photography
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Faces of Addiction
Chris Arnade photographs addicts in the South Bronx and tells their stories. “I am not a journalist, I don’t verify, just listen.” Often devastating, yet still hopeful. Like Clarence, a former truck driver whose addiction brought “job loss, homelessness, health problems. Never…
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On Zoe Strauss and Thinking Big
At The Nation, Barry Schwabsky writes about photographer Zoe Strauss’ “Ten Years” exhibition. Exploring Strauss’ evolving approach to photographic techniques, portraiture and storytelling, Schwabsky argues that her artistic triumphs come from “thinking big”. “Strauss’s work was a runaway from birth,…
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Fire Island Flaneurs
It starts with the watch, always. Boarding the ferry at the Sayville Harbor on Long Island, I remove my watch and zip it within the special pocket of my duffel. Vacation begins the moment we start the short trek over…
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Azu Nwagbogu Interview
Guernica interviews Lagos Photo Festival founder Azu Nwagbogu about the goals of the festival, and the growth of photography as a social tool in Nigeria. “The problem of Africa really is the Afro-pessimism, where we show the hopelessness of the…
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Shutterclank!
Twice a year Shutterclank! magazine hits the presses to support traditional photographers and stir up discussion. Founded by photographers Kate Contakos, Chris Schuster, and Jake Reinhart, the hope is that the magazine will further the community of lens artists, spurring…
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Patti Smith’s Photographs
“Herman Hesse’s typewriter, Bolaño’s chair, Smith’s father’s favourite cup, Virginia Woolf’s cane and bed. It is as if she were furnishing a home with these photographs for the ghosts of her favorite lives.” The recently opened Patti Smith: Camera Solo…
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Stumble Magazine Brings You Weekly Joy
Stumble Magazine’s all about short fiction and photography. Their print publication is published twice a year, which could elicit sad feelings of waiting and prolonged expectancy if the following weren’t true: they’re publishing new content once a week! It’s another…
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Questioning Truth in Photos
Errol Morris, the truth-seeker/director of the documentary The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War is once again having us question the facts. His collection of essays, Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) considers our undiscerning…
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The Poet as Pinup
Wild Women Press just wrapped a photo shoot for a 2012 calendar featuring a new nude poet for every month of the year, with proceeds from sales going to type one diabetes research. To top it off, all of the…
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Floating in Photography
Bomblog interviews Cole Rise, whose landscape photographs are described as both cinematic and surreal. The conversation gets at the artist’s process, the importance and difficulty of subtlety, travel and Mount Tamalpais. Rise also speaks to the floating quality of his…
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NANO Fiction vs. IRS
NANO Fiction, the bi-annual publication of flash-fiction/micro essay/ prose poems, was denied nonprofit 501(c)(3) status because the IRS deemed the journal pornography. Three months prior to their nonprofit application, they published an issue featuring the photography of Traci Matlock and…
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Passport to Trespass
Photographer/rambler Mikael Kennedy shares photos from the seventh volume of his over-a-decade-long project, Passport to Trespass: