This Photo Inspired the World to Fight Against Apartheid
The Soweto uprising happened 4o years ago
via Time: http://time.com/4365138/soweto-anniversary-photograph/
The Soweto uprising happened 4o years ago
via Time: http://time.com/4365138/soweto-anniversary-photograph/
Following the sounds of laughter on the streets of Vienna, two documentarians – one collecting photographs, the other collecting words – set out to explore behind the doors of the city’s drinking dens, which are slowly dropping into non-existence.
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/06/enter-the-strange-world-of-viennas-disappearing-drinking-dens/
Getty Images has filed a copyright claim against an Ohio man who downloaded as many as 3,400 high resolution images for illegal sale on Facebook
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/06/getty-files-copyright-lawsuit-scheme-sell-stolen-images-facebook.html
This is one place where I certainly see the power of the longer caption — fuller stories that explain in greater detail what the reader is seeing, both for a Western audience that may find certain cultural practices unfamiliar, or to other African audiences who may be interested to compare their own lives to lives on other parts of the continent
I don’t believe that my images can live fully without their texts. In a way the texts protect the authenticity of the image. In a way the texts prevent the image from being shrouded and trapped in the ever so often stereotypes that have always followed the black image. Writing covers the nakedness of the images.
Conceptual artist, Phillip Toledano is curating Reality Show, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of photographers Olivia Bee and Doug Dubois. A sublime pairing, it will be fascinating to see Bee’s dreamy, ethereal and romantic photographs of her circle of friends in conjunction with DuBois’ photographs of Irish teens from the Russell Heights housing estate as they negotiate the uncertainties of their fleeting adolescence.
Mark Sawrie was the first photographer I met in Indiana. We bonded immediately when he opened a small drawer in a display case featuring a taxidermy animal to show me his fingernail collection of two decades and counting. His vastly different experiences
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/06/mark-sawrie-the-states-project-indiana-2/
When Clarence Williams learned his father’s life was about to end, his own life changed — for the better — as he documented that final month.
A retrospective of Sabine Weiss’ work goes on show in France
via Time: http://time.com/4355017/sabine-weiss-last-humanist-photographer/
Apple just unveiled iOS 10 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Among the new features is a smarter Photos app for
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/06/13/photos-ios-10-can-identify-faces-objects-shots/
Pressing McCurry for explanations when one already knows the reasons he used Photoshop — to create a more saleable, viewable image — evades more serious issues about who controls photography, and when and how to liberate it.
via “Who controls photography…..and how to liberate it” – duckrabbit
The Lion City II – Majulah is a photographic love letter to Singapore; actually, love novel might be more appropriate. A time-lapse overflowing with
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/06/13/incredible-time-lapse-took-three-years-one-million-photos-make/
Massimo armwrestling House manager, Bruce Lee puts on a film on the DVD player. Television helped give people the sense of “warmth” of living in a real house. Bucharest, 2013.…
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/06/life-beneath-the-streets-of-bucharest/
Photographer Sandra Hoyn visits the 200-year-old Kandapara brothel in Bangladesh.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/06/13/heartbreaking-photos-show-what-its-like-living-in-a-walled-city-of-a-brothel/
This week, photographic artist, Jacinda Russell shares the work of photographers creating work in Indiana, as she takes over as the Indiana States Project Editor. Today we share her newest project, Art Department and ask her about making work in the mid-w
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/06/jacinda-russell-the-states-project-indiana/
Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert is committed to using photography to affect meaningful social change and is known for producing work on gender based, human rights issues. Calvert believes that journalists have a duty to shine a light into the deepest recesses of the human experience and provide a mirror for society to examine itself.
In January, photographer Elliot Ross documented the arrival of some of the last asylum seekers entering Europe through the Greek islands.
The epic story of a prince and princess in exile unfolds in this ethereal series by photographer Vasantha Yogananthan.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/a-myth-of-two-souls-v23n4
For nearly five decades, Harvey Stein has been photographing around New York. He sees his work, specifically in the neighborhoods of Coney Island,…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/06/13/harvey_stein_s_more_tan_four_decades_of_shooting_in_new_york.html
A late-career retrospective looks at some four decades of work by Danny Lyon, whose photographs — of the civil rights movement, prisons and a motorcycle gang — consider freedom, or its absence.