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Al Jazeera Wednesday July 2, 2025
A Russian court has found a photographer guilty of treason and jailed him for 16 years for allegedly sharing information about Soviet-era underground bunkers with an American journalist. The photographer, Grigory Skvortsov, who was arrested by Russian authorities in 2023, has denied any wrongdoing. In a 2024 interview, Skvortsoy said he had passed on information that was publicly available, notes Reuters. Since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has radically expanded its definition of what constitutes state secrets, adds Al Jazeera.
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PetaPixel Monday August 7, 2017
VAST is a New York City-based collective of “photographers
engineers, artists, & obsessive perfectionists” who produce exceptionally high-resolution fine-art photos made up of a large number of separate images. “We utilize numerous techniques,
including high dynamic range imaging, focus stacking, image blending, and have pioneered some new methods ourselves,” explains Dand Piech, the creator of VAST, in an interview with
PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
The Hollywood Reporter Friday February 8, 2013
In his Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague, David France looks back on the fight against AIDS through vintage footage and interviews, highlighting the activists who made
the public—and the politicians of the time—acknowledge the impact of the disease. France, a journalist living in New York City's East Village when the mysterious epidemic began to
slaughter the gay community in 1981, viewed the devastation close up, and now, as he tells the Hollywood Reporter, when he remembers that era, all he sees are ghosts. Read the full Story >>
BLOUIN ARTINFO Thursday September 13, 2012
Photography dealer Jen Bekman (one of the speakers at this week’s Luminance conference in New York) was way ahead of the
trend in selling art online, notes Artinfo. For instance: The VIP Art Fair announced recently that it was abandoning its twice-a-year fair model and joining fellow e-retailers Paddle8, Art.sy, and
Artspace to sell artwork online full-time. But before all this, there was 20x200, Bekman’s pioneering print project, which is now celebrating its fifth anniversary. “It was totally
bootstrap,” she says. Read the full Story >>
Cowboys & Indians Thursday September 2, 2021
Lois Conner has been photographing the landscape for decades and since 1994 has used the term "landscape as culture" to describe her work in the genre, notes Cowboys & Indians magazine. Some of Conner’s most recent landscapes-as-culture work, which focuses on the Navajo Nation, is on view at Santa Fe’s Aurelia Gallery in the exhibition “All Under Heaven.”These bodies of work were inspired by the stories told by my maternal grandmother, Ruth, who was Cree,” Conner says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday April 25, 2016
After a sabbatical from her studio spent “coming to terms with health issues and getting older,” artist Cindy Sherman, 62, has produced her first new photos in five years. The images,
which go on view on May 5 at Metro Pictures gallery in New York, “confront what aging means to a woman,” notes the New York Times. As in her other work, the new series presents
Sherman in a variety of guises — this time leading ladies of cinema’s Golden Age. “I relate so much to these women,” she says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
All Things D Tuesday November 20, 2012
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says that Amazon will provide real competition for his company … one day in the future. But Amazon will have to spend lots of money before that happens: In an
interview with Dow Jones editors, Reed estimated that Amazon is losing between $500 million and a $1 billion a year as it acquires streaming video content rights. A report from broadband service
company Sandvine pegged Netflix’s share of Internet traffic at 33 percent, with Amazon at 1.8 percent. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Tuesday May 13, 2014
Have you ever thought of turning the camera around on yourself to tell a personal story? That’s what Pulitzer Prize winning author and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas did in his latest film, Documented, in which he outs himself as an undocumented immigrant. As Vargas notes in an interview with NoFilmSchool,
first-personal films can be resonant, poignant stories—when done well. When not done well, they can be self-serving films we love to hate for their “cringe factor.” Says Vargas,
“I was most definitely very scared about doing a personal film, about turning the camera on myself. I just wasn’t sure. There are so many pitfalls when you do that. It can easily be
self-aggrandizing.” Read the full Story >>
iTunes Wednesday April 17, 2013
The latest offering from FotoEvidence, a group that promotes and publishes photography aimed at correcting social injustices, is White
Pride, an astonishing new eBook featuring Anthony S. Karen’s photographs of the Ku Klux Klan and white nationalist groups in the U.S. Karen, a photojournalist whose work focuses on outsider
groups, gained access to Klan gatherings and secret meetings, as well as the homes of its members. The eBook includes a video he shot of a KKK cross-lighting ceremony. Go here for an interview with Karen. Read the full Story >>
MediaStorm Thursday February 20, 2014
This month, British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted the highest-level global summit to date on combating the $19 billion-a-year trade in endangered wildlife. Photojournalist Patrick Brown has been
documenting wildlife trafficking for nearly a decade, and his work is now collected in a new book, Trading to
Extinction (Dewi Lewis). In an interview at the blog of multimedia studio MediaStorm—which created a 2007 film
about Brown—the photographer talks about how he was able to gain access to illegal trade. Read the full Story >>
Film Society of Lincoln Center Thursday August 15, 2013
The Film Society of Lincoln Center recently announced that it would be closing the 2013 New York Film Festival (September 27–October 13) with director Spike Jonze’s Her—a
film, notes the New York Times, about a man who becomes smitten with his
computer’s operating system. “There are so many different aspects to it,” says Jonze in an interview at the film society’s website. There are all these conceptual science
fiction areas to the film. Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.” Read the full Story >>
npr Wednesday February 3, 2016
Late last year the National Parks Service posted a job listing for a full-time photographer — a position similar to one once held by Ansel Adams. The application period is now over, notes PetaPixel, but in a recent interview with NPR the Parks Service’s Rich O’Connor said “a lot” of applications were received for what radio host Kainaz
Amaria called a “dream job.” Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Tuesday January 12, 2016
David Bowie, who died of cancer on Sunday at age 69, was a musician and photographic icon. Feature Shoot looks back at a number of the most famous images of Bowie, shot over the past four-plus decades
by the same photographer, Masayoshi Sukita. Among his many photos was the cover of Bowie's 1977 album "Heroes." See Vice for an interview with Sukita about his unique relationship with Bowie.
“I never thought of David as specifically a friend or subject, he’s always ‘David Bowie,’” Sukita told Time last year. Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Monday December 3, 2012
Peter Mortimer started his company Sender Films as a do-it-yourself rock climbing video production project in 1999. Today
Sender is a leading global adventure film company producing acclaimed feature-length documentaries, television series, and commercials—especially Citibank commercials. Fstoppers features an
interview with Mortimer done by CBS’s Jeff Glor, in which he talks revealingly about the mental attitude needed for his line of work and the crucial importance of … safety, when dangling
from a rock face. Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Wednesday October 9, 2013
What with helping inner-city youth enter the music business, fighting gun violence in an ad campaign, and managing to get a peony named after an African American hero, photographer Carrie Mae Weems
was pretty busy even before she learned recently that she had won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. “It was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard,” Weems tells ArtNews in a
spirited interview. Weem talks about her plans, including a Guggenheim Museum exhibition, perhaps with a comic and house band on hand. Read the full Story >>
BLOUIN ARTINFO Monday December 3, 2012
For photographer Laura Letinsky, every meal has the makings for art: Half-empty glasses, messy tablecloths, breadcrumbs, and dirty dishes are all potential subjects for her fine-art work, which is
now on view at the Denver Art Museum. In a thoughtful interview with Artinfo, Letinsky says her after-meal work reflects her interest “in the photograph as an event always in the past, only as
the past.” Seeing what has been eaten is a way “to think about remains, stains, and what resists, including what resists photography.” Read the full Story >>
Slate Wednesday October 5, 2016
Photographer Roe Ethridge takes artistic and editorial conventions and turns them upside down, declares Slate: His personal pictures — of himself and his family — are marked by the slick
lighting and glossy finish of magazine editorial photography, while his photographs for newspapers and corporate clients are unusually intimate. His wry images are on view in the exhibition “Roe Ethridge: Nearest Neighbor,” Oct. 7 to March 12 at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center.
See also: this interview with Ethridge from Dear Dave magazine. Read the full Story >>
digital spy Monday July 1, 2013
The new editor of the Sun, the British tabloid whose best-known contribution to journalism and English culture are its topless “Page 3 Girls,” says his publication will continue the
feature, notes Digital Spy. In a recent interview, the editor, David Dinsmore, defended Page 3 images, noting that photos from an exhibition of Japanese art at the British museum, recently featured by
The Times of London, were “far more raunchy.” The newspaper has come under pressure from a number of groups to drop the feature. Read the full Story >>
ARTFORUM Tuesday March 1, 2022
“I don’t try to change the world with my photographs. I take photographs of what I like, what I’m attracted to . . . maybe that’s selfish. I don’t intend to do more than photograph what I find compelling.” So says renowned photographer Graciela Iturbide in an interview at Artforum on the occasion of the exhibition “Graciela Itrubide: Helioytropo 37," at at Paris’s Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, through May 29. “I try to never fall into folklore. There’s a real danger in photography that it’s going to ‘other,’” Iturbide says. Read the full Story >>
PDNPULSE Wednesday August 27, 2014
Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra has been awarded the 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship for his project “The Other Side of the Tower,” notes PDN Pulse. The series looks at people living
illegally in the Tower of David, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas. Cegarra will receive £3,500 and equipment from Canon; he is also automatically named to the shortlist of photographers
selected for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass. Time LightBox has a portfolio and interview with Cegarra. Read the full Story >>
