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  • Tips for Aspiring Visual Storytellers — ProPublica

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    Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone Photography is a powerful journalistic tool, providing visual evidence and evoking emotions that urge us to understand the experiences of others. Here, ProPublica’s Sarahbeth Maney offers suggestions for aspiring visual storytellers. via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/tips-aspiring-visual-storytellers-photography-photojournalism-flint-michigan The beauty of visual storytelling is…

  • 6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

    6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans”

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    6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/ Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook. https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/

  • This New Device Establishes Content Authenticity Using Any Digital Camera | PetaPixel

    This New Device Establishes Content Authenticity Using Any Digital Camera | PetaPixel

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    This New Device Establishes Content Authenticity Using Any Digital Camera Authenticity tech relies upon sensor-level fingerprints. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/11/15/this-new-device-establishes-content-authenticity-using-any-digital-camera/ As a research physicist from MIT, Stuart Sevier learned a lot about reality, technology, and perhaps most importantly, the perception of reality. He veered off his hardcore academic track to pursue the concept of reality from…

  • photo-eye | BLOG: Dogbreath: Reviewed by Blake Andrews

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    Dogbreath: Reviewed by Blake Andrews Book Review Dogbreath Photographs by Matthew Genitempo Reviewed by Blake Andrews “Matthew Genitempo’s method has always relied on int… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/11/dogbreath-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html Matthew Genitempo’s method has always relied on intuition. He approaches photo projects with no clear finish line in mind. Instead he settles in somewhere and pokes around, secure in…

  • The Bigger Picture – The Leica camera Blog

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    The Bigger Picture – The Leica camera Blog: Her timeless pictures reflect her ability to not only document specific moments, but to also create images that today – detached from the original occasion – reveal much more about the personality portrayed and the sensitive machinery of political staging. We spoke with the great photographer about…

  • The long sunset: Daidō Moriyama’s Record | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The long sunset: Daidō Moriyama’s Record | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The long sunset: Daidō Moriyama’s Record via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/long-sunset/ Even as it seems clear from Record 2 that the sun is slowly setting over a life in photography, Moriyama’s true legacy is going to remain with us for many years to come. But you will have to look past the harsh contrast of…

  • “Here,” Then and Now | The New Yorker

    “Here,” Then and Now | The New Yorker

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    “Here,” Then and Now Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/here-then-and-now-richard-mcguire Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/here-then-and-now-richard-mcguire

  • Bearing Witness to American Exploits | The New Yorker

    Bearing Witness to American Exploits | The New Yorker

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    Bearing Witness to American Exploits Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bearing-witness-to-american-exploits Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are…

  • Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land

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    Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land: A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived.

  • For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible | Aperture

    For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible | Aperture

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    For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible In his first-ever US museum survey, the Indian artist experiments with the possibilities of documentary images—and expands into painting and video. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/ For a period of about three years during his mid-twenties, Sohrab Hura strived to be what he called an anti-photographer. Doubt…

  • (318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube

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    (318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube: A Conversation with Robert LeBlanc and former LIFE editor-in-chief Bill Shapiro

  • A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio | The New Yorker

    A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio | The New Yorker

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    A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of death and divorce, individuals are more complicated than the worst thing happening to them. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-grandsons-urgent-chronicle-of-family-life-in-small-town-ohio In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of…

  • Into the Phones of Teens | The New Yorker

    Into the Phones of Teens | The New Yorker

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    Into the Phones of Teens “Social Studies,” a documentary series by Lauren Greenfield, follows a group of young people, and screen-records their phones, to capture how social media has reshaped their lives. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/into-the-phones-of-teens The moment is signature Greenfield. Since the early nineteen-nineties, the Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker has been one…

  • ‘Ravens’ Movie Chronicles Life of Legendary Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase | PetaPixel

    ‘Ravens’ Movie Chronicles Life of Legendary Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase | PetaPixel

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    ‘Ravens’ Movie Chronicles Life of Legendary Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase Watch the first trailer. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/11/04/ravens-movie-chronicles-life-of-legendary-japanese-photographer-masahisa-fukase/ A new biopic chronicles the complex life and work of Japan’s most celebrated and iconic photographer Masahisa Fukase. https://petapixel.com/2024/11/04/ravens-movie-chronicles-life-of-legendary-japanese-photographer-masahisa-fukase/

  • Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

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    Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures A look at the work of the recipients of this year’s Ian Parry photojournalism grant via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/05/ian-parry-photojournalism-grant-2024-in-pictures A look at the work of the recipients of the 2024 Ian Parry photojournalism grant (IPPG), which supports young and emerging…

  • A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi | The New Yorker

    A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi | The New Yorker

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    A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/florence-mars-a-forgotten-eyewitness-to-civil-rights-era-mississippi As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including…

  • Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese: Thinking Like An Island – LENSCRATCH

    Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese: Thinking Like An Island – LENSCRATCH

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    Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese: Thinking Like An Island – LENSCRATCH One must be ambidextrous in opening this beautifully and cleverly crafted monograph about a mysterious island by the creative duo, Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese.  Their creation, “Thinking Like an Island” , published by Overlapse, provokes the viewer to engage in a visual and…

  • A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2024 PhotoBook Awards

    A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2024 PhotoBook Awards

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    A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2024 PhotoBook Awards These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2024-photobook-awards/ These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles. https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2024-photobook-awards/

  • HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son – Photographs by Anna and Jordan Rathkopf | Book review by Sophie Wright | LensCulture

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    https://www.lensculture.com/articles/anna-and-jordan-rathkopf-her2-the-diagnosed-the-caregiver-and-their-son In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.

  • The Spectacular Winners of the International Panorama Photo Awards | PetaPixel

    The Spectacular Winners of the International Panorama Photo Awards | PetaPixel

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    The Spectacular Winners of the International Panorama Photo Awards The winners of the 15th Epson International Pano Awards have been announced with Kelvin Yuen crowned 2024 Open Photographer of the Year. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/10/02/the-spectacular-winners-of-the-international-panorama-photo-awards-pano-2024/ The winners of the 15th Epson International Pano Awards have been announced with Kelvin Yuen crowned the 2024 Open Photographer of…