Tag: Jon Lowenstein

  • Photos tell intimate stories of human despair, loss and ultimately, resilience in Latin America – The Washington Post

    Photos tell intimate stories of human despair, loss and ultimately, resilience in Latin America Photographer Jon Lowenstein edits from fellow NOOR photographer Sebastian Liste’s archive. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/28/photos-tell-intimate-stories-of-human-despair-loss-and-ultimately-resilience-in-latin-america/ The next installment of In Sight’s series “PHOTOGRAPHERS edit PHOTOGRAPHERS” pairs NOOR photographers Jon Lowenstein and Sebastian Liste. In this installment, American photographer Lowenstein has made…

  • Does “after Ferguson” exist? | ideas.ted.com

    Does “after Ferguson” exist? In advance of the grand jury verdict, photojournalist Jon Lowenstein talks about what he saw in Ferguson, Missouri. With photos and video. via ideas.ted.com: http://ideas.ted.com/2014/11/11/does-after-ferguson-exist/ In Ferguson, Missouri, a grand jury will soon decide whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing an unarmed teenager in August. Photojournalist Jon Lowenstein talks about what…

  • Jon Lowenstein Wins 2014 Lange-Taylor Prize | NPPA

    Jon Lowenstein Wins 2014 Lange-Taylor Prize The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-second Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American photographer, filmmaker, and writer Jon Lowenstein for “South Side,” his testimony to the Chicago neighborhood where he has li via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/jon-lowenstein-wins-2014-lange-taylor-prize for “South Side,” his testimony to the Chicago neighborhood where he has lived and worked for…

  • Inside Chicago’s South Side – LightBox

    Inside Chicago’s South Side – LightBox

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/03/jon-lowenstein-wins-lange-taylor-prize-for-south-side-chicago-work/#1 “The idea is to look at the South Side, in the space between the post-industrial meltdown to where Starbucks comes in,” he tells TIME, “and how globalization affects local communities, and ultimately how we deal with wealth inequality in the United…

  • Photographing Chile’s Enduring Rifts: Part I

    Photographing Chile’s Enduring Rifts: Part I

    Chile’s Enduring Rifts: Part I via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/11/chile-photographs-pinochet-history.html#slide_ss_0=1 In the week leading up to Chile’s 2013 Presidential elections, the photographer Jon Lowenstein and his brother, the writer Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, travelled to the country to document this unique, historic period. Forty years ago, General Augusto Pinochet and his military overthrew President Salvador Allende;…

  • Jon Lowenstein’s Photos of Mexican and Central American Migrants’ Stories

    Jon Lowenstein’s Photos of Mexican and Central American Migrants’ Stories

    Link: Jon Lowenstein’s Photos of Mexican and Central American Migrants’ Stories – NYTimes.com “‘Ultimately, you want something to happen from your pictures,’ said Mr. Lowenstein, 42. ‘What’s great about photography is that it can be amorphous. It can be different to each person, and you can use it many different ways, both for good and…

  • Noor’s 5th Anniversary at Perpignan

    Noor’s 5th Anniversary at Perpignan

    A Collective Eye on Social Justice Members of Noor, the photo collective that will observe its fifth anniversary at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, discuss their approach and practice. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/a-collective-eye-on-social-justice/ The photographer-owned photo agency, Noor, was started on Sept. 6, 2007, at the Visa Pour l’image photojournalism festival…

  • Hasselblad’s Masters Award winners announced

    British Journal of Photography Eleven photographers have been selected as the winners of this year Masters Award with Jon Lowenstein and Christian Tagliavini respectively receiving the top honours in the editorial and fine art categories

  • Worth a Look: Jon Lowenstein in Haiti | dvafoto

    he has photographed in a radically different way than what I have seen before from Haiti, but also the content of the images seems more considered to me. But of course it is a risky thing to photograph a “news” story in such a “limited” way. Link: Worth a Look: Jon Lowenstein in Haiti |…