Quote of the day
Selfie by Lilian Bassman ©Lilian Bassman
“When I photograph I project what I’m not. What I like to be.”
The Complete Works of Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes.
Quote of the day
© Bruno Barbey: Naples, 1964
“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.”
Q&A with MoMA Photography Curator Sarah Meister
Quote of the day
© Laura Gilpin
“The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light, Light is our paint brush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.”
The jury on the six nominees for the World Press Photo of the Year
The 2018 World Press Photo Contest general jury - Magdalena Herrera (chair), Thomas Borberg, Marcelo Brodsky, Jérôme Huffer, Whitney C. Johnson, Bulent Kiliç, and Eman Mohammed - explain the selection of the six nominees for the World Press Photo of the Year. The winner will be announced at the Awards Show in Amsterdam on 12 April 2018.
Quote of the day
© Ernst Haas, Self-Portrait, Nevada 1960
“I am not interested in shooting new things, I am interested to see things new.”
A Celebration of Black Women in Photojournalism
Diversify.Photo and The Photo Brigade present: A Celebration of Black Women in Photojournalism with Michelle Agins and Akili Ramsess moderated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn.
"The Still Present" by Luisa Nolasco
Luisa Nolasco was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is currently doing a MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Westminster, in London.
Having studied Social Communications, she began taking pictures at the age of 16, after buying her first camera. As a documentary photographer, Luisa develops images that speak both to her and to others about what is happening out there in the world. Part of her process before taking pictures is to observe people. Luisa wants to capture simple moments of the day to day life and traditions that sometimes seem to be forgotten or are not paid attention to.
Guest Blog post by Luisa Nolasco:
My interest in photography has always been to talk about time through images. I am concerned to understand what time means.
In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit-making and overrun by the power-hunger of globalization, it seems like time has become something rare. If everything is moving faster and faster how is it possible to slow down? This is why I decided to create a photographic experiment on how to freeze time, or to simply make it repeatedly continuous, rolling still. "The Still Present" is a body of work in which I photographed the tube: always at the same time, on the same seat and at the same station, everyday, for a month. I did this because it takes away the feeling of overflowing information, it creates a common and familiar environment, making both me and the viewer more comfortable.
I picked the tube as my working place for two main reasons:
- Firstly, because it is a fast-paced environment – and my will to go against it.
- Secondly for being a reasonably controlled space to explore, or what Marc Auge calls a “a non-place”:
"A person entering the space of non-place is relieved of his usual determinants. He becomes no more than what he does or experiences in the role of passenger. Perhaps he is still weighed down by the previous days worries, the next day concerns, but he is distanced from them temporarily by the environment of the moment. Subjected to a gentle form of possession, he tastes for a while the passive joys of identity loss. What reigns there is actually, the urgency of the present moment." _Marc Auge
Within the broad subject that time is how many paths can we take? How many projects can unfold from it?
I guess this is up to us; writers, sculptures, photographers, painters...
Website: https://luisanolasco.com
Quote of the day
© Cecil Beaton
“Be daring,
Be different,
Be impractical,
Be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and
imaginative vision
against
the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slave of the ordinary.”
Renée C. Byer on the Art of Photojournalism
All photos copyright of Renee C. Byer and The Sacramento Bee Renée C. Byer is an award-winning American documentary photojournalist best known for her in-depth work focusing on the disadvantaged and those who otherwise would not be heard.
Quote of the day
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try - you simply must do.”
Quote of the day
“ The only way to do great work is to love what you do!”
Celebrating Women Photographers
On International Women’s Day, Photoshelter wanted to recognize women behind the lens — and the women whose stories they tell. These are stories about resilience, about confidence, about leadership, and about strength.
Quote of the day
© Photo by Lee Miller
“It seems to me that women have a bigger chance at success in photography than men… Women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men”
Quote of the day
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
Annie Leibovitz - So, There You Go
Quote of the day
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
Juno Calypso | Winner of BJP International Photography Award 2016
Juno Calypso won the Series Award at the 2016 International Photography Awards for her project Joyce, a collection of performative self-portraits that reflect on “modern rituals of seduction and the laboured construction of femininity.”
“I’ve been busy since winning the IPA. I haven’t had to reach out to anyone. Everything I’m doing now has flown directly from the exposure I got from winning that exhibition.
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