Author: Trent
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Photographers on Photographers: Marisa Lucchese in coversation with Isadora Kosofsky – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Marisa Lucchese in coversation with Isadora Kosofsky – LENSCRATCH Early in my undergraduate studies in photography, I discovered Isadora Kosofsky’s work, and I immediately wrote her name down as a source of inspiration. Her use of light, the intimacy she captured, the clear care for her subjects that radiated from the i…
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Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters | PetaPixel
Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters Street photographer Simon King shares thoughts about why it is important to have a healthy discourse on ethical photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/18/why-discourse-on-ethical-photography-matters/ With this understanding, the common tendency to fault discussions about ethics in photography is quite odd. Why wouldn’t you want to understand the possible obligations that come…
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Irish war photographer on 15 years in conflict zones: “There are things that are just too much or to | Business Post
Ireland’s leading war photographer on 15 years covering conflict: ‘There are things that are just too much to capture’ ‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to…
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The Photographer Who Saw the Brutality and the Fragility of Authoritarianism | The New Yorker
The Photographer Who Saw the Brutality and the Fragility of Authoritarianism Fifty years ago, Augusto Pinochet staged a violent coup in Chile. Evandro Teixeira went to the capital and captured startling images of soldiers, protesters, and the funeral procession of Pablo Neruda. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photographer-who-saw-the-brutality-and-the-fragility-of-authoritarianism Teixeira’s photos in Chile are the main subject…
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Siblings – Photographs by Wendy Stone | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture
Siblings – Photographs by Wendy Stone | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Documenting the lively adventures of her son and the family’s two beloved dogs, Wendy Stone reframes the bond between siblings through an animal lens via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/wendy-stone-siblings Documenting the lively adventures of her son and the family’s two beloved dogs, Wendy Stone…
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Leica Announces the 2023 Women Foto Project Award Winners | PetaPixel
Leica Announces the 2023 Women Foto Project Award Winners It was open to entrants from outside the United States for the first time. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/08/leica-announces-the-2023-women-foto-project-award-winners/ Leica has announced the winners of its fourth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award. The announcement arrives on International Women’s Day, an annual global holiday celebrating the wide-ranging achievements…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 — Photographers from Around the World – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | LensCulture
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 — Photographers from Around the World – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | LensCulture Honoring many of the women who inspire us daily — photographers, artists, writers, designers, researchers, poets, curators, art directors, editors, visionaries via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-celebrating-international-women-s-day-2023-photographers-from-around-the-world In celebration of International Women’s Day 2023, we honor many of the women…
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“Borderlands, an American Journey” by Francesco Anselmi – burn magazine
“Borderlands, an American Journey” by Francesco Anselmi “Borderlands, an American Journey” by Francesco Anselmi Along a border at the center of the political and journalistic debate, “Borderlands” aims to develop a narration capable of going… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2023/03/borderlands-an-american-journey-by-francesco-anselmi/ Along a border at the center of the political and journalistic debate, “Borderlands” aims to develop…
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Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about – Columbia Journalism Review
Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about In recent years, artificial intelligence engineers have used millions of real photographs—taken by journalists all over the world, and without those journalists’ permission—to train new imaging software to create synthetic photojournalism. Now anyone c via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/fred_ritchin_ai_photojournalism.php The…
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Memphis, Through the Lens of Tyre Nichols – The New York Times
Memphis, Through the Lens of Tyre Nichols His photos, which he wrote were meant to “bring my viewers deep into what I am seeing,” reveal parts of the city some residents say they had forgotten. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/us/tyre-memphis-photos.html “It brings a lot of peace and solace just to sit with the crew and talk about him…
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The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer | The New Yorker
The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer Maksym Levin started documenting war “to become famous.” After seeing conflict up close, his motivations shifted. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-life-and-death-of-a-ukrainian-photographer According to an investigation by Reporters Without Borders, the men were “undoubtedly executed in cold blood, possibly after being tortured.” At the site of the killing,…
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A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot – The New York Times
A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot Sachi Cunningham is one of the few photographers who shoots surfers at Mavericks while swimming. “You don’t want to get the same shots as everyone else on the boat,” she said. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/sports/big-wave-surfing-sachi-cunningham.html Sachi Cunningham is one of the few photographers who…
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Photographs That Show the Whimsy and Eros of Ukraine before the War
Photographs That Show the Whimsy and Eros of Ukraine before the War In images made before the Russian invasion in 2022, three photographers preserve social memory—and witness a nation striving to define its sovereignty. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-photographers-who-showed-the-whimsy-and-eros-of-ukraine-before-the-war/ Working in black and white with one camera, Chekmenev took the official passport-format headshots of weary visages against…
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Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur Is on Display in MoMA Photographs – The New York Times
Ming Smith’s Poetic Blur This streetlight mystic shows her painterly photography at MoMA in an archive that celebrates long exposures and perceptual improvisation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/arts/design/ming-smith-photographer-museum-of-modern-art.html The stellar photographer Ming Smith remembers walking past the Museum of Modern Art when she was in her early 20s and telling herself, “I’m going to be in that museum…
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How America’s Most Cherished Photographer Learned to See | The New Yorker
How America’s Most Cherished Photographer Learned to See For five decades, Stephen Shore has remade our vision of the country, largely by remaking his own. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/how-americas-most-cherished-photographer-learned-to-see I think it’s important that you distill this into three aspects. The first aspect is physical. It’s what the eyes do. The second aspect is…
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Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 – The New York Times
Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 In the 1960s and ’70s, he created indelible images of the city’s combustible mix of art, rock ’n’ roll, new Hollywood and social ferment. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/arts/julian-wasser-dead.html Julian Wasser, the artful and rakish photojournalist who chronicled the celebrity culture of Los Angeles that began percolating in…
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Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement – The Verge
Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement Getty says Stability AI stole 12 million images without permission via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion Getty Images has filed a case against Stability AI, alleging that the company copied 12 million images to train its AI model ‘without permission … or compensation.’
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Obituary: Former Spec photographer Paul Hourigan was ‘an old-school photojournalist’ | TheSpec.com
Obituary: Former Spec photographer Paul Hourigan was ‘an old-school photojournalist’ Known for getting that special shot at news events like fires and crashes via thespec.com: https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2023/02/06/obituary-former-spec-photographer-paul-hourigan-was-an-old-school-photojournalist.html Spec photographer Barry Gray called Hourigan “an old-school photojournalist” whose “first love, and best skill, was photographing news.” His wife said he sometimes beat firefighters to a fire and…
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Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? | The New Yorker
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.”