Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/nyregion/ice-box-model-nyc.html
Danny Cortes was at rock bottom when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses.
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Mark Kitsawaeng and I discuss Forgotten Space. Phanuphan (Mark) Kitsawaeng is a photographer from Thailand, currently living in Los Ange
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/mark-kitsawaeng-forgotten-space/
Forgotten Space is a set of photographs of children who were photographed around their homes: including the living rooms, playgrounds, and backyards. In showing the environment that is around them, the viewer sees that which the children have seen is ordinary, but of course, is not at all
The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of the Sygma news agency is uncertain. Where is it, and who owns it today?
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/where-have-the-archives-of-sygma-photographers-gone/
The fate of a significant portion of the photographic collection of one of the biggest photo news agencies in the world is uncertain. Who owns it today? The judicial administrator? Getty Images France? Locarchives? Visual China Group?
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Christine Back and I discuss PV Revisited. Christine Back is a New Jersey-based photographer and educator who grew up at the Jersey Shor
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/christine-back-pv-revisited/
I also shared the growing series of alumni diptychs and many wished they could have gone to high school before cell phones, laptops, and social media. They settled for posing in front of my moldy, taped up Hasselblad. After the valued, yet frustrating experience of being beholden to source images, I found the freedom of shooting without those constraints immensely refreshing. I had to laugh though when most of them said they’d be back in ten years for me to shoot them again. I don’t know if I’ll be around that long, but I’ll try to hang in there until they get out of college or the army.
This week we are looking at the work of artists who submitted projects during our most recent call-for-entries. Today, Virginia Villacisla and I discuss Presencio & The Rural Kids. Virginia Villacisla was born in Burgos, a medium-sized town in northern Sp
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/virginia-villacisla-presencio-the-rural-kids/
Virginia’s personal experiences and the contrast between her rural upbringing and city life inspired her project, ‘Presencio & The Rural Kids.’ This project captures how young people interact with the rural areas they inherit from their parents. Virginia’s work has won awards in photography competitions and been featured in photography festivals and exhibitions across Spain. It has also been published in magazines like EXIT and newspapers like El País Semanal.
Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mateusz-kowalik-devil-s-rib
Turning his lens on people who have chosen to live in remote Poland, Mateusz Kowalik’s award-winning book explores the lure of the wild and the tensions that arise when one turns their back on the comforts of modernity.
Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North . • BA: Congrats on P.Nort…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2023/09/q-with-kathryn-mccool.html
Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North.
The NYPD also admitted the photographers had the First Amendment right to record police activity in public.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/09/05/photojournalists-and-nppa-achieve-historic-settlement-with-the-nypd/
The NYPD now must implement policies and trainings to avoid the wrongful arrests and harassment of members of the press. NYPD officers are prohibited from arresting, restricting, or interfering with members of the press of merely observing or recording police activity in public places. The NYPD must provide journalists with access “to any location where the public is permitted” and cannot put up tape or establish “frozen zones” for the purpose of preventing the press from viewing or recording events in public spaces.
Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, Sam Youkilis finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of “la dolce vita.”
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/la-dolce-vita-according-to-sam-youkilis/
Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, the photographer finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of Italy.
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/app-three-years-later/
The Polish photographers decided that their separate work needed to come together and live in a shared space: the Archive of Public Protests (APP). In addition, the work would be shared not only online but also in physical form, as a mass-produced newsprint publication that was going to be handed out at demonstrations: the Strike newspaper was born.
Canon is developing technology to ensure authentic images.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/31/canon-and-reuters-develop-new-photo-authentication-technology/
Utilizing the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, Reuters, Canon, and Starling Lab suggest that the pilot program can “ease concerns about content’s legitimacy.”
Utilizing the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, Reuters, Canon, and Starling Lab suggest that the pilot program can “ease concerns about content’s legitimacy.”
I was thrilled to see Liz Albert’s name on my line-up for the New England Portfolio Reviews as we had previously shared her project, Family Fictions and I am a fan of her work. She shared a new collaborative project with me, Instant Classic, created with
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/09/liz-albert/
In my latest project, Instant Classic, my collaborator, Shane VanOosterhout, and I have been sleuthing and acquiring anonymous Polaroids circa 1960-2000. Discarded photo albums, shoeboxes packed with forgotten snapshots; images lost beneath decades of clutter. Years ago, our subjects showed up for a Christmas party, a romantic encounter, 10th-grade geometry. Responding to cues from what we perceive in these Polaroids, we add poignant and humorous phrases from our personal journals and recent conversations – inner thoughts we imagine the individuals and their observers may be thinking and feeling.
A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/evelyn-hofers-tender-gaze/
A retrospective in London showcases the brilliance and breadth of the photographer’s sensitive portraiture.
The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at MOMA, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian capital as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/lagos-glimpsed-from-seven-vantages
The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at moma, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian capital as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-problem-with-helmut-newton/
You could argue that what I described in the preceding paragraph is bad enough for it to disqualify the man’s photography. I would certainly agree. But Newton’s photography actually is a lot worse for additional reasons that I’m hoping to make clear in the following.
Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.
via AP News: https://apnews.com/article/patrick-hamilton-central-america-war-photographer-132a92e416fde93ec8b809bb1910f653
Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer
William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/unearthing-the-history-of-anaheim
William Camargo’s photographs confront the city’s racist past, provoking controversy in the present.
Following in her grandfather’s footsteps, the photographer Sarah Wilson digs for fossils in the West Texas desert.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/08/in-the-footsteps-of-her-grandfather-an-artist-digs-for-fossils/
The photographer Sarah Wilson’s grandfather, Dr. John A. Wilson, was a paleontologist whose work took him to some of the most remote and rugged landscapes of the West Texas desert. About a year before he died, he gifted her with three boxes, filled with the Kodachrome slides he’d made during digs throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, and used during his time as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
He came back to his home country to document the war.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/21/photographer-details-the-horror-and-hope-of-documenting-the-war-in-ukraine/
Roman Pilpey, who is Ukrainian himself, has traveled the world and was not in the country when Putin’s troops crossed the border but he felt compelled to come back to home to cover the fighting. He estimates that he has taken hundreds of thousands of photos since the conflict began in February 2022.