Gordon Parks’ Return to Fort Scott
Rarely seen photographs from an unpublished LIFE article intertwine the story of the Great Migration with Parks’ personal history
Rarely seen photographs from an unpublished LIFE article intertwine the story of the Great Migration with Parks’ personal history
“People think of the city as bricks and glass and steel, but it’s really like an organism,” the aerial photographer George Steinmetz says.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/new-york-winter
Me-Mo, a new magazine app on the iPad, offers photographers new ways to tell their stories
via Time: http://time.com/3669834/photographers-turn-to-the-ipad-for-independence/
Life on Wheels: The New American Nomads, looks at those Americans who have willfully traded traditional lifestyles of home and property for a nomadic existence of full-time life on the road in recreational vehicles.
For much of any given year, I can b
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/56673-life-on-wheels-the-new-america
Who are you? Where does your name come from? Where has your family lived for most of their lives? Who are your ancestors? Where do you hail from? Where do you belong?
These questions are all linked to one thing – land. Identity, race, culture, and even
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/projects/60236-the-landless-kings
Landon Nordeman photographed the opening of “John Waters: Beverly Hills John” at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, in Chelsea.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/john-waterss-eccentric-art-world
In the Philippines, climate change intesifies already extreme weather.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/what-its-like-to-live-in-typhoon-country-fe08f0a203d6
Although some of these images might seem amusing at first glance, this series is an incisive look at the changing landscape in countries surrounding the Mediterranean
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/nick-hannes-the-mediterranean-and-the-continuity-of-man
Photojournalism can be like “trying to play Rachmaninoff while wearing boxing gloves,” as former photojournalist Simon Norfolk put it. One looks for the dramatic, the iconic, the universal, and in doing so the photographer then often simplifies the situation, removing it from a specific context that may help explain what the viewer will be seeing.
J örg Colberg is a photographer, teacher, and critic based in Northampton, MA. • BA: A new internet joke: How many bloggers doe…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/01/q-with-jorg-colberg.html
For Minneapolis-based photographer Teri Fullerton, the lens is a means of breaking down barriers and connecting with people, be they soldiers coming home after time at war or men who approach her on dating websites. Throughout her work, Fullerton approach
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/01/photographer-teri-fullerton-discusses-war-family-internet-dating/
Update: There have been new developments. Please see below. There’s a new bill passing through the Arkansas State Legislature that may be concerning to
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/16/arkansas-bill-criminalizes-capturing-possessing-certain-camera-drone-photos/
Nell Cooper, 89, the widow of the late Charles H. Cooper, executive director emeritus of the National Press Photographers Association, died Thursday at home in Durham surrounded by her family. She was surrounded by her family following a brief period of d
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nell-cooper-89
Huaconada is a ritual dance performed in the village of Mito in the province of Concepción in the central Peruvian Andes
Photographer Matt Black highlights the stories behind California’s nut boom—in the midst of an epic drought.
via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/12/photos-matt-black-california-drought-almonds
French photographer William Daniels discusses his time covering the conflict
via Time: http://time.com/3640525/central-african-republic-conflict-anti-balaka-seleka/
An exploration of the daily lives of the photographer’s two unmarried aunts, who live together in Alekhovshchina, Russia.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/nadia-sablins-aunties
Karen Mullarkey talks about working with Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon and why photographers today need to shoot less.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/talking-with-karen-mullarkey-2f8604c18205
William Deresiewicz penned a compelling piece at The Atlantic entitled “The Death of the Artist – and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur,” which chronicles the evolution of creatives from craftsmen to artists to artistic geniuses to professionals and
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/01/why-photographers-arent-artists/
Zhang Kechun, a Chinese photographer, spent time on the banks of the The Yellow River for his series of the same name. With the river considered as th…
Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/the-yellow-river-by-zhang-kechun