Some says it’s impossible to make ends meet.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/28/survey-finds-career-in-freelance-photojournalism-is-unsustainable/
Of the 48 photographers who were surveyed, only four of them said that, in its current state, a career in freelance photojournalism is sustainable.
https://petapixel.com/2024/06/28/survey-finds-career-in-freelance-photojournalism-is-unsustainable/
In the 1960s, Akihiko Okamura series “The Memories of Others” recorded the Troubles with understated eloquence.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland/
Okamura singles out low-key moments, discovering worlds within worlds. He seems to be, as W. G. Sebald once said of his fellow writer Robert Walser, a “clairvoyant of the small,” looking for what we might learn of desire, sadness, loneliness, or dreaming among the dispersed, matter-of-fact materials of daily life
https://aperture.org/editorial/akihiko-okamuras-outsider-view-of-northern-ireland
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Michael Young’s series Maybe Tomorrow. I first came across Michael Young’s work with the series Hidden Glances. His expert use of collage to play with personal concepts between the visible and invisible made me take note. I later
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/michael-young-maybe-tomorrow/
Maybe Tomorrow is a long term, lyrical documentary project centered around my partner’s hometown in rural western Kentucky that explores the complexity of the meanings assigned to, or assumed of, the region by both its residents and outsiders. Curious about my partner Erik’s continued ambivalence about returning to his home after building a life here in New York, I began to photograph this community, which we return to every summer.
This week, we will be exploring projects inspired by intimacy and memory. Today, we’ll be looking at Hannah Latham’s series Milking Hour. I remember being knocked out by Hannah Latham’s work late last year. We were both in the exhibition Home is Where at FLOAT Magazine, which was published as a zine. Hannah’s work was
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/hannah-latham-milking-hour/
Milking Hour (2020 – Present) is an ongoing photographic series documenting rural New England agricultural fairs, and exploring the profound narratives that unfold within these seemingly quaint events. These fairs serve as windows into a larger coming-of-age story that spans generations, revealing the timeless experiences and rites of passage that shape individuals and communities across Maine and Massachusetts.
The comments haven’t gone down well.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/24/openai-cto-some-creative-jobs-will-go-away-mira-murati/
The chief technology officer of OpenAI thinks that the advent of artificial intelligence will mean “some creative jobs maybe will go” but adds that “maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”
https://petapixel.com/2024/06/24/openai-cto-some-creative-jobs-will-go-away-mira-murati/
I want to give you five quick ideas from the book to get you thinking the next time you travel with your camera.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/30/how-the-strobist-david-hobby-has-spent-his-permanent-vacation/
So at some point, it made sense to both expand and generalize that content into, say, a real book that could benefit far more people. And this week, The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting With People and Place, was published.
https://petapixel.com/2024/05/30/how-the-strobist-david-hobby-has-spent-his-permanent-vacation/
Jesse Lenz is a photographer based in rural Ohio, and the founding director of Chico Review , Charcoal Press , and Charcoal Book Club . • B…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2024/06/jesse-lenz-is-photographer-based-in-and.html
The Chico Review is the opposite of that. Only people making the work get in. It’s not about writing an essay, checking the right boxes, or anything. It’s about the photographs. Additionally, the way it’s set up helps it from getting stagnant because it’s a limited time, it costs money so you feel you gotta make the most of it, and you want to stand out so you gotta bring your A game. The “photo ghetto” is pickup basketball. The Chico Review are tryouts.
http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2024/06/jesse-lenz-is-photographer-based-in-and.html
Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/danny-lyon-on-the-making-of-the-bikeriders/
Lyon’s riveting book about a Chicago motorcycle club is one of the definitive accounts of American counterculture—and the inspiration for a new film starring Austin Butler and Jodie Comer.
https://aperture.org/editorial/danny-lyon-on-the-making-of-the-bikeriders/
There is a discomfort looking at the photographs knowing that Hetherington was to die in pursuit of his craft, and this knowledge is especially prescient today.
via Observer: https://observer.com/2024/06/arts-review-tim-hetherington-photography-at-londons-imperial-war-museum-exhibition/
Hetherington’s work was often about acknowledging the relationship between photographer and subject, rather than hiding it. In this way, Hetherington was far from the chaotic point-and-shoot chameleon we associate with war photography. His images slow down war and examine its quiet moments. They invite us to think about war rather than just look at it
Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/media/ron-edmonds-dead.html
Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/media/ron-edmonds-dead.html
We measured every town, street and building blown apart in Ukraine to show the first comprehensive picture of where people can’t return home.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/world/europe/ukraine-destruction.html
We analyzed every building across Ukraine that has been damaged or destroyed since Russia attacked two years ago.
A number of years ago, a tall, quietly intelligent artist entered my classroom, driving to Los Angeles from San Diego each week to understand the photographer’s journey. Our journey together lasted several years and then I watched Wayne Swanson and his photographs take flight in remarkable ways. Wayne passed away this week, after a long
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/wayne-swanson/
Photographer Wayne Swanson created a visual love letter of sorts to his father and his father’s craft of furniture design and making, with his project, From the Workshop. In fact, the approach to Wayne’s photographs and the stories they tell are as unique as the furniture they celebrate. This series sits in the realm of memory and family; in some ways, they are maps that define and investigate a father’s passion, the depth of which was only recently discovered.
Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is as much current events as it is history. These ghosts haunt us
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/180706/
This haunting collection of photography and essays illuminates the lingering architectural and geographical remains from America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism.
She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/design/vivien-maier-photography-fotografiska.html
She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/design/vivien-maier-photography-fotografiska.html
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-memories-of-others/
The above is clearly the case for the photographs made by Akihiko Okamura in Northern Ireland around the low-level civil war that typically is being described euphemistically as “the troubles”. When I grew up, that war was a frequent part of the news on TV in then West Germany.
Read the letter here.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/
The letter was organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Etter and signed by dozens of photographers, journalists, and curators.
Intermission – The Leica camera Blog:
With dream-like and purely associative images, Natalia Neuhaus explores emotional states and everyday situations.
Photographs from two trips along Ukraine’s northeastern border regions, in the months before Russia renewed an offensive there, reveal loss and transformation.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/ukraine-border-russia-sumy-kharkiv-photos.html
Sirens cannot provide enough warning time for a bombardment from this close, and air defenses cannot repel it. Residents rely on deliveries of humanitarian aid, and the long, cold wait for supplies takes place under near daily shelling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/ukraine-border-russia-sumy-kharkiv-photos.html
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html
During the two years that BNN was active, it had the veneer of a legitimate news service, claiming a worldwide roster of “seasoned” journalists and 10 million monthly visitors, surpassing the The Chicago Tribune’s self-reported audience. Prominent news organizations like The Washington Post, Politico and The Guardian linked to BNN’s stories. Google News often surfaced them, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html
From photographing politicians and celebrities to the struggles and triumphs of ordinary folks, Mr. Ortiz handled each with compassion, colleagues say.
via The Detroit News: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/06/03/max-ortiz-award-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-58/73947311007/
Dakota Ortiz was a year old when he spent eight months in treatment for a rare form of cancer. His dad, Max Ortiz, a professional photographer, took photos of him hugging his sister that were so powerful, the family said they were blown up by Ronald McDonald House Charities and put inside McDonald’s restaurants to raise awareness of childhood cancer.