Tag: Benjamin Lowy

  • Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now

    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now

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    Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the 10th annual Women’s show at Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, plus a review of Dr. Lauren Walsh’s exceptional book, Conversation… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-february-2020/ For those of us who work in journalism the myth of the cavalier photojournalist…

  • Worth a Look: Benjamin Lowy’s “The Afghan High” | dvafoto

    Link: I’m usually wary of photo essays about poverty and drugs. Eugene Richards has unleashed a torrent of imitators, and the results are often voyeuristic and exploitative–unless there’s an underlying story, photos of depraved debasement do little more than serve as a vehicle for gawking at the unmentionables, grotesques without empathy. Benjamin Lowy’s “The Afghan…

  • Haiti by VII

    Link: Haiti has always been a land of beauty and pain, of light and darkness. When a catastrophic earthquake hit the island on Tuesday, January 12th, the world was shaken by the magnitude of the destruction and human suffering. In this story for VII The Magazine, photographers James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Lynsey Addario and Benjamin…

  • Kathy Ryan, Kira Pollack, and Benjamin Lowy Discuss Their Use of Instagram

    Link: Ryan and Pollack began by speaking about different ways in which their publications have used smartphone images in the last few years. For a 2010 New York Times Magazine cover story about twentysomethings, Ryan said, she commissioned smartphone images because she felt they fit the subject matter. “We never had any objections…we see it…

  • Eyewitness To History — Vantage — Medium

    Eyewitness To History — Vantage — Medium

    Eyewitness To History In conversation with Benjamin Lowy via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-ppd-master-series-benjamin-lowy-eyewitness-to-history-5b013edef43 When I first started photography, I carried a ton of cameras and I wanted everyone to know that I was a photographer. Now I just want the smallest camera and I want everyone to think I’m just another tourist. I don’t want to stand…

  • Benjamin Lowy: The photographer documenting war with a cell phone – CNN.com

    The photographer documenting war with a cell phone | CNN An early adopter of mobile technology, Benjamin Lowy was the first person to have a cell phone photo make the front page of a major magazine. He has since taken this fresh approach to the front lines in Iraq and Libya. via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/project-pixel-ben-lowy/index.html People…

  • How a Conflict Photographer’s Vision Changed After Becoming a Dad

    How a Conflict Photographer’s Vision Changed After Becoming a Dad

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    How a Conflict Photographer’s Vision Changed After Becoming a Dad Photographer couple Benjamin Lowy and Marvi Lacar created this inspiring short film with Sony about how Lowy’s vision of the world as a conflict via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/12/21/conflict-photographers-vision-changed-becoming-dad/ Photographer couple Benjamin Lowy and Marvi Lacar created this inspiring short film with Sony about how Lowy’s vision…

  • Could Crowdfunding Save Photojournalism? | American Photo

    Could Crowdfunding Save Photojournalism? A startup called Viewfind is trying to change all that. A newly launched Kickstarter from the company is trying to raise $25,000 to produce five long-term documentary projects from Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, Ruddy Roye, Beth Nakamura, Benjamin Lowy and Matt Eich.

  • Benjamin Lowy: “The end of Instagram?”

    Link: Benjamin Lowy: “The end of Instagram?” » FLTR Maybe I’ll create another name on Instagram and just post pictures of my brunch. Or maybe I’ll just start photographing cats.

  • In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath

    In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/30/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-capturing-sandys-wrath/#1 As Sandy drew near, TIME asked five photographers — Michael Christopher Brown, Benjamin Lowy, Ed Kashi, Andrew Quilty and Stephen Wilkes — to document the hurricane and its aftermath via Instagram.

  • Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer

    Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer

    Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/11/benjamin-lowy-iraq-perspectives.html The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq |…

  • Interview with Benjamin Lowy @ NYPH’11

    Link: New York Photo Festival » Interview with Benjamin Lowy @ NYPH’11

  • Behind the Scenes: A Different Battleground – Lens Blog

    Link: Behind the Scenes: A Different Battleground – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: In late 2002, Benjamin Lowy was showing his portfolio to various photo agencies in New York City, with little success. “We have people.” “You’re really young.” “You know, I really think you should go back to school.”

  • Benjamin Lowy: Iraq | Perspectives

    PDN Photo of the Day: Here are 14 photographs from Benjamin Lowy’s ongoing Iraq | Perspectives project which he began in 2005. Shot from the confines of a Humvee, Lowy creates a tableau vivant of life in Iraq offering a glimpse into the bleakness and desolation of a country ravaged by war.

  • Interview: BEN LOWY

    Benjamin Lowy received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, and Libya among others. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass and was nominated for the ICP…

  • warzones and wardrobes

    Benjamin Lowy’s take on fashion after spending years in such highly glamorous places as Iraq and Darfur is quite stunning. Check it out here.