Photography Prison

Q. How much does it cost to lock up one person for one year in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:11:54 -0700

Q. How much does it cost to lock up one person for one year in the U.S.? A. $31,238

Saskatoon police mourn homeless man they arrested as many as...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:23 -0700

Saskatoon police mourn homeless man they arrested as many as 1,000 times

Alvin Cote, a homeless alcoholic, died of pneumonia in hospital, in April. Police who arrested him regularly considered him a friend.

He was such a character that a worker at the police detention centre sketched his picture and put it on some T-shirts and gave them to other staff.

One plate, two exposures. Keith Medley’s Archive: Double...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:30 -0700

One plate, two exposures.

Keith Medley’s Archive: Double Take

“Then there’s the question of economics, re-using the same plate instead of doubling the expense may have been a consideration. I particularly like the exceptions, where the sitters change and cousins are photographed together –and when a husband and wife take half a frame each –as if they couldn’t bear to be apart…that stops you dead.”

Fermata (Dive) by Brian Patrick Franklin

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:19:40 -0700

Fermata (Dive) by Brian Patrick Franklin

conscientious: In a time when the limits between the private...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:41:46 -0700

conscientious:

In a time when the limits between the private and the public get more and more blurred, the sixth volume of C Photo, Observed, collects the work of visual artists who investigate aspects of this new world where photographs are everywhere. These artists look into our sharing and snooping and peeking and watching, they sift through the vast visual archives now available freely online. How do we see photographs? What do photographs tell us? Where does the image end and the intrusions into one’s life begin? What has happened to the idea of privacy?

Get your copy here.

theatlantic: Newspaper Front Pages After the Oklahoma...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:15 -0700

theatlantic:

Newspaper Front Pages After the Oklahoma Tornado

[Images: New York Times/The Oklahoman/Tulsa World/New York Post]

Carolyn Drake’s Photographs of Central Asia “Two Rivers,”...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:30:19 -0700

Carolyn Drake’s Photographs of Central Asia

“Two Rivers,” Carolyn Drake’s upcoming book, is a photographic record of the area in Central Asia that follows the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, the region’s major rivers. Elif Batuman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, who wrote the introduction and the captions, explains, “Drake’s Central Asia is a place where political allegiances, ethnic bonds, national borders, and even physical geography are in such flux as to seem, at times, like fictions.”

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:28:25 -0700

2point8photo: A better, more positive, moment at #JHBPride with...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:00:28 -0700

2point8photo:

A better, more positive, moment at #JHBPride with the official SA gay flag. (Taken with Instagram)

joelvanhoudt: Not so recent - October 12, 2011 US Army...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:06 -0700

joelvanhoudt:

Not so recent - October 12, 2011 US Army collecting and processing biometrics on the border with Pakistan ©Joel van Houdt

dvafoto: Short film about Simon Norfolk’s Burke+Norfolk. “But...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:45:35 -0700

dvafoto:

Short film about Simon Norfolk’s Burke+Norfolk.

“But when I watched the short documentary film, I was struck by his words, and his willingness to put his politics where his photographers were. He spoke with surprising honesty not just about what he thought of the work being produced by embedded photographers, but also about the entire war and its objectives. This is very rare to hear when it comes to working photojournalists. Most professionals prefer to hide their personal politics and opinions behind vague statements about ‘bearing witness’ or ‘asking only questions, and not offering answers’ and other such obfuscations that hide their fear of being marginalized in the rather small, cliquish and deeply conservative editorial world that is photojournalism.”

- Asim Rafiqui writes about Norfolk and his project in a post called “Against Whispering” on his blog A Spinning Head.

ramonhaindl: Untitledfrom The Most Common Place

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:11:44 -0700

ramonhaindl:

Untitled
from The Most Common Place

The Stare Show: Emma Bowkett interviews Maja Daniels

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:11 -0700

The Stare Show: Emma Bowkett interviews Maja Daniels:

thestareshow:

Following Maja Daniels’ exhibition on the stairs at Labyrinth Photographic we invited Emma Bowkett, Photo Editor of the Financial Times Weekend Magazine, to interview Maja for The Stare Show.

Emma Bowkett: Let’s begin with Monette and Mady. You talk about seeing them first in the street…

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:07:32 -0700

switcheroo: gene & kathy

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:12:18 -0700

sincerelyhana:

santa maria, ca - july 2012

conveyor blog: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Conveyor Magazine Issue No. 5

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:58:50 -0700

conveyor blog: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Conveyor Magazine Issue No. 5:

conveyorblog:

SPECTRE // SPECTRUM
Conveyor Magazine Issue No. 5

Our sense of wonder and fear is most palpable when our visions are fleeting…

In the forthcoming issue of Conveyor, we will be searching for moments when the properties of a spectre, that which dissolves from our sight, and a…

natnaceveryweek: Rima Massoud picks “snobar” from her garden in...

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:22:52 -0700

natnaceveryweek:

Rima Massoud picks “snobar” from her garden in Rmeily, Lebanon.

On assignment for Brigitte magazine

Week 19 2013

FINDS by @harryphotowatts always perplexed me, but now I see it...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:44:24 -0700

FINDS by @harryphotowatts always perplexed me, but now I see it in print — in frangible newsprint no less — it makes sense. FINDS is images of stuff in its place briefly, and beautifully. Street trash doesn’t stick around like buildings or trees, but if someone with a camera does for long enough then there’s the glimmer of possibility that a fleeting moment of line and form can be recorded. Then shared.

SFO

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:42:51 -0700

SFO

Just spent an incredible 2 hours looking through Douglas Kent...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:49:00 -0700

Just spent an incredible 2 hours looking through Douglas Kent Hall’s archive. He made photos in NM and CA in the early 80s. Douglas made these huge canvases of the work later but never exhibited them.