The above is clearly the case for the photographs made by Akihiko Okamura in Northern Ireland around the low-level civil war that typically is being described euphemistically as “the troubles”. When I grew up, that war was a frequent part of the news on TV in then West Germany.
Photographs from two trips along Ukraine’s northeastern border regions, in the months before Russia renewed an offensive there, reveal loss and transformation.
Sirens cannot provide enough warning time for a bombardment from this close, and air defenses cannot repel it. Residents rely on deliveries of humanitarian aid, and the long, cold wait for supplies takes place under near daily shelling.
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
During the two years that BNN was active, it had the veneer of a legitimate news service, claiming a worldwide roster of “seasoned” journalists and 10 million monthly visitors, surpassing the The Chicago Tribune’s self-reported audience. Prominent news organizations like The Washington Post, Politico and The Guardian linked to BNN’s stories. Google News often surfaced them, too.
From photographing politicians and celebrities to the struggles and triumphs of ordinary folks, Mr. Ortiz handled each with compassion, colleagues say.
Dakota Ortiz was a year old when he spent eight months in treatment for a rare form of cancer. His dad, Max Ortiz, a professional photographer, took photos of him hugging his sister that were so powerful, the family said they were blown up by Ronald McDonald House Charities and put inside McDonald’s restaurants to raise awareness of childhood cancer.
The Reagan assassination attempt photo came on what was only Edmonds’ second day as the AP’s White House photographer covering Reagan. He said his job was to “watch the president at all times” and believes he did his job well that day.
This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves you drop by drop. … I evaporate like moistness from your
Meeting Nicolás Marticorena was like stumbling upon a kindred spirit. Ever since I saw his work at the group exhibition Pasajero in Santiago de Chile, I was captivated by his remarkable aesthetic sensibility towards the landscape and his generous heart for the stories of the people living in it. His poetic speech and passion for analog photography captivated me during our coffee meeting, where we bonded over our shared concerns about the environmental crisis in Petorca — one of the most infamous and affected territories by the Chilean water crisis. I am delighted to share our conversation after several months of keeping it secretly in my journals.
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.
“It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content,” Mr. Pine said. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative A.I. replacing “the publications that they have cannibalized,” he added.
To my left lay Ken Oosterbroek, mortally wounded, while to my right, Greg Marinovich clutched at his chest, holding on for dear life. Friends and fellow photographers who had dedicated their careers to documenting the violent, dying throes of apartheid lay dead and wounded.
I definitely think I dream in black and white, even though dreams are difficult to remember. Black and white makes the soul of things speak, while colours tell the reality. I like to think I can dream with my soul.
I think the single best collection of images of the climate crisis I’ve ever seen is the exhibit that will be up through early August at the Asia Society, on Park Avenue. (If that seems a parochial spot for a global exhibit, it is worth remembering that sixty per cent of the world’s population lives in Asia.) Co-curated by the celebrated photographer Susan Meiselas and the exhibition designer Jeroen de Vries, and led by the Asia Society’s Orville Schell, the longtime China watcher and correspondent for The New Yorker (whose late brother Jonathan wrote “The Fate of the Earth,” which first appeared in the magazine), “Coal + Ice” is an evolving project
Congratulations to Mark Leong for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing his project, Coming of Age: China’s Post-90s Generation . CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers and filmmakers. CENTER sponsors documentary projects that educate the public about critical environmental and social issues and is
Since 1989, photographing Chinese young people has been a constant thread in my career, covering rock bands, internet hackers, entrepreneurs, factory workers and self-labeled “hooligans.” While I am ethnically Chinese, I am still an outsider who came with a preconceived notion of Chinese people as a monolithic bloc of conformity. One of my goals, then, has been to share the realities of diverse, nuanced lives in this most massive of mass societies — especially crucial in this divisive time of geo-political unease.
The CENTER Awards recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Social, and Environmental. All submissions will become part of the CENTER archive serving as an ongoing mission-driven fine art and documentary imagery resource. Congratulations to John Trotter for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award recognizing his project, No Agua,
In 2001, Trotter began photographing in Mexico for his project No Agua, No Vida about the human alteration of the Colorado River. He has photographed along the entire 2,250 km length of the river, from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the desiccated remains of its delta above the Gulf of California. He has lived in New York City since 2000, and in 2017 became one of the founding members of the collective, MAPS Images.
Congratulations to Robert Pluma for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Hidden Histories of San Antonio. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects. The award is open, but not limited to, photography, video, new media, photojournalism, installation, and web-based works.
Robert Pluma is the recipient of the 2024 Multimedia Award. His project, Hidden Histories of San Antonio, reexamines the stories many thought we knew and shows how our understanding can be significantly deepened when viewing them through a different lens. At its best, multimedia can engage the audience to understand a story in a deeper, more profound way, and Pluma’s project interweaves his own family’s story with portraiture, testimony, and 3D scanning of primary objects to retell this historical narrative in a fresh way. Hidden Histories of San Antonio was in some ways the most ambitious project submitted from a multimedia perspective, but what drew me into it was seeing how Pluma’s explanation centered the participants—the most important part of any narrative.
The book is a personal collection of a life lived, a scrapbook that contains the dichotomy of two worlds: the innocence of circumstance and the visual acknowledgment of colliding cultures, that include race and privilege. The artist simply documented her world and the people in it. – Aline Smithson Rotan Switch is the first monograph
Rotan Switch documents life on my grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan, which takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice.
Peter van Agtmael is a documentary photographer based in NY. Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a member of Magnum Photos