Author: Trent
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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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Paris : Colin Delfosse, Out of Home – The Eye of Photography
Link: The “Escale à la Grange aux Belles” is a citizen-driven, people’s educational project, supported by the Ile de France Region. Each year there are 8 exhibitions that aim to raise awareness on social problems and deal forcefully with realities that are often unrecognised. A video portrait of the photographer, presenting his or her experience,…
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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…
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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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Water – Mustafah Abdulaziz’s Fifteen Year Long Look at the World’s Finest Resource | Fotografia Magazine
Link: IN THIS INTERVIEW > 30 year-old American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz discusses Water, a stunning, long-term documentary project with a global scope about how we use water, and the threats posed by its scarcity. Mustafah started working on this project in 2011, and intends to continue at least until 2026.
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Gary Braasch, Climate Change Photographer, Dies While Snorkeling on Great Barrier Reef
Link: Braasch, who has been focusing on climate change since 1999, published his rigorous and widely acclaimed book on the subject, titled Earth Under Fire, in 2007
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Great Britain, Strange and Familiar – The New Yorker
Great Britain, Strange and Familiar For the past forty-odd years, the photographer Martin Parr has trained his eye on all manner of British eccentricity. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/great-britain-strange-and-familiar For the past forty-odd years, the photographer Martin Parr has trained his eye on all manner of British eccentricity: our Union Jack cupcakes and mock-antique gas…
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10 Things to See at FotoFest Houston | TIME
10 Things to See at Fotofest Houston The nation’s longest running festival of international photography is back via Time: https://time.com/4253006/10-things-to-see-at-fotofest-houston/ The nation’s longest running festival of international photography highlights artists exploring the climate question.
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Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image Guessing the location of a randomly chosen Street View image is hard, even for well-traveled humans. But Google’s latest artificial-intelligence machine manages it with relative ease. via MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/02/24/161885/google-unveils-neural-network-with-superhuman-ability-to-determine-the-location-of-almost/ Their new machine significantly outperforms humans and can even…
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Valladolid : Mike Brodie , Train and Freedom – The Eye of Photography
Link: From March 7th to April 17th Fundacion Municipal de Valladolid is presenting “Train and Freedom” by Mike Brodie in the venue of Sala San Benito. Mike Brodie is a phenomenon , a natural talented teenager, who got immediately famous through social media and was later celebrated by the art critics thanks to the two…
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Discover the Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century | TIME
The Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century TIME honors a selection of women trailblazers in photography via Time: https://time.com/4259851/photography-women/ TIME honors a selection of women trailblazers in photography
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The 10 Best New Photobooks: Spring 2016 | American Photo
Link: Our friends from BuzzFeed, The California Sunday Magazine, Mashable, National Geographic and Vantage share visual stories that make an impact.
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FotoFirst – Morgan Levy Investigates the Psychological Effects of the Fracking Industry | Fotografia Magazine
Link: 30 year-old American photographer Morgan Rachel Levy presents As Soft As The Earth Is, a series of photographs that looks at the changes brought about by the fracking industry in North Dakota, focusing in particular on how these transformations impact on the psychology of the people who live in the affected regions
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Either/Or: A Solo Exhibition of Works by Todd Lim
Juxtapoz Magazine – Either/Or: A Solo Exhibition of Works by Todd Lim “Either/Or” is a solo exhibition of works by Todd Lim at Booth Gallery inspired by the title of Søren Kierkegaard’s masterpiece. “Either/Or,” explores… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/either-or-a-solo-exhibition-of-works-by-todd-lim/ “Either/Or” is a solo exhibition of works by Todd Lim at Booth Gallery inspired by the title of…
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Yangon Festival Photo 2016: Gamma, 50th anniversary exhibition – The Eye of Photography
Link: Gamma opened its first exhibition on 50 years of a photography that it had largely created, that of action and magazine photojournalism. The place chosen for this first? the other side of the world, in a country in the throes of political change: in Burma (Myanmar). The occasion? The Yangon Photo Festival, presided over…
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The Venerable Stephen Shore Shares Wisdom Through the Lens of His Latest Project | American Photo
Link: Shore journeys to the Ukraine to explore the culture photographically
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Rediscovering Southern Roots – The New York Times
Rediscovering Southern Roots Amanda Greene’s images of Southern life were inspired by her return home after 17 years in Los Angeles, where what passed for “authentic” was often nowhere near what she knew. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/rediscovering-southern-roots/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-7&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Rediscovering%20Southern%20Roots¤tSlide=7&entrySlide=1&pgtype=i Amanda Greene lives with her husband and dog in Danielsville, Ga., a town of roughly 600 people between…
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These Haunting Photos Reveal Today’s Afghanistan | PROOF
Link: Australian photographer Andrew Quilty has been photographing in Afghanistan since 2013 for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Foreign Policy. Like many of his generation, he says, Afghanistan became part of his consciousness after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent U.S. invasion. A first trip meant to…
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The Secret Lives of Amtrak Passengers – The New Yorker
The Secret Lives of Amtrak Passengers An American photographer travelled by train across the country to capture the stories of fellow-passengers during their long-haul sojourns. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-secret-lives-of-amtrak-passengers The photographer McNair Evans grew up in a small town in North Carolina. During the summers, he worked repairing railroad ties on a local freight…