Author: Trent
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Ron Galella, Celebrity-Hounding Photographer, Dies at 91 – The New York Times
Ron Galella, Celebrity-Hounding Photographer, Dies at 91 He personified the paparazzi — brazen and relentless in chasing the famous, particularly Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But his pictures also came to be admired. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/business/media/ron-galella-dead.html Mr. Galella was called a creep, a stalker and worse when he began shooting pictures of celebrities in the 1960s, before mass…
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Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job? | The New Yorker
Were the Film-Set Heists in Atlanta an Inside Job? According to one tally, three million dollars’ worth of equipment was stolen during the past eighteen months, in forty-five separate incidents. “Somewhere, there’s a mole,” a studio owner said. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/were-the-film-set-heists-in-atlanta-an-inside-job Marc Dobiecki, the C.E.O. of Commander, a film-equipment-rental company, took note. “I…
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Catchlight Summit | Who Tells the Story
Link: Part 1 of 2 of my conversations with presenters at the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit April 19-20, 2022 at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. In part 1 I speak with Mabel Jiménez and Josué Rivas about their then upcoming presentation on who gets to tell the story and how the story is…
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Watching the resistance – Columbia Journalism Review
Watching the resistance In western Canada, land defenders keep filming via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/wetsuweten-land-defenders-canada-gidimten.php As it is, newsrooms don’t necessarily prioritize sustained, nonviolent opposition in editorial decision-making. “The public eye wants violence and destruction, but turns away from our quiet resistance,” wrote Anne Spice, a Tlingit sociologist, and Denzel Sutherland-Wilson, a Gitxsan land defender,…
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Earth Day 2022: Inspiring Environmental Advocacy Through Photography – PhotoShelter Blog
Earth Day 2022: Inspiring Environmental Advocacy Through Photography – PhotoShelter Blog For nearly two centuries, photography has played a role in educating the public about both the familiar and the unknown elements of our ever-changing environment — including the many species that live among us, the constant changes to our climate, and the incredible sights…
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Revisiting the Early Days of New York Hip Hop — Blind Magazine
Revisiting the Early Days of New York Hip Hop — Blind Magazine Sophie Bramly photographed the artists, musicians, and dancers who created the most influential cultural movement of the late twentieth century. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/revisiting-the-early-days-of-new-york-hip-hop%EF%BF%BC/ Sophie Bramly photographed the artists, musicians, and dancers who created the most influential cultural movement of the late twentieth…
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Faith – The Leica camera Blog
Link: I worked on this project using my secular intuition to confront my own fears and questions about religion, looking at the believers, their rituals and relics. In the end it raised more questions than answers, and I’m okay with that.
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Opinion | The Photographs of Bucha Should Change the War in Ukraine – The New York Times
Opinion | Photographing Hell Some images will always have the power to make us confront horror. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/opinion/international-world/ukraine-war-bucha-photographs.html This image of a man with both eyes open is one of the most compelling and disquieting photos to come out of Bucha. It’s an intimate and puzzling image of death, and I’ve never seen anything like…
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Peter van Agtmael: “I Try to Criticize Myself and Criticize the Country at the Same Time” — Blind Magazine
Peter van Agtmael: “I Try to Criticize Myself and Criticize the Country at the Same Time” — Blind Magazine Opening April 14 at the Bronx Documentary Center in New York, Look At The USA gathers photographs from 17 years of photographer Peter van Agtmael’s work to draw a complex picture of post 9/11 America. via…
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Young European Photographers, Episode 1: Michalina (Poland) — Blind Magazine
Young European Photographers, Episode 1: Michalina (Poland) — Blind Magazine In this first episode of Young European Photographers, we visit Polish photographer Michalina Kuczyńska, who documents the social tensions and protests her country has experienced since the far right came to power. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/lab/young-european-photographers-episode-1-michalina-poland/ Michalina Kuczyńska is the youngest member of the Archive…
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Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist who documented mafia crimes, dies aged 87 | Italy | The Guardian
Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist who documented mafia crimes, dies aged 87 Anti-mafia journalist from Palermo scoured Sicilian alleyways in 1970s and 1980s to expose brutal violence via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/letizia-battaglia-photojournalist-who-documented-mafia-crimes-dies-aged-87 Armed only with her Leica camera and mounted on a Vespa, Battaglia scoured the alleyways of Palermo during the 1970s and 1980s photographing the victims of…
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Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82 – The New York Times
Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82 She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/arts/doris-derby-dead.html “I had a quest to show what the average person was doing,” she told the Southern…
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A Muntagna | Emanuele Occhipinti – burn magazine
A Muntagna | Emanuele Occhipinti A Muntagna | Emanuele Occhipinti Mount Etna and the surrounding area is an island within an island. It’s the highest active volcano in Europe, a majestic presence that touches all of Sicily and all… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/04/a-muntagna-by-emanuele-occhipinti/ “‘A Muntagna” is a long journey around Mount Etna and the surrounding…
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Stop Over – The Leica camera Blog
Link: In candid images, Magnum photographer Moises Saman tells the story about the fate of refugees in Jordan.
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Views From My Balcony: The Process of Turning Lockdown Into a Body of Work – PhotoShelter Blog
Views From My Balcony: The Process of Turning Lockdown Into a Body of Work – PhotoShelter Blog For many photographers, the pandemic has been a time to step back and take stock of their lives and work. It’s provided opportunities to get more organized, look for inspiration and make adjustments to their businesses. For Gunther…
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The Craft of Photography | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The Craft of Photography via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-craft-of-photography/ In my own teaching, I often describe photographs as gifts: they are given to you if you’re able to spot and then take them. This book is a gift. If this (or any other) article spotted it, all that’s left for you is to take it.
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A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis
A Photographer’s Unflinching Portrait of America in Crisis Philip Montgomery shares the stories behind nine images in his new photobook “American Mirror.” via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/philip-montgomery-unflinching-portrait-of-america-in-crisis/ As Patrick Radden Keefe writes in American Mirror, “Montgomery’s photographs capture the reality of Americans in crisis, in all our flawed, tragic, ridiculous glory.” Here, we look at the stories…
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Why did it take Ukraine to remind us of war photography’s relevance? – The Washington Post
Perspective | Why did it take Ukraine to remind us of war photography’s relevance? When war feels close to home, images function differently. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/04/08/ukraine-war-photography/ Even the most horrifying war photographs may leave you with the odd sense of being an unwanted tourist. It is a dreadful tourism, at a terrible cost, but…