Author: Trent
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Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture – Feature Shoot
Tina Barney Talks to Us About Her New Exhibition, The Passage of Time, and the True Meaning of Portraiture In decade in which we obsess over change, be it catastrophic or fortuitous, the photographs of Tina Barney continue to remind us of that which is constant. Beginning the 1980s, she has captured the world, her…
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FAA says journalists can’t use drones but can buy drone-created photos/video from hobbyists | dvafoto
Link: Hopefully, there will be legal challenges to this memorandum
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Contemporary Iranian Photography : Babak Kazemi – The Eye of Photography
Link: once something is posted or uploaded onto Facebook it becomes Facebook’s property. So if the original photographer uploaded the photo first onto Facebook and then others have taken it from there and uploaded it to their pages or profiles, this is legal and within policy, there’s nothing I can do about it unfortunately even…
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Austin Tice has been missing for 1,001 days | Poynter.
Link: Mads Nissen, the winner of the 2015 World Press Photo of the Year, is an inspiring individual. His award-winning shot came from a larger series about homophobia in Russia. Here, we present to you a selection from the series as well as an in-depth interview conducted by managing editor Alexander Strecker during the World…
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Ninety Days in Ninety Seconds—A Photographer’s Journey in the Blink of an Eye | PROOF
Link: David Guttenfelder is a National Geographic photographer who is used to spending countless days on the road. While most people think of it as a dream job, the reality can be a lot more complex. So to share what it actually feels like to be on assignment, he made a video with a unique…
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Valerio Bispuri: Life Behind Bars in South America « The Leica Camera
Link: A world of anarchy and chaos – correctional facilities in South America are considered among the toughest in the world. The inmates themselves are often in control of daily life within the walls of the miserably overcrowded prisons. Valerio Bispuri visited over 70 of them, resulting in haunting black-and-white images that offer a glimpse…
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Book : Last Best Hiding Place by Tim Richmond – The Eye of Photography
Link: Deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road…a cowboy washing his shirts…a train on its way into a million acres of emptiness…a Vietnam vet who lost twenty years of recent memory…a whole town for sale…meth warnings…a tattooed waitress in neon light. All of these inhabit the Last Best Hiding Place.
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The Best Latin American Photography – NYTimes.com
The Best Latin American Photography Mauricio Lima took top honors in Pictures of the Year Latin America, which highlights work done around the world by photographers from Latin America. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/the-best-latin-american-photography/ Mauricio Lima of Brazil has been named Photographer of the Year in the third Pictures of the Year Latin America contest. Daniele…
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Sally Mann Chases Ghosts and Buries the Hatchet in New Memoir, Hold Still | American Photo
Link: Sally Mann doesn’t believe in talent. She believes in hard work. The kind of work it takes to ride unruly horses, to hoist an 8×10 camera, to constantly fend off controversy, and to write an honest book about a complicated existence.
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Post-Its and Praise: A Photographer’s Ode to His Unsung Hero | PROOF
Link: am in the habit of marking my photography books with yellow and pink Post-it notes, flagging the images that I find most influential for my own work. Yellow means good, pink means best. Most of the Post-its are in books by Norman Mauskopf—a black-and-white documentary photographer I assisted during his workshops in Santa Fe,…
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Legendary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies at 75
Legendary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies at 75 There’s some very sad news in the world of photography today: renowned American photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away yesterday in New York City at the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/05/26/legendary-photographer-mary-ellen-mark-dies-at-75/ Needless to say, the world of photography has just lost one of its biggest stars.
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Mary Ellen Mark, Leica Shooter, Dies at 75 | La Vida Leica!
Those in the Leica circle are no stranger to the name Mary Ellen Mark. It is with great sadness that we must inform our readers that she has passed… She was 75. Time has an article entitled, “In Memoriam: Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015)” that’s worth a read. She was an avid Leica shooter,…
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Death of Mary Ellen Mark (1940 – 2015) – The Eye of Photography
Link: “There is no demand for reality anymore”. – Mary Ellen Mark, April 27, 2015
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Simon Høgsberg’s Grocery Store Project uses facial recognition to tie strangers’ lives together | dvafoto
Link: If we can accept the theory that the universe came out of nothing, it may make sense to think that a project can arise from nothing. I like the idea that something can pop out of nothing, that material can appear from a source full of nothingness
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Tanzania Burundi Refugee Crisis | AP Images Blog
Link: As a teenager Joseph Nakaha fled with his parents to neighboring Tanzania when ethnic-based fighting erupted in Burundi after independence in 1962. In 1972, he was a refugee again and then in 1993 when civil war broke out, he and his wife and grandchildren again fled the country. Now 67, Nakaha is a refugee…
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Sam Harris – The Middle of Somewhere | LensCulture
The Middle of Somewhere – Photographs and text by Sam Harris | LensCulture A celebration of childhood and family life through a collection of simple yet beautiful moments of two sisters growing up in the remote Australian wilderness via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sam-harris-the-middle-of-somewhere “The Middle of Somewhere” is from my ongoing visual family diary, which revolves around…
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Shanghai : Marc Riboud’s « Windows of Liulichang » 1965-2015 – The Eye of Photography
Link: to complete this tribute to Marc Riboud, we have discovered a never-published before image that delivers the context and the perspective of this Liulichang Street. The photo shows dilapidated storefronts lining up on one side, in the middle of the road a “chauffeur” riding a tricycle-taxi, has he just picked up the son of…
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New York: Where We Live by David Graham at Laurence Miller Gallery – The Eye of Photography
Link: It is time to take greater note of David Graham’s 30 year career as a photographer with his well considered, often wry reports from “on the road” in the U.S. and his classic books: “American Beauty”, “Only in America: Some Unexpected Scenery”, ”Land of the Free: What Makes Americans Different”, “Taking Liberties” and “Declaring Independence”. This exhibition…
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Magnum Photos Blog
Link: This new project by Olivia Arthur takes as its starting point a shipwreck that happened in 1961 and traces the footsteps of a fictional survivor through the modern city.
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Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture – The Eye of Photography
Link: Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to great…