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Calling All Women Photojournalists Looking To Up Their Game – PhotoShelter Blog

Are you interested in taking your work in visual journalism to the next level? Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) are hosting their 2022 Seminar and Portfolio Review on April 30th, and they’re here to help. This will be their 11th time doing the

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2022/03/calling-all-women-photojournalists-looking-to-up-their-game/

Are you a woman in photojournalism interested in taking your work to the next level? Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) are hosting their 2022 Seminar and Portfolio Review on April 30th, and they’re here to help. This will be their 11th time doing the event and it’s not to be missed!

in Photojournalism

March 21, 2022
Sumy Sadurni, Photojournalist Whose Focus Was East Africa, Dies at 32

She traveled the world, but she was best known for the photographs she took in Uganda, which brought pathos and humanity to charged subject matter.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/business/media/sumy-sadurni-dead.html

She traveled the world, but she was best known for the photographs she took in Uganda, which brought pathos and humanity to charged subject matter.

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in Obituaries

March 21, 2022
Catherine Leroy and the Making of a Photojournalist during the Vietnam War — Blind Magazine

While the stories of what photojournalist Catherine Leroy accomplished in her years photographing the Vietnam War are legendary in certain circles, a new biography for young adults aims to bring Leroy’s story to a new generation.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/catherine-leroy-and-the-making-of-a-photojournalist-during-the-vietnam-war/

While the stories of what photojournalist Catherine Leroy accomplished in her years photographing the Vietnam War are legendary in certain circles, a new biography for young adults aims to bring Leroy’s story to a new generation.

tagged Catherine Leroy

in War

March 21, 2022
A Ukrainian Photographer Documents the Invasion of His Country

For Maxim Dondyuk, the story was always personal, but never more than over the past few weeks

via Time: https://time.com/6158001/ukraine-invasion-in-photos-kyiv-russia/

n the seconds before impact, mortars whistle as they fall, making a loud and almost plaintive sound Maxim Dondyuk will never forget. He will not forget the sting of their shrapnel, which felt like a hot knife in his arm, or the sight of the women and children he photographed during the shelling near Kyiv on March 6. He hopes the people who see his photos will not be able to forget them either. “I don’t stay here and do this because I am a masochist,” Dondyuk, who is Ukrainian, says by phone from the center of Kyiv. “I do it because sometimes a photo can change people, change societies.” With luck, he says, it might help stop a war.

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in War

March 19, 2022
Hiram Maristany, 76, Dies; ‘People’s Photographer’ of Spanish Harlem

He sought to depict his community “from the inside out” and to challenge negative images of Puerto Ricans in New York.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/hiram-maristany-dead.html

He sought to depict his community “from the inside out” and to challenge negative images of Puerto Ricans in New York.

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March 17, 2022
Patrick Chauvel: “In War Photography, Some Brutality Must Be Shown” — Blind Magazine

Patrick Chauvel, 72, covers the war in Ukraine for Paris-Match. A few hours before his departure, he welcomed Blind at his home to look back on his 50 years of war photography. Half a century of history told in an album published for the 30th anniversary

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/patrick-chauvel-in-war-photography-some-brutality-must-be-shown/

At 72, Patrick Chauvel covers the war in Ukraine for Paris-Match. A few hours before his departure, he welcomed Blind at his home to look back on his 50 years of war photography. Half a century of history told in an album published for the 30th anniversary of Reporters Without Borders, entitled 100 photos for freedom of the press.

tagged Patrick Chauvel

in War

March 17, 2022
Advice to Photographers in Ukraine, by Timothy Fadek — Blind Magazine

The American reporter, used to covering conflicts, warns younger journalists, who went to cover the conflict, sometimes without preparation or experience.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/tips/advice-to-photographers-in-ukraine-by-timothy-fadek/

The American reporter, used to covering conflicts, warns younger journalists, who went to cover the conflict, sometimes without preparation or experience.

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in War

March 16, 2022
A horrific outcome to a grim photo from Ukraine – Poynter

It shows not just the gruesome realities of war, but that Russia will stop at nothing in its attack of Ukraine.

via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/a-horrific-outcome-to-a-grim-photo-from-ukraine/

AP journalists had video and photos outside the hospital after the attack. Chernov wrote, “It was among the most brutal moments so far in Russia’s now 19-day-old war in Ukraine. The woman was taken to another hospital, closer to the front line, where doctors tried to save her. Realizing she was losing her baby, medics said, she had cried out to them, ‘Kill me now!’”

tagged Evgeniy Maloletka

in War

March 15, 2022
A Conversation with Rob Hornstra

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/conv-rob-hornstra/

Ordinarily, I would have simply introduced my conversation with Rob Hornstra with his history as a photographer, most notably his work with writer Arnold van Bruggen in the Caucasus: The Sochi Project. That work entailed a large number of highly successful self-published photobooks, all of them crowdfunded at a time when such an approach was only beginning to become more widely used. It ended up getting the pair being banned from Russia. There now is a new project, The Europeans, which follows similar ideas in a different setting.

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in Interviews

March 14, 2022
Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners

To expand diverse representation in photography.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/09/leica-announces-leica-women-foto-project-award-winners-and-mentees/

Leica Camera has announced the winners of the third annual Leica Women Foto Project Award in partnership with Fotografiska and VII Photo Agency, with the aim of expanding diverse representation in photography and empowering the female point of view.

tagged Rania Matar, Rosem Morton, September Bottoms

in Contests

March 9, 2022
From A Basement In Kyiv — Blind Magazine

Ukraininan photographer Lisa Bukreyeva keeps a war diary during the first days of Russia’s invasion in her country.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/from-a-basement-in-kyiv/

Lisa Bukreyeva keeps a war diary during the first days of Russia’s invasion in her country

tagged Lisa Bukreyeva

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March 9, 2022
Rian Dundon and the Lost and Found Story of his Book Changsha — Blind Magazine

Over six years, photographer Rian Dundon photographed life in the city of Changsha in central China. But upon the publishing of the resulting book in 2012, the publisher folded, leaving the fate of the undistributed books unknown for most of the next deca

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/rian-dundon-and-the-lost-and-found-story-of-his-book-changsha/

Over six years, photographer Rian Dundon photographed life in the city of Changsha in central China. But upon the publishing of the resulting book in 2012, the publisher folded, leaving the fate of the undistributed books unknown for most of the next decade.

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in Books

March 9, 2022
Peru, a Toxic State | By Alessandro Cinque

Peru, a Toxic State | By Alessandro Cinque Peru is the leading producer of gold, silver, and lead in Latin America and the 2nd of copper globally. Mining is the driving force of its economy, which …

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/03/peru-a-toxic-state-by-alessandro-cinque/

This Project is a journey of 5 years covering 20000 km and 35 mining communities, showing the impact of a government that violates the rights of indigenous people in the name of profit. Photographed along the “corredor-minero” this project shows social, health and environmental consequences of living near these mines. And, due to corruption in the local governments, the indigenous communities receive no benefits from the mining profits and continue to live in poverty. Mining also plunders water in large quantities for extraction, creating arid fields and causing the death of livestock. Agriculture and farming, which were the main sources of survival, can no longer sustain these Andean communities.

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in Portfolios & Galleries

March 9, 2022
Photographer Defends Photo of Dead Ukrainian Family: ‘This is a War Crime’

A distressing and graphic photo.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/08/photographer-defends-photo-of-dead-ukrainian-family-this-is-a-war-crime/

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario recently published a graphic photo of a Ukranian family that was killed while attempting to evacuate their city. She says that as distressing as it is, the photo was important to take as it exposes a war crime.

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in War

March 8, 2022
Revisiting the World of “Carnival Strippers”

Susan Meiselas’s intimate view of a sex-industry subculture remains a remarkable document of its time.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/revisiting-the-world-of-carnival-strippers

Susan Meiselas was twenty-four years old when she began photographing the women of carnival strip shows, in 1972. The following three summers, at small-town fairgrounds on the East Coast, she captured the performers both onstage and off, nude and not, in dim, makeshift dressing rooms or outdoors in sunshine, against a shifting backdrop of box trucks, tents, and painted plywood sets

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in Photojournalism

March 5, 2022
How Ukrainian Photographers are Covering The War — Blind Magazine

Ukraine continues to spread fear throughout the world, Blind collected testimonies and images from Ukrainian photographers on the ground. They tell their personal story.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/how-ukrainian-photographers-are-covering-the-war/

As the war in Ukraine continues to spread fear throughout the world, Blind collected testimonies and images from Ukrainian photographers on the ground. They tell their personal story.

tagged Oksana Parafeniuk, Oleksandr Chekmenov, Pavel Petrov, Sergey Korovayny

in War

March 5, 2022
Ukraine war photojournalist: ‘My picture is terrible to look at but had to be taken’

The American photographer tells Ellie Harrison about his first time working in a warzone and the story behind the image that has defined the Russian invasion

via The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/ukraine-war-photo-olena-kurilo-b2026568.html

The American photographer tells Ellie Harrison about his first time working in a warzone and the story behind the image that has defined the Russian invasion

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in War

March 3, 2022
On the ground amid war in Ukraine: A photojournalist’s perspective

The Times’ Marcus Yam, no stranger to conflict photography, gives a first-person account from Ukraine

via Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-02/on-the-ground-in-the-war-on-ukraine-from-a-photographers-perspective

Marcus Yam is no stranger to conflict photography. Here’s a first-person account from what he is seeing on the ground in Ukraine. Follow on Twitter.

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in War

March 3, 2022
PhotoNOLA: Elise Kirk: Groundswell – LENSCRATCH

This week we are sharing some of our discoveries from the PhotoNOLA Reviews, an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans. In Elise Kirk’s series, Groundswell, we are invited to the landscape of the Midwestern United States—a location bound to the

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/03/photo-nola-elise-kirk/

In Elise Kirk’s series, Groundswell, we are invited to the landscape of the Midwestern United States—a location bound to the flux and flow of the Missouri River. Her photographs depict a force of nature and its changing relationship with the area’s inhabitants. Among other things, I was fascinated by this work because of its portrayal of mutual vulnerability. The river represents an ecosystem susceptible to damage. And while it acts as a provider to local communities and economies, it also threatens to destroy. Though Elise’s work is regionally specific, it speaks to broader themes relating to our connection to the environment and the importance of serving as its caretaker.

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in Portfolios & Galleries

March 3, 2022
Scanned older issues of LFI magazine now available in the LFI app (from 1949-2022) – Leica Rumors

Last year I reported that scanned older issues of the LFI magazine will be added to the LFI app. A reader just informed me that all LFI magazines are now available in the app and the oldest issues available are from 1949: Here are a few more screenshots f

via Leica Rumors: https://leicarumors.com/2022/03/02/scanned-older-issues-of-lfi-magazine-now-available-in-the-lfi-app-from-1949-2022.aspx/

Last year I reported that scanned older issues of the LFI magazine will be added to the LFI app. A reader just informed me that all LFI magazines are now available in the app and the oldest issues available are from 1949:

in Leica

March 3, 2022