in the 16 years I’ve been arranging PDN’s 30 seminars, the media and the photo industry have changed so much, the career paths that past PDN’s 30 photographers described just seven or eight years ago now sound quaint. What I’ve appreciated about PDN’s 30 photographers is that they know the old industry models are gone, but they’ve figured out their own ingenious, enterprising ways to fund and share their work
Author: Trent
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PDN’s 30 2015 : New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
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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 States and twenty foreign countries
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Paris : Colin Delfosse, Out of Home – The Eye of Photography
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, aesthetic point of view, the direction of his or her approach and the major challenges presented by the project, supports each exhibition.
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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 December. Situated on a narrow barrier island, Shishmaref was founded over 400 years ago as a seasonal fishing settlement. Cold weather and natural ice barriers used to protect the shore, but now the municipal village, home to some 600 residents, faces the immediate threat of inundation.
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New York : Meryl Meisler – The Eye of Photography
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. The photographs drift between the kitsch-filled rooms of Meisler’s hometown in Long Island to the gritty clubs and streets of disco-era New York.
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Water – Mustafah Abdulaziz’s Fifteen Year Long Look at the World’s Finest Resource | Fotografia Magazine
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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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 fires, our atrocious seaside resorts and apocalyptic garden parties
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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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Valladolid : Mike Brodie , Train and Freedom – The Eye of Photography
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 magnificent books published when he stopped taking pictures. He lived as an outsider hoping trains crossing United States.
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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 use a clever trick to determine the location of indoor images and pictures of specific things such as pets, food, and so on that have no location cues.
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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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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 Søren Kierkegaard’s masterpiece. “Either/Or,” explores two world views, one centered on the aesthetic life and the other on an ethical life. Kierkegaard’s purpose, according to the author, was to ‘exhibit the existential relationship between the aesthetic and the ethical in an existing individual’ and remind people ‘what it means to exist, and what inwardness signifies.’
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Yangon Festival Photo 2016: Gamma, 50th anniversary exhibition – The Eye of Photography
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 by Aung San Suu Kyi, and directed by its creator, Christophe Loviny.
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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.
Amanda Greene lives with her husband and dog in Danielsville, Ga., a town of roughly 600 people between Atlanta and Greenville, S.C. The moments that make up her personal work — inspired by quiet, often offbeat, yet distinctly Southern moments — are often a short drive away in her Volkswagen, co-piloted by her dog, riding shotgun. The oft-tricky problem of access is usually easily solved with a simple gesture toward her car’s license plate.
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These Haunting Photos Reveal Today’s Afghanistan | PROOF
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 last only a few weeks turned into a few months—and beyond.
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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 line. His photographic work has often explored the connections between landscape and history and psychology, and in the past three years he’s returned to his early connection to the American rail system. For the series “In Search of Great Men,” Evans has taken a series of two-week trips on Amtrak, travelling all over the country to capture the lives of his fellow-passengers during their long-haul sojourns across the continent.