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The Year in Pictures 2022

Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/year-in-pictures.html

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. Recently, every year seems like a history-making year: a pandemic that killed millions; an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol; and, in 2022, a war with frightening echoes of the 20th century’s devastating world wars.

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December 19, 2022
In the Midwest, Alessandra Sanguinetti Blurs Fact with Fiction

The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/in-the-midwest-alessandra-sanguinetti-blurs-fact-with-fiction/

The photographer’s latest photobook journeys to Wisconsin, depicting a world of uncanny originality and intrigue.

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December 14, 2022
Max Pinckers’s Spectacular World Cup

Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/max-pinckerss-spectacular-world-cup

Finding documentary photography’s blind spots at the world’s biggest sporting event.

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December 14, 2022
2022: A Year of visual tech in review – Kaptur

What were the most talked about technologies of 2022? What happened in visual tech? And who were the biggest disappointments?

via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/2022-a-year-of-visual-tech-in-review/

The year is coming to an end, and unlike the previous years, things are not quieting down. In fact, it’s increasing. 2022 is undoubtedly the year of Generative AI. And with it, not only a flurry of applications but many, many questions, if not anxieties. While other events might have happened in the visual space this past year, nothing will be as much remembered as the shockwave created by the successive public releases of DallE, Stable AI and Midjourney. It’s too bad because other technologies, like Neural Radiance Field ( NeRF), can certainly benefit from more exposure. If anything, 2022 has demonstrated that nothing is ever settled in the world of visual tech.

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December 13, 2022
How We Saw the Arts This Year

These are the images that defined a remarkable time across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/arts/best-arts-photos-2022.html

Together, these photographs capture a narrative about a year in the arts, building a collection of evolving scenes and inner worlds. We asked some of the photographers to discuss the intentions behind these frames and the stories they saw within them. Now that the year is coming to a close, take one more look back at how we saw culture this year. — JOLIE RUBEN, senior photo editor

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December 12, 2022
Publisher’s Spotlight: Brown Owl Press – LENSCRATCH

This past year we have been focusing on books on Lenscratch. In order to understand the contemporary photobook landscape, we are interviewing and celebrating significant photography book publishers, large and small, who are elevating photographs on the pa

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/publishers-spotlight-brown-owl-press/

Brown Owl Press is an independent publisher of photo books and zines based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2013 by Al Palmer, they focus on narrative photographic stories in printed form. Brown Owl Press was initially inspired by such publishing concerns as Antler Press, A-Jump Books and Little Brown Mushroom. Palmer drew the logo and a two year plan out in a coffee shop in Honolulu while traveling, and started Brown Owl Press when he returned to the UK later that year. 23 releases later and they’re still going strong.

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December 11, 2022
Favorite Photobooks 2022 – Compiled by LensCulture Editors | | LensCulture

28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-2022

28 curators, artists, editors and photography experts share their personal favorite photobooks from 2022 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations.

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December 11, 2022
Germany Week: STEPHAN ZIRWES – LENSCRATCH

This week Lenscratch will turn its sights upon the artistic output of German photographers who present a broad array of the personal, social, historical, and political influences of life in contemporary Germany. Germany’s contributions to the photographic realm are extensive from the earliest days of the genre. From August Sander’s People of the 20th Century,

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/12/germany-week-stephan-zirwes/

Entering the photographic realm of Stephan Zirwes is an adventure in looking at the world from an entirely unique perspective. Your perception of swimming pools, airplanes, glaciers, oceans and many other subjects will be altered by his unusual point of view…directly overhead from various heights

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December 9, 2022
“Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin

“Mezen: By Sky’s Edge” by Emil Gataullin “Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cro…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/12/mezen-by-skys-edge-by-emil-gataullin/

“Here is a door behind which the hidden is revealed, enter and you will see not what one wants to see but what is” — writing on a big wooden cross, Kuloy village, Arkhangelsk region, Russia.

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December 9, 2022
In an Abandoned Soviet-Era Town, The Scars of War Remain – Feature Shoot

When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/12/in-an-abandoned-soviet-era-town-the-scars-of-war-remain/

When the photographer Hossein Fardinfard first visited the Soviet-era buildings of Tskaltubo, Georgia, he was struck by an overwhelming sense of stillness and silence. Though many of these spaces had been abandoned, there were, in fact, people living here–-all of them displaced by a war that changed everything more than 30 years ago. They opened their doors to him.

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December 9, 2022
The Incredible Life’s Work of an Irish Street Photographer

Simply wonderful work.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/12/02/irish-street-photographer-reveals-incredible-lifes-work/

The Light of Day by Tony O’Shea depicts Ireland’s working classes in gritty urban environments. O’Shea’s images have both religious and political themes.

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December 6, 2022
Dacia & Chauffeur – Photographs and text by Horatiu Sava | LensCulture

A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/horatiu-sava-dacia-chauffeur

A visual love story to the most common automobile on the roads of Romania, and the people who drive them.

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December 5, 2022
A Decade Among the Mennonites

Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.

via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/744838/larry-towell-a-decade-among-the-mennonites/

The Mennonites (GOST Books, 2022) records Towell’s decade among the Mennonites as they struggle to hold on amid changing times and hard luck. Out of print for the past 20 years, the newly edited, updated, and revised book features more than 100 photos, including 40 that have never before been published.

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November 30, 2022
The Best and Worst of Times: Talking Photobooks With Aperture’s Lesley Martin – Interview with Lesley Martin, Aperture’s Creative Director | LensCulture

A leading expert in the field shares her thoughts on the “golden age” of photobooks and offers advice to aspiring authors

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aperture-foundation-the-best-and-worst-of-times-talking-photobooks-with-aperture-s-lesley-martin

If you can’t answer those questions honestly, you’re not ready to publish a book. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t make your own book. Go ahead and make a dummy; make a small private edition; play around with the form. But publishing a book is a slightly different step from making a book, practically speaking.

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November 29, 2022
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As a result, photo-eye, now in our 44th year, is in a unique position to select books that we feel rise to the top and merit your attention and consideration.

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November 26, 2022
The Photo Issue: The Real Americana

These images capture a joy, pride and love of a country that speak to the true American spirit.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/robin-givhan-american-flag-race-photography/

In Andre Wagner’s single image of a Black child gripping a small, wrinkled American flag in one hand while the other rests pensively on her chin, Wagner tells the complicated story of America. That Star-Spangled Banner is crumpled, as if it has been rolled up in a pocket, tucked away, its usefulness uncertain but nonetheless protected. This child, with the decorative beads in her cornrows, is dwarfed by the adults who stand on either side, by the enormous backpack, by the meat counter in the background. Her expression is sober, as if she’s considering weighty matters. A child with the brooding demeanor of an adult. A complicated child. An American child. A Black American.

tagged Amy Sacka, Andre D. Wagner, Brian Branch-Price, Chris Cook, Hector Emanuel, Jamel Shabazz, Joshua Lott, Shuran Huang, Tailyr Irvine, Vanessa Charlot, Yunghi Kim

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November 24, 2022
Indigenious Photographers Week: Jaida Grey Eagle – LENSCRATCH

Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota artist, currently located in St. Paul, MN. Jaida is a photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project.She is a Report for

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/jaida-grey-eagle/

Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota artist, currently located in St. Paul, MN. Jaida is a photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project.She is a Report for America Fellow with the Sahan Journal covering communities of color in the Twin Cities. She is also researching Indigenous photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as an ongoing former Curatorial Fellow. She holds her Bachelors emphasizing in Fine Art Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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November 24, 2022
Indigenous Photographers Week: Dakota Mace – LENSCRATCH

Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, communit

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/indigenous-photographers-week-dakota-mace/

Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, community, and identity. In addition, her work pushes the viewer’s understanding of Diné culture through alternative photography techniques, weaving, beadwork, and papermaking.

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November 23, 2022
John Cantlie: Ten years since IS kidnap of British journalist in Syria

The fate of photographer John Cantlie, kidnapped by the jihadist group in 2012, remains unknown.

via BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63711446

Today marks 10 years since British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Syria.

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November 22, 2022
Are the Women Photographers of Magnum Getting “Close Enough”?

Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/are-the-women-photographers-of-magnum-getting-close-enough/

Gender inequality is particularly notorious in photography. An exhibition at ICP asks how far the storied agency can evolve in supporting new perspectives.

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November 21, 2022