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Arnaud Montagard: The Road, The Diner and the Drink on the Table

“In the case of Arnaud Montagard’s The Road Not Taken, the lens is focused on the remnants of a mid-century American dream as exemplified by gas stations and diners that bear all the vernacular hallmarks of the Atomic Age”

The best way to describe human activity in a photograph is to remo

via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2020/07/arnaud-montagard-the-road-the-diner-and-the-drink-on-the-table.html

“In the case of Arnaud Montagard’s The Road Not Taken, the lens is focused on the remnants of a mid-century American dream as exemplified by gas stations and diners that bear all the vernacular hallmarks of the Atomic Age”

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July 30, 2020
Photos that Should Not be Possible – Photographs by Toby Binder | Essay by Sean Sheehan | LensCulture

In “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast”, Toby Binder captures the ebbs and flows of teenage life across the divided communities of Northern Ireland

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/toby-binder-photos-that-should-not-be-possible

In “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast”, Toby Binder captures the ebbs and flows of teenage life across the divided communities of Northern Ireland.

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July 30, 2020
The Photo Bill of Rights – PhotoShelter Blog

PhotoShelter’s Caitlyn Edwards interviews co-authors Jai Lennard, Jovelle Tamayo and Tara Pixley to discuss the Photo Bill of Rights.

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/07/photo-bill-of-rights/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

Recently I had the opportunity to virtually sit down with three of the co-authors of the Bill: Jai Lennard, photographer and founder of Color Positive; Jovelle Tamayo, photojournalist and founding member of Authority Collective; and fellow Authority Collective co-Founder, visual journalist and media scholar Tara Pixley to discuss the Bill.

in Ethics

July 29, 2020
Documenting life on the US/Mexico border, from 1983-1987

With his photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of people who want a better life’.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/documenting-life-on-the-us-mexico-border/

With his gripping photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of people who want a better life’.

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July 29, 2020
Truthmark is a photography database aiming to stop misuse in fake news

Initiated by Canon with agency Uncle Grey Copenhagen, it allows photographers to upload images together with the stories and contexts behind them, aiming to curtail misappropriation.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/truthmark-photo-database-canon-uncle-grey-copenhagen-photography-280720?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

Initiated by Canon with agency Uncle Grey Copenhagen, it allows photographers to upload images together with the stories and contexts behind them, aiming to curtail misappropriation.

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July 28, 2020
WaterAid celebrate a decade since clean water became a human right

On this day ten years ago, the UN recognised clean water and sanitation as a human right, but one in ten people still lack access. Wateraid commissioned 10 visual artists from the global south to respond to this issue

via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/07/wateraid-10-years-of-clean-water/

On this day 10 years ago, the UN recognised clean water and sanitation as a human right, but one in ten people still lack access. Wateraid commissioned 10 visual artists from the global south to respond

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July 28, 2020
Power, Consent, and Obligations in Photography

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/power-consent-obligations/

One of photography’s most important problems is the power imbalance between someone operating a camera and someone finding her or himself in front of it. Unless there is an actual collaboration going on, it is the photographer whose decisions result in what the subject looks like in the picture(s). I used “actual” in front of “collaboration” on purpose: unlike many other people, I do not think that having some chit chat with a subject makes for a collaboration. A collaboration would be a joint making of the picture, in which photographer and subject talk about how the subject wants to be portrayed, what the photographers sees in her or him, etc.

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July 27, 2020
Podcast: Martin Parr Apologizes, Male Doctors Try to Shame Their Female Peers, the Hippest Octogenarians – PhotoShelter Blog

After 18 months, a campaign started by then 18-year old Mercedes Baptiste Halliday, a Black photo student in London, to stop the sales of a republication of Gian Butturini’s “London” by Martin Parr has come to and end. An official apology plus Parr’s requ

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/07/podcast-martin-parr-apologizes-male-doctors-try-to-shame-their-female-peers-the-hippest-octogenarians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

After 18 months, a campaign started by then 18-year old Mercedes Baptiste Halliday, a Black photo student in London, to stop the sales of a republication of Gian Butturini’s “London” by Martin Parr has come to and end. An official apology plus Parr’s request to destroy the remaining inventory (although publisher Damiani has apparently put the books on sale rather than destroyed them) has given Halliday a well-earned victory against racism and an entrenched “generation of white, middle-aged men who do what they want without any consequences.”

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July 27, 2020
Matamoros: Dreams on Hold

César Rodriguez reports on the conditions and everyday life in the Mexican migrant camp in Matamoros – just a stone’s throw away from the Texan town of Brownsville.

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July 27, 2020
12 Photographers Reflect on Images of Solidarity

Bruce Davidson, Miranda Barnes, Sohrab Hura and more on how photographs can represent solidarity—from demonstrations of unity in the face of adversity and oppression, to moments of community and connection.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/12-photographers-reflect-on-images-of-solidarity/

How can photographs represent solidarity? From Bruce Davidson’s iconic images of the Civil Right Movement to Richie Shazam’s coverage of the massive Black Trans Lives Matter march in Brooklyn last month, the act of solidarity can be seen in these demonstrations of unity in the face of adversity and oppression. But solidarity is also captured in moments of community and connection, as seen in the work of Chien-Chi Chang and Denise Stephanie.

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July 27, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – Photos of Early 20th Century Doll Factories

The creepiness level of dolls can vary. A few things that we think increase the creepiness level include: them in pieces, them missing parts, them tal…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/photos-of-early-20th-century-doll-factories-2/

The creepiness level of dolls can vary. A few things that we think increase the creepiness level include: them in pieces, them missing parts, them talking, them haunting your dreams, and them murdering you in your sleep. While these photographs of doll factories between 1931 and 1955 only feature the first two, we’re pretty sure that after looking at them we won’t sleep peacefully this weekend.

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July 26, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Soviet Union’s Abandoned Nuclear Test Cities

Nadav Kander began a three year survey of secret Soviet scientific cities and missile test sites when he learned of the existence of two “closed”…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-soviet-union-s-abandoned-nuclear-test-cities/

Nadav Kander began a three year survey of secret Soviet scientific cities and missile test sites when he learned of the existence of two “closed” cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia that tickled his curiosity for secrecy and his interest in the aesthetics of destruction. This fascination then took him from East Kazakhstan to the desolated landscapes of the Aral Sea. The restricted military zones of Priozersk and Kurtchatov did not appear on any map…

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July 26, 2020
He lost both legs and an arm to a bomb but still fights for others

Photographer and triple amputee Giles Duley – who lost his legs and an arm to an IED on assignment in Afghanistan – explains why losing his limbs has made him even more passionate about highlighting human suffering.

via South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3094178/how-losing-both-legs-and-arm-covering-war-afghanistan-gave-photographer

“People have asked me if I regret going to Afghanistan and whether any one photograph is worth losing your legs for,” says Duley, who is currently engaged on a long-term project photographing health workers in Britain and their battle to contain the coronavirus.

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July 25, 2020
‘A picture can kill you or save your life’

For years Abood Hamam sent war photos out of Syria anonymously. Now he’s using his name, and urging exiles to return.

via BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53486838?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cxqvep8kqext/long-reads&link_location=live-reporting-story

For years Abood Hamam chronicled the war in Syria for news outlets all over the world without ever revealing his name – and despite being employed by different warring parties. He began as photographer to the presidential couple – Bashar and Asma al-Assad. Later he filmed Islamic State’s victory parade. Now, finally, he’s broken cover, to encourage exiles to return to his beloved hometown, Raqqa.

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July 25, 2020
‘I felt like the pandemic was being censored.’ Photographing the fight for life – and grief of death – in COVID-19 Britain

This photojournalist documented two little-seen front lines in the UK’s war against coronavirus. Her images reveal intensive care of every kind – amidst a…

via National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photography/2020/07/i-felt-like-the-pandemic-was-being-censored-photographing-the-fight-for-life

I wasn’t allowed in until it was very quiet. Most of the wards had emptied out. And the irony was, every single hospital I went in to, from end of May, the first question the medical staff asked was ‘where were you at the height of the pandemic? Why weren’t you here mid-April?’ They wanted the press to cover what was going on and what they were going through, how inundated they were. But very few people were granted access.

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July 25, 2020
The attacks on press freedom in Portland

This week Dave Miller, who hosts a daily talk show on Oregon Public Broadcasting, interviewed “two very tired people”: Tuck Woodstock and Sergio Olmos, both independent journalists. Since late May, daily protests in solidarity with Black lives and agai

via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/portland_trump_press_freedom.php

THIS WEEK DAVE MILLER, who hosts a daily talk show on Oregon Public Broadcasting, interviewed “two very tired people”: Tuck Woodstock and Sergio Olmos, both independent journalists. Since late May, daily protests in solidarity with Black lives and against police brutality have taken place in Portland. Local outlets have often sent reporters, but not to cover every protest; mainstream national outlets mostly ignored Portland until last week, when OPB reported that federal agents in unmarked vehicles were snatching protesters off the streets. By contrast, freelancers like Woodstock and Olmos have been out night after night, documenting the scene.

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July 25, 2020
Photographers on Photographers: Chen Xiangyun in conversation with Tim Soter

I chose to have a conversation about making and self-publishing photography books, because I myself am passionate about the medium and lack of discussion in the tremendous potentials of bookmaking. I think it will bring something different to the reader.

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/07/photographers-on-photographers-chen-xiangyun-in-conversation-with-tim-soter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29

Below is a transcript of a conversation between two photobook makers, Tim Soter and Chen Xiangyun.

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July 25, 2020
A Seattle judge ruled 5 news outlets, including The Seattle Times, must give photos and video of protests to police – Poynter

A legal expert said the ruling creates a ‘troubling precedent’ that could make news media unwelcome at future protests.

via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/seattle-times-judge-subpoena-protest-police/

A Seattle judge ruled Friday five news outlets must turn over unreleased photos and videos from a late May protest to local law enforcement. The Seattle Police Department believes the raw footage would help solve an ongoing arson and theft investigation, but First Amendment lawyers believe the ruling is troubling.

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July 25, 2020
Carmignac Photojournalism Award: 10 years of reportage

Situated on an island off the coast of southern France, surrounded by glistening blue waters and nestled within pine-tree forests, is the Villa Carmignac — a gallery and sculpture garden belonging to French entrepreneur Édouard Carmignac and the foundatio

via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/07/carmignac-photojournalism-award-10-years-of-reportage/

From human trafficking and warzones to the diminishing Arctic and Amazon, the award’s retrospective exhibition presents some of the most extensive coverage from the past decade, presented in an island gallery in the south of France

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July 24, 2020
Things You Know is a zine documenting the NYC neighbourhood of Crown Heights

Created by friends Max Friedman and Jamil McGinnis, 100 per cent of the profits from the zine will go back into the constantly evolving community that inspired it.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/things-you-know-publication-240720?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

Created by friends Max Friedman and Jamil McGinnis, 100 per cent of the profits from the zine will go back into the constantly evolving community that inspired it.

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July 24, 2020