Author: Trent
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Finalists of World Press Photo of the Year 2021 are Truly Incredible
Finalists of World Press Photo of the Year 2021 are Truly Incredible Photojournalism at its finest. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/03/11/finalists-of-world-press-photo-of-the-year-2021-are-truly-incredible/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the nominees for its 2021 contest featuring 45 photographers from 28 countries. Though all the work is incredibly impressive, six of the moving photos are in the running for…
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Foam Paul Huf Award 2021 for young photography talent goes to John Edmonds
Foam Paul Huf Award 2021 for young photography talent goes to John Edmonds The Brooklyn-based photographer won the prestigious prize, €20,000 and a solo show at the Amsterdam gallery for his “clarity of vision” portraying the African-American perspective. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/john-edmonds-foam-paul-huf-award-winner-2021-photography-110321?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 The Foam jury says in a statement that Edmonds’ work impressed them for its “very…
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Highlights from the 2021 World Press Photo nominees | 1854 Photography
Highlights from the 2021 World Press Photo nominees | 1854 Photography Reading Time: 5 minutes The World Press Photo Contest has announced the nominees for 2021. Here, we round up some of the most compelling stories via 1854 Photography: https://www.1854.photography/2021/03/world-press-photo-2021/ The World Press Photo Contest its announced the nominees for 2021. Here, we round up…
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The Fluctuating Truth of Documentary Images
The Fluctuating Truth of Documentary Images False and varying claims about documentary images made by Candida Höfer and Dorothea Lange ultimately create a deeply malleable “unsettled subject.” via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/627020/the-fluctuating-truth-of-documentary-images/ I think of this while looking at Lange’s iconic image of the “Migrant Woman”(1936). I think about it again while I delete, with embarrassment, a…
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Leica Unveils Women Foto Project Award Winners
Leica Unveils Women Foto Project Award Winners Leica has announced the winners of its Women Foto Project Award, part of its campaign to amplify diverse voices in photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/03/08/leica-unveils-women-foto-project-award-winners/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The three award winners this year are Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman and Anna Boyiazis and were selected by a diverse panel of judges ranging…
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LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness – The New York Times
LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/t-magazine/latoya-ruby-frazier-photography.html This fall, Frazier will publish “Flint Is Family in Three Acts,” a record of her five-year collaboration with people affected by the ongoing contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Mich. “The Last Cruze,”…
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The Artist Intervenes: Kevin Hoth – LENSCRATCH
The Artist Intervenes: Kevin Hoth – LENSCRATCH In Immortal Chromatic, artist Kevin Hoth transforms the process of destruction into a cathartic act. Initially serving as a coping mechanism to a singular traumatic event, the project explores the inherent fragility and impermanence of life, and our inabi via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/03/the-artist-intervenes-kevin-hoth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 In Immortal Chromatic, artist Kevin Hoth…
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Forget the Photography, Remember the Story: For Rick Egan, Photojournalism is About Changing Lives – SLUG Magazine
Forget the Photography, Remember the Story: For Rick Egan, Photojournalism is About Changing Lives – SLUG Magazine Rick Egan, a staff photographer for The Salt Lake Tribune since 1984, has spent the majority of his life documenting SLC in photographs. via SLUG Magazine: https://www.slugmag.com/arts/art/forget-the-photography-remember-the-story-for-rick-egan-photojournalism-is-about-changing-lives/ Photographing the punk and hardcore scene is far from the only…
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Naomi Rosenblum, Historian of Photography, Dies at 96 – The New York Times
Naomi Rosenblum, Historian of Photography, Dies at 96 Her seminal works brought scholarship to the field and helped develop appreciation for it as a creative art form. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/arts/naomi-rosenblum-dead.html Dr. Rosenblum was the author of seminal works that helped bring scholarship and recognition to photography as a creative art form after practitioners, notably Alfred Stieglitz,…
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Utopia – Photographs by Sebastian Wells | Text by Magnus Pölcher | LensCulture
Utopia – Photographs by Sebastian Wells | Text by Magnus Pölcher | LensCulture Embarking on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps, Sebastian Wells explores the tension between impermanence and permanence that exists in these environments via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sebastian-wells-utopia Though each camp had its own complex histories, Wells encountered certain recurring structural…
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100 Contemporary Women Street Photographers Redefining the Genre – Feature Shoot
100 Contemporary Women Street Photographers Redefining the Genre – Feature Shoot Growing up in Ufa, the capital of the republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, Gulnara Samoilova fell in love with photography at the age of 15, and quickly discovered it was a… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/03/100-contemporary-women-street-photographers-redefining-the-genre/ Featuring the work of 100 contemporary artists from 31 countries pushing the…
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Peter van Agtmael’s Absurd, Grotesque Chronicle of the Fallout from the Iraq War | The New Yorker
Peter van Agtmael’s Absurd, Grotesque Chronicle of the Fallout from the Iraq War Van Agtmael’s images in his new book, “Sorry for the War,” highlight all the little ways in which the war twists and perverts whatever it touches, over there as well as over here. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/peter-van-agtmaels-absurd-grotesque-chronicle-of-the-fallout-from-the-iraq-war For a decade and…
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Photos of Slaves Are Property of Harvard, Not a Descendant, Judge Rules – The New York Times
Images of Slaves Are Property of Harvard, Not a Descendant, Judge Rules The woman who says the enslaved people are her ancestors plans to appeal the decision “about the patriarch of a family, a subject of bedtime stories.” Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/us/harvard-slave-photos-renty.html The judge acknowledged that the daguerreotypes had been taken under “horrific circumstances” but said that…
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8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers
8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/8-photobooks-by-contemporary-women-photographers/ From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Fumino Ishino’s New Handmade Book “Index of Fillers”
Juxtapoz Magazine – Fumino Ishino’s New Handmade Book “Index of Fillers” Composed of found images of Japanese culture from the late 1980s and 1990s along with his own photographs, Index of Fillers is a recreation of artist… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/books/fumino-ishino-s-new-handmade-book-index-of-fillers/ Composed of found images of Japanese culture from the late 1980s and 1990s along with his…
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Photographing Natural Disasters: Ideas & Ethics – Feature Shoot
Photographing Natural Disasters: Ideas & Ethics – Feature Shoot In 2020, swaths of our planet were ravaged by wildfires and hurricanes as global temperatures soured. The Australian bushfire crisis killed or displaced almost three billion animals, and California experienced… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/03/photographing-natural-disasters-ideas-ethics/ As the connection between climate change and extreme weather events becomes increasingly…
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ЖД The Iron Road – The Leica camera Blog
ЖД The Iron Road For two years and over ten thousand kilometres, the Russian photographer, Grigoriy Yaroshenko explored the very essence of rail travel.
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Speaking of Britney … What About All Those Other Women? – The New York Times
Speaking of Britney … What About All Those Other Women? Monica Lewinsky. Janet Jackson. Lindsay Lohan. Whitney Houston. We are living in an era of reappraisals. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/style/celebrity-tabloid-women-reappraisals.html “Magazines in that era were driven by damsel-in-distress narratives,” said Ramin Setoodeh, the executive editor at Variety and the author of “Ladies Who Punch.” “It was almost…
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Blind – Imagining a World Somewhere Else from Sweden
Imagining The World Somewhere Else from Sweden Photographer Per-Olof Stolz has photographed the suburbia of his hometown Rydebäck, in southern Sweden, where his family bought a house in the 1960s. A simple documentation of the middle-class life, which tells about both prosperity and isolation. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1239/Imagining-A-World-Somewhere-Else-From-Sweden Photographer Per-Olof Stolz has photographed the suburbia of his…
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WATCH: The Social Effects of Photography with Black Women Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog
WATCH: The Social Effects of Photography with Black Women Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog Photography has long been a medium used to drive social and cultural change. The impact of documentary photography is immeasurable as both new and historic images play a role in how we see and interact with the world around us. As society…