To provide an overview of contemporary Brazilian photography—that’s the challenge taken up by Eder Chiodetto, curator of the exhibition Documental Imagiário, held at the Flamengo cultural center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through September 30, photographs by João Castilho, Breno Rotatori, Guy Veloso, Gustavo Pellizzon, Fábio Messias, Pedro David, Pedro Motta, Fernanda Rappa and the collective Cia de Foto will be on display, responding to the theme “Documentary/Imaginary”.
The South African photographer Peter Magubane documented his country during several tumultuous decades, and some of his work is part of an exhibit at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Jean-Marc Caimi, a photojournalist based in Rome, traveled to Libya recently to shoot personal work about the aftermath of the revolution. Here is a look at part of what he captured during the month he spent traveling around the country. “We made the revolution, now is time to change people’s mind” is the slogan that Caimi heard echoing throughout the country, mostly by those who are trying to affect positive change during this critical period of transition. Caimi explains, “The air you breath is thick and tense. There’s fear, suspicion, mistrust. The dictator might be dead, but Gaddafi’s imprint is still there, strong and oppressive. Tripoli looks like an abandoned city, with garbage and rubble at every corner. The Medina lies in dreadful condition due to the negligence of 42 years of the regime.
By: Thorsten Overgaard Stefan Daniel and Thorsten Overgaard lie down on the floor in Stefan Daniels office at Photokina on September 19, 2012 and have a long…
I observed a woman taking a photo with her iPhone today while walking down the street. But this wasn’t some sort of casual snap. She was backing up. Really backing up. Framing the scene even though she was a good 30 meters behind her friends who had ventu
While the new Leica S uses the same Kodak-built, 37.5MP, 45 x 30mm-size CCD sensor as the S2 and looks very similar to its predecessor, there are many internal and external tweaks to this latest top-of-the-line pro model from Leica.
What would you take with you if your house caught fire? That’s the burning question Foster Huntington came up with to filter potential dates, a provocative query that eventually turned into a wildly successful blog and book.
I believe much of photography is already a commodity and I plan to speak about it during the ASMP Symposium next Thursday the 27th in New York at the Times Center. The topic for the event (more details here) is “Sustainable Business Models: Issues and Tre
Are photography contests worthless? Like most arguments, there are two sides: Yes, photography contests, on the whole, are generally worthless – they are a time and money suck, and the organizers are looking to make money or disguise them as a rights grab
Even though I care more about the images than the gear used to make it, the camera is a fundamental part of photography and I’ve kept an eye on the news from Germany.
Here are a few things—by no means a comprehensive list of Photokina announcements and news—that have caught my attention
The collection of four hundred vintage prints from the 1960s — taken by Dennis Hopper and recently rediscovered — documents the social, political, and creative highlights from a tumultuous era.
Salah Benacer, an independent photojournalist, has released his first book, Inclose. The work takes the form of a photographic essay presenting three reports on the theme of confinement.
Rickard combines several images captured by Google Street View into a single composition. Each image—which the artist does not describe as photography, in the conviction that the work’s concern is equally social and aesthetic—incorporates blurred silhouettes. The stretched lines of bodies wandering the deserted streets, the codified attire, all contribute to this portrait of America devastated by the recession
Three days after a French gossip magazine published photos of Kate Middleton, Dutchess of Cambridge, sunbathing topless, a court in France has ordered the magazine’s publisher to hand over all digital copies and blocked future publication of the images in
The antipanda M-E: The M9 re-purposed as the “stripped-down” budget model The Leica M In a giant party at Photokina, Leica has announced that it will build a new camera for delivery early in 2013. It’s a successor to the…