For photographers, used to training their lenses on people and places the world over, isolation proves a particular challenge. As part of #CultureIsNotCancelled – a campaign on AnOthermag.com championing culture in the age of social distancing – we have invited eight photographers to send us an image each week, making up a unique and intimate portrait of life under lockdown.
Navel gazing can get a little old, so, in the coming weeks (months?), as we find ourselves counting the hours till lunchtime on the sofa, we look for…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sheltering-in-place-niki-boon-and-childhood-in-the-raw/
“I grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand,” writes photographer Niki Boon, “with a childhood barefoot, wild and free.” To be a child during this pandemic is to be suddenly thrust into an especially confusing and restrictive routine but the sense of childhood freedom and imagination doesn’t necessarily require physical space to run wild. While Boon’s photographs capture a truly wild and free childhood they also embody a spirit that is inherent in children everywhere. “In part,” says Boon, “my photographic work pulls from my childhood freedoms and adventures that still exist so strongly in my mind.”
Not an April’s fools joke – today Nikon announced that they will stream all of their online Nikon School classes for free (for the whole month of April): “We know it can be tough to stay inspired during these times. Nikon’s mission has always been to empo
today Nikon announced that they will stream all of their online Nikon School classes for free (for the whole month of April
Sean Gallagher, a British photographer who’s been based in China since 2006, has a policy that he works on one larger story every year…
“It’s difficult to say, ‘I want to change X number of minds on this issue or make a certain group of people think differently about an issue…I just think about making good work on issues that I’m interested in and then trying to get that work in publications that have a big audience. At the end of the day, if that’s happening, I have a small part in adding to the rising media dialogue about global environmental issues.”
Yunghi Kim goes into great detail about how she approaches her work and shares many stories that offer insight into how she manages to create amazing images….
via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASP2wgiCT78&feature=emb_title
Yunghi Kim goes into great detail about how she approaches her work and shares many stories that offer insight into how she manages to create amazing images.
Elinor Carucci’s work has always focused on the everyday. But her own domesticity has never been so intense nor so constrained.
via The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/elinor-carucci-photo-diary.html
Elinor Carucci’s work has always focused on the everyday — the raw, joyful, exposed, and exposing business of humans who love each other sharing a space. And Carucci’s own domesticity has never been so intense nor so constrained. Carucci is sheltering in place in her 950-square-foot Manhattan apartment with her husband, Eran, and their teenage twins, Eden and Emmanuelle. With work, exercise, mealtime, and virtual socializing, the family tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy, but results are mixed. “I feel like I’m getting a little used to it,” says Carucci, who is Israeli. “But at the beginning, I had a lot of flashbacks to the Gulf War.” – Lisa Miller
https://bittersoutherner.com/ozark-life-arkansas-terra-fondriest
A photo essay of the intimate beauty of daily life in rural Arkansas.
Certain genres of photography have come to a screeching halt during the coronavirus pandemic, but there are still countless photographers on the front
Juntos Photo Coop, made up of photographers Noemí González, Laura Saunders, Ash Ponders, and Caitlin O’Hara, has published an open letter to seek “an equitable industry and a set of baseline standards that will improve safety and ensure dignity for all journalists risking their health to document the current COVID-19 pandemic.”
Alice Christine Walker is a photographer based in Portland. • BA: Tell me about your photobooth pictures. How/when did you get s…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2020/03/q-with-alice-christine-walker.html
Haha! Yes, that’s true. I approach the photobooth from the unique position of being the darkroom photographer and the subject. Well, mechanic/photographer…
Happy April Fool’s Day! Let me start off by saying a huge THANK YOU to the participating photographers from all over the globe, each who shared a little bit about themselves during this profound moment in history. There were hundreds and hundreds of submi
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/04/the-2020-self-quarantining-exhibition/
Happy April Fool’s Day! Let me start off by saying a huge THANK YOU to the participating photographers from all over the globe, each who shared a little bit about themselves during this profound moment in history. There were hundreds and hundreds of submissions and as I uploaded each one, I thought about your life and world. And though I corresponded only briefly with each of you, I was comforted by the connection to the greater whole as I have been in quarantine for almost three weeks. There are seven parts to this post so keep going until you get to the end. Pour yourself a big glass of wine or a big mug of coffee and enjoy the collected experience of The 2020 Lenscratch Self-Quarantining Exhibition…and share widely! Be safe out there. See you on the other side. – Aline Smithson
I met Teri Darnell several years ago at an Atlanta Photography Group exhibition. Shortly after that we were both chosen to be a part of the “Edge to Edge” exhibition at MOCA GA and were both on a panel that discussed the exhibit. As I have gotten to know
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/teri-darnell-veterans-in-crisis/
I met Teri Darnell several years ago at an Atlanta Photography Group exhibition. Shortly after that we were both chosen to be a part of the “Edge to Edge” exhibition at MOCA GA and were both on a panel that discussed the exhibit. As I have gotten to know Teri, I find that she is humble about herself and her work. Teri served six years in the United States Air Force, notably in Berlin during the Cold War. In 2015, she retired after twenty-five years of service with a Fortune 50 company as a multi-media development manager to pursue her passion in photography. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for Atlanta Celebrates Photography in Atlanta, Georgia. I admire Teri’s work and her passion to photograph people and places that most people do not see. Her project Veterans in Crisis shows her compassion to help others.
Riding along with French troops hunting Islamist militants in France’s unwinnable West African war.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/world/africa/france-sahel-west-africa-.html
Riding along with French troops hunting Islamic militants in France’s unwinnable West African war
Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-fate-of-the-news-in-the-age-of-the-coronavirus
Can a fragile media ecosystem survive the pandemic?
The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html
The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it.
What’s new in news photography? Senior Picture Editor Andreas Trampe of ‘Stern’ offers his take on the shifting sands of an industry and shares his tips on how to reach out to photo editors
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/andreas-trampe-shifting-states-new-role-of-photography-in-weekly-magazines
What’s new in news photography? Senior Picture Editor Andreas Trampe of ‘Stern’ offers his take on the shifting sands of an industry and shares his tips on how to reach out to photo editors.
In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region.
In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region.
“My dad was a good man with a substance problem,” the Canadian photographer Jackie Dives tells me. “He was unique. He was a cat lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/03/after-her-fathers-death-a-photographer-explores-grief/
“My dad was a good man with a substance problem,” the Canadian photographer Jackie Dives tells me. “He was unique. He was a cat lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a goof, a friend, a caretaker, and also a drug user.”
Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Until Kamaran was captured by ISIS.
via Guernica: https://www.guernicamag.com/every-inch-of-earth/
Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Until Kamaran was captured by ISIS.
I have shared the work of Brooklyn born photographer Robert Herman several times over the years, so I was distraught to learn that this wonderful artist recently took his own life. I remember him sharing that as a young man, Robert began working as an ush
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/remembering-robert-herman/
I have shared the work of Brooklyn born photographer Robert Herman several times over the years, so I was distraught to learn that this wonderful artist recently took his own life. I remember him sharing that as a young man, Robert began working as an usher at a movie theater owned by his parents. The exposure to a wide range of films during his formative years provided him with a unique vision: “Working for my father allowed me to view the same movie repeatedly,” he recalled, “until the story line began to recede and the images became independent of the narrative.” I love that concept of considering photographs. Today, his friend Reuben Radding shares memories of Robert and we share some Robert’s work and thoughts. – Aline Smithson
When should you bring a photographic project to an end? LaToya Ruby Frazier, Justine Kurland, Alec Soth, and more reflect on how to know when a series of work is complete.
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/11-photographers-on-how-to-finish-a-body-of-work/
Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf has heard countless young photographers say they often feel adrift in their own practices, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. This inspired her to seek out insights from a wide range of photographers about their approaches to making photographs and a sustained a body of work, which are brought together in PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Structured as a Proust-like questionnaire, the responses from both established and newly emerging photographers reveal that there is no single path. Below, eleven artists respond to the question: How do you know when a body of work is finished?