A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the AP’s access to the Oval Office, Air Force One and other White House events
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/the-white-house-must-lift-its-ban-on-the-associated-press-judge-rules/
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the AP’s access to the Oval Office, Air Force One and other White House events
The Trump assassination attempt dominated proceedings.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/14/the-incredible-news-photos-that-won-the-2025-eyes-of-history-contest/
Evan Vucci of the Associated Press picked up Political Photo of the Year for his already iconic shot of Trump waving a fist in the air moments after being shot at. Meanwhile, Jabin Botsford of The Washington Post won Photographer of the Year in part for his sequence of shots taken that same day.
Close to Home – Photographs by Kalum Ko | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture:
Periodically returning from New York to his hometown in British Columbia, Kalum Ko’s keenly observed ongoing series charts the emotional push and pull of the community he grew up in.
Istanbul — A Mosaic of Dreams – Photographs and text by Andrei Furnea | LensCulture:
Amidst chaotic beauty, tales of trials echo through alleyways, reflecting the human spirit, vibrant colors, and dynamic stories of Istanbul.
Rocío – Photographs by Austin Quintana | Text by Marigold Warner | | LensCulture:
Austin Quintana’s documentation of life in New Mexico taps into a sense of timelessness, picturing a place that feels as though it hasn’t changed in centuries.
World Press Photo apologizes for controversial Ukrainian photo placement.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/04/01/world-press-photo-apologizes-for-controversial-placement-of-photos-from-ukraine/
World Press Photo apologized for its controversial decision to present two award-winning images captured by two different photographers as a thematic pair. One of the images showed a six-year-old Ukrainian child suffering from panic attacks following Russian artillery shelling, while the other showed a wounded pro-Russian militant.
The exhibition “American Job“ at ICP contends with the roles of images, policy, and activism in forming the American Dream.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-have-photographs-shaped-our-idea-of-work/
An exhibition contends with the role of images, policy, and activism in forming our relationship to labor and the American Dream.
https://aperture.org/editorial/how-have-photographs-shaped-our-idea-of-work/
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/04/oleksandr-rupeta-art-history-competition-second-place-winner/
Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksandr Rupeta has spent much of his time photographing social anthropology and social conflicts around the world. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, he has focused on the war there. In “Stages of Air,” he captures the dissonance between the peaceful landscapes of Donbas with the horrors of combat.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/04/oleksandr-rupeta-art-history-competition-second-place-winner/
We would like to thank everyone who submitted to the inaugural Lenscratch Art + History Competition. We were impressed by the enormous number of compelling bodies of work, making it challenging to select just five outstanding projects. History and Art have been deeply intertwined for centuries. The winning projects we are featuring this week had a clear connection to history—exploring
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2025/03/jared-ragland-art-history-competition-first-place-winner/
After casting my vote on Election Day 2020, I visited Spring Hill in Barbour County, Alabama, where on November 3, 1874, a White mob attacked the Spring Hill polling station, destroyed the ballot box, burned the ballots inside, and killed the election supervisor’s son. Many of the perpetrators of the massacre were known, but no one was ever convicted
http://lenscratch.com/2025/03/jared-ragland-art-history-competition-first-place-winner/
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack – Krebs on Security:
This story explores a slew of recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten to undermine all five pillars of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedoms concerning speech, religion, the media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and seek redress for wrongs.
The AP says its White House ban has delayed reporting, weakened access and chilled other journalists, and wants a judge to temporarily lift it
via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/white-house-associated-press-hearing/
“We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories,” said Evan Vucci, the AP’s chief photographer in Washington, D.C. He and White House correspondent Zeke Miller testified Thursday during a hearing for the AP’s lawsuit challenging the ban. The AP is seeking a preliminary injunction to temporarily lift the ban as its lawsuit makes its way through court.
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/white-house-associated-press-hearing/
The best photojournalism from around the world.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/world-press-photo-2025-shines-a-light-on-global-issues/
World Press Photo has announced the winners of its 2025 World Press Photo Contest, showcasing some of the world’s best photojournalism and documentary photography.
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/world-press-photo-2025-shines-a-light-on-global-issues/
Examining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03/27/gaza-israel-palestine-shot-killed-injured-destroyed-dangerous-drone-journalists-in-gaza/
Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat along with our partners at Forbidden Stories, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Der Standard, Paper Trail Media, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and RFI identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images.
A grand jury declined to take action.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/texas-drops-charges-against-photographer-sally-mann-modern-art-museum-fort-worth/
Texas has dropped charges against Sally Mann after a grand jury declined to take action against the controversial photographer and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where her photos were exhibited in January.
Akgül has been covering politics in Turkey for the past 10 years.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/26/afp-demands-turkey-release-imprisoned-photographer-yasin-akgul/
The news agency Agence-France Presse (AFP) has demanded the release of its jailed Turkish photojournalist Yasin Akgül who was detained while covering protests in Istanbul.
https://petapixel.com/2025/03/26/afp-demands-turkey-release-imprisoned-photographer-yasin-akgul/
The photobook is a strange medium. It combines two technologies—one about as old as Christianity, the other younger than the United States. If photographs
via The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/23/a-nation-deranged/
Matt Eich’s photobook series, “The Invisible Yoke,” is an exorcism of the country’s demons.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/23/a-nation-deranged/?src=longreads
Between Blood and Glitter – Photographs and text by Jana Margarete Schuler | LensCulture:
In Ciudad Juárez, female wrestlers, Luchadoras, fight for respect and safety while inspiring young girls to seek equality inside and outside the ring.
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption/
If you had a universal picklock, you might tell everyone—or you might keep it hidden in your pocket for as long as you possibly could
Former Courier Journal and Louisville Times photographer Keith Williams died on March 13. He was 75. A look at some of his most iconic work.
via The Courier-Journal: https://www.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2025/03/20/former-courier-journal-photojournalist-keith-williams-best-photos/82422778007/
Advice for Young Artists by Alec Soth Tracy L Chandler in conversation with Alec Soth Alec Soth is a public figure, at least in our corner of the art world, and a beloved one. His photographs, photobooks, and writing have been a great influence on photography over the last few decades. Many of us are
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/alec-soth-advice-for-young-artists/
Alec Soth is a public figure, at least in our corner of the art world, and a beloved one. His photographs, photobooks, and writing have been a great influence on photography over the last few decades. Many of us are referencing his work in our pictures whether we are aware of it or not.
https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/alec-soth-advice-for-young-artists/