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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.

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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:

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March 3, 2022
Michele McNally, First New York Times Photography Director, Dies at 66 — Blind Magazine

Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.

via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/michele-mcnally-first-new-york-times-photography-director-dies-at-66/

Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.

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March 3, 2022
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario Captures the Unfolding War in Ukraine

The situation on the ground from the perspective of a photojournalist.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/01/photojournalist-lynsey-addario-captures-the-unfolding-war-in-ukraine/

Award-winning American photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been on assignment in Ukraine for the New York Times documenting the war as it unfolds, from the tragic loss of human life and homes to the poignant bravery of Ukrainians.

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March 2, 2022
Michele McNally, Who Elevated Times Photography, Dies at 66

The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/media/michele-mcnally-dead.html

The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.

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March 2, 2022
PHOTO NOLA: Cathy Cone: Rewinding Forward – LENSCRATCH

This week we are sharing some of our discoveries from the PHOTO NOLA Reviews, an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans. “I make photographs as a way to listen to my heart’s song, and then I practice like hell to sing it.” Cathy Cone Cathy Cone

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/02/cathy-cone-rewinding-forward/

Cathy Cone is a photographer and painter based in East Topsham, Vermont. Her series Rewinding Forward is an ongoing life project, representing events and personal experiences in a continuum. There’s a whimsical quality to this work, reminiscent to the photographs in her former series Hand Painted Photographs. Yet Rewinding Forward infuses a sense of foreboding, creating visual poems that contemplate the mystery and intrigue of simply being alive. An interview with the artist follows.

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February 28, 2022
AP Cancels NFT Sale Amid Criticisms it Would Be Profiting From Suffering

“Profiting from suffering”

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/02/25/ap-cancels-nft-sale-amid-criticisms-it-would-be-profiting-from-suffering/

After significant backlash, the Associated Press pulled plans to offer a video of a boat overcrowded with migrants as an NFT. The situation has called into question the ethics of selling photojournalism at all.

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February 26, 2022