The Radical British Musicians Who Fought Racism With Rock
Syd Shelton’s photos capture the rise of the “Rock Against Racism” campaign — with glimpses of bands like the Clash, Matumbi and Sham 69 — that arose in Britain in the 1970s.
Syd Shelton’s photos capture the rise of the “Rock Against Racism” campaign — with glimpses of bands like the Clash, Matumbi and Sham 69 — that arose in Britain in the 1970s.
Mahmoud Raslan passed several lifeless bodies before seeing the child
via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aleppo-boy-photo-video-syria-war-photographer-on-moments-that-led-up-to-it-air-strike-a7197291.html
For most of Kelly Hofer’s life, he knew he didn’t fit in.
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/08/18/kelly_hofer_photographs_a_manitoba_hutterite_colony_in_his_book_hutterite.html
A behind the scenes look at what it takes for the Associated Press to prep for the Summer Olympics
Over the two weeks of the games, I’ll be featuring some amazing images from recent Olympic events. Today’s entry encompasses gymnastics, BMX racing, water polo, beach volleyball, taekwondo, kayaking, women’s wrestling, and much more.
Over the two weeks
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/08/rio-2016-photos-from-days-11-through-13/496490/
Carlos Ortiz and I are united for life as fellow 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients living and working and in the Bay Area. Even before this coincidence, we’d fall into meaningful conversations about photography over stacks of Polaroids he was scanning
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/08/carlos-ortiz-all-we-got/
The director of state-run Egyptian radio and television barred the women from appearing on the air for a month, and ordered them to go on a diet.
Acta Est was the first book by French photographer-artist Lise Sarfati. Composed of images made during extended visits to Russia in the 1990s, Acta Es…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/1990s-russian-youth-by-lisa-sarfati/
The portraiture of William Eggleston, whose color photography helped shepherd the medium into the art world, is the exclusive feature of a new exhibit and book.
By Kyla Woods. Edited by Sahiba Chawdhary.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-future-of-world-press-photo-foundation-f6a8e2f5c610#.4xe8u8p7v
“Anything can happen. That’s the most terrifying,” says photographer Lorenzo Meloni
via Time: http://time.com/4451070/lorenzo-meloni-sirt-libya/
Wilbur “Bill” Garrett, who methodically raised the standards for photography at National Geographic and pushed for coverage of timely and sometimes controversial subjects during his tenure as editor in the 1980s, died at his home on August 13, National Ge
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/08/former-national-geographic-editor-wilbur-garrett-dies-85.html
Doug Mills is photographing the Rio Olympics for The New York Times. He joined The Times in 2002 after working for The Associated Press and has shot almost every Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games. Based in Washington, Doug covers the White House when not photographing athletes.
He spoke with James Estrin by telephone from Rio de Janeiro
Photography has never been about how many professionals there are, and how or what they charge, where they went to school, how they learned, how hard or easy it is, how smart or stupid the successful ones are, what camera you use, or how many amateurs can
via A Photo Editor: http://aphotoeditor.com/2016/08/17/the-closing-of-brooks-institute-is-not-a-statement-about-the-photography-market/
Curating the most unique perspectives from some of the world’s leading photographers, “1,000 words and then some” is AP’s monthly photo series that takes a look beyond the lens and camera data at the stories behind some of our favorite shots.
In the 1980s, Massachusetts photographer Sage Sohier hit the road. She was 20-something years old, recently graduated from Harvard University, and enamored with the street. She approached strangers, toting around a clunky medium-format camera with a flash
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/08/unforgettable-portraits-from-an-american-road-trip-in-the-1980s/
Now that a little time has passed I thought I would put together a post on my experiences covering “the crazy” at the recent Republican and Democratic
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/08/16/like-shoot-republican-democratic-conventions/
A Swiss photographer follows in Robert Frank’s footsteps, photographing a divided America
A new book by Paula Bronstein features a collection of her photographs taken in Afghanistan, showing both the beautiful and the horrific in a visual compendium of what has happened on the ground during America’s longest war.