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Shifting States: New Role of Photography in Weekly Magazines – Photographs by various photographers | Interview by Cat Lachowksyj | LensCulture

What’s new in news photography? Senior Picture Editor Andreas Trampe of ‘Stern’ offers his take on the shifting sands of an industry and shares his tips on how to reach out to photo editors

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/andreas-trampe-shifting-states-new-role-of-photography-in-weekly-magazines

What’s new in news photography? Senior Picture Editor Andreas Trampe of ‘Stern’ offers his take on the shifting sands of an industry and shares his tips on how to reach out to photo editors.

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March 30, 2020
Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine

In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/guillaume-chauvin-ukraine-photography-300320?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

In signature documentary style, the French photographer has been capturing the ongoing conflict in the Donbass region.

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March 30, 2020
After Her Father’s Death, a Photographer Explores Grief – Feature Shoot

“My dad was a good man with a substance problem,” the Canadian photographer Jackie Dives tells me. “He was unique. He was a cat lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/03/after-her-fathers-death-a-photographer-explores-grief/

“My dad was a good man with a substance problem,” the Canadian photographer Jackie Dives tells me. “He was unique. He was a cat lover, a mechanic, a carpenter, a goof, a friend, a caretaker, and also a drug user.”

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in Portfolios & Galleries

March 29, 2020
Every Inch of Earth

Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Until Kamaran was captured by ISIS.

via Guernica: https://www.guernicamag.com/every-inch-of-earth/

Sebastian Meyer and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Until Kamaran was captured by ISIS.

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in Access & Censorship, Photojournalism

March 29, 2020
Remembering Robert Herman 1955-2020

I have shared the work of Brooklyn born photographer Robert Herman several times over the years, so I was distraught to learn that this wonderful artist recently took his own life. I remember him sharing that as a young man, Robert began working as an ush

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/remembering-robert-herman/

I have shared the work of Brooklyn born photographer Robert Herman several times over the years, so I was distraught to learn that this wonderful artist recently took his own life. I remember him sharing that as a young man, Robert began working as an usher at a movie theater owned by his parents. The exposure to a wide range of films during his formative years provided him with a unique vision: “Working for my father allowed me to view the same movie repeatedly,” he recalled, “until the story line began to recede and the images became independent of the narrative.” I love that concept of considering photographs. Today, his friend Reuben Radding shares memories of Robert and we share some Robert’s work and thoughts. – Aline Smithson

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March 29, 2020
11 Photographers on How To Finish a Body of Work

When should you bring a photographic project to an end? LaToya Ruby Frazier, Justine Kurland, Alec Soth, and more reflect on how to know when a series of work is complete.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/11-photographers-on-how-to-finish-a-body-of-work/

Over the course of her career, curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf has heard countless young photographers say they often feel adrift in their own practices, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. This inspired her to seek out insights from a wide range of photographers about their approaches to making photographs and a sustained a body of work, which are brought together in PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Structured as a Proust-like questionnaire, the responses from both established and newly emerging photographers reveal that there is no single path. Below, eleven artists respond to the question: How do you know when a body of work is finished?

tagged Alec Soth, Bryan Schutmaat, Dawoud Bey, Doug DuBois, John Chiara, Justine Kurland, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Paul Graham, Peter Kayafas, Siân Davey, Todd Hido

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March 28, 2020
Getty Images launches grant for emerging women and non-binary photographers

Created in partnership with Dove and Girlgaze, the $10,000 #ShowUs Grant is for international photographers authentically representing women and non-binary people.

Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/getty-images-show-us-grant-photography-270320?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

Created in partnership with Dove and Girlgaze, the $10,000 #ShowUs Grant is for international photographers authentically representing women and non-binary people.

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March 28, 2020
The Visual Landscape of a World Shaped by Pandemic

Glimpses of our new reality as billions of people stay home

via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/03/visual-landscape-world-shaped-pandemic/608824/

The drastic impacts of the coronavirus outbreak have changed nearly every aspect of daily life, leaving a visual impact on the world around us. Grounded aircraft, deserted beaches, temporary hospitals, idle buses, quiet streets, empty shelves, and socially-distant behavior have quickly become common sights. Gathered here, a few more glimpses of our new reality as billions of people stay home.

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March 26, 2020
The Dream of Midcentury Modern in Black and White Photos

In the postwar years, Ezra Stoller captured iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. But, were his images a reality—or an ideal?

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/ezra-stoller-midcentury-modern/

In the postwar years, Ezra Stoller photographed iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. But, were his images a reality—or an ideal?

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March 26, 2020
Aneta Bartos’ Family Portrait

If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father

via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/03/aneta-bartos-family-portrait/

If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father

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March 26, 2020
Finding a Sense of Community Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic – Feature Shoot

In the last two weeks, I have received more than two dozen emails about the temporary closures of galleries and studio spaces amid the coronavirus pandemic. I’ve received several more…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/03/finding-a-sense-of-community-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

Over the past week, we’ve spoken to the photographer and professional development coach Danny Ghitis about how creatives can cope during this time and continue to create meaningful work in unprecedented circumstances.

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in Photography

March 26, 2020
The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home

In one influential 1990s exhibition, photographers turned from the politics of the wider world to the habits of domestic life.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/terror-pleasure-staying-home-sara-knelman/

How did an early 1990s exhibition anticipate the transformation of family life in the U.S.?

tagged Cindy Sherman, Doug DuBois, Laurie Simmons, Mary Frey, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Tina Barney

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March 26, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – Joji Hashiguchi’s “We Have No Place to Be”

In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi began to document the plight of the young with his debut work, “Shisen.” Stifled by the mounting pressures posed b…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/joji-hashiguchi-s-we-have-no-place-to-be/

Turning his lens on the global stage, Hashiguchi traveled through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West Berlin, and New York in a quest to further chronicle communities of disenfranchised youths abroad. In these five cities, Hashiguchi witnessed the complex cocktail of self-destructive discord lurking beneath the superficial excesses of city life. Revealing the entrenched drug addiction, racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, unemployment, and poverty that pervaded urban centers then as now, Hashiguchi’s photos challenge the viewer to reexamine what we have both become and lost.

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March 26, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – Sheltering in Place: Ideas From “The Photographer’s Playbook”

Navel gazing can get a little old, so, in the coming weeks (months?), as we find ourselves counting the hours till lunchtime on the sofa, we look for…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/sheltering-in-place-ideas-from-the-photographer-s-playbook/

Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern and published by Aperture, The Photographer’s Playbook contains advice, exercises and insight from John Baldessari, Tim Barber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jim Goldberg, Miranda July, Susan Meiselas, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Mark Steinmetz, Roger Ballen, David Campany, Asger Carlson, Ari Marcopoulos, Todd Hido, and many more. —Text compiled by Alex Nicholson

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March 26, 2020
Argentina Week: Alejandro Chaskielberg: Laberynth Patagonia

I first saw Alejandro’s La Creciente at Yossi Milo gallery when I traveled to New York sometime in 2011. The images were stunning; it felt like I was looking at still shots from a movie set. I later found out that he also worked as a cinematographer, and

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/03/argentina-alejandro-chaskielberg-laberinto/

I first saw Alejandro‘s La Creciente at Yossi Milo gallery when I traveled to New York sometime in 2011. The images were stunning; it felt like I was looking at still shots from a movie set. I later found out that he also worked as a cinematographer, and I was not surprised at all. He has an amazing ability to capture scenes in a very raw and dramatic style.

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March 26, 2020
The Beauty of Imperfection

Joe Greer about his love of analog, shooting on film and how he sees its rise as a logical consequence of our digital lifestyle.

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March 25, 2020
To See the Invisible – Photographs by Keith Dannemiller | Interview by Gina Williams | LensCulture

What is home? Heading back to the States after 30 years living abroad, a residency in North Carolina prompted Keith Dannemiller to rediscover his homeland with fresh eyes

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/keith-dannemiller-to-see-the-invisible

What is home? Heading back to the States after 30 years living abroad, a residency in North Carolina prompted Keith Dannemiller to rediscover his homeland with fresh eyes.

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March 25, 2020
FotoEvidence — The First Decade

Alison Stieven-Taylor

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/fotoevidence-the-first-decade-8605b88f2b7f

Ten years ago, Bulgarian photojournalist Svetlana Bachevanova invested her savings to launch FotoEvidence, then a web platform and photobook award competition dedicated to promoting photographic stories of social inequality. Twenty-seven printed books and seven digital monographs later, FotoEvidence has evolved as the only publishing imprint solely for stories about social injustice and human rights abuses.

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March 25, 2020
Portraits that capture three decades of black culture

Growing up in Germany, Russian Ghanaian artist Liz Johnson Artur spent her summers in the former Soviet Union. But in 1986, she received an invitation to stay with a family friend in Brooklyn. Deep in Williamsburg, long before it was gentrified, Artur fou

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/portraits-that-capture-three-decades-of-black-culture/

Photographer Liz Johnson Artur – a self-described ‘product of migration’ – has been capturing the African diaspora since 1986.

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March 25, 2020
The Coronavirus Crisis Reveals New York at Its Best and Worst

In a time of containment, the city searches for a way forward.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/the-coronavirus-crisis-reveals-new-york-at-its-best-and-worst

The final weekend of semi-ordinary life in New York arrived on Friday the 13th. In the week that followed, New York became a ghost town in a ghost nation on a ghost planet. The gravity and scale of what is happening can overwhelm the details of daily life, in which human beings seek a plateau of normalcy in abnormal times, just as they always have in blitzes and battles. Nobody has any confidence at all about whether we are seeing the first phases of a new normal, the brief calm before a worse storm, or a wise reaction that may allow, not so horribly long from now, for a renewal of common life. Here are some notes on things seen by one walker in the city, and some voices heard among New Yorkers bearing witness, on and off the streets.

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March 25, 2020