Huge news for photographers.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/01/07/getty-images-and-shutterstock-announce-merger-in-3-7-billion-deal/
The rise of artificial intelligence has likely played a role in the merger; the combined assets of Shutterstock and Getty are a treasure trove of training data for AI companies
https://petapixel.com/2025/01/07/getty-images-and-shutterstock-announce-merger-in-3-7-billion-deal/
No more permits required for most photographers and filmmakers.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/01/06/biden-signs-law-making-it-easier-to-photograph-and-film-in-national-parks/
While the new law will still require permits for large-scale commercial productions within National Parks and associated public lands, smaller groups of photographers and videographers will now be able to film without going through the arduous process of acquiring permits, provided that they follow park regulations, operate safely, and do not force the federal government to incur undue costs.
Today, we are continuing to look at the work of artists from the 2024 Review Santa Fe portfolio review event. Up next, we have Where the Heart Is: Portraits from American Trailer and Mobile Home Parks by Kathleen Tunnell Handel. Kathleen and I originally met during the Atlanta Center for Photography portfolio reviews in early 2023, and
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-kathleen-tunnell-handel-where-the-heart-is/
Where the Heart Is was begun in 2017 with travels photographing within communities, to date, in Maine, New Jersey, California, Texas, Colorado, New York, Georgia, Oregon, and Arizona.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-kathleen-tunnell-handel-where-the-heart-is/
10 Frames per Second podcast provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of photo books, highlighting Joe and Molly’s Top 10 Best Photo Books of the Year 2024
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2025/01/01/episode-131-10-best-photo-books-of-the-yea-2024/
The recent episode of the podcast “10 Frames per Second,” hosted by Joe Giordano and Molly Roberts, delves into the intricate process of creating photo books and how they selected their Top 10 Best Photo Books of the Year 2024
In early November 2024, I had the great pleasure of attending and reviewing portfolios at CENTER’s Review Santa Fe event for the second consecutive year. I love participating in portfolio reviews because they reinforce my fondness of the photographic arts, and of learning in general. Speaking with artists about their work deepens my appreciation for
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-denise-laurinaitis-the-missing-photographs/
The days pass quickly, and I take it all in. Childhood is fleeting, and I get to experience it all over again. The wonderment, the skinned knees, the giggles, and the in-between. I feel that excitement in holding a firefly, its tickle so gentle as it walks across my hand. Did I actually live this before?
http://lenscratch.com/2025/01/review-santa-fe-denise-laurinaitis-the-missing-photographs/
Paul Kennedy started his photography career as a stringer for the Associated Press. In the early ‘80’s Paul become a was a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated. In 1984 I worked as an official photographer for the 1984 Olympics games. For the last 25 years Paul has shot corporate annual reports and done a considerable amount of work for colleges and universities. —- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-brown57/support
Hostilities are taking place in more than 170 locations across the globe and women are suffering the effects more than at any time since the second world war. Here, female photojournalists reveal personal stories of life under fire
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/30/photojournalism-world-at-war-2024-women-expose-human-cost-ukraine-sudan-gaza-drc-colombia
Hostilities are taking place in more than 170 locations across the globe and women are suffering the effects more than at any time since the second world war. Here, female photojournalists reveal personal stories of life under fire
Pictures of the Year: Our photo staff’s best of the best, in their own words | The Seattle Times:
The Seattle Times photo department produces some of the finest photojournalism in the country, bar none. It has been that way for decades: With stunning artistry, they consistently delight with the beauty of an aesthetic photograph, report with grit the most important news, and entertain with precision sports and feature coverage.
Happy New Year! Today we share our annual exhibition of your favorite photographs of 2024. Thank you for being part of this wonderful community and wishing you all a spectacular 2025! Browse the entire The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2024 ExhibitionPart 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2025/01/the-favorite-photograph-you-took-in-2024-exhibition/
Happy New Year! Today we share our annual exhibition of your favorite photographs of 2024. Thank you for being part of this wonderful community and wishing you all a spectacular 2025!
http://lenscratch.com/2025/01/the-favorite-photograph-you-took-in-2024-exhibition/
Every year we compile a list of Staff Favorites. We try to avoid “Best Of” lists as appreciation for the arts is so subjective and eveyone has a different opinion. The wide variety of selections featured today speaks to books, exhibitions, and artists (and a few recipes) that have resonated with our amazing staff. I
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2024/12/the-2024-lenscratch-staff-favorites/
Every year we compile a list of Staff Favorites. We try to avoid “Best Of” lists as appreciation for the arts is so subjective and eveyone has a different opinion. The wide variety of selections featured today speaks to books, exhibitions, and artists (and a few recipes) that have resonated with our amazing staff.
https://lenscratch.com/2024/12/the-2024-lenscratch-staff-favorites/
“La Vueltita de Tam” | By Irina Werning Why are most pictures of trans people in their rooms? What happens when they take to the streets and connect with people, especially in a very tr…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/06/la-vueltita-de-tam-by-irina-werning/
Why are most pictures of trans people in their rooms? What happens when they take to the streets and connect with people, especially in a very traditional society like Bolivia? Tam is a 23-year-old non binary dancer from Bolivia, living in Buenos Aires. This is the story about Tam’s return to hometown for the first time since transitioning during lockdown.
https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/06/la-vueltita-de-tam-by-irina-werning/
Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/syria-faces-its-past-and-its-future
Images taken just after the precipitous end of the civil war reveal a secret legacy that is just becoming visible.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/syria-faces-its-past-and-its-future
Each year we ask Press Democrat photojournalists to select their top photos of the year, the best of the best.
via Santa Rosa Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/kent-porter-photojournalist-photos-2024/
Each year we ask Press Democrat photojournalists to select their top photos of the year, the best of the best.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/kent-porter-photojournalist-photos-2024/
When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stymied his travel plans, photographer Carl De Keyzer decided to take a virtual trip instead, creating a series of AI-generated images. He was unprepared for the consequences.
Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-26/ai-generated-images-photography-trust/104721106
From his home, the lauded documentary photographer began to work on a collection of images about Russia with the help of generative artificial intelligence (AI). He was unprepared for the consequences.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-26/ai-generated-images-photography-trust/104721106
©Brian Branch-Price
via Yunghi Grant: https://yunghikim.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/2024-winners/
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in grants — $3,000 to each of six photojournalists — is being dispersed in this the 10th year of the Yunghi Kim Grant.
The people, places and objects that held our collective attention in this election year.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/19/opinion/2024-photos-america-election.html
For six months this year, Taryn Simon followed the political vapor trail to document the people, spaces and objects central to the 2024 presidential campaigns. Ms. Simon, who works at a distance from the daily news cycle, examines our distracted national gaze and desires, letting us pause and look at what we all experienced. “You can’t see anything reflected in boiling water. But when it’s still, water is a mirror,” she said. “It’s still in the anticipation, and it’s still in the aftermath. But we’re told to watch when it’s boiling.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/19/opinion/2024-photos-america-election.html
His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/961351/ai-weiwei-knocks-down-the-building-blocks-of-empire/
His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.
https://hyperallergic.com/961351/ai-weiwei-knocks-down-the-building-blocks-of-empire/
Michael Kitada earned his bachelor of arts degree in communication with an emphasis in photojournalism from California State University, Fullerton. After graduation, he was employed as a staff photographer at the Orange County Register where he was able to travel and document top events of the time over the last 25 years. For the last 10 years, he managed his own photography business and taught photojournalism as an adjunct at UCLA, California Baptist University and Biola University. —- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-brown57/support
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in grants — $3,000 to each of six photojournalists — is being dispersed in this the 10th year of the Yunghi Kim Grant.
I first became aware of the Holy Land theme park in Orlando when I saw Gordon Stettinius’ hilarious toy camera project on the mecca of all things Jesus. I finally made my own pilgrimage to the this sun filled hallowed destination in Florida shortly before it closed down for good in 2020. I had the
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/12/lisa-barlow-holy-land-u-s-a/
I love how much I could compress into the frame in the Holy Land work. I think that in the work I make today, I take more images to tell a story. That may be the influence of the photobook. In the 1980’s, there were few examples of photobooks as narratives. Photographers showed their work as catalogs of images. Today, we use the book form to slow down the pace. We allow our emotions and understanding to build over the course of a book’s pages.