Link: Vern Arendt: a legend behind the lens
“Vern was one of a kind,” said Bill Schanen III, publisher of Ozaukee Press. “I can’t imagine that anyone could match his combination of technical skill, work ethic and artistic sensitivity. His genius was to use those qualities to record events in the lives of generations of Ozaukee County residents and turn them into compelling images on the pages of Ozaukee Press.”
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Adrian Fussell, a New York City-based photojournalist, 23, has won the Ian Parry Scholarship for 2012 for his project “My Name is Victory.” The series follows members of the Patriot Guards, from Francis Lewis High School in Queens, NY, a community of immi
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Adrian Fussell, a New York City-based photojournalist, 23, has won the Ian Parry Scholarship for 2012 for his project “My Name is Victory.” The series follows members of the Patriot Guards, from Francis Lewis High School in Queens, NY, a community of immigrant youth who assimilate through participating in the volunteer military program
Link: 67th College Photographer of the Year | Home
It’s time to pull together the best of your images from the past year for entry in the annual College Photographer of the Year competition
The Magnum Foundation has distributed more than $375,000 over the past three years to help photographers produce new projects, stepping in where traditional media organisations once operated. Olivier Laurent speaks with the Foundation’s president, Susan Meiselas
Link: Dave Jordano Photographs a Gritty but Hopeful Detroit | Feature Shoot
I’m of the philosophy that you don’t pick your projects, they pick you. If you’re concerned enough about something it will ultimately surface and you will have to act upon it.
Link: Photojournalism: The cost of covering conflicts – British Journal of Photography
In just eight months, 34 journalists have been killed around the globe, 16 of them just in Syria. As the death toll mounts, representatives of the photojournalism community gathered at Visa pour l’Image to discuss the cost of covering conflict. Olivier Laurent reports from the event
Joseph Michael Lopez’s New York street photography shows the city as a beast of chaos that New Yorkers attempt to contain, or at least live with, on a daily basis.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/breaking-down-the-beast/
Joseph Michael Lopez’s photography is fundamentally about his New York. He presents street scenes, people and everyday objects without any semblance of objectivity.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/05/remi-ochlik-revolutions/#1
This spring, after French war photographer Rémi Ochlik was killed during fighting in Homs, Syria, a group of close friends and colleagues felt their obligations to the photographer weren’t complete. Meeting aboard a TGV train on their way to Paris from the World Press awards ceremony in Amsterdam in late April, the group took stock of everything that had happened since Rémi’s death. His photographs had spoken for themselves when exhibited in tribute in Amsterdam. The large circle of friends gathered in his name was a testament to his character; he was always the guy who would make friends sharing a cigarette. But one duty remained unfinished—not a tribute, nor a memorial, but a commitment to continue what was and what should have been in Rémi’s life.
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Krisanne Johnson | Le Journal de la Photographie
Swaziland, a kingdom with a population a little over a million and surrounded almost entirely by South Africa, is largely ignored by the media. It has drawn the attention of a few international organization due to the ravages of AIDS. The phenomenon illustrates the complexity of a country whose paradoxes Krisanne Johnson has captured for the past six years, without cliché or overdone pathos
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Damir Sagolj | Le Journal de la Photographie
In October 2011, Bangkok based Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj travelled with Alertnet – the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s humanitarian news service – and Medecins Sans Frontieres on a government requested and tightly controlled trip to North Korea
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012 : Lorenzo Meloni | Le Journal de la Photographie
These images are part of a project I started called ‘fair, love and war’. It focuses on the young people of my generation living in the suburbs, who use rap music as a status symbol and a way to let off steam but also to find a position in this society.
We offered the Women’s Initiative Grant in 2012 and 2014. The Alexia Foundation is no longer offering the Women’s Initiative Grant. The Alexia Foundation is proud to announce that Tim Matsui is the recipient of the first Women’s Initiative grant … Continu
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The Alexia Foundation is proud to announce that Tim Matsui is the recipient of the first Women’s Initiative grant of $25,000 to document Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in Seattle and King County, Washington.
Once Magazine, which launched a year ago at Visa pour l’Image, promised to offer a new revenue stream for photographers by publishing their work on the iPad. Last month, however, Once closed its doors. The magazine’s editor, John Knight, tells BJP what went wrong
Susan Carr, an architectural photographer and leader of photo education programs for the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), died yesterday in Chicago. She was 49. The cause of death was cancer. ASMP announced the news on its Strictly Business
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/09/photographer-and-photo-educator-susan-carr-dies-49.html
In a statement posted on the ASMP web site, the trade organization’s president Shawn G. Henry, said: “With Susan’s passing ASMP has lost one of its most ardent advocates and I have lost a dear friend. She was a tireless champion of the Society, a passionate educator, and a wonderfully warm and caring human being.”
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/04/the-sweet-life-revisited/#1
In photography, “the road trip,” especially by car around the United States, has been a right of passage for many photographers. Embarking on a fourteen-month world tour however is a bit less common, but that ambitious challenge was taken on in 1959 by the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda. The resulting photographs would turned into one of the most epic Dutch photobooks ever produced, The Sweet Life.
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Jim Lo Scalzo | Le Journal de la Photographie
Seeking God, spreading hatred and racism, and destroying the American landscape. These American States, as they are sometimes called, are individual and, at times, as violently divided as the people who live in them. Whose America is it? Jim Lo Scalzo looks at his home country from an outsider’s perspective, traveling the United States to document the extremes of American culture and the poisoning of natural beauty and of American towns and citizens.
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012 : Gali Tibbon | Le Journal de la Photographie
Ethiopian faith radiates from two cities: Jerusalem and Lalibela, in Ethiopia’s highlands. ‘Jerusalem of Africa’ is one of the names given to Lalibela, also known as ‘Black Jerusalem’. It is famous for its 12th century monolithic churches carved out of the ‘living rock’, and is one of the world’s great wonders. These exceptional shrines are said to have been built during the 25-year reign of King Lalibela – with, as legend has it, more than a little help from the angels.
Members of Noor, the photo collective that will observe its fifth anniversary at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, discuss their approach and practice.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/a-collective-eye-on-social-justice/
The photographer-owned photo agency, Noor, was started on Sept. 6, 2007, at the Visa Pour l’image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France. This week the photographers will return, commemorating their fifth anniversary with the unveiling of a new Web site and an 11-volume book project. The Noor members Alixandra Fazzina, Kadir van Lohuizen and Jon Lowenstein spoke with James Estrin
British artist John Stezaker has won the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2012, one of the most prestigious photography prizes in the world
Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people cap…
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The people captured in “Living Periferia” live with it every day of their lives. The violence, the drugs, the weapons, the lost bullets which take dozens of lives every year… The fights, the battles with the police. Some barely escape. Others fall in the street law and to save them from oblivion their friends and family draw enormous pictures of them on the walls of the shantytown. It’s a posthumous tribute to their courage, their way to remember them as local heroes.
