Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white phot
Opening Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria is like stepping through the revolving doors of that now-defunct establishment, into the world of New York’s vanished cafeteria culture. Marcia Bricker Halperin’s evocative black and white photographs transport us there with the same wonder she felt when she first entered Dubrow’s on a cold morning in 1975
Jana Ašenbrennerová is a Czech photojournalist currently based in San Francisco. Her specialties include social documentary and environmental portraiture. She dedicates her time to international reporting, pursuing independent projects primarily in Africa
Connecting with all kinds of people is the biggest gift I get from my work. If I ever have to choose only one thing I can photograph for the rest of my life there would be no doubt what I would choose. There is nothing I’m drawn to more than people.
Taylor Galloway’s newest publication, I Can Feel You Dreaming from Deadbeat Club invites the viewer along for what seems like an American road trip with the cozy familiars of train crossings and prairie bison. But linger a bit longer and you may feel the
Taylor Galloway’s newest publication, I Can Feel You Dreaming from Deadbeat Club invites the viewer along for what seems like an American road trip with the cozy familiars of train crossings and prairie bison. But linger a bit longer and you may feel the stir of a fever dream. We are on this train barreling full speed through metaphor and archetype.
Doused in bright sunlight, friends and strangers are immortalized in front of Nico Froehlich’s lens, coming together to form “South of the River” — a fond portrait of the area of London where he grew up
Doused in bright sunlight, friends and strangers are immortalized in front of Nico Froehlich’s lens, coming together to form “South of the River” — a fond portrait of the area of London where he grew up.
In Jonas Kulikauskas’s black and white photographs, the peaceful streets of Vilnius, Lithuania, hide a dark secret. The cobblestones trace the footprint of the Vilna Ghetto, where nearly 40,000 Jews lived during the Holocaust
The book Ukraine: A War Crime brings together the work of 93 photographers who covered the first year of the war in Ukraine, documenting the fighting, its effects on the population, and the visual evidence of war crimes.
20 Days in Mariupol by Mstyslav Chernov traces the Russian siege of the port in harrowing detail. Here, he discusses his documentary with a fellow war reporter
It is a brave, visceral, merciless masterpiece. I’ll stake a claim, for what it’s worth: after decades of war reporting, and watching hundreds of films about war, there are few, if any, like this. Chernov’s film documents Russia’s shocking war crimes against Mariupol on a vast, epic scale, in counterpoint to detail so intimate it borders on unbearable, as it should.
Family pictures have changed a lot over the years. We used to go to the mall with our families, all dressed up, to pose for a formal portrait. But now, family pictures look more like a magazine shoot. You’re in a field somewhere, laughing, walking, playin
Jill McNamara began as a photojournalist, but, when she had kids, she began doing family photography — the kinds in fields with very carefully chosen, not-quite-matching family outfits.
“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.”
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
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
