Author: Trent
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photo-eye | BLOG: Creativity and Turmoil, part 1
Creativity and Turmoil, part 1 Left to right: Mitch Dobrowner, Shiprock Storm ; Mark Klett, Moonset with Venus ; Edward Bateman, Antelope Island No.766 I would have… Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2022/07/creativity-and-turmoil-part-1.html At the beginning of the pandemic, I watched a live Zoom of Sophie Calle talking to students. I believe she wanted them to be totally…
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While Standing My Ground – Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture
While Standing My Ground – Photographs and text by Rima Maroun | LensCulture Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation of Covid, catastrophic explosions, and crippling inflation via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rima-maroun-while-standing-my-ground Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation…
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Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later | PetaPixel
Lost Film Rolls of the Fall of the Soviet Union Developed 26 Years Later Photographer Dean Sewell documented the fall of the Soviet Union in 1996 but did not develop his film for 26 years. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/17/lost-film-rolls-of-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-developed-26-years-later/ Australian photographer Dean Sewell spent 15 months in Russia after the breakup of the former USSR. When…
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Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns | PetaPixel
Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns That’s a lot of stuff. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/08/photographer-documents-all-12795-items-that-she-owns/ Iweins found that blue is the dominant color in her house, accounting for 16 percent of all items, while 22 percent of her clothes are black. 43 percent of items in her bathroom are made from plastic, while some…
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Before It’s Gone – Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture
Before It’s Gone – Photographs and text by M’hammed Kilito | LensCulture A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real humid microclimates favorable to the development of plants — which are disappearing at an alarming rate via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/m-hammed-kilito-before-it-s-gone A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real…
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Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo – burn magazine
Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo Uncovering Iraq | By Alessio Mamo Doctor Zaid and Mister Dhia together with their teams had travelled all over Iraq in the past ten years, from Basra in the South to Sinjar in the North, passing th… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/07/uncovering-iraq-by-alessio-mamo/ Doctor Zaid and Mister Dhia together with their…
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New Arizona Law Makes Photographing Police Up Close Illegal | PetaPixel
New Arizona Law Makes Photographing Police Up Close Illegal If you want to film police officers in Arizona, you can’t stand too close. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/11/new-arizona-law-makes-photographing-police-up-close-illegal/ The new law, which goes into effect on September 24, prohibits anyone within eight feet of law enforcement officers from recording police activity. Violators will face a misdemeanor charge…
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Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH
Meryl Meisler: QUIRKYVISION – LENSCRATCH I love photographs of New York City in the 1970’s and 80’s, when the city was at its worst and at its best, filled with a raw energy, graffiti covered subway cars, fueled by cocaine and poppers, throbbing nightclubs providing endless nights of fantasy and via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/meryl-meisler-quirkyvision/ I love…
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Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women – The New York Times
Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women Best known for unmasking domestic violence, the pathbreaking photojournalist has a show timed to coincide with the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/arts/design/donna-ferrato-photographs-holy.html Best known for unmasking domestic violence, the pathbreaking photojournalist has a show timed to coincide with the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
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Lee Miller: From Vogue to Buchenwald and Dachau — Blind Magazine
Lee Miller: From Vogue to Buchenwald and Dachau — Blind Magazine The exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles retraces the most intense decade in the life of the American model and photographer Lee Miller, who became a war correspondent during World War II. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/lee-miller-from-vogue-to-buchenwald-and-dachau/ Lee Miller possesses sculptural beauty, an unfathomable gaze, the…
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Until The Corn Grows Back – The Leica camera Blog
Link: I choose to photograph using a fixed lens, as it demands a proximity to my subjects that a zoom lens does not. Proximity, especially among vulnerable populations, is a privilege that must be earned through meaningful consent and trust building. I seek to understand the lives of the people whom I photograph in order…
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Publisher’s Spotlight: Café Royal Books – LENSCRATCH
Publisher’s Spotlight: Café Royal Books – LENSCRATCH These past months have been all about books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photo book landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pag via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/publishers-spotlight-cafe-royal-books/ Documentary photography — post-war, with links to…
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Photographers Seek to Revive Lawsuit Against Instagram Over Embedding | PetaPixel
Photographers Seek to Revive Lawsuit Against Instagram Over Embedding The photographers want to succeed where they’ve failed previously. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/29/photographers-seek-to-revive-lawsuit-against-instagram-over-embedding/ Hunley and Brauer are asking to overturn a California federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit alleging that Meta’s Instagram is liable for secondary infringement when third-party sites use Instagram’s embedding tool to display their…
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Police Can Trace Cameras Thanks to Sensor Imperfection ‘Fingerprints’ | PetaPixel
Police Can Trace Cameras Thanks to Sensor Imperfection ‘Fingerprints’ It’s another tool to help law enforcement fight child exploitation. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/01/police-can-trace-cameras-thanks-to-sensor-imperfection-fingerprints/ “Every camera has some imperfections in its embedded sensors, which manifest themselves as image noise in all frames but are invisible to the naked eye.”
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Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine
Communism(s): A Cold War Album — Blind Magazine Autocracy is on the rise. An obvious statement maybe, but one rooted more and more firmly in the present albeit with a shaky-hand salute to the past. From Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler, and more recently, Hussein, A via Blind Magazine:…
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How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow | PetaPixel
How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow I recently heard a photographer say he’d spent 17 hours going through 10,000 images, deciding which ones were worth saving. My first thought was, “I hope via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/25/how-to-turbocharge-your-photography-workflow/ I recently heard a photographer say he’d spent 17 hours going through 10,000 images, deciding which ones were worth saving.…
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Hearst Journalism Awards: Angelina Katsanis: 2022 First Place Photojournalism Winner – LENSCRATCH
Hearst Journalism Awards: Angelina Katsanis: 2022 First Place Photojournalism Winner – LENSCRATCH This week we are celebrating photographers who have received a 2022 Hearst National Championship Award. Today we focus on National Photojournalism Championship First Place Winner, Angelina Katsanis, from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who re via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/hearst-journalism-awards-angelina-katsanis-2022-first-place-photojournalism-winner/ This week we…
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Houston Chronicle photog Steve Gonzales dies after cancer bout
The Chronicle says goodbye to Steve Gonzales, a beloved family man and photographer Steve Gonzales, a devoted family man and veteran Houston Chronicle photojournalist… via Houston Chronicle: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/beloved-photographer-steve-gonzales-gonzo-17265814.php#photo-22637963 Steve Gonzales, a devoted family man and veteran Houston Chronicle photojournalist beloved for his unwavering kindness, faith and optimism, died Saturday after a long, valiant battle with…
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Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism — Blind Magazine
Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism — Blind Magazine The Magnum Photos member revisits his storied career in a new exhibition and monograph. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/thomas-hoepker-looks-back-at-six-decades-of-photojournalism/ After receiving a 9×12 camera from his grandfather in 1950, Hoepker became obsessed with photography. By the end of the decade, he was working as…
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In Photos: The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington – The New York Times
The Spectacle of the Jan. 6 Hearings Consumes Washington One photographer’s account of the commotion surrounding the biggest investigation in Washington since Watergate. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/jan-6-hearings-photos.html One photographer’s account of the commotion surrounding the biggest investigation in Washington since Watergate.