There are three reasons that John’s work sent me to thoughts of Springsteen. First, John has a unique approach to light. In fact, it is his use of darkness, the deliberate absence of light, that helps to reveal the essence of his subject matter. One might call the darkness moody. I think of it as isolating the deeper meaning of the images.
CatchLight, a California-based nonprofit, was launched in 2015 to create opportunities and support for photojournalists; over the past several years, they’ve created project grants for photojournalists and partnered with local newsrooms to offer financ
CatchLight Local announced that five philanthropic organizations will invest a combined two million dollars over the next several years in an effort to address what CatchLight CEO Elodie Mailliet Storm calls “image deserts”: the decline and dearth of photojournalism at the local level.
For the last two decades, American artist Gillian Laub has used the camera to investigate how society’s most complex questions are often writ large in…
For the last two decades, American artist Gillian Laub has used the camera to investigate how society’s most complex questions are often writ large in our most intimate relationships. Her focus on family, community and human rights is clear in projects such as Testimony, which explores the lives of terror survivors in the Middle East, and Southern Rites, a decade-long project about racism in the American South.
The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) was founded by Adobe, Twitter, and the New York Times in 2019 as a way to battle against image disinformation and increase the trust and transparency of content shared online — namely images and photos. In the two years since it was founded, the CAI has expanded to more than 350 members, and now includes Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Nikon.
David Burnett is one of the world’s most respected photojournalists working today. He’s made pictures in the news for five decades, making him one of the mos…
David is a dear friend and colleague of Kenneth Jarecke, founder of The Curious Society. David is one of the original members of The Curious Society, he’s an Issue 1 contributor and a frequent guest in our weekly Clubhouse room (link below). When David starts talking about pictures you can feel the passion he has for his craft. He tells stories and shares the secrets behind some of his most legendary pictures for over two hours. Thank you to David, Kenneth, Raquel and our live audience on zoom for this terrific conversation.
The Epson International Pano Awards is the largest competition for panoramic photography and has announced its 2021 winners, with a misty cypress tree panorama awarded the top prize.
Inevitably, the spirit of Weegee haunts Jill Freedman’s photographs of New York street cops. Both worked in inky, matter-of-fact black and white. Both wanted to be at the scene of the crime while the blood was still wet. Both were unsentimental, tenacious, and tough. They didn’t look away, and they won’t let us ignore what they saw: New York at its rawest and scuzziest (the precinct walls are as ruined as tenement hallways). But Freedman, a rare woman in the field of photojournalism at the time (she died in 2019, at the age of seventy-nine), wasn’t interested in Weegee’s brand of hit-and-run tabloid photojournalism. Her pictures were made over a period of four years, from 1978 to 1981, during which she was virtually embedded with the police in two Manhattan precincts, Midtown South and the Ninth, headquartered at East Fifth Street, where the cops of “NYPD Blue” would be stationed more than a decade later. New York hit the skids financially in those years, and the city’s safety net, already badly frayed, gave out.
This week we are celebrating a wonderful organization in Los Angeles: the Las Fotos Project and The Foto Awards event taking place on October 23, 2021. Today we celebrate the Advocacy Award Winner (adult), Smita Sharma. The Advocacy Award is given for po
Smita Sharma is an award winning photojournalist and visual storyteller based in Delhi, reporting on critical human rights, gender and social issues in her own community as well as in the Global South on assignments for Human Rights Watch, National Geographic Magazine, and other publications.
Our memories are intimately tied to photographs. Whether a childhood portrait or sunset selfie, the photograph represents not just the captured moment…
Our memories are intimately tied to photographs. Whether a childhood portrait or sunset selfie, the photograph represents not just the captured moment, but how that moment is currently remembered. It’s nearly impossible to separate memory from the reality of experience. Walking down the street, we ignore one thing and gravitate towards another, while landmarks anchor us within a geographical space. But what captures or escapes our attention defines our recollection of that place. Japanese photographer Sohei Nishino’s work encapsulates this transient relationship between personal experience, memory, and place. Photography, like memory, is also defined by what is included or excluded from the frame. Like any curious photographer, Nishino weaves his way through each new city, making decisions about how to portray his surroundings. “When I’m shooting,” he says, “I am always thinking about what I’m trying to see within the events in front of me, what I am focusing on and how I feel about it.” An individual image can anchor the portrayal, but it’s how each fragment is pieced together that defines the journey and transports Nishino’s work into an expansive new realm.
Photographer Chas Gerretsen spent six months chronicling one of the most harrowing and poignant war films ever made. He recounts the turmoil that took place both on and off the set.
Photographer Chas Gerretsen spent six months chronicling one of the most harrowing and poignant war films ever made. He recounts the turmoil that took place both on and off the set.
In the Magnum Square Print Sale in partnership with Aperture, Elliott Erwitt, Nan Goldin, Jamel Shabazz, and more share images that explore the edges of their photographic practice.
We’re delighted to announce the twelve winners of the 7th Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, with the selected artists spanning genres as well as continents. Christian K. Lee, Maggie…
We’re delighted to announce the twelve winners of the 7th Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, with the selected artists spanning genres as well as continents. Christian K. Lee, Maggie Shannon, Jooeun Bae, Anouchka Renaud-Eck, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, Daniela Constantini, J. Lester Feder, Michael Young, Matthew Barbarino, Rob Darby, Hanne Van Assche, and Horace Li will be featured in group exhibitions opening at BBA Gallery in Berlin on October 30th and at Studio Galerie B&B in Paris on November 7th.
Being and There is a photographic travel journal featuring black and white photography by Joseph Lawton from India, China, Indonesia, Russia, France, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico.
The project, Here Is Where We Shall Stay by Pat Kane focuses on how Indigenous people in my region are moving towards meaningful self determination by resetting the past. The act of reclaiming culture and identity is ongoing, and my friends here are resil
The project, Here Is Where We Shall Stay by Pat Kane focuses on how Indigenous people in my region are moving towards meaningful self determination by resetting the past. The act of reclaiming culture and identity is ongoing, and my friends here are resilient in a place where symbols and systems of colonization loom large. We can hear colonization when Dene families pray to the Virgin Mary, but we see Indigenization when a young woman holds the hide of a caribou in her arms. In Catholicism we are Children of God, but in the Dene worldview we are One with the Land.
The Award is being shared among Five Photographers covering stories from around the world. Each winner will receive $10,0000 to be used to continue their individual projects on a range of subjects.
The Award is being shared among five photographers covering stories from around the world. Each winner will receive $10,000 to be used to continue their individual projects on a range of subjects.
Today’s Russia is known mostly for its politics, the splendor of Saint Petersburg, and Moscow’s monuments. To get into the heart of the largest nation on the planet, Blind hits the road with four young photographers who explore their country’s territory a
Today’s Russia is known mostly for its politics, the splendor of Saint Petersburg, and Moscow’s monuments. To get into the heart of the largest nation on the planet, Blind hits the road with four young photographers who explore their country’s territory and memory.
Ken Graves and Eva Lipman expose the surprisingly tender and at times erotically charged moments that happen before and after impact, when human and machine bodies come into close contact.