https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2020/ap-to-equip-all-visual-journalists-globally-with-sony-imaging-products
“The new mirrorless technology in Sony’s cameras allows for a completely silent operation, meaning our photojournalists can work in environments without interrupting the scene around them,” said AP Director of Photography J. David Ake. “This is a huge leap forward in photojournalism.”
He traveled the world for Look magazine, but his most memorable images came on a single day in 1968.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-fusco-photographer-of-crowds-watching-rfks-funeral-train-dies-at-89/2020/07/22/6c0a7b82-cc3c-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html
Paul Fusco, who traveled the world as a photojournalist but whose most indelible images, portraying a nation in mourning, were captured on a single day in 1968 as he rode aboard Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral train from New York to Washington, died July 15 at an assisted-living facility in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 89.
Before the widespread use of recorded sound, if you were a music aficionado with a favored piece of baroque music you would be lucky if you heard it more than a handful of times in your lifetime. The circumstances of the orchestra necessary to perform the piece, being able to afford to attend such a recital in the first place – many factors are necessary to listen to that music in the first place, let alone multiple times. Today I, and I think many others, have the experience of finding a piece of music, enjoying it, and then playing it on repeat until utterly exhausted of it and never want to hear it again.
via 35mmc: https://www.35mmc.com/22/07/2020/limiting-and-reflecting-on-my-digital-output-by-simon-king/
Powerful work cannot be rushed, and the slow, decisive approach to producing and sharing such images ensure that their relevancy goes beyond simply grabbing the front page – the intent is not to break the story but rather to tell it holistically and conscientiously.
It is with so much pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 3rd Place Winner, William Camargo. He was selected for his outstanding project, Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities. William has recently
It is with so much pleasure that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 3rd Place Winner, William Camargo. He was selected for his outstanding project, Origins & Displacements: Making Sense of Place, Histories & Possibilities. William has recently received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University. His awards include a feature on Lenscratch, a mini exhibition on the Curated Fridge, and a Lenscratch T-shirt and Tote.
Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.”
via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/577996/helmut-newton-documentary-interview/
Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.”
Photojournalist Joshua Irwandi shadowed hospital workers in Indonesia, taking a striking image of a plastic-wrapped body of a COVID-19 victim while making sure not to reveal distinguishing characteristics, or even gender.
It is with so much pleasure and excitement that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 2nd Place Winner, Nadiya Nacorda. She was selected for her outstanding project, A special kind of double. Nadiya will receive an MFA in Art Photography at Syracu
It is with so much pleasure and excitement that we announce the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize 2nd Place Winner, Nadiya Nacorda. She was selected for her outstanding project, A special kind of double. Nadiya will receive an MFA in Art Photography at Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts in 2021. Her awards include a feature on Lenscratch, a mini exhibition on the Curated Fridge, and a Lenscratch T-shirt and Tote.
Sirkhane Darkroom teaches vulnerable communities how the act of documentation can help them to process their own experience.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/sirkhane-darkroom-photography-school-syria-turkey/
As the Director of Sirkhane Darkroom, photographer Serbest Salih teaches young people from vulnerable communities – many of them refugees – how to use cameras to process the world around them.
Homo sapiens first appeared in the nearly 200,000 years ago in Ethiopia. Their footprints have vanished, their accomplishments turned to dust—but one thing that survived them is their stewardship of…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/07/the-brutal-effects-of-the-climate-crisis-across-the-us/
Homo sapiens first appeared in the nearly 200,000 years ago in Ethiopia. Their footprints have vanished, their accomplishments turned to dust—but one thing that survived them is their stewardship of the earth. But with the advent of European exploration into the Western Hemisphere, the seeds of climate change were planted, taking root during the Industrial Revolution, and progressing at a cataclysmic rate that now poses an existential threat to life as we know it. For Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis, the second installment in the Bronx Documentary Center’s series exploring the impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump, curators Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera explore how the 45th President of the United States has overturned decades of environmental policy in just a few year.
As communities and individuals, we are enduring the initial phase of the COVID-19 infection and the horror of the loss of over 140,000 lives, only to also be launched into a period of political unrest and turmoil sparked by multiple deaths of unarmed blac
via americanreportage: https://americanreportage.com/tw-portfolio/america-reimagined/
[BOYD, KY July 18, 2020] Boyd’s Station and American Reportage are proud to announce the launch of AMERICA REIMAGINED, a curation and archival project aimed at showcasing the work of emerging photojournalists and preserving the images and narratives that offer an intimate look at the ways Americans are grappling with, and adjusting to, this disruptive moment in history. AMERICA REIMAGINED documents how life reacts and evolves with each new challenge – from the COVID-19 pandemic which pushed the country into its homes and social distancing to the fight for social justice which reunited millions in protest and solidarity in streets across the country.
After the controversy surrounding Annie Leibovitz’s Vogue cover of Simone Biles, Vanity Fair published a beautiful photo spread of Viola Davis taken by Dario Calmese. The images were spectacular, but Calmese used an old photo as a reference image for the
After the controversy surrounding Annie Leibovitz’s Vogue cover of Simone Biles, Vanity Fair published a beautiful photo spread of Viola Davis taken by Dario Calmese. The images were spectacular, but Calmese used an old photo as a reference image for the cover, which caused controversy and discussion on Twitter.
The Lenscratch Top 25 to Watch Every year when the student prize submissions come around, our jurors are consistently blown away by the work that comes in. We’ve been having many conversations here at Lenscratch about our place in the photo community, and
Selected by our jurors from the record setting number of submissions this year, we believe these 25 artists truly encapsulate the future of image making. We asked each of the artists included to select an image that best represented their portfolio, and write a brief statement about their work. You can find more of their work by clicking their name
On visiting the seaside towns of the UK’s East Coast, Max Miechowski discovered an unexpected apprehension for the future among the decades-old communities
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/07/a-big-fat-sky-max-miechowski/
On visiting the seaside towns of the UK’s East Coast, Max Miechowski discovered an unexpected apprehension for the future among the decades-old communities
The novelist, curator and former photography critic for The New York Times Magazine talks to us about Fernweh, his new photobook documenting his Swiss travels.
The novelist, curator and former photography critic for The New York Times Magazine talks to us about Fernweh, his new photobook documenting his Swiss travels.
The Oklahoma-raised and New York-based photographer talks us through his portfolio – one that captures the “beauty and pain of daily life”.
The Oklahoma-raised and New York-based photographer talks us through his portfolio – one that captures the “beauty and pain of daily life”.
If you’ve been following Jeff Mermelstein on Instagram the last couple of years you’re aware he’s been secretly snapping pictures of New Yorker’s text…
If you’ve been following Jeff Mermelstein on Instagram the last couple of years you’re aware he’s been secretly snapping pictures of New Yorker’s text messages as he travels around the city everyday. Those images have finally coalesced into a book from Mack, #nyc, a “multifarious, comic and heartbreaking survey of contemporary life as learned through overseen text messages. Written in the new language of acronym and initialism, truncation and cipher wordplay, interrupted by the occasional longueur, people appear to have few inhibitions when faced only with their own reflection in a phone screen, such that they pour their heart-felt desire and lust and hate and vitriol in unfettered streams of text consciousness.”
Photographers Douglas DiFalco and Scott Suriano share the stories behind the photos shortlisted for the 2020 Audubon Photography Awards.
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/07/2020-audubon-photography-awards-shortlist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Last week, the winners of the 11th annual Audubon Photography Awards competition were announced. The winning images are astonishingly impressive but the Top 100 images shortlisted also deserve their own recognition and celebration.
Can photography be used as a tool of healing? Here’s a look at how seven very different artists have responded to the experience of ill-health
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/when-bodies-when-bodies-misbehave
Can photography be used as a tool of healing? Here’s a look at how seven very different artists have responded to the experience of ill-health.
Fusco’s photographs remain an incomparable document of gestures of public grief, capturing a moment of cultural shift unlike almost any other.
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/remembering-paul-fuscos-legendary-rfk-funeral-train/
Fusco’s photographs remain an incomparable document of gestures of public grief, capturing a moment of cultural shift unlike almost any other.
Leica has just revealed another M10 variant. Following in the footsteps of the Leica M10-P with its quiet shutter, the M10-D that lacks the LCD screen,
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/07/16/leica-unveils-m10-r-with-40mp-sensor-and-better-low-light-performance/
Leica has just revealed another M10 variant. Following in the footsteps of the Leica M10-P with its quiet shutter, the M10-D that lacks the LCD screen, and the M10 Monochrom with a 40MP black-and-white image sensor, we now have the Leica M10-R: a high-resolution version of the Leica M10 that uses the same sensor as the Monochrom, but shoots color.