Author: Trent
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To Discover a Story – Photographs by Carolina Rapezzi | Interview by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture
To Discover a Story – Photographs by Carolina Rapezzi | Interview by W. Scott Olsen | LensCulture Italian photographer Carolina Repezzi unfolds the story behind this arresting portrait of a young water seller, taken in the Agbogbloshie e-waste scrapyard in Ghana via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/carolina-rapezzi-to-discover-a-story This award-winning photo was made in a hellish place that has…
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Kyler Zeleny: Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle | LENSCRATCH
Kyler Zeleny: Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Crown Ditch and the Pra via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/kyler-zeleny-crown-ditch-and-the-prairie-castle/ Projects featured this…
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Any Answers: Chris Boot – British Journal of Photography
Any Answers: Chris Boot This month, editor, publisher, and executive director at Aperture Foundation Chris Boot reflects on his life and career via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/any-answers-chris-boot/ This month, editor, publisher, and executive director at Aperture Foundation Chris Boot reflects on his life and career
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Nicolas Boyer documents an often overlooked side to Iran
Nicolas Boyer documents an often overlooked side to Iran The photographer explores rarely covered regions, dealing with isolation and arrests on his journey. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/nicolas-boyer-photography-240220?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 The photographer explores rarely covered regions, dealing with isolation and arrests on his journey.
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Can Visual Content remain trustworthy? – Kaptur
Can Visual Content remain trustworthy? – Kaptur Trust in visual content is quickly eroding. Technology can help by enforcing authenticity, authorship, and integrity. But only if everyone agrees. via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/can-visual-content-remain-trustworthy/ Out of six senses, vision is, by far, the one we trust the most for critical information. Studies show that if receiving conflicting information…
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Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 – The New York Times
Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/arts/santu-mofokeng-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR0P679Kku9YxtX7BlxB8tHOPKJq2RmEhxf-6clKWaE1zzq3Zpv35NYS2-0 Santu Mofokeng, a photographer whose searing images of everyday life in South Africa’s black townships documented the prospects of freedom from apartheid and…
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Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos
Sony World Photography Awards Accused of Censorship After Pulling Hong Kong Protest Photos The Sony World Photography Awards is being accused of censorship by the photojournalist community this week after the renowned competition pulled down via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/21/sony-world-photography-awards-accused-of-censorship-after-pulling-hong-kong-protest-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The story first broke in the Hong Kong Free Press, after photographer Ko Chung-ming pointed out that…
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Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West | LENSCRATCH
Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West Natural disasters are ever increasing with climate change, and in California, we have been bracing ourselves for The Big One for decades. We are kept alert by tremors and shakers that seem to state,”Don’t get too comfortable”, but another disaster, insidi via…
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Boys by Girls: Portrayals of Masculinity by Women Photographers | AnOther
Boys by Girls: Portrayals of Masculinity by Women Photographers via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12282/female-photographers-on-masculinity-barbican-liberation-through-photography In a series of rooms set over two floors in the Barbican Centre, new exhibition Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography showcases the work of nearly 60 image-makers who address the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be masculine. The mammoth show features…
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Bruno Mouron & Pascal Rostain : Paparazzi
Link: YellowKorner presents the exhibition “PAPARAZZI” with the photographs by Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain, magnifying the garbage of celebrities. This exhibition is to be discovered in the 100 galleries of YellowKorner around the world as well as at La Hune, the historic bookshop- gallery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, for an event exhibition. Bruno Mouron…
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Michael Wolf : Life in Cities
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/michael-wolf-life-in-cities-2-pp/ The Robert Koch Gallery presents Michael Wolf: Life in Cities, a survey celebrating Michael Wolf’s life and work. For over four decades Wolf examined the layered urban landscape, addressing juxtapositions of public and private space, and anonymity and individuality in relation to history and modern development. Michael Wolf’s work on life in cities was…
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Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020)
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/modena-international-photography-prize-santu-mofokeng-una-solitudine-silenziosa-fotografie-1982-2011-2/ The South African photographer died at 63. Here is the feature we dedicated to him when he received the International Photography Award in Modena in 2016.
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Into the Unknown: How I Reinvented Myself After 25 Years at Sports Illustrated
Into the Unknown: How I Reinvented Myself After 25 Years at Sports Illustrated Over the years I’ve been contacted through social media, emails and in person by young photographers seeking advice on being a sports photographer. I via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/02/20/into-the-unknown-reinventing-yourself-as-a-photographer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 But after many years on contract, then on staff, I realized it was time for…
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Illustrating African Folktales of the Congo Basin in Photographs – Feature Shoot
Illustrating African Folktales of the Congo Basin in Photographs – Feature Shoot The Odzala-Kokoua National Park is the crown jewel of the Congo Basin— one of the largest, oldest, most intact preserves that has never been logged, or overexploited by poachers and… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/illustrating-african-folktales-of-the-congo-basin-in-photographs/ Eva Vonk, an executive producer at Tales of Us,…
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Clare Strand investigates communication and misinformation – British Journal of Photography
Clare Strand investigates communication and misinformation In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into a painting, employing a method proposed by George H. Eckhardt’s 1936 publication — Electronic Television via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/clare-strand-deutsche-borse-the-photographers-gallery/ In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into…
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Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Removal of Hong Kong protest images from Sony World Photography Awards website raises censorship concerns | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Images relating to the Hong Kong protests have been taken down from the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards website because of their “sensitive nature.” While the finalists are still in the running for a…
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Michael Ashkin | 1000 Words
Michael Ashkin n the desert, the traces of human presence are visible on the ground for a long time. Alongside the remains of earlier inhabitants are other, more recent legacies –– accidental landscapes of exhausted ground, tracked and paved over, sown with garbage, shattered and heaped up. Created by obscure acts of violence, places such…
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The Wild Within – Witness
The Wild Within Few places are surrounded by a mystery like Rold Forest that is located in a rural part of Denmark. This big, wild forest was for… via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-wild-within-4d9f12ec9931 Few places are surrounded by a mystery like Rold Forest, located in a rural part of Denmark. This big, wild forest was for centuries…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – An American Project: Dawoud Bey’s Latest Show @ SFMoMA
Juxtapoz Magazine – An American Project: Dawoud Bey’s Latest Show @ SFMoMA “A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/an-american-project-dawoud-bey-s-latest-show-sfmoma/ “A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Bryan Schutmaat’s Highway Drifters
Juxtapoz Magazine – Bryan Schutmaat’s Highway Drifters “Photographed in the American Southwest, this body of work includes intimate portraits of travelers—mostly hitchhikers and highway drifters who dwell… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/bryan-schutmaat-s-highway-drifters/ “Photographed in the American Southwest, this body of work includes intimate portraits of travelers—mostly hitchhikers and highway drifters who dwell along the interstate system—as well as…