Tag: Max Pinckers

  • Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup | The New Yorker

    Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup

    Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup

    Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.

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    Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.

  • 50 Artists Donate to Support the Australian Bushfire Photo Appeal, Launching Today – Feature Shoot

    50 Artists Donate to Support the Australian Bushfire Photo Appeal, Launching Today
    Laurence Watts, a photographic artist currently based in Melbourne, Australia, has organized the Bushfire Photo Appeal, an online sale of photographing prints to raise money for the Country Fire Authority’s Bushfire Disaster Appeal, which goes directly to the regional organizations fighting the blazes, and the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities, coordinated by Yorta Yorta activist Neil Morris, which provides culturally sensitive support to First Nations peoples impacted by the fires.
  • Max Pinckers and Mary Gelman awarded top honors at the 2018 Leica Oskar Barnack Awards | Leica Rumors

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    Max Pinckers and Mary Gelman awarded top honors at the 2018 Leica Oskar Barnack Awards | Leica Rumors

    September 6, 2018 — The winners of this year’s established and internationally acclaimed Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) photographic competition have been chosen. In the main category, “Leica Oskar Barnack Award”, Belgian photographer Max Pinckers won over the five judges of the competition with his series titled “Red Ink”. In the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer” category for up-and-coming photographers aged up to 25, Mary Gelman of Russia won with her series titled “Svetlana”.

  • A photographer’s portrait of America in the post-truth era

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    A photographer’s portrait of America in the post-truth era

    Pulling from staged scenes, media coverage and original interviews, Max Pinckers shines a light on a country fixated with its own mythology – one where anyone can shape their own reality.

  • The camera that produces perfect pictures – Witness

    The camera that produces perfect pictures – Witness

    Belgian visual artist Max Pinckers explains his ‘Trophy Camera’ and what he hopes it will teach us about photojournalism

  • A Photographer’s Search for Cracks in North Korea’s Propaganda Machine | The New Yorker

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    A Photographer’s Search for Cracks in North Korea’s Propaganda Machine | The New Yorker

    The photographer Max Pinckers likes his images to call into question the truthfulness of the subjects before him. In some of his photographs, the use of elaborate lighting and staging techniques can make it difficult to divine what is real and what isn’t. Recently, while preparing to travel to Pyongyang to take pictures for Evan Osnos’s New Yorker piece “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea,” Pinckers knew that he would be entering a controlled environment, closely shaped by state officials, and he was fascinated by the knowledge that the scenes he photographed would be orchestrated by a foreign power.

  • Here’s Why These Photographers Are Still Shooting Film | Time.com

    Here’s Why These Photographers Are Still Shooting Film

    Working with film requires a disciplined, considered approach. “You can make all these decisions without the camera. And then take a picture of it.” says Magnum photographer Max Pinckers. “And for me that works because I can make my decision and stick with it.”

  • Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers | American Photo

    Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers

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    This year the organization is considering a record number of new Magnum associates to potentially join their ranks: Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Sohrab Hura, Lorenzo Meloni, Max Pinckers and Newsha Travakolian. To celebrate the history-making occasion Milk Gallery is currently hosting, Magnum Photos: New Blood, an exhibition that highlights the diverse points of view of each of these photographers.

  • 2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism – The Eye of Photography

    2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism

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    From film-inspired Max Pinckers to war reporter Lorenzo Meloni, from Newsha Tavakolian’s insider’s view to the conceptual work of Richard Moose, from the lyrical Carolyn Drake to the classic approach of Matt Black, the six Magnum nominees for 2015 cover the full range of current documentary trends

  • Magnum Photos Blog

    Magnum 2015 Annual General Meeting

    Michael Christopher Brown has been made an Associate Member Carolyn Drake has been made a Magnum Nominee Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee Newsha Tavakolian has been made a Magnum Nominee Max Pinckers has been made a Magnum Nominee Richard Mosse has been made a Magnum Nominee Lorenzo Meloni has been made a Magnum Nominee