Tag: Brenda Ann Kenneally
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America at Hunger’s Edge – The New York Times
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…
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When Hunger Is on the Doorstep – The New York Times
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…
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The Boy from Troy by Brenda Ann Kenneally
Link: There was an uneasy identification between the two of us that grew into friendship over the next eight years while I continued to document Kayla, Sabrina and their friends who lived as a family on the same block. A family, I discovered, that was formed largely in response to increasingly punitive legal, moral and…
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A Portrait of Love Among the Ruins of Post-Industrial America – Feature Shoot
A Portrait of Love Among the Ruins of Post-Industrial America October 23, 2010 birthdays Tony in the dark bedroom, looking out the window Dana nursing KyLanne the day before she took her baby home In the dystopian mythos that fuels… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/02/a-portrait-of-love-among-the-ruins-of-post-industrial-america/ Artist Brenda Ann Kenneally knows how the game is played better…
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A Chronicle of Life and Pain in Upstate New York – The New York Times
A Chronicle of Life and Pain in Upstate New York Among young women in Troy, N.Y., the photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally captures a spiral of aimlessness and trouble. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/magazine/a-chronicle-of-life-and-pain-in-upstate-new-york.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Brenda Ann Kenneally’s masterful new photo book, “Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City,” is a deep study of a group of girls from two or three…
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How Photographs Challenge Myths About Poverty in the U.S. | Time
A Photographer Challenges Myths About Class and Poverty in America ‘Upstate Girls’ documents 14 years in the lives of several interconnected families via Time: http://time.com/longform/upstate-girls/ Brenda Kenneally isn’t quite sure how to describe what she does as a photographer — an “outsider journalist,” a “digital folk artist,” an “undercover human being.”
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This Hyperlocal Museum Puts the American Dream in Perspective | TIME
This Hyperlocal Museum Puts the American Dream in Perspective Brenda Ann Kenneally has opened a temporary museum in Troy via Time: http://time.com/4565429/brenda-ann-kenneally-north-troy/ Brenda Ann Kenneally has opened a temporary museum in Troy
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When Struggling Families Spark Internet Rage – NYTimes.com
When Struggling Families Spark Internet Rage Some accused Ms. Kenneally of exploiting her subjects. “Is the photographer implying that poor people are too stupid to make intelligent choices?” asked one commenter.
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Brenda Ann Kenneally documents life below the poverty line in Troy, York in her documentary project, Upstate Girls.
A New Way to Talk About Poverty in Troy, New York Brenda Ann Kenneally takes photographs, but to call her a photographer isn’t quite accurate. She prefers the term “digital folk artist,” and when you… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/17/brenda_ann_kenneally_documents_life_below_the_poverty_line_in_troy_york.html Brenda Ann Kenneally takes photographs, but to call her a photographer isn’t quite accurate. She prefers…
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11 Photographers Among Winners of 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships
11 Photographers Among Winners of 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships | PDNPulse The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of their 2014 fellowships today. Eleven photographers are among the 178 recipients. They are (links direct to their bios and image galleries on the Guggenheim site): Robert Dawson LaTo via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/04/11-photographers-among-winners-2014-guggenheim-fellowships.html They are (links direct…
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Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Changing Bushwick Street
Sharing Life and Liquor on a Changing Bushwick Street Brenda Ann Kenneally photographed the new waves of young bohemian tenants coming in to her old Brooklyn neighborhood. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/co-mingling-backgrounds-on-one-two-way-street/ While she still focuses on the same square block in Bushwick, her subject matter has started to change in the last couple of years…
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Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Photos of a Young Bushwick Neighbor
In Drug-Riddled Bushwick, Revisiting a Steadfast Friend Brenda Ann Kenneally moved to crime-ridden Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the ’90s, and befriended a troubled but sweet boy named Andy, whom she photographed for a time. Now an adult, he is her subject once again. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/in-drug-riddled-bushwick-revisiting-a-steadfast-friend/ When he first saw the book “Money Power Respect,”…
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Photoville 2012: Noorderlicht | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: Photoville 2012: Noorderlicht | La Lettre de la Photographie A gripping look behind prison walls. By request of Noorderlicht, guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, presenting quite unexpected photography of great variety, revealing life behind bars. Artists include: Araminta de Clermont, Amy Elkins, Alyse Emdur, Christiane Feser,…
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Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City – Brenda Ann Kenneally
Link: Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City – Brenda Ann Kenneally – Digital Journalist: As a journalist and activist I have dedicated my life to exploring the how and why of class inequity in America. I am concerned with the internalized social messages that will live on for generations after our economic and social…
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Behind the Scenes: Silence at a Festival – Lens Blog
Behind the Scenes: Silence at a Festival – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Most shows were the result of the dedication of individual photographers to the telling of a single story. Several of the most talked-about exhibits were by photographers whose projects were driven solely by passion, often with no assignments to sustain them. Among the…
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PDNPulse: Getty Announces September 2009 Grant Winners
PDNPulse: Getty Announces September 2009 Grant Winners: Getty Images today completed its fifth annual photojournalism grants program by announcing that Krisanne Johnson, Brenda Kenneally (both from the United States) and Zalmai (from Afghanistan and Switzerland) have been selected to each receive $20,000 grants, as well as collaborative editorial support from Getty Images, to pursue their…
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Perpignan Saturday: David Douglas Duncan, Brenda Ann Kenneally, and a heated photoj debate
The final conference Saturday was probably the most interesting (and inflammatory) of the week. It focused on a photo that was made in South Africa by photographer Kim Ludbrook, who sent it to his agency, European Pressphoto Agency, which in turned pushed it to the wires. Jean-Francois Leroy explained that the photo had made it…