Author: Trent
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Photography as an Instrument of Awareness – The Leica camera Blog
Photography as an Instrument of Awareness Eva Woolridge uses her Leica Q2 as a vessel of visual communication
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Beirut in Photos, Instagram Censors a Black Model, Is Getty Selling Images of Child Exploitation? – PhotoShelter Blog
Podcast: Beirut in Photos, Instagram Censors a Black Model, Is Getty Selling Images of Child Exploitation? – PhotoShelter Blog In this jam-packed episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah and Allen discuss how citizen journalism and professional photojournalism gave us an incredible point of view of the tragic explosion in Beirut, Andy Day and Benjamin Chesterton…
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The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country – The New York Times
The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/t-magazine/amber-pinkerton-photography.html The Jamaica-born, London-based Amber Pinkerton makes stylish pictures that lead with her subjects’ humanity.
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Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp | The New Yorker
Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp Andy Sweet’s 1977 photographs from Camp Mountain Lake, in North Carolina, beautifully capture the cheerful triumphs and the gutting alienation that one can experience at camp. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dread-and-longing-at-a-nineteen-seventies-sleepaway-camp This cluster of knotty feelings resurfaced almost immediately when I began looking at Andy Sweet’s photographs…
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B: Matt Stuart: Into The Fire
Matt Stuart: Into The Fire Matt Stuart’s book Into The Fire was recently published by Setanta Books. • BA: How did you discover Slab City? MS: I discovered Slab City… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2020/08/matt-stuartinto-fire.html Matt Stuart’s book Into The Fire was recently published by Setanta Books.
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Magnum Under Fire for Selling Photos of ‘Teenage’ Sex Workers from 1989
Magnum Under Fire for Selling Photos of ‘Teenage’ Sex Workers from 1989 Magnum Photos and prominent photojournalist David Alan Harvey are under scrutiny online today after some of Harvey’s photographs labeled as ‘Teenage’ via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/08/07/magnum-under-fire-for-selling-photos-of-teenage-sex-workers-from-1989/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Magnum Photos and prominent photojournalist David Alan Harvey are under scrutiny online today after some of Harvey’s photographs labeled…
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As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size – Columbia Journalism Review
As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size The run-up to the 2020 November elections in the US has produced new networks of shadowy, politically backed “local news websites” designed to promote partisan talking points and collect user data. In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital…
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 August 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 August 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan, founder of Voice of Humanity and Hope (VOHH) Festival turns the camera on himself and … via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-august-2020/ This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammad…
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The Chinese Photographer Who Lost His Beautiful Memories – Aperture Foundation NY
The Chinese Photographer Who Lost His Beautiful Memories Since 2004, Muge has captured the yearning of millions of people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam. via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/introducing-muge/ Since 2004, the Chinese photographer has captured the upheaval and displacement of over a million people caused by the Three Gorges Dam.
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Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press
Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press Director Ramona Diaz and journalist Maria Ressa discuss their struggles to make A Thousand Cuts, a film about the autocratic president of the Philippines. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/580647/a-thousand-cuts-documentary-philippines-journalism/ “It all goes back to Silicon Valley,” Ressa adds. A Thousand Cuts follows the Philippines 2019 legislative elections, when for…
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this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture
this archive has no legs – Photographs by Srinivas Kuruganti | Essay by Joshua Muyiwa | LensCulture Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas Kuruganti’s five day experiment turned the personal public, exploring the fluidity of narrative and the boundaries of the archive via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/srinivas-kuruganti-this-archive-has-no-legs Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas…
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The Photographers Who Captured the Toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The New York Times
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Worked Under Mushroom Clouds A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombings that ended World War II — and challenges a common American perception of the destruction in Japan. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html “I beg you to allow me to take pictures of your utmost sufferings,” Mr. Matsumoto,…
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Libyan National Army ‘sentences’ freelance photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba al-Zway to 15 years – Committee to Protect Journalists
Libyan National Army ‘sentences’ freelance photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba al-Zway to 15 years – Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020–The Libyan National Army should immediately release photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba al-Zway, and stop prosecuting journalists in secret trials and in military courts, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In a via Committee to…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – NYC Skateboarding in the 1960s by Bill Eppridge
Juxtapoz Magazine – NYC Skateboarding in the 1960s by Bill Eppridge A nice touch of nostalgia this morning, as we came across Bill Eppridge’s skateboarding photos he took in New York City during the 1960s. Some of the… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/nyc-skateboarding-in-the-1960s-by-bill-eppridge/ A nice touch of nostalgia this morning, as we came across Bill Eppridge’s skateboarding photos…
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This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work
This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work Almost 9 months after announcing the so-called Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for preventing image theft and manipulation online, Adobe has finally via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/08/04/this-is-how-adobes-upcoming-photo-authenticity-system-will-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Almost 9 months after announcing the so-called Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for preventing image theft and manipulation online, Adobe has finally…
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The Winners of the Malofiej International Infographics Awards for 2020
17 gold, 65 silver and 87 bronze medals at Malofiej 28 In this edition, 162 media outlets from 34 different countries have sent in their works. Of the 1,000 entries in the competition, 400 correspond to via Malofiej: https://www.malofiejgraphics.com/2020/08/general/list-award/ In this edition, 162 media outlets from 34 different countries have sent in their works. Of…
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Missing Photojournalist Austin Tice, Tops July Ranking Of One Free Press Coalition’s “10 Most Urgent” Press Freedom Cases Press Freedom Cases
Missing Photojournalist Austin Tice, Tops July Ranking Of One Free Press Coalition’s “10 Most Urgent” Press Freedom Cases Press Freedom Cases The One Free Press Coalition Publishes its “10 Most Urgent” List. via Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2020/08/03/missing-photojournalist-austin-tice-tops-july-ranking-of-one-free-press-coalitions-10-most-urgent-press-freedom-cases-press-freedom-cases/#292fd4a6579e NEW YORK – Aug. 3, 2020 – Freelance photojournalist Austin Tice, who went missing in 2012 while reporting on the…
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Photographers on Photographers: Macaulay Lerman in conversation with Paul Guilmoth | LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Macaulay Lerman in conversation with Paul Guilmoth At first glance the photograph is a medium of great limitation. The primary function of the camera is to describe the surface of an enclosed scene. Yet, for perhaps ineffable reasons, certain imagery surpasses it’s technical purpose, instead conjuring sen via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/08/photographers-on-photographers-macaulay-lerman-and-paul-guilmoth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 At first…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Talent Show: Julie Blackmon’s Theatrical Photographs
Juxtapoz Magazine – Talent Show: Julie Blackmon’s Theatrical Photographs There is a dreamlike quality to Julie Blackmon’s imagery. Children live, play, grow bored, make up stories, act them out and play some more, as if una… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/talent-show-julie-blackmon-s-theatrical-photographs/ There is a dreamlike quality to Julie Blackmon’s imagery. Children live, play, grow bored, make up stories,…
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‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better – Columbia Journalism Review
‘When the heart gets filtered up through the camera’: Vietnam War photographers on how to cover COVID better On February 29, Washington State health officials announced what they believed to be the first death due to the novel coronavirus in the United States. By March 31, the official national death toll stood at 3,173. It…