Author: Trent
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Lenscratch Student Prize 2023: Top 26 to Watch – LENSCRATCH
Lenscratch Student Prize 2023: Top 26 to Watch – LENSCRATCH Every year, the Lenscratch Student Prize Awards give us an opportunity to celebrate and support the next generation of photographic artists. Hundreds of artists shared their work with us– powerful creative voices that make us truly excited about the futur via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/lenscratch-student-prize-2023-top-26-to-watch/ Every year, the Lenscratch…
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Cortona’s 13th International Photo Festival — Summertime Bliss in Italy – Photographs courtesy of Cortona On The Move | Review by Jim Casper | LensCulture
Cortona’s 13th International Photo Festival — Summertime Bliss in Italy – Photographs courtesy of Cortona On The Move | Review by Jim Casper | LensCulture You’re invited to saunter through the curving streets of this Tuscan hill-top town while you discover 26 remarkable photo exhibitions on the theme of More or Less via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/cortona-on-the-move-cortona-s-13th-international-photo-festival-summertime-bliss-in-italy…
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Beautiful Paradox – The Leica camera Blog
Link: William Keo’s powerful images reveal how he perceives the outskirts of Paris: a place of contrasts.
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The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine
The Photographer Searching for Freedom in Palestine Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-photographer-searching-for-freedom-in-palestine/ Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation.
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Instagram Beats Photographers’ Copyright Case Over Embedded Images | PetaPixel
Instagram Beats Photographers’ Copyright Case Over Embedded Images Instagram dodges again. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/19/instagram-beats-photographers-copyright-case-over-embedded-images/ In 2021, photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer filed a class action lawsuit against Instagram in federal court.
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The Stunning Work of a Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Killed by the Taliban | PetaPixel
The Stunning Work of a Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Killed by the Taliban His untimely death serves as a reminder of the dangers war zone photographers face. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/18/the-stunning-work-of-a-pulitzer-winning-photographer-killed-by-the-taliban/ Siddiqui’s photos have now been collated into a new book that showcases the photos he captured in his native country of India and beyond.
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Press Democrat photojournalist Beth Schlanker on the devotion to community that drives her career
Behind the Byline: PD photojournalist Beth Schlanker on covering local stories of past decade Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges. But a career in photojournalism wasn’t what she originally set out to do. via Santa Rosa Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/press-democrat-photojournalist-beth-schlanker-on-the-devotion-to-community/ Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges.…
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French war photographer Marie-Laure de Decker dead at 75
French war photographer Marie-Laure de Decker dead at 75 Marie-Laure de Decker, the French model who stepped behind the camera to become an internationally recognised war photographer, has died at the age of 75, her family said Saturday. via France 24: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230715-french-war-photographer-marie-laure-de-decker-dead-at-75-1 On the other hand, she added: “There is an advantage to being a…
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Isolationism in Photography: William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway – LENSCRATCH
Isolationism in Photography: William Mark Sommer: The Loneliest Highway – LENSCRATCH What does it mean to be alone? To be isolated from the people and things we hold dearest? Since the pandemic, it seems like we all have an answer to this very question. Some people embraced the mandatory isolation while others struggled being forced…
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Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation? – bellingcat
Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation? – bellingcat Chatbots such as BARD and BING try to mimic the techniques used by open source researchers — with very mixed results. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/07/14/can-ai-chatbots-be-used-for-geolocation/ Given that geolocations can be time-consuming, researchers are always on the lookout for tools which can ease or automate parts of the…
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Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life | The New Yorker
Agnès Varda’s Storyboard of French Village Life A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/agnes-vardas-storyboard-of-french-village-life A new exhibition showcases the filmmaker’s startlingly original form of incidental portraiture.
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Art and Aid | Mark Neville
Art and Aid, Postcard from Ukraine | Mark Neville As a British artist living and working in Ukraine, Mark Neville shares an account of his experiences in a country that has now been under siege for more than 500 days. Known for his long-term, immersive documentary projects in various places, from Glasgow via 1000 Words:…
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Freelance Photographers Sue Over Injuries Suffered in 2020 Police Riots | PetaPixel
Freelance Photographers Sue Over Injuries Suffered in 2020 Police Riots The photographers were working for The New York Times and Getty Images. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/10/freelance-photographers-sue-over-injuries-suffered-in-2020-police-riots/ Schukar’s and Olson’s case is one of a long list of incidents where photographers were injured or mistreated during various protests in 2020.
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The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department – The New York Times
The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/business/media/the-new-york-times-sports-department.html “We plan to focus even more directly on distinctive, high-impact news and enterprise journalism about how sports intersect with money, power, culture,…
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Ari Salomon: 6 Feet Apart – LENSCRATCH
Ari Salomon: 6 Feet Apart – LENSCRATCH This week we are featuring projects seen at the Medium Photo Portfolio Reviews. If a future anthropologist were to go back in time to 2020 and look for clues to a world wide pandemic, the masks and gloves and hand sanitizers would be deep into landfills, via LENSCRATCH:…
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The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian | The New Yorker
The Lower East Side’s Folk Historian For four decades, Clayton Patterson has been the neighborhood’s most dogged artist-archivist. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lower-east-sides-folk-historian Patterson’s photographs served as plainspoken time capsules of the community. In a 2008 documentary called “Captured,” which chronicles his life on the Lower East Side, he says, “Looking out on the street…
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Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines
Ari Marcopoulos on the Essential Art of Zines The inveterate zine-maker speaks about his artistic practice, learning under Andy Warhol and Irving Penn, and why “everything is worth photographing.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ari-marcopoulos-on-the-essential-art-of-zines/ All through the weekend, as I passed by, there were different people, different characters. I photographed them whenever I saw someone different. When…
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Marcia Bricker Halperin: Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria – LENSCRATCH
Marcia Bricker Halperin: Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria – LENSCRATCH Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white phot via…
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Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia are special to this Inquirer photographer
An extra special Fourth | Scene Through the Lens Staff photographer Tom Gralish looks back at four decades at The Inquirer. via https://www.inquirer.com: https://www.inquirer.com/photo/pulitzer-photojournalism-tom-gralish-photographer-newspaper-photographer-20230703.html This year the holiday is extra special for me as it also marks my 40th anniversary at The Inquirer.