Author: Trent
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Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due
Neglected 20th-Century Women Photographers Begin to Get Their Due The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum aims to move beyond Euro-American historical narrative. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/678130/20th-century-women-photographers-get-their-due/ A famous, bikini-clad model reclines on the crystalline shore of a beach in Jamaica. The corpse of an SS prison guard floats down a river. Three boys play, chasing each…
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Nick Oza, Arizona Republic photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winner, dies
Nick Oza, Republic photojournalist, documentarian of the immigrant world, dies at age 57 Oza, a two-time Pulitzer honoree, ‘captured a story in a way that the words couldn’t.’ via The Arizona Republic: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona-republic/2021/09/28/nick-oza-arizona-republic-photographer-and-pulitzer-prize-winner-dies/5893454001/ Nick Oza, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who produced stark images of resilience and triumph in the face of natural and man-made adversity,…
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How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog
How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen was troubled by potential for photographers to fabricate a story and photos from scratch using technology and social media to propagate a false narrative. He was so frightened that he “decided to try to do this myself.” The…
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The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos
The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/book-veles-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-photography-industry/ The photographer explains the many layers of intrigue that went into the creation of his book about misinformation in the contemporary media landscape
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Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian The road to hell is paved with good intentions….so is the road to fake news apparently. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/dancing-with-the-gods-of-deception/ The latest and probably most potent existential rain dance is Magnum’s own Jonas Bendiksen Veles experiment. Using a mixture of AI, computer-generated…
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Arrivals and Departures – Video interview with Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol | LensCulture
Arrivals and Departures – Video interview with Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol | LensCulture Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a trek from Moscow to Ulan Bator to Beijing in one month — often making more than 1,000 photographs each day for 28 days straight via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jacob-aue-sobol-arrivals-and-departures Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a…
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How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog
How to Start a Photo Magazine in a Pandemic – PhotoShelter Blog The past few decades have been unkind to photo magazines. Many industry stalwarts have gone defunct, while others have moved to online editions only. Ironically, many photographers still believe in the photographic print, even though they might contend th via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/07/how-to-start-a-photo-magazine-in-a-pandemic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29…
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Much ado about nothing: 2021’s best minimalist photography – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Much ado about nothing: 2021’s best minimalist photography – in pictures A stranded tree trunk, an empty pool, the moon shining through bent railings … these images find a wealth of feeling in the smallest of things via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/05/much-ado-about-nothing-2021s-best-minimalist-photography-in-pictures A stranded tree trunk, an empty pool, the moon shining through bent railings ……
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Hong Kong Photojournalists Look Back on Photographing the 2019 Protests | Blind
Hong Kong Photojournalists Look Back on Photographing the 2019 Protests Throughout the protests of 2019, Cheng Wai Hok, Lam Yik and Alex Chan Tsz Yuk worked to photograph the event that rocked Hong Kong. Now, with the city’s National Security Law just over a year old and press freedom under attack, the three photojournalists Link:…
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Matter and Time | By Ivan Kardashev – burn magazine
Matter and Time | By Ivan Kardashev Matter and Time | by Ivan Kardashev My name is Ivan. I was born in Moscow in 1992. “Matter and Time” is a personal documentary project narrating about my military service in the Russian army. The s… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2021/09/matter-and-time-by-ivan-kardashev/ My name is Ivan. I was born…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Black Diamonds: Rich-Joseph Facun’s Photographs of Appalachia
Juxtapoz Magazine – Black Diamonds: Rich-Joseph Facun’s Photographs of Appalachia Black Diamonds is a personal endeavor to connect with the Appalachian region photographer Rich-Joseph Facun now calls home. As a person of color, he d… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/black-diamonds-rich-joseph-facun-s-photographs-of-appalachia/ Black Diamonds is a personal endeavor to connect with the Appalachian region photographer Rich-Joseph Facun now calls home.…
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Love’s Labors: Osamu James Nakagawa: Kai: Following the Cycle of Life – LENSCRATCH
Love’s Labors: Osamu James Nakagawa: Kai: Following the Cycle of Life – LENSCRATCH Love’s Labors: Labor is often described as being of the body, and economists have spent centuries calculating formulas to explain its value. But there is a lacuna in all of these calculations, the invisible and the ephemeral—love. How do we calculate the via…
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Cast Out of Heaven – Photographs by Hashem Shakeri | Interview by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture
Cast Out of Heaven – Photographs by Hashem Shakeri | Interview by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture In these barren, eerie landscapes, Hashem Shakeri unveils the failed promises of a major housing project on the outskirts of Tehran via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/hashem-shakeri-cast-out-of-heaven-2 In these barren, eerie landscapes, Hashem Shakeri unveils the failed promises of a major…
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A photographer’s ode to America’s legendary cowboy culture
A photographer’s ode to America’s legendary cowboy culture Over the past two years, photographer Anouk Masson Krantz has travelled tens of thousands of miles across the United States to document the daily lives of cowboys and ranching culture. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/an-ode-to-americas-legendary-cowboy-culture/ Over the past two years, photographer Anouk Masson Krantz has travelled tens of…
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Jacob Ehrbahn: On the Roads of Exile | Blind
Jacob Ehrbahn: On the Roads of Exile Jacob Ehrbahn spent five years traveling the roads of exile. From 2015 to 2020, the photographer followed migrants who came to Europe in search of the European dream. A combination of hope, misery and disillusion, the book A Dream of Europe is a powerful Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3750-jacob-ehrbahn-on-the-roads-of-exile-en Jacob Ehrbahn…
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Gillian Laub Explores Her Family’s Political Dramas | The New Yorker
Gillian Laub Explores Her Family’s Political Dramas The photographer, who has documented conflicts around the world, describes her new collection as “the most exposing thing” she has ever done. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/gillian-laub-explores-her-familys-political-dramas The photographer, who has documented conflicts around the world, describes her new collection as “the most exposing thing” she has ever…
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Canon Unveils the EOS R3: 24MP, 6K RAW, 30FPS Blackout-Free EVF | PetaPixel
Canon Unveils the EOS R3: 24MP, 6K RAW, 30FPS Blackout-Free EVF Canon has seriously closed the gap on Sony. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2021/09/14/canon-unveils-the-eos-r3-24mp-6k-raw-30fps-blackout-free-evf/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+petapixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Canon has finally revealed the full details of its latest professional camera, the $5,999 EOS R3. It features a backside-illuminated stacked 24.1-megapixel sensor, up to 30 frames per second blackout-free shooting, 6K RAW…
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Parallel Crisis – Photographs by Yannis Karpouzis | Book review by Alexander Strecker | LensCulture
Parallel Crisis – Photographs by Yannis Karpouzis | Book review by Alexander Strecker | LensCulture Years in the making, Yannis Karpouzis’ new book powerfully captures a sense of time stood still and the overlapping crises that unfolded following the Greek financial disaster of 2009 via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yannis-karpouzis-parallel-crisis Years in the making, Yannis Karpouzis’ new book…
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The images that tell the true story of the war in Afghanistan – Columbia Journalism Review
The images that tell the true story of the war in Afghanistan Images from Afghanistan have always revealed the truth behind the notion that the American war was on solid footing. We may have been told, since it first began shortly after September 11, 2001, that significant progress was just around the bend. But t…
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Jared Ragland: What Has Been Will Be Again – LENSCRATCH
Jared Ragland: What Has Been Will Be Again – LENSCRATCH Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these artists to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series What Has Been Will Be Again via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/09/jared-ragland-what-has-been-will-be-again/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29…