Korean film-maker Park Chan-wook speaks about his passion for black and white photography and turning trivial things into lead characters.
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Andrew Miksys on the Story Behind His Photos of Rural Discos in Lithuania
DISKO, Miksys’ decade-long series exploring discos in Lithuania, is currently on show in Open Eye Gallery’s The Time We Call Our Own, an exhibition about the power and importance of nightlife
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This Time We Are Young
This Time We Are Young is an ongoing documentation of the changing demographics on the world’s youngest continent, Africa.
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/this-time-we-are-young-c1884b642d6c
This Time We Are Young is an ongoing documentation of the changing demographics on the world’s youngest continent, with 60 percent of the African population being under 25. The story reflects on what it means to be young in Africa, following the lives of both the youth who live on the continent and those who migrated to other parts of the world. The project is divided into different chapters, each of them documenting a different theme affecting African youth so far in countries like Uganda, South Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Belgium.
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Chris Killip on his timeless portrait of working class punk culture
For decades, Chris Killip forgot about his photographs of an old Gateshead punk club. But today, they’ve taken on brand new meaning.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/chris-killip-the-station-interview-punks-gateshead-1985/
For three decades, the seminal photographer’s shots of an old anarcho-punk club sat gathering dust in a box. However, in the cold light of day they’ve taken on new meaning.
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America at Hunger’s Edge (Published 2020)
We spent months photographing dozens of families across the country to understand what food insecurity looks like today.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/magazine/food-insecurity-hunger-us.html
A shadow of hunger looms over the United States. In the pandemic economy, nearly one in eight households doesn’t have enough to eat. The lockdown, with its epic lines at food banks, has revealed what was hidden in plain sight: that the struggle to make food last long enough, and to get food that’s healthful — what experts call ‘food insecurity’ — is a persistent one for millions of Americans.
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When Hunger Is on the Doorstep
The photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally traveled across the country to highlight the prevalence of food insecurity among families. To her, the images only begin to tell the story of struggle.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/insider/food-insecurity-families.html
This weekend, the entire issue of The New York Times Magazine is devoted to the topic of families and food insecurity, the lack of consistent access to healthy meals that affects millions in America. The issue features 18 images by the photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, who, in the spirit of Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl journeys, took a 92-day trip from New York to California in a camper to document those who were struggling. The pictures are part of a collaboration between the magazine and the National desk that includes an online multimedia package.
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A Lyrical Photographic Road Trip Across America – Feature Shoot
“The Road Not Taken,” a 1916 poem by Robert Frost is not merely a call for following one’s own destiny as many would like to believe, but the knowledge that…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/09/a-lyrical-photographic-road-trip-across-america/
Arnaud Montagard, a French photographer living in Brooklyn, traversed the continent, making a series of exquisite photographs just published in the sumptuous new book The Road Not Taken (Setanta Books). Here, the search for signs of this fantastical realm continues with the fervor of a true believer, cataloguing the iconography of the self-made man whose rugged individualism built a nation from scratch.
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The Return of Live Sports: Celebrating the Women Who Capture the Moment – PhotoShelter Blog
Find out which women in sports photography inspire PhotoShelter members Sarah Sachs, Jennifer Stewart, Abbie Parr and Casey Brooke.
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/09/women-in-sports-photography-celebration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
As live sports begin to make a comeback, we want to take this opportunity to talk about representation, and to highlight some incredible women in sports photography. These women are creating stunning images and leading the way for other aspiring photographers in the field (and on the field).
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The Photographer Capturing Unvarnished Truths
Heji Shin’s striking, discomfiting work poses an important question for the contemporary age: What do we expect art to do, and does the artist have a responsibility to do it?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/t-magazine/heji-shin-photographer-babies.html
Heji Shin’s striking, discomfiting work poses an important question for the contemporary age: What do we expect art to do, and does the artist have a responsibility to do it?
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The Atlantic tried to artistically show gender dysphoria on its cover. Instead it damaged the trust of transgender readers. – Poynter
A 2018 Atlantic cover story about families with transgender teenagers misgendered its cover model and crossed ethical boundaries in the process.
Brewer was 22 at the time, used they/them pronouns (but goes by he/him pronouns now), and had no idea he was even being considered for the cover.
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The Photographer Peeking at Your Phone
Jeff Mermelstein’s photo collection “#nyc” captures the quotidian dramas taking place on the phone screens of unsuspecting strangers.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photographer-peeking-at-your-phone
In October of 2017, the photographer Jeff Mermelstein, who has been taking pictures of New York City street life since the early nineteen-eighties, was walking in midtown, on one of his near-daily shooting expeditions, when he encountered something he had never thought to capture before. “It was somewhere around Eighth Avenue and the mid-Forties,” Mermelstein told me from his home in Brooklyn, when I called him the other day. “I noticed that a woman was sitting there, tapping something out on her phone.” Operating on half-conscious instinct, as he often does when photographing, Mermelstein raised his own phone, went up to the woman, and took a picture, focussing not on her, as he might usually have done, but on the screen of her device. “She was doing a Google search, and it was something about wills, and a line came up about finding six thousand dollars in an attic. It was just a couple of lines there, but I suddenly felt, This could be the germ of a short story. It was a galvanizing moment.”
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Joel Meyerowitz’s Five Tips for Making Great Street Photographs
via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12772/joel-meyerowitz-guide-to-photography-how-i-make-photographs-book
Legendary image-maker Joel Meyerowitz shares his advice for aspiring photographers, as his new book How I Make Photographs is published
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How Photographers Have Captured War and Unrest in Lebanon
Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers.
via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/584776/lebanon-then-and-now-photography-exhibition/
Lebanon Then and Now at the Middle East Institute creates a dialogue between two generations of Lebanese photographers.
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“Something has to change”: Portraits of Growth from OpenWalls Arles 2020
With the OpenWalls Arles 2020 open at Galerie Huit Arles until 05 September, British Journal of Photography delves deeper into the ‘Growth’ single image winners
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/09/something-has-to-change-portraits-of-growth-from-openwalls-arles-2020/
With the OpenWalls Arles 2020 open at Galerie Huit Arles until 05 September, British Journal of Photography delves deeper into the ‘Growth’ single image winners
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Explore the subconsciousness of documentary photographer, Maggie Steber.
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Google’s New Licensable Images Features Are Officially Out! – PhotoShelter Blog
Google releases new licensable images features to help photographers looking to improve the discovery of their content and earn more.
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/08/google-licensable-images-features-for-photographers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Have you heard the news? Google Images released their new licensable images features earlier today, which will help photographers looking to improve the discovery of their content and potentially earn more.
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Jacques Pion captured haunting images of everyday life for the civilian population in the crisis regions of eastern Ukraine.
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Toni Privat – Agricultura. Raíces ‘El pla de grau’
Toni Privat Agricultura. Raíces ‘El pla de grau’ text by Clara Privat “Avi”* used to go to the field every day, with his R18*, ‘The car of the year’ said the sticker on the back of the car.…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/08/toni-privat-agricultura-raices-el-pla-de-grau/
“Avi”* used to go to the field every day, with his R18*, ‘The car of the year’ said the sticker on the back of the car. Many years had passed, so many that he was now old along with the car too. Every day he got up and religiously followed his usual routine. He ate almond milk with cereal, dressed and went to the garage, where before, there had been pigs and horses, and now was his son’s field van and his R18 that he had used so much.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – FloodZone: An Unsettling View of Impending Sea Level Rise in Miami
“FloodZone” is Miami-based Russian photographer Anastasia Samoylova’s account of life on the knife-edge of the Southern United States: in Florida, whe…
The color palette is tropical: lush greens, azure blues, pastel pinks. But the mood is pensive and melancholy. As new luxury high-rises soar, their foundations are in water. Crumbling walls carry images of tourist paradise. Manatees appear in odd places, sensitive to environmental change. Water is everywhere and water is the problem. Mixing lyric documentary, gently staged photos and epic aerial vistas, FloodZone crosses boundaries to express the deep contradictions of the place. The carefully paced sequence of photographs, arranged as interlocking chapters, make no judgment: they simply show.
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Salinas (2017)
Salt Flats (2017)
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/salinas-2017-b92ed9b051dc
Amilton Neves Cuna is one of six selected visual storytellers of World Press Photo’s 6×6 Global Talent Program in Africa.
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