Author: Trent
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The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Alena Grom: Stolen Spring – LENSCRATCH
The International Women in Photo Association Awards: Alena Grom: Stolen Spring – LENSCRATCH This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the International Women in Photo Association (IWPA) Awards. Today is Alena Grom, a Ukrainian photographer, whose series Stolen Spring was one of four finalists in the Professional Category. A very…
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Black and White War – Photographs by Igor Malijevský | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture
Black and White War – Photographs by Igor Malijevský | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/igor-malijevsky-black-and-white-war Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes…
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The International Women in Photo Awards: Natalia Garbu: Moldova Lookbook – LENSCRATCH
The International Women in Photo Awards: Natalia Garbu: Moldova Lookbook – LENSCRATCH This week Lenscratch is featuring the work of the 2023 winners of the The International Women in Photo Association (IWPA), a French non profit aiming to create global change and reach gender equality and women empowerment, awards prizes to visual storytellers from around…
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The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable Mess | WIRED
The Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable Mess Apparent manipulations to an official image of the Princess of Wales led wire services to issue a “kill notification” on the photo. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/kate-middleton-photo-manipulation-conspiracy-theories/ “At closer inspection it appears that the source has manipulated this image,” wrote the AP in a so-called kill notification. AFP…
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Hasselblad Awards Acclaimed Photographer Ingrid Pollard $200,000 | PetaPixel
Hasselblad Awards Acclaimed Photographer Ingrid Pollard $200,000 Pollard joins famous names in photography like Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/03/08/hasselblad-awards-acclaimed-photographer-ingrid-pollard-200000/ Guyana-born and England-raised photographer Ingrid Pollard is this year’s Hasselblad Award Recipient. Pollard, an internationally acclaimed photographer, receives a Hasselblad flagship camera and lenses, a unique gold medal, and SEK 2,000,000…
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Broad Strokes III: Joan Haseltine: The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories – LENSCRATCH
Broad Strokes III: Joan Haseltine: The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories – LENSCRATCH The Leica Gallery in Los Angeles has just opened Broad Strokes III, featuring the work of Joan Haseltine, that will run through April 8th. This is the 3rd iteration of Leica exhibitions that celebrate women in photography, and the exhibition also…
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Leica Women Foto Project Award 2024 – The Leica camera Blog
Leica Women Foto Project Award 2024 The winners of the fifth edition of the Leica Women Foto Project (LWFP) 2024 are Luvia Lazo, Camille Farrah Lenain, Stasia Schmidt and Dola Posh.
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A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall | The New Yorker
A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall “We’re all being manipulated in the mall,” the photographer Stephen DiRado says. But his photos elicit a certain nostalgia, almost in spite of themselves. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall There’s a reason that the mall’s corporate honchos—who had signed a contract giving him free rein to document…
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European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH
European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH Guest Editor and German photographer Melanie Schoeniger shares a week of European photographers whose work she finds inspiring. Schoeniger’s sensibility is translated through the work she shares; all the photographer’s work has a sense of mystery, interconnectedness and wonder. Schoeniger states: Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy,…
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12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers
12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous image making, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/ From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle…
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Episode 96: Devin Allen (Street Photography) – A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone
Episode 96: Devin Allen (Street Photography) – A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone Not just the second amateur photographer to grace the cover of Time magazine with his photo of the Baltimore Uprising in 2015, Devin Allen has TWICE made the cover! An oustanding street photographer, Devin has also embraced painting and sculpture. Hi new multi-media…
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Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH
Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH One of the most exciting parts of my recent visit to Japan was working with photographic artists at the T3 Tokyo Photo Festival. I was thrilled to meet Kazunari Suzuki and get to know his fabulous work. Suzuki shared a project that has all the elements that I…
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How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future – The New York Times
How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html All that has come to pass, more or less. Everyone is online all the time, and just about everyone seems…
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The Associated Press Hires Its First Woman Director of Photography | PetaPixel
The Associated Press Hires Its First Woman Director of Photography Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Lucy Nicholson breaks barriers. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/ The Associated Press (AP), winner of 58 Pulitzer Prizes and one of the world’s most essential and significant news agencies, has named veteran photojournalist Lucy Nicholson its next Director of Photography. Nicholson is the first woman…
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Caught in the headlight – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Caught in the headlight – Thoughts of a Bohemian As giants freely plunder their work, the stock photo industry stands by, silently complicit in its own demise. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/caught-in-the-headlight/ When all is said and done, and the stock photo industry landscape is a complete devastation, some will gather once more and…
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Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues – LENSCRATCH
Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues – LENSCRATCH “I’m looking for a moment where individuals are dwarfed by what surrounds them, appearing lost but searching for something. They then go on their way, whichever direction that may be.” Oli Kellett‘s Cross Road Blues, has recently been published by Nazraeli press. Cross Road Blues coincides with a…
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Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle
Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle Part memoir, part document of a punk-infused scene, “Wires Crossed” explores the lives of skateboarders crisscrossing the world. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/ The minute I found skateboarding, I was immersed in a world of creative people—even as far back as middle school. Having a skateboard was the ticket into a new…
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Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH
Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of…
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Seeing Photography as an African Art Form
Seeing Photography as an African Art Form Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/871315/seeing-photography-as-an-african-art-form/ Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events. https://hyperallergic.com/871315/seeing-photography-as-an-african-art-form/
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Episode 94: Michelle McLoughlin (Documentary Photography) –
Episode 94: Michelle McLoughlin (Documentary Photography) – lle McLoughlin is a photojournalist whose work spans both the editorial and corporate worlds & Event Chair for the 2024 Northern Short Course in Photojournalism via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/02/21/episode-94-michelle-mcloughlin-documentary-photography/ 2024 marks McLoughlin’s sixteenth year serving as Event…