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.
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
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.
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 …
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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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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.
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
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Profiting from suffering”
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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.
The photographer’s latest book, “A Pound of Pictures,” invites us into his process and asks us to connect the dots.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/alec-soths-obsessive-ode-to-image-making
The photographer’s latest book, “A Pound of Pictures,” invites us into his process and asks us to connect the dots.
In the third edition of “Arrivals”, Wesley Verhoeve introduces us to Sinna Nasseri’s latest project “Rescue Sketches”; an evocative travelogue of his journey through America that started in the volatile year of 2020
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In the third edition of “Arrivals”, Wesley Verhoeve introduces us to Sinna Nasseri’s latest project “Rescue Sketches”; an evocative travelogue of his journey through America that started in the volatile year of 2020.
Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-i
Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The first in a two-part series.
Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in t…
Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in the shadows. Beginning in his home region of the Central Valley, his extensive documentary project, American Geography, unravels in a series of black-and-white photographs that poetically capture communities living below the poverty line. Un-American Dream is a moving image survey, filmed by director Joppe Rog, throughout California’s Central Valley.