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Think Like a Street Photographer – Photographs and text by Matt Stuart | LensCulture
Think Like a Street Photographer – Photographs and text by Matt Stuart | LensCulture This new book by award-winning street photographer Matt Stuart is filled with insights and advice garnered over decades of making stunning street photographs on a daily basis via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/matt-stuart-think-like-a-street-photographer This new book by award-winning street photographer Matt Stuart is filled…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites
Juxtapoz Magazine – Larry Towell’s Friendship with the Old Colony Mennonites “In 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, land-hungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of L… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/larry-towell-s-friendship-with-the-old-colony-mennonites/ Larry Towell photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990…
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Ukrainian Photojournalist Maks Levin ‘Executed in Cold Blood’ by Russian Soldiers
Ukrainian Photojournalist Maks Levin ‘Executed in Cold Blood’ by Russian Soldiers A report by Reporters Without Borders found Levin and a friend were possibly tortured before being shot. His girlfriend told VICE World News she wants Russia “to pay for what they’ve done.” Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnq99/maks-levin-russia-ukraine A report by Reporters Without Borders found Levin and a…
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Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine
Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities — Blind Magazine For six years, Robert Gumpert documented the unhoused in San Francisco. Division Street is the culmination, named for the street where the project began. Combining first-person narratives, found text and Gumpert’s photographs, it is the story of lives liv via Blind Magazine:…
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Guillaume Herbaut: “When you cover a conflict, I think it is essential to know the country, its culture, and its history” — Blind Magazine
Guillaume Herbaut: “When you cover a conflict, I think it is essential to know the country, its culture, and its history” — Blind Magazine A member of the VU’ Agency since 2021, Guillaume Herbaut has been observing history and current events with a keen eye for over thirty years. Ranging from photojournalism to visual art,…
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The Long Hunt – The Leica camera Blog
Link: In his long-term project, Adrian Alvarez reveals the thinly populated area of northern Spain.
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THE CENTER AWARDS: Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award: Dan Fenstermacher – LENSCRATCH
THE CENTER AWARDS: Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award: Dan Fenstermacher – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Dan Fenstermacher for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Food Chain. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based medi via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-excellence-in-multimedia-award-dan-fenstermacher/ Working everyday except Tuesdays the fisherman from the seaside…
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THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Debe Arlook – LENSCRATCH
THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Debe Arlook – LENSCRATCH Debe Arlook Congratulations to Debe Arlook for being selected for CENTER’s Social Award recognizing her project, one, one thousand…. The Social Awards recognize work engaged in social issues. All projects exploring social topics or themes were eligible. J via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-social-award/ one, one thousand… is a…
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THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Luis Corzo – LENSCRATCH
THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Luis Corzo – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Luiz Corzo for being selected for CENTER’s Social Award recognizing his project, PASACO. The Social Awards recognize work engaged in social issues. All projects exploring social topics or themes were eligible. JUROR: Jess T. Dugan, Arti via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-social-award-luis-corzo/ (Guatemala City, Guatemala) On the…
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Pultizer Photographer is Fined Under ‘Gag Law’ While Capturing Migrants | PetaPixel
Pultizer Photographer is Fined Under ‘Gag Law’ While Capturing Migrants The police say the photographer insulted them. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/16/pultizer-photographer-is-fined-under-gag-law-while-capturing-migrants/ Javier Bauluz was documenting the arrival of thousands of migrants last year in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa.
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THE CENTER AWARDS: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio – LENSCRATCH
THE CENTER AWARDS: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Esha Chiocchio for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award recognizing her project, Good Earth. The Environmental Awards recognize work focusing on the state of the ecological environment. Topics may include but are not limited via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-environmental-award-esha-chiocchio/ Congratulations to Esha Chiocchio for being selected…
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My Wonderland – The Leica camera Blog
Link: I’m not a big fan of sitting in front of my computer processing my images in Lightroom; so I do my best to get near to optimal settings when I’m on the street. Then, I spend less than two minutes processing an image. I always add a little bit of luminosity, and luminance, and…
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Amazônia: Sebastião Salgado’s Photo Essay Nine Years in the Making | PetaPixel
Amazônia: Sebastião Salgado’s Photo Essay Nine Years in the Making A conversation with Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado about his epic photo essay on the Amazônia nine years in the making. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/12/amazonia-sebastiao-salgados-photo-essay-nine-years-in-the-making/ Photography is another thing. Photography is the memory of the society that we’re part of. And the bigger problem with the smartphone…
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The Future of the Photo Festival in the Covid Age – LENSCRATCH
The Future of the Photo Festival in the Covid Age – LENSCRATCH If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry – Emily Dickinson As a photographer, editor, and publisher I have had the good fortune of seeing a lot of photography. I came to…
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Would Showing Graphic Images of Mass Shootings Spur Action to Stop Them? | The New Yorker
Would Showing Graphic Images of Mass Shootings Spur Action to Stop Them? Returning to an old debate after the horrific killings in Uvalde, Texas. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/would-showing-graphic-images-of-mass-shootings-spur-action-to-stop-them The root of their pain lay in the photographs’ gruesome specificity and its capacity to answer in precise detail questions that were too lurid to have…
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Opinion | It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. – The New York Times
Opinion | It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore. The surviving people in war photographs, especially the children, must somehow go on. We are not symbols. We are human. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/opinion/kim-phuc-vietnam-napalm-girl-photograph.html That picture will always serve as a reminder of the unspeakable evil of which humanity is capable. Still, I believe that…
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Photos From Ukraine’s Front Lines – The New York Times
From Ukraine’s Front Lines, Bravery and Wreckage Amid the roar of artillery and bone-rattling explosions, New York Times photographers have borne graphic witness to the fight to survive. These are their stories and images. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/world/europe/ukraine-war-frontline-photos.html Amid the roar of artillery and bone-rattling explosions, New York Times photographers have borne graphic witness to the fight…
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From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen – The New York Times
From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen Frustrated Americans ask whether the release of graphic photos of gun violence would lead to better policy. But which photos, and who decides? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/us/politics/photos-uvalde.html “What makes this a challenging ethics call is that when you’re a photo editor, you never really do know which…
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Marcus Yam: From Aspiring Astronaut to a Pulitzer Prize in Photography | PetaPixel
Marcus Yam: From Aspiring Astronaut to a Pulitzer Prize in Photography A look at the life and work of LA Times photojournalist Marcus Yam, who won a Pulitzer Prize in Photography for his work in Afghanistan. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/05/29/marcus-yam-from-aspiring-astronaut-to-a-pulitzer-prize-in-photography/ PetaPixel spoke with Yam to learn about his journey from growing up in Malaysia and studying…
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Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney – burn magazine
Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney Polar Night | by Mark Mahaney 71.2906° N, 156.7886° W Utqiaġvik, Alaska Top of the world they call it. Don’t feel that way. Feels like the bottom. So dark there’s no end. So cold there’s no feel. … via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/05/polar-night-by-mark-mahaney/ Mark Mahaney’s Polar Night is a passage through…