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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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
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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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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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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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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.
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Our Favorite Photobooks of 2023
From historical studies to psychedelic darkroom experiments, these are the photo books that best document the WIRED world.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-photo-books-2023/
IT’S NOT ALL words here at WIRED. Every one of our stories is brought to eye-popping life on the web and in print by our newsroom’s photo desk. Each year, this award-winning team of photo editors compiles a list of their favorite photography books. What follows is a selection of their picks from 2023. (Most were released this year; there are one or two you can preorder for delivery in early 2024.)
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2023 Winners
* Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving The Yunghi Grant! * Russel Albert Daniels Tamir Kalifa Alejandra RajaL Simona Supino John Trotter Arin Yoon * We feel privileged to have read…
via Yunghi Grant: https://yunghikim.wordpress.com/2023/12/25/2023-winners/
The Yunghi Grant judges are especially mindful of photojournalist’s growth: personally and professionally. Many applicants have applied several times before; even though you might not have won this year, continue to do so as often stories develop a critical mass over time. The perseverance and resilience to take a story to its conclusion, or nearly so, is always noted by the judges.
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Was Ray a Laugh?
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/was-ray-a-laugh/
Even as a camera gives you considerable power — you literally get to shape how other people will be seen, it is very difficult for many photographers to be mindful of it, in particular when being confronted with the power a father figure seems to exert (even if in reality that power might have now waned if not outright disappeared).
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Jesse Rieser: Christmas In America: Happy Birthday, Jesus! – LENSCRATCH
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! I have to admit that I’m not a religious person, but I’m all in when it comes to Christmas. The lights, the decorations, the tree, the fantasy of Santa and the reindeer are wonderful distractions from politics and the end of the world as we know it. This is the fourth time
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/jesse-rieser-christmas-in-america-happy-birthday-jesus-2/
This is the fourth time I’ve featured Jesse Rieser’s terrific project, Christmas in America: Happy Birthday Jesus, first in 2013, then again in 2016 and in 2019. The good news is that this is an 8 year effort and it gives more gifts with each year. He completed the project this year with work made in New York. His perspective of examining this holiday/religious/commercial event from the outside, makes us see the folly and the magic of saying Happy Birthday to Jesus
http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/jesse-rieser-christmas-in-america-happy-birthday-jesus-2/
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Outstanding agency photographers of 2023
Our picture editing team highlights the work of a selection of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have stood out throughout 2023
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/18/outstanding-agency-photographers-of-2023
Our picture editing team highlights the work of a selection of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have stood out throughout 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/18/outstanding-agency-photographers-of-2023
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The game-changing impact of AI on the photo industry – Kaptur
Strategies for businesses in the photo industry to embrace AI’s disruptive impact, leveraging new opportunities and rethinking traditional approaches.
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/the-game-changing-impact-of-ai-on-the-photo-industry/
Last week, Lightricks CEO Zeev Farbman candidly shared how AI is impacting Lightricks’ photo editing app business. For one, AI tech makes some of the work that used to require specialized software and expertise trivial, according to Farbman in last week’s interview with Axios.
https://kaptur.co/the-game-changing-impact-of-ai-on-the-photo-industry/
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Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk – Photographs by Alex Vasyliev | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture
Photographer Alexey Vasyliev offers an intimate look into the life and changing culture of the Evens, an indigenous tribe in his hometown of Yakutsk — one of the coldest places on Earth
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alex-vasyliev-cultural-changes-at-the-coldest-place-on-earth-a-photo-story-from-yakutsk
Photographer Alexey Vasyliev offers an intimate look into the life and changing culture of the Evens, an indigenous tribe in his hometown of Yakutsk — one of the coldest places on Earth.
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2023 in Photos: A Weary World
Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/world/year-in-pictures.html
Every year, our photo editors try to capture the best photojournalism in one intense presentation. The Year in Pictures is a way to commemorate the big news events from January to December: the ones that traumatized us — and there are many of those — mixed in with some moments of bliss.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/world/year-in-pictures.html
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https://leica-camera.blog/2023/12/18/gruzja/
The journey through Georgia (Gruzja in Polish) in 2016 was a first for the Polish photographer. With eyes wide open and his camera always on hand, he covered a lot of ground on foot or moved around in taxis and small buses (marshrutka). His route took him from Tiflis in the east, via Batumi and Svaneti in the west, as far as the Goderdzi Pass in the south – followed by a couple of days across the border in Turkey. He spoke with us about his way of working and about the experiences he had on the trip.
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