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Santu Mofokeng, the photojournalist who made ordinary things extraordinary | The Star

Santu Mofokeng, the photojournalist who made ordinary things extraordinary | The Star

Condolences continue to pour in for legendary photographer who died at the weekend surrounded by his family in Soweto.

Link: https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/santu-mofokeng-the-photojournalist-who-made-ordinary-things-extraordinary-41638655

Art critic Sandile Ngidi tweeted: “South African documentary photography has lost one of its brightest stars. Santu Mofokeng belonged to a committed generation of photographers that gained prominence in the ‘alternative media’ in the 1980s and 1990s. This series is on ‘train churches’. Salutes!”

January 29, 2020
The End of an Era: Photo District News (PDN) is Shutting Down

The End of an Era: Photo District News (PDN) is Shutting Down

Photo District News (PDN), a 40-year-old photo publication and staple of the industry, is shutting down. The magazine’s owner Emerald Expositions has

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/28/the-end-of-an-era-photo-district-news-pdn-is-shutting-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29

Photo District News (PDN), a 40-year-old photo publication and staple of the industry, is shutting down. The magazine’s owner Emerald Expositions has confirmed that they will be shuttering both the print and digital sides of PDN in order to focus more of their efforts on PhotoPlus, WPPI, and Rangefinder.

January 29, 2020
Bill Ray, Photographer of Indelible Moments, Dies at 83 – The New York Times

Bill Ray, Photographer of Indelible Moments, Dies at 83

He captured Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” Elvis Presley as an Army private, scenes of war and urban unrest, and much more.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/arts/bill-ray-dead.html

He captured Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” Elvis Presley as an Army private, scenes of war and urban unrest, and much more.

January 27, 2020
Last Despatches

Last Despatches | Documenting Journalists Killed in the Balkans

Around 140 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Balkans during and after the 1990s conflicts. We are documenting their lives and the pursuit of justice for their deaths.

Link: http://last-despatches.balkaninsight.com/

journalists and media workers were killed during and after the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. Only one person has ever been convicted under a final verdict of responsibility for any of these killings.

January 25, 2020
Celebrity Photographer Dies At Lady Gaga Event

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Celebrity shooter A.J. Sokalner, admired by his colleagues for his quiet, passionate commitment to photography, collapsed Monday night

January 10, 2020
Photographer and Filmmaker Tom Hollyman Dies at 89

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Trained as a photojournalist, Hollyman specialized in travel photography for many years, shooting for Holiday and Town and Country magazines. He also served as the director of photography for the 1963 movie version of Lord of the Flies.

January 10, 2020
PDNPulse: Sam Haskins Dead At 83

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January 10, 2020
Award-Winning Television Photojournalist Bob Brandon Dies In New York

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“The word legend is sometimes overused, but in Bob’s case it was the real thing.”

January 10, 2020
Magnum's Dennis Stock, 81

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“I’ve never taken an assignment,” Stock said when he addressed a gathering of photojournalism students at the University of Texas in Austin’s School of Journalism in 2009. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself, and when you’re shooting what you’re interested in shooting, you’re always going to be happy,” Stock told Magnum photographer Eli Reed’s students.

January 10, 2020
Bob Willoughby obituary | The Guardian

Bob Willoughby obituary

American photographer whose informal shots defined the youthful glamour of the 1950s and 1960s

via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/18/bob-willoughby-obituary

American photographer whose informal shots defined the youthful glamour of the 1950s and 1960s

January 10, 2020
Life magazine's Charles Moore, 79

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Moore’s photograph of King’s arrest moved on the Associated Press wire and was picked up by Life magazine, transforming what had been a regional story into a national debate.

January 10, 2020
Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth

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she was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.

January 10, 2020
PDNPulse: Remembrances Being Collected of Deceased Photojournalist A.K. Kimoto

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January 10, 2020
Weyman D. Swagger, Baltimore Sun photographer, editor – baltimoresun.com

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Weyman D. Swagger, a Baltimore Sun news photographer who became the paper’s first photo editor, died of cancer Wednesday at his Halethorpe home. He was 66.

January 10, 2020
Clint Grant, longtime Dallas Morning News photographer, dies at 93

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Donald C. “Clint” Grant developed a national reputation for the humorous feature photos he took of animals during his long career with The Dallas Morning News.

January 10, 2020
Arizona Photojournalist Randy Reid, 49

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Photojournalist Randy Reid, who was a staff photographer for more than two decades at the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette, died May 19 after a long battle with cancer. He was 49.

January 10, 2020
LIFE Photographer Myron Davis, 1919-2010

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Davis’s archive contains thousands of subjects, including a photo essay on an Iowa farm boy and his dog, the last photos of film comedienne Carole Lombard at an Indiana war bond rally (her plane crashed on the way back to California), as well as portraits of General Dwight Eisenhower, President Franklin Roosevelt, and famed photojournalist Robert Capa reading in a bathtub, among many, many others.

January 10, 2020
National Geographic Freelance Photographer Wes Skiles Dies – NatGeo News Watch

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“National Geographic has learned of the tragic death of Wes Skiles, the accomplished underwater photographer, cinematographer and explorer with whom we’ve worked frequently,” the National Geographic Society said in a statement today. “The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident, which occurred following the conclusion of a scientific research expedition related to marine life off the east coast of Florida. Our thoughts are with Wes’ family.”

January 10, 2020
The Online Photographer: Milton Rogovin 1909-2011

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Originally an optometrist, Milton was persecuted during the un-American McCarthyite inquisitions of the 1950s. With his practice in rapid decline as a consequence, he turned to photography to express his values, and for sixty years photographed the poor and the working class with a clear eye

January 10, 2020
Brian Lanker, 64, Loses Brief Battle With Cancer

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Brian Lanker, a newspaper and Life magazine, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated photographer whose book “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America” was one of the most successful photography books ever, has died at his home in Eugene after battling pancreatic cancer for less than two weeks. He was 64.

January 10, 2020

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