Author: Trent

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala – The New York Times

    Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala – The New York Times

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    Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala Although the golden age of professional wrestling has faded in Guatemala, on weekends some hard-core devotees don masks and meet at a garage turned arena. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/wrestlings-daily-struggle-in-guatemala/ Everyone loves a winner. But as everyone knows, somebody has to lose. Indeed, for Guatemala City’s wrestlers, life itself is a…

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Eyewitness To History — Vantage — Medium

    Eyewitness To History — Vantage — Medium

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    Eyewitness To History In conversation with Benjamin Lowy via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-ppd-master-series-benjamin-lowy-eyewitness-to-history-5b013edef43 When I first started photography, I carried a ton of cameras and I wanted everyone to know that I was a photographer. Now I just want the smallest camera and I want everyone to think I’m just another tourist. I don’t want to stand…

  • Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism — Vantage — Medium

    Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism — Vantage — Medium

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    Put A Filter On It: Instagram As Photojournalism Valencia, Hefe, X-Pro II — such obscure names are familiar to the hundreds of millions monthly active Instagram users around the world, including a growing population of photojournalists who are… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/put-a-filter-on-it-instagram-as-photojournalism-1319e21481e8 And as social media and photojournalism continue to evolve and intertwine, Instagram is still…

  • Our Favorite Documentary Photographs of 2015 – The New Yorker

    Our Favorite Documentary Photographs of 2015 – The New Yorker

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    Our Favorite Documentary Photographs of 2015 Each of these photographers found the pieces that helped us see the whole more clearly. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/our-favorite-documentary-photographs-of-2015 These photographers’ styles are as varied as their subject matter, but each has the talent vital to any documentarian: to find the pieces that help us see the whole…

  • Homeless Veterans Surviving Rape and Indifference – The New York Times

    Homeless Veterans Surviving Rape and Indifference – The New York Times

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    Homeless Veterans Surviving Rape and Indifference Mary Calvert has made it her mission to document the traumas encountered by female veterans, a group that is the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/homeless-veterans-surviving-rape-and-indifference/ Mary Calvert has deep ties to the military: Her grandfather was John F. Kennedy’s commander during his famed service…

  • Gianni Berengo Gardin photographs Venice’s massive cruise ships.

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    Are These Giant Cruise Ships Destroying Venice? Tourism is the economic lifeblood that keeps Venice running. But is it destroying what’s charming about the city in the process?  via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2015/12/gianni-berengo-gardin-photographs-venices-massive-cruise-ships.html In Gianni Berengo Gardin’s photos of massive boats lumbering through the lagoon and the city’s fragile canals on their way to the international…

  • Most Prominent Photo Objects of 2015: The Life JacketReading The Pictures

    Most Prominent Photo Objects of 2015: The Life JacketReading The Pictures

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    Most Prominent Photo Objects of 2015: The Life Jacket Who knows how many powerful images were published this year of life jackets either worn or discarded by migrants via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/12/2015-the-life-jacket/ Because of all the year-end “best of” lists, I was half-joking the other day when I tweeted, why not “photo objects of the…

  • 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…

  • Let Me Represent You — Vantage — Medium

    Let Me Represent You — Vantage — Medium

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    Let Me Represent You Pete Muller shares their passions, motives and images in new CNN documentary series about conflict photographers via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/pete-muller-let-me-represent-you-a6855026aa8a Pete Muller shares his passions, motives and images in new CNN documentary series about conflict photographers

  • 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…

  • The Best Street Photographer In San Francisco 2015: Troy Holden — Vantage — Medium

    The Best Street Photographer In San Francisco 2015: Troy Holden — Vantage — Medium

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    The Best Street Photographer In San Francisco 2015: Troy Holden A man with boundless energy, decisive moments and big community-spirit via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-best-street-photographer-in-san-francisco-2015-troy-holden-52f24a0512de Determining “Best” is a subjective act, but if relentless energy, decisive moments and community-spirit are factors then Troy Holden is on the podium