For one person — after the surprise revelation that his own biological father was an African American and dealing with years of resentment and unanswered questions — insight, understanding and awareness came to him via a personal photographic project. Enter Zun Lee and “Father Figure.”
The trial of photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who has been charged with the 2013 murder of an alleged sex worker in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, has been postponed six months because no judge is available, the Daily Maverick newspaper reports. Mthe
While the camera-based approach is easy enough in principle, in practice there are numerous factors to deal with, and those inform the content of the article
One of the stranger parts of being a working photographer is that no matter how widely published or successful you are, the vast majority of your images are never seen by anyone else.
A resident of Paris for 60 years, Klein’s photographs of 1950s New York caught the city’s energy and grit and made his name. He talks about returning to Brooklyn, working for Vogue – and being praised by Picasso
Twenty years after its original publication in 1994, Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck are working on a new edition of Bystander to be released hopefully in 2015. I asked Joel a few questions about the new edition.
I had a wonderful opportunity today in that I got to enjoy the company of Pulitzer Prize-winner photojournalist David Turnley in the setting of my very
Ditte Haarlov Johnsen Maputo Diary 2000-2013 [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] I grew up in Mozambique. My parents moved there just after independence, drawn by an atmosphere of hope and confidence in the futu…
In 1979, photographer Lucian Perkins, who was at the time an intern for the Washington Post, found himself in the middle of the fast growing DC punk s…
A new issue of L’insensé dedicated to Africa was released on November 6th, 2014. Paris Photo had Africa as its theme in 2011, and an art fair devoted entirely to contemporary African art was held in 2013 in London. But how does African photography fare on the art market? Art critic and journalist Camille Moulonguet gives us an overview.
With radical and varied visual responses, the ten photographers in this edition of Moving Walls take a long view of the question of surveillance. The thematic curation orchestrated by Yukiko Yamagata, Susan Meiselas and Stuart Alexander reflects on the scope of documentary photography and the universal means available to decipher the most critical issues of our times – times when, as Mari Bastashevski remarked, there is no real difference in the ways power is managed in the East and West.
“He was an integral part of AP’s team in Cuba,” AP Director of Photography Santiago Lyon said in an official statement. “His passion and professionalism were exemplary and his energy, talent and good company will be deeply missed.”
2014 is not just the 100th anniversary year of Leica photography, but it also marks the 60th birthday of the Leica M. To celebrate the occasion, the Leica Museum at Leitz Park presents a special exhibition spanning six decades of the Leica M-System. We were able to speak with Lars Netopil, curator of the exhibition.
Today David Lama is one of the most successful professional climbers in Europe. But at age 19, his climbing career almost ended before it even began. In