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Daniel Kovalovszky – An Infernal Play « burn magazine

Daniel Kovalovszky – An Infernal Play

Daniel Kovalovszky An Infernal Play [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] In 1945 Mátyás Rákosi, the leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, following the Soviet example, introduced a new Stalinist dictatorship i…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/11/daniel-kovalovszky-an-infernal-play/

In 1945 Mátyás Rákosi, the leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, following the Soviet example, introduced a new Stalinist dictatorship in which human rights were severely violated. As a result of show trials, several hundred thousands of political convicts were sent to forced labor camps, were imprisoned and hundreds were executed based on fictional charges. In most cases the charges consisted in supplying data to western powers and secretly organizing a revolt against the people’s power. Having found the memoirs of the political prisoner a very dreadful and unknown world opened up for me. I decided to start a visual collection to shed light on a segment of what was happening during these obscure years that is unknown to many but still significant: the world of prisons in Hungary between 1945 and 1963.

November 25, 2019
‘Roots from Ashes’ by Hannah Reyes Morales – Witness

‘Roots from Ashes’ by Hannah Reyes Morales

How the ‘Malaya Lolas’ of Pampanga, Philippines, have rebuilt after the trauma suffered at the hands of the Japanese during WWII

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/roots-to-ashes-by-hannah-reyes-morales-e361020a793f

How the ‘Malaya Lolas’ of Pampanga, Philippines, have rebuilt after the trauma suffered at the hands of the Japanese during WWII

November 25, 2019
Catherine Panebianco: No Memory Is Ever Alone | LENSCRATCH

Catherine Panebianco: No Memory Is Ever Alone

This week we celebrate the genre of Family in preparation for the 2019 Lenscratch Family Exhibition that runs on Thanksgiving. We start with a wonderful series about family legacy and memory by Catherine Panebianco. Catherine’s series, No Memory Is Ever

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/11/catherine-panebianco-no-memory-is-ever-alone/

This week we celebrate the genre of Family in preparation for the 2019 Lenscratch Family Exhibition that runs on Thanksgiving. We start with a wonderful series about family legacy and memory by Catherine Panebianco. Catherine’s series, No Memory Is Ever Alone, recently garnered Critical Mass’ Top 50, plus a boatload of other awards. For her project, she considers the two worlds of the past and present, creatively merging them into one. The journal Psychological Science suggests that taking a photograph of something may help us to remember the visual aspects of the moment better, even if we never even look at the image ever again, but the good news is that Catherine is looking at images again with a particular appreciation of worlds and people she knows well…and she brings us along for the ride.

November 25, 2019
Jesse Rieser photographs the changing landscape of American retail – The Washington Post

Perspective | Photographing the retail apocalypse

Photographer Jesse Rieser documents the changing landscape of American retail.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/11/22/photographing-retail-apocalypse/

Jesse Rieser believes he grew up in peak mall culture. As a child in Springfield, Mo., in the 1990s, he remembers back-to-school shopping with his mom at Macy’s, discovering music at Best Buy, and avoiding his brother’s Nerf gun at Toys R Us.

November 22, 2019
The 12th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako, African Biennial of Photography

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The 12th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako, African Biennial of Photography

The 12th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako, African Biennial of Photography, will be held in Mali from November 30th. Astrid Sokona Lepoultier, who has been part of L’Œil de la Photographie’s team for over a year, is one of the co-curators and unveils in a few words the backstage of this historic event which will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year.

November 22, 2019
Henri Cartier-Bresson : China 1948-1949 I 1958

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Henri Cartier-Bresson : China 1948-1949 I 1958

On November 25, 1948, Henri Cartier-Bresson receives an assignment from Life magazine to report on the “last days of Beijing” before the arrival of the Maoists troops. He went there for two weeks, and remained ten months, mainly around Shanghai, attending the fall of the town of Nanjing held by the Kuomintang, then forced to stay in Shanghai under communist control for 4 months, and leaving China a few days before the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China, October 1, 1949.

November 22, 2019
Intimate shots of the London Underground in the ’70s

Intimate shots of the London Underground in the ’70s

Between 1970 – 1980, photographer Mike Goldwater wandered the ‘labyrinthine’ system under the city, documenting people as they travelled.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/london-underground-mike-goldwater-photography/

Between 1970 – 1980, photographer Mike Goldwater wandered the ‘labyrinthine’ system under the city, documenting people as they travelled from place to place.

November 22, 2019
Mitch Epstein on capturing the real America for fifty years

Mitch Epstein on capturing the real America for 50 years

For half a century, photographer Mitch Epstein has been documenting the complexities and contradictions of modern America.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/mitch-epstein-on-capturing-the-real-america-for-fifty-years/

Since the age of 16, photographer Mitch Epstein has been documenting the complexities and contradictions of the United States.

November 21, 2019
The Strange and Hidden Worlds of Mexico City

The Strange and Hidden Worlds of Mexico City

Because of luck, serendipity, or absurd connection, Miguel Calderón’s photographs unlock the power of things in daily life.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/miguel-calderon-mexico-city/

Because of luck, serendipity, or absurd connection, Miguel Calderón’s photographs unlock the power of things in daily life. (Visita gatopardo.com para leer este artículo en español.)

November 21, 2019
Shell-fisherwomen in Galicia – The Leica camera Blog

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Shell-fisherwomen in Galicia – The Leica camera Blog

Alvaro Ybarra photographs with the new Leica SL2 amid the breaking waves of the Atlantic. A practical test under extreme condition

November 20, 2019
Nanna Heitmann documents isolation along the banks of the Yenisei river – British Journal of Photography

Nanna Heitmann documents isolation along the banks of the Yenisei river

The 25-year-old Magnum nominee and winner of this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship documented the individuals and communities who inhabit one of Russia’s coldest regions

via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/11/nanna-heitmann/

The 25-year-old Magnum nominee and winner of this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship documented the individuals and communities who inhabit one of Russia’s coldest regions

November 20, 2019
Ingmar Björn Nolting – Somaliland « burn magazine

Ingmar Björn Nolting – Somaliland

Ingmar Björn Nolting Somaliland [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2019 FINALIST ] The Horn of Africa is regarded as one of the continent’s most war-torn regions. Somalia in particular crashed in…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/11/ingmar-bjorn-nolting-somaliland/

The Horn of Africa is regarded as one of the continent’s most war-torn regions. Somalia in particular crashed into an ever deeper chaos of civil war and terror after the disempowerment of the Somali dictator Siad Barre in 1991. There is still no end in sight. Despite all resistance, however, an island of peaceful coexistence emerged in the north of the country. Somaliland. The borders of Somaliland go back to the area of the former British protectorate, which united with Italian-Somaliland to Somalia in 1960. Under the dictatorship of Barre, who seized power through a putsch in 1969, the inhabitants of the north felt increasingly deprived. The resulting fights of the guerilla group “Somaliland National Movement” against the Barre regime culminated in the overthrow of the Barre regime, the adoption of a declaration of independence and the founding of the Republic of Somaliland on 18 May 1991.

November 18, 2019
Portrait of Humanity: My Americans – British Journal of Photography

Portrait of Humanity: My Americans

“In Chinese, the name for the United States of America translates to mean ‘the beautiful country’,” explains An Rong Xu, who has been documenting Chinese Americans for the last seven years, as part of his ongoing series My Americans. “Chinese people have

via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/11/portrait-of-humanity-my-americans/

An Rong Xu has been documenting America’s Chinese population for almost seven years

November 18, 2019
‘I’ve never been to Russia’ by Nikita Teryoshin – Witness

‘I’ve never been to Russia’ by Nikita Teryoshin

A Russian native looks at how the conditioning of the masses rolls on and what role individuals play in governmental propaganda

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/ive-never-been-to-russia-by-nikita-teryoshin-4feb2447416f

A Russian native looks at how the conditioning of the masses rolls on and what role individuals play in governmental propaganda

November 15, 2019
Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Vision of a Lost New York | The New Yorker

Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Vision of a Lost New York

The street photographer’s new book of recently discovered pictures from the seventies and eighties, “Lost and Found,” shows the vibrance and squalor of the city.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/bruce-gilden-gritty-vision-of-a-lost-new-york

Street photography has always been a predatory enterprise. Traditionally, the intrepid photographer sets out on the streets as if on safari, picking off prey with a camera unobtrusive enough to not raise the hackles of the local wildlife. (The 35-mm. Leica, introduced, in 1925, at the Leipzig Spring Fair, practically produced the genre, due to its then-novel portability, low profile, and whisper-quiet shutter.) Bruce Gilden, however, has made a name for himself by getting in people’s faces. When he stalks the streets, it is often with a blinding flash attached to his camera, which he’ll pop off at an arm’s length from his subjects, petrifying them in the glare. To extend the safari metaphor: this is akin to dismounting from your jeep and gambolling over to a lion so you can play a game of amateur animal tamer. Remarkably, he did this in New York in the nineteen-eighties. Gilden certainly had some gall.

November 11, 2019
Turjoy Chowdhury – Genocide ’71- A Memory Map « burn magazine

Turjoy Chowdhury – Genocide ’71- A Memory Map

Turjoy Chowdhury Genocide ’71- A Memory Map [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] Though still unrecognised internationally as genocide, many researchers have studied and different studies have mentioned dif…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2019/11/turjoy-chowdhury-genocide-71-a-memory-map/

Though still unrecognised internationally as genocide, many researchers have studied and different studies have mentioned different numbers of people killed in 1971 by the Pakistani Military with their collaborators. The government of Bangladesh puts the number at 3 million. 200,000 to 400,000 women were raped. It’s the price Bangladesh had to pay for its independence. The massacre and the subsequent war that ended with the birth of an independent Bangladesh, started with ‘Operation Search Light’ on 25th March, continued for 9 months. An estimated 7000 people died only on the first night. 10 million people fled and took refuge in India. Hindus, students, Awami League sympathisers, intellectuals and influential leaders were targeted and killed. Countless people were inhumanly tortured to extract information about freedom fighters. Hindu settlements were destroyed. The Pakistani Army and their supporters systematically abducted, killed and dumped bodies in different killing sites.

November 11, 2019
Juxtapoz Magazine – As it Was Give(n) to Me: Stacy Kranitz Explores the American Appalachia

Juxtapoz Magazine – As it Was Give(n) to Me: Stacy Kranitz Explores the American Appalachia

Back in June 2016, we featured the works of photography Stacy Kranitz, a documentarian who blurs the line between personal and outsider looking in. Si…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/as-it-was-give-n-to-me-stacy-kranitz-explores-the-american-appalachia/

Back in June 2016, we featured the works of photography Stacy Kranitz, a documentarian who blurs the line between personal and outsider looking in. Since 2009, Kranitz has been documenting the Appalachian region of America, on the doorstep of the eastern seaboard and the deep history between North and South in the USA. Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to present As it Was Give(n) to Me, an exhibition of photographs and ephemera by Kranitz. This is Kranitz’s second exhibition with the gallery.

November 11, 2019
Philippe Lopez’s photography is an ode to handcrafted India

Philippe Lopez’s photography is an ode to handcrafted India

Philippe Lopez’s first solo exhibition is a meditation on the country’s kaleidoscopic street life.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/philippe-lopezs-photography-is-an-ode-to-handcrafted-india/

The World Press Photo Award winner’s first solo exhibition is a meditation on the country’s kaleidoscopic street life.

November 11, 2019
Arlene Gottfried’s Mesmerizing Photographs of New York in the 1980s – Feature Shoot

Arlene Gottfried’s Mesmerizing Photographs of New York in the 1980s – Feature Shoot

Boy with Knife, late 1970s Heroin Series, Man With Beer And Cigarette, late 1970s Hailing from Coney Island, Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017) grew up on the streets of Crown Heights during the 1960s…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/11/arlene-gottfrieds-mesmerizing-photographs-of-new-york-in-the-1980s/

Hailing from Coney Island, Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017) grew up on the streets of Crown Heights during the 1960s just as white flight was reshaping the face of New York. She moved to Greenwich Village in 1972 as a young photography student enrolled at Fashion Institute of Technology and soon thereafter her family moved to the East Village when it was more familiarly known as Alphabet City — one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Manhattan.

November 6, 2019
Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography | The New Yorker

Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography

The English photographer’s archive contains unheralded images that capture “the great madness and oddness of this life.”

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/shirley-bakers-half-century-of-street-photography

In Shirley Baker’s photographs, men are caught gesturing, or mid-stride. Women slip past or sit, reflecting; sometimes they are close together, conversing, conspiring. Children play, occasionally surveying the camera with a look somewhere between innocence and wisdom. Older people look into the lens with an almost comic stoicism, their years and routines readable on their faces: cigarette-wrinkled lips; helmet-like hair that, through years of repetition, has grown into a distorted, heightened version of what it once was. In some images, people are staring, not always at Baker but at some unfurling scene—parents look at their children, beachgoers survey other holidaymakers, shoppers regard new wares.

November 3, 2019