Author: Trent
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Charlie Brooker’s 2015 Wipe: the only roundup you need to watch / Boing Boing
Link: As always, Charlie “Screen Wipe/Nathan Barley/Black Mirror” Brooker manages to sum up every single terrible thing about the year that was with gut-busting hilarity.
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The Best Photography Exhibition Of 2015: ‘Conflict and Consequences’ at Beloit College — Vantage — Medium
The Best Photography Exhibition Of 2015: ‘Conflict and Consequences’ at Beloit College Looking beyond the act of war to its many aftermaths via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-best-photography-exhibition-of-2015-conflict-and-consequences-at-beloit-college-50b648df74b2 mall-scale, barely-promoted and relatively obscure as photo shows go, I can admit that Conflict and Consequences: Photographing War and Its Aftermath isn’t an obvious pick for this “Best Of 2015”…
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Marvin Newman Beyond the Single Image – The New York Times
Marvin Newman Beyond the Single Image “Sequentially Sought,” an exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, showcases Marvin Newman’s sometimes tongue-in-cheek series from 1950s New York and Chicago. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/marvin-newman-beyond-the-single-image/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Over the years, Marvin Newman has repeatedly fixated on everything from old women’s calves and men sprawled out on park benches, to…
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The ‘Hijacked’ Life of Migrants in Johannesburg | TIME
The ‘Hijacked’ Life of Migrants in Johannesburg Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs highlight the squalid conditions facing African migrants in Johannesburg via Time: https://time.com/4155787/johannesburg-jonathan-torgovnik/ Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs highlight the squalid conditions facing African migrants in Johannesburg
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» Departing Oregonian reporter: ‘If you write a story to win an award, you won’t get one’ JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: https://jimromenesko.com/ Two-time Pulitzer winner Richard Read wrote this farewell note to Oregonian colleagues after taking the paper’s buyout and leaving the paper on Dec. 31. “Hopefully other reporters can get a little bit of his wisdom,” writes the Oregonian staffer who forwarded Read’s email.
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Greenland’s Endless (for Now) Landscape – The New York Times
Greenland’s Endless (for Now) Landscape The seemingly endless and frozen landscapes around Greenland’s indigenous villages are vanishing and with them, a way of life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/greenlands-endless-for-now-landscape/?&_r=0&module=CloseSlideshow®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-9&action=keypress&contentCollection=Blogs&pgtype=imageslideshow Greenland is frequently in the news these days, its melting icebergs and receding sea ice a bellwether for climate change. But when the Finnish photographer Tiina Itkonen…
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Melissa Lyttle Elected NPPA President | NPPA
Link: Getty Images and Visual China Group partner to take over Corbis’ assets
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The Death Of The Holga — Vantage — Medium
Link: In conversation with photographer Liz Potter about the iconic toy camera … and its exit from the market
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After Factory Closing, Iowans Live Realities of Global Economy – The New York Times
After Factory Closing, Iowans Live Realities of Global Economy When Electrolux closed its factory in a small Iowa town, residents learned how globalization is more than just a buzzword tossed about during presidential caucuses. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/iowa-brendan-hoffman-factory-electrolux/ Brendan Hoffman had just started photographing Iowa’s political rituals in 2011 when he went to Webster City,…
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What Happens When Your Images Go Viral: Eric Pickersgill’s REMOVED | A Photo Editor
What Happens When Your Images Go Viral: Eric Pickersgill’s REMOVED by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, aCurator You’ve probably seen and possibly heard the story of Eric Pickersgill’s body of work: REMOVED. How Eric noticed a family in a coffee shop all staring at their pers… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2016/02/03/what-happens-when-your-images-go-viral-eric-pickersgills-removed/ The emails quickly ramped up to over…
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Tragedy in an Instant, Photographed for a Lifetime | PROOF
Link: I will continue to photograph, film, and document major points in Saleh’s life for as long as he continues to welcome me into his world. Our lives have woven together, and Saleh’s indomitable spirit continues to inspire me every day.”—Deanne Fitzmaurice
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Waiting for the gate to open – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ Bab-al Salama frontier post, Syria, February 9, 2016 — These people, they know how to run. They’ve been running for the past five years and now it’s time to run again. So they’ve picked up and they’ve run. And now they’re just waiting for the gate to open.
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HSBC Prize for Photography 2016 : Interview with Marta Zgierska – The Eye of Photography
Link: The 21st edition of the HSBC Prize for Photography,for which Diane Dufour is artistic advisor, was won by Marta Zgierska and Christian Vium. Marta is a young Polish photographer, 28 years old. For her entry, she presented her series Post created following a serious road accident that happened in 2013.
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Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | LENSCRATCH
Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – LENSCRATCH There are photographers who document people and places, and then there are storytellers who can weave narratives out of the threads of human experience, with the ability to tell stories that are below the surface and often overlooked. Preston Gannaway’s fine art sensibility…
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Berlin : Stephen Shore, Retrospective – The Eye of Photography
Link: “I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.” Stephen Shore
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Eugene : Brian Lanker, From the Heart – The Eye of Photography
Link: In 2011 Brian Lanker suddenly and swiftly died of cancer. At his memorial service, a coterie of photographers focused on the need for a book not only on Brian’s excellent photographs but one that celebrated the remarkable, engaging nature of the man.
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Rosalind Fox Solomon, Inward and Out – The New Yorker
Rosalind Fox Solomon, Inward and Out In her black-and-white photographs, Fox Solomon offers intimate acquaintance with characters and subjects far and wide. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/rosalind-fox-solomon-inward-and-out Fox Solomon’s new book, “Got to Go,” is personal by both definitions. The collection’s subject matter is quite diffuse, with photographs shot over three decades, in the United…
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AP Photographers Honored with Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Awards | AP Images Blog
Link: Kennerly also wrote, “Chris can be faulted for using an expletive when the agent tried to block him from taking a photo, but their training definitely doesn’t teach them to assault people for something they said – at least it didn’t used to …”.
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New York : Meryl Meisler – The Eye of Photography
Link: Steven Kasher Gallery has inaugurated last week its new solo exhibition devoted to Meryl Meisler’s earliest work. The exhibition includes over 35 black and white prints. The photographs capture the drama and exuberance of the 1970s, when pop-psychology encouraged everyone from suburban Long Island housewives to drag queens and disco queens to self-actualize and act out.…
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Nowhere to Go Amid Alaska’s Melting Ice – The New York Times
Nowhere to Go Amid Alaska’s Melting Ice With tides rising from climate change and with money tight, villagers on an Alaskan barrier island are unsure how, or when, they will relocate. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/nima-taradji-alaska-climate-ice/ Alaska’s Chukchi Sea was only just starting to freeze when Nima Taradji arrived at the Inupiat village of Shishmaref last…