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Santi Palacios – LOBA

Santi Palacios – LOBA

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The powerfully dramatic moments were taken at close range, along the three most important migration routes that pass over the Mediterranean Sea and connect Africa and the Middle East to Europe. From 2013 to 2020, the Spanish photojournalist (born 1985) accompanied people who were following these different routes, taking the life-threatening journey in the hope of a new and safer life.

July 27, 2021
Photos uncovering the different sides to life in North Korea

Photos uncovering the different sides to life in North Korea

Photographer Ted Lau recalls his trip to the DPRK where he went to shoot the spectacular Grand Mass Games, and to offer a glimpse inside the daily life of the state’s residents.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photos-uncovering-different-sides-to-life-in-north-korea/

Photographer Ted Lau recalls his trip to the DPRK where he went to shoot the spectacular Grand Mass Games, and to offer a glimpse inside the daily life of the country’s residents.

July 27, 2021
How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog

How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog

The past few decades have been unkind to photo magazines. Many industry stalwarts have gone defunct, while others have moved to online editions only. Ironically, many photographers still believe in the photographic print, even though they might contend th

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In January, I chatted with renown photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke who had just announced the creation of The Curious Society, a large format photo magazine featuring the work of some of the world’s best photojournalists and documentary photographers. The goal wasn’t only to publish a visual tour de force on a quarterly basis, but to also pay photographers a traditional space rate that made producing such work economically viable.

July 27, 2021
Lens Rentals | Blog

I Traded My Full-Frame Kit For A Sony RX100 VI, Here’s What I Learned

This is the story of that time I, an obsessed pixel-peeper, decided to leave all my exotic full-frame cameras and lenses at home, and instead bring a Sony RX100 VI on a week-long backpacking trip in the High Sierra of California. About Me Hello, I’m Matth

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This is the story of that time I, an obsessed pixel-peeper, decided to leave all my exotic full-frame cameras and lenses at home, and instead bring a Sony RX100 VI on a week-long backpacking trip in the High Sierra of California.

July 27, 2021
In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography – Interview by Alexander Strecker | Cover photo © Dimitri Mellos | LensCulture

In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography – Interview by Alexander Strecker | Cover photo © Dimitri Mellos | LensCulture

Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent shares his insights

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-in-search-of-the-poets-and-new-masters-of-street-photography

Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent shares his insights.

July 27, 2021
Burning Land – The Leica camera Blog

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The Italian photographer, Stefano Schirato, spent a full month documenting the excruciating, daily lives of workers in the east Indian mining district of Jharia. Constantly wary of sinking into one of the numerous, burning holes in the ground, he met people there who were as friendly as they were desperate: working day by day in poisonous fumes, they eke out an existence in inhumane conditions. With a Leica Q in his pack, Schirato draws an impressive sketch of a life dedicated to coal.

July 27, 2021
The Difficulties One Woman Faced to Become a Photojournalist in Somalia | PetaPixel

The Difficulties One Woman Faced to Become a Photojournalist in Somalia

A woman Somalian photojournalist shares her experiences of working in what is traditionally a man’s world.

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Breaking through the barriers of cultural and gender norms in Somalia, Fardosa Hussein shares what it took for her to be able to practice what she is passionate about — photography, videography, and journalism — in a place where such a career is viewed with hostility and is, at times, dangerous for women.

July 23, 2021
Photojournalist Quits Canon Philippines Ambassadorship After Backlash | PetaPixel

Photojournalist Quits Canon Philippines Ambassadorship After Backlash

“We are on a different path.”

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Photojournalist and new addition to the Canon Philippines “Crusaders of Light” ambassador program Jilson Tiu has called it quits after Canon failed to apologize for what he and many others viewed as a lack of diversity within its program.

July 23, 2021
WATCH: Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Essdras M. Suarez Shares What Makes a Great Photo – PhotoShelter Blog

WATCH: Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Essdras M. Suarez Shares What Makes a Great Photo – PhotoShelter Blog

In the photo industry, portfolio reviews are a great opportunity to receive objective feedback about your work. Oftentimes a mentor will offer to look through your photos and provide actionable advice about editing your images. For two-time Pulitzer Prize

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We sat down with Essdras to walk through your anonymous photo submissions. In this virtual portfolio review, Essdras discusses the key elements of composition, what needs adjustment and why it’s important to give yourself the assignment you want somebody else to give you.

July 23, 2021
Danish Siddiqui’s Singular Images Captured Our Uncomfortable Truths | The New Yorker

Danish Siddiqui’s Singular Images Captured Our Uncomfortable Truths

The photographer, who was killed in Afghanistan this month, was a prolific chronicler of political violence and societal disquiet.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/danish-siddiquis-singular-images-captured-our-uncomfortable-truths

The photographer, who was killed in Afghanistan this month, was a prolific chronicler of political violence and societal disquiet.

July 23, 2021
Otherworldy photos of former Soviet monuments

Otherworldy photos of former Soviet monuments

Photographer Yang Xiao recalls travelling across Eastern Europe to capture a series of Brutalist and Soviet modernist architecture with a distinctly alien feel.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/otherworldy-photos-of-former-soviet-monuments/

Photographer Yang Xiao recalls travelling across Eastern Europe to capture a series of Brutalist and Soviet modernist architecture with a distinctly alien feel.

July 23, 2021
A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century | The New Yorker

A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century

Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-womans-intimate-record-of-wyoming-in-the-early-twentieth-century

Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.

July 19, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – 20th Century Summer: An Interview with Greg Hunt on Rediscovering a Golden Age of Skate and Art

Juxtapoz Magazine – 20th Century Summer: An Interview with Greg Hunt on Rediscovering a Golden Age of Skate and Art

“I think that’s one of the things I really love about film, you have to sometimes work to find the pictures that you love,” photographer and filmmaker…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/20th-century-summer-an-interview-with-greg-hunt-on-rediscovering-a-golden-age-of-skate-and-art/

“I think that’s one of the things I really love about film, you have to sometimes work to find the pictures that you love,” photographer and filmmaker Greg Hunt told Juxtapoz. “They don’t always jump out at you, you have to spend a little bit more time just because sometimes you might get that contact sheet back from the lab and you’re looking for something else on it.” That a renowned documentarian such as Hunt has released 41 never-before-published photographs from his first camera and the subsequent 12 rolls of 35mm black-and-white film gifted him by another photographer, Gabe Morford, feels like a very special release indeed. The elegance in the photos of 20th CENTURY SUMMER is parallel to their raw moments as well.

July 19, 2021
Eric Mencher: From Photojournalist to Master iPhone Street Photographer | PetaPixel

Eric Mencher: From Photojournalist to Master iPhone Street Photographer

Photographer Peter Levitan interviews Eric Mencher, an award-winning street photographer who shoots exclusively with his iPhone.

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Few street photographers and photojournalists have over 95,000 Instagram followers, shoot 100% on their iPhone, and have a World Press Photo prize. Eric Mencher is one of them.

July 17, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Amazônia: Life and Death in the Brazilian Rainforest

Juxtapoz Magazine – Amazônia: Life and Death in the Brazilian Rainforest

From January to July 2019, Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti, accompanied by British journalist Sam Cowie, traveled thousands of miles across the…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/amazonia-life-and-death-in-the-brazilian-rainforest/

From January to July 2019, Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti, accompanied by British journalist Sam Cowie, traveled thousands of miles across the Brazilian Amazon to create this reportage. From the eastern region of Maranhão to the western region of Rondônia, through the states of Pará and Amazonas, they portrayed life in modern-day Brazilian Amazon, where social and humanitarian crises overlap with the ongoing destruction of the rainforest.

July 16, 2021
Danish Siddiqui, Reuters Photojournalist, Is Killed in Afghanistan – The New York Times

Danish Siddiqui, Reuters Photojournalist, Is Killed in Afghanistan

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was killed in a clash between Afghan forces and the Taliban.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/world/asia/danish-siddiqui-reuters-photographer-killed-afghanistan.html

Mr. Siddiqui, an Indian national and Reuters staff journalist, was embedded with members of Afghanistan’s elite Special Forces in the southern province of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold. He was killed on Friday morning when Afghan commandos, attempting to retake a district surrounding a border crossing with Pakistan, came under Taliban fire, according to Reuters.

July 16, 2021
Lenscratch Student Prize Second Place Winner: Dylan Hausthor – LENSCRATCH

Lenscratch Student Prize Second Place Winner: Dylan Hausthor – LENSCRATCH

It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize Second Place Winner, Dylan Hausthor. Dylan was selected for their lyrical and haunting project, What the Rain Brought, and has graduated from Yale this Spring (2021) with an MF

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It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize Second Place Winner, Dylan Hausthor. Dylan was selected for their lyrical and haunting project, What the Rain Brought, and has graduated from Yale this Spring (2021) with an MFA in Photography. The first time I saw Dylan’s photographs was like staring into the sun. A mark from such an intense glowing mass had a lasting impact on me and has been burned into my psyche since.

July 15, 2021
New Guide! Photography Mentorship: Why You Need it and Why it Helps Everyone – PhotoShelter Blog

New Guide! Photography Mentorship: Why You Need it and Why it Helps Everyone – PhotoShelter Blog

No matter your specialty, photographers have many shared experiences. We all remember getting our first cameras and where we were for that memorable photo. We’ve worried about whether or not our work mattered. At one point or another, we didn’t know anyth

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No matter your specialty, photographers have many shared experiences. We all remember getting our first cameras and where we were for that memorable photo. We’ve worried about whether or not our work mattered. At one point or another, we didn’t know anything about pushing back on contract terms, what photo editors were looking for or why one good portfolio review can really put things into perspective.

July 14, 2021
Juxtapoz Magazine – Presence: Five Contemporary African Photographers

Juxtapoz Magazine – Presence: Five Contemporary African Photographers

A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery showcases works by artists active in Mozambique, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/presence-five-contemporary-african-photographers/

Presenting new and existing work by Amilton Neves Cuna, Anke Loots, Léonard Pongo, Mário Macilau and Nonzuzo Gxekwa, the exhibition is curated by Dr Julie Bonzon, founder of The Photographic Collective, in collaboration with Print Sales Gallery. The Photographic Collective is a not-for-profit enterprise which aims to bring visibility to artists living and working in Africa, especially those without gallery representation.

July 14, 2021
The Ethics of Documenting Your Own Family | by Savannah Dodd | May, 2021 | Witness

The Ethics of Documenting Your Own Family

Seven photographers share some of the ethical considerations that are most present in their minds when working on stories close to home.

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-ethics-of-documenting-your-own-family-7225ca8bd59a

While turning the camera inward may alleviate ethical qualms about positionality, the influence of one’s identity on the way that we see (and thus represent) the world, photographing the people closest to us is not without ethical considerations of its own. As photojournalist and filmmaker, Amanda Mustard explains: “It’s a gift to have the perspective and personal experiences that allow access to important stories that may not be told with depth otherwise. But with greater depth comes the need for greater ethical care.”

July 14, 2021