Author: Trent

  • A New Chapter for the Cooperative: An Interview with Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos

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    A New Chapter for the Cooperative: An Interview with Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/a-new-chapter-for-the-cooperative/ Cristina de Middel: “In the context of the current editorial crisis, where media outlets are dwindling and budgets for long-term, in-depth stories are shrinking, Magnum Chronicle emerges as a necessary platform for the stories…

  • The White Line | by Rosa Rodriguez – burn magazine

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    The White Line | by Rosa Rodriguez The White Line | by Rosa Rodriguez A vast ice desert unfolds, inhospitable and enigmatic, with untouched beauty. In the regions of Kulusuk and Qaanaaq in Greenland, Yamalia in Siberia, and Norwegia… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/06/the-white-line-by-rosa-rodriguez/ A vast ice desert unfolds, inhospitable and enigmatic, with untouched beauty. In…

  • Poignant Image of 4,000 Birds That Died Colliding With Buildings Wins Bird Photographer of the Year | PetaPixel

    Poignant Image of 4,000 Birds That Died Colliding With Buildings Wins Bird Photographer of the Year | PetaPixel

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    Poignant Image of 4,000 Birds That Died Colliding With Buildings Wins Bird Photographer of the Year The competition has a high pedigree. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/09/23/poignant-image-of-4000-birds-that-died-colliding-with-buildings-wins-bird-photographer-of-the-year-2024/ An impactful photo showing 4,000 birds that died from colliding with buildings has won Bird Photographer of the Year 2024. https://petapixel.com/2024/09/23/poignant-image-of-4000-birds-that-died-colliding-with-buildings-wins-bird-photographer-of-the-year-2024/

  • Bruce Gilden Says He’ll Be Broke in a Year | PetaPixel

    Bruce Gilden Says He’ll Be Broke in a Year | PetaPixel

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    Bruce Gilden Says He’ll Be Broke in a Year It’s hard out there for professional photographers. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/09/23/bruce-gilden-says-hell-be-broke-in-a-year/ “I’m Bruce Gilden, and I’m basically what would be considered a street photographer,” says the blunt photographer. “Though, nowadays everybody thinks they’re a street photographer and I have a little information for you, you’re not.” https://petapixel.com/2024/09/23/bruce-gilden-says-hell-be-broke-in-a-year/

  • Art and War – The Leica camera Blog

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    Art and War You can feel when everything is coming into place, the subject, the light and the mood. When you’ve captured that moment, it is very special, very exciting. The whole parade is like a kind of dance with strangers and you need to be at the rhythm of the street. Then it’s fun…

  • Jeff Bridges is Making a New Widelux Panoramic Film Camera | PetaPixel

    Jeff Bridges is Making a New Widelux Panoramic Film Camera | PetaPixel

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    Jeff Bridges is Making a New Widelux Panoramic Film Camera A new company formed by Jeff Bridges is remaking the classic Widelux panoramic film camera next year and calling it the WideluxX. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/09/19/jeff-bridges-is-making-a-new-widelux-panoramic-film-camera/ Jeff Bridges, who has multiple times espoused his love of the panoramic Widelux film camera, is planning to make it…

  • Chronicling conflict and survival in the Democratic Republic… | Huck

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    Chronicling conflict and survival in the Democratic Republic of Congo A new photo exhibition documents how a brutal conflict on the eastern edge of the country continues to devastate the lives of civilians. via Huck: https://www.huckmag.com/article/chronicling-conflict-and-survival-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo “The M23 rebel group is built around former Congolese army units who mutinied,” says photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham, who…

  • Stopping time again – The Leica camera Blog

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    Stopping time again The darkroom has been an integral part of my practice, almost as important as taking photos, irretrievably connected. I tried digital in the past, but I was never satisfied with the results or the process. In front of the screen, it’s easy to be too controlling, to be perfect, it’s too mental.…

  • Photographers on Photographers: Jade Nguyen in conversation with Brian Ulrich – LENSCRATCH

    Photographers on Photographers: Jade Nguyen in conversation with Brian Ulrich – LENSCRATCH

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    Photographers on Photographers: Jade Nguyen in conversation with Brian Ulrich – LENSCRATCH I was introduced to Brian Ulrich’s work during graduate school for my research on photographic representation of the effect of capitalism and consumers’ behavior in the United States. At the time I was working on a documentary series on the intersection of consumption…

  • The Outback Observed, and Transformed | The New Yorker

    The Outback Observed, and Transformed | The New Yorker

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    The Outback Observed, and Transformed For “Big Sky,” the Australian photographer Adam Ferguson went in search of his own country, and found a place he both did and didn’t know. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-outback-observed-and-transformed Many of Ferguson’s photographs appear to be of the moment between someone making a decision and their next move, but…

  • Announcing the 15 Winners of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards 2024 – Feature Shoot

    Announcing the 15 Winners of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards 2024 – Feature Shoot

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    Announcing the 15 Winners of the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards 2024 I want to thank everyone who submitted to The Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards. We had many amazing entries, and I’m always astounded by the myriad of ways photographers tell… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2024/08/announcing-the-15-winners-of-the-feature-shoot-emerging-photography-awards-2024/ While each project stands on its own with unique…

  • Two Men Arrested for Attacking a News Photographer During 2021 Capitol Riot | PetaPixel

    Two Men Arrested for Attacking a News Photographer During 2021 Capitol Riot | PetaPixel

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    Two Men Arrested for Attacking a News Photographer During 2021 Capitol Riot Two brothers have been arrested and charged with assaulting a photographer during the attack on the U.S. Capitol January 6, 2021. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/09/16/two-men-arrested-for-attacking-a-news-photographer-during-2021-capitol-riot/ Two brothers have been arrested and charged with assaulting a New York Times photographer and stealing her equipment during…

  • ‘We Had an Impact’: Kosovo War Photographer Says Images Affected West’s Policies | Balkan Insight

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    https://balkaninsight.com/2024/09/10/we-had-an-impact-kosovo-war-photographer-says-images-affected-wests-policies/ “I thought to myself, ‘I should be there, I should be taking these pictures.’ So, I quit my job and went to Sarajevo where the war had just ended,” Chin stated.

  • The African Gaze | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The African Gaze | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The African Gaze via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-african-gaze/ Western photojournalism played and still plays a major role in the continued misrepresentation of Africa. It doesn’t matter at all whether photojournalists went or go to Africa with the best of intentions (as they typically do); what matters is that many of them appear to be oblivious…

  • Mark Jury, Whose Stark Photography Captured the Vietnam War, Dies at 80 – The New York Times

    Mark Jury, Whose Stark Photography Captured the Vietnam War, Dies at 80 – The New York Times

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    Mark Jury, Whose Stark Photography Captured the Vietnam War, Dies at 80 He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/books/mark-jury-dead.html Mark Jury, a photographer whose searing, intimate images from the battlefields of South Vietnam and the deathbed…

  • Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH

    Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH

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    Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH Kyler Zeleny has a particular way of seeing the world, or more specifically, seeing the Canadian prairie, that is both historical and theatrical, cinematic and apocalyptic. When combined, the results are riveting. His newest book effort is the the final chapter in his prairie trilogy.…

  • Peter Essick: Work In Progress – LENSCRATCH

    Peter Essick: Work In Progress – LENSCRATCH

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    Peter Essick: Work In Progress – LENSCRATCH Not all painters use a paint brush. In the case of Peter Essick, he creates artful aerials with a drone and a particularly inspired vision. Essick has recently released a book of his efforts, Work In Progress, published by Fall Line Press. This four-year project of drone photographs…

  • Leica M11-D Digital Rangefinder Embraces the Analog Experience by Ditching the Screen | PetaPixel

    Leica M11-D Digital Rangefinder Embraces the Analog Experience by Ditching the Screen | PetaPixel

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    Leica M11-D Digital Rangefinder Embraces the Analog Experience by Ditching the Screen No screen? No problem. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/09/12/leica-m11-d-digital-rangefinder-embraces-the-analog-experience-by-ditching-the-screen/ Leica revealed the M11-D, a screen-less version of 2022’s M11, a 60-megapixel M-mount digital rangefinder camera. https://petapixel.com/2024/09/12/leica-m11-d-digital-rangefinder-embraces-the-analog-experience-by-ditching-the-screen/

  • Opinion | What a Blind Photographer Saw at the Paralympics – The New York Times

    Opinion | What a Blind Photographer Saw at the Paralympics – The New York Times

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    Opinion | What a Blind Photographer Saw at the Paralympics The athletes’ stories help her understand her own. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/opinion/paralympics-blind-photographer.html For a moment I was terrified. Then I remembered my camera. Looking through my telephoto lens, I saw exactly where I needed to be. Palms sweaty, heavy camera bags slung over my shoulder, I pushed…

  • Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH

    Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH

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    Meryl Meisler: Street Walker – LENSCRATCH To say that I’m a fan of Meryl Meisler’s photographs would be an understatement. Her approach ot documenting life is what drew me to photography — black and white square photographs that so perfectly capture a moment in time, seen with humor and pathos. Her archives seem endless as she…