Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/max-pinckerss-spectacular-world-cup
Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.
These are the images that defined a remarkable time across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/arts/best-arts-photos-2022.html
Together, these photographs capture a narrative about a year in the arts, building a collection of evolving scenes and inner worlds. We asked some of the photographers to discuss the intentions behind these frames and the stories they saw within them. Now that the year is coming to a close, take one more look back at how we saw culture this year. — JOLIE RUBEN, senior photo editor
This week Lenscratch will turn its sights upon the artistic output of German photographers who present a broad array of the personal, social, historical, and political influences of life in contemporary Germany. Germany’s contributions to the photographic realm are extensive from the earliest days of the genre. From August Sander’s People of the 20th Century,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/germany-week-stephan-zirwes/
Entering the photographic realm of Stephan Zirwes is an adventure in looking at the world from an entirely unique perspective. Your perception of swimming pools, airplanes, glaciers, oceans and many other subjects will be altered by his unusual point of view…directly overhead from various heights
“Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin “Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cro…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/12/mezen-by-skys-edge-by-emil-gataullin/
“Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cross, Kuloy village, Arkhangelsk region, Russia.
When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/12/in-an-abandoned-soviet-era-town-the-scars-of-war-remain/
When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had been abandoned, there were, in fact, people living here–-all of them displaced by a war that changed everything more than 30 years ago. They opened their doors to him.
Simply wonderful work.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/02/irish-street-photographer-reveals-incredible-lifes-work/
The Light of Day by Tony O’Shea depicts Ireland’s working classes in gritty urban environments. O’Shea’s images have both religious and political themes.
A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/horatiu-sava-dacia-chauffeur
A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them.
These images capture a joy, pride and love of a country that speak to the true American spirit.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/robin-givhan-american-flag-race-photography/
In Andre Wagner’s single image of a Black child gripping a small, wrinkled American flag in one hand while the other rests pensively on her chin, Wagner tells the complicated story of America. That Star-Spangled Banner is crumpled, as if it has been rolled up in a pocket, tucked away, its usefulness uncertain but nonetheless protected. This child, with the decorative beads in her cornrows, is dwarfed by the adults who stand on either side, by the enormous backpack, by the meat counter in the background. Her expression is sober, as if she’s considering weighty matters. A child with the brooding demeanor of an adult. A complicated child. An American child. A Black American.
Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota artist, currently located in St. Paul, MN. Jaida is a photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project.She is a Report for
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/jaida-grey-eagle/
Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota artist, currently located in St. Paul, MN. Jaida is a photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project.She is a Report for America Fellow with the Sahan Journal covering communities of color in the Twin Cities. She is also researching Indigenous photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as an ongoing former Curatorial Fellow. She holds her Bachelors emphasizing in Fine Art Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, communit
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/indigenous-photographers-week-dakota-mace/
Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, community, and identity. In addition, her work pushes the viewer’s understanding of Diné culture through alternative photography techniques, weaving, beadwork, and papermaking.
Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/are-the-women-photographers-of-magnum-getting-close-enough/
Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.
At the 2022 Medium Festival of Photography, I was fortunate to sit across the table from Chris Maliwat, where I learned about his years-long project, Subwaygram. I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/chris-maliwat-subwaygram-2/
At the 2022 Medium Festival of Photography, I was fortunate to sit across the table from Chris Maliwat, where I learned about his years-long project, Subwaygram. I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens through which he recorded his subjects. This year, Chris published this series with Daylight Books. Today, I am happy to share a conversation we had about the work.
“When David was a baby, I sang a special song to him,” Debe Arlook, David’s aunt, tells me. “I still do, and it seems to warm his heart because it…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/10/one-mothers-story-of-raising-a-son-with-a-rare-and-severe-form-of-epilepsy/
“When David was a baby, I sang a special song to him,” Debe Arlook, David’s aunt, tells me. “I still do, and it seems to warm his heart because it makes him smile.” For more than two years now, Arlook has been collaborating with her sister Lori, David’s mom, to tell the story of their family.
In his new book “Infinity Goes Up On Trial”, Alan Chin travels through the historical challenges that the USA faced since 2020.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/alan-chin-travels-through-a-nation-in-turmoil-in-infinity-goes-up-on-trial/
Chin admitted that it comes naturally to him to weave his personal experiences—as a father, as a Chinese-American who grew up in New York City, as a photographer—into his visual exploration of 2020. “You actually can’t separate your own experience, as a participant and as a witness, from your experience as a journalist or photographer,” he said. “Right?”
It’s a month for nostalgia! Currently on the walls at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel is the 50th anniversary of one of the seminal publications in the history of photography: Bill Owens’ Suburbia. Hailed internationally as the ultimate document
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/10/bill-owens/
A limited-edition publication, Bill Owens: The Legacy of Suburbia Photographs 1964-2022 is available with a special edition print included. This book features images from Bill Owens’ entire career from his work in Jamaica with the Peace Corp to his current Digital Renaissance. The book is available in an edition of 100. The book can be bought at gallery in Carmel or ordered through True North Editions.
Even before the recent round of demonstrations, young Iranians were pushing against the regime’s restrictive social norms.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/irans-new-protest-generation
Alaei’s mission to photograph Iran’s Zoomers has been complicated by the growing public fear of cameras. Iran’s security forces use technology—including drones and CCTV—to identity protesters. They track social media, which is why many videos of the protests are deliberately blurred. Convincing people to let Alaei into their lives has been difficult, she told me. But like the women who duck illegally into soccer matches, many have accepted the risks. As a result, she said, “it is not easy to oppress them without any costs to society.”
Encounter : Jed Fielding captures city residents who, even as they face the consequences of numerous crises, enjoy life to the fullest.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/jed-fielding-out-on-the-street/
To portray a changing society through the gaze of a stranger or a forsaken back alley, is not an easy trick to pull off. For Jed Fielding, art, in any case, “is a big lie. But it is a beautiful lie.”
In a slum of Goma, Eastern Congo, a former child soldier teaches boxing to kids, to keep them from the lures of armed groups.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/fighters-not-soldiers/
With “Glendalis: The Life and World of a Young Latina,” photographer Angela Cappetta chronicles the story of a multigenerational family.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/this-family-that-is-not-mine/
To create a sense of stability and continuity, Cappetta took to the streets with her camera whenever she was home, moving intuitively in search of a connection that would keep her grounded. “I was walking around with a Fuji 6×9 because nobody believed it was a real camera. People thought it was a Fisher Price toy and nobody was going to mug me for it,” says Cappetta, who is from New Haven, Connecticut, one of the most racially and economically segregated cities in America.
British photographer Edward Thompson turned his lens on the Texas Hill Country region and documented life on medium format film.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/10/17/british-photographer-captures-george-bushs-texas-hill-country/
Photographer Edward Thompson, known for his documentary photo essays on various social topics, has created a body of work about the Texas Hill Country. Shot entirely on medium format film, he captured the curious and, at times, strange lives of local Texans at the time of George Bush’s political reign.