Opinion | Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism
Another “national security” power evolves into an everyday power.
Another “national security” power evolves into an everyday power.
The photographer Tommaso Protti documents the conflict you haven’t heard of
via Time: http://time.com/4225315/southeast-turkey-war-kurds-pkk/
TIME’s Aryn Baker discusses the difficulties of reporting on rape
A long-time Los Angeles Times photographer was arrested on the side of a road yesterday while transmitting photos he shot of former First Lady Nancy
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/03/10/l-times-photographer-arrested-nancy-reagan-funeral-motorcade/
Although it is often thought of as a medieval disease, the plague strikes hundreds of people every year, with its highest concentrations in Madagascar.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/03/09/the-plague-alive-and-well-in-madagascar/
For his series Waiting Girls, or Girls Waiting for Capital Punishment, Iranian photographer Sadegh Souri tells the story of his nation’s young imprisoned women, many of whom will die before their lives ever begin. While boys must be fifteen in order to be sentenced to death, girls aged nine to seventeen are sometimes ordered to be killed for crimes like murder, robbery, and drug trafficking.
“Token women are wheeled out constantly, but just because there is some female presence doesn’t mean we’ve got equality,” writes Alex Holder, executive creative director at Anomaly London, who recently teamed up with director Alyssa Boni of RSA Films to p
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/03/artist-photoshops-men-out-of-political-images-to-prove-we-still-need-feminism/
A look inside the Conflict Photography Workshop with Andrew Renneisen
When Hossein Fatemi’s images of his homeland, Iran, triggered official denunciations, he went into exile. He did not, however, stop trying to help young Iranian photographers document their homeland.
It’s an ethical tightrope, but I believe journalists must partner with government agencies to realise the change they want from their work
“This government, they’ve got their hatchet out and they are hacking away at the arts.”
via Time: http://time.com/4249630/top-photographers-protest-museum-decision/
These photographs offer a portrait of America the way it really was for me as I lived it and documented it from 1969, when I turned 18 and first began to identify myself as a photographer, through President Nixon s resignation in 1974, which many consider
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/03/ken-light-whats-going-on/
In the gallery of images that make up “Through Her Eyes” you will find for the first time in Utah a collection of photographs produced by 19 female photojournalists while on assignment in the state.
Photographer equally admired for his work in politics, conflict zones, documentaries and portraiture
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/03/peter-marlow-obituary
Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more
via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/analysis/facebook_and_media.php?utm_content=buffere35b6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Tony BurnsElectric DreamsTokyo is a place like no other. A city from the future, bathed in neon and awash with cartoon-like symbols of all things ‘kawaii’. Fascinating, beautiful,…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/03/tony-burns-electric-dreams/
Last autumn, Emily Kask, a photojournalism student at Western Kentucky University, took a semester off to document — and become — part of the Dirty Kids family.
After 45 years “shooting” the state, admired, respected and award-winning photographer Tom Smart is calling it a career.
via Deseret News: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865649455/Benson-D-News-photographer-extraordinaire-leaving-the-best-job-in-the-world.html?pg=all
The marriage of a significant photography project (with stellar imagery and prints) and the undeniably finest publishing house in the world results in a creation and collaboration that rises to the level of something quite spectacular. In this case, Jamey
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/03/jamey-stillings-its-about-the-journey-printing-the-evolution-of-ivanpah-solar-at-steidl/