Author: Trent
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Aaron Huey’s ‘Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project’
Photographing, and Listening to, the Lakota Facing criticism for presenting a limited view of life on the Pine Ridge reservation, Aaron Huey let its residents tell their own stories. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/photographing-and-listening-to-the-lakota/ A few months after the Lens piece was published, Mr. Huey received over 40 letters from students at the Jesuit-run Red Cloud…
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Photographs of a Middle Class Utopia
Link: This series, Middle Class Utopia, focuses in Austrian allotment gardens in and around Vienna, called ‘Schrebergärten’. These tiny gardens were invented in the late 19th century, mainly to provide space for the working class people to grow their own vegetables and fruits. Over the time, the use of these gardens changed and now they…
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Everyday Life and Eccentricities of Africa Photographed by Jonathan May
Link: His project L’Afrique materialized from an assignment in Africa from a French client. The project includes images from from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Kenya but Jonathan plans more visits to West Africa/Francophone speaking countries in the future.
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Concern mounts over U.S. journalist in Syria; Austin Tice’s whereabouts unknown
Link: The family of Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist who has been reporting from Syria for The Washington Post and other news organizations, said Thursday that it has not heard from him for more than a week and is concerned for his welfare.
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2012 Summer Olympics – David Burnett
Link: I am not saying that there is no good to be had from the new technologies. Far from it. The new cameras let us make pictures that were never even imaginable a dozen years ago. But in all of that, in the rush to bestow the crown of technical achievement upon the head of…
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Shooting victim’s brother criticizes media for ‘horrific journalism’
Link: The horrific journalism that’s going on surrounding my brother — and the scalding headlines and the pictures that were in the New York Post and The New York Times that my family had to see and endure, to see those pictures that were the most horrific pictures. They gave Osama bin Laden more respect…
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Interview: Nicole Tung on covering the battle for Aleppo
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Yumiko Utsu’s Disturbingly Kitsch Food Photography
Link: Grotesque yet utterly intriguing, Japanese photographer Yumiko Utsu’s work enthralls the viewer with playful constructions of fruit, dismembered sea creatures, vegetables and insects set against colorful tapestries. Her bizarre and humourous photo-art, revolving around food and animals, falls into the narrow genre of disturbing kitsch that could only come out of Japan.
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Visa pour l’image 2012: Jérôme Sessini
Link: In 2008 the photographer Jérôme Sessini started the Mexican project: a dive into the drug cartels war in Mexico. This compelling reportage, lasting two years, is a valuable document about the most dangerous cities in the country: Culiacan, Tijuana and especially Ciudad Juarez
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Coups de Cœur ANI 2012: David Sperry
Link: From social uprising to civil war, Syria has one of the most complex narratives of the Arab Spring, a fractured society with a myriad of viewpoints but seemingly no solutions. As the battle for Aleppo drags on neither Assad’s forces or the loose umbrella of the Free Syrian Army appears to have the ability…
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Photoshopping Dissent: Circumventing China’s Censors With Internet Memes
Photoshopping Dissent: Circumventing China’s Censors With Internet Memes Chinese web users are giving low-brow meme culture a political tinge, pushing the boundaries of free online speech. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/photoshopping-dissent-circumventing-chinas-censors-with-internet-memes/261911/ Indeed, netizen participation in China is extra significant considering the country’s reliance on “soft” censorship: A blend of algorithms, firewalls and private business cooperation that…
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Guantánamo Prisoners Released Into Cheering DNC Crowd
Link: Paolo Marchetti is one of the four recipients of this year’s Getty Images Editorial Grants. He’s won $20,000 to continue his series Fever, which looks at the “tremendous growth” of the fascist movement in Europe. He speaks with BJP
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Review (of sorts): Interrogations by Donald Weber (in actuality an investigation of the shoot-the-messenger syndrome)
Link: Photography essentially is a feel-good exercise for ourselves: We look at photographs to feel good. We want to feel good. It is important to realize that this is usually true even when photographs make us feel bad: it is precisely the fact that we know we should feel bad that can result in our…
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: how photographers can benefit from social networks
Link: “When I started posting my photographs online, it was a game. I had no idea of the role social networks would take in my practice,” remembers Richard Koçi Hernandez. He now focuses exclusively on iPhoneography.
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Paolo Marchetti: Documenting the rise of fascism in Europe
Link: Paolo Marchetti is one of the four recipients of this year’s Getty Images Editorial Grants. He’s won $20,000 to continue his series Fever, which looks at the “tremendous growth” of the fascist movement in Europe. He speaks with BJP
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Parts 6 and 7: Stephen Crowley’s Smoke-Filled Rooms
Looking Back on the Party Conventions In his sixth and seventh installments of the continuing series “Smoke-Filled Rooms,” the Times staff photographer Stephen Crowley examines the recent presidential nominating conventions. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/an-eye-on-the-party-conventions/ In the sixth and seventh installments of the “Smoke-Filled Rooms” series, Stephen Crowley, a staff photographer at The New York Times,…
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Revisiting The Desert Cantos (5 Photos)
Link: The Robert Mann Gallery in New York City recently moved to a new location and to inaugurate the space, they are hanging a retrospective of Richard Misrach’s landscape and fine-art photography
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The Ethics of the dying/dead Ambassador Stevens photo
Link: Thursday September 13, many news organizations published a photo of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens either dead or dying after a terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. The ethics Committee would like to add some thoughts to the discussion on the use of this image