One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
She may be America’s foremost social documentary photographer, now with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. “All I’m doing is showing up as a vessel.”
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/arts/design/latoya-ruby-frazier-moma.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/arts/design/latoya-ruby-frazier-moma.html
Bedford Gallery has recently opened its latest exhibition, Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project, a photo-docuseries which highlights and celebrates inspiring stories of present-day NativeAmerican individuals and communities by providing a platform for them to tell their stories of the past, present, and future in their own voices and words
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/re-discovering-native-america-stories-in-motion-with-the-red-road-project/
A list of the winners of journalism’s top honor, including links to the winning stories.
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/2024-pulitzer-prize-winners/
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/2024-pulitzer-prize-winners/
As misinformation flooded social media Oct. 7, Reuters delivered raw, impactful imagery documenting the start of the war between Israel and Hamas
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/reuters-pulitzer-prize-breaking-news-photography-israel-hamas-gaza/
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/associated-press-pulitzer-feature-photography/
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/associated-press-pulitzer-feature-photography/
James Hamilton’s career conveniently mirrors the changing fortunes of journalism as an industry.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/910684/half-a-century-of-american-culture-through-the-lens-of-photographer-james-hamilton/
Debuting its tour at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1998–2024has been curated by writer and photographer Johny Pitts, with the exhibition’s title wittily alluding to Francis Fukuyama’s essay titled The End of History, citing his unfulfilled anticipation of global stability. As Lillian Wilkie examines, Pitts navigates the sociocultural turn of neoliberalism and creates a space for multiple, even conflicting truths of working-class life, challenging the dominance of singular historical narratives and entrenched social hierarchies.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/after-the-end-of-history/
Following intense preparations, the Ciro Battiloro travelled to Normandy in 2022 and 2023. Images of the harsh life of fishermen.
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-project-is-not-your-friend/
Bellingcat investigates the demotions carried out by the IDF in Gaza.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/weve-become-addicted-to-explosions-the-idf-unit-responsible-for-demolishing-homes-across-gaza/
In the past two decades, American parents have started to ditch the purées and give babies more choice—and more power—at mealtime.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-babies-rule-the-dinner-table
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-babies-rule-the-dinner-table
The world’s most important stories in photos.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/04/18/2024-world-press-photo-winners-show-why-photojournalism-matters/
https://petapixel.com/2024/04/18/2024-world-press-photo-winners-show-why-photojournalism-matters/
Photojournalist Mohammed Salem captured a Palestinian woman embracing the body of her niece, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/904257/mohammed-salem-heart-wrenching-gaza-image-wins-world-press-photo-of-the-year/
The Imperial War Museum in London is opening an exhibition dedicated to the work of the British photographer, who died in 2011 aged 40 while covering the Libyan civil war
An exhibition in England asks how a generation of blue-collar British photographers have responded to the rising tide of neoliberalism.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/picturing-britains-working-class-after-the-end-of-history/
https://aperture.org/editorial/picturing-britains-working-class-after-the-end-of-history/
Some of the portraits in “This Train” have an Edenic quality to them, as if Kurland is asking: What if my kid and I were the only two people in the world?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/in-justine-kurlands-photographs-a-mother-and-son-hit-the-road
In his new book, Hardtack, Rahim Fortune compiles nearly a decade of work, blending documentary with personal history within the context of post-emancipation America. Through coming-of-age portraits that traverse survivalism and land migration, Fortune illustrates African American and Chickasaw Nation communities. As Taous Dahmani observes, the iconography of the American South is drawn between Fortune’s Hardtack and Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, released only a few days after — both of which raise questions that serve to redefine ‘Americana’.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/rahim-fortune/
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our last call-for-entries–way back in late-2022 (a new call will be going out sometime in the near future, so stay tuned for details…). Today we are viewing and hearing more about A Natural History (Built to be Seen) by Austin Cullen. Austin
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/austin-cullen-a-natural-history-built-to-be-seen/
http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/austin-cullen-a-natural-history-built-to-be-seen/
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our last call-for-entries–way back in late-2022 (a new call will be going out sometime in the near future, so stay tuned for details…). Today we are viewing and hearing more about As Big As The Sky by Seth Adam Cook. Seth Cook
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/seth-adam-cook-as-big-as-the-sky/
http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/seth-adam-cook-as-big-as-the-sky/