He had a unique vantage point.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/03/pulitzer-winning-photographer-who-captured-reagan-assassination-attempt-dies-age-77-ron-edmonds/
The Reagan assassination attempt photo came on what was only Edmonds’ second day as the AP’s White House photographer covering Reagan. He said his job was to “watch the president at all times” and believes he did his job well that day.
This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves you drop by drop. … I evaporate like moistness from your
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/nicolasmarticorena/
Meeting Nicolás Marticorena was like stumbling upon a kindred spirit. Ever since I saw his work at the group exhibition Pasajero in Santiago de Chile, I was captivated by his remarkable aesthetic sensibility towards the landscape and his generous heart for the stories of the people living in it. His poetic speech and passion for analog photography captivated me during our coffee meeting, where we bonded over our shared concerns about the environmental crisis in Petorca — one of the most infamous and affected territories by the Chilean water crisis. I am delighted to share our conversation after several months of keeping it secretly in my journals.
The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency
The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space.
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/technology/google-ai-search-publishers.html
“It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content,” Mr. Pine said. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative A.I. replacing “the publications that they have cannibalized,” he added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/technology/google-ai-search-publishers.html
The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss. A photographer remembers what he witnessed.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html
To my left lay Ken Oosterbroek, mortally wounded, while to my right, Greg Marinovich clutched at his chest, holding on for dear life. Friends and fellow photographers who had dedicated their careers to documenting the violent, dying throes of apartheid lay dead and wounded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html
I definitely think I dream in black and white, even though dreams are difficult to remember. Black and white makes the soul of things speak, while colours tell the reality. I like to think I can dream with my soul.
Just as we risk becoming inured to the crisis, an exhibition, “Coal + Ice,” serves as a stunning call to action.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/images-of-climate-change-that-cannot-be-missed
I think the single best collection of images of the climate crisis I’ve ever seen is the exhibit that will be up through early August at the Asia Society, on Park Avenue. (If that seems a parochial spot for a global exhibit, it is worth remembering that sixty per cent of the world’s population lives in Asia.) Co-curated by the celebrated photographer Susan Meiselas and the exhibition designer Jeroen de Vries, and led by the Asia Society’s Orville Schell, the longtime China watcher and correspondent for The New Yorker (whose late brother Jonathan wrote “The Fate of the Earth,” which first appeared in the magazine), “Coal + Ice” is an evolving project
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/images-of-climate-change-that-cannot-be-missed
Congratulations to Mark Leong for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing his project, Coming of Age: China’s Post-90s Generation . CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers and filmmakers. CENTER sponsors documentary projects that educate the public about critical environmental and social issues and is
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-mark-leong/
Since 1989, photographing Chinese young people has been a constant thread in my career, covering rock bands, internet hackers, entrepreneurs, factory workers and self-labeled “hooligans.” While I am ethnically Chinese, I am still an outsider who came with a preconceived notion of Chinese people as a monolithic bloc of conformity. One of my goals, then, has been to share the realities of diverse, nuanced lives in this most massive of mass societies — especially crucial in this divisive time of geo-political unease.
http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-mark-leong/
The CENTER Awards recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Social, and Environmental. All submissions will become part of the CENTER archive serving as an ongoing mission-driven fine art and documentary imagery resource. Congratulations to John Trotter for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award recognizing his project, No Agua,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-john-trotter/
In 2001, Trotter began photographing in Mexico for his project No Agua, No Vida about the human alteration of the Colorado River. He has photographed along the entire 2,250 km length of the river, from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the desiccated remains of its delta above the Gulf of California. He has lived in New York City since 2000, and in 2017 became one of the founding members of the collective, MAPS Images.
http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-john-trotter/
Congratulations to Robert Pluma for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Hidden Histories of San Antonio. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects. The award is open, but not limited to, photography, video, new media, photojournalism, installation, and web-based works.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-excellence-in-multimedia-storytelling-award-robert-pluma/
Robert Pluma is the recipient of the 2024 Multimedia Award. His project, Hidden Histories of San Antonio, reexamines the stories many thought we knew and shows how our understanding can be significantly deepened when viewing them through a different lens. At its best, multimedia can engage the audience to understand a story in a deeper, more profound way, and Pluma’s project interweaves his own family’s story with portraiture, testimony, and 3D scanning of primary objects to retell this historical narrative in a fresh way. Hidden Histories of San Antonio was in some ways the most ambitious project submitted from a multimedia perspective, but what drew me into it was seeing how Pluma’s explanation centered the participants—the most important part of any narrative.
The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/joel-meyerowitz-ready-for-surprise-joel-meyerowtiz-interview-2020
The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview.
The book is a personal collection of a life lived, a scrapbook that contains the dichotomy of two worlds: the innocence of circumstance and the visual acknowledgment of colliding cultures, that include race and privilege. The artist simply documented her world and the people in it. – Aline Smithson Rotan Switch is the first monograph
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/lisa-mccord-rotan-switch/
Rotan Switch documents life on my grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan, which takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice.
A new anthology by Chinatown’s omnipresent documentarian, who captured half a century of shifting identities, activism, and daily life.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-asian-america-meant-to-corky-lee
A new anthology by Chinatown’s omnipresent documentarian, who captured half a century of shifting identities, activism, and daily life.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-asian-america-meant-to-corky-lee
Peter van Agtmael is a documentary photographer based in NY. Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a member of Magnum Photos
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/05/21/episode-107-peter-van-agtmael-conflict-photography/
Since 2006, his work has largely concentrated on the United States and the post-9/11 wars.
Congratulations to Austin Bryant for being selected for CENTER’s Project Launch Grant recognizing his project, Where They Still Remain. The Project Launch Grant supports a complete or nearly completed documentary or fine art series. The grant provides financial support and platforms for professional development opportunities for one photographer. The Grant includes a $5,000 cash award,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-project-launch-grant-austin-bryant/
Where They Still Remain is a project that focuses on the African American and Wampanoag indigenous communities who have coexisted for hundreds of years on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. The work is a memorial to these people, past and present. In it, I attempt to make the unseen seen by shining a light on histories lost due to erasure. The work consists of my original photography (medium + large format film), vernacular/archival images from both communities, and historical texts that I’ve redacted. My connection to the work is direct—I am part of the historical tradition of African American families who have found a safe haven on the island since before Emancipation.
http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-project-launch-grant-austin-bryant/
While travelling, Jonathan Jasberg discovers beauty in unique moments, and eternalises them in his pictures.
Photo editors will be able to add a digital watermark to each image.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/15/photo-mechanic-integrates-content-credentials-to-fight-fake-imagery/
The image provenance system will soon be available as an option to “those who require a photo editing workflow that is compliant with the C2PA standard.”
Fujifilm is joining the Content Authenticity Initiative.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/05/15/fujifilm-to-bring-c2pa-content-authenticity-to-x-and-gfx-cameras/
Tucked at the bottom of its GFX 100S II announcement, Fujifilm says that it is joining the Content Authenticity Initiative to bring verification to its interchangeable lens series cameras.
https://petapixel.com/2024/05/15/fujifilm-to-bring-c2pa-content-authenticity-to-x-and-gfx-cameras/
In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-view-from-palestinian-america
Intimaa’s portrait is followed by a photo of her passport, issued by the Palestinian Authority. Together, these images evoke a longing that we in the diaspora feel for Palestine. Every student who manages to leave Gaza knows that she may not be able to go back. “Loss brought her to this country,” Eid told me, of Intimaa. “She continues to experience tremendous loss.” Since October, Intimaa’s other grandmother and two of her brothers have been killed, along with their wives and children. In the background of an audio message from one of her sisters who is still in Gaza, she could hear people screaming
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-view-from-palestinian-america
Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend the historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/kamal-x-the-beautiful
Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend the historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.