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How the San Francisco Chronicle shone a bright light on the Honduran drug trade – Poynter
How the San Francisco Chronicle shone a bright light on the Honduran drug trade – Poynter
The Chronicle tracked the drug trade into tiny towns where top dealers live in mansions — work that earned an inaugural Poynter Prize
“Executing the images both in Honduras and here in San Francisco was extremely tricky. In Honduras, I mostly photographed from car windows unless I was invited into someone’s home. A couple of times I stepped out of the car and men who were highly armed quickly approached me to intimidate me.
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Tips for Aspiring Visual Storytellers — ProPublica
Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone
Photography is a powerful journalistic tool, providing visual evidence and evoking emotions that urge us to understand the experiences of others. Here, ProPublica’s Sarahbeth Maney offers suggestions for aspiring visual storytellers.
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/tips-aspiring-visual-storytellers-photography-photojournalism-flint-michigan
The beauty of visual storytelling is that the story can always change shape. Let go of any assumptions and let the story lead you where it may. Anna and I learned so much by taking this approach.
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6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
6 Photographers Reflect on Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/
Dawoud Bey, Kristine Potter, Alec Soth, and more consider the lasting impact of Frank’s groundbreaking photobook.
https://aperture.org/editorial/6-photographers-reflect-on-robert-franks-the-americans/
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This New Device Establishes Content Authenticity Using Any Digital Camera | PetaPixel
This New Device Establishes Content Authenticity Using Any Digital Camera
Authenticity tech relies upon sensor-level fingerprints.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/11/15/this-new-device-establishes-content-authenticity-using-any-digital-camera/
As a research physicist from MIT, Stuart Sevier learned a lot about reality, technology, and perhaps most importantly, the perception of reality. He veered off his hardcore academic track to pursue the concept of reality from a more engineering-based perspective, ultimately founding Atom Images and working with a talented team to build the Atom H1, a tool built for photographers to capture trusted, authentic images in a world where the line between real and fake is becoming blurrier by the day.
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photo-eye | BLOG: Dogbreath: Reviewed by Blake Andrews
Dogbreath: Reviewed by Blake Andrews
Book Review Dogbreath Photographs by Matthew Genitempo Reviewed by Blake Andrews “Matthew Genitempo’s method has always relied on int…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/11/dogbreath-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html
Matthew Genitempo’s method has always relied on intuition. He approaches photo projects with no clear finish line in mind. Instead he settles in somewhere and pokes around, secure in the faith that his gut will lead him to photographs. Gradually he learns the lay of the land and meets a few locals. One thing leads to another. Acquaintances string together, rhythms flex, and passing moments deepen into portrait sessions. After a while he’s got a book.
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/11/dogbreath-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html
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The Bigger Picture – The Leica camera Blog
The Bigger Picture – The Leica camera Blog:
Her timeless pictures reflect her ability to not only document specific moments, but to also create images that today – detached from the original occasion – reveal much more about the personality portrayed and the sensitive machinery of political staging. We spoke with the great photographer about her beginnings and her experiences.
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The long sunset: Daidō Moriyama’s Record | Conscientious Photography Magazine
The long sunset: Daidō Moriyama’s Record
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/long-sunset/
Even as it seems clear from Record 2 that the sun is slowly setting over a life in photography, Moriyama’s true legacy is going to remain with us for many years to come. But you will have to look past the harsh contrast of the black and white in the photographs to discover the multi-faceted human being behind them.
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“Here,” Then and Now | The New Yorker
“Here,” Then and Now
Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/here-then-and-now-richard-mcguire
Richard McGuire’s project has a fixed view, but it spans several decades and mediums.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/here-then-and-now-richard-mcguire
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Bearing Witness to American Exploits | The New Yorker
Bearing Witness to American Exploits
Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bearing-witness-to-american-exploits
Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bearing-witness-to-american-exploits
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Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land
Santa Maria: On Migrant Mother’s Land:
A youthful obsession with Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother turns to frustration over how its subject, Florence Owens Thompson, an Indigenous woman, has been misperceived.
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For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible | Aperture
For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible
In his first-ever US museum survey, the Indian artist experiments with the possibilities of documentary images—and expands into painting and video.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/
For a period of about three years during his mid-twenties, Sohrab Hura strived to be what he called an anti-photographer. Doubt had begun seeping into his work. In particular, he felt conflicted about the ways in which documentary photography generates images from other people’s
https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/
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(318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube
(318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube:
A Conversation with Robert LeBlanc and former LIFE editor-in-chief Bill Shapiro
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A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio | The New Yorker
A Grandson’s Urgent Chronicle of Family Life in Small-Town Ohio
In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of death and divorce, individuals are more complicated than the worst thing happening to them.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-grandsons-urgent-chronicle-of-family-life-in-small-town-ohio
In Adali Schell’s “New Paris,” which documents his family in the aftermath of death and divorce, individuals are more complicated than the worst thing happening to them.
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Into the Phones of Teens | The New Yorker
Into the Phones of Teens
“Social Studies,” a documentary series by Lauren Greenfield, follows a group of young people, and screen-records their phones, to capture how social media has reshaped their lives.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/into-the-phones-of-teens
The moment is signature Greenfield. Since the early nineteen-nineties, the Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker has been one of our most steadfast chroniclers of contemporary America’s excesses
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/into-the-phones-of-teens
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‘Ravens’ Movie Chronicles Life of Legendary Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase | PetaPixel
‘Ravens’ Movie Chronicles Life of Legendary Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase
Watch the first trailer.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/11/04/ravens-movie-chronicles-life-of-legendary-japanese-photographer-masahisa-fukase/
A new biopic chronicles the complex life and work of Japan’s most celebrated and iconic photographer Masahisa Fukase.
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Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures
A look at the work of the recipients of this year’s Ian Parry photojournalism grant
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/05/ian-parry-photojournalism-grant-2024-in-pictures
A look at the work of the recipients of the 2024 Ian Parry photojournalism grant (IPPG), which supports young and emerging photographers. This year’s winner is Iva Sidash, from Ukraine. Ximena Borrazas received the Tom Stoddart award for excellence and the Gentex Corp personal safety award dedicated to ensuring the protection of aspiring photojournalists. The IPPG’s partner, Save the Children, selected Shefali Rafiq from the shortlist of 10 finalists for a special commission
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A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi | The New Yorker
A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi
As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/florence-mars-a-forgotten-eyewitness-to-civil-rights-era-mississippi
As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.
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Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese: Thinking Like An Island – LENSCRATCH
Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese: Thinking Like An Island – LENSCRATCH
One must be ambidextrous in opening this beautifully and cleverly crafted monograph about a mysterious island by the creative duo, Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese. Their creation, “Thinking Like an Island” , published by Overlapse, provokes the viewer to engage in a visual and mental jigsaw puzzle with psychological overtones. The book is a feast
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/11/gabriele-chiapparini-and-camilla-marrese-thinking-like-an-island/
The book is a feast served á la carte or in its entirety depending upon the path you choose. Its layout consists of four rectangular mini booklets that can (and probably should) be viewed as a group in sequence revealing the mysteries of a lightly inhabited island somewhere off the coast of Italy (or is it?). You can never be certain of where you are, nor can you be sure of when, but the one certainty is that the island is remote but not remote enough to avoid an Amazon delivery
http://lenscratch.com/2024/11/gabriele-chiapparini-and-camilla-marrese-thinking-like-an-island/
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A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2024 PhotoBook Awards
A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2024 PhotoBook Awards
These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2024-photobook-awards/
These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.
https://aperture.org/editorial/a-look-inside-the-titles-shortlisted-for-the-2024-photobook-awards/