lewis-khan-abq
Lewis Khan: I was drawn initially to New Mexico by a fascination with the desert. I was interested to see how western human intervention interacts with, and crosses over into, that terrain. I felt like creatively I needed to put myself in a totally new and unfamiliar environment; I hadn’t traveled for a few years because of Covid, and coupled with that I had been making work in that time that was very much focused around my local community and my life personally.

August 3, 2022

Interviews

Lewis Khan
Photographers on Photographers: Sydney Walsh in Conversation with Sofia Valiente – LENSCRATCH

Photographers on Photographers: Sydney Walsh in Conversation with Sofia Valiente – LENSCRATCH
This month we feature our annual Photographers on Photographers interview series. For this effort, we asked the 2021 Top 25 to Watch to share an interview with a hero, mentor, or an artist who has inspired them. Thank you to all who participated. – Aline Smithson I came across Sofia Valiente’s book Foreverglades when my
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/08/photographers-on-photographers-sydney-walsh-in-conversation-with-sofia-valiente/
Why did you decide to exhibit the work Foreverglades on a boat? How did you come about that idea? And what were some challenges you had? And if you were to do something similar like that, again, is there anything that you would do differently?

August 3, 2022

Interviews

Sofia Valiente, Sydney Walsh
How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine | PetaPixel

How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine
Practical advice for photographers covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine to stay safe and healthy while doing war photography.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/31/how-to-stay-safe-while-photographing-the-war-in-ukraine/
“I’d seen so many in Ukraine, in Kyiv without helmet and vest,” Fadek tells PetaPixel. “I saw journalists running around [without personal protective equipment, or PPE] in Irpin, which is a suburb of Kyiv, and Babyn (Babi) Yar, a former holocaust site that was attacked in the initial days of the war.

August 3, 2022

War
Getty Images Awards “Inclusion” Grants to Eight Photojournalists Worldwide

Getty Images Awards “Inclusion” Grants to Eight Photojournalists Worldwide
The $5,000 grants are awarded to emerging photographers and videographers from historically underrepresented groups.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/751298/getty-images-awards-inclusion-grants-to-eight-photojournalists-worldwide/
Those storytellers include Ivan McClellan, whose work documents Black cowboys in America; Lexi Parra, a photographer based in Caracas, Venezuela whose images examine youth culture and themes of inequality and violence; and Barbara Peacock, whose series American Bedroom (2017–present) offers glimpses into people’s most intimate spaces.

August 2, 2022

Contests
Photographer Follows Pregnant Homeless Woman in LA Over 4 Years | PetaPixel

Photographer Follows Pregnant Homeless Woman in LA Over 4 Years
Over four years in the making.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/27/photographer-follows-pregnant-homeless-woman-in-la-over-4-years/
PetaPixel spoke to staff photographer Christina House who was part of a three-person team that also included reporter Gale Holland and videographer Claire Hannah Collins. The long-read article that the team created is entitled: Pregnant, homeless, and living in a tent: Meet Mckenzie.

July 28, 2022

Photojournalism

Christina House
Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti – burn magazine

Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti
Tropic of violence | By Tommaso Protti Violence has become a familiar facet of Brazil’s identity, a tragic routine that affects all layers of Latin America’s biggest country. According to the Unite…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/07/tropic-of-violence-by-tommaso-protti/
While most commonly known in popular culture for beaches, carnival, samba and football, Brazil remains one of world’s most violent countries, a tropical paradise of blood and sorrow.

July 28, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Tommaso Protti
Striking Black-and-White Photographs of Postwar Germany

Striking Black-and-White Photographs of Postwar Germany
Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer Sibylle Bergemann cultivated a distinctive visual language—and documented decades of change in Berlin.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-postwar-germany-sibylle-bergemanns-window-onto-history/
Working in fashion and reportage, the photographer cultivated a distinctive visual language. Her retrospective is a window into history in Berlin.

July 28, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Sibylle Bergemann
A Trove of Snapshots from a Sly Master of Collage | The New Yorker

A Trove of Snapshots from a Sly Master of Collage
An exhibit and book showcase Ray Johnson’s photography from the last years of his life.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-trove-of-snapshots-from-a-sly-master-of-collage
An exhibit and book showcase Ray Johnson’s photography from the last years of his life.

July 26, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Ray Johnson
International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award

International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is an international photo contest for photographers. Awarded will contemporary, outstanding reportage photography.
via International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award: https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/
The shortlisted candidates for the internationally-renowned Leica Oskar Barnack Award photo competition, that will be granted this year for the 42th time, are set.

July 26, 2022

Contests
The 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize: 25 to Watch – LENSCRATCH

The 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize: 25 to Watch – LENSCRATCH
Every year we seek to celebrate the next generation of photographic artists through our Student Prize Awards program. 2022 was a stellar year for photography, not only with a record number of excellent submissions, but the work itself reflected deep thinking and profound subject matter that it made it very difficult for the jurors to narrow down
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/the-2022-lenscratch-student-prize-25-to-watch/
Every year we seek to celebrate the next generation of photographic artists through our Student Prize Awards program. 2022 was a stellar year for photography, not only with a record number of excellent submissions, but the work itself reflected deep thinking and profound subject matter that it made it very difficult for the jurors to narrow down the selections. Before we begin the celebration of our 7 winners on Monday, we wanted to shine a light on 25 photographers that you should have (and keep) on your radar, artists who may be at the beginning of their photography journey but are already working at an elevated level, creating work that is deeply meaningful, especially in a time when change is critical. Congratulations to all! – Aline Smithson

July 26, 2022

Contests
‘No Photographs’: Trump’s Order to White House Photographer on Jan 6 | PetaPixel

‘No Photographs’: Trump’s Order to White House Photographer on Jan 6
“No photographs.”
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/22/no-photographs-trumps-order-to-white-house-photographer-on-jan-6/
Shealah Craighead rarely put down her camera when Trump was in the public eye, as the former president was particularly, and notably, fond of being in front of the camera and driving stories and ratings, Business Insider reports. But on January 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection at the Capitol, photos were conspicuously absent.

July 26, 2022

Access & Censorship

Shealah Craighead
Iconic Lucha Libre Photographer Lourdes Grobet Has Died | PetaPixel

Iconic Lucha Libre Photographer Lourdes Grobet Has Died
RIP
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/19/iconic-lucha-libre-photographer-lourdes-grobet-has-died/
Grobet began to view the culture and world of Mexican Professional Wrestling through her camera lens in the 1980s. Known as Lucha Libre Mexicana, Mexican professional wrestling had been a favorite sport in Mexico, and one which Grobet had adored since a young child.

July 22, 2022

Obituaries

Lourdes Grobet
photo-eye | BLOG: Creativity and Turmoil, part 1

Creativity and Turmoil, part 1
Left to right: Mitch Dobrowner, Shiprock Storm ; Mark Klett, Moonset with Venus ; Edward Bateman, Antelope Island No.766 I would have…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2022/07/creativity-and-turmoil-part-1.html
At the beginning of the pandemic, I watched a live Zoom of Sophie Calle talking to students. I believe she wanted them to be totally in the moment – since she requested that it not be recorded. She was asked: “What advice would you give to students in this moment of peril.” There was something very grounding in her reply – or at least in how I remember it. “Every moment is a moment of peril. We never know when tragedy will personally strike us.”

July 22, 2022

Photography
While Standing My Ground – Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture

While Standing My Ground – Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture
Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation of Covid, catastrophic explosions, and crippling inflation
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rima-maroun-while-standing-my-ground
Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation of Covid, catastrophic explosions, and crippling inflation.

July 22, 2022

Portfolios & Galleries

Rima Maroun