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THE CENTER AWARDS: PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT: AUSTIN BRYANT – LENSCRATCH

THE CENTER AWARDS: PROJECT LAUNCH GRANT: AUSTIN BRYANT – LENSCRATCH

Congratulations to Austin Bryant for being selected for CENTER’s Project Launch Grant recognizing his project, Where They Still Remain. The Project Launch Grant supports a complete or nearly completed documentary or fine art series. The grant provides financial support and platforms for professional development opportunities for one photographer. The Grant includes a $5,000 cash award,

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-project-launch-grant-austin-bryant/

Where They Still Remain is a project that focuses on the African American and Wampanoag indigenous communities who have coexisted for hundreds of years on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. The work is a memorial to these people, past and present. In it, I attempt to make the unseen seen by shining a light on histories lost due to erasure. The work consists of my original photography (medium + large format film), vernacular/archival images from both communities, and historical texts that I’ve redacted. My connection to the work is direct—I am part of the historical tradition of African American families who have found a safe haven on the island since before Emancipation.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-project-launch-grant-austin-bryant/

May 22, 2024
Visual Diary of a Nomad – The Leica camera Blog

Visual Diary of a Nomad

While travelling, Jonathan Jasberg discovers beauty in unique moments, and eternalises them in his pictures.

May 22, 2024
The View from Palestinian America | The New Yorker

The View from Palestinian America

In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-view-from-palestinian-america

Intimaa’s portrait is followed by a photo of her passport, issued by the Palestinian Authority. Together, these images evoke a longing that we in the diaspora feel for Palestine. Every student who manages to leave Gaza knows that she may not be able to go back. “Loss brought her to this country,” Eid told me, of Intimaa. “She continues to experience tremendous loss.” Since October, Intimaa’s other grandmother and two of her brothers have been killed, along with their wives and children. In the background of an audio message from one of her sisters who is still in Gaza, she could hear people screaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-view-from-palestinian-america

May 14, 2024
The Beautiful – Photographs by Kamal X | Text by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture

The Beautiful – Photographs by Kamal X | Text by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture

Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend the historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/kamal-x-the-beautiful

Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend the historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/kamal-x-the-beautiful

May 13, 2024
Mountains and Rivers – Photographs by Yan Sun | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

Mountains and Rivers – Photographs by Yan Sun | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

In the liminal space between mountains and rivers, Yan Sun creates images suffused with Chinese history, renewing the subjects of traditional painting with his contemporary photographic observation

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yan-sun-mountains-and-rivers

In the liminal space between mountains and rivers, Yan Sun creates images suffused with Chinese history, renewing the subjects of traditional painting with his contemporary photographic observation.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yan-sun-mountains-and-rivers

May 13, 2024
The Other California 1975 – The Leica camera Blog

The Other California 1975

Peter Turnley travelled throughout California nearly 50 years ago, capturing impressive images of life beyond the surf and sunshine scene.

May 13, 2024
The MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH

The MOTHER Exhibition – LENSCRATCH

We are re-running last year’s MOTHER exhibition, just for fun! What a complete pleasure to spend time with your hundreds of submissions and see all the considerations of MOTHER. Thank you for joining in this 5 part exhibition, so keep scrolling. For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day, and for those who don’t, thank you

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-2023-mother-exhibition-part-3/

What a complete pleasure to spend time with your hundreds of submissions and see all the considerations of MOTHER. Thank you for joining in this 5 part exhibition, so keep scrolling. For those who celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day, and for those who don’t, thank you for celebrating Mother nature and mothering in the animal world. No matter, enjoy the exhibition!

http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-2023-mother-exhibition-part-3/

May 12, 2024
Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project – LENSCRATCH

Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project – LENSCRATCH

Bedford Gallery has recently opened its latest exhibition, Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project, a photo-docuseries which highlights and celebrates inspiring stories of present-day NativeAmerican individuals and communities by providing a platform for them to tell their stories of the past, present, and future in their own voices and words

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/re-discovering-native-america-stories-in-motion-with-the-red-road-project/

Since founding the Red Road Project in 2013, multicultural friend-and-artist duo Danielle SeeWalker (Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota) and Carlotta Cardana, who was born and raised in Northern Italy, have been committed to documenting the stories and teachings of contemporary Native people and communities who are enacting positive change and celebrating their cultural heritage despite the long, complicated historical trauma faced by Indigenous communities in the United

http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/re-discovering-native-america-stories-in-motion-with-the-red-road-project/

May 7, 2024
Half a Century of American Culture Through the Lens of James Hamilton

Half a Century of American Culture Through the Lens of One Photographer

James Hamilton’s career conveniently mirrors the changing fortunes of journalism as an industry.

via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/910684/half-a-century-of-american-culture-through-the-lens-of-photographer-james-hamilton/

James Hamilton’s career conveniently mirrors the changing fortunes of journalism as an industry.

https://hyperallergic.com/910684/half-a-century-of-american-culture-through-the-lens-of-photographer-james-hamilton/

May 7, 2024
After the End of History | British Working Class Photography 1998–2024

After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1998–2024

Debuting its tour at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1998–2024has been curated by writer and photographer Johny Pitts, with the exhibition’s title wittily alluding to Francis Fukuyama’s essay titled The End of History, citing his unfulfilled anticipation of global stability. As Lillian Wilkie examines, Pitts navigates the sociocultural turn of neoliberalism and creates a space for multiple, even conflicting truths of working-class life, challenging the dominance of singular historical narratives and entrenched social hierarchies.

via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/after-the-end-of-history/

Debuting its tour at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1998–2024, has been curated by writer and photographer Johny Pitts, with the exhibition’s title wittily alluding to Francis Fukuyama’s essay titled The End of History, citing an unfulfilled anticipation of global stability. As Lillian Wilkie examines, Pitts navigates the sociocultural turn of neoliberalism and creates a space for multiple, even conflicting truths of working-class life, challenging the dominance of singular historical narratives and entrenched social hierarchies.

https://www.1000wordsmag.com/after-the-end-of-history/

May 1, 2024
Le Petit Souffle – The Leica camera Blog

Le Petit Souffle

Following intense preparations, the Ciro Battiloro travelled to Normandy in 2022 and 2023. Images of the harsh life of fishermen.

April 30, 2024
When Babies Rule the Dinner Table | The New Yorker

When Babies Rule the Dinner Table

In the past two decades, American parents have started to ditch the purées and give babies more choice—and more power—at mealtime.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-babies-rule-the-dinner-table

In the past two decades, American parents have started to ditch the purées and give babies more choice—and more power—at mealtime.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-babies-rule-the-dinner-table

April 22, 2024
Through the lens of Tim Hetherington, photojournalist killed in Libya

Through the lens of Tim Hetherington, photojournalist killed in Libya

The Imperial War Museum in London is opening an exhibition dedicated to the work of the British photographer, who died in 2011 aged 40 while covering the Libyan civil war

Link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/through-the-lens-of-tim-hetherington-photojournalist-killed-in-libya-krflb89dn

The Imperial War Museum in London is opening an exhibition dedicated to the work of the British photographer, who died in 2011 aged 40 while covering the Libyan civil war

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/through-the-lens-of-tim-hetherington-photojournalist-killed-in-libya-krflb89dn

April 21, 2024
Picturing Britain’s Working Class after the “End of History”

Picturing Britain’s Working Class after the “End of History”

An exhibition in England asks how a generation of blue-collar British photographers have responded to the rising tide of neoliberalism.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/picturing-britains-working-class-after-the-end-of-history/

An exhibition in England asks how a generation of blue-collar British photographers have responded to the rising tide of neoliberalism.

https://aperture.org/editorial/picturing-britains-working-class-after-the-end-of-history/

April 20, 2024
In Justine Kurland’s Photographs, a Mother and Son Hit the Road | The New Yorker

In Justine Kurland’s Photographs, a Mother and Son Hit the Road

Some of the portraits in “This Train” have an Edenic quality to them, as if Kurland is asking: What if my kid and I were the only two people in the world?

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/in-justine-kurlands-photographs-a-mother-and-son-hit-the-road

Some of the portraits in “This Train” have an Edenic quality to them, as if Kurland is asking: What if my kid and I were the only two people in the world?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/in-justine-kurlands-photographs-a-mother-and-son-hit-the-road

April 20, 2024
Austin Cullen: A Natural History (Built to be Seen) – LENSCRATCH

Austin Cullen: A Natural History (Built to be Seen) – LENSCRATCH

This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our last call-for-entries–way back in late-2022 (a new call will be going out sometime in the near future, so stay tuned for details…). Today we are viewing and hearing more about A Natural History (Built to be Seen) by Austin Cullen. Austin

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/austin-cullen-a-natural-history-built-to-be-seen/

The motivation for my project stems from a childhood interest in museums, and an earlier body of work. When I was younger I regularly visited the Houston Museum of Natural History. The museum showed me a version of nature that was completely different from the city I grew up in. Instead of the urban bayou that I was used to, the museum depicted safaris, jungles, deep sea life, and so much more. In the museum, nature did not feel like something we as humans lived in, but instead a distant spectacle. It taught me about the larger world around me, and it left me awestruck by the far-off places and creatures the museum contained

http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/austin-cullen-a-natural-history-built-to-be-seen/

April 17, 2024
Seth Adam Cook: As Big As The Sky – LENSCRATCH

Seth Adam Cook: As Big As The Sky – LENSCRATCH

This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our last call-for-entries–way back in late-2022 (a new call will be going out sometime in the near future, so stay tuned for details…). Today we are viewing and hearing more about As Big As The Sky by Seth Adam Cook. Seth Cook

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/seth-adam-cook-as-big-as-the-sky/

When my brother and I were young, our mother would say she loved us “bunches and bunches, as big as the sky.” This phrase stayed with me throughout my life, but it wasn’t until she passed away that I truly understood its significance. Just before her surgery, my mother gave me a camera that she had carried with her since she was young. Despite our closeness, I never knew about this part of her life. With her camera in hand, I began navigating a stream of consciousness around the places, people, and emotions I found myself surrounded by. Her camera became a tool for me to navigate my grief and reflect on the spiritual absence in my family following her death. Since its origins, this series has become a personal and emotional exploration of loss, memory and identity, and is my way of holding onto her memory and the shared passion we had for photography.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/seth-adam-cook-as-big-as-the-sky/

April 16, 2024
Sarah Malakoff: Personal History – LENSCRATCH

Sarah Malakoff: Personal History – LENSCRATCH

This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our last call-for-entries–way back in late-2022 (a new call will be going out sometime in the near future, so stay tuned for details…). Today we are viewing and hearing more about Personal History by Sarah Malakoff. Sarah Malakoff creates large-scale color photographs

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/sarah-malakoff-personal-history/

I have been photographing interior spaces for a very long time and find that different themes and threads interest me as I work. My first book, Second Nature, looked at the home as both a refuge from and a reinvention of the outside, natural world. While shooting, other objects started catching my attention. I noticed portraits displayed in the home and was fascinated by who they represent, what the connection might be to the occupant, and the relationship to other items and architecture. A good number of the portraits, much more than I would have thought, were of figures from history- Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Yuri Gagarin. With this in mind, I started looking for other possessions that reference historical events and locations. I found these things and their placement within the home variously humorous, touching, and sometimes disturbing.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/04/sarah-malakoff-personal-history/

April 10, 2024
Preview: The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024 – LensCulture’s favorite picks from this year’s international photography fair | LensCulture

Preview: The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024 – LensCulture’s favorite picks from this year’s international photography fair | LensCulture

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the great images that will be shown at The Photography Show in New York, April 25-28

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aipad-photography-show-preview-the-photography-show-by-aipad-2024

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the great images that will be shown at The Photography Show in New York, April 25-28.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aipad-photography-show-preview-the-photography-show-by-aipad-2024

April 10, 2024
Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere | The New Yorker

Josef Koudelka Could Locate Beauty Anywhere

His latest show is titled “Industry,” a word that defines not just the subject matter but the artist.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/josef-koudelka-could-locate-beauty-anywhere

“I’m quite different from other people,” the legendary eighty-six-year-old Czech photographer Josef Koudelka was saying the other day at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea, where his first solo American show in nearly a decade was about to open. “No kidding,” Melissa Harris responded, and Koudelka began laughing and nodding in a way that said, You ought to know. She was, after all, his biographer.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/josef-koudelka-could-locate-beauty-anywhere

April 7, 2024