The photographer explores rarely covered regions, dealing with isolation and arrests on his journey.
The photographer explores rarely covered regions, dealing with isolation and arrests on his journey.
Trust in visual content is quickly eroding. Technology can help by enforcing authenticity, authorship, and integrity. But only if everyone agrees.
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/can-visual-content-remain-trustworthy/
Out of six senses, vision is, by far, the one we trust the most for critical information. Studies show that if receiving conflicting information from our senses of sound and touch, for example, vision is always the sense we rule correct. It is our primary source of trust. If we see it, it exists. If not, it might not be real. If we can no longer believe what we see, our world will be torn apart.
His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations.
Santu Mofokeng, a photographer whose searing images of everyday life in South Africa’s black townships documented the prospects of freedom from apartheid and the unfulfilled promise of its overthrow, died on Jan. 26 in Johannesburg. He was 63.
The Sony World Photography Awards is being accused of censorship by the photojournalist community this week after the renowned competition pulled down
The story first broke in the Hong Kong Free Press, after photographer Ko Chung-ming pointed out that his series titled Wounds of Hong Kong, a finalist in the Documentary category, had been taken down shortly after the World Photography Organization announced the finalists of the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards.
Natural disasters are ever increasing with climate change, and in California, we have been bracing ourselves for The Big One for decades. We are kept alert by tremors and shakers that seem to state,”Don’t get too comfortable”, but another disaster, insidi
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/facing-fire-art-wildfire-and-the-end-of-nature-in-the-new-west/
Opening on February 22nd, UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography will host the exhibition, Facing Fire:Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West, curated by Douglas McCulloh. This massive exhibition looks at fire as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and personal experience. There will be an Opening Reception: February 29, 2020, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.and the exhibition runs through August 9th, 2020. The artists include Noah Berger, Kevin Cooley, Josh Edelson, Samantha Fields, Jeff Frost, Luther Gerlach, Christian Houge, Richard Hutter, Christoph Kapeller, Benoit Malphettes,Anna Mayer , Cody Norris , Stuart Palley, Norma I. Quintana, Justin Sullivan, and Joan Wulf.
In a series of rooms set over two floors in the Barbican Centre, new exhibition Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography showcases the work of nearly 60 image-makers who address the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be masculine. The mammoth show features work dating back to the 1960s until the present day – totalling almost 300 pieces – by photographers who eschew or subvert traditional notions of masculinity. At a time when the actions of men are scrutinised and we are well-versed in what might constitute hegemonic, toxic, or fragile masculinity, Liberation Through Photography explores the varied nuances of the male experience, beyond stereotypes, and how they have played out in artistic imagery over the decades.
YellowKorner presents the exhibition “PAPARAZZI” with the photographs by Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain, magnifying the garbage of celebrities. This exhibition is to be discovered in the 100 galleries of YellowKorner around the world as well as at La Hune, the historic bookshop- gallery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, for an event exhibition. Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain succeeded in renewing “Paparazism” with genius.
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/michael-wolf-life-in-cities-2-pp/
The Robert Koch Gallery presents Michael Wolf: Life in Cities, a survey celebrating Michael Wolf’s life and work. For over four decades Wolf examined the layered urban landscape, addressing juxtapositions of public and private space, and anonymity and individuality in relation to history and modern development. Michael Wolf’s work on life in cities was always driven by a profound concern for the people living in these environments and for the consequences of massive urbanization on contemporary civilization. This commitment and engagement remained central throughout his career. The Robert Koch Gallery was the first gallery to represent Michael Wolf, and did so exclusively for many years, presenting Wolf’s first exhibition of his breakthrough project Architecture of Density in 2005 and later the first gallery exhibition of Transparent City in 2008. The gallery has mounted many ground-breaking exhibitions of Michael Wolf’s work prior to his untimely passing in 2019.
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/modena-international-photography-prize-santu-mofokeng-una-solitudine-silenziosa-fotografie-1982-2011-2/
The South African photographer died at 63. Here is the feature we dedicated to him when he received the International Photography Award in Modena in 2016.
Over the years I’ve been contacted through social media, emails and in person by young photographers seeking advice on being a sports photographer. I
But after many years on contract, then on staff, I realized it was time for a change. Time to move on. But to what? I’m a one trick pony! I only know one thing and that’s photography. After I got out of the army it’s the only thing I wanted to do—I was driven, passionate and had one goal and that goal was to work at Sports Illustrated.
The Odzala-Kokoua National Park is the crown jewel of the Congo Basin— one of the largest, oldest, most intact preserves that has never been logged, or overexploited by poachers and…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/illustrating-african-folktales-of-the-congo-basin-in-photographs/
Eva Vonk, an executive producer at Tales of Us, approached Dutch photographer Pieter Henket to collaborate in the creation of Congo Tales, an education and conservation project that includes a book and exhibition that photographically illustrates the folktales of the Mbomo people with them playing starring roles.
In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into a painting, employing a method proposed by George H. Eckhardt’s 1936 publication — Electronic Television
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/clare-strand-deutsche-borse-the-photographers-gallery/
In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into a painting, employing a method proposed by George H. Eckhardt’s 1936 publication — Electronic Television
Images relating to the Hong Kong protests have been taken down from the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards website because of their “sensitive nature.” While the finalists are still in the running for a prize, the move has raised concerns over possible ce
via Hong Kong Free Press HKFP: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/02/19/removal-hong-kong-protest-images-sony-world-photography-awards-website-raises-censorship-concerns/?fbclid=IwAR3GMdbXUeNXFrKYUuGJI33r0i2CyjIwVElb5xta00lioQ6reIuuTs3RuLM
Images relating to the Hong Kong protests have been taken down from the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards website because of their “sensitive nature.” While the finalists are still in the running for a prize, the move has raised concerns over possible censorship.
n the desert, the traces of human presence are visible on the ground for a long time. Alongside the remains of earlier inhabitants are other, more recent legacies –– accidental landscapes of exhausted ground, tracked and paved over, sown with garbage, shattered and heaped up. Created by obscure acts of violence, places such as these seem to exist below the horizon of sense, their dialect both familiar and unreadable.
Few places are surrounded by a mystery like Rold Forest that is located in a rural part of Denmark. This big, wild forest was for…
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-wild-within-4d9f12ec9931
Few places are surrounded by a mystery like Rold Forest, located in a rural part of Denmark. This big, wild forest was for centuries a gathering point for robbers, witches and originals.
“A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/an-american-project-dawoud-bey-s-latest-show-sfmoma/
“A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be an actively working artist currently having a retrospective. “I’m working on a project in Lousiana, thinking of the work in front of me, work I have yet to do. Then a situation comes that demands you stop and look back, though as an artist you are looking forward. I tend not to stop, but I’m called to stop again and reflect on the past. That’s the unnerving piece.” The current exhibition showcases over eighty pieces from eight major series made over the course of more than forty years by the African American artist whose goal is to make photographs with a “real sense of interiority, to go beneath the surface.”
“Photographed in the American Southwest, this body of work includes intimate portraits of travelers—mostly hitchhikers and highway drifters who dwell…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/bryan-schutmaat-s-highway-drifters/
“Photographed in the American Southwest, this body of work includes intimate portraits of travelers—mostly hitchhikers and highway drifters who dwell along the interstate system—as well as landscapes and still life photos that reflect a country in peril. Amidst the ravages of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, I’m struck by the extraordinary human capacity for endurance. I want to tell the ongoing story of the United States—a mythic, hallowed, beautiful, and broken land—where people are often pushed toward the margins of despair, yet many still carry on.
Ute Behrend Bear Girls [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] How do young girls become strong women? Adolescence is the theme of my new book. At the beginning I tell a story about a fictional “Indian tribe&#…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/02/ute-behrend-bear-girls/
How do young girls become strong women? Adolescence is the theme of my new book. At the beginning I tell a story about a fictional “Indian tribe” that separates its pubescent girls and dresses them in bearskins. In this way they are protected from premature sexualisation. The result is a shelter that gives the girls the opportunity to develop freely and self-determinedly in this important phase of their lives. I call these girls “bear girls” and draw parallels in our society, where free spaces for adolescent girls become less and less. Many young women try to evade the stereotypes of sexualised identification that are shaped by society and the media. This is often evident in similar behaviour patterns, e.g. wearing very large sweaters that girls like to “borrow” from their father’s wardrobe.
It’s been said, You are what you eat” though few may remember what they had for lunch last Tuesday. Our diets, like our identities, may be formed by nature and…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/a-birds-eye-view-of-childrens-diets-around-the-globe/
In the mew book, Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World, American photographer Gregg Segal has created a snapshot of the relationship between diet, culture, and location in a series of stunning portraits wherein the children are photographed surrounded by one-weeks forth of food.
Jason Tippet is a filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. (An abridged version of this interview was published originally …
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2020/02/q-with-jason-tippet.html
Jason Tippet is a filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles.