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Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alessandra-sanguinetti-some-say-ice In her new…
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A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating | WIRED
A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-3200-megapixel-camera-has-astronomers-salivating/ That’s when the telescope will begin collecting 20 terabytes of data every night for 10 years. With it, scientists…
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The 43rd Smith Grant Awarded to Maxim Dondyuk
The 43rd Smith Grant Awarded to Maxim Dondyuk The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/the-43rd-w-eugene-smith-grant-awarded-to-maxim-dondyuk/ The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22, which looks at the country’s battle for…
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Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022 – Leica Rumors
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022 – Leica Rumors The two winners of the 2022 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), the renowned international photo competition that was held for the 42nd time this year, have now been selected: In the main category of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, it was Kiana Hayeri – born via Leica…
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Jed Fielding : Out on the Street
Jed Fielding : Out on the Street Encounter : Jed Fielding captures city residents who, even as they face the consequences of numerous crises, enjoy life to the fullest. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/jed-fielding-out-on-the-street/ To portray a changing society through the gaze of a stranger or a forsaken back alley, is not an easy trick to…
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John Gaps III, Iowan who traveled world as AP photojournalist, dies
Former Register and international war photographer John Gaps III dies at 63 Iowan John Gaps photographed wars, Olympics and other big news stories around the world before joining the photo staff at the Des Moines Register. via The Des Moines Register: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2022/10/18/john-gaps-iii-obituary-des-moines-register-associated-press-ap/69572726007/ “He saw a lot for one guy. And he carried a lot of…
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Fighters, not Soldiers — Blind Magazine
Fighters, not Soldiers — Blind Magazine In a slum of Goma, Eastern Congo, a former child soldier teaches boxing to kids, to keep them from the lures of armed groups. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/fighters-not-soldiers/
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Farshid Tighehsaz: “In Iran, Photojournalism is Not Recognized” — Blind Magazine
Farshid Tighehsaz: “In Iran, Photojournalism is Not Recognized” — Blind Magazine The Iranian photographer Farshid Tighehsaz is the winner of the 6Mois Photojournalism Prize. His project entitled Labyrinth reveals the intimacy of an Iranian youth fighting against poverty, depression and prohibitions. A decade of photographs that foresh via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/farshid-tighehsaz-in-iran-photojournalism-is-not-recognized/ For 10 years, the…
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This Family That is Not Mine — Blind Magazine
This Family That is Not Mine — Blind Magazine With “Glendalis: The Life and World of a Young Latina,” photographer Angela Cappetta chronicles the story of a multigenerational family. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/this-family-that-is-not-mine/ To create a sense of stability and continuity, Cappetta took to the streets with her camera whenever she was home, moving intuitively…
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Warhol Copyright Case
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Warhol Copyright Case A lawsuit over how much Andy Warhol “transformed” Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs of Prince may change how courts look at art. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/769275/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-andy-warhol-copyright-case/ To make the image, Warhol was sent a portrait of Prince made a few years earlier by a photographer named Lynn Goldsmith
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The Supreme Court’s Self-Conscious Take on Andy Warhol | The New Yorker
The Supreme Court’s Self-Conscious Take on Andy Warhol In a copyright case, the Justices revealed their own anxieties about interpreting precedents. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-courts-self-conscious-take-on-andy-warhol Whether the Prince Series is fair use turns on whether Warhol “transformed” the photo on which he relied—and the answer to that turns on what exactly “transformative” means
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The Rock Pays Touching Tribute to Legendary Wrestling Photographer | PetaPixel
The Rock Pays Touching Tribute to Legendary Wrestling Photographer Classy from The Rock. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/10/17/the-rock-pays-touching-tribute-to-legendary-wrestling-photographer/ Addressing Napolitano, Johnson said: “I want to say thank you so much for being so supportive of my family over the year. My grandfather, my grandmother, you took incredible shots that still hang in our house. They still hang…
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A British Photographer’s View of Texas Hill Country in 2007 | PetaPixel
A British Photographer’s View of Texas Hill Country in 2007 British photographer Edward Thompson turned his lens on the Texas Hill Country region and documented life on medium format film. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/10/17/british-photographer-captures-george-bushs-texas-hill-country/ Photographer Edward Thompson, known for his documentary photo essays on various social topics, has created a body of work about the Texas…
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Gritty Black and White Photos Taken During the Northern Ireland Conflict | PetaPixel
Gritty Black and White Photos Taken During the Northern Ireland Conflict The people had grown use to conflict. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/10/06/gritty-black-and-white-photos-taken-during-the-northern-ireland-conflict/ Danish photographer Krass Clement traveled from Scandinavia to capture the Northern Ireland conflict during the darkest time in the country’s history.
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A Celebration of Light in Black and White – Photographs by Sankardeep Chakraborty | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
A Celebration of Light in Black and White – Photographs by Sankardeep Chakraborty | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture Walking up to 20 kilometers on his roaming photo sessions, Sankardeep Chakraborty renders the streets of his adopted home of Japan otherworldly, celebrating light in his high-contrast black and white images via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sankardeep-chakraborty-a-celebration-of-light-in-black-and-white…
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Meet the Jury of the LensCulture Black and White Photography Awards 2022 – Photographs by various artists | Text by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture
Meet the Jury of the LensCulture Black and White Photography Awards 2022 – Photographs by various artists | Text by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture In a world of color, what makes black and white photography stand out? We asked each of the experts who will be judging your entries to find out what they…
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He’s Bigger Than Picasso on AI Platforms, and He Hates It
He’s Bigger Than Picasso on AI Platforms, and He Hates It The advent of AI generators has led to an avalanche of rip-off artworks that have used Grzegorz Rutkowski’s name as a prompt. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/766241/hes-bigger-than-picasso-on-ai-platforms-and-he-hates-it/ The advent of AI generators has led to an avalanche of rip-off artworks that have used Grzegorz Rutkowski’s name…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Ken Light’s Photographs of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border
Juxtapoz Magazine – Ken Light’s Photographs of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border Between 1983 and 1987 along the California/Mexico border, Ken Light took his Hasselblad camera and flash and rode along with US Border Patrol agents i… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/ken-light-s-photographs-of-migrants-on-the-us-mexico-border/ In piercing words and in strobe-lit images caught against the dark of night, Midnight La Frontera’s…
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A Year Under the Taliban – The New York Times
A Year Under the Taliban A single year of extremist rule has turned life upside down for Afghans, especially women. A photographer who has long called the country home captured the jarring changes. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/asia/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-women.html Six weeks later, I returned, and for the past year I have worked on documenting life under the Taliban. (For…
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Pete Souza’s Obama Book Cuts Obama Out of the Picture – The New York Times
An Obama Book That Cuts Obama Out of the Picture Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/politics/pete-souza-obama-book.html Craighead had been hired as chief photographer days earlier and “was freaking out about logistics,” he recounted. “She had no credentials or, you know, anything for the inauguration.”