via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/magnum-picture-of-the-year-2019/
Magnum’s 2019 Pictures of the Year edit has been made by Magnum president Thomas Dworzak. One image taken over the last twelve months by each active Magnum photographer is collected here, providing an incisive visual review of 2019’s global goings-on. Dworzak shared these thoughts on the process of creating the selection:
The street is common ground for the society writ large, perhaps the most free and open space in the world. It offers both a world of anonymity and community, for…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/the-art-of-street-photography-through-the-lens-of-magnum-photos/
For members of Magnum Photos, the street has long been a proving ground: a place they could always step into the flow of action and capture life unfolding before their eyes. In the new book Magnum Streetwise (Thames & Hudson), editor Stephen McLaren brings together some of the best works made by the cooperative over the past 70 years, exploring the continuums of urban life that exists across time and space.
Swedish photographer Simon Johansson spent 17 years photographing the magical moments that make up childhood
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/01/06/dream-like-photos-children-living-borderlands-between-fantasy-reality/
Swedish photographer Simon Johansson’s newest book, “The Young Ones” (journal, 2019), celebrates that time in our lives. The book’s black-and-white photos are themselves wistful, nostalgic depictions of childhood. We see children, well, being children: They do cartwheels, play with their dogs, peer out windows, go to parties and play with their friends. These are most of the things children all around the world do, although these particular photos were mostly made of children living in Europe.
An ambitious ongoing project by photographer Rob Hornstra and writer/filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen puts the spotlight on peripheral European heartlands
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/01/the-europeans/
An ambitious ongoing project by photographer Rob Hornstra and writer/filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen puts the spotlight on peripheral European heartlands
Photographer Michael Magers visited Japan for the first time back in 2012. “For most of it, I fumbled around like everyone else,” he remembers. “Especially in the days before I was able to really use Google Maps.” It wasn’t until he connected with Shinji
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/an-outsiders-take-on-21st-century-japan/
Since first visiting as a tourist, photographer Michael Magers has been enchanted by Japan. His new book collates work from the past eight years – in which he‘s captured a country bursting with ‘endless possibility’.
Michal Chelbin’s photos elicit the timelessness of portraiture but also the timeliness of the political moment in Ukraine.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/prom-pictures-of-ukrainian-teens-on-the-verge-of-an-uncertain-adulthood
The Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin has made images of Ukrainian teen-agers at two different locations during two distinct periods: first, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, in 2008, and then in and around Kyiv, in 2019. Each time, her subjects were on the precipice of adulthood, attending their high-school graduation, an event that includes a prom. Our view is that of an outsider, although Chelbin’s father was born in western Ukraine, and she grew up fascinated by the black-and-white portraits that he had brought with him when he left as a child. In some of Chelbin’s photographs, the teens re-create those old styles: a subject stands, for instance, with a hand resting on the shoulder of a peer sitting nearby. Unlike teens in the U.S., the young men’s dress varies quite a bit, from tuxedos or conventional suits to brightly colored jackets or uniforms. The young women wear ball gowns or more casual short skirts.
Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo documents the experience of migrants looking for a new life.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/01/03/heartbreaking-photos-show-migrants-traveling-through-bosnia-search-better-life/
Their odysseys have also brought them to Bihac, a city in Bosnia’s northwestern borderlands. They have alighted here because it is on the way to where they hope to end up, Croatia. Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo has traveled there to examine the conditions these migrants face.
Tania Franco Klein’s work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, m…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/tania-franco-klein-proceed-to-the-route/
Tania Franco Klein’s work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life. Her latest solo exhibition, Proceed to the Route, is currently on view at Rose Gallery.
National Geographic readers voted a heartbreaking photograph of a northern white rhino by Ami Vitale as the top photograph of the decade.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2020/01/ami-vitale-top-photo-decade.html
National Geographic readers voted a heartbreaking photograph by Ami Vitale as the top photograph of the decade. Vitale’s image shows the moment just before Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros on earth, died. In the photo, Sudan is comforted by Joseph Wachira, a caretaker at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, in Kenya. National Geographic readers voted for the image in an online poll in December 2019.
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura in which the artist explores themes of connection, persp…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-levee-a-photographer-in-the-american-south/
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura in which the artist explores themes of connection, perspective, and place. The landscapes and portraits of The Levee trace Hura’s travel along the Mississippi River from its confluence with Ohio to the far reaches of the delta in Louisiana.
Each year, I teach a year long Personal Project class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography where photographers continue with or create new bodies of work, produce artist’s books or catalogs, hone their articulation and consider their influences. To sa
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/project-xv/
Each year, I teach a year long Personal Project class at the Los Angeles Center of Photography where photographers continue with or create new bodies of work, produce artist’s books or catalogs, hone their articulation and consider their influences. To say that I’m proud of these artists is an understatement–I’m amazed by their dedication to their craft and their journey as photographic artists. It has been a complete pleasure to spend 2019 with them.
Happy New Year! I hope this year brings you all good things, from health and happiness to creativity and continued successes. Thank you for sharing your favorite photograph of 2019! I know that favorite doesn’t necessarily mean best–it can be a favorite
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/the-favorite-photograph-you-took-in-2019-exhibition/
Happy New Year! I hope this year brings you all good things, from health and happiness to creativity and continued successes. Thank you for sharing your favorite photograph of 2019! I know that favorite doesn’t necessarily mean best–it can be a favorite for sentimentality, remembrance of the experience, or just because it moved something inside of you. Enjoy this six part post and start the new year off with photography.
Goran Tomasevic, a photojournalist with Reuters, spent the year 2019 covering unrest and conflict in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/12/2019-seen-through-the-lens-of-goran-tomasevic/604243/
Goran Tomasevic has worked as a photojournalist for Reuters for more than 20 years, covering some of the biggest events and stories around the world. In 2019, Tomasevic was among a team of Reuters photographers awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography category. Throughout the past year, he traveled to locations in Europe, Africa, and South America to photograph the faces and stories of unrest and conflict, from anti-government protests in Lebanon and Chile, to ongoing warfare in Libya, to warring tribes in Kenya’s Ilemi Triangle, and more. Below, in roughly chronological order, is a look at some of the stories brought to us through Goran Tomasevic’s lens in the past year.
“I lost my sense of home,” Franco Klein says of her life lived between Mexico City, California and London. Recently I had the great pleasure of attending an exhibition walk-through with Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein of her solo show, Proceed to the Ro
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/12/tania-franco-klein-proceed-to-the-route/
Recently I had the great pleasure of attending an exhibition walk-through with Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein of her solo show, Proceed to the Route at the Rose Gallery in Santa Monica. Tania is a compelling story teller and provided an engaging narration and perspective of work that takes the viewer through a cinematic journey of internal and external road trips.
Merry Christmas! I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the world as
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/12/jesse-rieser-christmas-in-america-happy-birthday-jesus/
I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the world as we know it. This is the third time I’ve featured Jesse Rieser’s terrific project, Christmas in America: Happy Birthday Jesus, first in 2013, then again in 2016. The good news is that this is an 8 year effort and it just gets more delicious with each year. He completed the project this year with work made in New York. His perspective of examining this holiday/religious/commercial event from the outside, makes us see the folly and the magic of saying Happy Birthday to Christ.
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
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2019/12/2019-year-in-photos-photoshelter-edition-part-i/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
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.
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.”
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.