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Blind – Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s

Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s — Blind Magazine

American photographer Ken Light looks back at his time at the US/Mexico border in the 1980s when The Border Patrol began hunting migrants in the dead of night.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1237/Haunting-Photos-Of-Midnight-Crossings-At-The-Us-Mexico-Border-During-The-1980s

“At the time, a lot of newspapers in California were writing stories about the ‘Brown Invasion’ because the immigration numbers were incredible. I realized this is one of the great stories of the twentieth century. The massive immigration would change the demographics of America.”

February 24, 2021
Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? – PhotoShelter Blog

Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? – PhotoShelter Blog

In 1976 while rummaging through an attic of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in search of old museum publications, editorial assistant Lorna Condon opened a drawer in a wooden cabinet. Inside, she found a number of flat leather cases

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In 1976 while rummaging through an attic of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in search of old museum publications, editorial assistant Lorna Condon opened a drawer in a wooden cabinet. Inside, she found a number of flat leather cases which contained a series of daguerreotypes of partially and fully nude Black people. Names were handwritten on paper labels identifying 7 individuals: Alfred, Delia, Drama, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty with assumed ethnicities and occupations. The daguerreotypes represented some of the earliest known images of slaves in the U.S.

February 23, 2021
The LA punks throwing ‘Covid-safe’ backyard shows

The LA punks throwing ‘Covid-safe’ backyard shows

Last summer saw a string of raucous outdoor gigs in Los Angeles. Many attendees wore masks and at some of the shows, there were temperature checks before entry – critics say they’re being reckless, but they claim they’re just keeping their scene alive.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-la-punks-throwing-covid-safe-backyard-shows/

“It was really dirty and the kids really showed up for that one. I think that was at the peak of Covid,” says Drew Kelley, a freelance photojournalist who went to the Riverside show to take 35mm photos. Drew was impressed by the effort, passion and Covid-safety that had gone into creating the event.

February 23, 2021
ER Doctor Documents COVID-19 Battle in a LA Hospital with His Camera

ER Doctor Documents COVID-19 Battle in a LA Hospital with His Camera

There have been some dramatic images coming out of the coronavirus battle around the world and stateside as well. However, when a doctor attending on the

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Dr. Kobner is an amateur photographer, and when the pandemic struck, he started using his Leica M6 and M10 cameras to record the goings-on in the ER. These photos were published by the Los Angeles Times this week. When one thinks of Leica, historical images of wars, pandemics, and other tragedies come to mind. The coronavirus is indeed the greatest modern-day tragedy that still refuses to go away quietly.

February 22, 2021
Announcing the Winners of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards – Feature Shoot

Announcing the Winners of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards – Feature Shoot

After reviewing hundreds of outstanding submissions, we’re delighted to announce the thirteen winners of the 6th Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards. This year’s jury selected ten photographers to exhibit…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/02/announcing-the-winners-of-the-feature-shoot-emerging-photography-awards-2/

The ten photographers chosen to show in East London are Antonio Faccilongo, Rashod Taylor, Mirja Maria Thiel, Ursula Ferrara, Shaun Pierson, Donavon Smallwood, Manon Ouimet, Sergey Pesterev, Alison Luntz, and Renata Dutrée. Together, they span genres and continents, telling stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Palestine, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and beyond.

February 22, 2021
Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids

Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids

The Magnum president’s latest book reinterprets her cult classic Learn to See for young people.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/susan-meiselas-eyes-opens-photography-190221?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

Eyes Open is loosely inspired by Meiselas’ previous cult classic, Learn to See, a sourcebook of ideas from and for teachers and students published by the Polaroid Foundation in 1974. Reimagining this volume nearly 50 years later, Eyes Open saw Meiselas work with students and their work, not to mention an array of teachers who also submitted ideas for the newly published tome.

February 22, 2021
Blind – How the 1970s Revolutionized the Art of Photography

How the 1970s Revolutionized the Art of Photography

A new exhibition at PDNB Gallery explores how photographers working in the 1970s transformed not only the language of photography, but invented new ways of seeing the world.

Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1235/How-The-1970s-Revolutionized-The-Art-Of-Photography

Despite its long-standing marginalization, photography underwent a radical shift in the 1970s, catapulting it into the realm of fine art. Under John Szarkowski’s direction, the Museum of Modern Art staged a series of seminal exhibitions and wrote the landmark 1973 book, Looking at Photography, which reframed conventional notions of the relationship between photography and art. Recognizing that photography was not invented to serve a specific purpose, Szarkowski understood that its inherent plasticity of purpose made it the perfect medium for use by artists from all walks of life.

February 22, 2021
Debunking the Myth That It’s Hard to Find Black Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog

Debunking the Myth That It’s Hard to Find Black Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog

Last year, multimedia journalist, digital editor and self-taught photographer Polly Irungu took the photo industry by storm. As a Digital Content Editor at New York Public Radio (WYNC), she knows the power of promotion. So, when she masterfully used socia

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Join us this Friday, February 19th, at 12PM ET as we talk with Polly and two incredibly talented independent photographers from the BWP community, Dee Dwyer and Alexis Hunley, about the social effects of photography and what Black photographers need from the photo industry. Sign up here.

February 18, 2021
Covid Projects: Billy Hickey: How We Were – LENSCRATCH

Covid Projects: Billy Hickey: How We Were – LENSCRATCH

I had the great pleasure of meeting Billy Hickey at the ICP Virtual Portfolio Reviews in 2020. During the reviews, he shared a personal project, How We Were, born of events created by the pandemic when he returned home to Massachusetts for an appointment

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I had the great pleasure of meeting Billy Hickey at the ICP Virtual Portfolio Reviews in 2020. During the reviews, he shared a personal project, How We Were, born of events created by the pandemic when he returned home to Massachusetts for an appointment, only to find that he needed to stay put. It’s never easy to return to the familial home once you are officially launched into the world, but eventually he realized that documenting family during this historic time was as important as documenting strangers in other parts of the world. The photographs reveal a family trying to learn how to share space again, this time as adults, with a need to seek solitude and comfort in small things.

February 18, 2021
No. 72 Benjamin Chesterton – 10 Frames Per Second

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We’re back after a long COVID hiatus. We’re kicking off a new season with Benjamin Chesterton, @duckrabbitblog on Twitter, and his open letter to Magnum concerning years of photographing child abuse and other controversies surrounding the iconic photo agency. Trigger Warning: sexual assault, child abuse. This is a harrowing episode. Read his letter to Magnum here. The Statement with over 600 signatures calling on Magnum Photos to demonstrate accountability can be read here.

February 18, 2021
Blind – Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs

Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs — Blind Magazine

The Magnum photographer’s latest book, Found Not Lost, takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a new body of work for the first time.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1229/Elliott-Erwitts-Rediscovered-Photographs

The Magnum photographer’s latest book, “Found Not Lost,” takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a new body of work for the first time.

February 18, 2021
“I had the chance to open the doors a little”: Stephan Gladieu photographs the people of North Korea

“I had the chance to open the doors a little”: Stephan Gladieu photographs the people of North Korea

The photographer talks us through his work in North Korea, detailing what it was like to gain access to a country largely hidden from the world.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/stephan-gladieu-north-koreans-photography-160221?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

The photographer talks us through his work in North Korea, detailing what it was like to gain access to a country largely hidden from the world.

February 17, 2021
Rebecca Norris Webb Night Calls – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Rebecca Norris Webb Night Calls

In memory of a child that I never knew. This reflection is dedicated to Carol Jenkins-Davis

I find myself combatively trying to embed myself in the images, memories and families of others. My initial hesitancy in this pursuit comes from ack

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The sycamores I understand, each scale of their weathered bark is fit for a peelin’ from childish hands. Perhaps here and there a jackknife scratches into the tree skin an overture of young love. A rusted nail once precariously an iron protuberance is now enveloped by the same bark and it is sinking into the torso of the green and brown sycamore. The nail’s head now reminds me of an awkward bellybutton as the skin of the tree stretches to accommodate its mass before the tree’s invisible maw can work its iron victim from sight. It is a slow process and the casual observation of the sinking nail will give little up to the viewer, but over time and over repeat returns, the nail’s “progress” can be seen as a testament to the march of all things.

February 15, 2021
Covid Projects: Covid Pictures – LENSCRATCH

Covid Projects: Covid Pictures – LENSCRATCH

During the 2020 pandemic, when life was out of our control, restricted and confined, when we had to cope with shifted realities, many photographic artists found whole new ways to create work. We mined our personal lives, walked empty streets and photographed our cities and towns when they were silent, we watched the light move

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/02/focus-on-covid-covid-pictures/

Photographer Jennifer Timmer Trail considered the importance of this moment in time and realized there was an opportunity to create a historical archive of work created in during the pandemic. So she created Covid Pictures. She describes her intentions:

February 15, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club”

Juxtapoz Magazine – Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club”

A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Carolyn Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/carolyn-drake-s-knit-club/

A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Carolyn Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women loosely calling themselves “Knit Club.” The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share.

February 11, 2021
The Green Helicopter | Conscientious Photography Magazine

The Green Helicopter

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/green-helicopter/

In fact, I had expressed my surprise about the Trump team being so inept at visuals many times on Twitter. Having thought about this for a few days, though, I now think I had had it all wrong. Or rather, what I had commented on was not an ineptitude to produce visuals per se. It was the ineptitude (or unwillingness) to produce the kinds of pictures we expected to see.

February 9, 2021
Brian Ulrich: The States Project: Rhode Island – LENSCRATCH

Brian Ulrich: The States Project: Rhode Island – LENSCRATCH

This week The States Project focuses on Rhode Island, a small but mighty bastion of photography, home to a host of significant photographers and well regarded institutions. Our penultimate States Project is curated by photographer Brian Ulrich, a major fo

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This week The States Project focuses on Rhode Island, a small but mighty bastion of photography, home to a host of significant photographers and well regarded institutions. Our penultimate States Project is curated by photographer Brian Ulrich, a major force in American story telling. Today, we showcase his photographic efforts featuring two projects on American consumption, Copia and The Centurion. An interview with Brian follows.

February 9, 2021
The Beautiful – Photographs by Kamal X | Text by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture

The Beautiful – Photographs by Kamal X | Text by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture

Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend last year’s historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/kamal-x-the-beautiful

Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend last year’s historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.

February 9, 2021
Photos capturing the banal eccentricity of British life

Photos capturing the banal eccentricity of British life

Barry Lewis discusses his new book, which brings together some of the photographer’s more quietly powerful images from 1975 to 2005 to celebrate the richness of a shared culture.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photos-capturing-the-banal-eccentricity-of-english-life/

Barry Lewis discusses his new book, which brings together some of the photographer’s more quietly powerful images from 1975 to 2005 to celebrate the richness of a shared culture.

February 9, 2021
We’re Just Sayin: Fifty Years On…

Fifty Years On…

I stumble a bit, me, the former Math major, when I try and do the ‘math.’ Last fall was fifty years: I arrived in Vietnam in October 1…

Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2021/02/fifty-years-on.html

When I told John I was heading to Vietnam, he said to me… “do a story for me – call it Children of War…” I paused, then bagan to ask, “John, what do you want me to do… ?” and before I could finish the sentence, he said “No, no! You tell ME the Story. YOU’re the journalist, your pictures should show ME the story.” Over the decades since, I have been immensely glad for that teaching moment.

February 9, 2021