Tag: Jonas Bendiksen

  • How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog

    How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog

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    How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen was troubled by potential for photographers to fabricate a story and photos from scratch using technology and social media to propagate a false narrative. He was so frightened that he “decided to try to do this myself.” The…

  • The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos

    The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos

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    The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/book-veles-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-photography-industry/ The photographer explains the many layers of intrigue that went into the creation of his book about misinformation in the contemporary media landscape

  • Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian The road to hell is paved with good intentions….so is the road to fake news apparently. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/dancing-with-the-gods-of-deception/ The latest and probably most potent existential rain dance is Magnum’s own Jonas Bendiksen Veles experiment. Using a mixture of AI, computer-generated…

  • 11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

    11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

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    11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/11-photographers-on-seeking-the-unexpected-in-their-work/ Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

  • Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

    Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

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    Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture From iconic images of major world events, to intimate moments of pleasure and delight — here is an outstanding selection of remarkable images from Magnum Photos — each with a personal story via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/magnum-photos-turning-points-life-changing-moments-by-magnum-photographers From iconic images…

  • 13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work – Aperture Foundation NY

    13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work – Aperture Foundation NY

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    13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work Elliott Erwitt, Zun Lee, Alec Soth, and more on the turning points in their photographs—from global and national events to the most personal moments. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/13-photographers-on-turning-points/ Turning points in the lives and works of photographers often span the extremes—from global and national events to…

  • Jonas Bendiksen: Going to Extremes to Capture The Passion

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    Link: Here is the story of his amazing, heartfelt adventure photographing extreme skiing at Chamonix with what he thought was an unlikely camera: the formidable medium-format Leica S2

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    Link: a photography and video commission started in 2013 with the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Majoli, Jonas Bendiksen, Olivia Arthur and Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  • Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith

    Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith

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    Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith From cynicism to a surprising sadness via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/viewing-the-last-testament-as-a-person-of-faith-5b3d3ab65e84 Photographer Jonas Bendiksen describes himself as “a man of little faith.” His latest project The Last Testament, a years-long exploration of the lives of seven self-proclaimed Messiahs around the world who claim to be…

  • See Soccer Fans React in Epic Slow Motion – LightBox

    See Soccer Fans React in Epic Slow Motion – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/11/see-soccer-fans-react-in-epic-slow-motion/ Jonas Bendiksen has shot these epic, super slow-motion videos of soccer fans and amateur soccer players in action. He’s called them “Still Films,” and below he explains why he sees these pieces as photographic works of art, and not as videos. 

  • Brazil vs. Croatia, from Jonas Bendiksen’s ‘Still Films’ : The New Yorker

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    Still Films: Brazil vs. Croatia via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/06/still-films-brazil-vs-croatia.html This video was taken by the Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen, using a camera that can record a thousand frames per second

  • Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can

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    Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can As photographic careers go, Jonas Bendiksen’s has been pretty barnstorming. A member of the prestigious Magnum photo agency, awards, international solo shows, big clients such as National Geographic. Why on earth then would he choose to take a job at a lo via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/jonas-bendiksen/…

  • TWO LOOKS: Laara Matsen and Jonas Bendiksen «

    TWO LOOKS: Laara Matsen and Jonas Bendiksen «

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    TWO LOOKS: Laara Matsen and Jonas Bendiksen Since Rebecca and I are traveling next week, we decided to post this month’s TWO LOOKS column a few days early.  For January, we’re featuring the work of LAARA MATSEN, a U.S. photograph… Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/two-looks-laara-matsen-and-jonas-bendiksen/ we’re featuring the work of LAARA MATSEN, a U.S. photographer who also works as a…

  • Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia

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    Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia: This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national…

  • The Places We Live – Magnum Photos

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    Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos In 2005, I started work on The Places We Live, a project about urban poverty and slums. For three years, I visited dozens of families in four slums around the world. The Places We Live was not a search for finding the absolute extremes of urban poverty—I wasn’t looking for the dirties…

  • Congrats to New Magnum Members – PDNPulse

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    We’ve heard the names of the new Magnum Photos members who were elected at the cooperative’s meeting in Paris last week: Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata and Alec Soth have been elected full members. Olivia Arthur and Peter Van Agtmael are new Magnum nominees. Check it out here.

  • Access to Life

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    In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry…

  • Jonas Bendiksen Wins $50,000 National Geographic Grant

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    The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth. The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered…

  • Satellites

    Satellites

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    MagnumPhotos: The Soviet collapse spawned 15 new countries that are now established members of the international community. However, economic, political and ethnic disparities also gave birth to a series of far less known unrecognized republics, national aspirations and legacies. Jonas Bendiksen, a Norwegian and Magnum’s youngest photographer, started his “multi-year project about states that do…

  • Magnum Photos Podcasts

    Magnum Photos Podcasts

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    From Magnum Photos: Magnum in Motion Video Podcasting with new content each week First installment is Jonas Bendiksen, “Satellites” Here.