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Chris Maliwat: Subwaygram – LENSCRATCH

At the 2022 Medium Festival of Photography, I was fortunate to sit across the table from Chris Maliwat, where I learned about his years-long project, Subwaygram. I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/11/chris-maliwat-subwaygram-2/

At the 2022 Medium Festival of Photography, I was fortunate to sit across the table from Chris Maliwat, where I learned about his years-long project, Subwaygram. I was (and continue to be) intrigued by the breadth of this project, and the empathetic lens through which he recorded his subjects. This year, Chris published this series with Daylight Books. Today, I am happy to share a conversation we had about the work.

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November 18, 2022
What Bernd and Hilla Becher Saw in the Remnants of Industry

The husband-and-wife photography team spent decades rigorously documenting the postwar architectural landscape—and captivated the art world along the way.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-bernd-and-hilla-becher-saw-in-the-remnants-of-industry

In 1977, the critic Hilton Kramer wrote in the Times that the Bechers’ photographs “look like the sort of pictures one sees in a real estate office.” The unflappable Hilla was said to have responded, “That’s O.K. We like real-estate photographs.”

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November 8, 2022
Camera-to-Cloud RAW is the Start of the Computational Revolution

This is a huge development that not enough people are talking about.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/11/03/camera-to-cloud-raw-is-the-start-of-the-computational-revolution/

Adobe recently announced new Camera to Cloud integrations, following its recent acquisition of Frame.io. The Fuji X-H2S will become the first stills camera to natively shoot “to the cloud”. This might seem like a niche feature, however look beyond the headlines and this could be a generational step change. Not only because of the ability save to the cloud (like Google Photos) but because of what this then enables.

in Software & Technology

November 5, 2022
Police Training on Photographers’ Rights Aims to Curb Violence Against Press

It’s important that police understand a photographer’s rights.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/11/03/police-training-on-photographers-rights-aims-to-curb-violence-against-press/

Court-ordered training sessions between police and media have been taking place in Minneapolis, led by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).

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November 4, 2022
One Mother’s Story of Raising a Son with a Rare and Severe Form of Epilepsy – Feature Shoot

“When David was a baby, I sang a special song to him,” Debe Arlook, David’s aunt, tells me. “I still do, and it seems to warm his heart because it…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/10/one-mothers-story-of-raising-a-son-with-a-rare-and-severe-form-of-epilepsy/

“When David was a baby, I sang a special song to him,” Debe Arlook, David’s aunt, tells me. “I still do, and it seems to warm his heart because it makes him smile.” For more than two years now, Arlook has been collaborating with her sister Lori, David’s mom, to tell the story of their family.

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November 3, 2022
Alan Chin: The American Turmoil in “Infinity Goes Up On Trial”

In his new book “Infinity Goes Up On Trial”, Alan Chin travels through the historical challenges that the USA faced since 2020.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/alan-chin-travels-through-a-nation-in-turmoil-in-infinity-goes-up-on-trial/

Chin admitted that it comes naturally to him to weave his personal experiences—as a father, as a Chinese-American who grew up in New York City, as a photographer—into his visual exploration of 2020. “You actually can’t separate your own experience, as a participant and as a witness, from your experience as a journalist or photographer,” he said. “Right?”

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November 3, 2022
Bill Owens: Suburbia at the Center of Photographic Art – LENSCRATCH

It’s a month for nostalgia! Currently on the walls at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel is the 50th anniversary of one of the seminal publications in the history of photography: Bill Owens’ Suburbia. Hailed internationally as the ultimate document

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/10/bill-owens/

A limited-edition publication, Bill Owens: The Legacy of Suburbia Photographs 1964-2022 is available with a special edition print included. This book features images from Bill Owens’ entire career from his work in Jamaica with the Peace Corp to his current Digital Renaissance. The book is available in an edition of 100. The book can be bought at gallery in Carmel or ordered through True North Editions.

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October 31, 2022
Has War Changed, or Only War Photography?

In the decades between Robert Capa and Lynsey Addario, our image of battle lost its aura of nobility.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/design/war-photography-addario-capa-icp-sva.html

Many Americans no longer regard war as a righteous undertaking — and war photography has played a part in changing our perspective. Pictures in Korea (notably those of David Douglas Duncan) and, even more, those in Vietnam (by Larry Burrows and Don McCullin in particular) stripped warfare of its glamour and romance, zeroing in instead on blood, mud, fatigue, injury and viciousness. Television footage amplified the horror.

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October 29, 2022
Generative AI : Do or Die – Thoughts of a Bohemian

Generative AI is here to stay. So rather than fighting it with pseudo-legal arguments, the stock photo industry should embrace it

via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/generative-ai-do-or-die/

Understandably, new powerful technologies like generative AI triggers anxiety. But the conversation needs to evolve and move on from the fear of what it might potentially do if left unrestrained: From cataclysmic copyright infringement to the complete substitution of our reality, it is bringing a tsunami of society devastating changes. And if our elected political representatives do not protect us with the combined forces of ethics and legislation, the world, as we know it, will soon cease to exist. Or so they say.

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October 28, 2022
Ami Vitale: From Photographer to Conservationist

A look at the life and work of Ami Vitale, a photographer and well-known conservationist who champions the cause of endangered wildlife.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/ami-vitale-photographer-biography/

“Today, my motivations are very different from when I began. Photography and storytelling are much more than a tool for my own self-empowerment. In the beginning, I plunged right in to tell the stories of humanity and war, and I was asked to focus on the horrors of the world. After a decade, I realized a profound truth; I had been telling stories about people and the human condition, but the backdrop of every one of these stories was the natural world.

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October 28, 2022
Lynsey Addario: Master Series Award Winner – LENSCRATCH

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) honors Lynsey Addario, acclaimed photographer, MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize recipient, with the 32nd annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition, originally planned for Fall 2020. Curated by Maya Benton and Perr

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/10/lynsey-addario-master-series-award-winner/

Addario has brought a strong focus to women’s issues in her work, including gender-based violence and rape as a weapon of war—topics covered in a traveling exhibition she did with Columbia College of Chicago in 2008. She also began work on a long-term project on maternal mortality in 2009, documenting complications associated with women dying in childbirth in places including Sierra Leone, India, the Philippines and the United States.

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October 28, 2022
Iran’s New Protest Generation

Even before the recent round of demonstrations, young Iranians were pushing against the regime’s restrictive social norms.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/irans-new-protest-generation

Alaei’s mission to photograph Iran’s Zoomers has been complicated by the growing public fear of cameras. Iran’s security forces use technology—including drones and CCTV—to identity protesters. They track social media, which is why many videos of the protests are deliberately blurred. Convincing people to let Alaei into their lives has been difficult, she told me. But like the women who duck illegally into soccer matches, many have accepted the risks. As a result, she said, “it is not easy to oppress them without any costs to society.”

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October 27, 2022
Some Say Ice – Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti | Essay by Sophie Wright | LensCulture

In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alessandra-sanguinetti-some-say-ice

In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death.

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October 26, 2022
A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects.

via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-3200-megapixel-camera-has-astronomers-salivating/

That’s when the telescope will begin collecting 20 terabytes of data every night for 10 years. With it, scientists will build a vast map of the sky as seen from the southern hemisphere, including 20 billion galaxies and 17 billion stars in the Milky Way

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October 24, 2022
The 43rd Smith Grant Awarded to Maxim Dondyuk

The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/the-43rd-w-eugene-smith-grant-awarded-to-maxim-dondyuk/

The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22, which looks at the country’s battle for independence. Mary F. Calvert received the Smith Fellowship, with special awards going to Shirley Abrahamm and Amit Madeshiya, along with Ta Mwe.

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October 24, 2022
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2022 – Leica Rumors

The two winners of the 2022 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA), the renowned international photo competition that was held for the 42nd time this year, have now been selected: In the main category of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, it was Kiana Hayeri – born

via Leica Rumors: https://leicarumors.com/2022/10/23/leica-oskar-barnack-award-2022.aspx/

In the main category of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, it was Kiana Hayeri – born in Iran and brought up in Canada – who convinced the jury of five. Her project, the “Written on the Ice, Left in the Sun” series, was proposed by no less than three nominators. For the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in the Newcomer category, it was German photographer Valentin Goppel who prevailed, with his “Between the Years” series. His work was submitted by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover.

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October 24, 2022
Jed Fielding : Out on the Street

Encounter : Jed Fielding captures city residents who, even as they face the consequences of numerous crises, enjoy life to the fullest.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/jed-fielding-out-on-the-street/

To portray a changing society through the gaze of a stranger or a forsaken back alley, is not an easy trick to pull off. For Jed Fielding, art, in any case, “is a big lie. But it is a beautiful lie.”

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October 24, 2022
Former Register and international war photographer John Gaps III dies at 63

Iowan John Gaps photographed wars, Olympics and other big news stories around the world before joining the photo staff at the Des Moines Register.

via The Des Moines Register: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2022/10/18/john-gaps-iii-obituary-des-moines-register-associated-press-ap/69572726007/

“He saw a lot for one guy. And he carried a lot of that pain with him until the end,” Ethan Gaps said.

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October 20, 2022
Fighters, not Soldiers — Blind Magazine

In a slum of Goma, Eastern Congo, a former child soldier teaches boxing to kids, to keep them from the lures of armed groups.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/fighters-not-soldiers/

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October 19, 2022
Farshid Tighehsaz: “In Iran, Photojournalism is Not Recognized” — Blind Magazine

The Iranian photographer Farshid Tighehsaz is the winner of the 6Mois Photojournalism Prize. His project entitled Labyrinth reveals the intimacy of an Iranian youth fighting against poverty, depression and prohibitions. A decade of photographs that foresh

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/farshid-tighehsaz-in-iran-photojournalism-is-not-recognized/

For 10 years, the young documentary photographer has been drawing an intimate portrait of a youth and a society struggling against poverty and depression. An inner cry that resonates today through the demonstrations of women, students and a whole section of the population.

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October 19, 2022