Tag: Michael Christopher Brown

  • Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate ‘Inaccessible’ Stories | PetaPixel

    Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate 'Inaccessible' Stories

    Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate ‘Inaccessible’ Stories

    His Instagram account has been flooded with angry comments.

    via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/15/photojournalist-controversially-turns-to-ai-to-illustrate-inaccessible-stories/

    Michael Christopher Brown used the artificial intelligence (AI) image generator Midjourney to produce a series of images that explores historical Cuban events and the realities of Cubans attempting to cross the 90 miles of ocean that separate Havana from Florida.

  • How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    In this Op-ed, independent photography director Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.

    via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/how-ai-imagery-is-shaking-photojournalism/

    In this Op-ed, independent photography director and educator Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.

  • A Small Voice Podcast – 142 – Michael Christopher Brown

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    American photographer Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington. After moving to New York City in 2005, he joined the Italian photo agency Grazia Neri in 2006. He then moved to Beijing, China, in 2009 and over the next two years put together a series of works from road and train trips across the country.
  • Michael Christopher Brown, Artist’s Book Infinity Award – The Eye of Photography

    Michael Christopher Brown, Artist’s Book Infinity Award

    The project for which he receives the ICP Infinity Award—Libyan Sugar (2016)— explores ethical distance and the iconography of warfare while using a phone camera. A book on the series was released in 2016 by Twin Palms Publishers; a lm and a mixed media installation will complete the project

  • ‘War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are’ | TIME

    ‘War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are’

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    A review of Michael Christopher Brown’s photobook, Libyan Sugar

  • A War Photographer Talks About the Demands of Documenting Conflict | VICE | United States

    A War Photographer Talks About the Demands of Documenting Conflict

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    Michael Christopher Brown’s new book, Libyan Sugar, is about the Libyan revolution. Then again, in many ways, it’s not. It’s about being a photographer and bearing witness to life-changing events. It’s about family and the lengths people go to in order to test themselves.

  • Blood and Determination: A Young Photographer’s Intro to a Revolution Photos | Image #1 – ABC News

    Blood and Determination: A Young Photographer’s Intro to a Revolution

    Michael Christopher Brown’s “Libyan Sugar” centers around the 2011 Libyan Revolution, detailed through photographs, journal entries, and written communication with family and colleagues. “Libyan Sugar” is a depiction of a youth uprising that quickly became a bloody civil war, through the eyes of a young photographer looking to make a difference

  • Surviving one of photojournalism’s darkest moments – CNN.com

    Surviving one of photojournalism’s darkest moments

    Photographer Michael Christopher Brown traveled by car into Libya with a digital camera in his hand and adventure in his heart. He intended to document an uprising, but as it escalated, he wanted — no, needed — to experience armed conflict

  • Magnum Photos Blog

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    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

  • In Conversation with Michael Christopher Brown — Vantage — Medium

    In Conversation with Michael Christopher Brown

    Shortly after arriving in Libya to cover the insurrection which would eventually topple Muammar Gaddafi, Brown dropped his camera. He made do as best he could and reported with his iPhone. Soon thereafter, assignments began to arrive requesting, specifically, that he use his phone for the story.

  • Musings: Michael Christopher Brown in Congo


    Link: Musings: Michael Christopher Brown in Congo | PROOF

    While working on a project that was a mammoth photo editing task—our Congo story, published on our News site—I came across Michael Christopher Browns’s ironically lovely images from the Congo, taken between 2012 and 2013. The original news story is an 11,000 word piece that dives deep into Congo’s conflicted and violent history, and its strained yet hopeful relationship with the United Nations peacekeeping mission.

  • New Magnum nominee’s website: Michael Christopher Brown

  • Michael Christopher Brown joins Magnum Photos

  • iPhone Photojournalism


    Link: iPhone Photojournalism | DigitalPhotoPro.comLead

    Michael Christopher Brown uses an unlikely device to create iconic news photos that wouldn’t be possible with a DSLR

  • HBO’s Witness: Libya, with Michael Christopher Brown

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    Link: HBO’s Witness: Libya, with Michael Christopher Brown : The New Yorker

    Tonight at 9 P.M., HBO is airing “Witness: Libya,” a documentary that follows the war work of the the photographer Michael Christopher Brown.

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

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    Link: In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath – LightBox

    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.

  • emphas.is: Michael Christopher Brown – The Libyan Republic

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    There now is a new pitch up on emphas.is by Michael Christopher Brown, entitled The Libyan Republic – if you want to support a photojournalist specifically working in the country, which still torn by war, check it out

    Link: Conscientious Extended | emphas.is: Michael Christopher Brown – The Libyan Republic
  • michael christopher brown – the libyan republic

    Since arriving in Libya, I have tried to understand the situation. People swap facts, predictions and rumors, but the complexity of the conflict makes it impossible to fully comprehend. Once a picture is taken or a word is written it is already old news. There seems to be no way to catch up, as the database of history is filed before it is processed. And as a result I have become more confused. But I can attest to one reality, shown in these photographs. They form a loose record of my experience during the war in Libya.

    Link: michael christopher brown – the libyan republic | burn magazine
  • The War in Libya: Photographs by Michael Christopher Brown

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    “I didn’t go to Libya to cover a war, I went to cover an uprising,” said Brown, who was using an iPhone loaded with the Hipstamatic app after dropping his SLR on one of the first days he was there. “But then it became a war so I followed it, because that’s where the story was moving.”

    Link: The War in Libya: Photographs by Michael Christopher Brown – LightBox
  • michael christopher brown – libya | burn magazine

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    Since arriving ten days ago, I have tried to understand the situation here in Libya. People swap facts, predictions and rumors, the news feeds me information, but the complexity of the conflict makes it impossible to fully comprehend. Once a picture is taken or a word is written it is already old news. There seems to be no way to catch up, as the database of history is filed before it is processed. And as a result I have become more confused. But I can attest to one reality, shown in these photographs. They form a loose record of my experience during the war in Libya.

    Link: michael christopher brown – libya | burn magazine