Correspondent
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/reporting-in-the-kingdom-of-fear
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/reporting-in-the-kingdom-of-fear
In these previously unseen photographs, the former New York Times photographer Don Hogan Charles Jr. reveals Harlem’s residents as fully rounded people — counter to the fearful perception that was reported in the 1960s.
The media critic on the malfunctioning tech economy, digital detoxes and why Facebook is unhygienic
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/digital-capitalism-douglas-rushkoff
The critically acclaimed War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict examines the ways in which the newspaper happily propagated the Bush Administration…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2016/02/12/new-york-times-threatens-to-su.html
Three organizations that award prizes for documentary photography are seeking applications from photographers.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/02/fund-your-work-three-documentary-photography-prizes-looking-for-applications.html
As for his MFA students who may be less concerned about creative freedom and more worried about a career, he advises: “First of all, it is hard. And I’ve had tons of missteps along the way,” he says. “That’s the thing about being creative. You come up with creative solutions to problems. And that’s not just in your work, but in life.”
On board the ‘Iron Train’ in Mauritania.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/12/hot-free-and-dangerous-a-train-ride-in-mauritania/
“I saw Gul’s mother cover him with an orange scarf, I suppose to calm him and keep flies away.”
via The Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/national/clique/the-story-behind-andrew-quiltys-poyi-winning-photograph-20160212-gmssqi.html
The Guangzhou, China-based company Techart has officially unveiled the Techart PRO AF adapter, world’s first autofocus adapter for manual focus lenses.
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/02/11/techart-unveils-worlds-first-autofocus-adapter-manual-focus-lenses/
Today’s empires are born on the web, and exert tremendous power in the material world.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/
The sixth Eurazéo Prize went to Muriel Bordier for her series Les Thermes. Her images are on view at the Espace Central Dupon Images until March 11th. In addition to the exhibition, the winner has been awarded a cash prize of 10,000€.
When Christine Osinski moved to Staten Island in the 1980s, she found the long-overlooked borough with a tough edge gave her a sense of freedom and distance from Manhattan.
The Mari pagans have lived in peace for several millennia on either side of the Volga, practicing their animist faith.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/11/the-forgotten-mari-pagans-of-the-volga/
First in a series of LDV Vision Summit panels : Computational photography and video
via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/ldv-vision-summit-computational-photography-and-video/
As part of its broadening ambition, VSCO is launching several original content channels.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/02/vsco-original-content.html
During its brief lifetime, there was no mistaking PM New York Daily for any other newspaper.
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/02/10/steven_kasher_gallery_presents_the_exhibition_pm_new_york_daily_1940_48.html
A two-part show of Mapplethorpe’s work reveals an artist who pursued perfection from his models, subjects and even his prints.
While wandering the streets of Rome, Berlin-based photographer Louis de Belle was intrigued by the abundance of clergy apparel shops surrounding the Vatican, and after some investigation he discovered the existence of the religious trade fair which forms
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/02/inside-the-bizarre-world-of-a-religious-trade-fair/
A good story. I always say to my students, and people I work with: Show me what my eye doesn’t see. If you show me what my eye sees, you’re not moving me, you’re not disturbing me, you’re not hitting me, you’re not surprising me. You have a [jury] panel of professionals that has seen it all. So show something new.
In spaces intimate and public, LaToya Ruby Frazier reveals ongoing life in the steelworking ‘‘ghost town’’ of Braddock, Pa.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/magazine/the-living-artist.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0