20th Anniversary Prix HSBC pour la Photographie : Catherine Gfeller, 1999 Winner
we spoke with Catherine Gfeller about her experience of winning the prize with her work Frises Urbaines and what she has accomplished since.
we spoke with Catherine Gfeller about her experience of winning the prize with her work Frises Urbaines and what she has accomplished since.
The Jeu de Paume in Paris is holding a retrospective of the work of New York photographer Taryn Simon, winner of the Prix Découverte at the 2010 Rencontres d’Arles festival.
I spoke with Selkirk in his New York studio last week about his upcoming exhibition, Certain Women, at Howard Greenberg Gallery and the history of his career through the decades. He is the only person ever authorized to make posthumous prints of the work of Diane Arbus.
Notes on a frozen art form from a World Press Photo juror and member of the VII photo agency.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-rules-of-photojournalism-are-keeping-us-from-the-truth-52c093bb0436
Photographer and full-time attorney Carolyn E. Wright, aka the Photo Attorney, writes about different ways you can protect your online images.
via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2015/03/five-things-you-can-do-to-protect-your-online-images-by-carolyn-e-wright/
David Douglas Duncan, whom LIFE called “perhaps the best war photographer since Matthew Brady,” is celebrated in a comprehensive new book
Head on over to the Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea in Milan for the opening reception on March 26th for Ryan’s Heshka’s show, “Romance of Canada.”
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/03/16/romance-of-canada-new-work-by.html
Nine Irish Photographers You Need to Follow
via Time: http://time.com/3726459/nine-irish-photographers-you-need-to-follow/
Things have the longest memories of all; beneath their stillness, they are alive with the terrors they have witnessed.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/magazine/object-lesson.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Something needs to change
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/syngenta-photography-award-scarcity-waste-facing-environmental-crisis-through-photography#slide-12
A short visit with a friend led Rony Zakaria to spend years exploring how faith shapes the relationship between people and nature in Indonesia.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/moved-by-mountains-and-the-sea-in-indonesia/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
At the twilight of the Soviet Era, from 1986-1990, David Hlynsky, a photographer from the American Midwest, made some 8000 color exposures with his Hasselblad of shop windows and storefronts throughout the Eastern Bloc capitals. A selection of those are being published for the first time in his new book Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain (out this month from Thames & Hudson), some 25 years later amidst revived Russian aggression in Europe, and renewed interest in the East-West divide.
A week after Los Angeles agreed to train its law enforcement that public photography is not a crime, a bill has been proposed in Texas that would make it
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/03/13/texas-bill-makes-it-a-crime-to-photograph-police-from-within-25-feet-of-them/
Photographer Matt Eich’s long-term project in Greenwood, Miss. uses Instagram
In the former Soviet city of Tblisi, one can find the marks of history in every space and on every inhabitant—these environmental portraits speak to the burdens of the past that we all carry
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/claudio-rasano-desolated-tblisi
What began as a few isolated cases has become a regional (and almost global) epidemic
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/tommy-trenchard-ebola-in-sierra-leone-and-liberia
Teenagers Rusty and Ryder Wright are the youngest generation of champions from a Utah family that has dominated the classic rodeo event of saddle-bronc riding.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/the-new-west-with-the-wright-family/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
A documentary project about the sex trafficking of minors is worth nothing if it doesn’t improve the lives of its subjects.
Four years ago today, an earthquake and tsunami hit the Tōhoku region of Japan, sweeping away whole towns, killing thousands, and triggering a nuclear…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/03/11/japanese_photographers_respond_to_the_3_11_disasters_in_the_exhibit_in_the.html
Time magazine has won first prize for short documentary in the World Press Photo contest for film titled Behind the Video of Eric Garner’s Deadly Confrontation With New York Police. In the long feature category, photographer Tim Matsui has won first prize
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/tim-matsui-time-win-top-prizes-2015-world-press-multimedia-contest.html