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2019: Year in Photos, PhotoShelter Edition (Part I) – PhotoShelter Blog

2019: Year in Photos, PhotoShelter Edition (Part I) – PhotoShelter Blog

We all know that photography is so much more than light falling onto a photosensitive surface. It is a documentation tool used to visually record our rapidly changing climate. It has the ability to introduce anyone to world leaders and grants us insider a

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To celebrate the year coming to a close, we’re looking back at the work of some incredible photographers and PhotoShelter members. We asked what projects they were most proud of in 2019 and what they’re looking forward to accomplishing in 2020. And boy did they deliver.

December 24, 2019
A Photojournalist Teaches Us How to Make the World Better for Animals – Feature Shoot

A Photojournalist Teaches Us How to Make the World Better for Animals – Feature Shoot

Over nearly two decades, Jo-Anne McArthur has documented the lives (and deaths) of unseen animals, including those used for food, fashion, entertainment, medical research, religious sacrifice, and more. She’s traveled to more than sixty countries, investi

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/12/a-photojournalist-teaches-us-how-to-make-the-world-better-for-animals/

“When I started photographing animals in the Anthropocene, editors still turned their backs on the subject matter,” Jo-Anne McArthur tells us. “It was near impossible to get these important stories published.”

December 23, 2019
Darkly poetic photos show what life is like in the Brazilian Amazon – The Washington Post

Perspective | Darkly poetic photos show what life is like in the Brazilian Amazon

From illegal logging to indigenous activists fighting to protect their forests, Italian photographer Tommaso Protti’s work is the winner of the 10th Carmignac Photojournalism Award.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/12/23/darkly-poetic-photos-show-what-life-is-like-brazilian-amazon/

The Italian photojournalist Tommaso Protti’s work on the Brazilian Amazon is the winner of the 10th Carmignac Photojournalism Award. This award was created in 2009 by Édouard Carmignac to support photographers and their work in the field. He did this at a time when media and photojournalism were facing a crisis in being able to fund work. The crisis has not abated, and the Carmignac Photojournalism Award annually funds the production of investigative photo reportage on human rights violations and geostrategic issues.

December 23, 2019
Paris Photo 2019 | LENSCRATCH

Paris Photo 2019

What’s not to love about Paris? The amazing food, the fantastic wine, the tree lined streets, some of the best flea markets in the world… but to us, photographers, Paris is very special in November, because we are gifted with the most brilliant photo fa

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/12/paris-photo2019/

What’s not to love about Paris? The amazing food, the fantastic wine, the tree lined streets, some of the best flea markets in the world… but to us, photographers, Paris is very special in November, because we are gifted with the most brilliant photo fair, Paris Photo.

December 23, 2019
Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood | The New Yorker

Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood

From 1961 to 1967, Hopper transformed from a stalled-out actor to an omnipresent chronicler of a country in transition.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dennis-hoppers-quiet-vision-of-nineteen-sixties-hollywood

Dennis Hopper’s photography archive—the Hopper Art Trust—resides in an office on the top floor of a squat building on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. Its neighbors are insurance and mortgage offices, and for the most part it shares their appearance: filing cabinets here, a desk there, a wall of bookshelves with plastic binders. The binders are filled with contact sheets containing upward of eighteen thousand images that Hopper created with his Nikon F camera between 1961 and 1967, when he was just another actor with a stalled-out career, in the years leading up to “Easy Rider,” which he starred in and directed. That movie, released in 1969, would make him something more than a Hollywood star; for a time, he was a pop-culture deity. And, for whatever reason, it also turned him into a former photographer. With a few exceptions (including an ill-advised Hustler shoot, in the eighties), Hopper rarely picked up a camera again for the rest of his life.

December 22, 2019
55 Frames with 55 Cameras of One Man at One Moment – By Mark van der Wal – 35mmc

55 Frames with 55 Cameras of One Man at One Moment – By Mark van der Wal – 35mmc

The idea that we all see the world differently; through filtered viewpoints, our own unique perspectives and individual angles was a concept I was keen to portray photographically. I had pictured a person in the middle of many different cameras who would

via 35mmc: https://www.35mmc.com/20/12/2019/55-frames-with-55-cameras-of-one-man-at-one-moment-by-mark-van-der-wal/

The idea that we all see the world differently; through filtered viewpoints, our own unique perspectives and individual angles was a concept I was keen to portray photographically. I had pictured a person in the middle of many different cameras who would then be photographed from multiple positions and each camera with its specific placement, lens, format, sensor or film would in turn reveal its signature image of the same person.

December 20, 2019
Luo Yang is Capturing What It’s Like to Be a Young Person in China | AnOther

Luo Yang is Capturing What It’s Like to Be a Young Person in China

via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12168/luo-yang-new-generation-youth-girls-photography-china-exhibition

A follow-up to her 2018 series GIRLS, Luo Yang’s latest work, New Generation, is a document of the young people she encounters in her home country of China

December 20, 2019
The Decade in Pictures – The New York Times

The Decade in Pictures

The New York Times pored over 10 years of images, of moments both fresh and faded, to tell the story of the past decade.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/world/decade-in-pictures.html

If you’re a 500px member who hasn’t logged in to the photo sharing and selling service for a while, you may be asked to agree to an updated Terms of Service document upon logging in. The latest agreement is causing an uproar (and a new wave of account deletions) among many photographers, but it doesn’t appear that anything has changed from a legal or rights standpoint.

December 19, 2019
Gary Beeber: Passages | LENSCRATCH

Gary Beeber: Passages

“I have become obsessed with the passage of time, what things were and what they are now. I often think about my own mortality.” Photographer Gary Beeber has knack for finding humor and pathos in the every day, especially in those places that have fallen

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/12/gary-beeber-passages/

Photographer Gary Beeber has knack for finding humor and pathos in the every day, especially in those places that have fallen into decline. He has an innate curiosity and the photographs in his series, Passages, reveal a sense of wonder and amusement about the deteriorating detritus of architecture and objects. He describes the beginnings of how he sees, “Influential in shaping how I see was the drawing class taught by Jack Potter, Drawing and Thinking, at SVA (New York City). He demanded we students see beyond the obvious and to be active interpreters of what we see. This dictate has been a major influence in my pursuit as a photographer. I engage with my world, led by my curiosity.”

December 19, 2019
Photos of the Decade: 2010–19 – The Atlantic

Photos of the Decade: 2010–19

The past 10 years, seen in 55 powerful images

via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/12/photos-decade-2010-2019/603817/

The past 10 years have been eventful ones, beginning with Iceland’s erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, through the violent rise of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the refugee crisis in Europe, the U.S. presidential election of 2016, the first close-up images of Pluto, the #MeToo movement, an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and so much more. Warning: Some of the photos may contain graphic or objectionable content.

December 19, 2019
Proof That Bad Weather Makes for Good Photography – Feature Shoot

Proof That Bad Weather Makes for Good Photography – Feature Shoot

While most sane people would run for cover at the sight of heavy rain or snow, that’s the precise moment when French photographer Christophe Jacrot pulls out his camera and gets…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/12/proof-that-bad-weather-makes-for-good-photography/

While most sane people would run for cover at the sight of heavy rain or snow, that’s the precise moment when French photographer Christophe Jacrot pulls out his camera and gets to work.

December 18, 2019
Photos of New York City by photographer Jeff Mermelstein – The Washington Post

Perspective | These photos are ‘slipping beneath the skin, slicing the facade, close to the bone, too close for comfort’

Photographer Jeff Mermelstein’s new book “Hardened” is a vivid collection of street scenes from New York City.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/12/16/these-photos-are-slipping-beneath-skin-slicing-faccade-close-bone-too-close-comfort/

Jeff Mermelstein is one of the most highly regarded American photographers working today. I’ve previously written about his work on Brooklyn’s Barclays Center here. In that post, I noted that Mermelstein is not only highly regarded, but also prolific. In fact, he’s so prolific I’ve got a new book to talk about: “Hardened” (Morel, 2019).

December 16, 2019
The Best New Yorker Photography of 2019 | The New Yorker

The Best New Yorker Photography of 2019

From ice stupas to Iggy Pop, a selection of the best photos commissioned by the magazine this year.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2019-in-review/the-best-new-yorker-photography-of-2019

This portfolio was one of many striking photo commissions published in the magazine this year. In July, the photojournalist Adam Ferguson spent more than two weeks in Afghanistan with the contributing writer Luke Mogelson, meeting former isis commanders and reporting on life in the country after eighteen years of war. In March, the photographer Vasantha Yogananthan travelled to the remote mountainous territory of Ladakh, in northern India, to investigate an idiosyncratic solution to the erratic supply of water in the high-desert region: the ice stupa. Built at nearly twelve thousand feet, these massive ice sculptures melt in the spring, providing water to farmers in the area.

December 15, 2019
A Russian Photography Star Is Born — 20 Years After Her Death

A Russian Photography Star Is Born — 20 Years After Her Death

After RFE/RL broke the story of a secret hoard of photographs discovered in a St. Petersburg attic in 2017, the photographs of Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) have become an international sensation.

via RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: https://www.rferl.org/a/a-russian-photography-star-is-born-20-years-after-her-death/30307414.html

After RFE/RL broke the story of a secret hoard of photographs discovered in a St. Petersburg attic in 2017, the photographs of Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) have become an international sensation.

December 14, 2019
Documenting life on the fringes in Thatcher’s Britain

Documenting life on the fringes in Thatcher’s Britain

In the ’80s, Richard Davis moved to Hulme – a neglected corner of Manchester – where he quickly fell in with a community of artists, punks and travellers.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/documenting-life-on-the-fringes-in-thatchers-britain/

In the ’80s, photographer Richard Davis moved to Hulme – a neglected corner of Manchester – where he quickly fell in with a community of artists, punks and travellers.

December 14, 2019
A Powerful Portrait of America as Seen From the Deep South – Feature Shoot

A Powerful Portrait of America as Seen From the Deep South – Feature Shoot

Yolanda Walker at The Purple Bowl, Pink Bottom Alvin G. Stone at His Store, Pine Apple Gene’s Barbershop, Greensboro The story of America is rooted in the South, in the…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/12/a-powerful-portrait-of-america-as-seen-from-the-deep-south/

“Alabama, the place in these pages, my home, us not exotic,” writes Imani Perri in the preface to Andrew Moore’s new monograph Blue Alabama (Damiani). “Sometimes Alabama is a punchline, or a word used to provoke horror. I have seen pages of words and pictures filled with my birth state, an abundant canvas for the American imagination, many times—the work of artists and poets, writers and intellectuals. This prolificity is at least in part because Alabama is the imagined grounds for our national shame, a heady mix of poverty and violence: guns, lynching, beatings, and, most of all, racism. Slavery! Alabama might be the true heartland of America after all.”

December 12, 2019
Maria Isabel LeBlanc: De La Luz | LENSCRATCH

Maria Isabel LeBlanc: De La Luz

A few miles inland from the Northern California coast is fertile ground for harvest. Driving through the towns of Gilroy, Salinas, and Watsonville, the scent of garlic and artichokes mingle with earth, ripe with potential. Photographer Maria Isabel LeBlan

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A few miles inland from the Northern California coast is fertile ground for harvest. Driving through the towns of Gilroy, Salinas, and Watsonville, the scent of garlic and artichokes mingle with earth, ripe with potential. Photographer Maria Isabel LeBlanc has driven these roads on a daily basis, appreciating the beauty of the land. Her series, De La Luz, examines her own evolution of seeing: first the land as it speeds past the car window, then the recognition of the annual agricultural cycles that present ever changing vistas, and finally the dark shapes of the unseen population of migrant workers that make it all possible. In the end, the series is a love letter, shot in large format and created as pristine silver gelatin prints, of the miraculous bounty of the earth and the recognition of those who toil in that abundance.

December 12, 2019
Juxtapoz Magazine – Childhood and Memory in Simon Johansson’s “The Young Ones”

Juxtapoz Magazine – Childhood and Memory in Simon Johansson’s “The Young Ones”

“My father wakes me at three o’clock in the morning as agreed,” writes Simon Johansson. “I’m not sure what’s most exciting, to be up watching TV in th…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/childhood-and-memory-in-simon-johansson-s-the-young-ones/

“My father wakes me at three o’clock in the morning as agreed,” writes Simon Johansson. “I’m not sure what’s most exciting, to be up watching TV in the middle of the night, or that man is landing on the moon. No matter which, the grainy black-and-white television image of Neil Armstrong in a space suit floating down the ladder has stuck on my retina. While man takes the giant leap, 380 439 kilometres from our living room, I take a small step to expand my very own universe.”

December 12, 2019
Santu Mofokeng’s Pensive Visions of Land and Ritual

Santu Mofokeng’s Pensive Visions of Land and Ritual

In a new series of photobooks, the revered photographer conjures the mysteries of faith in South Africa.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/santu-mofokengs-sean-otoole/

In a new series of photobooks, the revered photographer conjures the mysteries of faith in South Africa.

December 11, 2019
The Year in Pictures 2019 – The New York Times

The Year in Pictures 2019

Sifting through images of conflict, triumph and catastrophe from around the world, our editors chose photos to represent the year.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/world/year-in-pictures.html

5.6 million. That’s roughly the number of images photo editors of The New York Times sift through each year to find the perfect photographs to represent the news for our readers. This collection of images is a testament to a mere fraction of the conflicts and triumphs, catastrophes and achievements and simple but poignant moments of everyday life in the past 365 days.

December 11, 2019