Author: Trent

  • A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland

    A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland

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    A Japanese Photographer’s Outsider View of Northern Ireland In the 1960s, Akihiko Okamura series “The Memories of Others” recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland/ Okamura singles out low-key moments, discovering worlds within worlds. He seems to be, as W. G. Sebald once said of his fellow writer Robert Walser, a “clairvoyant of…

  • Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH

    Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH

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    Michael Young: Maybe Tomorrow – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Michael Young’s series Maybe Tomorrow. I first came across Michael Young’s work with the series Hidden Glances. His expert use of collage to play with personal concepts between the visible and invisible…

  • Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH

    Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH

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    Hannah Latham: Milking Hour – LENSCRATCH This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Hannah Latham’s series Milking Hour. I remember being knocked out by Hannah Latham’s work late last year. We were both in the exhibition Home is Where at FLOAT Magazine, which was published…

  • OpenAI CTO: ‘Some Creative Jobs Will Go Away’ | PetaPixel

    OpenAI CTO: ‘Some Creative Jobs Will Go Away’ | PetaPixel

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    OpenAI CTO: ‘Some Creative Jobs Will Go Away’ The comments haven’t gone down well. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/24/openai-cto-some-creative-jobs-will-go-away-mira-murati/ The chief technology officer of OpenAI thinks that the advent of artificial intelligence will mean “some creative jobs maybe will go” but adds that “maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” https://petapixel.com/2024/06/24/openai-cto-some-creative-jobs-will-go-away-mira-murati/

  • How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation | PetaPixel

    How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation | PetaPixel

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    How ‘The Strobist’ David Hobby Has Spent His Permanent Vacation I want to give you five quick ideas from the book to get you thinking the next time you travel with your camera. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/30/how-the-strobist-david-hobby-has-spent-his-permanent-vacation/ So at some point, it made sense to both expand and generalize that content into, say, a real book…

  • B: Q & A with Jesse Lenz

    B: Q & A with Jesse Lenz

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    Q & A with Jesse Lenz Jesse Lenz is a photographer based in rural Ohio, and the founding director of Chico Review , Charcoal Press , and Charcoal Book Club . • B… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2024/06/jesse-lenz-is-photographer-based-in-and.html The Chico Review is the opposite of that. Only people making the work get in. It’s not about writing an essay, checking the…

  • Danny Lyon on the Photographs That Became “The Bikeriders”

    Danny Lyon on the Photographs That Became “The Bikeriders”

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    Danny Lyon on the Photographs That Became “The Bikeriders” Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/danny-lyon-on-the-making-of-the-bikeriders/ Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is one of the definitive accounts of American counterculture—and the inspiration for a new…

  • Review: Tim Hetherington’s Photography at London’s Imperial War Museum | Observer

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    At London’s Imperial War Museum, Tim Hetherington’s Unorthodox War Photography There is a discomfort looking at the photographs knowing that Hetherington was to die in pursuit of his craft, and this knowledge is especially prescient today. via Observer: https://observer.com/2024/06/arts-review-tim-hetherington-photography-at-londons-imperial-war-museum-exhibition/ Hetherington’s work was often about acknowledging the relationship between photographer and subject, rather than hiding it.…

  • Ron Edmonds, 77, Whose Camera Captured the Shooting of Reagan, Dies – The New York Times

    Ron Edmonds, 77, Whose Camera Captured the Shooting of Reagan, Dies – The New York Times

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    Ron Edmonds, 77, Whose Camera Captured the Shooting of Reagan, Dies Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/media/ron-edmonds-dead.html Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of…

  • What Ukraine Has Lost During Russia’s Invasion – The New York Times

    What Ukraine Has Lost During Russia’s Invasion – The New York Times

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    What Ukraine Has Lost We measured every town, street and building blown apart in Ukraine to show the first comprehensive picture of where people can’t return home. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/world/europe/ukraine-destruction.html We analyzed every building across Ukraine that has been damaged or destroyed since Russia attacked two years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/world/europe/ukraine-destruction.html?smid=threads-nytimes

  • In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH

    In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH

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    In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH A number of years ago, a tall, quietly intelligent artist entered my classroom, driving to Los Angeles from San Diego each week to understand the photographer’s journey. Our journey together lasted several years and then I watched Wayne Swanson and his photographs take flight in remarkable…

  • Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH

    Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH

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    Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is…

  • How Groundbreaking Is Vivian Maier’s Photography? – The New York Times

    How Groundbreaking Is Vivian Maier’s Photography? – The New York Times

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    How Groundbreaking Is Vivian Maier’s Photography? She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/design/vivien-maier-photography-fotografiska.html She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/design/vivien-maier-photography-fotografiska.html

  • The Memories of Others | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The Memories of Others | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The Memories of Others via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-memories-of-others/ The above is clearly the case for the photographs made by Akihiko Okamura in Northern Ireland around the low-level civil war that typically is being described euphemistically as “the troubles”. When I grew up, that war was a frequent part of the news on TV in…

  • Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training | PetaPixel

    Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training | PetaPixel

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    Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training Read the letter here. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/ The letter was organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Etter and signed by dozens of photographers, journalists, and curators. https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/

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    Intermission – The Leica camera Blog: With dream-like and purely associative images, Natalia Neuhaus explores emotional states and everyday situations.

  • Ukraine-Russia War: Photos From the Border – The New York Times

    Ukraine-Russia War: Photos From the Border – The New York Times

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    Between the Offensives: Images From a Journey in Ukraine’s Borderland Photographs from two trips along Ukraine’s northeastern border regions, in the months before Russia renewed an offensive there, reveal loss and transformation. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/ukraine-border-russia-sumy-kharkiv-photos.html Sirens cannot provide enough warning time for a bombardment from this close, and air defenses cannot repel it. Residents rely on…

  • The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet – The New York Times

    The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet – The New York Times

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    It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html During the two years that BNN was active, it had the veneer of a legitimate news…

  • Max Ortiz, award-winning photojournalist, dies at 58

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    Max Ortiz, award-winning photojournalist, dies at 58 From photographing politicians and celebrities to the struggles and triumphs of ordinary folks, Mr. Ortiz handled each with compassion, colleagues say. via The Detroit News: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/06/03/max-ortiz-award-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-58/73947311007/ Dakota Ortiz was a year old when he spent eight months in treatment for a rare form of cancer. His dad, Max…

  • Photographer Who Captured Reagan Assassination Attempt Dies Age 77 | PetaPixel

    Photographer Who Captured Reagan Assassination Attempt Dies Age 77 | PetaPixel

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    Photographer Who Captured Reagan Assassination Attempt Dies Age 77 He had a unique vantage point. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/03/pulitzer-winning-photographer-who-captured-reagan-assassination-attempt-dies-age-77-ron-edmonds/ The Reagan assassination attempt photo came on what was only Edmonds’ second day as the AP’s White House photographer covering Reagan. He said his job was to “watch the president at all times” and believes he did…