‘I’ve given my heart and soul to the company.’
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/09/la-times-cuts-74-newsroom-positions-including-several-photographers/
“Found this out via this article, before getting notice from HR while I’m on my honeymoon,” he writes. “Of the photo dept members who received notice today, all are people of color, and if cut, the photo dept won’t have Spanish speakers.”
The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/joel-meyerowitz-ready-for-surprise-joel-meyerowtiz-interview-2020
Yeah, I don’t have a strategy when I go out. I’ve learned over all these years that you can plan, but you can’t plan the outcome. You just say, I’m going out. You know, I’m going to go take a walk on Regent Street, or I’m going to go to Soho, or I’m going to go somewhere because I haven’t been there and I’d like to see what it feels like to me.
In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/18/generative-ai-is-a-minefield-for-copyright-law/
Should the artists whose art was scraped to train the models be compensated? Who owns the images that AI systems produce? Is the process of fine-tuning prompts for generative AI a form of authentic creative expression?
A flamboyant photojournalist with the moxie to stand up to autocrats, she captured the intimate moments of leading figures of the 20th century.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/arts/lisl-steiner-dead.html
A flamboyant photojournalist with the moxie to stand up to autocrats, she captured the intimate moments of leading figures of the 20th century.
Rian Dundon’s new book, “Protest City,” captures the unrest in the Oregon capital in 2020, through curated portraits and scenes of unusual intimacy.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-portlands-summer-of-rage
Rian Dundon’s new book, “Protest City,” captures the unrest in the Oregon capital in 2020, through curated portraits and scenes of unusual intimacy.
What makes a great ‘street’ photograph? Erik Vroons explores the infinite possibilities of the genre while reflecting on the diverse work of five Dutch photographers
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/erik-vroons-finding-common-ground-in-street-photography
What makes a great ‘street’ photograph? Erik Vroons explores the infinite possibilities of the genre while reflecting on the diverse work of five Dutch photographers.
Congratulations to Matilde Simas for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing her project, Woman Rising: Surviving Human Trafficking. CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-matilde-simas-woman-rising-surviving-human-trafficking/
At the core of this work resides the belief that visual storytelling has the power to change the world. Woman Rising: Surviving Human Trafficking is a multimedia and civic engagement project that strives to educate communities on the atrocity of human trafficking and encourage them to support survivors as they heal and rebuild their lives.
The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-afro-esotericism-of-awol-erizku
The prolific artist knows that contemporary Blackness, made and unmade on the stage of capitalism, is as much defined by its spiritual reckonings as it is by the elemental stuff.
Congratulations to Harvey Castro for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Los Olvidados. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/06/center-excellence-in-multimedia-storytelling-award-harvey-castro-los-olvidados/
These stories are a powerful reminder of marginalized communities’ ongoing struggle in the wake of natural disasters. Their plight highlights how a lack of equity and representation leaves them without effective agency, struggling to survive and rebuild. It is essential to remember that natural disasters have a lasting impact, and we must provide support to ensure that communities can recover and thrive. By highlighting these stories, I hope to bring attention to the need for action and change in the face of climate-related disasters. – Harvey Castro
The photographer Ofir Berman captures two entangled realities.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-along-israels-separation-wall
Israelis are forbidden from crossing the wall to Palestinian city centers, yet the Israeli photographer Ofir Berman has managed to find a way to her subjects, through Palestinian friends she met while working in a refugee camp in the Greek island of Leros. Once she got to know the stories of the people living in the West Bank, she says, “I wasn’t able to look back.” Berman has spent the past year frequenting both sides of the wall, documenting daily life in one of the most contested stretches of land in the world. Her lens captures the rhythms of men, women, and children who happen to be Israeli or Palestinian, of routines that appear strikingly similar for occupier and occupied
Congratulations to Mykle Parker for being selected for CENTER’s Me&Eve Grant recognizing their project, Rage 4 Rights. The Me&Eve Grant provides financial support to a woman, female-identified, non-binary, transgender, gender non-conforming, or two-spirit
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/center-meeve-grant-mykle-parker-rage-4-rights/
Rage 4 Rights is an ongoing series documenting the controversial group Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, and its dedication to the fight for equality and access to free/safe legal abortions available to all women in the United States through daring, nonviolent, disruptive protest that illuminate that rage women are feeling after Roe vs Wade was overturned.
Significant upgrades for the Q series.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/25/the-new-leica-q3-60mp-photos-8k-video-and-much-improved-autofocus/
Leica has announced the Q3, the third-generation of the Q series cameras that pairs a fixed-lens Summilux 28mm f/1.7 ASPH with a 60-megapixel backside illuminated (BSI) sensor equipped with phase detect autofocus.
In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the city
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/solo-exhibition/sam-ferris-in-visible-light
In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the city streets.
From Harry Gruyaert’s photos from the 1980s to Christian Lutz’s documentation of the City of Lights, explore Las Vegas photography over time.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/05/sin-city-las-vegas-photography-through-the-decades/
Geoffrey Ellis captures the spirit of Las Vegas in the 1970s and 80s, while Markus Altmann photographs the city in the 1990s. Meanwhile, Stephanie Diani introduces us to the legends of burlesque, while Stefanie Moshammer shows us why Vegas is known as the “strip club capital of the world.” In this collection of Las Vegas photography, six photographers document Sin City, then and now.
To be a tour manager and a photographer is to be attuned to the slightest of details. The exact time every band member needs to be on stage for sound check; ensuring that every piece of gear is on the tour bus at the end of the night. The exact slant of l
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/rachel-demy-between-everywhere/
Between, Everywhere is the culmination of my experience as a photographer, professional tour manager, and Death Cab for Cutie family member. This book is about a band, but more specifically, a band on tour. Tour is something I know a lot about.
This conversation with the fabulous Alayna N. Pernell felt like a breath of fresh air. Discussions around money and finances and costs can feel awkward and taboo. We have been taught that it is impolite to compare pay or talk about where somebody gets th
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/drew-leventhal-and-alayna-pernell/
This conversation with the fabulous Alayna N. Pernell felt like a breath of fresh air. Discussions around money and finances and costs can feel awkward and taboo. We have been taught that it is impolite to compare pay or talk about where somebody gets their money. These are conversations that can feel dark and dirty.
Link: https://shows.acast.com/themessytruth/episodes/jacqueline-bates-on-photo-direction
Throughout her career, Photo Director Jacqueline Bates has harnessed the power of photography to give visual journalism new dimension. During our conversation, we talk about her new role at the New York Times Opinion section in which she’s publishing up to 90 stories a week. We discuss the blurring of art and editorial, how she works with emerging talent and we visit some of her most fascinating commissions. As you will hear throughout the episode, Jackie is deeply committed to her responsibility as a photo director, always in service of the story, while taking creative risks and expanding the notion of who can work editorially in meaningful ways.
Templeton’s images, taken between 1995 and 2012, capture the intimacy and aimlessness of being on tour.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/ed-templetons-unsparing-photographic-diary-of-skateboarding-life
Templeton’s book is unsparing but nonjudgmental. The damage accumulates slowly, as what seems at first like youthful fun grows more uneasy. Young female fans lift up their shirts to get their torsos autographed; a skater chops lines of cocaine; just about everyone bleeds, especially Templeton, who says he has suffered six serious concussions over the years, not all of which he remembers. (In this world, helmets are not merely optional—they are effectively banned.)
Photographers Win!
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The United States Supreme Court has released its opinion on The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, finding in favor of Lynn Goldsmith and stating that Warhol’s use of her photo was not fair use.
Arko Datto speaks with curator Willemijn van der Zwaan about Kings of a Bereft Land currently on display at Photomuseum The Hague, the Netherlands.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/arko-datto/
Arko Datto speaks with Willemijn van der Zwaan about Kings of a Bereft Land currently on display at Photomuseum The Hague, the Netherlands. They discuss the challenges of portraying the psychological effects of the ongoing planetary crisis, creating hyper-structures for multiple projects and the fundamental role of the artist in altering perception and shifting viewpoints by proposing new ways of seeing.