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In Memoriam: Wayne Swanson: From the Workshop – LENSCRATCH

A number of years ago, a tall, quietly intelligent artist entered my classroom, driving to Los Angeles from San Diego each week to understand the photographer’s journey. Our journey together lasted several years and then I watched Wayne Swanson and his photographs take flight in remarkable ways. Wayne passed away this week, after a long

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/wayne-swanson/

Photographer Wayne Swanson created a visual love letter of sorts to his father and his father’s craft of furniture design and making, with his project, From the Workshop. In fact, the approach to Wayne’s photographs and the stories they tell are as unique as the furniture they celebrate. This series sits in the realm of memory and family; in some ways, they are maps that define and investigate a father’s passion, the depth of which was only recently discovered.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/wayne-swanson/

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June 18, 2024
Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH

Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is as much current events as it is history. These ghosts haunt us

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/180706/

This haunting collection of photography and essays illuminates the lingering architectural and geographical remains from America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/180706/

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June 18, 2024
How Groundbreaking Is Vivian Maier’s Photography?

She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/design/vivien-maier-photography-fotografiska.html

She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/arts/design/vivien-maier-photography-fotografiska.html

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June 18, 2024
The Memories of Others

via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-memories-of-others/

The above is clearly the case for the photographs made by Akihiko Okamura in Northern Ireland around the low-level civil war that typically is being described euphemistically as “the troubles”. When I grew up, that war was a frequent part of the news on TV in then West Germany.

https://cphmag.com/the-memories-of-others/

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June 18, 2024
Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training

Read the letter here.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/

The letter was organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Etter and signed by dozens of photographers, journalists, and curators.

https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/

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June 18, 2024
Intermission – The Leica camera Blog:

With dream-like and purely associative images, Natalia Neuhaus explores emotional states and everyday situations.

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June 18, 2024
Between the Offensives: Images From a Journey in Ukraine’s Borderland

Photographs from two trips along Ukraine’s northeastern border regions, in the months before Russia renewed an offensive there, reveal loss and transformation.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/ukraine-border-russia-sumy-kharkiv-photos.html

Sirens cannot provide enough warning time for a bombardment from this close, and air defenses cannot repel it. Residents rely on deliveries of humanitarian aid, and the long, cold wait for supplies takes place under near daily shelling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/ukraine-border-russia-sumy-kharkiv-photos.html

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June 18, 2024
It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.

BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html

During the two years that BNN was active, it had the veneer of a legitimate news service, claiming a worldwide roster of “seasoned” journalists and 10 million monthly visitors, surpassing the The Chicago Tribune’s self-reported audience. Prominent news organizations like The Washington Post, Politico and The Guardian linked to BNN’s stories. Google News often surfaced them, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html

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June 18, 2024
Max Ortiz, award-winning photojournalist, dies at 58

From photographing politicians and celebrities to the struggles and triumphs of ordinary folks, Mr. Ortiz handled each with compassion, colleagues say.

via The Detroit News: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/06/03/max-ortiz-award-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-58/73947311007/

Dakota Ortiz was a year old when he spent eight months in treatment for a rare form of cancer. His dad, Max Ortiz, a professional photographer, took photos of him hugging his sister that were so powerful, the family said they were blown up by Ronald McDonald House Charities and put inside McDonald’s restaurants to raise awareness of childhood cancer.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/06/03/max-ortiz-award-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-58/73947311007/

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June 5, 2024
Photographer Who Captured Reagan Assassination Attempt Dies Age 77

He had a unique vantage point.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/03/pulitzer-winning-photographer-who-captured-reagan-assassination-attempt-dies-age-77-ron-edmonds/

The Reagan assassination attempt photo came on what was only Edmonds’ second day as the AP’s White House photographer covering Reagan. He said his job was to “watch the president at all times” and believes he did his job well that day.

https://petapixel.com/2024/06/03/pulitzer-winning-photographer-who-captured-reagan-assassination-attempt-dies-age-77-ron-edmonds/

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June 4, 2024
A Drying Heartland: The Arid Photographs of Nicolás Marticorena – LENSCRATCH

This week is dedicated to Chilean photographers working across a variety of genres. Today our focus is on Nicolás Marticorena, a journalist, sociologist and photographer whose global practice explores issues of climate change, drought and its effects on the human condition. My body leaves you drop by drop. … I evaporate like moistness from your

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/nicolasmarticorena/

Meeting Nicolás Marticorena was like stumbling upon a kindred spirit. Ever since I saw his work at the group exhibition Pasajero in Santiago de Chile, I was captivated by his remarkable aesthetic sensibility towards the landscape and his generous heart for the stories of the people living in it. His poetic speech and passion for analog photography captivated me during our coffee meeting, where we bonded over our shared concerns about the environmental crisis in Petorca — one of the most infamous and affected territories by the Chilean water crisis. I am delighted to share our conversation after several months of keeping it secretly in my journals.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/nicolasmarticorena/

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June 4, 2024
The Gay Space Agency – Photographs and text by Mackenzie Calle | LensCulture

The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency

The Gay Space Agency imagines an alternative history for NASA, which would allow LGBTQ+ astronauts to fly in space.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mackenzie-calle-the-gay-space-agency

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June 4, 2024
Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/technology/google-ai-search-publishers.html

“It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content,” Mr. Pine said. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative A.I. replacing “the publications that they have cannibalized,” he added.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/technology/google-ai-search-publishers.html

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June 3, 2024
The Deadly Prelude to South Africa’s First Free Elections

The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss. A photographer remembers what he witnessed.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html

To my left lay Ken Oosterbroek, mortally wounded, while to my right, Greg Marinovich clutched at his chest, holding on for dear life. Friends and fellow photographers who had dedicated their careers to documenting the violent, dying throes of apartheid lay dead and wounded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html

tagged Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Ken Oosterbroek

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May 29, 2024
Elegia Fantastica

I definitely think I dream in black and white, even though dreams are difficult to remember. Black and white makes the soul of things speak, while colours tell the reality. I like to think I can dream with my soul.

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May 29, 2024
Images of Climate Change That Cannot Be Missed

Just as we risk becoming inured to the crisis, an exhibition, “Coal + Ice,” serves as a stunning call to action.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/images-of-climate-change-that-cannot-be-missed

I think the single best collection of images of the climate crisis I’ve ever seen is the exhibit that will be up through early August at the Asia Society, on Park Avenue. (If that seems a parochial spot for a global exhibit, it is worth remembering that sixty per cent of the world’s population lives in Asia.) Co-curated by the celebrated photographer Susan Meiselas and the exhibition designer Jeroen de Vries, and led by the Asia Society’s Orville Schell, the longtime China watcher and correspondent for The New Yorker (whose late brother Jonathan wrote “The Fate of the Earth,” which first appeared in the magazine), “Coal + Ice” is an evolving project

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/images-of-climate-change-that-cannot-be-missed

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May 29, 2024
CENTER BLUE EARTH FISCAL SPONSORSHIP: MARK LEONG – LENSCRATCH

Congratulations to Mark Leong for being selected for Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship Award recognizing his project, Coming of Age: China’s Post-90s Generation . CENTER is pleased to add the Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship to their services for photographers and filmmakers. CENTER sponsors documentary projects that educate the public about critical environmental and social issues and is

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-mark-leong/

Since 1989, photographing Chinese young people has been a constant thread in my career, covering rock bands, internet hackers, entrepreneurs, factory workers and self-labeled “hooligans.” While I am ethnically Chinese, I am still an outsider who came with a preconceived notion of Chinese people as a monolithic bloc of conformity. One of my goals, then, has been to share the realities of diverse, nuanced lives in this most massive of mass societies — especially crucial in this divisive time of geo-political unease.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/center-blue-earth-fiscal-sponsorship-mark-leong/

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May 29, 2024
THE CENTER AWARDS: ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD: JOHN TROTTER – LENSCRATCH

The CENTER Awards recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Social, and Environmental. All submissions will become part of the CENTER archive serving as an ongoing mission-driven fine art and documentary imagery resource. Congratulations to John Trotter for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award recognizing his project, No Agua,

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-john-trotter/

In 2001, Trotter began photographing in Mexico for his project No Agua, No Vida about the human alteration of the Colorado River. He has photographed along the entire 2,250 km length of the river, from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the desiccated remains of its delta above the Gulf of California. He has lived in New York City since 2000, and in 2017 became one of the founding members of the collective, MAPS Images.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-john-trotter/

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May 27, 2024
THE CENTER AWARDS: EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING AWARD: ROBERT PLUMA – LENSCRATCH

Congratulations to Robert Pluma for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Hidden Histories of San Antonio. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects. The award is open, but not limited to, photography, video, new media, photojournalism, installation, and web-based works.

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-excellence-in-multimedia-storytelling-award-robert-pluma/

Robert Pluma is the recipient of the 2024 Multimedia Award. His project, Hidden Histories of San Antonio, reexamines the stories many thought we knew and shows how our understanding can be significantly deepened when viewing them through a different lens. At its best, multimedia can engage the audience to understand a story in a deeper, more profound way, and Pluma’s project interweaves his own family’s story with portraiture, testimony, and 3D scanning of primary objects to retell this historical narrative in a fresh way. Hidden Histories of San Antonio was in some ways the most ambitious project submitted from a multimedia perspective, but what drew me into it was seeing how Pluma’s explanation centered the participants—the most important part of any narrative.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/05/the-center-awards-excellence-in-multimedia-storytelling-award-robert-pluma/

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May 27, 2024
Ready for Surprise: Joel Meyerowtiz Interview 2020 – Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz | Interview by Jim Casper | LensCulture

The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/joel-meyerowitz-ready-for-surprise-joel-meyerowtiz-interview-2020

The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/joel-meyerowitz-ready-for-surprise-joel-meyerowtiz-interview-2020

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May 25, 2024