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
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 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.”
What does it mean to be alone? To be isolated from the people and things we hold dearest? Since the pandemic, it seems like we all have an answer to this very question. Some people embraced the mandatory isolation while others struggled being forced to be
Artist William Mark Sommer explores what it meant to be truly alone in his project, The Loneliest Highway. Taking a road trip along the Lincoln Highway in Nevada, Sommers documented spaces that felt barren and empty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in an effort to capture this new way of living — closed off and separated from one another
Given that geolocations can be time-consuming, researchers are always on the lookout for tools which can ease or automate parts of the process. That’s where new AI tools come in – particularly chatbots, with their impressive ability to find and process information.
As a British artist living and working in Ukraine, Mark Neville shares an account of his experiences in a country that has now been under siege for more than 500 days. Known for his long-term, immersive documentary projects in various places, from Glasgow
As a British artist living and working in Ukraine, Mark Neville shares an account of his experiences in a country that has now been under siege for more than 500 days. Known for his long-term, immersive documentary projects in various places, from Glasgow to Helmand Province, Neville reflects on reconciling the urge to document what is happening in his adopted home with the waves of grief, fear and horror felt as the war has unfolded in real time.
“We plan to focus even more directly on distinctive, high-impact news and enterprise journalism about how sports intersect with money, power, culture, politics and society at large,” the editors wrote in an email to The Times’s newsroom on Monday morning. “At the same time, we will scale back the newsroom’s coverage of games, players, teams and leagues.”
This week we are featuring projects seen at the Medium Photo Portfolio Reviews. If a future anthropologist were to go back in time to 2020 and look for clues to a world wide pandemic, the masks and gloves and hand sanitizers would be deep into landfills,
Artist Ari Salomon has created a project of unique typologies that reflect the symbols created to assist us in staying covid-free. As the world returns to some new form of normalcy, these remnants become part of our histories, paint and tape etched into sidewalks and floors. In viewing a collection of this new language, Solomon moves these humble gestures into a new artform of street art. The work is expanded by a zine and unique installations.
Documenting her journey from Ukraine to The Netherlands with her mother, Hanna Hrabarska’s visual diary grapples with the experience of being forced to leave one’s home in the face of war—and the challenges of arriving in a new country
Documenting her journey from Ukraine to The Netherlands with her mother, Hanna Hrabarska’s visual diary grapples with the experience of being forced to leave one’s home in the face of war—and the challenges of arriving in a new country.
Patterson’s photographs served as plainspoken time capsules of the community. In a 2008 documentary called “Captured,” which chronicles his life on the Lower East Side, he says, “Looking out on the street is like being in an aquarium, and when I look out on the street I see this activity all day long.”
All through the weekend, as I passed by, there were different people, different characters. I photographed them whenever I saw someone different. When I got the film back, I looked at the faces, and there were fourteen different people. So, I put together a zine. I printed something like twenty copies, and slipped fourteen of them into the mailbox for Gary. When I went to the barbershop next to get my hair cut—this is pre-pandemic—they said, “Gary brought in the book that you made for him.” He had brought it in to show to them. Now all the guys, when I see them, they’re like, Oh, you made that book for us! That exchange is part of my practice.
