Tariq Zaidi is a British photographer who has spent three years between 2018 and 2020 studying and documenting the savagely violent gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and others operating in El Salvador.
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How Claudia Gordillo Documented the Realities of Life in Nicaragua
Whether photographing armed conflict or religious rituals, Gordillo observed Nicaraguan society from a close yet critical distance.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-claudia-gordillo-documented-the-realities-of-life-in-nicaragua/
Whether photographing armed conflict or religious rituals, Gordillo observed Nicaraguan society from a close yet critical distance.
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The Humans of Daniel Arnold’s New York
The photographer chronicles the interstitial weirdness of the city and the people in it, who are often too caught up in the busy steam of existence to pause and reflect on their lives.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-humans-of-daniel-arnolds-new-york
The photographer Daniel Arnold is eerily adept at capturing perfect moments in his pictures, although “perfect,” in his case, doesn’t mean glossy or unblemished. Arnold’s work often traffics in the quotidian and the flawed, the discordant and the mottled; to him, perfection means locating beauty in what might otherwise be overlooked. Like his forebears in the art of street photography, from Garry Winogrand to Joel Meyerowitz to Helen Levitt, Arnold trains his lens on people going about their lives in New York City. In “Pickpocket,” his first monograph, which was released earlier this month, we see many of these subjects, intent and determined on completing their private daily tasks: an old bald man, his creased head and neck captured from behind, while he walks down the street on a sunny day; a large Orthodox Jewish salesman, crouched in the too-small window of a jewelry store in order to clean it; a pillowy lipped, long-haired woman mid-phone call, a street stall piled high with hats just behind her.
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Joe McNally Dishes “The Real Deal” – PhotoShelter Blog
Nearly twenty years ago, I came across Joe McNally’s photo of a Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus that he took for a National Geographic story entitled “The Future of Flying Faster Farther Smarter.” The piece was notable for being the magazine’s first to fea
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2022/01/joe-mcnally-dishes-the-real-deal/
“The Real Deal: Field Notes from the Life of a Working Photographer” (Rocky Nook) is part memoir, part business advice, and part technical notes. If you’ve ever contemplated a life in photography – especially as a freelancer – this is a must read (and the photos aren’t so bad either!). Joe’s writing is crisp and entertaining, and it’s a surprisingly quick read even at 378 pages.
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Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87
He documented the civil rights movement and subjects as diverse as narcotics users, migrant workers and movie stars, seeking to capture their emotional heart.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/arts/steve-schapiro-dead.html
Steve Schapiro, a photojournalist and social documentarian who bore witness to some of the nation’s most significant political and cultural moments and movements, starting in the 1960s with the historic struggle for racial equality across the Jim Crow South, died on Jan. 15 at his home in Chicago. He was 87.
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The First Standard to Assure a Photo’s Authenticity Has Been Created
The first-ever specification to certify the authenticity of photos has been released.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/01/26/the-first-standard-to-assure-a-photos-authenticity-has-been-created/
In an effort to combat online misinformation, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has released the first-ever technical specification designed to certify the source and history of digital media.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Storming of the Capitol @ Bronx Documentary Center
On January 6, 2021, for the first time in American history, an angry mob stormed the halls of Congress. Protestors destroyed federal property and assa…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/storming-of-the-capitol-bronx-documentary-center/
On January 6, 2021, for the first time in American history, an angry mob stormed the halls of Congress. Protestors destroyed federal property and assaulted police officers. Five people died as a result and more than 150 were injured. The mob successfully halted the 2020 election certification as they rampaged through the Capitol building, searching for legislators and narrowly missing members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence as they were rushed to safety.
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Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in America — Blind Magazine
For six years, and over 100,000 Miles through 46 States, Matt Black crisscrossed the United States by car and bus looking at America while recording the lives of rural and working-class Americans living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/matt-black-documents-the-geography-of-poverty-in-america/
For six years, and over 100,000 Miles through 46 States, Matt Black crisscrossed the United States by car and bus looking at America while recording the lives of rural and working-class Americans living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
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Photojournalist shot to death outside his home in Tijuana
Margarito Martínez Esquivel, a Tijuana photojournalist who covered police and security issues, was killed Monday
via San Diego Union-Tribune: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2022-01-17/photojournalist-death-tijuana
Martínez, 49, was beloved by colleagues and known as fearless. Last year, he documented a shootout between two groups, putting his own safety at risk. Journalist chat groups for Baja California were flooded with messages of grief and support on Monday afternoon.
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Steve Schapiro, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Dies At 87
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
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Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH
Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land (co-edited with Margaret Sartor), looks to reframe the question “How do you tell the story of the American South?” Based in Durham, North Carolina, Harris knows it’s a region with a complicated history; a legacy
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/alex-harris-our-strange-new-land/
Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land (co-edited with Margaret Sartor), looks to reframe the question “How do you tell the story of the American South?” Based in Durham, North Carolina, Harris knows it’s a region with a complicated history; a legacy marred by hatefulness and prejudice. But it’s also the home of the Blues and folk and Country music. Of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, Po’ Boys and hush puppies. In Harris’ work, there is a modern light cast on the historical shadow of the Southern story, one that shines through the people who live there. Photographing on the sets of forty-two independent films depicting the South, Harris used the “make-believe land” of a film set to reimagine how the American South might be rendered.
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The Radiant Intimacy of Jarod Lew’s Family Portraits
The photographer wanted to tell a story about Chinese American family life. But, how do you photograph your mother without photographing your mother?
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-radiant-intimacy-of-jarod-lew-family-portraits/
At home in suburban Detroit, the Chinese American photographer invokes the unstable fantasias of personal memory.
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50 Questions with Photographer Alec Soth
via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13816/50-questions-with-photographer-alec-soth
A Pound of Pictures is a window into both our world and Soth’s process itself. In every photograph, there is what we see and what lies beneath. Much the same way, Soth answers our 50 questions with consideration, sincerity and just the right amount of playfulness.
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10 Images That Shaped The Career Of A Photojournalist Who Founded The Bronx Documentary Center
“If you’re committed, you went all the way.”
via BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/10-photos-mike-kamber-career-influence
Mike Kamber has had many, many lives. The founder and executive director of the Bronx Documentary Center worked as a documentary photographer for over two decades, and his work has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He lived in the Bronx for a period in the 1980s and dreamed of making an educational space that would bring arts and education to the South Bronx. Founded in 2011, the Bronx Documentary Center is a nonprofit organization and mecca for photography lovers.
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Ralph Gibson’s most recent photos were taken with the Leica M11. We are presenting a selection here, including the Leica Picture of the Year, 2021.
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Leica has announced the M11, its latest rangefinder that offers what it claims as a new benchmark in digital photography as the most flexible M-system camera in the company’s history.
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Tracy L Chandler: A Poor Sort of Memory – LENSCRATCH
Chantal Anderson sat down with fellow photographer, friend, and collaborator Tracy L Chandler, to discuss Chandler’s latest work, A Poor Sort Of Memory. Tracy L Chandler is an American artist living in California who uses photography to explore themes of
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/tracy-l-chandler-a-poor-sort-of-memory/
Chantal Anderson sat down with fellow photographer, friend, and collaborator Tracy L Chandler, to discuss Chandler’s latest work, A Poor Sort Of Memory.
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The Photo Society is proud to announce Chris Johns, former staff photographer and Executive Editor of National Geographic magazine is this years Lifetime Achievement winner.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Alec Soth Asks What a Pound of Pictures Weighs
A new exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery brings together images photographer Alec Soth completed between 2018 and 2021. As is often his custom, Soth beg…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/alec-soth-asks-what-a-pound-of-pictures-weighs/
A new exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery brings together images photographer Alec Soth completed between 2018 and 2021. As is often his custom, Soth began A Pound of Pictures by taking a series of road trips, in this case on a quest to further explore a deeper connection between the ephemerality and physicality of photography as a medium. Depicting a vast array of subjects — from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and a bust of Abraham Lincoln — this series reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallize experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images.
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The Real Places That Gave Rise to Southern Fictions
Tema Stauffer’s photographs explore how the experience of going somewhere is shaped by your expectations of what you will find.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-real-places-that-gave-rise-to-southern-fictions
It is this kind of heftier noun which Tema Stauffer takes for her subject in “Southern Fiction,” a visual survey of the settings that shaped the imaginations of some of the last century’s most significant Southern writers. Stauffer’s pictures are not illustrations of particular literary works or portraits of individual writers but, rather, invocations of people and places, both real and imagined. Taken together, they capture the intellectual and aesthetic challenges posed by biography, but also by geography—and specifically by the American South.
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