Author: Trent

  • Bruce McCall’s “Safe Travels” | The New Yorker

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    Bruce McCall’s “Safe Travels” McCall’s friends and colleagues reflect on the late artist’s zeal for life. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-05-15 Bruce McCall, the artist behind the cover for the May 15, 2023, issue, died on May 5th, at the age of eighty-seven. McCall, who insisted upon chewing his beloved Groucho Marx cigars long after…

  • EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset | PetaPixel

    EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset | PetaPixel

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    EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset Midjourney might have to reveal exactly what photos it used to train its model. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/01/eu-law-to-force-ai-imagers-to-disclose-copyrighted-photos-in-dataset/ According to a report from the Reuters news agency, companies such as Midjourney will have to reveal the material used to train its artificial intelligence (AI)…

  • A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows | PetaPixel

    A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows | PetaPixel

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    A Photographer’s Brutal Images of Small Pro-Wrestling Shows The glamor of WWE it is not. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/03/photographers-brutal-images-from-small-pro-wrestling-shows/ Photographer Michael Watson has spent the last decade traveling to small, independent wrestling shows capturing the brave men and women who put their bodies on the line night after night.

  • Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless | The New Yorker

    Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless | The New Yorker

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    Thomas Wågström’s Pictures of the Living and the Lifeless The mysterious photographs in the book “Case Closed” are more interested in the conditions under which human beings exist than in the lives they live. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/thomas-wagstroms-pictures-of-the-living-and-the-lifeless One of Thomas Wågström’s pictures has been hanging on the wall above my desk for many…

  • How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

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    How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine In this Op-ed, independent photography director Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/how-ai-imagery-is-shaking-photojournalism/ In this Op-ed, independent photography director and educator Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.

  • Photojournalist’s Final Moments Revealed After His Missing Camera Resurfaces After 16 Years | PetaPixel

    Photojournalist’s Final Moments Revealed After His Missing Camera Resurfaces After 16 Years | PetaPixel

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    Photojournalist’s Final Moments Revealed After His Missing Camera Resurfaces After 16 Years The photographer’s final moments were captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning image. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/26/photojournalists-final-moments-revealed-after-his-missing-camera-resurfaces-after-16-years/ On September 27, 2007, veteran Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai was taking photos of anti-military protests in Yangon, Myanmar at the height of the Saffron Revolution — when he was…

  • The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement | The New Yorker

    The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement | The New Yorker

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    The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-photographer-of-the-black-is-beautiful-movement Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.

  • Ocho Puntas – The Leica camera Blog

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    Link: The Ocho Puntas in Barcelona can be seen as an outdoor altar. Spanish photographer David Salcedo chose this meeting place for his artistic series with the Leica Q2.

  • A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground | The New Yorker

    A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground | The New Yorker

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    A Coming of Age in New York City’s Underground Adam Zhu’s book “Nice Daze” depicts amorphous social configurations, fleeting experiments in style and thrill-seeking, and elevated forms of doing nothing. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-coming-of-age-in-new-york-citys-underground Two varieties of nostalgia merge in Adam Zhu’s photo book “Nice Daze.” The imagery, shot between 2013 and 2020, beginning…

  • The Global Winners of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest | PetaPixel

    The Global Winners of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest | PetaPixel

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    The Global Winners of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest The 2023 World Press Photo Contest global winners showcase the power and importance of photojournalism. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/20/the-global-winners-of-the-2023-world-press-photo-contest/ Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka’s startling and riveting photo Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike, shown above, has won the 2023 World Press Photo of the Year award.

  • Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

    Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

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    Fire / Flood – Photographs by Gideon Mendel | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects on the manifold ways the climate emergency is affecting communities across the world—and how we can visualize these urgent stories of devastation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/gideon-mendel-fire-flood A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects…

  • Announcing the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

    Announcing the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

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    Announcing the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist Here are the shortlisted artists and finalists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-2023-aperture-portfolio-prize-shortlist/ Aperture’s support of emerging photographers and other lens-based artists is a vital part of our mission. The annual Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to discover, exhibit,…

  • I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

    I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

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    I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints – Photographs by Jacob Black | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture Using photography to come to terms with a concussion, Jacob Black’s images teeter between clarity and confusion to explore the dreamlike way he sees the world post-accident via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-black-i-can-t-wipe-sunrise-down-my-jumper-to-get-rid-of-fingerprints…

  • Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH

    Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH

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    Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH The bodies of work that I will be sharing during Earth Week are linked by this thematic lens: making the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques. Each body of work spe via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/earth-week-becky-wilkes-ditched/ “Ditched” explores the…

  • Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row | PetaPixel

    Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row | PetaPixel

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    Photographer’s Powerful Portraits of LA’s Notorious Skid Row ‘I champion the underdog because I grew up as one’ via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/04/photographers-powerful-portraits-of-las-notorious-skid-row/ Suitcase Joe has invested time getting to know and photographing the often vulnerable people who live in tents that line the streets immediately east of downtown L.A.

  • Leica M11 Monochrom: Black and White 60MP Photos up to ISO 200,000 | PetaPixel

    Leica M11 Monochrom: Black and White 60MP Photos up to ISO 200,000 | PetaPixel

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    Leica M11 Monochrom: Black and White 60MP Photos up to ISO 200,000 A new digital monochrome rangefinder. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/13/leica-m11-monochrom-black-and-white-60mp-photos-up-to-iso-200000/ “The Leica M11 Monochrom is built on a tradition of excellence, from a legacy of exquisite craftsmanship, innovation, and iconic design to the ethos of the Leica M family: ‘Made in Germany’ with a focus…

  • Sony World Photography Awards 2023 | boris eldagsen

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    Link: I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the comeptitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not. We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to…

  • The Little Paper with an Outsized Visual Impact | The New Yorker

    The Little Paper with an Outsized Visual Impact | The New Yorker

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    The Little Paper with an Outsized Visual Impact Over fourteen issues between 1968 and 1971, the downtown broadsheet “Newspaper” recruited a stunning list of contributors to chronicle the times in pictures. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-little-paper-with-an-outsized-visual-impact Newspaper, published out of an East Village apartment between 1968 and 1971, was one of a number of scrappy…

  • The Hand in Nature: Margaret LeJeune – LENSCRATCH

    The Hand in Nature: Margaret LeJeune – LENSCRATCH

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    The Hand in Nature: Margaret LeJeune – LENSCRATCH The Hand in Nature: a week of photographs that manipulates how we see and foresee our environment. Photographs help us process what is happening in the world, and this week we’ll be following photographers whose work inspects humans’ impact on the earth. via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/margaret-lejeune-thirteen-hours-to-fall/ Climate grief, curiosity,…

  • The Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Barkley L. Hendricks

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    The Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Barkley L. Hendricks Most people know the artist for his paintings gracefully embodying the Black experience in America. In an upcoming exhibition, his photographs take center stage. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/813592/the-never-before-seen-photographs-of-barkley-l-hendricks/ Most people know the artist for his paintings gracefully embodying the Black experience in America. In an upcoming exhibition, his photographs…