The problem of exploitation in photography is a topic I see trending particularly toward dogmatic and cyclical patterns. Exploitation in photography is broadly the photographers’ “unfair” use of depictions they include in their photographs (people, places, events, etc) for their selfish benefit or at least a benefit that does not reach their subjects.
From Nottingham living rooms to New York dance floors and Los Angeles’s surf scene, the British photographer has created records of subcultures that brim with life.
The annual World Press Photo Contest has announced the regional winners of its 2023 competition. The 24 winners and six honorable mentions use photography to call attention to the world’s major issues in 2022, including war, historic protests, and the global climate crisis.
Moises Saman’s new book brings together his original imagery with materials and military documents to reflect on the subjective nature of portraying conflict
The photojournalist’s new book brings together his original imagery with materials and military documents to reflect on the subjective nature of portraying conflict
As a newsroom lawyer, I hope journalists resist the urge to pay for a blue check and leave the platform for good. It doesn’t benefit their careers, doesn’t drive traffic to their employers’ websites and opens them up not only to defamation litigation and charges of bias, but also to threats and risk of bodily harm.
Photography is a universal language and a powerful tool for positive change. My job is to make people care by providing a mirror for society to examine itself.
“Humankind repeats the same mistakes over and over again,” Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the war in Ukraine from when it began in 2014 until 2019, tells me. “People never learn, so I did not go on assignment ‘to stop war’ or teach someone a lesson. My agenda was far more realistic if not primitive.
The theme of this year’s Rotterdam Photo, an annual photography festival, was “Freedom Redefined,” and I was lucky enough to exhibit 34 prints from my work on women with life sentences, both inside prison and after they’ve regained their freedom. This wee
Isaiah Winter’s series, “This Land is Your Land,” is a comprehensive multimedia project exploring the history of the U.S. National Park system, challenging the viewer to “question their ideas of land, nostalgia and nationalism.”
“Humankind repeats the same mistakes over and over again,” Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the war in Ukraine from when it began in 2014 until 2019, tells me. “People never learn, so I did not go on assignment ‘to stop war’ or teach someone a lesson. My agenda was far more realistic if not primitive.
One of those photos stayed with Phelps. It shows a barefoot Stanley seated on the concrete hallway floor just outside the motel room, cellphone in her left hand, cigarette in her right. She appears to be deep in a conversation. The bruising under her left eye is black. A foot or two away is Nyx’s frame in the doorway. The little girl stares ahead.
Early in my undergraduate studies in photography, I discovered Isadora Kosofsky’s work, and I immediately wrote her name down as a source of inspiration. Her use of light, the intimacy she captured, the clear care for her subjects that radiated from the i
Early in my undergraduate studies in photography, I discovered Isadora Kosofsky’s work, and I immediately wrote her name down as a source of inspiration. Her use of light, the intimacy she captured, the clear care for her subjects that radiated from the images… it was all encompassing of the photographer I hoped I would one day become. When I got the chance to meet her this past year as she gave a lecture at my university, I could feel the excitement flowing through my veins at the prospect of hearing her talk about her work and showing her my own. When I was asked to contribute to the Photographers on Photographers, I knew that I wanted to continue the conversations that had begun earlier this year, especially as I have recently graduated and am entering the art world. It felt like a perfect full circle moment, and I hope this conversation can benefit other young photographers as it has for me.
With this understanding, the common tendency to fault discussions about ethics in photography is quite odd. Why wouldn’t you want to understand the possible obligations that come with powerful photography? What is the mindset behind arguing against taking responsibility for what you are creating?
‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to capture the fall
‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to capture the fallout of conflict and displacement
Fifty years ago, Augusto Pinochet staged a violent coup in Chile. Evandro Teixeira went to the capital and captured startling images of soldiers, protesters, and the funeral procession of Pablo Neruda.
Teixeira’s photos in Chile are the main subject of a retrospective at the Instituto Moreira Salles, in São Paulo, from March to July. They provide haunting depictions of the aftermath of a military coup, when quotidian life is assaulted by a new regime that has claimed for itself a right to extrajudicial violence. I recently met Teixeira at the institute’s offices in Rio de Janeiro, along with the organizers of the upcoming exhibition. Teixeira is burly, and spoke with a raspy drawl, partly a result of age and partly from a recent battle with covid. He described his Santiago trip with a mix of gravity and mischievousness that seemed typical of not only his personality but his style.
Leica has announced the winners of its fourth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award. The announcement arrives on International Women’s Day, an annual global holiday celebrating the wide-ranging achievements of women.
Honoring many of the women who inspire us daily — photographers, artists, writers, designers, researchers, poets, curators, art directors, editors, visionaries
In celebration of International Women’s Day 2023, we honor many of the women who inspire us daily — photographers, artists, writers, designers, researchers, poets, curators, art directors, editors, visionaries. Here are 24 of the most popular articles and interviews published in LensCulture in the past year. We hope you find some true inspiration from these remarkable women.
“Borderlands, an American Journey” by Francesco Anselmi Along a border at the center of the political and journalistic debate, “Borderlands” aims to develop a narration capable of going…
Along a border at the center of the political and journalistic debate, “Borderlands” aims to develop a narration capable of going beyond the emergency perspective under which the US/Mexico border related issues are often presented and to vehicle the complexity of this 3600 kilometers long line that has been crossed by migrants and travelers for decades.
