The VII Foundation presents a new book by photographer Gary Knight. Imagine: Reflections on Peace (also published in French as Imagine: Penser la paix), created in collaboration with several photo reporters and journalists, is a collection of 200 images accompanied by reflections on the imperfect construction of peace.
Author: Trent
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Blind – When War Reporters Document Peace
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LeBron James Slams Photog with $1M Countersuit in Copyright Fight
LeBron James Slams Photog with $1M Countersuit in Copyright Fight
In December 2019, Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar LeBron James posted a photo by courtside photographer Steve Mitchell to his Instagram and
In December 2019, Los Angeles Lakers basketball superstar LeBron James posted a photo by courtside photographer Steve Mitchell to his Instagram and Facebook accounts without permission. That post has become the center of a raging copyright infringement legal battle.
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2020 winners | Yunghi Grant
2020 winners
Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving The 2020 Yunghi Grant! * Andrew Cullen Rory Doyle Goncalo Fonseca Alisha Jucevic Stephanie Keith * Five photojournalists selected t…
via Yunghi Grant: https://yunghikim.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/2020-winners/
Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving
The 2020 Yunghi Grant!
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Andrew Cullen
Rory Doyle
Goncalo Fonseca
Alisha Jucevic
Stephanie Keith
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Arquitectura Libre – Photographs by Adam Wiseman | Essay by Erin Lee | LensCulture
Arquitectura Libre – Photographs by Adam Wiseman | Essay by Erin Lee | LensCulture
Photographer Adam Wiseman explores the fanciful freestyle structures that are built throughout rural Mexico without regard for building codes or classical ideas of beauty in architecture
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/adam-wiseman-arquitectura-libre
Photographer Adam Wiseman explores the fanciful freestyle structures that are built throughout rural Mexico without regard for building codes or classical ideas of beauty in architecture.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Village People: Jindřich Štreit’s Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
Juxtapoz Magazine – Village People: Jindřich Štreit’s Photographs of the Czechoslovak Countryside
Jindřich Štreit has long been one of the most important figures in Czech photography. Though he has made many visually powerful series with photo…
Jindřich Štreit has long been one of the most important figures in Czech photography. Though he has made many visually powerful series with photographs from various parts of the world, his fundamental works remain the unique set of photographs of the Czechoslovak countryside in the 1970s and 1980s, in the years of the re-established Communist régime.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Steven Sweatpants: Back to Basics and the Year of the Protest Photo
Juxtapoz Magazine – Steven Sweatpants: Back to Basics and the Year of the Protest Photo
“This is the first night that the city had established a curfew. I remember my mom telling me to watch my back when I went out that night. I didn’t kn…
“This is the first night that the city had established a curfew. I remember my mom telling me to watch my back when I went out that night. I didn’t know what to expect. The commute from Bed Stuy to uptown felt faster than ever. My palms were lightly sweating and my thoughts were moving faster then the train. But when I finally got out, and saw the thousands of humans in unison, I felt immediately at ease. My soul was blanketed with conviction and reassurance that we were in this together. The further we walked into the night, the stronger we grew as movement. The closer the clock moved towards curfew, the more empowered we all felt. While I was walking in the crowd and documenting for The New Yorker this summer night, I literally walked into a car. It was somehow masked in the center of the crowd, just creeping at a slow speed but with allies in the whip in solidarity. Me and the brother made direct eye contact with each other, and he sat on top of the car and slowly raised his fist. That moment felt like the definition of what it not only felt to be out that night, but how we will define our generation’s stance on the black experience.” —Steven Sweatpants
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Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020 – The New York Times
Number of Journalists Killed for Their Reporting Doubled in 2020
At least 30 journalists were killed this year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 slain as a direct result of their work.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/world/americas/mexico-journalists-killings-double.html
At least 30 journalists were killed this year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 slain as a direct result of their work.
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Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture
“The skyscrapers are vertical signatures that penetrate the evening sky all glass and reflective. Water pools on their surface creating an impermeable glare as one winces into the crow’s nest of their rapacious skyward capacity”
I think of the
I feel a call to resist what I am observing in these images. I feel a tremor of uncomfortability in what Lange is showing us and yet I know he is not taking any position on the matter. He has found a way to read metrics and to report them back to us in a byte stream while still retaining some concerns that exceed the full governance of non-human observation. The question that remains is as to where Lange will go next-will his vision force him into the role of digital ghost or will he re-trench and rally against an increasingly interesting master of new observations in which images rely on metrics more than emotions? This is a defining achievement for Lange and for the medium of photography itself. This has my Highest Recommendation and is truly one of the most important books of the decade thus far, but you will need to remember I said this from a point in the future.
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One Photo 2020: The Power Of A Moment – PhotoShelter Blog
One Photo 2020: The Power Of A Moment – PhotoShelter Blog
This year has brought new challenges, new adventures (even if they were spent at home), new things to be grateful for and a new outlook on the year ahead. In 2020, we’ve also seen incredible examples of unity and togetherness, despite so many of us being
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We asked our photo community to reflect on the past 12 months, look through their portfolios and tell their story of 2020 with just one photo.
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Magnum’s moment of reckoning – Columbia Journalism Review
Magnum’s moment of reckoning
In the nearly three years since the #MeToo movement transformed journalism, Magnum Photos, the world’s most prestigious photo agency, has portrayed itself as an industry leader. Magnum issued a code of conduct for its members in 2018, and its CEO boast
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/magnum-photos-david-alan-harvey.php
But even as Magnum touted its efforts to confront the industry’s abuses, women who worked with one of the agency’s best-known photographers were telling a different story. Eleven women have described to CJR inappropriate behavior from David Alan Harvey over a span of 13 years, ranging from suggestive comments to unwanted sexual advances to masturbating without their consent on video calls. His behavior was reported to Magnum as early as 2009, but the agency sat on the information for more than a decade. It finally took action in August of this year, but only after the allegations spilled into public: a story published on the website Fstoppers reported that Magnum was selling explicit photographs of sexually exploited minors on its website, including photographs from a series taken by Harvey in Bangkok in 1989. That led photojournalist Amanda Mustard to write a Twitter thread about Harvey, alleging that sexual misconduct allegations against him were an open secret in the industry.
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A Christmas Portrait – The Leica camera Blog
https://www.leica-camera.blog/2020/12/21/marksteen-adamson-a-christmas-portrait/
In an attempt to pay tribute to each of his family member’s individuality, the British photographer created a somewhat different Christmas Portrait.
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New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis | The New Yorker
New Yorker Photography in a Year of Crisis
Photographers for the magazine in 2020 located surprising forms of artistry within the pandemic’s constraints.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/new-yorker-photography-in-a-year-of-crisis
Among the many extraordinary challenges posed by 2020 were a few that were peculiar to photographers. When the pandemic hit, journalists who write for a living could conduct much of their reporting remotely, by phone or over Zoom, but photographers documenting the ravages of covid-19 had to go to the action—or at least within six feet of it. Philip Montgomery was the first photographer to venture out on assignment for The New Yorker when the virus overtook New York City in March. Donning an N95 mask and food-service gloves, he caught scenes of the city just as it was shuddering to a halt: customers eating a final meal in restaurants about to close their doors; anxious shoppers pushing carts past barren grocery shelves; eerily empty subway cars and airport halls; health-care workers in hazmat suits. At the time, such images looked brand-new, like dispatches from an alien world. Even the careful spacing-out of pedestrians on the city’s normally busy streets was a visual shock, an arrangement that, as Adam Gopnik wrote in an essay accompanying the images, seemed to “contradict the very concept of the city.”
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Eli Durst’s “The Community”
Juxtapoz Magazine – Eli Durst’s “The Community”
What began as an initial desire by Eli Durst to photograph the insides of church basements quickly expanded into a much broader series examining the f…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/eli-durst-s-the-community/
What began as an initial desire by Eli Durst to photograph the insides of church basements quickly expanded into a much broader series examining the fundamental search for community in America. The activities depicted in his series “The Community” range from Boy Scout meetings to New Age spiritual practices to corporate team-building exercises and were all made in multipurpose community spaces that are ubiquitous throughout the United States. “I became intrigued by the way one activity bleeds into another,” writes Durst, “creating a symbolic space of communal introspection. Put simply, these photographs are about the search for purpose and meaning in a world that both demands and resists interpretation.”
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Woman Go No´Gree: Colonialism and White Feminism in West Africa
Juxtapoz Magazine – Woman Go No´Gree: Colonialism and White Feminism in West Africa
With her project Woman Go No´Gree Gloria Oyarzabal asks, “Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological se…
With her project Woman Go No´Gree Gloria Oyarzabal asks, “Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual differences?” Oyarzabal tackles this question by exploring colonialism and white feminism in West Africa through the use of found imagery, archives, and her own photography. Inspired by the texts of Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and Ifi Amadiume, Oyarzabal raises questions about the effects of the Western framework of gender and feminism, but not without addressing her own whiteness and privilege—implicating herself in bold green text on the front cover.
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Podcast: NYT’s The Year in Pictures 2020 – PhotoShelter Blog
Podcast: NYT’s The Year in Pictures 2020 – PhotoShelter Blog
The New York Times recently published their annual Year in Pictures, and Sarah and Allen discuss their favorite photos, the role of editing in making sense of the world, and what they missed. We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites
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The New York Times recently published their annual Year in Pictures, and Sarah and Allen discuss their favorite photos, the role of editing in making sense of the world, and what they missed.
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Holiday Gift Guide: Recommendations from Jim Richardson, Lindsay Adler and More – PhotoShelter Blog
Holiday Gift Guide: Recommendations from Jim Richardson, Lindsay Adler and More – PhotoShelter Blog
On a mission to get the perfect holiday gift for the photographer in your life? We know the world of photography gear and accessories can be a little overwhelming. So why not ask the experts? No one knows more about photography gear than the pros who coun
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On a mission to get the perfect holiday gift for the photographer in your life? We know the world of photography gear and accessories can be a little overwhelming. So why not ask the experts?
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These Photos Are Painful, But We All Need to See Them – Feature Shoot
These Photos Are Painful, But We All Need to See Them – Feature Shoot
Last summer, the photojournalist and animal rights activist Konrad Lozinski went undercover to document life inside an integrated pig fattening barn in Poland. “This photo was taken during the daytime,…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/12/these-photos-are-painful-but-we-all-need-to-see-them/
Last summer, the photojournalist and animal rights activist Konrad Lozinski went undercover to document life inside an integrated pig fattening barn in Poland. “This photo was taken during the daytime, in the early morning, but only bits of light could get through the little windows of the farm’s building,” he tells me.
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Congo in Conversation chronicles important stories from the country’s rising reportage photographers
Congo in Conversation chronicles important stories from the country’s rising reportage photographers
The recently published monogram features 35 reportages and 15 photographers’ work over a climactic six months as the pandemic hit the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The recently published monogram features 35 reportages and 15 photographers’ work over a climactic six months as the pandemic hit the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Radio Juxtapoz, ep 061: Steven Sweatpants is Taking the Photos of a Generation
Juxtapoz Magazine – Radio Juxtapoz, ep 061: Steven Sweatpants is Taking the Photos of a Generation
It’s apt that in a year of so much turmoil, angst and chaotic worry that we end 2020 on a street corner in the Bronx, NYC. The year took an interestin…
It’s apt that in a year of so much turmoil, angst and chaotic worry that we end 2020 on a street corner in the Bronx, NYC. The year took an interesting turn for Radio Juxtapoz in NYC this past March, as suddenly the pandemic gripped the city while co-hosts Doug Gillen and Evan Pricco were producing podcasts for Armory Week. For what NYC and the world has endured since those early months, to be here talking to Steven Sweatpants as he was finishing up a photoshoot with the NY Knicks feels like an incredible full circle odyssey.
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The rebel photographer who battled the Stasi
The rebel photographer who battled the Stasi
During the ’70s and ’80s, Harald Hauswald shot from the hip, secretly documenting life behind the Berlin Wall. This is his story.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/harald-hauswald-east-german-photographer-untold-story/
During the ’70s and ’80s, Harald Hauswald shot from the hip, secretly documenting life behind the Berlin Wall – and making powerful enemies in the process.