Man… I’ll keep the novel short. I was really interested in what I would later learn was the Szarkowski canon, but my professors having come from a very postmodern perspective were not interested in revisiting or deepening or complicating any of that MoMA photo stuff. Someone like Earlie Hudnall was living down the street and we were never told about him. Geoff Winningham was teaching about one neighborhood over and we were never told about him. Provoke never came up. Magnum never came up. Atget was seen as a joke that the Surrealists played on the world. We saw bits in photo history, but in studio these were not traditions that really came up. So I was making photographs against the current. Then you throw in the very important factor that all but one (and an important one she turned out to be) were white Americans with very little curiosity past their own educations, and school was often painful.
World Press Photo has disinvited a Russian photographer from the awards ceremony in Amsterdam after the competition awarded him a prize in its 2025 competition.
Matthew Genitempo is someone I consider a friend. A friend whose work has long been an inspiration for me. When he and I started talking about doing something for Lenscratch, it was his suggestion that we put our work in conversation. Our books—Dogbreath and A Poor Sort of Memory—were made in different deserts, but explore
Our books—Dogbreath and A Poor Sort of Memory—were made in different deserts, but explore similar territory. Both are portraits of coming of age through a tangle of grief, nostalgia, and the psychic residue of place. What started as a conversation about our individual processes turned into something deeper: a dialogue between two bodies of work that seem to be speaking the same language, just with different accents. I am happy to share this space with Matt and our conversation with all of you.
Modern photojournalism, too, is often guilty of the same sin. Too many photographers lean on the image-as-statement: this happened here. They stop at the event, never asking what it means, why it matters, or what comes next. The visual language becomes mechanical—predictable, hollow. If every image is worth a thousand words, we are living in a cacophony of empty phrases.
The Associated Press (AP) has introduced AI search to its content library which, the news and picture agency says, will make it easier to discover and use its vast collection of visual, audio, and text content.
Evan Vucci of the Associated Press picked up Political Photo of the Year for his already iconic shot of Trump waving a fist in the air moments after being shot at. Meanwhile, Jabin Botsford of The Washington Post won Photographer of the Year in part for his sequence of shots taken that same day.
Periodically returning from New York to his hometown in British Columbia, Kalum Ko’s keenly observed ongoing series charts the emotional push and pull of the community he grew up in.
Austin Quintana’s documentation of life in New Mexico taps into a sense of timelessness, picturing a place that feels as though it hasn’t changed in centuries.
World Press Photo apologized for its controversial decision to present two award-winning images captured by two different photographers as a thematic pair. One of the images showed a six-year-old Ukrainian child suffering from panic attacks following Russian artillery shelling, while the other showed a wounded pro-Russian militant.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta has spent much of his time photographing social anthropology and social conflicts around the world. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, he has focused on the war there. In “Stages of Air,” he captures the dissonance between the peaceful landscapes of Donbas with the horrors of combat.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had a clear connection to history—exploring
After casting my vote on Election Day 2020, I visited Spring Hill in Barbour County, Alabama, where on November 3, 1874, a White mob attacked the Spring Hill polling station, destroyed the ballot box, burned the ballots inside, and killed the election supervisor’s son. Many of the perpetrators of the massacre were known, but no one was ever convicted
This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedoms concerning speech, religion, the media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and seek redress for wrongs.
“We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories,” said Evan Vucci, the AP’s chief photographer in Washington, D.C. He and White House correspondent Zeke Miller testified Thursday during a hearing for the AP’s lawsuit challenging the ban. The AP is seeking a preliminary injunction to temporarily lift the ban as its lawsuit makes its way through court.
World Press Photo has announced the winners of its 2025 World Press Photo Contest, showcasing some of the world’s best photojournalism and documentary photography.
Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat along with our partners at Forbidden Stories, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Der Standard, Paper Trail Media, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and RFI identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images.
Texas has dropped charges against Sally Mann after a grand jury declined to take action against the controversial photographer and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where her photos were exhibited in January.
The news agency Agence-France Presse (AFP) has demanded the release of its jailed Turkish photojournalist Yasin Akgül who was detained while covering protests in Istanbul.
