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25/02/2016

"Live, love, experience. That’s how Kishor lived. And that’s how Kishor died.”

Raj Lalwani sifts through the tearsheets of history to look back at the work of Kishor Parekh, undoubtedly, the revolutionary of photojournalism in India. News photography in India can be divided i…

08/02/2016

"We were more alive in wartime, working in the border between life and death."

Photos by North Vietnamese photographers show the war like it's never been seen.

25/01/2016

"...these far-reaching corners of the world, and their communities, can share and consume stories using the most raw, universally understood, and now democratic language: photography."

February 13, 2010. Marjah, Afghanistan. A troop-carrying helicopter drops acclaimed American photojournalist David Guttenfelder into the front lines of the then-biggest American air assault in the war...

18/01/2016

"He has exploited, without remorse, the ambiguity and flexibility available in the space of the frame to expose the strangeness of globalisation and the nature of modern wealth. For almost 40 years, Parr has photographed tourism, luxury, junk food and leisure, all with an eye that seems deceptively casual, and yet, is incisive, biting, ironic and comical."

Martin Parr makes many ugly pictures. Not just ugly, grotesque. Not just grotesque, gripping. And not just gripping, poignant. In fact, his photographs are essential — essential commentaries on the...

15/01/2016

"Over the years, Marvin Newman has repeatedly fixated on everything from old women’s calves and men sprawled out on park benches, to sewer covers and mannequin heads sporting hats."

“Sequentially Sought,” an exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, showcases Marvin Newman’s sometimes tongue-in-cheek series from 1950s New York and Chicago.

14/01/2016

Seasonal labor helps sustain a struggling American tradition

Temporary work visas allow thousands of Mexicans to travel to the United States each year to work in carnivals. Carlos Barria of Reuters traveled to fairs in Virginia to photograph such workers.

13/01/2016

"A turkey vulture with an inquisitive eye, a catwalk-ready corella and a screech owl striking a pose … Jeffreys’ book Bird Love showcases her images of birds from Australia to America."

Jeffreys’ book Bird Love showcases her photographs of birds from from Australia to America. Here she describes some of her favourite avian encounters

12/01/2016

"A RUSSIAN TOWN so cold people run their cars 24/7. Carrier hotels in New York where the Internet lives. And a hipster Barbie teaches Instagram a lesson in ."

From the coldest place on earth to the secret home of the Internet, photography took us some weird and wonderful places this year.

11/01/2016

"This memoir too lets people make their own assumptions by lending them several entry and exit points into both Bano and my imagined journeys."

A notebook with an unknown little girl’s sketches took photographer Chandan Gomes on a journey through the hills of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Ladakh. He wished to return with photographs made...

08/01/2016

A wonderful resource for photographers pursuing personal projects

Hello photographer! Here is an amazing list of international photography grants and fellowships aimed at professional photographers and photography students from all around the world. (We also have...

07/01/2016

"“I’m really more concerned about where that camera is focused, what issue it’s pointed at, what’s in the frame, what the content of the image is, than the color tint of the image,” he said."

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Valencia, Hefe, X-Pro II — such obscure names are familiar to the …

06/01/2016

"Hamoon Lake, located in south-eastern Iran close to the Afghanistan border, is just one of many lakes in the country that is vanishing at a rapid rate. In fact, almost no water remains at all. This is the result of a number of both human-induced and environmental factors, but mainly due to poor water management and the fact that Afghanistan refuses to let water from its rivers drain into Hamoon."

Iranian photographer Mahdi Barchain’s latest series, Living with Dry Hope, confronts Iran’s current water crisis by telling the story of the last survivors at Hamoon Lake. These are the fisherman,...

05/01/2016

"By only featuring images by West African photographers, the show exposes how the dominant, European narrative of photography excludes a more diverse understanding of how the medium was initially used and how it developed. The history of West African photo portraiture presented here complicates and enriches an understanding of photography’s social and artistic uses."

Discussions of West African portrait photography tend to gravitate towards the 1960s and 1970s, the era of such well-known artists as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and Samuel Fosso.

04/01/2016

"A revolution in digital imaging research could surpass the camera obscura in almost every technical way: resolution, size and energy efficiency. It’s called computational photography, and it stems from the idea that if you can capture visual data instead of a true image, then the picture can be reconstructed with software."

The optics of the camera obscura ha­ve faithfully served photographers for ages. The recipe has been simple: a lens, aperture, dark box and something to record the light.

01/01/2016

"This marks the final collaboration between Magnum Photos and British arts charity IdeasTap, who officially closed their doors in June due to lack of funding."

The winners of the sixth and final edition of the IdeasTap Photographic Award, in association with Magnum Photos, have been announced. The selected photographers – Yasaman Dehmiyani, Emin Ozmen, Solmaz...

31/12/2015

"The main thing you need is a solid idea and a clear personal vision. Use all the tools and contacts that are available to you - old and new, it doesn't matter. From my experience, people are willing to collaborate from an early stage in a personal project, but you have to have that initial idea and imagery, or work-in-progress. From there, the world's your oyster."

Gemma Padley explores the growing trend of long-term photo assignments.

30/12/2015

An Indian photographer looks at his country’s reliance on coal to fuel both industry and the economy.

29/12/2015

"Finding expression and escape in heavy metal, the female ‘Marok’ are a thriving part of the musical sub-culture."

Finding self-expression and escape in heavy metal, the female ‘Marok’ are a thriving part of the musical sub-culture. Paul Shiakallis spent eight months with them

28/12/2015

“When I saw Frank’s work, it just turned my head around," Basu said. "Photography for me moved from objective to subjective. It became more about how you photograph people, their emotions. How do you connect with people and tell their story? How do you build a narrative that is also political and social?”

The rising young photographer explains what gets her going.

25/12/2015

"What I don’t want is yet another debate whether p**n is good or bad. I don’t want to be the one to say: p**n is great. I just want to say,from what I’ve seen, being on sets of just one director, it is not as bad as everyone says. And when it’s done properly, and the people are professional, it can actually be beautiful."

"P**nstar" is really just a job, anyway.

24/12/2015

“Our media-manipulated need to be part of a movement/feeding-frenzy feeds the hype around everything from big-spectacle films to pop music to whatever is hip in the art world this week. Sometimes real artists benefit from hype and hullabaloo, which is undoubtedly the case with the new Ueda monograph, which has slowly built a groundswell of acclaim. Ueda, who died in 2000, deserves as wide an audience as possible for his surreal, poetic vision.”

The late Shōji Ueda’s poetic eye is celebrated in a stunning new monograph

23/12/2015

"Despite the great innovations in photographic technology there doesn’t seem have been concomitant progress to a better or more perfect art form. In fact, digitization, smart phones,selfies and social media have devalued the photographic image by the great populist tidal wave of pixels flying willy-nilly through the ether— more pictures, less meaning."

Visually stimulating and incredibly powerful, the following are The Daily Beast’s selections for the best photography books of 2015.

22/12/2015

"The story of Tri-X is unique. It goes to the heart of how we see and what we see and what we may be losing as billions of casual, digital snaps are taken daily and as photographic integrity is subverted by the dead, flawless, retouched faces of actors and models that gaze blankly out at us."

Kodak’s Tri-X is the film the great photographers love. Anton Corbijn, Don McCullin and Sebastião Salgado tell Bryan Appleyard why

21/12/2015

"A certain sense of calm overcomes the viewer of Rai's photographs, stemming from his deep personal connection to his art."

An exhibition in Delhi celebrates the master photographer's work.

16/12/2015

“The problem is not how women dress but how women are objectified by a patriarchal and feudalistic mind-set,” she said. “First the father owns them and then a husband owns them. They’re not treated as equals but second-class citizens.”

At night, vivid memories of sexual abuse haunt Smita Sharma’s dreams. During the day, they motivate her to document the stories of r**e victims in India.

15/12/2015

“A photograph doesn't necessarily document the truth, it captures a brief moment in time. What happened in that moment, not to mention before and after it, is always subject to some debate. Nowhere is this more true than in crime scene photography and its role in criminal investigations.”

From Stalin ex*****on mug shots to 19th century crime scene images, photography and criminal investigation have gone hand-in-hand for over a hundred years.

14/12/2015

"Woodman’s slow-burning self-portraits are the precise opposite of a glib selfie. Long exposures obscure her identity, which recedes as the figures migrate from body to blur. These pictures don’t give a damn about getting likes."

Francesca Woodman’s slow-burning self-portraits are the precise opposite of a glib selfie.

21/08/2015

"Research has suggested that the sheer volume and lack of organisation of digital photos for personal memories discourages many people from accessing and reminiscing about them.

"In order to remember, we have to access and interact with the photos, rather than just amass them," said Dr Henkel."

Taking a picture for posterity at a birthday, wedding or concert may harm our ability to remember the event fully, researchers believe in a phenomenon known as 'photo-taking impairment effect'

12/08/2015

"Imagine a world where photography is a slow process that is impossible to master without years of study or apprenticeship. A world without iPhones or Instagram, where one company reigned supreme. Such a world existed in 1973, when Steven Sasson, a young engineer, went to work for Eastman Kodak. Two years later he invented digital photography and made the first digital camera."

In the mid-1970s a young engineer invented the digital photographic process. Some of his bosses were not impressed. His employer? Eastman Kodak.

07/08/2015

"...be a good photographer, with heart and eyes, and the ability to take a lot of frustration and humiliation..."

He started his journey in the world of photography in the early 1970s and was chosen as the Best Young Photographer by the Press Institute of India in 1975. The next year, his photo essay ‘Morphine...

06/08/2015

"Photos and the written statement are equal. You're not going to get through with strong photos and a lousy proposal"

Photographer Sara Terry, founder of the Aftermath Project and a professional grant writer, estimates she has won grants over the last 15 years totaling nearly $1 million. She recently shared some tips...

05/08/2015

"They just say, ‘I’m trying to make the photo better. What does this have to do with ethics?’"

Michael Kamber is a photojournalist who has been working around the world since 1986; he has traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the Sudan, Haiti, Isra

28/07/2015

"Occasionally in life and in my , the stars align and everything comes together in a miraculous way."

In 1984, Steve McCurry was in Pakistan covering a refugee crisis for National Geographic. Captivated by a young girl's eyes, he clicked the shutter — and took one of the magazine's most iconic photos.

24/07/2015

"Animistic belief constitutes the leitmotiv to experience the impact of Nature in the Udege communities"

Emerging Photographer Fund - 2015 Finalist Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2015 FINALIST Alvaro Laiz The Hunt (Amba) PLAY THIS ESSAY It was still a time when...