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2015 Magnum Photos Nominee Matt Black famously said, “I try to stay focused on producing something that rings true, that doesn’t pander,” a sentiment that gets to the crux of true photojournalism. In many ways, a documentary photographer becomes the mediator between his or her subject and audience, reconciling whatever tensions and differences there might be between the two without compromising an ounce of integrity.

“I became a photographer because of ‘The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson,’ which was published when I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. I was studying painting. Maybe it was something about the word ‘world,’ as well as the pictures, that seduced me.”

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart," Henri Cartier-Bresson famously proclaimed. Five years after co-founding Magnum Photos, he published what is perhaps the most iconic book in photographic history. With that now familiar cover by contemporary Henri Matisse, The Decisive Moment, as it was called in English, defined the parameters of what it meant to be a photographer in the 20th century. Everything--the head, the eye, the heart, but also the frame, the li...

I MIGHT BE OLD ...but I got to see all the best bands —One of my friend Dans T-shirts I had the best weekend. Yesterday, on fairly short notice, we staged a Zoom reunion of my photography school graduating class—the...

After New York City experienced record rainfall this summer, my basement flooded. Water destroyed boxes of books and manuscripts, sitting several inches deep in a plastic crate full of photographs. I

From the blog of Balwan Nagial at The Times of Israel

Aqualumini When we become instruments of photography and art we feel with the heart and preconceived cultural and social values.” — Luiz Todeschi NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, May 4, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In 2012, Brazilian photographer Luiz Todeschi left behind a career in business administration to dedicate himself full-time to photography. Since that time, his masterful work has garnered him acclaim around the world. His photographs have been exhibited in Brazil, the United States, F...

Stubborn Heart are back. The projects debut album was a real tour de force, winning acclaim from the likes of Gilles Peterson in the process. Street level soul matched to club tropes, they seemed to allow trip hop, neo-soul, and left-field techno (amongst other elements) to intermingle. New album Made Of Static is the long-awaited follow up to their sterling debut, and its the product of almost a decades worth of work. Out on June 4th, Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald tease the release with new...

Pioneering photographer campaigned with his camera Pioneering photographer campaigned with his camera By Robert McFarlane Save Normal text size One of Australia’s pioneering contemporary documentary photographers, Jon Lewis, has died. Lewis died early on Sunday morning in Byron Bay from the progressively debilitating effects of Lewy Body Dementia. For more than four decades, Lewis documented social issues in Australia and the Pacific – from the struggles of Kiribati with global warmin...