Author: Trent
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On Photographing Black Skin: Antwaun Sargent & Joshua Kissi In Conversation | AnOther
On Photographing Black Skin: Antwaun Sargent & Joshua Kissi In Conversation via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12799/antwaun-sargent-joshua-kissi-in-conversation-just-pictures-exhibition-st-louis As his group exhibition Just Pictures continues in Missouri, curator Antwaun Sargent sits down with photographer Joshua Kissi to talk the technicalities of photographing Black skin, family photo albums and working with Beyoncé
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Sony Unveils the Ultra-Compact Sony a7C Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera
Sony Unveils the Ultra-Compact Sony a7C Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera As promised, Sony unveiled a new full-frame mirrorless camera via livestream this evening. But while this was originally rumored to be a compact via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/09/14/sony-unveils-the-ultra-compact-sony-a7c-full-frame-mirrorless-camera/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 As promised, Sony unveiled a new full-frame mirrorless camera via livestream this evening. But while this was originally rumored to…
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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020 | False signals and white regimes: an award in need of decolonisation
Deutsche Börse prize – False signals and white regimes: an award in need of decolonisation On Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize’s reproduction of structural inequality, Mohamed Bourouissa’s ambivalent ‘victory’ and the implications for curatorial responsibility via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/dbpfp2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dbpfp2020 What this amounts to is curatorial malpractice on the one hand, and capitalist oppression on the…
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Photographing with Intention – The Leica camera Blog
Photographing with Intention Transform everyday moments into compelling visual narratives with photojournalist, Lynn Johnson.
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Photographer Tom Skipp explores the effect of lockdown on communities through spaces left empty
Photographer Tom Skipp explores the effect of lockdown on communities through spaces left empty By photographing the spaces left dormant during the pandemic, Tom hopes to emphasise the emptiness (and tentative hope) he feels about our current state. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/tom-skipp-empty-community-photography-140920?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 By photographing the spaces left dormant during the pandemic, Tom hopes to emphasise the emptiness…
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Bill Biggart: The Hero Photographer Who Died Capturing 9/11
Bill Biggart: The Hero Photographer Who Died Capturing 9/11 September 11, 2001, was a sunny Tuesday morning. Bill Biggart and his wife Wendy Doremus were walking their dogs in downtown Manhattan. At about 8:45 via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/09/11/bill-biggart-the-hero-photographer-who-died-capturing-9-11/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 September 11, 2001, was a sunny Tuesday morning. Bill Biggart and his wife Wendy Doremus were walking their…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Street Opera: The Photographs and Films of Khalik Allah
Juxtapoz Magazine – Street Opera: The Photographs and Films of Khalik Allah It is easy to walk through a city not making eye contact, but for Khalik Allah this contact is essential. He sees each individual he photographs. And… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/street-opera-the-photographs-and-films-of-khalik-allah/ It is easy to walk through a city not making eye contact, but for…
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Amidst Us by Luis Antonio Rojas | Witness
Amidst Us / Entre Nosotros “During the pandemic, I worked in Mexico City with a Holga, a plastic camera first made in the ’80s whose plastic lens and imperfect seams… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/amidst-us-entre-nosotros-49adabeb607c During the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked in Mexico City with a Holga camera, a plastic camera first made in the ’80s whose…
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Thana Faroq: “I documented women displaced by the war. Now I’m one of them” – British Journal of Photography
Thana Faroq: “I documented women displaced by the war. Now I’m one of them” Faroq left her native Yemen a year after the war broke out in 2015, and never returned. The experience recast her practice, and she began to turn the camera on herself via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/09/thana-faroq-i-used-to-document-the-lives-of-women-displaced-by-the-war-and-now-im-one-of-them/ Faroq left her native…
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Magnum photographer Alec Soth accused of plagiarism by Chicago artist Tonika Johnson | The Art Newspaper
Magnum photographer Alec Soth accused of plagiarism by Chicago artist Tonika Johnson On commission for the New York Times, Soth says he had “no knowledge” of the the long-term project by the Chicago resident and documentary photographer Link: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/magnum-photographer-alec-soth-may-face-legal-action-after-plagiarism-claim-from-chicago-artist-tonika-johnson On commission for the New York Times, Soth says he had “no knowledge” of the the…
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The Folded Map Project’s Tonika Johnson Confronts Alec Soth & the NYT – PhotoShelter Blog
The Folded Map Project’s Tonika Johnson Confronts Alec Soth & the NYT – PhotoShelter Blog On September 5, 2020, The New York Times published “The Great Divide” – the latest entry in their “The America We Need” Times Opinion series – which examined neighborhoods on Chicago’s North Side and South Side and the enormous disparities in wealth…
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Creating through discovery – The Leica camera Blog
Link: Korean film-maker Park Chan-wook speaks about his passion for black and white photography and turning trivial things into lead characters.
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Andrew Miksys on the Story Behind His Photos of Rural Discos in Lithuania | AnOther
Andrew Miksys on the Story Behind His Photos of Rural Discos in Lithuania via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12773/disko-andrew-miksys-the-time-we-call-our-own-exhibition-open-eye-liverpool DISKO, Miksys’ decade-long series exploring discos in Lithuania, is currently on show in Open Eye Gallery’s The Time We Call Our Own, an exhibition about the power and importance of nightlife
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‘This Time We Are Young’. This Time We Are Young is an ongoing… | by Esther RuthMbabazi | Sep, 2020 | Witness
This Time We Are Young This Time We Are Young is an ongoing documentation of the changing demographics on the world’s youngest continent, Africa. via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/this-time-we-are-young-c1884b642d6c This Time We Are Young is an ongoing documentation of the changing demographics on the world’s youngest continent, with 60 percent of the African population being under 25.…
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Chris Killip on his timeless portrait of working class punk culture
Chris Killip on his timeless portrait of working class punk culture For decades, Chris Killip forgot about his photographs of an old Gateshead punk club. But today, they’ve taken on brand new meaning. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/chris-killip-the-station-interview-punks-gateshead-1985/ For three decades, the seminal photographer’s shots of an old anarcho-punk club sat gathering dust in a box.…
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America at Hunger’s Edge – The New York Times
America at Hunger’s Edge (Published 2020) We spent months photographing dozens of families across the country to understand what food insecurity looks like today. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/magazine/food-insecurity-hunger-us.html A shadow of hunger looms over the United States. In the pandemic economy, nearly one in eight households doesn’t have enough to eat. The lockdown, with its epic lines…
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When Hunger Is on the Doorstep – The New York Times
When Hunger Is on the Doorstep The photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally traveled across the country to highlight the prevalence of food insecurity among families. To her, the images only begin to tell the story of struggle. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/insider/food-insecurity-families.html This weekend, the entire issue of The New York Times Magazine is devoted to the topic of…
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A Lyrical Photographic Road Trip Across America – Feature Shoot
A Lyrical Photographic Road Trip Across America – Feature Shoot “The Road Not Taken,” a 1916 poem by Robert Frost is not merely a call for following one’s own destiny as many would like to believe, but the knowledge that… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/09/a-lyrical-photographic-road-trip-across-america/ Arnaud Montagard, a French photographer living in Brooklyn, traversed the continent,…
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The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog
The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog Find out which women in sports photography inspire PhotoShelter members Sarah Sachs, Jennifer Stewart, Abbie Parr and Casey Brooke. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/09/women-in-sports-photography-celebration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 As live sports begin to make a comeback, we want to take this opportunity to talk about…