Author: Trent

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

    Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

    Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine at the Hayward Gallery, London, marks the largest retrospective to date of the internationally renowned Japanese artist. 1000 Words Editor in Chief Tim Clark speaks with Director Ralph Rugoff about the exhibition making process, stretching and reshaping our notions of time in photography, the artist’s affinities with…

  • Missouri Photo Workshop aims to ‘show truth with a camera’ | Local | columbiamissourian.com

    Missouri Photo Workshop aims to ‘show truth with a camera’ For 75 years, the workshop has drawn photographers from around the world to tell the visual story of a community. via Columbia Missourian: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/missouri-photo-workshop-aims-to-show-truth-with-a-camera/article_6e9c89b2-5d52-11ee-a49d-a36a74459788.html Dozens of crew members arrived early Sunday at the 75th annual Missouri Photo Workshop’s headquarters carrying coffee, cameras and computer bags

  • Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years | The New Yorker

    Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years | The New Yorker

    Watching the Southern Tip of Manhattan Change, for Forty Years Barbara Mensch’s new photographic history, “A Falling-Off Place,” begins in the early eighties, and shows a city transformed. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/watching-the-southern-tip-of-manhattan-change-for-forty-years She spent some two years making inroads with the market workers, visiting them as they worked at night, at first, hiding her…

  • ‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ – The Washington Post

    Perspective | ‘This work is haunting, and haunted, by the ghosts of history and its casualties’ Moises Saman’s new book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” attempts to unwind 20 years of covering war in Iraq. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2023/09/27/this-work-is-haunting-haunted-by-ghosts-history-its-casualties/ Photographer Moises Saman’s book “Glad Tidings of Benevolence” (GOST, 2023) starts off with this banger of a…

  • ‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict | Photography | The Guardian

    ‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict The esteemed photographer has spend more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/26/corinne-dufka-war-photographer-book As the acclaimed American war photographer Corinne Dufka sorted through the pictures and negatives for her new book,…

  • Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH

    Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH

    Anna Reich: This Land – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by place. Today, we’ll be looking at Anna Reich’s series This Land: Landscape, Memory, and Identity on the Plains. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has a small but spirited art community. Anna Reich is one of th via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/anna-reich-this-land/ My artistic…

  • The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” | The New Yorker

    The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” | The New Yorker

    The Playful and Provocative Images of “Christian Tourism” The jarring juxtapositions of Jamie Lee Taete’s collection showcase the sometimes fine line between gimmickry and genuine belief. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-playful-and-provocative-images-of-christian-tourism It was a billboard in Branson for “Noah” that caught the British photographer Jamie Lee Taete’s eye, with the patriarch’s name floating beside his…

  • Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH

    Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH

    Benjamin Briones Grandi: Memories – LENSCRATCH Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s awe-inspiring geography into surreal dream works that speak to the profound spiritual essence of the natural world. From lush forests to arid deserts, the Chilean photog via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/benjamin-briones-grandi-memories/ Benjamin Briones Grandi‘s sleek series of photomontages, Memories, transforms Chile’s…

  • Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around – The New York Times

    Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around – The New York Times

    Jobless, Divorced, on Probation; a Pandemic Hobby Turned His Life Around Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/ice-box-model-nyc.html Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to…

  • Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH

    Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH

    Mark Kitsawaeng: Forgotten Space – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Mark Kitsawaeng and I discuss Forgotten Space. Phanuphan (Mark) Kitsawaeng is a photographer from Thailand, currently living in Los Ange via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/mark-kitsawaeng-forgotten-space/ Forgotten Space is a set of photographs of…

  • Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone? – Thoughts of a Bohemian

    Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone? – Thoughts of a Bohemian The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of the Sygma news agency is uncertain. Where is it, and who owns it today? via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/where-have-the-archives-of-sygma-photographers-gone/ The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of…

  • Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH

    Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH

    Christine Back: PV Revisited – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Christine Back and I discuss PV Revisited. Christine Back is a New Jersey-based photographer and educator who grew up at the Jersey Shor via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/christine-back-pv-revisited/ I also shared the growing…

  • Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH

    Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH

    Virginia Villacisla: Presencio & The Rural Kids – LENSCRATCH This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Virginia Villacisla and I discuss Presencio & The Rural Kids. Virginia Villacisla was born in Burgos, a medium-sized town in northern Sp via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/virginia-villacisla-presencio-the-rural-kids/ Virginia’s personal experiences…

  • Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture

    Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture

    Devil’s Rib – Photographs by Mateusz Kowalik | Book review by Erik Vroons | LensCulture Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity via LensCulture:…

  • B: Q & A with Kathryn McCool

    Q & A with Kathryn McCool Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North . • BA:  Congrats on P.Nort… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2023/09/q-with-kathryn-mccool.html Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North.

  • Photojournalists and NPPA Achieve Historic Settlement with the NYPD | PetaPixel

    Photojournalists and NPPA Achieve Historic Settlement with the NYPD | PetaPixel

    Photojournalists and NPPA Achieve Historic Settlement with the NYPD The NYPD also admitted the photographers had the First Amendment right to record police activity in public. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/09/05/photojournalists-and-nppa-achieve-historic-settlement-with-the-nypd/ The NYPD now must implement policies and trainings to avoid the wrongful arrests and harassment of members of the press. NYPD officers are prohibited from arresting,…

  • A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy

    A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy

    A Photographer’s Search for the Sweet Life in Southern Italy Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, Sam Youkilis finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of “la dolce vita.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/la-dolce-vita-according-to-sam-youkilis/ Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, the photographer finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of Italy.

  • APP: Three Years Later | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    APP: Three Years Later | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    APP: Three Years Later via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/app-three-years-later/ The Polish photographers decided that their separate work needed to come together and live in a shared space: the Archive of Public Protests (APP). In addition, the work would be shared not only online but also in physical form, as a mass-produced newsprint publication that was…

  • Canon and Reuters Develop New Photo Authentication Technology | PetaPixel

    Canon and Reuters Develop New Photo Authentication Technology | PetaPixel

    Canon and Reuters Develop New Photo Authentication Technology Canon is developing technology to ensure authentic images. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/31/canon-and-reuters-develop-new-photo-authentication-technology/ Utilizing the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, Reuters, Canon, and Starling Lab suggest that the pilot program can “ease concerns about content’s legitimacy.”

  • Leica Oskar Barnack Award: The 2023 shortlist, part 2 – The Leica camera Blog

    Link: Utilizing the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, Reuters, Canon, and Starling Lab suggest that the pilot program can “ease concerns about content’s legitimacy.”