In eastern Serbia, belief in a world of magic is still very much alive. Equipped with his M Typ 240, Joan Alvado set off in search of traces of Muma Paduri – the Mother of the Woods.
Author: Trent
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Nat Geo’s Editor-in-Chief Answers Her 7 Most-Asked Photography Questions
Nat Geo’s Editor-in-Chief Answers Her 7 Most-Asked Photography Questions
Susan Goldberg has been editor in chief at National Geographic for seven years. In the history of Nat Geo, which started in 1888, she is the 10th editor
Today, when everyone has a camera with them 24/7 (their phones), anyone can get lucky and make one great picture. We are looking for those photographers who can really craft a story: develop a unique idea, engage in the research, make compelling images, and build a powerful narrative across a series of photographs. We have core niches – among them, wildlife and the natural environment, archaeology, science, people, and cultures – and are always looking for photographers who are interested in these topics. But at its core, you do have to be able to take amazing photographs!
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Devil’s Promenade: Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley’s Portrait of the Ozarks
Juxtapoz Magazine – Devil’s Promenade: Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley’s Portrait of the Ozarks
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendar…
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendary floating orb of light that can only be seen from the Devil’s Promenade. It’s a lushly wooded road in an area where wanderers flock to seek possible redemption, or just to escape the boredom and darkness of ordinary rural life. Subtle but revealing portraits are mixed with archives and reinterpretations of mythical, folkloric tales. It’s a nuanced, mysterious, and tender representation by photographers returning to the place where they grew up, but also reveals the current, stark realities of a remote place in America.
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Blind – Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian Story
Antoine Agoudjian: An Armenian story
For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1216/Antoine-Agoudjian-An-Armenian-Story
For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
Juxtapoz Magazine – Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
“I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax. “Most pass through the town on th…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/maria-lax-some-kind-of-heavenly-fire/
“I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax. “Most pass through the town on their way someplace else without ever knowing it was a hotspot for UFO sightings in the 1960s.”
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Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture
Campesino Cuba – Photographs by Richard Sharum | Text by Justin Herfst | LensCulture
These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/richard-andrew-sharum-campesino-cuba
These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Edouard Taufenbach, Régis Campo, and the Movement of Swallows
Juxtapoz Magazine – Edouard Taufenbach, Régis Campo, and the Movement of Swallows
Twice a year, swallows cross the Sahara and the Mediterranean to reach sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Observing their migrating journey, photographer…
This series is an experiment at the crossroads of artistic and scientific uses of photographic and musical mediums. Between formal rigor and subjective narration, the research deploys an approach where the swallow in flight, representing a vector of force, gives form and matter to an insatiable desire for freedom with the sky as perspective.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – RIP, Ricky Powell, The Original Lazy Hustler and Legendary NYC Street Photographer
Juxtapoz Magazine – RIP, Ricky Powell, The Original Lazy Hustler and Legendary NYC Street Photographer
One of the great legends of NYC street photography and culture, the “Lazy Hustler” himself, Ricky Powell, has died today at the age of 59. The iconic…
One of the great legends of NYC street photography and culture, the “Lazy Hustler” himself, Ricky Powell, has died today at the age of 59. The iconic photographer was best known for his association with the Beastie Boys in the 1980s and his countless shots of hip-hop and NYC culture in those crucial days, and we at Juxtapoz featured and hired Powell on numerous occasions throughout the decades. We feel like we lost a piece of our history, too.
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Olivia Arthur – now can we talk about Magnum Photos and child abuse? — duckrabbit
Olivia Arthur – now can we talk about Magnum Photos and child abuse? — duckrabbit
Investigation into the promotion and sale of child abuse images sold on Magnum Photos website.
via duckrabbit: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/2021/01/olivia-arthur-now-can-we-talk-about-magnum-photos-and-child-abuse/
I found the following photos after searching the word ‘rape’ on the Magnum archive.
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Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves | The New Yorker
Corky Lee’s Photographs Helped Generations of Asian-Americans See Themselves
His simple passion to document took him everywhere.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/corky-lees-photographs-helped-generations-of-asian-americans-see-themselves
Corky Lee often described his life’s work as “photographing Asian Pacific Americans.” It was a simple passion that could take him anywhere. For nearly fifty years, New Yorkers never knew where they might run into Lee and his camera: a museum gala or a tenants’ rights meeting, construction sites or local laundries, youth basketball games or poetry readings, community fairs, concerts, or protests. Most often, it was somewhere along Mott Street, in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown, where his photographs of everyday life helped generations of Chinese Americans see themselves as part of a larger community. Lee died on Wednesday, at the age of seventy-three, of complications from covid-19.
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Blind – Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind
Trent Parke: The Crimson Wind — Blind Magazine
Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015. His book Crimson Line is a meditation in scarlet on industrial pollution, creat
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1210/Trent-Parke-The-Crimson-Wind
Australian photographer Trent Parke, a member of Magnum Photos and winner of four World Press Photo awards, returns after a five-year hiatus with his first project since 2015. His book Crimson Line is a meditation in scarlet on industrial pollution, creativity, and light.
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Tennessee Bill to Make ‘Offensive’ Nonconsensual Photos Illegal
Tennessee Bill to Make ‘Offensive’ Nonconsensual Photos Illegal
Tennessee state lawmakers working together with the Sullivan County District Attorney’s Office have introduced a bill to the state legislature that seeks
This new law would target those who are taking “embarrassing” or “offensive” images of people in public but would apparently not target general public photography. This new bill, which you can read here, would make it illegal to take a photo for the purpose of “sexual gratification or arousal.” This would apply to photos that would offend or embarrass the subject or are focused specifically on an “intimate” part of the body.
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Blind – The Egyptian Revolution, Ten Tears Later
Ten years after the Revolution, she is coming out with a new version of her book In The Shadow of the Pyramids, which at the time portrayed the emotional chaos the photographer felt when, in 2005, she left the U.S. to return to Egypt, where she experienced the political whirlwind that was transforming her country then.
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Blind – Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America
“I was born a communist,” says photographer Larry Fink, who turns 80 in March. The self-described “Marxist from Long Island” who first rose to critical acclaim with Social Graces, a series of work that contrasted life in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, when the artist has lived since the 1970s, with scenes of New York’s upper crust that same decade. Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and first published as a monograph by Aperture in 1984. the work catapulted Fink to the forefront of the photo world, despite the fact that he eschewed career ambitions in favor using photography to achieve political goals.
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Fujifilm Unveils the Medium Format GFX100S: 102MP, 5-Axis IBIS, $6,000
Fujifilm Unveils the Medium Format GFX100S: 102MP, 5-Axis IBIS, $6,000
Fujifilm has announced the GFX100S, a camera that takes the “groundbreaking ideas” of the GFX100 and rethinks them with a focus on portability. The result
Fujifilm has announced the GFX100S, a camera that takes the “groundbreaking ideas” of the GFX100 and rethinks them with a focus on portability. The result is a compact, high-performance medium format camera that is similar in size to full-frame equivalents and weighs just 1.9 pounds.
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A Small Voice Podcast – 143 – Tom Stoddart
https://bensmithphoto.com/asmallvoice/tom-stoddart
Tom Stoddart is an award-winning British photojournalist whose work has appeared in many of the most pretigious international magazines and newspapers. He is widely regarded by editors and his peers as one of the world’s most experienced and respected photographers. His international frontline assignments have included almost every major conflict and natural disaster over four decades, from wars to earthquakes and from the fall of the Berlin Wall to pandemics. During a long and varied career he has witnessed such international events as the war in Lebanon, the election of President Nelson Mandela, the bloody siege of Sarajevo and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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A Small Voice Podcast – 142 – Michael Christopher Brown
https://bensmithphoto.com/asmallvoice/michael-christopher-brown
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.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994
Juxtapoz Magazine – Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994
In a year when millions of Americans poured into the streets demanding changes in police strategy, training and deployment, the Bronx Documentary Cent…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/joseph-rodriguez-lapd-1994/
On February 5th, the exhibition will be available to view online at lapd1994bdc.org.
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Sony Unveils the Alpha 1: 50MP at up to 30FPS, 8K Video, $6,500
Sony Unveils the Alpha 1: 50MP at up to 30FPS, 8K Video, $6,500
Sony has announced the Alpha 1 mirrorless camera, a camera that combines all of Sony’s top technologies into one body, creating a 50-megapixel camera that
It can shoot up to 30 frames per second – the fastest shooting speed ever – blackout-free while also combined with Sony’s autofocus technology that enables up to 120 autofocus calculations per second, which is double the speed of the a9 II.
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A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career
A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career
The late photographer, who left behind more than two million images, spent her life in search of the elusive iconic frame.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/mary-ellen-mark-the-book-of-everything/
“Mary Ellen would never have made this book,” Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator of more than thirty years, writes in an essay accompanying The Book of Everything, the three-volume collection of the photographer’s life’s work recently published by Steidl.