The exhibition “American Job“ at ICP contends with the roles of images, policy, and activism in forming the American Dream.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-have-photographs-shaped-our-idea-of-work/
An exhibition contends with the role of images, policy, and activism in forming our relationship to labor and the American Dream.
https://aperture.org/editorial/how-have-photographs-shaped-our-idea-of-work/
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/04/oleksandr-rupeta-art-history-competition-second-place-winner/
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta has spent much of his time photographing social anthropology and social conflicts around the world. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, he has focused on the war there. In “Stages of Air,” he captures the dissonance between the peaceful landscapes of Donbas with the horrors of combat.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/04/oleksandr-rupeta-art-history-competition-second-place-winner/
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had a clear connection to history—exploring
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2025/03/jared-ragland-art-history-competition-first-place-winner/
After casting my vote on Election Day 2020, I visited Spring Hill in Barbour County, Alabama, where on November 3, 1874, a White mob attacked the Spring Hill polling station, destroyed the ballot box, burned the ballots inside, and killed the election supervisor’s son. Many of the perpetrators of the massacre were known, but no one was ever convicted
http://lenscratch.com/2025/03/jared-ragland-art-history-competition-first-place-winner/
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack – Krebs on Security:
This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedoms concerning speech, religion, the media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and seek redress for wrongs.
The AP says its White House ban has delayed reporting, weakened access and chilled other journalists, and wants a judge to temporarily lift it
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/white-house-associated-press-hearing/
“We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories,” said Evan Vucci, the AP’s chief photographer in Washington, D.C. He and White House correspondent Zeke Miller testified Thursday during a hearing for the AP’s lawsuit challenging the ban. The AP is seeking a preliminary injunction to temporarily lift the ban as its lawsuit makes its way through court.
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/white-house-associated-press-hearing/
The best photojournalism from around the world.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/world-press-photo-2025-shines-a-light-on-global-issues/
World Press Photo has announced the winners of its 2025 World Press Photo Contest, showcasing some of the world’s best photojournalism and documentary photography.
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/world-press-photo-2025-shines-a-light-on-global-issues/
A grand jury declined to take action.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/texas-drops-charges-against-photographer-sally-mann-modern-art-museum-fort-worth/
Texas has dropped charges against Sally Mann after a grand jury declined to take action against the controversial photographer and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where her photos were exhibited in January.
Examining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03/27/gaza-israel-palestine-shot-killed-injured-destroyed-dangerous-drone-journalists-in-gaza/
Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat along with our partners at Forbidden Stories, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Der Standard, Paper Trail Media, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and RFI identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images.
Akgül has been covering politics in Turkey for the past 10 years.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/26/afp-demands-turkey-release-imprisoned-photographer-yasin-akgul/
The news agency Agence-France Presse (AFP) has demanded the release of its jailed Turkish photojournalist Yasin Akgül who was detained while covering protests in Istanbul.
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/26/afp-demands-turkey-release-imprisoned-photographer-yasin-akgul/
The photobook is a strange medium. It combines two technologies—one about as old as Christianity, the other younger than the United States. If photographs
via The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/23/a-nation-deranged/
Matt Eich’s photobook series, “The Invisible Yoke,” is an exorcism of the country’s demons.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/23/a-nation-deranged/?src=longreads
Between Blood and Glitter – Photographs and text by Jana Margarete Schuler | LensCulture:
In Ciudad Juárez, female wrestlers, Luchadoras, fight for respect and safety while inspiring young girls to seek equality inside and outside the ring.
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption/
If you had a universal picklock, you might tell everyone—or you might keep it hidden in your pocket for as long as you possibly could
Former Courier Journal and Louisville Times photographer Keith Williams died on March 13. He was 75. A look at some of his most iconic work.
via The Courier-Journal: https://www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/03/20/former-courier-journal-photojournalist-keith-williams-best-photos/82422778007/
Advice for Young Artists by Alec Soth Tracy L Chandler in conversation with Alec Soth Alec Soth is a public figure, at least in our corner of the art world, and a beloved one. His photographs, photobooks, and writing have been a great influence on photography over the last few decades. Many of us are
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/alec-soth-advice-for-young-artists/
Alec Soth is a public figure, at least in our corner of the art world, and a beloved one. His photographs, photobooks, and writing have been a great influence on photography over the last few decades. Many of us are referencing his work in our pictures whether we are aware of it or not.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/alec-soth-advice-for-young-artists/
An interview with photographer Deanne Fitzmourice, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for her feature photography.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/18/a-chat-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-deanne-fitzmaurice/
Winning awards is a powerful way for photographers to quickly gain recognition for their work. I discovered Deanne Fitzmaurice while researching Pulitzer Prize winners, fascinated by how this prestigious honor transformed and accelerated her career.
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/18/a-chat-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-deanne-fitzmaurice/
Widespread auction manipulation.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/17/historic-leica-camera-auction-in-china-was-manipulated-report/
However, OstLicht now says the auction was manipulated, prompting the long-time Austrian company to sever its relationship with its Chinese auction partner, Lidong Auction Ltd. In a statement on its website, OstLicht claims that Lidong Ltd. manipulated the auction bidding and results. The complete statement from OstLicht founder Peter Coeln is available below:
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/17/historic-leica-camera-auction-in-china-was-manipulated-report/
#053kids – Photographs by Toby Binder | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture:
Toby Binder’s intimate documentary-portraits explore the intersecting struggles of poverty, belonging, and identity faced by young people living on the margins of rich, industrial Germany.
The Trump assassination attempt dominated proceedings.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/14/the-incredible-news-photos-that-won-the-2025-eyes-of-history-contest/
The Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA, dominated the 2025 Eyes of History® photo contest — organized by The White House News Photographers Association — as the two top honors both went to photographers present that day.
Here are must-read Aperture titles this Women’s History Month, from the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-inspiring-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
From the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits of the haute bourgeoisie, here are must-read titles this Women’s History Month.
https://aperture.org/editorial/15-inspiring-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
The trove comprises drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, and a surfboard, filling 28 boxes, as well as paints and materials related to the artist’s process.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/996133/getty-acquires-raymond-pettibon-archive/
The trove comprises drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, and a surfboard, filling 28 boxes, as well as paints and materials related to the artist’s process.
https://hyperallergic.com/996133/getty-acquires-raymond-pettibon-archive/