When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-frank-tender-portrait-of-her-parents-final-year
When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time.
Athleticism and competitive spirit are on display in the winners of the World Sports Photography Awards.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/22/golfer-in-the-clouds-wins-the-world-sports-photography-awards-2023/
The World Sports Photography Awards celebrate the best in professional sports photography worldwide. This year’s 24 winners showcase the incredible athleticism and impactful stories that endear so many people to the world of sports.
Getty Images is among the signatories.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/10/photo-agencies-publish-open-letter-demanding-ai-copyright-protection/
The world’s leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).
Matt Eich is a tenacious storyteller, whose work is largely defined by long-term projects that offer intimate depictions of the American condition. I first saw Matt’s photographs as a featured alumni on the Eddie Adams Workshop site in 2006. At that time,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/08/photographers-on-photographers-zachary-kaufman-in-conversation-with-matt-eich/
Matt Eich: You are right that the photographer dance is a tricky one – how to be emotionally engaged and present while also removed enough to see things clearly and render a scene in a lasting way? I advocate for young photographers getting to know their tools the way a musician knows their instrument. When it comes time to make, you don’t want to be caught up in the technical, you want to be in a somewhat Zen state, so the camera is less of a barrier between you and what is unfolding and more of a conduit for channeling a shared experience. This is idealistic, but occasionally comes to fruition.
She oversaw Modern Photography for 20 years and wrote an acclaimed book about her rough-and-tumble childhood, some of it spent in an orphanage and in remote Alaska.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/books/julia-scully-dead.html
Ms. Scully was also the project director of “The Family of Woman,” a 1979 book of pictures of women from around the world, for which she sifted through 300,000 photographs. It was a response to the photographer and curator Edward Steichen’s popular book “The Family of Man,” which spun off a successful exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955.
via Jordi Ruiz Cirera / Leica Oskar Barnack Award: https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/bildstrecken-finalisten/2023/jordi-ruiz-cirera.html
via Rania Matar / Leica Oskar Barnack Award: https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/bildstrecken-finalisten/2023/rania-matar.html
The photographer once believed that he had to turn his back on his Chinese culture. Today, his images embrace authenticity.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/reagan-louie-on-surviving-the-american-dream/
As I’ve talked about, I didn’t know why I had gone back to China. And there were awkward silences with the curator when the conversation veered away from formal aesthetic issues. At one point, I remember I was trying to talk about my feelings, to try to communicate what was at stake for me. The curator was dismissive. He said he didn’t care about my feelings, only his. It just shut down that conversation. I was really pondering whether I had what it took to be an artist. I was really dejected after that encounter. I tried to step away from art and tried to quit. I applied to business school. I was convinced I didn’t measure up. And I was also tired of always being in debt.
via Jonas Kakó / Leica Oskar Barnack Award: https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/bildstrecken-finalisten/2023/jonas-kako.html
via Gustavo Minas / Leica Oskar Barnack Award: https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/bildstrecken-finalisten/2023/gustavo-minas.html
Roger Ballen generously took the time to speak with me via Zoom from South Africa. It was truly an honor to interview him as I have been a fan of his for a long time. His work reaches into the psyche, it is deeply disturbing while also embracing the absur
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/08/photographers-on-photographers-suzanne-t-white-in-conversation-with-roger-ballen/
Well, see I’ve never really thought of it as a profession. Rather, it is the creative process, which is automatic and ritualistic, like brushing my teeth. I don’t think about how I should or shouldn’t do it or why I am doing it.
The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-haunting-portrait-of-newarks-bloody-summer-of-unrest
The photographer who captured Bass, Jr., for the cover of Life was Bud Lee, a twenty-six-year-old who had spent the past three years as a military photographer for Stars & Stripes before being recruited to Life by Peggy Sargent, the magazine’s photo editor. Prior to the Newark assignment, he had been dispatched to document the first legal abortion in the United States, in Denver. (The magazine never printed the images.) On the day he was assigned to cover the events in Newark, he had been shooting a portrait of a Wall Street stockbroker. The summer meant a dearth of other available photographers, and he was asked to step in, accompanied by the reporter Dale Wittner.
Every year, the Lenscratch Student Prize Awards give us an opportunity to celebrate and support the next generation of photographic artists. Hundreds of artists shared their work with us– powerful creative voices that make us truly excited about the futur
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/07/lenscratch-student-prize-2023-top-26-to-watch/
Every year, the Lenscratch Student Prize Awards give us an opportunity to celebrate and support the next generation of photographic artists. Hundreds of artists shared their work with us– powerful creative voices that make us truly excited about the future. Before we begin the celebration of our 7 winners tomorrow, we wanted to shine a light on 26 photographers that you should have (and keep) on your radar. Congratulations to all!
You’re invited to saunter through the curving streets of this Tuscan hill-top town while you discover 26 remarkable photo exhibitions on the theme of More or Less
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/cortona-on-the-move-cortona-s-13th-international-photo-festival-summertime-bliss-in-italy
You’re invited to saunter through the curving streets of this Tuscan hill-top town while you discover 26 remarkable photo exhibitions on the theme of More or Less.
Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-photographer-searching-for-freedom-in-palestine/
Adam Rouhana’s images oscillate between moments of beauty and scenes of colonization, providing an intimate view of life under Israeli occupation.
Instagram dodges again.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/19/instagram-beats-photographers-copyright-case-over-embedded-images/
In 2021, photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer filed a class action lawsuit against Instagram in federal court.
His untimely death serves as a reminder of the dangers war zone photographers face.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/18/the-stunning-work-of-a-pulitzer-winning-photographer-killed-by-the-taliban/
Siddiqui’s photos have now been collated into a new book that showcases the photos he captured in his native country of India and beyond.
Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges. But a career in photojournalism wasn’t what she originally set out to do.
via Santa Rosa Press Democrat: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/press-democrat-photojournalist-beth-schlanker-on-the-devotion-to-community/
Beth Schlanker has documented the region’s biggest disasters, crises and challenges. But a career in photojournalism wasn’t what she originally set out to do.|
Marie-Laure de Decker, the French model who stepped behind the camera to become an internationally recognised war photographer, has died at the age of 75, her family said Saturday.
via France 24: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230715-french-war-photographer-marie-laure-de-decker-dead-at-75-1
On the other hand, she added: “There is an advantage to being a woman, as was the case in South Africa — they don’t kill you right away, they give you a chance.”