Pirkle Jones, whose images of migrant farm workers, threatened California towns and valleys and the Black Panthers at the peak of their power made him one of the most admired photographers of his generation, died on March 15 in San Rafael, Calif. He was 95 and lived in Mill Valley, Calif.
Inside the locker room of the 2008 Day’s of ‘47 Rodeo at the Energy Solutions Arena, cowboys prepare to ride for money, recognition and tradition.
Every morning at 6:30 a.m., the Illinois wheelchair basketball team is practicing. They practice all year long to train for the national wheelchair basketball tournament. Despite being confined to wheelchairs, these young men and women accomplish extraordinary things. This past year, the team accomplished their goal of winning the national title for the first time since 2001.
On Wednesday, PDN is hosting a free seminar for emerging photographers at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Speakers include PDN’s 30 honorees Fernando Souto, Lucas Foglia
and Toni Greaves.
Other nominees include Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, who receives the Cornell Capa Award for her work in documenting the Sicilian mafia in the 1980s.
The photographer Richard Renaldi in his new book Fall River Boys explores through portraiture and landscape the young men in a small Massachusetts town who are on the cusp of either cutting or reinforcing those ties to place and family.
Lens Culture is thrilled to share a transcription of a very warm and personal interview made with Malick Sidibé in 2008
With more than 1,350 submissions from an international student base, judges Jen Bekman, David Laidler and Jill Waterman embarked on the tough task of narrowing the field to these final picks.
The other night, a group of hard-core journalist types gathered at the Umbrage gallery, in DUMBO, for an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by the late Eddie Adams. The centerpiece was Adams’s 1968 Pulitzer Prizewinning photograph, taken for the Associated Press, of Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief of South Vietnam, firing a bullet into the head of a Vietcong suspect
Sponsored by Canon, the book is the most recent published project by the BPPA since 2004’s “Five Thousand Days” book and exhibition.
The book highlights one of the key frustrations in photojournalism: that a great numbers of brilliant pictures never see the light of day through too tight deadlines, design limitations or editorial indifference.
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Bob Woolley recently was detained by security guards at the Cannery Casino in North Las Vegas after taking photographs in their casino.
La Chureca (‘the scavenger’) is home to one of the largest inhabited dump communities in the world.
If you are an independent journalist in a country in which independent journalism is seen as a danger to those in power, you sometimes cross a line from reporting the news to being the news. That is what is happening to Carlos Fernando Chamorro.
The Junior Phenom Camp was grass-roots basketball in distilled form — a caldron of ambition, networking, gossip and backbiting. The players had been identified and invited to San Diego after attending regional camps. Most of the 360 campers were being charged $450 to participate. All kinds of merchandise was available for purchase, including a camp program for $25 that listed the participants and their heights, hobbies, hometowns and nicknames, which made for interesting reading. There was a G-Money, a K-Money, a Cash-Money and one young man who simply called himself Money. Two campers went by Sir, while others — Da Truth, Superstar, Big Dog, the Chosen One — selected handles that seemed to demand respect.
