Tag: Jonas Bendiksen

How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog

How Magnum Photos’ Jonas Bendiksen Nearly Fooled the Entire Industry – PhotoShelter Blog

Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen was troubled by potential for photographers to fabricate a story and photos from scratch using technology and social media to propagate a false narrative. He was so frightened that he “decided to try to do this myself.” The Book of Veles was a conceptual exercise built from background plates photographed in…

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2021/09/how-magnum-photos-jonas-bendiksen-nearly-fooled-the-entire-industry/

Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen was troubled by potential for photographers to fabricate a story and photos from scratch using technology and social media to propagate a false narrative. He was so frightened that he “decided to try to do this myself.”

September 28, 2021
The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos

The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

via Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/book-veles-jonas-bendiksen-hoodwinked-photography-industry/

The photographer explains the many layers of intrigue that went into the creation of his book about misinformation in the contemporary media landscape

September 28, 2021
Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian

Dancing with the gods of deception – Thoughts of a Bohemian

The road to hell is paved with good intentions….so is the road to fake news apparently.

via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/dancing-with-the-gods-of-deception/

The latest and probably most potent existential rain dance is Magnum’s own Jonas Bendiksen Veles experiment. Using a mixture of AI, computer-generated content, real photos, and GPT 3, he put together what he hoped would be a self-destroying fake photo essay

September 28, 2021
11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/11-photographers-on-seeking-the-unexpected-in-their-work/

Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

March 22, 2021
Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

Turning Points: Life-Changing Moments by Magnum Photographers – Photographs and texts courtesy of Magnum Photos | LensCulture

From iconic images of major world events, to intimate moments of pleasure and delight — here is an outstanding selection of remarkable images from Magnum Photos — each with a personal story

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/magnum-photos-turning-points-life-changing-moments-by-magnum-photographers

From iconic images of major world events, to intimate moments of pleasure and delight — here is an outstanding selection of remarkable images from Magnum Photos — each with a personal story.

April 6, 2020
13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work – Aperture Foundation NY

13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work

Elliott Erwitt, Zun Lee, Alec Soth, and more on the turning points in their photographs—from global and national events to the most personal moments.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/13-photographers-on-turning-points/

Turning points in the lives and works of photographers often span the extremes—from global and national events to the most personal moments. Photographers such as Alec Soth and Zun Lee are able to not only bear witness to events that shape our collective history, but also to map more intimate transitions within their craft and their everyday lives.

April 6, 2020
Jonas Bendiksen: Going to Extremes to Capture The Passion

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Here is the story of his amazing, heartfelt adventure photographing extreme skiing at Chamonix with what he thought was an unlikely camera: the formidable medium-format Leica S2

January 10, 2020
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a photography and video commission started in 2013 with the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Majoli, Jonas Bendiksen, Olivia Arthur and Gueorgui Pinkhassov

January 10, 2020
Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith

Viewing Jonas Bendiksen’s Photobook ‘The Last Testament’ as a Person of Faith

From cynicism to a surprising sadness

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/viewing-the-last-testament-as-a-person-of-faith-5b3d3ab65e84

Photographer Jonas Bendiksen describes himself as “a man of little faith.” His latest project The Last Testament, a years-long exploration of the lives of seven self-proclaimed Messiahs around the world who claim to be the second coming of Christ, will resonate with doubters and the spiritually curious alike. But what about believers?

October 16, 2017
See Soccer Fans React in Epic Slow Motion – LightBox

LightBox | Time

Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/11/see-soccer-fans-react-in-epic-slow-motion/

Jonas Bendiksen has shot these epic, super slow-motion videos of soccer fans and amateur soccer players in action. He’s called them “Still Films,” and below he explains why he sees these pieces as photographic works of art, and not as videos.

July 11, 2014
Brazil vs. Croatia, from Jonas Bendiksen’s ‘Still Films’ : The New Yorker

Still Films: Brazil vs. Croatia

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/06/still-films-brazil-vs-croatia.html

This video was taken by the Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen, using a camera that can record a thousand frames per second

June 18, 2014
Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can

Extinction Tourism: Work at a Newspaper While You Still Can

As photographic careers go, Jonas Bendiksen’s has been pretty barnstorming. A member of the prestigious Magnum photo agency, awards, international solo shows, big clients such as National Geographic. Why on earth then would he choose to take a job at a lo

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/jonas-bendiksen/

“Why on earth would a seasoned, decorated photographer take a job at a local, small-town newspaper in the northern reaches of Norway?

That’s what we asked Jonas Bendiksen after he announced on Magnum’s blog that he’d be working at the Bladet Vesterålen newspaper, with a circulation of only 8,000”

January 4, 2013
TWO LOOKS: Laara Matsen and Jonas Bendiksen «

TWO LOOKS: Laara Matsen and Jonas Bendiksen

Since Rebecca and I are traveling next week, we decided to post this month’s TWO LOOKS column a few days early. For January, we’re featuring the work of LAARA MATSEN, a U.S. photograph…

Link: http://webbnorriswebb.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/two-looks-laara-matsen-and-jonas-bendiksen/

we’re featuring the work of LAARA MATSEN, a U.S. photographer who also works as a curator and photo editor, and JONAS BENDIKSEN, Magnum’s sole Norwegian photographer.

January 20, 2010
Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia

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This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national identity. The book is curated and published by Chris Boot, a former Magnum director in London.

October 5, 2009
The Places We Live – Magnum Photos

Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos

In 2005, I started work on The Places We Live, a project about urban poverty and slums. For three years, I visited dozens of families in four slums around the world.

The Places We Live was not a search for finding the absolute extremes of urban poverty—I wasn’t looking for the dirties spot, the poorest hovels or the most crime-ridden street corner. My task was to find how people normalize these dire situations. How they build dignity and daily lives in the midst of very challenging living conditions.

Check it out here.

October 23, 2008
Congrats to New Magnum Members – PDNPulse

We’ve heard the names of the new Magnum Photos members who were elected at the cooperative’s meeting in Paris last week:

Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata and Alec Soth have been elected full members.

Olivia Arthur and Peter Van Agtmael are new Magnum nominees.

Check it out here.

June 30, 2008
Access to Life

In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry in Vietnam and Eli Reed in Peru

Check it out here.

June 16, 2008
Jonas Bendiksen Wins $50,000 National Geographic Grant

The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth.

The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered the fastest growing metropolis in the world.

Check it out here.

April 23, 2008
Satellites

MagnumPhotos:

The Soviet collapse spawned 15 new countries that are now established members of the international community. However, economic, political and ethnic disparities also gave birth to a series of far less known unrecognized republics, national aspirations and legacies. Jonas Bendiksen, a Norwegian and Magnum’s youngest photographer, started his “multi-year project about states that do not actually exist”. “Satellites” is a photographic journey through the scattered enclaves, unrecognized mini-states, and other isolated communities that straddle the southern borderlands of the former USSR. The itinerary goes through places such as Transdniester, a breakaway republic in Eastern Europe, Abkhazia, an unrecognized country on the Black Sea, the religiously conservative Ferghana Valley in Central Asia, the spacecraft crash zones between Russia and Kazakhstan, and the Jewish Autonomous Region of Far Eastern Russia.

Here.

October 3, 2006
Magnum Photos Podcasts

From Magnum Photos:

Magnum in Motion Video Podcasting with new content each week

First installment is Jonas Bendiksen, “Satellites”

Here.

April 12, 2006