Edward Burtynsky hsa been documenting human industry for decades.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/05/27/photographers-edward-burtynsky-project-captures-chinas-growing-influence-in-africa/
Edward Burtynsky has been photographing human industry for decades and a new show focuses on China’s evolving role in global manufacturing.
Unanswerable questions and a lack of transparency.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/05/23/acclaimed-photojournalists-rush-to-nick-uts-defense/
A week after World Press Photo suspended Nick Ut’s credit on the famous Napalm Girl photo, big names in photojournalism have come to Ut’s defense and attacked The Stringer and the people behind it for a perceived lack of transparency.
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/23/acclaimed-photojournalists-rush-to-nick-uts-defense/
Salgado was one of the greatest photographers.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/05/23/iconic-photographer-sebastiao-salgado-has-died/
Salgado — known for his powerful black-and-white imagery incorporating themes of poverty, war, displacement, and the environment — announced his retirement in February 2024 after years of working in hostile environments.
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/23/iconic-photographer-sebastiao-salgado-has-died/
The CENTER Awards recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series. The Environmental Award recognizes work focusing on the state of the environment. Topics may include, but are not limited to, conservation, biodiversity, ecology, climate change or other issues concerning the natural world. Congratulations to Alex Welsh for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-alex-welsh/
The most compelling for me was Alex Welsh’s Salton Sea. His series on California’s largest lake—now drying under climate-driven drought—blends documentary rigor with poetic imagery to turn a local crisis into a global parable.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-alex-welsh/
Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at age 81.
via AP News: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-sebastiao-salgado-obituary-2dedc1ea2a8330288248a7cbd5a1095f
Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, died at 81 from leukemia, his family said Friday
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-sebastiao-salgado-obituary-2dedc1ea2a8330288248a7cbd5a1095f
To: Joumana El Zein Khoury — Executive Director, World Press Photo
via Medium: https://jimcolton.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-world-press-photo-may-22-2025-ad59763b8759
As former Chairs and jurors of the World Press Photo Contest, we are saddened and deeply troubled by your decision to remove the attribution of Nick Ut as the photographer who took the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year known as “The Terror of War.”
https://jimcolton.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-world-press-photo-may-22-2025-ad59763b8759
Congratulations to Debmalya Ray Choudhuri for being selected for CENTER’s Personal Award recognizing his project, A Factless Autobiography. A Factless Autobiography is a personal exploration of loss, identity, and survival, blending fragmented narratives of grief, trauma, and transformation while engaging with the intricacies of being a queer South Asian immigrant in the US and creating a
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/the-center-awards-personal-award-debmalya-ray-choudhuri/
A Factless Autobiography is inspired by a chapter of the same name in the Book of Disquiet by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. It is an intimate and personal exploration of loss, desire, and the fragile nature of our existence
https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/the-center-awards-personal-award-debmalya-ray-choudhuri/
A time-warped book-object of dust, detritus and déjà vu, Christian Patterson’s GONG CO., published by TBW Books and Éditions Images Vevey, with a recent exhibition at Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, stages the slow decay of a family-run grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Weaving the personal into a broader reflection on how images collapse time and space, Peter Watkins approaches it as a work that mourns and animates the past simultaneously: a meditation on surface, obsolescence, corporate homogeneity’s erosion of the singular and the distant engagement with a mythologised idea of ‘America’ from afar.
via 1000 Words: https://1000wordsmag.com/gong-co/
A time-warped book-object of dust, detritus and déjà vu, Christian Patterson’s GONG CO., published by TBW Books and Éditions Images Vevey, with a recent exhibition at Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, stages the slow decay of a family-run grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta
Congratulations to Mitsu Maeda for being selected for CENTER’s Me&Eve Grant recognizing her project, The Shining Lady a series of photos of her grandmother Tsuyajyo’s last 10 years. Her name Tsuyajyo means “the Shining Lady” in Japanese. The Me&Eve Grant provides financial support to a woman, female-identified, non-binary, transgender, gender non-conforming, or two-spirited photographer, 40 years of age
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/the-center-awards/
I kept returning to The Shining Lady’s compelling photographs because Mitsu Maeda brought forth so much dignity, love, and humanity to her photos of their grandmother’s final years. This project touches on memory and elder care with a respectful tone and highlights end-of-life rituals with a keen artistic eye. The tenderness of these photographs will stick with me for a long time.
Earlier this month, the Associated Press announced that it found “no definitive evidence” to warrant changing the photo’s authorship, and released a 96-page report on the matter – its second in four months – based on its own internal investigation. The AP concluded that it was “possible” Ut took the photo, and found no evidence that Nguyen took it instead. The matter was unable to be proven conclusively, it added, due to the passage of time, the absence of key evidence, the limitations of technology and the deaths of several key people involved.
Joe Sacco talks to Zach Rabiroff about stories past and future, as well as the endless misery.
via The Comics Journal: https://www.tcj.com/im-doing-the-work-i-need-to-do-to-live-with-myself-joe-sacco-on-democracy-genocide-and-drawing-the-truth/
If an artist can be measured in part by their capacity to look truth squarely in the eye without flinching, let it be said that Joe Sacco is an artist. For more than three decades, Sacco has been perhaps the most prominent and influential cartoonist-journalist in comics
The photographer Hashem Shakeri shows the texture of daily life in a place the rest of the world has seemingly forgotten.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/life-in-afghanistan-after-the-fall-of-kabul/
Hashem Shakeri’s photographs show the texture of daily life in a place the rest of the world has seemingly forgotten.
https://aperture.org/editorial/life-in-afghanistan-after-the-fall-of-kabul/
When Sara Abbaspour returned to Iran after working in the United States, she found a new way of photographing her home country.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/a-shimmering-portrait-of-contemporary-iran/
When Sara Abbaspour returned to Iran after working in the United States, she found a new way of photographing her home country.
https://aperture.org/editorial/a-shimmering-portrait-of-contemporary-iran/
Philip Holsinger was present when a group of Venezuelan prisoners arrived from the U.S.
On March 15, photographer Philip Holsinger captured arguably 2025’s most sensational photographs when a group of Venezuelan prisoners arrived in El Salvador from the United States.
I’m So Happy You Are Here, a travelling exhibition and accompanying book, showcases seminal works by Japanese women photographers from the 1950s onward, underscoring their often overlooked contributions. Published by Aperture, it features 25 portfolios, an illustrated bibliography curated by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and essays from a range of writers, including Carrie Cushman and Kelly Midori McCormick. Ahead of the exhibition at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany, Roula Seikaly speaks with curators Lesley A. Martin, Pauline Vermare and Takeuchi Mariko about their expansive collaboration, key works that informed the project and the importance of centring individual women’s stories in Japanese photographic history.
via 1000 Words: https://1000wordsmag.com/im-so-happy-you-are-here/
I’m So Happy You Are Here, a travelling exhibition and accompanying book, showcases seminal works by Japanese women photographers from the 1950s onward, underscoring their often overlooked contributions. Published by Aperture, it features 25 portfolios, an illustrated bibliography curated by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and essays from a range of writers, including Carrie Cushman and Kelly Midori McCormick. Roula Seikaly speaks with curators Lesley A. Martin, Pauline Vermare and Takeuchi Mariko about their expansive collaboration, key works that informed the project and the importance of centring individual women’s stories in Japanese photographic history.
Magnum Photos announced Magnum Generation(s), a graphic novel regaling the true and fascinating stories behind its founding.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/05/12/magnum-photos-origins-told-in-new-graphic-novel/
World-renowned photographic cooperative Magnum Photos, founded in 1947, announced a Kickstarter whose goal is the release of Magnum Generation(s), a graphic novel regaling the true and fascinating stories behind its founding.
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/12/magnum-photos-origins-told-in-new-graphic-novel/
Instead of making documentary images about the war, Daria Svertilova focuses on her friends and acquaintances—and the emotions of resistance.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-the-war-in-ukraine-altered-life-for-a-lost-generation/
Rather than making documentary images of the war itself, Daria Svertilova focuses on her friends and acquaintances—and the emotions of resistance.
https://aperture.org/editorial/how-the-war-in-ukraine-altered-life-for-a-lost-generation/
For the past few days we have been looking at the work of artists who I met at this year’s Society for Photographic Education conference during the portfolio reviews. Up last, we have Cruise Control by Charlie Tadlock. Charlie Tadlock is a visual artist and educator working predominantly in lens-based media and installation, currently based in Sandy, UT where he teaches photography
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/charlie-tadlock-cruise-control/
Through sustained analysis of the space surrounding the highway, I seek to highlight – both technically and conceptually – the tension between ephemeral growth, prosperity, and transience that exists in the landscape
https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/charlie-tadlock-cruise-control/
26 preview picks from the UK’s largest art fair dedicated to photography — special 10th anniversary edition May 15-18, 2025.
From viral shrimp messiahs to fake news popes, AI is warping how we see the world — and what we believe
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/generative-aritificial-intelligence-images-growing-threat/
Mahadevan described the replacement of professional journalists and fact-checkers with the general public as a monumental failure. “The future of facts online is you,” he told the audience. “In an incredibly hostile online world, all of these platforms have basically said, ‘You’re on your own. It’s up to you.’”