October 7 - 21, 2022
A regular roundup of interesting photography news, great photography links, photography videos, and much more.
INTERESTING PHOTO NEWS & GREAT PHOTO LINKS
Great Photography Stories
When visual artists use photographs made by others as the basis for their art
On October 12, the Supreme Court will hear a case that asks whether Andy Warhol's use of Lynn Goldsmith's photograph of Prince qualifies as fair use or is a case of copyright infringement. A lot is on the line. Paul Szynol explains in this piece for The Atlantic.
Incredible how much information is in a single photo - and what people who are trained to look can do with that knowledge.
Maxwell Strachan profiles Trevor Rainbolt for Vice - a man who can look at a Google Maps street view image for 0.1 seconds and identify the country where the image was made. Fascinating story.
I recently took a trip to some of Colorado and Utah's tourist hot spots and often wondered what it meant to photograph places thousands (maybe millions?) have photographed before.
I appreciated this Guardian feature on documentary photographer Natacha de Mahieu's approach to the problem - it's not to isolate the natural or unique feature as if you were cutting it out of the landscape but to surround it with even more people.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Joe Brainard's book, I Remember, is one of the most compelling books I've ever read. It's not complicated. All the book consists of is a collection of sentences that each start with the phrase, 'I remember' followed by Brainard's memory. And yet this disarmingly simple concept generates the most intensely evocative and powerful work of art. Matt Wolf adds images to Brainard's memories in this short film that's well worth watching. I think there's a lot for photographers to think about in Brainard's technique as a way of helping to generate ideas for work.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The work of Diane Arbus was often questioned and sometimes attacked on ethical grounds. How fair was that criticism?
Jacqui Palumbo revisited one of Arbus's most controversial bodies of work, the Untitled series, in this piece in Artsy that wonders how fair that criticism was.
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Sept 23 - Oct 7, 2022
A regular roundup of interesting photography news, great photography links, photography videos, and much more.
INTERESTING PHOTO NEWS & GREAT PHOTO LINKS
Great Photography Stories
Do CAPTCHA Photos get you down?
I enjoyed this essay by Clive Thompson on why CAPTCHA photos are so unbearably depressing:
“CAPTCHA images are never joyful vistas of human activity, full of Whitmanesque vigor. No, they’re blurry, anonymous landscapes that possess a positively Soviet anomie.”
Angella d'Avignon looks deeply at ‘free dirt’ photos
There is a lot we can learn from almost any kind of photograph. Angella d'Avignon proves the point in this wonderful essay for The Paris Review.
“Depending on the angle and composition of the images, “free dirt” posts on Craigslist can look like unintentional landscape vistas. Some shots feature calloused hands covered in tawny fill dirt, vignetted by palm trees and paved driveways in postwar cul-de-sacs. There are endless frames of earth spilling onto asphalt, flattened mounds of rich brown soil indented with tire tracks, craggy piles of dirt gathered evenly along the perimeters of blue tarp in driveways. Where I’m from, in Southern California, free dirt is abundant.”
The stories behind Marion Ettlinger’s author photographs
Have you ever been asked to make an author photograph? If so, you might enjoy this New Yorker profile of Marion Ettlinger as much as I did:
“Once the hard and lonely work of book-writing was done and the publishing machine’s publicity gears were whirring, authors hoped to get “Ettlingered.” The coinage, which for decades was common parlance in the literary world, referred to having your picture taken by Marion Ettlinger, a master of the authorial portrait.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Wonderful profile of artist and photographer Margriet Smulders who makes extraordinary photographic compostions by collaging and rephotographing flowers, glass, mirrors, and fabrics. Really beautiful work.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Is there a ‘right way’ for photographers to document low-income communities if they are not part of those communities?
It’s Nice That recently ran an interesting essay by Liz Gorny asking the question, should only working-class photographers take pictures of working-class places?
“But, when a community does not have access to a photographer in their midst, does it not deserve representation? How, then, can a visitor do this ethically? What harm can a photograph pose to a community? This leads to another, perhaps more urgent consideration: if a territory has only ever been shot to its detriment by predominantly wealthy outsiders, should visitors continue to photograph there at all?”
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Sept 9 - Sept 23, 2022
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Great Photography Stories
The Guardian features Harvey Stein’s new photo book on Coney Island
Did you make pictures out in Coney Island this year? Harvey Stein’s been photographing the wonderful people and culture of Coney Island for fifty years now. His new book Coney Island People: 50 Years was recently featured in The Guardian:
“Stein is drawn to people and gesture and expression – and how authentic humanity reveals the most about the spirit of a place, and perhaps about life itself.”
Writer & Critic Lynne Tillman responds to the photographs of Dawn Kim
I’ve loved Dawn Kim’s photography and perspective on the world ever since I first heard her talk about her work a couple years ago. Recently Dawn was a 2021 Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Pioneer Works asked writer Lynne Tillman to reflect on Dawn’s work for their journal Broadcast.
“The word “obvious” shadows, even plagues, the art of photography. Obviously it’s an army barrack, a raging sea. In this picture, Kim is working with a set of forms, obvious objects—wall, mountain, grass—turning it toward something else that’s happening through its composition. A dissonance is constructed through formal means.”
Caroline Tomkins visits photographer David Brandon Geeting’s Studio
Photographer, Writer, and Photo Editor Caroline Tomkins visits and photographs David Brandon Geeting in this engaging piece for the photography journal 1854:
Unlike most people, Geeting does not feel paralysed by choice. Instead, he throws all the spices into the pot. “I’m not someone that likes to make a huge mess, especially at home, which is funny because my work is very messy,” he says. “I felt like if I had a studio, I could make work that was more challenging. Messier, in every sense of the word.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Loved this short skate video that vividly reveals the work that goes into a ‘polished’ skate video. (And suggests an interesting approach photographers might experiment with as well!)
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Alice Zoo ‘In Defence of Portraits’
The brilliant UK photographer and writer Alice Zoo has started a Substack newsletter. I loved her first post where she wrote thoughtfully about the contemporary discourse around the ethics of photography portraiture.
“I believe that the instinct to depict people is innate and empathetic, and comes from a wish for mutual understanding. We are storytelling creatures, and we tell stories about each other: the things that move us, the things that cause us pain — it’s a rare novel that includes no human voices, no human stories. Most photographers I know began by taking pictures at home, of their friends and families; it is an instinct often born of love and wanting not to forget. Of course there are unethical photographers; but this does not mean that every portrait is unethical. There are egotistical photographers, just as there are egotistical writers, painters, doctors; but the instinct towards picturing others does not necessarily come from an egotistical, conquering place.”
Full post, In Defense of Photography: [here]
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Photo at the top of The Roundup: Track Record, Newark, June 2022 © James Prochnik
April 29 - May 20, 2022
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Art News Interviews Carrie Mae Weems
I really loved this thoughtful and interesting Art News interview with Carrie Mae Weems. She has so many interesting and helpful things to share:
“There’s something about my own physicality, and the ability to carry a certain kind of weight. I could exploit myself in a way that I probably wouldn’t necessarily ask anybody else to. If I need to get down on my knees and crawl across the scene, that’s something that I could do without imposing myself on others. I’ve grown to understand that my body has the ability to carry a great deal of weight and a great deal of significance, and that I could use that, that I could bend that in these unique ways that will allow me to construct the image that I really needed to make without having to negotiate with others about how that was going to be done.”
The Guardian explores Justine Kurland’s new photo book: SCUMB Manifesto
Photographer Justine Kurland’s new photo book is a creative and provocative challenge to the patriarchy and male-dominated photography canon - the book consists of photo collages she created by cutting up and reassembling 150 photo books by white, male photographers. I enjoyed this introduction to Kurland’s work by The Guardian.
“I started out thinking it would be a purely punk act of destruction, but really it’s the most delicate, fussy medium,” says Kurland, “I spent hours and hours making these meticulous, lacy cuts and then carefully putting them together. It’s about the glue as well as the scissors. For me, it is a reparative act rather than a destructive one.”
Monica Hesse Reminds Us On Twitter (posing advice):
If a photographer ever suggests “let’s move this to the floor,” do not listen to them.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
When I take pictures of strangers out in public.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Gazelle Mba Writes About Roy DeCarava.
I appreciated this Gazelle Mba reflection on the work of Roy DeCarava for the London Review of Books.
“He was looking for a modernist visual language that would capture Black subjects and Black social life without making them simply objects of sociological inquiry. His photographs, all shadow and blur, bring a different Harlem into view, one where the light falling softly on a coat-hanger demands attention, and where the hooks that a swing should hang from tell a story about children in a city which, as DeCarava’s sometime collaborator Langston Hughes wrote, will give them nothing but dreams deferred.”
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Photo at the top of The Roundup: Dr. Lisa Levy in her office, Bushwick © James Prochnik
April 8 - April 22, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
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Great Photography Stories
Kenneth Dickerman Reviews Tony Chirino’s new photo book ‘The Precipice’ for the Washington Post
The photos in Chirino’s book were made in operating rooms and morgues over the course of his career as a biomedical photographer. Read the full review and check out some of the incredible photos from the book here:
“It’s not that the photos are gory. They aren’t. But their heaviness makes the book a challenge to the reader. Fundamentally, it asks questions about the nature of life and death. As Chirinos said to me, “The truth is that living is both a luxury and a dilemma.”
The Guardian features Robbie Lawrence’s Northern Diary
Robbie Lawrence is a photographer whose body of work Northern Diary have an intensity of mood that stays in my mind long after I stop looking at the pictures. Click here to see the Guardian feature.
“Northern Diary brings together a selection of work that Robbie Lawrence has produced over the past seven years, many of which have never been seen before in a gallery setting. Subjects include landscapes, portraits and still lifes made across Scotland’s cities, rural locations and coastal towns. Northern Diary opens at Stills in Edinburgh on 1 April”
Portraits from a Chicago bar in the early 1970s
Loved this Blind Magazine feature on John Banasiak’s portraits and photos in a Chicago bar - images made from his perch as the bartender.
“Long before John Banasiak became a professor of photography at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion (where he’s taught for 42 years), he was a factory worker, a night watchman, and a bartender at George Brown’s Bar, a working-class drinking hole in one of Chicago’s Polish/ Ukrainian neighborhoods. It was there, in 1971, when Banasiak was just 21, that he made a series of tender, elemental pictures that capture a proud, hard-working community.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Check out this great 1994 BBC documentary on Cindy Sherman
“New York based artist, Cindy Sherman, is famous for her photographs of women in which she is not only the photographer, but also the subject. She has contributed her own footage to the programme by recording her studio and herself at work with her Hi-8 video camera. It reveals a range of unexpected sources from visceral horror to medical catalogues and exploitation movies, and explores her real interests and enthusiasms.”
It’s an age-restricted video, so you have to watch it on YouTube directly.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Daily Tar Heel, student newspaper of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill covers a controversy in their midst when photographer Cornell Watson’s work about the school was censored.
The Daily Tar Heel’s reporter Jade Neptune does a deep dive into what happened when an exhibition of photographer Cornell Watson's work, created as part of his artist residency, was canceled.
“In June, Watson was offered an artist residency at the Stone Center to create a body of work that captured spaces of memory for Black history.
Then, after six months of creating the photo story that would later be named “Tarred Healing,” a reflection of Black history through places, people and systems in Chapel Hill, the photos were pulled from display at the Stone Center in their solo exhibition set to open Feb. 22. This followed the images being featured in The Washington Post.”
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Photo at top of Weekly Roundup: Bit Coin ATM, NYC © James Prochnik
March 25 - April 8, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
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Great Photography Stories
Stephen Shore excerpts his new book in The Paris Review
I enjoyed reading and seeing some of Stephen Shore’s influences and inspirations in this Paris Review excerpt from his upcoming memoir published by MACK, Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography:
“One of the threads running through the history of the medium is the redefinition of meaningful content. Photographers find meaning in something where it hadn’t been recognized before, and then, over time, that content itself becomes a convention. And when it becomes a convention, it lacks the immediacy of the original picture. “Immediacy” means without mediation. Without the mediation of visual conventions. In time the original content becomes a cliché. And the cutting edge of immediacy finds new territory to function as an objective correlative.”
The Guardian highlights some of the work of this year’s Deutsch Börse photography prize nominees
Photographers Anastasia Samoylova, Deana Lawson, Jo Ractliffe, and Gilles Peress were all shortlisted for the big photo prize this year. See some of their photos here, and read more about their photo projects, and the shortlist exhibition currently on view in London at The Photographer’s Gallery here.
“From flood warnings to the Troubles, these images from the four award nominees document the intimate alternatives to preconceived histories”
RIP to Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the GIF file format
While GIFs can be overused, this file format whose primary use these days is to send a quick emotional response over social media have probably brought more moments of quick happiness and good cheer than to more people than most inventions coming out of the tech world. If only Wilhite accepted that people were going to use a hard ‘G’ when they pronounced it! The Verge has a good obit on this influential programmer.
“While there have been long-standing debates about the correct pronunciation of the image format, Wilhite was very clear on how he intended for it to be said. In 2013, he told The New York Times, “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Not that I think I’m ever all that great about noticing details in scenes I photograph, but this short video, one of the winners of the 2021 ‘Best Optical Illusions’ of 2021, shows me, in humiliating detail, how much I can easily miss. I do think optical illusions are a valuable adjacent field of study or interest to photographers - a reminder that much of what we see, or think we see, with our own two eyes is constructed after the fact.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Aperture Magazine presented a lot of excellent online programming to accompany their last issue, Latinx.
If you wanted to see some of these talks, but missed the opportunity when they were live, Aperture has now added this programing to their YouTube playlist. Check out great conversations from the links (🔗) below:
“Recently added Aperture Conversations:
Celebrating Thalía Gochez and Las Fotos Project 🔗
The Narrative Arc of Latinx Photography 🔗
Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Sonel Breslav, and Anika Sabin in Conversation 🔗
Genesis Báez, Joiri Minaya, and Steven Molina Contreras in Conversation 🔗
Inside the “Latinx” issue with Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Elizabeth Ferrer 🔗
On Community: Thelma Golden, Dr. Kenneth Montague, Jamel Shabazz, and Xaviera Simmons 🔗
On Power: Mark Sealy, Vanley Burke, Dr. Kenneth Montague, and Richard Mark Rawlins in Conversation 🔗
On Identity: Liz Ikiriko in Conversation with June Clark, Dr. Kenneth Montague, and Bidemi Oloyede 🔗”
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Photo at top of Weekly Roundup: On The Beach, Coney Island © James Prochnik
March 18 - March 25, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
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Great Photography Stories
Proof: On Screen: A Conversation With Matthew Kamholtz
Enjoyed reading friend of NYC Photo Community Reuben Radding’s conversation with Matthew Kamholtz on Lenscratch about Kamholtz’s new photobook ON SCREEN which consists of photographs of television and computer screens during the Summer and Fall of 2020 as Black Lives Matter protests streamed across screens all across the world:
“‘RR’: Were you just shooting the video streams in real time as they unfolded, or were you experimenting with freezing video to find images? Did you go back over things you’d possibly missed as the video played?
MK: When I first started doing it I was shooting TV news right as it happened. Then I realized that there was all this stuff on YouTube. Thousands and thousands of videos that people would post and I could play those on my computer. Sometimes I would play them and shoot directly off the computer. Sometimes I would attach the computer to the TV and watch the video on the TV because the TV is actually lower resolution than the computer screen, so I could see all the little pixels and stuff. And then somewhere along the line, probably about halfway through making the work, I realized that I could stop the video and frame it and take multiple pictures of the scene.”
Blind Magazine and the mystery of Rian Dundon’s lost photo book Changsha
By now we’re familiar with the story of an archive of astonishing photos by an unknown or lesser-known photographer being rediscovered ala Vivian Maier. But this was a new one for me - a photo book published in 2012 with a print run of 1000 that, due to the publisher going out of business, got largely lost for ten years (a few copies had made it out into the world). The books have now been found, and Blind Magazine has the full story here. The photos are excellent.
“Changsha was a sprawling metropolis of concrete and neon laced with an energy that made me dizzy. Here were six million people in a city literally built on top of its own ashes and I loved it. I did my best to absorb everything, every bit of local language or news or culinary offering. And I photographed, always photographed.”
How Designers Think About Photobooks
I’ve been thinking a lot about photobooks recently and so I appreciated this recent Aperture feature on Alex Lin/Studio Lin discussing some of the decisions and thought processes he engages with translating a photographer’s vision into a book.
“We were after a design that felt timeless, so you wouldn’t necessarily know when the book came out. Typography is often the element that dates a book, so we intentionally left that off the cover. Instead, we silkscreened a primary character from the book in fluorescent red for the cover. The exact color came from a parking sign in Manhattan that I walked by every day; it felt like the perfect supercharged red.”
The most recent episode of Sasha Wolf’s ‘PhotoWork’ photography podcast is with MACK Book Designer, Morgan Crowcroft-Brown, and that’s definitely worth a listen as well.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
“How do you tell the story of absence? How do you visualize the space occupied by longing? These were the challenges in creating Sheila & Joe, a film about two people separated by incarceration who met, fell in love and committed their lives to one another through letters.”
The ICP is holding a special screening of the short film “Sheila & Joe,” Sunday March 20 at 3pm followed by a conversation with the filmmakers, director Julie Winokur and cinematographer Ed Kashi, and the subjects of the film, Sheila Rule and Joe Robinson. For more information or to attend the screening: [click here]
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Photo Ethics Centre is asking photographers and photo organizations to publish a statement of ethics.
A lot of ethical conversations in photography are reactive - some ethical transgression or possible ethical transgression has occurred and people react to what happened. A lot of ethical lapses, generally, could be avoided if one was to think about various scenarios in advance and consider the principles one might use to guide one’s ethical decision-making. This pledge, and the examples it has already set, are a good framework for thinking about ethics in your practice.
“What is a Statement of Ethics?
A Statement of Ethics is a declaration of your ethical principles and a description of how you enact those principles in your photography practice. The purpose is to explore what ethics means in your practice for yourself, and then to share your commitment to ethics with others.”
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Grant Opportunity- Creatives Rebuild New York
This new philanthropic program sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation sounds fantastic - Together they’re dedicating 125 million dollars to New York State-based artists and arts organizations. 300 artists will be awarded grants of $65,000/year + benefits to focus on their practice. 2700 artists will be awarded $1,000.00/month for 18 months. And community-based arts organizations will receive grants of $25,000 - $100,000.00 a year to support their collaborations with artists. You can apply now, and applications are due March 25.
More information / Submit Work: [here]
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Photo at top of Weekly Roundup: Taxi and Muscle Car, Chinatown © James Prochnik
March 11 - March 18, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with photography opportunities, and more.
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No sound but the wind.
Loved this Guardian preview of Vanessa Winship’s new photo book, Snow, which explores winter landscapes in rural Ohio and is accompanied by a fictional narrative by writer Jem Poster:
“As I drive out of town the wind is rising, whipping the powdery snow from the roadside shrubs and sending it whirling across the blacktop. I know what I’m looking for but I see the sign a moment too late. The surface is treacherous. I let the car slow to walking pace before I brake.”
Peta Pixel remembers the time Robert Frank got arrested and put in jail during his photo road trip that became The Americans.
Have you ever been arrested or treated with suspicion because of your camera? I was questioned pretty thoroughly a couple of years ago when I got caught in a rainstorm while out photographing in a suburban neighborhood. Frank’s mistake was being a foreigner with a lot of cameras in small-town Arkansas. Peta Pixel tells the story here.
“They said, ‘We got to arrest you,’ and I said, ‘What for?’ and they said, ‘Never mind,’ and kept me in jail for almost three days. I didn’t know anybody; they could have killed me.”
High Five!
Fun Input Magazine story on the origins of the ‘High Five’ photographs that illustrate Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ article:
“One reason I love the Wikipedia article for “high five” is that it’s one of those entries about an utterly basic aspect of everyday life that reads like it was written by a group of aliens observing human beings”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Enjoyed Tim Davis’s Aperture Conversation around his latest photo book, I’m Looking Through You.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Washington Post looks at how newspapers decide how to publish wartime images of violence.
From almost the moment photography was invented people have struggled with the ethical implication and issues that arise when cameras capture images of violence and its consequences. This Washington Post article looks at how these issues are playing out in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Warning: a graphic image accompanies the article)
“The image was so exceptionally graphic that the conversation was elevated to a high level [among editors] fairly quickly,” said Meaghan Looram, the newspaper’s director of photography. “But the sentiment was universal. This was a photograph that the world needed to see to understand what is happening on the ground in Ukraine.”
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Grant Opportunity- Creatives Rebuild New York
This new philanthropic program sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation sounds fantastic - Together they’re dedicating 125 million dollars to New York State-based artists and arts organizations. 300 artists will be awarded grants of $65,000/year + benefits to focus on their practice. 2700 artists will be awarded $1,000.00/month for 18 months. And community-based arts organizations will receive grants of $25,000 - $100,000.00 a year to support their collaborations with artists. You can apply now, and applications are due March 25.
More information / Submit Work: [here]
Palm Prize Submissions Open
“Palm Photo Prize is open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles. Submit your work for a chance to be shortlisted and featured in the exhibition at 10 14 Gallery
Submissions open 15 February – 15 March 2022 | FREE to submit.
Due to high levels of submissions, entrants are limited to two images per person, any submissions over this amount cannot be considered. There are no themes and strong stand-alone images are encouraged.”
More information / Submit Work: [here]
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Photo at top of Weekly Roundup: Willy, Coney Island © James Prochnik
March 04 - March 11, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography, photography opportunities, and more.
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Great Photography Stories
Blind Magazine looks at new Roy DeCarava exhibition at David Zwirner in London.
My motto is that if one is given a chance to spend some time with Roy DeCarava photographs, spend that time! This Blind Magazine article reviews Roy DeCarava: Selected Works at David Zwirner in London through the end of the year and includes a generous sampling of photographs to enjoy from the exhibition.
“I made a choice not to get caught in the meanness; I’m not interested in that. I’m interested in the possibilities,” DeCarava said. “It doesn’t have to be pretty to be true, but if it’s true it’s beautiful.”
The New Yorker contrasts images from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine made by photojournalists with images and videos made by Ukrainian people caught in war but still posting to social media.
The New Yorker magazine has an article called ‘Watching The World’s “First TikTok War” which explores the strange incongruities and images emerging from social media during the current conflict in Ukraine.
“Large numbers of Ukrainian civilians are taking up arms to defend their country against Vladimir Putin’s reckless imperialism; they’re also deploying their mobile cameras to document the invasion in granular detail. The war has become content, flowing across every platform at once.”
As photos and videos purporting to be from Ukraine pour across our feed how do we know what’s real?
Lewis Bush, writing in The Art Newspaper offers seven ways we can spot fake imagery from Ukraine:
“‘There’s a tendency to more readily believe low-quality material. In fact poor-quality content makes it harder to judge what you’re looking at.’”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
T. Hopper, who has a commercial YouTube channel that looks at many sides of photography explores the photography of Patti Smith and the lessons we might learn from her thoughts and work in this short video essay.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Jörg Colberg reflects on what photographers take from humanity versus what they give back.
Jörg Colberg, whose magazine Conscientious Photography often explores ethical issues in photography, reflects on some of the issues raised by photographer Robert Bergman’s book, A Certain Kind of Rapture, which largely consists of close portraits of people on the margins of society or otherwise living a hard life.
“At the same time, every photographer can — and I would argue: should — ask themselves that question before going out into the world to take pictures. You go out to take your pictures — what exactly do you give back?”
OPPORTUNITIES / CALLS FOR ENTRY
Grant Opportunity- Creatives Rebuild New York
This new philanthropic program sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation sounds fantastic - Together they’re dedicating 125 million dollars to New York State-based artists and arts organizations. 300 artists will be awarded grants of $65,000/year + benefits to focus on their practice. 2700 artists will be awarded $1,000.00/month for 18 months. And community-based arts organizations will receive grants of $25,000 - $100,000.00 a year to support their collaborations with artists. You can apply now, and applications are due March 25.
More information / Submit Work: [here]
Palm Prize Submissions Open
“Palm Photo Prize is open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles. Submit your work for a chance to be shortlisted and featured in the exhibition at 10 14 Gallery
Submissions open 15 February – 15 March 2022 | FREE to submit.
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February 25 - March 04, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography.
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Great Photography Stories
The Washington Post features Stella Kalinina’s photographs and reflections on her ancestral home in Izium, Ukraine.
As we process the news about Russia’s attack on Ukraine, I found this photo essay to be a moving and worthwhile look at one corner of this Texas-size country.
“The Ukraine I keep in my heart is much different from the strife and worry we see on the news. Where They Wait for Me, my decade-long photography project, is a meditation on memory, family and my ancestral home in Izium, Ukraine, a small town in eastern Ukraine about an hour’s drive from Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv.”
The Paris Review talks to Alec Soth about his new book 'A Pound Of Pictures' and the accompanying exhibition at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York (closing this Saturday 2/26).
The urge to hold onto ephemeral moments, to preserve a changing world as we once saw it, and the physical presence of the photograph are explored in this conversation with Alec Soth:
“The way I learned to think of the medium of photography was that the whole point of taking a picture was to preserve a moment. So, throwing away a negative? I can’t conceive of it. Even damaged negatives, ones with giant light leaks, I don’t throw away.”
My Modern Met has a feature on Mitch Dobrowner’s extraordinary black and white images of tornados.
With tornado season fast approaching in the midwest, it’s a good time to look at the incredible images that Mitch Dobrowner makes of these destructive, yet sublimely beautiful weather phenomena:
“‘It's such a surreal sight,’ he admits. ‘Their stature and prominence always overwhelm and amaze me. Each one is so different and individual. The biggest challenge is to stay focused, to remain calm and ‘see' as a photographer.’”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Do you appreciate all the great work that Black Women Photographers does to help connect black woman photographers with jobs and opportunities in the photo industry? This video by B&H is a great introduction to the founder of the organization, Polly Irungu, a creative dynamo and excellent photographer in her own right.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
ARTnews looks at a tweet about a planned NFT drop by the Associated Press that went very badly
However you feel about NFTs (and I’ll be having more to say in the coming weeks) this ARTnews report about the NFT drop gone wrong points towards at least some ways in which the new tech is stumbling into old money-driven ethical pitfalls.
“Plans for the sale went viral, with many bashing the news agency for profiting from human misery. AP’s tweet was up for four hours before it was deleted. The sale of the NFT has also been halted.”
PetaPixel has more info on the story here.
OPPORTUNITIES / CALLS FOR ENTRY
Grant Opportunity- Creatives Rebuild New York
This new philanthropic program sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation sounds fantastic - Together they’re dedicating 125 million dollars to New York State-based artists and arts organizations. 300 artists will be awarded grants of $65,000/year + benefits to focus on their practice. 2700 artists will be awarded $1,000.00/month for 18 months. And community-based arts organizations will receive grants of $25,000 - $100,000.00 a year to support their collaborations with artists. You can apply now, and applications are due March 25.
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Palm Prize Submissions Open
“Palm Photo Prize is open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles. Submit your work for a chance to be shortlisted and featured in the exhibition at 10 14 Gallery
Submissions open 15 February – 15 March 2022 | FREE to submit.
Due to high levels of submissions, entrants are limited to two images per person, any submissions over this amount cannot be considered. There are no themes and strong stand-alone images are encouraged.”
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February 18 - February 25, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography.
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Great Photography Stories
Paddy Johnson offers some advice for artists feeling a sense of failure after one too many rejection letters.
If you’re a photographer, one of the ways we are encouraged to get our work ‘out there’ is to apply to open calls and competitions. But if you do so, and believe in your work, the rejection letters that often follow really sting. Paddy Johnson examines the predicament here.
“So, how can you feel more confident and less anxious regardless of circumstance? The answer is twofold. One, find supportive communities where people talk about this stuff so you’re not alone. Two, practice.”
Along these lines, I thought Lauren Roche’s (Issue 62 Featured Photog!) response to a recent rejection letter from the New York Portfolio Review was an absolute model of turning lemons into lemonade in such a beautiful, gracious, generous, & inclusive way. I learned a lot from her response.
i-D Magazine looks at Gregory Bojorquez's new book 'Eastsiders'.
Wasn’t familiar with Bojorquez until I saw this article. His photos of East LA’s Chicano communities in the 1990s are fantastic. This i-D magazine feature on the book offers a nice preview of the work and an interesting introduction to the photographer:
“In the new book, Eastsiders (Little Big Man), Greg goes back to his roots and takes us inside his world, offering a multi-faceted portrait of family and community, love and loss. As a second-generation Angeleno, Greg shares a fascinating history of his family's migration to East LA that underscores the inextricable link between the United States and Mexico. His grandparents arrived in Boyle Heights, a flourishing Chicano enclave, in the early 20th century.”
Elinor Carucci photographed teens whose lives were interrupted by Covid.
I really enjoyed the fantastic photos Elinor Carucci made of young New Yorkers who were struggling with the mental effects of the pandemic. In addition to the New Yorker article, which you can find here, I’m also sharing this because Elinor Carucci has been posting a series of fascinating outtakes and behind-the-scenes perspectives on this sensitive editorial assignment on her Instagram here.:
“Elinor Carucci is a photographer and a mother of seventeen-year-old twins named Eden and Emmanuelle. She recently took photos of her kids and other young New Yorkers between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, most of them in the places where they have spent inordinate amounts of time over the past two years: their bedrooms.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Is it a surprise that Julia Margaret Cameron faced disdain and criticism from 19th century gear bros who couldn’t appreciate what she was doing with her portraiture? Not really, but I still enjoyed this brief (4 minute) overview of Cameron’s work and challenges produced by SF Moma. The questions they were debating remains relevant - should perfect sharpness always be the ideal? How are feelings and ideas imbued into an artistic medium? What should be in focus and who decides that?
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
NPR’s Picture Show on Tiffany J. Sutton, winner of the Black Women Photographers + Nikon $10K grant
Love the winning photos by Tiffany J. Sutton - almost a contemporary psychedelic feel that suggests the opening up of possibilities and transcendence.
“Her abstract portraiture pushes boundaries and challenges the notion of limitation that has been placed on Black women. She says she uses multiple exposures as a way to talk about the complexity of Black women in their minds, spirit and personality.”
OPPORTUNITIES / CALLS FOR ENTRY
Palm Prize Submissions Open
“Palm Photo Prize is open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles. Submit your work for a chance to be shortlisted and featured in the exhibition at 10 14 Gallery
Submissions open 15 February – 15 March 2022 | FREE to submit.
Due to high levels of submissions, entrants are limited to two images per person, any submissions over this amount cannot be considered. There are no themes and strong stand-alone images are encouraged.”
More information / Submit Work: [here]
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February 11 - February 18, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography.
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Great Photography Stories
John Biever is the only photographer who has shot all 55 Super Bowls.
Thanks to his dad Vernon, John Biever got to photograph the first Super Bowl in 1967 when he was only 15 - this Sunday, John will photograph his 56th championship event. The San Diego Union-Tribune tells John’s story.
“This Sunday, John, now 70 and a San Diego resident for the past decade, will be in a familiar spot. He will be photographing the Cincinnati Bengals playing the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl at Sofi Stadium.”
The New Yorker looks at Alec Soths New Book.
Are you tempted to get Alec Soth’s big new photobook, A Pound of Pictures? This feature in The New Yorker is a nice preview of what you can expect if you mash that buy button.
“Photography doesn’t just force me to leave the house, it forces me to leave my head (briefly)”
AnOther Magazine Reviews The New Show at ICP
AnOther Magazine meets with curator David Campany to explore one of the big new exhibits that just opened at the ICP, A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload:
“Is the number of images going to disturb civil society? Can our psychology take it? Is ‘truth’ being lost?”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Pier 24 Photography has a Vimeo playlist of photographer features, lectures, and photobook flip-throughs from many notable names in the photo world such as Zoe Strauss, Jason Fulford, Charlotte Cotton, and more. Check out the full playlist here.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The Power of the Collective
One of the positive developments in building a more diverse photography community is the number of new collectives that are emerging all around the world to bring new voices and perspectives to photography. This week the Guardian features a selection of images from Blak Lens, a group of Aboriginal photographers that just launched this week.
“Formed by Michal Jalaru Torres, Blak Lens aims to provide support for talented photographers across Australia, building a professional and cultural network to amplify each other’s work and to change perceptions.”
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February 4 - February 11, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography.
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Great Photography Stories
The New Yorker Looks At Daniel Arnold’s New Photo Book
Daniel Arnold is probably New York City’s most well-known contemporary working street photographer with more than 330,000 followers on Instagram and regularly published work in places like the New York Times and Vogue. Until recently though, he hadn’t published a collection of his work, but that changed in 2021 with the release of Pickpocket, his first monograph. The New Yorker talks to Daniel Arnold and shares a nice selection of images from the book here.
“Arnold is not a native New Yorker. He moved to New York from Milwaukee, when he was twenty-three years old, and his outsider’s perspective imbues his work with an avid, hypervigilant energy. ‘I have an obsessive relationship with the city,’ Arnold told me.”
Jonathan Blaustein With A Primer On How To Publish a Photo Book
Are you thinking about making a photo book of your work? Jonathan Blaustein from the popular photography blog aPhotoEditor published a post last week that looks at some of the conceptual, financial, and design issues you need to start thinking about.
“So today, I thought it might be a good idea to give you a primer on how the process works, because if I can do it for my clients, I should be able to share some of that info with you, my loyal audience.
The Guardian Looks At A New Gallery Show Featuring Female Street Photography in NYC
The Guardian has a gallery of 16 photos from Howard Greenberg Gallery’s Show on Female Street Photographers, ‘A Female Gaze: Seven Decades of (12) Women Street Photographer:
“Throughout the 20th century street photography proved more welcoming to women than other art forms – and has been was rewarded with an explosion of daring, perceptive and radical projects”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Are you familiar with ‘Reading The Pictures?’ They’re a website with associated social media accounts dedicated to critical analysis of photographs that are making an impact in the news or culture spheres. Along with their written analyses, they also have a video series called Chatting The Pictures which are short, 3-5 discussions of one or two photos. I enjoyed this recent episode that features an incredible photo from inside a Denver, CO medical unit showing a surgical team looking out their window to fires burning in the suburbs outside. Check out the series full video playlist here.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Was British Vogue’s January Issue Celebrating African Models A Real Step Forward?
M Neelika Jayawardane and Rinaldo Walcott ask questions in this Aljazeera opinion piece about what British Vogue’s recent cover story on African models really accomplished in terms of improving non-Eurocentric representation in the iconic fashion magazine.
“In the story, Fetto invites readers to celebrate what she deems a “seismic shift” in the fashion industry. Spring/summer 2022 runways, she explains, have been “awash with dark-skinned models”. “For an industry long criticised for its lack of diversity, as well as for perpetuating beauty standards seen through a Eurocentric lens, this change is momentous,” she writes. The photographs accompanying her story, however, open up questions about what exactly we are being asked to celebrate.”
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January 28 - February 4, 2022
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Lisa Sorgini: Behind Glass
Loved the recent Lenscratch feature on Lisa Sorgini’s “Behind Glass” pandemic project. At it’s root, it’s a pandemic project like many others started in the early months and weeks of the pandemic - A photographer outside a residence in lockdown makes photos of the people on the inside. But this Sorgini’s project adds layers to the idea and is just brilliantly and beautifully executed.
“Born of the pandemic, shooting began for the series as the first stay-at-home orders came into force in Australia. Making portraits of those in her immediate community, It’s a body of work motivated by a need to make visible the unseen role of parenting during such isolation and one that evokes a spectrum of deep tenderness, tedium, quietude, love, frustration, fear, and despair.”
Restraint and Desire in the New Yorker
Photographer Reuben Radding introduced me to Restraint & Desire, a photobook by photographers Ken Graves and Eva Lipman. It’s an absolutely fantastic photo book and exploration of the place most great photographs happen - in the hands and in the eyes. I love these pictures. This week the New Yorker magazine had a great feature on the book that gives you a good taste of the images.
“Touch is Graves and Lipman’s great subject: they are fascinated by the way that its possibility animates even bodies in isolation.”
A Conversation with William Eggleston
The Bitter Southerner Magazine published a 1990s conversation between photographer Maude Schuyler Clay and her cousin, photographer William Eggleston:
“I had seen a bunch of Technicolor movies and I had these dreams about fantastic color schemes that I was working out in my mind. And I just knew it was going to work.”
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Ira Glass explores the story of Vivian Maier in this live performance of This American Life.
EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Stacy Kranitz Challenges The Documentary Tradition.
Stacy Kranitz is a photographer who has spent much of her career photographing Appalachia, trying to find a new approach to document a region of America that has often been stereotyped and caricatured by previous generations of photographers. This article in It’s Nice That explores some of the issues that she wrestles with making her work.
“Appalachia, in particular, has a longstanding history with photography, “specifically photojournalists coming into the region believing that they were doing good by trying to illuminate poverty,” says Stacy. “But they had caused a lot of harm for the people in the region many years later, for decades.”
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January 21 - January 28, 2022
A look at some of the best photography stories of the week along with a great video about photography.
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Never-before-seen Photos Of NYC’s Coney Island In 1940
I loved looking through Untapped New York’s big assortment of photographs of Coney Island that were made in 1940 in preparation for large-scale demolition and renovation work following some major fires in 1939.
“The Demolition Series consists of 223 images that were taken by the NYC Parks Department Photo Unit on January 6 and 7, 1940. According to Rebekah Burgess, Photo Archivist with NYC Parks, the images survey the damage from two consecutive fires in 1939 that damaged or destroyed much of Steeplechase, the surrounding boardwalk, and a number of bathhouses, concessions, and amusements.”
Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps
Dorothea Lange’s photos of WWII concentration camps for Japanese-Americans were hidden away for decades after she documented the forcible relocations and interments. VOX has an interesting article and video about Lange’s photographs and their second life in the 1970s and 80s helping Japanese American survivors fight for reparations for this crime.
“US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months after Japan’s bombing of the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor. It empowered the US army to designate strategic “military areas” from which any and all people deemed a threat could be forcibly removed. This began a process of placing 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.”
Are You Sure You Know What a Photograph Is?
Wired Magazine has a thought provoking feature on the implications of AI, new imaging technologies, and computational image construction for traditional photography:
Like a chef experimenting with different combinations of ingredients to see which version works, the AI develops a picture through experimental trials that extrapolate from different aspects of the existing images. Paglen says that this new development in vision is “more significant than the invention of photography.” While the black hole photograph extended our vision to something that exists but we cannot see, the AI-generated photos expand our vision to possibilities and imagination because it is “photographing” things that do not exist in our physical world.
New Photo Podcast Drop
Large format fine art photographer Greg Miller just launched a new photography podcast called Photo Phonica. Each episode will pair audio with a single photograph. From the introduction:
“Welcome to PhotoPhonica! A podcast that explores the sound behind photographs. I would call myself a people photographer and a visual storyteller. For awhile now, I have been thinking about telling stories in a new way by creating audio around a single photograph. Making pictures is so much about putting a frame around the world and excluding everything else. I believe, this is where photography gets its power. From what’s included within the frame but also whats excluded.”
Listen to the first episode here, and you can also subscribe to the podcast on the usual platforms.
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Unfiltered interview with Shaun Connell
Enjoyed this Unfiltered Photography interview with UK-based documentary photographer Shaun Connell who founded TheBlkGaze, an online space dedicated to the celebration of Black perspectives in photography:
“I grew up in the era of Don McCullin. We’d have the Sunday Times in the house, I’d read the kids’ section, then skim through the magazine and see these horrific pictures of suffering. I distinctly remember the famine in Biafra and looking at those images and thinking, they don’t represent me. They may look like me but they don’t represent me.
“This is as a child – I didn’t have any affinity with photography at that point – but it was just a sense that if I took pictures of me or my experience, you’d see something completely different. That to me was the critical thing.”
Read full interview here. (Shaun’s also a great follow on Twitter, that’s how I came to know him and his work.)
OPPORTUNITIES / CALLS FOR ENTRY
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
It’s not too late to apply for NYFA’s $7,000.00 cash grant to New York artists and photographers. The deadline is Wednesday, January 26 at 5pm EST. For more info and to apply for the grant, click here.
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