Category: Editor’s Choice
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Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH
Earth Week: Becky Wilkes: Ditched – LENSCRATCH The bodies of work that I will be sharing during Earth Week are linked by this thematic lens: making the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques. Each body of work spe via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/04/earth-week-becky-wilkes-ditched/ “Ditched” explores the…
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Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime | The New Yorker
Paolo Pellegrin’s Photographic Quest for the Sublime For as long as the celebrated photojournalist has been doing his best work, he has been grappling with the threat of blindness. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/paolo-pellegrins-photographic-quest-for-the-sublime “To find silence, you need silence,” Pellegrin had observed, and as we drove in darkness no one spoke. An hour later,…
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Artist Barbara Iweins on spending two years photographing all 10,532 objects in her house
Artist Barbara Iweins on spending two years photographing all 10,532 objects in her house The photographer undertook this mammoth task in an attempt assess the value she places on objects. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/barbara-iweins-katalog-photography-220620?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 The photographer undertook this mammoth task in an attempt assess the value she places on objects.
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The 2020 All About Photo Awards | LENSCRATCH
The 2020 All About Photo Awards Photographer of the Year: Monica Denevan Today we share the winners of the prestigious photo competition, All About Photo Awards 2020, The Mind’s Eye, organized by All About Photo. A panel of 7 expert jurors including Elizabeth Avedon (Photography book an via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/06/the-2020-all-about-photo-awards/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Today we share the winners…
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40 YEARS OF LOBA: Narelle Autio – The Leica camera Blog
40 YEARS OF LOBA: Narelle Autio Saturated colours, intense light, happy people, blue seas, clouds: the Australian photographer won the 2002 LOBA for her lively picture series dedicated to beach life. Her complex compositions represent a great homage to the beauty of the Australian coastal landscape and convinced the jury, with their content and form,…
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B: Q & A with Alice Christine Walker
Q & A with Alice Christine Walker Alice Christine Walker is a photographer based in Portland. • BA: Tell me about your photobooth pictures. How/when did you get s… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2020/03/q-with-alice-christine-walker.html Haha! Yes, that’s true. I approach the photobooth from the unique position of being the darkroom photographer and the subject. Well, mechanic/photographer…
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Talking Pictures #7 Kenneth Jarecke talks with Karen Mullarkey, the legendary picture editor. – YouTube
Kenneth Jarecke talks with legendary picture editor Karen Mullarkey about her time at Life Magazine, Rolling Stone and Newsweek (among others) and working with photographers such as Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz and Arthur Grace (among others).
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Held by the Taliban – A Five-Part Series by David Rohde
7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity (Published 2009) A Times reporter, David Rohde, and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in Pakistan. This is the first installment in a five-part series offering his account. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned…
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon announces 16.06 million image pixel EOS-1D Mark IV
Link: Canon has revealed the details of its next 1-series digital SLR, the EOS-1D Mark IV. The new model is an evolution of the EOS-1D Mark III and features a 16.06 million image pixel, 1.3x crop sensor, top ISO of 102,400, 1080p video with external stereo mic jack, a revamped 45-point AF system and a…
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Gade, Haiti! 100Eyes Photo Magazine
Link: Los Angeles photographer, Susan Anderson, has a new project, High Glitz, spotlighting the spectacle of children’s beauty pagents. The series has just been published by powerHouse, and is opening as an exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles on October 24th.
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Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date
Link: “These are sick, sick individuals,” Ridell added. “God bless them for saving our industry.”
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Showcase: Infernal Landscapes – Lens Blog
Showcase: Infernal Landscapes Lu Guang, a Chinese freelancer, has won this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project, “Pollution in China.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/showcase-65/ Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W.…
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lens culture: Paris Photo 2009 preview
Link: The emphasis in 2009 is on photography from Iran and the Arab world. But, as always, the works on display are rich with diversity — geographically, culturally, stylistically — and offer a unique opportunity to discover a wide range of contemporary and vintage photography never seen before in one location. So, we’re pleased to…
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Magnum / Georgia | dvafoto
Link: Magnum’s Georgian Spring is an incredibly interesting project, and possibly a turning point in photojournalism and agency work. This book, print, web and ‘multimedia’ project is a collaboration with the Georgian state itself, funded by the Ministry of Culture and arranged by photographer Thomas Dworzak with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and independently curated by…
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Interview: Damon Winter
Link: Yes. I can’t imagine any other place to go. As long as I’ve had a camera it has been my dream to work at the New York Times. It seems in the current climate of photojournalism the New York Times is the best place to be right now.
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7D Reviews: Shit are happen! « Fake Chuck Westfall
7D Reviews: Shit are happen! Hello and welcome. This is your favorite camera guru reporting to you live from my office here at Canon USA. I’m sitting here burning some really good ganja so there’s a lot of smoke in… via Fake Chuck Westfall: https://fakechuckwestfall.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/7d-reviews-shit-are-happen/ Hello and welcome. This is your favorite camera guru reporting to…
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The American Dream | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
Link: This issue of 100Eyes is dedicated to an American Dream, although a dream a bit darker, and perhaps vague. The term itself is refracted through the images in the magazine, having a different meaning as the images evolve, and the meaning of the language changes as do the pictures themselves. In some places the…
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Our Troops Send Holiday Wishes For Peace, Goodwill, And Body Armor
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FMFT_XMAS.jpg&videoid=71269&title=Our%20Troops%20Send%20Holiday%20Wishes%20For%20Peace%2C%20Goodwill%2C%20An It’s just about a year since I visited Michael’s gallery in Toronto and was exposed (excuse me) to the Sony A900 for the first time.…
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Interview: Christopher Morris talks about his videos of the American presidents | dvafoto
Link: You probably already know Christopher Morris‘ work. One of the founding members of VII, his conflict photography is unparalleled and his recent work on American politics, including the book “My America,” has redefined visual coverage of the White House. You might not know that Morris has been making videos in addition to his still…