This week, Lenscratch celebrates the SlowExposures Photography Festival. For 12 years, SlowExposures has offered a photography exhibition that celebrates the rural South. Each year, more photographers participate and we were delighted with the high level
The French photographer’s project began, in 2009, when Sauvin discovered an accumulation of 35-mm. negatives in a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing.
The world of photography has lost an icon. Press agency Phaidon is reporting that, after a long battle with cancer, Magnum photographer René Burri passed
Thabiso Sekgala, whose images of the restricted homelands established under South Africa’s apartheid regime have been exhibited internationally, died October 15. Market Photo Workshop, the Johannesburg school where Sekgala studied, announced his death on
Justin Maxon Heaven’s Gain [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT July 5th, 2013. ‘Hey Bro, well its 7 months today since you was taken away from us… I know you don…
National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer recently witnessed the exodus of more than 100,000 Kurds from Syria as they fled from ISIS into neighboring Turkey. This is his first-person account of the momentous scene that took place at the border in mi
If you came of age in the 1970’s, as I did, it was hard to escape Simon and Garfunkel going on and on about the virtues of that ubiquitous slide film, what with those nice bright colors and greens of summer. Ten times a day you’d hear that damn song emanating from some transistor radio, and I’d always cringe when they got to the lyrical punchline, “Everything looks worse in back and white.”
I guess what I miss most is the solitude. I remember standing alone in the pitch black of a hotel road darkroom after a dangerous day, with my arms thrust deep into a sink of 68-degree wash water for no reason while I waited for the fixer to clear my film. There, in the absence of every sight, of every sound, it was peace.
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille of The Washington Post, who returned from covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia 21 days ago and who is symptom free, was asked by Syracuse University officials today not to come to campus wh
2012 PDN’s 30 selection LaToya Ruby Frazier is among the 34 people named United States Artists fellows for 2014. The unrestricted award is worth $50,000.