Author: Trent

  • photo-eye | BLOG: Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews

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    Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews Book Review Why Omaha? Photographs by Darius Koehli Reviewed by Blake Andrews “I’ve encountered many photobooks over the past few dec… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2022/12/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_26.html Then he discovered wrestling. The old AWA professional circuit held sway in the midwest at the time, hosting regular matches at the Omaha Civic…

  • LOBA 2022 – Newcomer Interview

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  • Michael Knapstein: Midwest Memoir – LENSCRATCH

    Michael Knapstein: Midwest Memoir – LENSCRATCH

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    Michael Knapstein: Midwest Memoir – LENSCRATCH This past September, I had the good fortune to be asked to juror Photo Midwest and attend the Photo Midwest Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. I met so many wonderful people, spent time with old friends, and saw a mother-lode of fantastic work. Included in t via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/michael-knapstein-midwest-memoir/ This…

  • What a Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed About Zaharia Cușnir – The New York Times

    What a Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed About Zaharia Cușnir – The New York Times

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    How a Chance Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed a Master Photographer For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame is rising. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/europe/photographer-moldova-soviet-cusnir.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=World%20News For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame…

  • Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH

    Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH

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    Bob Newman: Shadows of Emmett Till – LENSCRATCH Over 67 years ago on the summer of August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was tragically lynched in Mississippi by two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after he was accused by Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant, of allegedly making an advance at he via LENSCRATCH:…

  • The Best New Yorker Photos of 2022 | The New Yorker

    The Best New Yorker Photos of 2022 | The New Yorker

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    The Best New Yorker Photos of 2022 Many of the magazine’s most memorable images this year made work of subverting the familiar. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/the-best-new-yorker-photos-of-2022 James Nachtwey’s photograph from Bucha, Ukraine, is a wartime tableau cluttered with the stuff of life. Bottles and boxes sit atop of a worn floral tablecloth. A metal…

  • The Year in Pictures 2022 – The New York Times

    The Year in Pictures 2022 – The New York Times

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    The Year in Pictures 2022 Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/year-in-pictures.html Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. Recently, every…

  • In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction

    In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction

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    In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-the-midwest-alessandra-sanguinetti-blurs-fact-with-fiction/ The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.

  • Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup | The New Yorker

    Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup | The New Yorker

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    Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/max-pinckerss-spectacular-world-cup Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.

  • 2022: A Year of visual tech in review – Kaptur

    2022: A Year of visual tech in review – Kaptur

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    2022: A Year of visual tech in review – Kaptur What were the most talked about technologies of 2022? What happened in visual tech? And who were the biggest disappointments? via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/2022-a-year-of-visual-tech-in-review/ The year is coming to an end, and unlike the previous years, things are not quieting down. In fact, it’s increasing. 2022…

  • Best Arts Photos of 2022 – The New York Times

    Best Arts Photos of 2022 – The New York Times

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    How We Saw the Arts This Year These are the images that defined a remarkable time across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/arts/best-arts-photos-2022.html Together, these photographs capture a narrative about a year in the arts, building a collection of evolving scenes and inner worlds. We asked some of the photographers to…

  • Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH

    Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH

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    Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH This past year we have been focusing on books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photobook landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pa via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/publishers-spotlight-brown-owl-press/ Brown Owl Press is an independent publisher…

  • Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture

    Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture

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    Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture 28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-2022 28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list…

  • Germany Week: STEPHAN ZIRWES – LENSCRATCH

    Germany Week: STEPHAN ZIRWES – LENSCRATCH

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    Germany Week: STEPHAN ZIRWES – LENSCRATCH This week Lenscratch will turn its sights upon the artistic output of German photographers who present a broad array of the personal, social, historical, and political influences of life in contemporary Germany. Germany’s contributions to the photographic realm are extensive from the earliest days of the genre. From August…

  • “Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin – burn magazine

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    “Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin “Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin “Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cro… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/12/mezen-by-skys-edge-by-emil-gataullin/ “Here is a door behind which…

  • In an Abandoned Soviet-Era Town, The Scars of War Remain – Feature Shoot

    In an Abandoned Soviet-Era Town, The Scars of War Remain – Feature Shoot

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    In an Abandoned Soviet-Era Town, The Scars of War Remain – Feature Shoot When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/12/in-an-abandoned-soviet-era-town-the-scars-of-war-remain/ When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the…

  • The Incredible Life’s Work of an Irish Street Photographer | PetaPixel

    The Incredible Life’s Work of an Irish Street Photographer | PetaPixel

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    The Incredible Life’s Work of an Irish Street Photographer Simply wonderful work. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/02/irish-street-photographer-reveals-incredible-lifes-work/ The Light of Day by Tony O’Shea depicts Ireland’s working classes in gritty urban environments. O’Shea’s images have both religious and political themes.

  • Dacia & Chauffeur – Photographs and text by Horatiu Sava | LensCulture

    Dacia & Chauffeur – Photographs and text by Horatiu Sava | LensCulture

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    Dacia & Chauffeur – Photographs and text by Horatiu Sava | LensCulture A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/horatiu-sava-dacia-chauffeur A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them.

  • A Decade Among the Mennonites

    A Decade Among the Mennonites

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    A Decade Among the Mennonites Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/744838/larry-towell-a-decade-among-the-mennonites/ The Mennonites (GOST Books, 2022) records Towell’s decade among the Mennonites as they struggle to hold on amid changing times and hard luck. Out of print for the…