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Episode 90: Dina Litovsky (Documentary Photography) –

Dina Litovsky is a Ukrainian-born photographer living in New York City. Her imagery can be described as visual sociology, exploring the idea of leisure.

via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/01/18/episode-90-dina-litovsky-documentary-photography/

Her newlsetter “In The Flash” is available for free subscription online and explores the unseen world of photography.

https://10fps.net/2024/01/18/episode-90-dina-litovsky-documentary-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-90-dina-litovsky-documentary-photography

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January 19, 2024
Opinion | The Subversive Act of Photographing Palestinian Life

Photographer Adam Rouhana documents Palestinians in the face of imagery that often dehumanizes them.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/opinion/palestinians-photography-war-israel.html

As I got older and developed my practice, I noticed a dissonance between the West’s conception of Palestinian society and the images I was making — the life I was living. In the news media, Palestinians were often portrayed as masked and violent or as disposable and lifeless: a faceless, miserable people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/opinion/palestinians-photography-war-israel.html

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January 19, 2024
Daniel Sackheim: Unseen – LENSCRATCH

This week are featuring work seen at the Los Angeles Center of Photography Exposure Reviews. Daniel Sackheim is a visual storyteller of the best kind. His photographs bring decades of seeing through his career as a director and producer, working on productions that dig deep into dark psyches. His project, UNSEEN, can only be described

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/daniel-sackheim-unseen/

As a child, I suffered a paralyzing fear of the dark. So terrified was I of imagined creatures hiding under the bed, or lurking within the dark recesses of my closet, that I would often drift off to sleep, a flashlight clutched tightly in my grip. The Irony is not lost on me that my current artistic preoccupations take me deep into seedy back alleys and labyrinths of sketchy downtown streets, illuminated by flickering streetlights that barely penetrate the darkness of an often foreboding and claustrophobic urban jungle.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/daniel-sackheim-unseen/

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January 16, 2024
Episode 89: Louie Palu (Documentary Photography)

Louie Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights, the environment and poverty.

via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/01/10/episode-89-louie-palu-documentary-photography/

Louie Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights and poverty. Today Molly will be discussing his amazing project in the Arctic and his experiences in the middle of the January 6th insurrection mob. And maybe his fishing exploits.

https://10fps.net/2024/01/10/episode-89-louie-palu-documentary-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-89-louie-palu-documentary-photography

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January 12, 2024
Review Santa Fe: Harvey Castro: Los Olvidados – LENSCRATCH

Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists with whom I met at Review Santa Fe in November 2023. Up next, we have Los Olvidados by Harvey Castro. Harvey Castro (b. Nicaragua) is a documentary photographer and multidisciplinary artist who employs a variety of mediums, including still and moving images, audio recordings, and historical

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/review-santa-fe-harvey-castro-los-olvidados/

On November 5th, 2020, a landslide triggered by six days and nights of constant rain brought on by Hurricane Eta buried the village of Queja in San Cristobal Verapaz, Guatemala, along with an estimated 58 people. Within a few days, the municipality’s mayor, Ovidio Choc Pop, declared the area a “campo santo,” an uninhabitable graveyard ending all rescue efforts and recovering only eight bodies.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/review-santa-fe-harvey-castro-los-olvidados/

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January 12, 2024
Court Docs Reveal Midjourney Wanted to Copy the Style of These Photographers

The lawsuit against Midjourney is not done yet.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/03/court-docs-reveal-midjourney-wanted-to-copy-the-style-of-these-photographers/

The huge list includes thousands of artists’ names; among them are scores of photographers — both living and dead — whose styles Midjourney apparently wanted to copy so that users of its AI image generator could make AI pictures in the style of that photographer.

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/03/court-docs-reveal-midjourney-wanted-to-copy-the-style-of-these-photographers/

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January 4, 2024
Fearless Apartheid Photographer Peter Magubane Dies Aged 91

He fought apartheid with his camera.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/02/fearless-apartheid-photographer-peter-magubane-dies-aged-91/

The photographer was imprisoned numerous times during his career and subjected to a five-year ban that prevented him from working or even leaving his home without police permission.

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/02/fearless-apartheid-photographer-peter-magubane-dies-aged-91/

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January 2, 2024
Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

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January 2, 2024
Back in the day, Dec. 31, 2008: Photojournalist Rudy Smith retires from OWH after 45-year career

Rudy Smith retired 15 years ago today after a groundbreaking 45-year career at The World-Herald.

via Omaha World-Herald: https://omaha.com/news/local/history/back-in-the-day-dec-31-2008-photojournalist-rudy-smith-retires-from-owh-after-45/article_56c0d17e-92de-11ee-92f9-17d2b537fe3a.html

Rudy Smith, who was the first full-time Black employee in The World-Herald’s newsroom, began his career in 1963 — the same year Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Smith retired 15 years ago today.

https://omaha.com/news/local/history/back-in-the-day-dec-31-2008-photojournalist-rudy-smith-retires-from-owh-after-45/article_56c0d17e-92de-11ee-92f9-17d2b537fe3a.html

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January 2, 2024
Top Photos of 2023

All that stress took a toll I think on my creativity. I am reasonably happy with my top 9 images for this year, but I can feel my creative juices atrophying some. Every creative process is variable, and people have strong and weak periods. My hope is to concentrate a little more on photography this year and think more about what I know about light and how to play with it.

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January 1, 2024
The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023 Exhibition – LENSCRATCH

Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your favorite photographs and being part of our community. A HUGE thank you to Emily Wall and Kassandra Eller for helping me upload hundreds and hundreds of photographs. We hope 2024 will be a year of creativity, joy, friendship, and love. We appreciate your support and readership over

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/the-favorite-photography-you-took-in-2023-exhibition/

Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your favorite photographs and being part of our community. A HUGE thank you to Emily Wall and Kassandra Eller for helping me upload hundreds and hundreds of photographs. We hope 2024 will be a year of creativity, joy, friendship, and love. We appreciate your support and readership over the last 18 years. Raising a toast to the Lenscratch Staff and all the contributors who work hard to give back to this amazing community. Now, stay in bed with a cup of coffee, and scroll away. There are 14 pages to get through.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/01/the-favorite-photography-you-took-in-2023-exhibition/

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January 1, 2024
Tennessean photojournalist Nicole Hester’s top images from 2023

Tennessean photojournalist Nicole Hester picks her top images of 2023.

via The Tennessean: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/12/28/tennessean-photojournalist-nicole-hester-picks-favorite-images-of-2023-photojournalism-photography/72020946007/

I’m very humbled to work here, and be embraced by Nashville.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/12/28/tennessean-photojournalist-nicole-hester-picks-favorite-images-of-2023-photojournalism-photography/72020946007/

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December 30, 2023
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2023 Edition

Our annual list highlights the people who exist outside of an art world that favors the wealthy and privileged — or are just shit out of luck.

via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/864342/the-20-most-powerless-people-in-the-art-world-2023-edition/

In Hyperallergic parlance, “powerless” conjures a very specific status. Historically, our Powerless 20 list has shone a light on those who exist outside of an art world that lionizes the wealthy and the privileged, whether that’s because they’re persecuted by their governments, trapped in a rigged capitalist machine that spews riches for the very few, or just shit out of luck.

https://hyperallergic.com/864342/the-20-most-powerless-people-in-the-art-world-2023-edition/

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December 30, 2023
Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI

Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/business/media/media-openai-chatgpt.html

“I think part of the reason news organizations are now looking so carefully at OpenAI is because they have 20 years of history indicating that if we’re not careful, we’ll give away the keys to the kingdom,” said Andrew Morse, the publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the flagship newspaper of Cox Media Group, which is not in talks with OpenAI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/business/media/media-openai-chatgpt.html

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December 29, 2023
This AI Can Geolocate Photos Faster and More Accurately Than Any Human

It has a 95 percent accuracy.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/12/28/this-ai-can-geolocate-photos-faster-and-more-accurately-than-any-human/

Many photographers and photo editors have been faced with a picture they don’t know the location of but would like to. And while this new AI technology helps with that task, others have pointed to privacy concerns.

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/28/this-ai-can-geolocate-photos-faster-and-more-accurately-than-any-human/

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December 29, 2023
Episode 87: Rian Dundon (Documentary Photography) –

Rian Dundon is based in Portland, OR and specializes in documentary photography. He is the author of: Protest City (2023), Fan (2015), and Changsha (2012)

via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2023/12/27/episode-87-rian-dundon-documentary-photography/

Rian Dundon is based in Portland, Oregon and specializes in documentary photography

https://10fps.net/2023/12/27/episode-87-rian-dundon-documentary-photography/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-87-rian-dundon-documentary-photography

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December 28, 2023
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html

The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html

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December 27, 2023
Opinion | A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?

A.I. generators can produce photorealistic images, which is either an extinction-level event for photographers or a fantastic opportunity. Or both.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/opinion/ai-future-photography.html

Photography consists of pointing, as a reaction to something that exists in the world.

With advent of A.I. image generators, however, this definition feels obsolete.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/opinion/ai-future-photography.html

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December 27, 2023
2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics.

Selected Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories published this year. All free to read for a limited time.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/2023-year-in-graphics.html

This year, our visual stories covered a range of subjects: artificial intelligence, war in Ukraine and Gaza, the transition to cleaner energy, natural disasters and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. 2023: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/2023-year-in-graphics.html

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December 27, 2023
Xuan-Hui Ng: Transcendent Winter Magic – LENSCRATCH

Every Christmas I like to feature work that is inspiring in its beauty and soul-filling in its subject matter. Xuan-Hui Ng‘s exquisite capture of natural wonders is a balm for all the sadness and stress in the world. She helps us reset our our psyche’s, lower our blood pressure, and revel in the magic of

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/xuan-hui-ng/

Nature has been pivotal to my own healing and growth. I dedicate my images to kindred spirits, the weary, the lost and the lonesome. I hope that they can experience the joy I felt when I laid my eyes on these magical landscapes.

http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/xuan-hui-ng/

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December 25, 2023