Author: Trent

  • Documenting Rape in India – The New York Times

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    Documenting Rape in India When Smita Sharma photographs rape victims who have been shunned and ostracized in India, she connects with them by sharing her own story of sexual assault. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/documenting-rape-in-india/ At night, vivid memories of sexual abuse haunt Smita Sharma’s dreams. During the day, they motivate her to document the stories…

  • Mariano Silletti – Ludovicu « burn magazine

    Mariano Silletti – Ludovicu « burn magazine

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    Mariano Silletti – Ludovicu Mariano Silletti Ludovicu Ludovicu’s disappearance. Ludovicu arrived in Montescaglioso (Italy), with his family, from Romania. Ludovicu was 57 years old and he was suffering from Alzheimer. One day… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/12/mariano-silletti-ludovicu/ Ludovicu’s disappearance. Ludovicu arrived in Montescaglioso (Italy), with his family, from Romania. Ludovicu was 57 years old and he…

  • The Sellers Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Connectedness | PROOF

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    Link: Matt Eich: One day, while wandering a small village in southeastern Ohio, I stumbled on a rugged-looking man and his two sons cleaning up muddy dirt bikes at a car wash. Most of the folks I had encountered up until this point were incredibly distrustful of outsiders, so I was immediately drawn in by…

  • Alessandro Penso is TIME’s Pick for Photo Story of the Year | TIME

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    Alessandro Penso is TIME’s Pick for Photo Story of the Year The Italian photographer explains what motivated him to stick with the story via Time: https://time.com/4139666/alessandro-penso-photo-story-of-2015/ The Italian photographer explains what motivated him to stick with the story

  • Year in Photos from Asia | AP Images Blog

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    Link: As 2015 comes to a close, here is a glimpse of some of the Asia-Pacific’s most important events of the year, through the eyes of The Associated Press’ photojournalists.

  • A Photographer Looks Back on the Horrors of the Bosnian War | VICE | United States

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    A Photographer Looks Back on the Horrors of the Bosnian War We talked to legendary photojournalist Ron Haviv about his experience documenting the trauma and atrocities of the Bosnian War. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn953m/photos-of-the-bosnia-war December 14 marked two decades since the official end of the Bosnian War and all the bloodshed that it encompassed. In light of…

  • TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2015 | TIME

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    Here are the 10 Most Important Photos of 2015 Carefully culled from thousands, TIME selects the best photos of the year via Time: https://time.com/4145154/top-10-photos-2015/ Each photograph selected for TIME’s Top 10 photos of 2015, carefully culled from thousands and presented here unranked, reflects a unique and powerful point of view that represents the best of…

  • TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2015 | TIME

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    TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2015 TIME looks back on a year in photojournalism via Time: https://time.com/3692917/time-best-photojournalism-of-2015/ In 2015, TIME sent photographers to Chechnya, Croatia, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, France, Gaza, Germany, Greece, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Syria, Turkey and Vietnam, as well as across the U.S. to cover the world’s biggest stories.…

  • Public Life and the Private Screen — Vantage — Medium

    Public Life and the Private Screen — Vantage — Medium

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    Public Life and the Private Screen Thoughts on Mishka Henner’s ‘No Man’s Land’ via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/public-life-and-the-private-screen-60d0b225e516 Henner does not travel to the locations to photograph his subjects personally, as conventional documentary practice would dictate, because his subject is arguably neither primarily the women nor the places themselves but the relatively more abstract scaffolding through with…

  • Thomas Michael Alleman: The Unwinding | LENSCRATCH

    Thomas Michael Alleman: The Unwinding | LENSCRATCH

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    Thomas Michael Alleman: The Unwinding – LENSCRATCH Thomas Alleman has created a number of significant projects about what’s outside the front door–his focus on the ubiquitous American Apparel billboards made us consider the placement of these visual scars; his long-term project, Sunshine and Noir, finds black and white beauty on the streets of cities around the…

  • Our Favourite Australian Photo Books of 2015 | The Creators Project

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    Our Favourite Australian Photo Books of 2015 We’ve got your summer reading list sorted. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/53kz43/our-favourite-australian-photo-books-of-2015 Self-publishing was huge in 2015, even bigger than the years before. This is probably because it’s quite affordable and accessible now. Plus the only way to really cut through the noise on social media and say, “Hey, I’m pretty…

  • The American Landscape, From Space: Denver, the Rockies, and Colorado Captured by DigitalGlobe’s Satellite – The Atlantic

    The American Landscape, From Space: Denver, the Rockies, and Colorado Captured by DigitalGlobe’s Satellite – The Atlantic

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    You Must See This Stunning New Photo of Colorado, From Earth’s Orbit The American landscape as you’ve never seen it before via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/a-new-kind-of-landscape-photography/421287/ WorldView-3 is one of the most advanced privately owned Earth-observing satellites in use. It’s owned and operated by DigitalGlobe, a corporation that supplies imagery to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency…

  • Voting under fire – Correspondent

    Voting under fire – Correspondent

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    Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ I’ve been in CAR for about two weeks. It’s complicated coverage. You can feel something is brewing and things are not settled. There is constant stress, you always have to watch out, you can never relax. And on Sunday, we saw why. CAR is a complicated situation to begin with

  • Portuguese Migrants Struggle to Find Relief in Angola – The New York Times

    Portuguese Migrants Struggle to Find Relief in Angola – The New York Times

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    Portuguese Migrants Struggle to Find Relief in Angola When Portugal’s economy hit the skids, it sparked a return migration to Angola, its oil-rich former colony. This time, the Europeans are in the subservient role. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/portuguese-migrants-struggle-to-find-relief-in-angola/ Joan Bardeletti, a French freelance photographer who focuses on documenting the changing dynamics of urban life across…

  • In Conversation with National Geographic Photographer Jay Dickman — Vantage — Medium

    In Conversation with National Geographic Photographer Jay Dickman — Vantage — Medium

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    In Conversation with National Geographic Photographer Jay Dickman ‘The Power of the Frozen Moment’ via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-ppd-master-series-jay-dickman-and-the-power-of-the-frozen-moment-74efe511aae6 Dickman, who is an Olympus Visionary, took time out from his relentless travel schedule to talk with writer Jeff Wignall about his accomplishments, his work with National Geographic and his lifelong passion for the still image.

  • How Memorable are TIME’s Top 10 Photos of the Year? | PhotoShelter Blog

    How Memorable are TIME’s Top 10 Photos of the Year? | PhotoShelter Blog

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    How Memorable are TIME’s Top 10 Photos of the Year? – PhotoShelter Blog The braniacs at MIT have created an algorithm to determine the “memorability” of a photograph. The deep learning-based technology “learned” what makes a photo memorable by evaluating the rankings from 5,000 human volunteers, and even indicates which portions of an image it considers…

  • Lianne Milton – Song of the Quetzal « burn magazine

    Lianne Milton – Song of the Quetzal « burn magazine

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    Lianne Milton – Song of the Quetzal Lianne Milton Song of the Quetzal This project explores the complexities of post-civil war recovery and the struggle to find peace and security from the Guatemalan Civil War among the indigenous po… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/12/lianne-milton-song-of-the-quetzal/ This project explores the complexities of post-civil war recovery and the struggle…

  • Interview: Laura Wilson on the Wild West | American Photo

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    Link: The title of Laura Wilson’s new book and exhibition, That Day, signals that the project is a series of moments in time. Subtitled “Pictures of the American West,” this work could also be called That Place. “I photograph all over, but this particular body of work has all been done in the American West…

  • The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut – The New York Times

    The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut – The New York Times

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    The Year in Pictures: How We Made the Cut New York Times editors pore over tens of thousands of the year’s images to come up with the best and strongest collection. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/times-year-in-pictures-2015-meaghan-looram-jeffrey-scales-lens/ The New York Times Year in Pictures 2015, published online this week, was edited by the deputy photo editor Meaghan Looram…

  • MuCEM : I Love Panoramas – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: This exhibition originated in an exchange between the two curators, Laurence Madeline and Jean-Roch Bouiller. It started with a text message, “I love panoramas” (a phrase spoken by Jean Dujardin in the French spy movie OSS 117) which crossed one of their phones like a flash of lightning. Familiar to artists, this flash of…