New Orleans, After the Aftermath
A photographer captures suffering and renewal ten years after Katrina.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/katrina-photo-essay
A photographer captures suffering and renewal ten years after Katrina.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/katrina-photo-essay
For three days every March, witches and warlocks gather in Catemaco to burn pentagrams and summon the devil.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/scenes-from-a-mexican-black-mass
It’s hard to read anything about Harry Gruyaert without at least one mention of the word color. The Belgian’s somewhat radical embrace of the medium in…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/18/harry_gruyaert_a_belgian_photographer_embraces_the_color_movement_of_the.html
Over the past four years, Tatiana Plotnikova has photographed Russian Pagans who follow their ancestors’ traditions in the Mari El Republic.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/russian-pagans-continue-ancient-traditions/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
News of the passing of David Laidler, at the young age of 48, just hit us that hard. David was a life loving photography passionate. Not only did he adore photography, he had a passion for everything and everyone involved with it. Be it photo editor, photographer, agent, festival curator, lab technician, if your head was in photography, he wanted to know you and befriend you
“We are doing this because we can,” the magazine’s editor says. “There is a fantastic breadth of talent and expertise among women photographers working today.”
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/08/18/magazine-devotes-issue-exclusively-to-women-in-photography-here-are-10-we-think-you-should-know/
‘My travels took me to Winnipeg, Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal and back to Vancouver. I learned when I was in Montreal that five years of my life studying French did not help!’
Chris Johns worked as a field photographer for over 20 years before a ten-year turn as editor in chief of National Geographic magazine. Before that he worked in a number of roles as a photographer and picture editor for various newspapers. I grabbed a quick lunch with Johns and asked him about his passion for photography.
On this episode Robert chats with Flipboard photo editor Steve Fine who spent nearly two decades as the Director of Photography at Sports illustrated and before that as an editor at The New York Times.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2015/08/photo-brigade-podcast-81-with-steve-fine/
Branden Harvey became a professional photographer at the age of 16. He has since become an extremely popular photographer on social media, boasting over
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/17/an-interview-with-instagram-and-snapchat-storyteller-branden-harvey/
Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo has not been widely documented. Alex Majoli…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/16/alex_majoli_and_paolo_pellegrin_photograph_the_republic_of_the_congo_in.html
Matjaz Krivic Tribe As far as new age social utopias go, it’s doesn’t get any more spectacular than the Rainbow Gathering. With members in the tens of thousands and a long spanning tradition in eve…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/08/matjaz-krivic-tribe/
By the Fall of 1991, I was firmly established as The Bakersfield Californian’s “night photographer,” working the evening shift exclusively. The shift was not popular with the othe…
via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story: https://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/bakersfieldnovember-7-1991-magic-johnson-might-have-aids/
When Feidin Santana filmed Walter Scott’s death, it marked a turning point in the US civil rights movement – and in Santana’s life. He and others who have taken the law into their own hands tell their stories
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/15/filming-police-violence-walter-scott-michael-brown-shooting
Natalie Keyssar is a freelance photojournalist and Story Contributor at Institute for Artist Management. She was raised in North Carolina but has called New York home for a pretty long time. She studied painting in college before pursuing photography, which allows her to combine her love of image making with her fascination with history in the making
SamanMagnum photographer Moises Saman visited Iraqi Kurdistan, known as “Bashur”, or southern Kurdistan to Kurds, and to Kurdish-controlled parts of northern Syria, collectively known to Kurds as Rojava, or western Kurdistan, to document the latest phase of the Kurds’ battle against the Islamic State
A photographer captures gatherings of Abe Lincoln impersonators, Godzilla fans, taxidermists, pimps, and bikers, among others, without ogling or making fun.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-weirder-side-of-convention-centers
A new letter published by Kensington Palace in the United Kingdom sheds light at the extreme measures paparazzi are taking in order to capture valuable
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/15/palace-writes-open-letter-to-media-about-paparazzi-harassment-of-prince-george/
In the San Francisco Bay Area, pricey camera equipment is becoming one of the favorite targets of robbers. In 2013, the New York Times reported that
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/15/sf-police-ask-public-for-help-in-solving-dslr-robbery/