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Indigenous Photographers Week: Dakota Mace – LENSCRATCH

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.

November 23, 2022

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.

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.

November 21, 2022

Chris Maliwat: Subwaygram – LENSCRATCH

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.

November 18, 2022

One Mother’s Story of Raising a Son with a Rare and Severe Form of Epilepsy – Feature Shoot

“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.

November 3, 2022

Alan Chin: The American Turmoil in “Infinity Goes Up On Trial”

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?”

November 3, 2022

Bill Owens: Suburbia at the Center of Photographic Art – LENSCRATCH

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.

October 31, 2022

Iran’s New Protest Generation | The New Yorker

Iran’s New Protest Generation

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.”

October 27, 2022

Jed Fielding : Out on the Street

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.”

October 24, 2022

Fighters, not Soldiers — Blind Magazine

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/

October 19, 2022

This Family That is Not Mine — Blind Magazine

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.

October 19, 2022

A British Photographer’s View of Texas Hill Country in 2007 | PetaPixel

A British Photographer’s View of Texas Hill Country in 2007

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.

October 17, 2022

Gritty Black and White Photos Taken During the Northern Ireland Conflict | PetaPixel

Gritty Black and White Photos Taken During the Northern Ireland Conflict

The people had grown use to conflict.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/10/06/gritty-black-and-white-photos-taken-during-the-northern-ireland-conflict/

Danish photographer Krass Clement traveled from Scandinavia to capture the Northern Ireland conflict during the darkest time in the country’s history.

October 9, 2022

A Celebration of Light in Black and White – Photographs by Sankardeep Chakraborty | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

Walking up to 20 kilometers on his roaming photo sessions, Sankardeep Chakraborty renders the streets of his adopted home of Japan otherworldly, celebrating light in his high-contrast black and white images

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sankardeep-chakraborty-a-celebration-of-light-in-black-and-white

Light is a strong force in the world of Indian photographer Sankardeep Chakraborty’s black and white photographs. Shafts of sunlight breaking through dark skies, street lamps refracted and intensified through the rain, the moon as it casts its ethereal glow: all of them become material for the artist to transform ordinary moments into scenes of otherworldly awe.

October 9, 2022

Juxtapoz Magazine – Ken Light’s Photographs of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border

Between 1983 and 1987 along the California/Mexico border, Ken Light took his Hasselblad camera and flash and rode along with US Border Patrol agents i…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/ken-light-s-photographs-of-migrants-on-the-us-mexico-border/

In piercing words and in strobe-lit images caught against the dark of night, Midnight La Frontera’s immediacy underscores the struggle and defiance of those who make the perilous hike for days and weeks in search of the American Dream.

October 6, 2022

A Year Under the Taliban – The New York Times

A Year Under the Taliban

A single year of extremist rule has turned life upside down for Afghans, especially women. A photographer who has long called the country home captured the jarring changes.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/asia/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-women.html

Six weeks later, I returned, and for the past year I have worked on documenting life under the Taliban. (For the safety of themselves and their families, most would talk only if I agreed not to fully identify them.)

October 4, 2022

Juxtapoz Magazine – Alessandra Sanguinetti Explores the Relationship of Photography and Death

Since 2014, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin, creating the photographs that would come to…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/alessandra-sanguinetti-explores-the-relationship-of-photography-and-death/

Since 2014, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin, creating the photographs that would come to form the stark and elliptical series Some Say Ice. The same town is the subject of Wisconsin Death Trip, a book of photographs taken by Charles Van Schaick in the late 1800s documenting the bleak hardships of the lives and deaths of its inhabitants. Sanguinetti first came across this book as a child, and the experience is engraved into her memory as her first reckoning with mortality. This encounter eventually led her to explore the strange relationship of photography and death, and ultimately to make her own visits to Black River Falls.

September 28, 2022

Photojournalist Consistently Captures Unique Angles of NYC’s Skyline | PetaPixel

Photojournalist Consistently Captures Unique Angles of NYC’s Skyline

Refreshingly unique photos.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/09/23/photojournalist-consistently-captures-unique-angles-of-nycs-skyline/

Photojournalist Gary Hershorn has a distinctive flair for enchanting luminosity and utilizing unconventional vantage points. This is a persistent challenge when shooting one of New York City’s most popular subjects: its skyline.

September 25, 2022

Large Format Photos Document Black Communities in the 1980s Deep South | PetaPixel

Large Format Photos Document Black Communities in the 1980s Deep South

He toured the Deep South extensively in the 1980s.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/09/23/large-format-photos-document-black-communities-in-the-1980s-deep-south/

Baldwin Lee toured the Deep South throughout the 1980s where he captured Black Americans on a 4×5 large format camera.

September 25, 2022

Juxtapoz Magazine – Baldwin Lee’s Intimate Portrayal of Daily Life in the American South

In 1983, the photographer Baldwin Lee left his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, and set off on a road trip through the American South. He did not know wh…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/baldwin-lee-s-intimate-portrayal-of-daily-life-in-the-american-south/

In 1983, the photographer Baldwin Lee left his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, and set off on a road trip through the American South. He did not know what his subject would be, but during the trip, he found himself drawn to photographing Black Americans at home, at work and at play, in the street and amid nature. Over the next seven years, he made numerous road trips to the South to continue his work. He returned with images so poignant and piercing, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired his photographs.

September 23, 2022

Marilyn Nance’s Euphoric Chronicle of a Legendary African Arts Festival

In 1977, when the photographer traveled to Nigeria for FESTAC, she discovered a thrilling reunion of the African Diaspora.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/marilyn-nances-euphoric-chronicle-of-a-legendary-african-arts-festival/

In 1977, when the photographer Marilyn Nance traveled to Nigeria for FESTAC, she discovered a euphoric reunion of the African Diaspora.

September 22, 2022

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