Category: Editor’s Choice

Can You Take a Photograph Anywhere?

Criminalizing Photography

In a conversation with James Estrin, Mickey H. Osterreicher, a lawyer for the National Press Photographers Association, discusses a troubling trend of arrests for photography in public spaces.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/criminalizing-photography/

Literally every day, someone is being arrested for doing nothing more than taking a photograph in a public place. It makes no sense to me. Photography is an expression of free speech.

Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where photographers are being interfered with and arrested for doing nothing other than taking pictures or recording video in public places.

August 15, 2012
Documenting the Journey of Central American Migrants: an Option of Last Resorts

Link: Documenting the Journey of Central American Migrants: an Option of Last Resorts | Feature Shoot

“Destino” is Michelle Frankfurter’s personal project about the journey of Central American migrants across Mexico by rail. A documentary photographer based in Washington DC, she shot this project on Ilford HP5 120 film and a Bronica 6×6 camera – 12 exposures per roll.

August 6, 2012
Reimagining Google Maps Satellite View by Jenny Odell

LightBox | Time

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/08/01/finding-art-in-google-maps-jenny-odells-satellite-world/#1

For the average person, Google Maps is a website used to locate an address on a map, find directions from one place to another and see what areas around the world look like from a bird’s eye perspective. But for artist Jenny Odell, Google Maps is a tool to see, cut up and re-imagine her world in a new, photographic way.

August 2, 2012
Power, The Fourth Prix Pictet Shortlist

Link: lens culture: Power, The Fourth Prix Pictet Shortlist

Twelve photographers have been shortlisted for the prestigious fourth Prix Pictet. This year’s theme for the photography prize is Power.

The artists, all with outstanding portfolios, come from ten countries: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, France, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam.

Les Culture is pleased to provide an overview of the finalists’ portfolios here in a high-resolution slide show of 115 images.

July 30, 2012
Tom Stoddart: Perspectives

Link: Tom Stoddart: Perspectives « The Leica Camera

Today marks the Opening Ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics and Stoddart hopes that his exhibition Perspectives will open up more awareness of global issues that are in stark contrast to the caliber of health that the athletes showcase. The exhibition starts today at one of London’s prime South Bank sites and will run from 25 July – 11 September, throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Seventy-eight of Stoddart’s black and white pictures will form a free, open-air display at More London Riverside, between City Hall and HMS Belfast.

July 29, 2012
‘I was gutted that I’d been such a coward’: photographers who didn’t step in to help

Link: ‘I was gutted that I’d been such a coward’: photographers who didn’t step in to help | Media | The Guardian

What’s it like to witness a mob attack, a starving child or the aftermath of a bomb, and take a photograph instead of stopping to help? As two journalists are under fire for recording rather than intervening in a sex attack in India, we ask people who know

July 29, 2012
Surreal Shadow Portraits by Alexey Bednij

Link: Surreal Shadow Portraits by Alexey Bednij | Feature Shoot

Alexey Bednij is a 28-year-old photographer who manipulates photos of people and animals in oder to make these unique shadow portraits that he refers to as ‘collages’. He is based in Russia.

July 27, 2012
Beyond 7 Billion

Link: Beyond 7 Billion – latimes.com

After remaining stable for most of human history, the world’s population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries.
BY KENNETH R. WEISS :: PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICK LOOMIS

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July 24, 2012
gustavo jononovich – richland

Gustavo Jononovich – Richland

Gustavo Jononovich Richland [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT RICHLAND is my first long-term book project about the over-exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America a…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/epf-2012-finalists/2012/07/gustavo-jononovich_richland/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29

RICHLAND is my first long-term book project about the over-exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America and the resulting long-term negative effects, both human and environmental. The push for accelerated world economic growth has led to increasing demand for natural resources. Rather than benefit from natural resources abundance and wealth, local people living in areas of exploitation have experienced loss of livelihoods, health problems, human rights violations and environmental degradation

July 20, 2012
Winners of Photoville’s ‘The Fence’ Contest

THE FENCE (2012)

In celebration of the launch of PHOTOVILLE, United Photo Industries joined forces with Photo District News and Brooklyn Bridge Park to curate and produce THE FENCE,…

via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/45752603

July 19, 2012
Monica Denevan

Monica Denevan: Burma

Sometimes a photographer finds a part of the world that resonates so completely with their sensibilities that the marriage of the place and the person results in perfection. Monica Denevan has been creating photographs in Burma (and China) for many years

via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/07/monica-denevan.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29

Sometimes a photographer finds a part of the world that resonates so completely with their sensibilities that the marriage of the place and the person results in perfection. Monica Denevan has been creating photographs in Burma (and China) for many years and with each new visit she adds to her stunning portfolio of images.

July 17, 2012
Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography

Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Feature: Steve Simon’s passion for documentary photography

I realized that maybe the photography that first attracted me as a young man on the streets of Montreal — Henri Cartier-Bresson and the great street photographers — was not what I was doing anymore. Partly because of practicality — lack of time on assignments — I was shooting in a very formulaic way. I wanted to see if I could break away and rekindle that innocence of vision that I [once] had. I found that the project was my way back into that wonder of photography that I experienced as a young guy.

July 13, 2012
Visa Pour l’Image’s Jean-François Leroy discusses photojournalism past and present

Link: Visa Pour l’Image’s Jean-François Leroy discusses photojournalism past and present – British Journal of Photography

Visa Pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism festival, is coming back to Perpignan for its 24th edition. Its director, Jean-François Leroy, speaks with Olivier Laurent about this year’s programme and the state of the market

July 13, 2012
Tour de Panoramic (8 Photos)

Link: Tour de Panoramic (8 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day

In Paolo Pellizzari’s The Broad Way,” the photographer captures bright-colored panoramic landscapes around the world. He uses a Noblex camera, which captures a 135 degree view that corresponds to the natural sweep of the human eye. Rich in detail, each photograph illustrates a scene of daily life, making the viewer feel a part of the scene. Pellizzari’s photos are on view at Anastasia Photo until August 31.

July 10, 2012
André J. Hermann’s Street Photography, Hidden on the Street

Hiding, and Seeking, a Photo Book

The street photographer André J. Hermann takes Instagram pictures, prints them and binds them in a book. Then he hides them, leaving photo clues for enterprising followers.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/hiding-and-seeking-a-photo-book/?pagewanted=all

For the past two months, he’s been taking his Instagram images, printing them, bundling them into books, and hiding them in nooks and crannies around San Francisco. He’s hidden 16 one-of-a-kind books, and he’ll hide four more over the next few weeks.

July 6, 2012
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 – Finalists’ Portfolios

Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 – Finalists’ Portfolios

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 recorded over 2,800 entries from professional photographers in 101 countries this year. This video shows the winners and finalists’…

via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/44883596

July 4, 2012
Dreams and Dread in Afghanistan: Photographs by Zalmai

Dreams and Dread in Afghanistan

How does one photograph a story that has not yet occurred? How does one evoke a sense of what might happen, or of what could? This was the challenge for …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/07/zalmai-photographs-from-afghanistan.html?currentPage=all

How does one photograph a story that has not yet occurred? How does one evoke a sense of what might happen, or of what could?

This was the challenge for the Afghan-Swiss photographer Zalmaï: to capture the sense of foreboding that, as Dexter Filkins writes in this week’s issue, permeates Afghanistan as American troops prepare to withdraw

July 2, 2012
Award-Winning Project Documents a Fractured Serbia

Award-Winning Project Documents a Fractured Serbia

Recently, Burn Magazine announced Matt Lutton, a Belgrade-based U.S. photographer, as the winner of the Emerging Photography Fund for 2012. We talked to Lutton about the origins of the work, the complex politics of the region and what he plans to do with

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/07/matt-lutton/all/1

Recently, Burn Magazine announced Matt Lutton, a Belgrade-based U.S. photographer, as the winner of the Emerging Photography Fund for 2012. Lutton’s winning portfolio Only Unity is a long term documentary project about Serbia and the Serbs “in the aftermath of Yugoslavia”.

July 2, 2012
Alejandro Cartagena’s “Car Poolers”

Piling in a Flatbed to Get By in the Suburbs

Alejandro Cartagena’s photos reveal the private worlds of the backs of flatbed trucks that take working Mexicans to their jobs — people seeking a normal life, and doing what it takes to get there.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/car-poolers/?pagewanted=all

A bridge is situated on a highway that goes from the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo — across the United States border in Laredo, Tex. — due south to Monterrey. In the early-morning hours last winter, Alejandro Cartagena stood there, pointing his lens down at the passing cars, like a distracted spy.

June 27, 2012
Rebecca Norris Webb’s “My Dakota”

Prairie, Poetry and Loss

Rebecca Norris Webb had begun a photography project in South Dakota, the land of her youth, when her brother died unexpectedly. All of a sudden, “My Dakota” became a process of grieving, rediscovery and poetry.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/grieving-a-loss-with-prairie-and-poetry/?pagewanted=all

It’s taken me much of life to understand and accept that my images are wiser than I am. It often takes me weeks and sometimes months to understand what they are trying to say to me.

June 21, 2012