THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Great Photography Stories

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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