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A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall

“We’re all being manipulated in the mall,” the photographer Stephen DiRado says. But his photos elicit a certain nostalgia, almost in spite of themselves.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall

There’s a reason that the mall’s corporate honchos—who had signed a contract giving him free rein to document daily life there—“freaked out,” in DiRado’s words, when they first saw the results. Where was the evidence of all the fun that they sponsored? The clowns? The Santa Claus?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall

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March 9, 2024
European Week: Jaume Llorens – LENSCRATCH

Guest Editor and German photographer Melanie Schoeniger shares a week of European photographers whose work she finds inspiring. Schoeniger’s sensibility is translated through the work she shares; all the photographer’s work has a sense of mystery, interconnectedness and wonder. Schoeniger states: Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy, and powerful mood is in Jaume

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/european-week-jaume-llorens/

Independently from his specific subject, this serene, dreamy, and powerful mood is in Jaume Llorens’ images. In his series Gaia, he juxtaposes ethereal impressions and mesmerizing patterns of the natural world: A blurry blossom meets a hazy cloud, Queen Ann’s lace reveals the same pattern as a flock of birds, a meadow in interplay with a wave.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/03/european-week-jaume-llorens/

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March 7, 2024
12 Essential Photobooks by Women Photographers

From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous image making, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/

From Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspectives, to Kelli Connell’s reconsideration of Edward Weston, here are must-read titles that chronicle the impact of women artists.

https://aperture.org/editorial/12-essential-photobooks-by-women-photographers/

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March 6, 2024
Episode 96: Devin Allen (Street Photography) – A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone

Not just the second amateur photographer to grace the cover of Time magazine with his photo of the Baltimore Uprising in 2015, Devin Allen has TWICE made the cover! An oustanding street photographer, Devin has also embraced painting and sculpture. Hi new multi-media exhibit “A Piece of Me Died With You” reflects on the losses

via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/03/05/episode-96-devin-allen-street-photography/

As a mentor he founded Through Their Eyes, a youth photography educational program that works within Baltimore city schools

https://10fps.net/2024/03/05/episode-96-devin-allen-street-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-96-devin-allen-street-photography

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March 6, 2024
Kazunari Suzuki: Japan Guide Book – LENSCRATCH

One of the most exciting parts of my recent visit to Japan was working with photographic artists at the T3 Tokyo Photo Festival. I was thrilled to meet Kazunari Suzuki and get to know his fabulous work. Suzuki shared a project that has all the elements that I am drawn to: old postcards, typologies, and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/kazunari-suzuki-japan-guide-book/

His project, Japan Guide Book, encapsulates a deep dive into iconic and ubiquitous structures that tourists see over and over again in Japan. He deftly removes the objects or landmarks to highlight their shapes and presence in the photograph.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/kazunari-suzuki-japan-guide-book/

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March 3, 2024
How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future

Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world?

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html

All that has come to pass, more or less. Everyone is online all the time, and just about everyone seems interested in, if not obsessed by, national and world happenings. But the traditional media that Mr. Fidler was championing do not receive much benefit. After decades of decline, their collapse seems to be accelerating.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html

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March 3, 2024
The Associated Press Hires Its First Woman Director of Photography

Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Lucy Nicholson breaks barriers.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/

The Associated Press (AP), winner of 58 Pulitzer Prizes and one of the world’s most essential and significant news agencies, has named veteran photojournalist Lucy Nicholson its next Director of Photography. Nicholson is the first woman ever to assume the role.

https://petapixel.com/2024/03/01/the-associated-press-hires-its-first-woman-director-of-photography/

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March 2, 2024
Caught in the headlight – Thoughts of a Bohemian

As giants freely plunder their work, the stock photo industry stands by, silently complicit in its own demise.

via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/caught-in-the-headlight/

When all is said and done, and the stock photo industry landscape is a complete devastation, some will gather once more and look at each other in a “what the F**K did just happened” moment.

https://blog.melchersystem.com/caught-in-the-headlight/

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February 29, 2024
Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues – LENSCRATCH

“I’m looking for a moment where individuals are dwarfed by what surrounds them, appearing lost but searching for something. They then go on their way, whichever direction that may be.” Oli Kellett‘s Cross Road Blues, has recently been published by Nazraeli press. Cross Road Blues coincides with a solo exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art, London.

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/oli-kellett/

Waiting for a Sign focuses on Kellett’s iconic Crossroad Blues series of large-scale portraits of people waiting at crossroads in urban cities across the globe from London to Mexico City and numerous across North America.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/oli-kellett/

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February 25, 2024
Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle

Part memoir, part document of a punk-infused scene, “Wires Crossed” explores the lives of skateboarders crisscrossing the world.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/

The minute I found skateboarding, I was immersed in a world of creative people—even as far back as middle school. Having a skateboard was the ticket into a new world. There were these two punk guys I had always steered clear of. I thought these guys wanted to kick my ass. But once I had a skateboard under my arm they were like, “Hey, come hang out with us.” They gave me a cassette tape with Dead Kennedys and other bands. My mind was blown. The Beautiful Losers cluster—I think we are all loathe to call it a “movement”— was the same

https://aperture.org/editorial/ed-templetons-delirious-skater-chronicle/

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February 24, 2024
Interview with Peah Guilmoth: The Search for Beauty and Escape – LENSCRATCH

In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of beauty is resistance to a world often at odds with joy and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/interview-with-peah-guilmoth/

In her recent work, charting the path of her transition from pre to post-HRT; Peah is looking for beauty, escape, decay and blossoming in her surroundings seen through the guise of family, friends, and the rural landscape she inhabits. Within the harnessing of beauty is resistance to a world often at odds with joy and perpetual growth.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/interview-with-peah-guilmoth/

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February 24, 2024
Seeing Photography as an African Art Form

Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events.

via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/871315/seeing-photography-as-an-african-art-form/

Giulia Paoletti surveys the development of Senegalese photography along with more than a century of shattering historic events.

https://hyperallergic.com/871315/seeing-photography-as-an-african-art-form/

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February 22, 2024
Episode 94: Michelle McLoughlin (Documentary Photography) –

lle McLoughlin is a photojournalist whose work spans both the editorial and corporate worlds & Event Chair for the 2024 Northern Short Course in Photojournalism

via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/02/21/episode-94-michelle-mcloughlin-documentary-photography/

2024 marks McLoughlin’s sixteenth year serving as Event Chair for the annual Northern Short Course in Photojournalism, which will be held from February 28 to March 1 in Parsippany, New Jersey.

https://10fps.net/2024/02/21/episode-94-michelle-mcloughlin-documentary-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-94-michelle-mcloughlin-documentary-photography

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February 21, 2024
Gritty Russian Photographer Dmitry Markov Dies Age 42

Markov shot exclusively on iPhone.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/02/20/gritty-russian-photographer-dmitry-markov-dies-age-42/

Dmitry Markov, a Russian photographer who shot exclusively on smartphones and was known for capturing provincial areas around Moscow, has died at age 42.

https://petapixel.com/2024/02/20/gritty-russian-photographer-dmitry-markov-dies-age-42/

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February 20, 2024
https://leica-camera.blog/2024/02/19/the-zebu-war/

While working on his reportage about zebu rustling in Madagascar, photographer Rijasolo dared set foot in regions that normally remain hidden to the general public.

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February 19, 2024
Focus on Aging: Beate Sass: I Belong to You and You to Me – LENSCRATCH

Introduction to Aging Series I met Aline Smithson at a portfolio review in the fall of 2023 when I showed her my project about my father. When Aline generously offered me the opportunity to curate a collection of four other projects about aging that would be featured on Lenscratch alongside mine, I immediately thought about

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/beate-sass-i-belong-to-you-and-you-to-me/

I have been photographing my father during my visits to Albuquerque, New Mexico since 2013, the year my mother died. I realized I had few photographs of my parents and felt the urgent need to photograph my father while he was still vital and enjoying life

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/beate-sass-i-belong-to-you-and-you-to-me/

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February 12, 2024
Episode 35: A. D. Coleman (Historical Photography)

A. D. Coleman and the Robert Capa D-Day Project exploring the history, legacy and questions about the photographs of Robert Capa at Normandy in 1944.

via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/02/08/episode-35-a-d-coleman-historical-photography/

Today we chat with A. D. Coleman, photography critic and historian, about the history, legacy and controversy of the famous Robert Capa. Known for his groundbreaking photography of the D-Day invasion in 1944

https://10fps.net/2024/02/08/episode-35-a-d-coleman-historical-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-35-a-d-coleman-historical-photography

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February 9, 2024
Awaiting the Rain

The selection process has been a long one. Over the years your photography changes the way you see things. That applies to editing as well. You may go through your contact sheets and be drawn to an image you took 20 years ago that wouldn’t have perked your interest back then. There have been multiple editing sessions to get the work to where it is now. I’m currently editing to create a book, so I’m hopeful to discover some gems I overlooked before.

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February 5, 2024
Sage Sohier: Passing Time – LENSCRATCH

Many artists spent the pandemic revisiting family archives, digging into familial legacies in boxes covered in dusty attics, but other artists finally found the time to revisit their own archives. The indefatigable Sage Sohier is one of those artists, who has a long legacy of documenting the human (and animal) condition close to home and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/sage-sohier/

Many artists spent the pandemic revisiting family archives, digging into familial legacies in boxes covered in dusty attics, but other artists finally found the time to revisit their own archives. The indefatigable Sage Sohier is one of those artists, who has a long legacy of documenting the human (and animal) condition close to home and on the streets. The result of her efforts is her eighth book, Passing Time, published by Nazraeli Press and a number of upcoming exhibitions.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/02/sage-sohier/

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February 4, 2024
Book of the Week: Selected by Blake Andrews

Book Review Mirror City Photographs by Harry Culy Reviewed by Blake Andrews “For photographers shooting hometowns, acquaintance is a …

Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/01/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html

Harry Culy’s debut photobook puts this hypothesis to the test. Mirror City collects Culy’s b/w photographs shot upon his return to Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), after ten years away. Growing up in the New Zealand capital decades earlier, he had come to know the place quite well. He’d explored the underbelly and skateboarded its sidewalks. He’d formed a sense of what it was to be a resident. He’d even made photographs of the city.

https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/01/book-of-week-selected-by-blake-andrews_29.html

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February 4, 2024