A gripping look behind prison walls. By request of Noorderlicht, guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, presenting quite unexpected photography of great variety, revealing life behind bars. Artists include: Araminta de Clermont, Amy Elkins, Alyse Emdur, Christiane Feser, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Jane Lindsay, Deborah Luster, Nathalie Mohadjer, Yana Payusova, Lizzie Sadin, Lori Waselchuk.
Hassan Ruvakuki, a correspondent for Radio France Internationale, was accused of involvement in an attack last year in part because he interviewed a rebel leader.
Rebecca Norris Webb had begun a photography project in South Dakota, the land of her youth, when her brother died unexpectedly. All of a sudden, “My Dakota” became a process of grieving, rediscovery and poetry.
It’s taken me much of life to understand and accept that my images are wiser than I am. It often takes me weeks and sometimes months to understand what they are trying to say to me.
For more than 30 years, Sinclair has documented places where people gather, like state fairs, sporting events and parks. “I grew up in the heyday of LIFE and photojournalism. I realized early on that I was better at visual things,” he tells TIME.
Judging by my rate of progress, I think I’ll be making the photographs of my dreams in 5 years or so. Everything so far feels provisional, make-shift, incomplete. Let’s see.
Linda Forsell’s project “Life’s a Blast.” The photographs, which Forsell made in Israel and Palestine from 2008 to 2010, were recently published as a book. Forsell, who is Swedish, “worked randomly, meeting people of all sorts, letting one thing lead to another.” The resulting photos and accompanying text provide a unusual perspective, managing to be both intimate and voyeuristic.
What do I mean by that? A few things seem obvious. The first and foremost being that the advent of digital photography has destroyed the livelihoods of many photographers (and not just photographers, but let’s focus on photography here). In terms of the business side, the digital revolution has happened. I personally am not interested in the socioeconomic Darwinism that’s so prevalent in large parts of, for example, commercial photography. I’m not interested in the business aspects2, so I’m going to ignore them here.
Sheriff’s deputies in Nevada allegedly pushed a 60-year-old Reno Gazette-Journal photographer to the ground and shoved his face into some gravel, the newspaper has reported. The incident happened at the scene of a city fire. The deputies ended up citing t
Tim Dunn, a 21-year veteran of the paper, said that after he identified himself to an officer at the scene, he was ordered to move down a hill, away from the fire, where other media had been directed. Dunn objected, but said he was moving as he’d been ordered to do when the deputies arrived, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. He suffered minor injuries to his face.
First prize in this year’s highly prestigious photography competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012, goes to US photographer Frank Hallam Day. For his portfolio, “Alumascapes,” he will receive a Leica M9-P camera and a lens worth around €10,000, as well as a cash prize of €5,000. The second winner in this year’s competition is Piotr Zbierski from Poland. His portfolio, “Pass by Me,” wins the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2012 and a Leica M9-P with lens. The prizes will be presented on July 3, 2012 at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photograph festival in Arles, in the south of France. Presented here are the winners’ photographs. Join us in congratulating Frank and Piotr!
Martin Jenkinson, London born photographer, trade unionist and founding member of EPUK with a sympathetic eye for the Northern working traditions has died at the age of 64.
Emily White writes, with chagrin: “As monumental a role as musicians and albums have played in my life, I’ve never invested money in them aside from concert tickets and T-shirts.” Some musicians have taken her to task.
In the NPR post, a 20-year-old intern named Emily White wrote that despite being “an avid music listener, concertgoer and college radio D.J.,” with an iTunes library of 11,000 songs, she has bought only 15 CDs in her life. “As monumental a role as musicians and albums have played in my life,” she wrote, “I’ve never invested money in them aside from concert tickets and T-shirts.”
Ms. White went on to describe some typical Gen-Y behaviors about acquiring digital music: ripping CDs; copying friends’ song files; being given 15 gigabytes of music by a prom date. Curiously, she noted that aside from “a few” tracks that she obtained through the now-defunct file-sharing service Kazaa, most were not “illegally” downloaded.
There are flat out geniuses on the site, photographers whose work has informed and changed the way generations of shooters have looked at the world and approached doing stories
As we anticipate the summer’s first heat wave, it’s the perfect time to take in the work of Gabriele Micalizzi, who went back to his childhood summer …
As we anticipate the summer’s first heat wave, it’s the perfect time to take in the work of Gabriele Micalizzi, who went back to his childhood summer stomping grounds in Puglia, Italy, and photographed, from 8 A.M. till 8 P.M. each day, the beach where he lived each summer
From Russian Noir by Jason Eskenazi By John Kennerdell If there’s a single received idea that fires up the imagination of my young photographer friends these days, it’s that for “professional looking” photographs they should buy fast lenses and then…
But if the current hobbyist obsession seems to regard minimal depth of field as a hallmark of a memorable image, some of us relics from the film age might argue pretty much the opposite. The richest photos—the ones we return to again and again, seeing more each time—most often work in layers. They show more rather than less, taking in the full spatial depth of our world rather than just one razor-thin slice of it.
Kamaran Najm came up with the idea of the agency while he was working as an editor for local magazine. He realized quickly that there was no central place to find images of Iraq, so he decided to start an agency that would do that. It quickly developed into an agency that focuses more on editorial photojournalism as opposed to a stock or wire agency
Photojournalist and Academy Award Nominated filmmaker (Hell and Back Again) Danfung Dennis and his fledgling immersive video company Condition One just received half a million in seed capitol from tech visionary Mark Cuban. As was first reported on GigaOm
Photojournalist and Academy Award Nominated filmmaker (Hell and Back Again) Danfung Dennis and his fledgling immersive video company Condition One just received half a million in seed capitol from tech visionary Mark Cuban
Mark Leong’s cinematic photos reveal an uneasy relationship between old and new, order and chaos in Hong Kong, 15 years after its handover from Britain.
During the months he spent trekking through this city for National Geographic magazine, Mark Leong was on a hunt for glimpses of it’s underground. Years of Hong Kong cinema had colored his view of the place, rendering it a seedy scene beneath a vibrant subtropical metropolis.
In a sense, he went looking for what Ridley Scott called “Hong Kong on a very bad day.”
