Gorgeous photos from the recent Afropunk fest in NYC by photographer Driely S.
Impressions of a style-filled event we wish we’d attended.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/09/03/gorgeous-photos-from-the-recen.html
Impressions of a style-filled event we wish we’d attended.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/09/03/gorgeous-photos-from-the-recen.html
After the death of Ian Parry, his friends and colleagues established a scholarship to nurture and encourage young photographers.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/a-legacy-helps-young-photographers/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
I am perpetually fascinated with Africa’s extraordinary diversity and challenges. I think it’s only sensible that if an outsider has any hope of understanding the continent’s complexity, he or she must devote years to the pursuit. I’ve been working on the continent since 2007 and remain humble regarding the complex dynamics at play within many of its countries. I view every assignment and project as opportunity to learn on a steep curve.
Andrei Stenin, 33, a photographer with the Russian state agency RIA Novosti, who had been reported missing in the eastern Ukraine August 5, has been found dead, his agency confirmed today. In a statement, Dmitry Kiselev, the head of RIA Novosti, said Sten
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/09/russian-photojournalist-missing-eastern-ukraine-confirmed-dead.html
Photographer Mary F. Calvert has won the Alexia Foundation’s 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant to fund her project called “Missing in Action: Homeless Female Veterans,” the foundation announced this morning. Calvert was a finalist for the $25,000 grant last y
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/09/mary-f-calvert-wins-25000-womens-initiative-grant.html
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Looking to make pictures of Australia that did not involve surfers or kangaroos, Viviane Dalles cast her luck with an itinerant boxing show.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/circus-tent-boxers-in-australias-outback/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
We talked to him about the future of journalism and Instagram in space.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/teru-kuwayama-facebook-interview
This is the final Sunday Frame feature I’ll submit before my departure from the AC-T.
via Citizen Times: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/08/30/john-coulakis-photographs-memories/14871829/
The American journalist believed beheaded in Syria should be remembered for his journalism.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/02/remembering-steven-sotloff-through-his-journalism/
What makes the APhotoADay listserv unique is community. Since 2001, I’ve watched people grow up on there. Find their voice. Come into their own. Some have grown from young college photographers into…
via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/96485398135/official-press-release-announcing-apads-continued
As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/eppb-icloud/
After a trove of nude photos of celebrities was posted online, some champions of anything-goes social media were rueful.
In the second instance of The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) beheading an American journalist on camera, today a video tape was released purporting to show the execution of Steven Sotloff, 31.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/steven-sotloff-second-american-journalist-executed-isis
For The Communitarians, photographer Aaron Cohen documents life in Twin Oaks, a Virginian commune established in 1967 as part of the emerging back-to-the-land movement. Modeled in part from the ideals expressed in the mid-century utopian text Walden Two b
Soon after arriving in New York in the mid-1960s, Jean-Pierre Laffont discovered that — unlike anywhere else — his new neighbors respected him and his profession.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/a-photographers-paradise-in-america/
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/02/violent-news-images-matter-fred-ritchin/#1
The magazine Photo has worked with Visa pour l’Image since its inception in 1989, and every year it devotes a special issue to the festival. Here is the 2014 edition, which opens today. The issue begins with an interview with festival director, Jean-François Leroy, and his deputy, Delphine Lelu.
“If Visa pour l’Image 2014 is violent, it’s because the world is violent,” said festival director Jean-François Leroy this week in an interview with the Catalan press.