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  • How Photographers Navigate the Challenges of Working on Assignment

    How Photographers Navigate the Challenges of Working on Assignment

    How Photographers Navigate the Challenges of Working on Assignment

    Is it possible to retain an artistic vision—and ethical integrity—while making images for news media and fashion brands? Four photographers speak about responsibility, community, and the push for structural change.

    via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-photographers-navigate-the-challenges-of-working-on-assignment/

    Is it possible to retain an artistic vision—and ethical integrity—while making images for news media and fashion brands? Four photographers speak about responsibility, community, and the push for structural change.

  • The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy

    The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy

    The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy

    Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

    Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html

    Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

  • Paying it Forward: The BIPOC Mentorship Program Addressing Systematic Barriers Faced by Emerging Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog

    Paying it Forward: The BIPOC Mentorship Program Addressing Systematic Barriers Faced by Emerging Photographers
    A growing number of databases are championing the talents of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) photographers looking to get their foot in the door. Diversify Photo, Black Women Photographers, Indigenous Photograph, The Authority Collective and many other grassroots organizations have made and continue to make great strides in diversifying the lens through which we see the world. For many up and coming BIPOC photographers, though, access to internships and career-defining jobs remain onerous.  Enter the BIPOC Photo Mentorship Program.

  • Magnum announces new Nominees, Associate and Member at its 74th AGM in Paris | Magnum Photos

    https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/2021-magnum-photos-annual-general-meeting-new-nominees/
    “It feels amazing, humbling, exciting and huge to think that I have been nominated by Magnum photographers, who have been among my favorite photographers since I started taking pictures. It also feels right to contribute with my point of view, as a documentarist and as an Arab woman,” says Boulos of her nomination. “I hope that the future holds, for me, many encounters, collaborations and new ways of documenting, questioning and resisting the world we live in.”

  • 5 Benefits of Photography Mentorship – PhotoShelter Blog

    5 Benefits of Photography Mentorship
    In an industry where so many of us are in direct competition, it’s hard to step back and remember that we’re all in this together. We’re all working to share important stories and offer glimpses of powerful emotion without saying a word. We all struggle, but it’s important to remember that together we can all improve and propel the industry forward. At PhotoShelter, we believe everyone can benefit from a mentor or mentee. Don’t just take our word for it though. Below, hear about how two photographers, Miriam Alarcón Avila and Daniella Zalcman, connected and learn more about how mentorship can help you.

  • Chester Higgins’s Life in Pictures | The New Yorker

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/chester-higginss-life-in-pictures
    Hanging in the fourth-floor study of the renowned photojournalist Chester Higgins’s Fort Greene brownstone is a bunch of large dead leaves, fastened to a line in front of a well-stocked bookcase. Higgins grew the leaves in his window boxes, he told me, and he’s been making photographs of them for some time now. It’s a way, he said, to examine how “the spirit” manifests in all natural things.

  • “What If Indians Invented Photography?” An Exploration of Identity and Photographic Practices by Indigenous Photographer Will Wilson – PhotoShelter Blog

    “What If Indians Invented Photography?” An Exploration of Identity and Photographic Practices by Indigenous Photographer Will Wilson
    “What If Indians Invented Photography?” An Exploration of Identity and Photographic Practices by Indigenous Photographer Will Wilson

  • In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography – Interview by Alexander Strecker | Cover photo © Dimitri Mellos | LensCulture

    https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-in-search-of-the-poets-and-new-masters-of-street-photography
    Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent shares his insights.

  • New Guide! Photography Mentorship: Why You Need it and Why it Helps Everyone – PhotoShelter Blog

    New Guide! Photography Mentorship: Why You Need it and Why it Helps Everyone
    No matter your specialty, photographers have many shared experiences. We all remember getting our first cameras and where we were for that memorable photo. We’ve worried about whether or not our work mattered. At one point or another, we didn’t know anything about pushing back on contract terms, what photo editors were looking for or why one good portfolio review can really put things into perspective.

  • Who Owns Mike Disfarmer’s Photographs? | The New Yorker

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/who-owns-mike-disfarmers-photographs
    That changed in 2019, when, on a family trip to New York, Miller stopped by Howard Greenberg Gallery and learned that it had recently received a letter challenging the sale of Disfarmer prints. The author of the letter was David Deal, a lawyer who’d made his name leading a previous dispute over the estate of another Howard Greenberg artist, the photographer Vivian Maier. Maier, a nanny in Chicago, made no known attempts to sell or exhibit her work during her lifetime. Like Disfarmer, she became famous after her death. In 2014, Deal tracked down one of Maier’s distant cousins to fight for control of her archive. (A high-profile copyright-infringement case against one of the major collectors of her work was settled, confidentially, in 2016.) Now, as Deal’s letter informed Howard Greenberg, he was representing Disfarmer’s heirs—not one or two but nearly three dozen—in an effort to recover their “physical and intellectual property” and “any revenue generated by the appropriation” of copyrighted images. “He’s suing us,” a gallery associate told Miller. “And he’s gonna sue you.”

  • Free Portfolio Review Opportunity with a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner – PhotoShelter Blog

    Free Portfolio Review Opportunity with a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner
    We’re hosting a free portfolio review webinar with photojournalist Essdras M. Suarez on July 16th at 12pm ET.

  • Focus on Vernacular: The Anonymous Project. – 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 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 decades later.

  • Talking Business with the “F*ck Gatekeeping” Crew – 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, 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. Although there’s no dearth of business books, trade associations, and YouTube videos, reaching younger and/or emerging photographers to disseminate best business practices has always been challenging. Intrigued by the trio’s irreverent approach, I reached out to them for answers.

  • WATCH: Business Advice from Melissa Lyttle – PhotoShelter Blog

    WATCH: Business Advice from Melissa Lyttle
    Hear about Melissa’s multiple income streams, stories of how one opportunity led to a big break and get insights into how you can avoid common photo business mistakes.

  • How to Look Natural In Photos – Photographs curated by Beata Bartecka & Łukasz Rusznica | Book review by Joanna L. Cresswell | | LensCulture

    https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lukasz-rusznica-how-to-look-natural-in-photos
    There’s more than meets the eye in these photos of daily life in Poland, taken between 1944 and 1989. A disturbing new book draws together images taken by the secret police to explore photography as a tool of power.

  • Photo Editors Weigh In: 7 Tips on How to Stand Out – PhotoShelter Blog

    Photo Editors Weigh In: 7 Tips on How to Stand Out
    Recently we spoke with photo editors Sarah Jacobs and Tracey Woods to learn about their personal journeys and how freelancers can catch the eye of photo editors. Even with a wide range of professional experience—the two have worked for an impressive list of publications: Business Insider, Universal Music, ONE37pm, iHeartRadio, The Luupe and Essence Communications—themes emerged.

  • The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy – The New York Times

    A few months ago, the photographer Deana Lawson and her family were driving to an art opening in the Inglewood neighborhood of Los Angeles when Lawson spotted a garage sale out of the corner of her eye. She wanted to pull over, but her 19-year-old son was tired, and he balked. The family passed the sale again on their way back home, and this time, Lawson insisted. When she met an elderly woman tending to the sale, she knew immediately that she wanted to photograph her.

  • Free Webinar: The Do’s and Don’ts of a Successful Photography Business – PhotoShelter Blog

    https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/05/dos-and-donts-of-a-successful-photography-business-webinar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
    This Friday, May 7th at 12pm ET, freelance photographer and photojournalist Melissa Lyttle is joining us for a free webinar all about how to run a successful photo business. With decades of freelance experience, Melissa is adamant about one thing: she’s a business owner first and photographer second.

  • The licensable web – Kaptur

    The licensable web
    The next web is where content, where ever it might originate, will be compensated for. A place where if you want to build and sustain traffic, you will have to incentivize your content producers. But also a place where it will no longer be against the “internet principle” to charge for content.

  • Webinar: Every Day is Earth Day for Ami Vitale – PhotoShelter Blog

    https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/04/webinar-every-day-is-earth-day-for-ami-vitale/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
    On Friday, April 30th at 12pm ET, we’re teaming up with National Geographic photographer, filmmaker, writer and explorer Ami Vitale. Ami will take us on an odyssey, sharing powerful stories about pushing boundaries and how she’s used her photography to make an impact.