Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, stow away on freight trains to travel north to the United States. This essay by Los Angeles Times staff photographer Don Bartletti chronicles the journey of Enrique, who traveled to the United States alone from Honduras as a teenager in search of his mother. The project was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
As national soccer teams and the photographers who have been covering them start to trickle home from the Brazil World Cup, it’s time to revisit the “On the Sidelines” project. This initiative was billed as a chance for photographers to share “their own q
Mishka Henner is an artist based in Manchester, England. He’s been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet and Deutsche Borse Prizes, and was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for Art in 2013. His work is currently being exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum,
As I sit here with the strangest sunburn-line I have ever had, it is almost rhetorical to say that summer has arrived, but alas it has. Today we share four pages worth of warmth, sand, water sport, and summer fun. Due to the popularity of last year’s Su
As part of Member Appreciation week last week, we caught up with a few of our longest standing members to find out what their biggest accomplishments have been in the past 9 years, and how changes in the industry have affected them personally, their caree
Robert Lebeck (1929-2014) was a photographer for the German magazine Stern and one of his country’s greatest photojournalists. He died on June 14th. His gallery, Lumas, sent us these photographs as a tribute. For Lebeck’s 80th birthday in 2009, the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin held a major retrospective of his work.
Magnum Photos has named Indian photographer Sohrab Hura as its latest nominee. The announcement was made following the agency’s annual general meeting, which took place in New York at the weekend. ‘Olivia Arthur and Susan Meiselas encouraged me to apply,’
At the annual meeting of Magnum Photos last week, members of the photography collective voted to make Moises Saman, a long-time Magnum associate, a full member of the agency. Bieke Depoorter and Jerome Sessini were elevated from nominees to associate memb
James Ball: Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be ‘disappeared’. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google
This month we’re thrilled to unveil the new website of one our favorite travel photographers: Ken Kaminesky. While he’s not new to PhotoShelter — Ken’s been selling stock via a PhotoShelter site since 2010 — a few months back he was looking to update his
The value of a company dealing with photography is not in its ability to attract a large amount of content – that’s the easy part- but rather in its ability to add value to the content.