The officers have been suspended.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/12/18/footage-shows-israel-border-police-beating-photographer/
Mostafa Alkharouf who works for the Anadolu news agency was accosted by several police officers after covering a prayer protest.
https://petapixel.com/2023/12/18/footage-shows-israel-border-police-beating-photographer/
You might recognize his photos from Instagram.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/12/13/alan-schallers-haunting-photos-explore-the-isolation-of-the-big-city/
“I could take pictures that fit that theme anywhere I was in the world, it didn’t really matter where the location was,” says Schaller. “The point is this homogenous thing is happening, whether you’re in Paris, Tokyo, or New York — it’s becoming more similar, I think.”
As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases of 2023 – selected by Assistant Editor, Alessandro Merola.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/top-10-2023/
As the year draws to a close, an annual tribute to some of the exceptional photobook releases of 2023 – selected by Assistant Editor, Alessandro Merola.
In the past few years, the term artist collective has become common, especially in larger cities where hubs of creativity form. At first, I did not know the purpose of a collective – they had been mentioned to me often but I had no idea what a collective was or why one would want to
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/collective-week-burn-my-eye-collective/
Beginning as a subgroup of members on Flickr, Burn My Eye Collective brought together photographers who had a passion for street photography and a desire for more collaboration and interaction with each other. Since its conception, this collective has found its footing and provides members a chance to curate series and provide constructive feedback in a safe space
http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/collective-week-burn-my-eye-collective/
The Ian Parry photojournalism grant champions the work of rising photographers. Here we showcase the three recipients of this year’s awards
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2023/dec/12/hard-hitting-images-from-the-winners-of-the-ian-parry-photojournalism-grant
The Ian Parry photojournalism grant champions the work of rising photographers. Here we showcase the three recipients of this year’s awards. Nikoletta Stoyanova, 20, from Ukraine, received the Ian Parry photojournalism grant. Alexandra Corcode, 22, from Romania, received the Tom Stoddart award for excellence, while Sahl Abdelrahman was highly commended. The awards are organised in partnership with the Guardian
Among the best: Press Forward and the local news crisis goes mainstream. And the worst: layoffs and attacks on press freedom at the local level.
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/5-local-news-experts-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2023/
The layoffs and cutbacks. The pandemic was brutal, but job cuts eased up a bit in the last two years. They’re back up again now, and hundreds of workers in local news have lost their jobs this year. Gannett, for example, has shut down several printing plants, and Lee Enterprises has furloughed its staff, held layoffs and reduced print days at many of its papers. A reporter at The Buffalo News recently noted that Lee shed more than 1,000 jobs in the past year
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2023/5-local-news-experts-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2023/
How much are we willing to pay to know that the source of our imagery is trustworthy? What is the value of trust in photography?
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/the-value-of-trust-in-photography/
This drives us to the core issue: what is that trust’s value? Does a photograph that contains that certificate have more value than one that doesn’t? And if so, how much more?
The president of the Committee to Protect Journalists explains why Israel’s military campaign has led to an unprecedented number of deaths among members of the press in just two months.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-war-in-gaza-has-been-deadly-for-journalists
The Israel-Gaza war has been the deadliest conflict for journalists that C.P.J. has ever recorded, in terms of documenting attacks on the press. That’s because it’s the highest number of journalists killed in a conflict in such a short period of time.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-war-in-gaza-has-been-deadly-for-journalists
Corinne Dufka wanted to prevent atrocities, not just document them.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/12/war-photography-bosnia-rwanda-elsalvador/675929/
This Is War evolved out of my work as a photographer covering some of the bloodiest conflicts of the late 20th century. The imagery is not pretty, nor could it be. But seeing it—looking squarely at the misery delivered by leaders who promised to do good for their people—is important. More than that, refusing to see it, whether out of personal or political discomfort, is a form of misinformation.
At any given moment, millions of people are attending his expositions, knowingly or not.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/invader-artist-profile
For twenty-seven years, Invader has been decorating the walls, bridges, monuments, tunnels, sidewalks, staircases, railings, gates, curbs, benches, bollards, posts, poles, pipes, columns, fountains, pools, docks, seawalls, roofs, chimneys, medians, bus stops, train stations, storefronts, bookshops, and bars of Paris and beyond with playful mosaics. They have depicted everything from winged insects to cartoon characters and slot-machine fruits. Invader calls his interventions “invasions,” and the mosaics themselves are known as “invaders.” He has executed more than four thousand in a hundred and seventy-two cities in thirty-two countries, grazing permanence in the traditionally ephemeral world of street art.
Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/andriana-nativio-as-we-rest-in-the-shadows
Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it.
Erwitt taught himself photography as a teenager. His most famous work was defined by wit, exuberance, and irrepressible curiosity.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-elliott-erwitt-found-his-signature-humor-and-joy/
The camera that he used to create his early pictures, a square-format twin-lens Rolleiflex, was adapted to his disposition at the time. He had to look down into the lens at waist level to see and photograph what was in front of him, and this enabled him to approach people unobtrusively. As the contact sheet with his famous picture of a chihuahua at a woman’s feet shows, the camera could also be set on the ground to capture a worm’s-eye view
The artist captured compelling pictures of celebrities and politicians, dogs just being dogs, and the happenstance whimsy of daily life.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/860427/elliott-erwitt-photographer-with-a-sense-of-humor-dies-at-95/
“Photography is an art of observation,” the artist said best. “It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
A visual tour of 2023 in news, culture, and beyond.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-in-new-yorker-photography
Among many other powerful documentary photographs this year are David Guttenfelder’s stark silhouette of soldiers on a wooded battlefield in Ukraine; Philip Montgomery’s instantly iconic image of United Auto Workers strikers in Toledo, Ohio; and Supranav Dash’s ingenious juxtaposition of a wizened goatherd and his flock ambling along a fence, behind which looms a vast sheet of solar panels in the Pavagada Ultra Mega Solar Park, in southern India. Carolyn Drake, who accompanied Paige Williams to Mississippi’s Neshoba County Fair, captured the legacy of a hundred and thirty-four years of history in her photograph of a sea of white faces in the fairground stands, ensconced in a joyful tradition that has roots in the state’s segregationist past.
https://www.photoeye.com/best-books-2023/index.cfm
It is with great pleasure we bring you our annual list of photobooks chosen by professionals who are deeply involved in the photobook world. This year we asked over 30 luminaries to choose, not one, but three of their favorite photobooks from the past year.
In a new edition of a long out-of-print volume, Webb draws from photographs across many locations. Here, he considers the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/alex-webb-on-reimagining-a-photobook-twenty-five-years-later/
This new version of Dislocations—with some eighty photographs made on five continents—incorporates nearly half of the original photographs from the first edition, with the lion’s share comprised of later images
The Vietnamese-born photographer charts how conflict embeds itself in both physical and psychological terrains.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-my-les-uncanny-images-of-war
For the ongoing project “Silent General,” Lê turned her lens to the mainland, travelling from the sites of Confederate monuments and border crossings along the Gulf Coast and Rio Grande to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., and student protests in New York City
Looooong ago, when I was early in my photography career, I discovered F-Stop Magazine (celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year!). I was always so excited to get a photograph in one of their exhibitions and feel part of a community. When I started Lenscratch, Christy Karpinski was one of the few women in a landscape
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/the-christy-karpinski-mixtape/
One thing that I think generally is helpful with project based photography is to spend a good amount of time with your project before you share it as finished. With digital it can be so inexpensive, quick and easy to get images out into the world, and this is such a great thing! But I think it also tends to mean people don’t spend as much time with their work or never see it off the screen as a print before completing it
Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shunta-kimura-living-in-the-transition
Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change.
An-My Lê speaks with Hilton Als about about how she uses photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/an-my-le-on-vietnam-the-chaos-of-war-and-the-tangibility-of-memory/
For the past two decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.