"I want a gun to feel equal." Those are the words of a member the Pink Pistols, an LGBT gun club whose motto is "Pick On Someone Your Own Caliber." It isn't the only such group: Other gun clubs for gay, lesbian and transgender Americans have sprung up in the wake of the aftermath of the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub and other violence … Read the full Story >>
Misinformation is everywhere on the internet. Back in 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected president, a lot of it came from a provincial North Macedonian town named Veles. Home to some 40,000 people, Veles earned a degree of notoriety at the time when tech-savvy local youth in the city created hundreds of clickbait websites posing as American political news portals. More recently photographer … Read the full Story >>
The longest river in the world has a long history. Photographer Chester Higgins sees the Nile as a cord connecting past and present. For the past four decades, Higgins, a staff photographer for the New York Times from 1974 to 2014 and an esteemed figure in the New York photography world, he has been documenting Blue Nile cultures and, noted Nile magazine recently, "seeking … Read the full Story >>
As a poet, Karen Zusman documented Burmese refugees in Malaysia. But, she notes at her website, what has stayed with her "more than narratives of despair" were moments of laughter and solidarity -- moments that were hard to capture in words. "That's when I realized the poetry and depth of photography," she writes. Now she wanders the globe, taking pictures of life on the … Read the full Story >>
I met Mathieu Renard, artist and publisher of LENDROIT Éditions last summer in France, and again this fall at the NYArt Book Fair. Amid the chaos of the NYABF, his cutting-edge limited edition books, prints, and art posters stood out, attracting a steady flow of buyers and browsers during the time I was visiting his booth. I caught up with Mathieu again, last week, for a Q&A about art … Read the full Story >>
The photography business is constantly evolving as companies introduce new ways for photographers to promote themselves and market their work. Today's spotlight focuses on three new enterprises that are redefining how photography works: Australia-based ImageBrief has turned the traditional stock-photo business model on its head and is now expanding to international markets. WIN-Initiative is a collective of emerging photographers in 22 countries. And the … Read the full Story >>
Last week the World Press Photo organization announced the regional winners of its 2025 photojournalism contest, and now controversy shaped by global politics has erupted over several selections. Radio Free Europe reports that Georgian photographers who have covered months of protests in their country's capital, Tbilisi, say they are "deeply disturbed" at the awarding of a World Press Photo prize to a photographer working … Read the full Story >>
As the Fall season approaches, more live art events are opening to the public. Museums are gradually reopening as timed ticked events, and most galleries still require reservations. So this might be good news for art lovers who want to leave their zoom box. Tonight, 25 galleries on the Lower East Side will stay open from 4 to 8 pm. From Foxy productions, … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 14, 7 - 11pm: The Party at Angel Orensanz Foundation The year's most anticipated networking schmooze-fest celebrating the American Photography 40 and American Illustration 43 winners is just 20 days away—get your tickets here Once again AI-AP brings the art, photo and design communities together in a one-of-a-kind, trifecta gathering of photographers / illustrators / and creatives to launch the new AP40 and AI43 … Read the full Story >>
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company is dropping fact-checkers from Instagram, Facebook, and Threads in order to "dramatically reduce the amount of censorship" on the platforms. Instead, of third-party fact checkers, it will rely on a crowd-sourced community notes program similar to the one used by Elon Musk's X. The rest of the media quickly reacted: Poynter explained why crowd-sourced fact … Read the full Story >>
SooJin Buzelli is an art director who has made a huge impact on the world of illustrators and illustration. As the creative director for business magazines PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Investment Officer Europe, she assigns over 350 illustrations a year. SooJin is noted for both her art direction talents and her ability to work with and mentor illustrators; her assignments appear … Read the full Story >>
Last Friday, on my way to an opening in NoHo, I stopped to visit artist/illustrator and frequent DART contributor Fernanda Cohen on the job. She had mentioned a while back that she was doing a mural project for a downtown restaurant and I wanted to se what was up. When I arrived at the dark entrance, her studio assistant, Manolo M., led me to … Read the full Story >>
Giorgio Negro doesn't consider himself a documentary photography. "I photograph what I like without the objective of documenting a specific subject," he told one interviewer. Rather, he calls himself "a sort of random/anarchic photographer." Negro's image of a Peruvian village that was once attacked by Shining Path rebels was named a winner of the Latin American Fotografia 7 competition. The image was made as … Read the full Story >>
Europe's biggest photo fair returns this month. The 22nd edition of Paris Photo gets underway at the Grand Palais on Nov. 8 and runs through Nov. 11, with a special section on erotic photography that, says its curator, will challenge the viewer's gaze on the fetishized body and tackle relations of power, domination, and gender issues. "There are images not everyone would like to … Read the full Story >>
"Working with John, I'm always looking to do the bizarre, something a bit shocking and uncomfortable," says Chicago-based photographer and filmmaker Sandro Miller. The John he speaks of is the actor John Malkovich, a longtime friend and frequent portrait subject, and the motion work they have created together is indeed unsettling--brilliantly so. The latest example is the International Motion Art Awards-winning vignette "Ecstasy," in … Read the full Story >>
In August of 1953, Look magazine sent Tony Vaccaro on assignment to East Hampton to photograph Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner for a feature article. The piece was killed, but Vaccaro filed away the black and white images. Out of sight for six decades, the negatives and contact sheets were recently uncovered during a move. Among the people he captured at work and … Read the full Story >>
When Paul Buckley, Creative Director for Penguin Classics, sent me a copy of his new book, Classic Penguin/Cover to Cover, I jumped at the chance to slack off for a good read. It’s no lie that I’m a big fan of Paul’s work over the years [more]. It’s also true that I ran away from home at age 4.5 years to … Read the full Story >>
Bruno Bressolin is a Parisian artist best known for his distinctively dreamlike paintings, his bold illustrations, his imaginative sculptures made of found objects, and his large scale illustrated books. I was intrigued when he began presenting a series of illustrated ceramic plates on Instagram during the Covid-19 confinement, so in April, I contacted him. The following interview took place by email last week. Peggy Roalf: This 20/20 … Read the full Story >>
Daniel Wolf helped remake the photography world in the 1980s. A celebrated collector and dealer of photography, Wolf played a crucial role in the development of the photography collection at Los Angeles's Getty Museum. Circling the globe to acquire major collections for the institution, including those of collectors like Sam Wagstaff, he helped curator Weston Naef turn the West Coast into a major center … Read the full Story >>
Russian hackers. The NSA. CCTV. Facebook. Are you feeling paranoid today? We are living in an age of unprecedented peeping - everyone, it seems, is being surveilled by someone. In recent years photographers have been reacting to both the actual surveillance and the creepy feeling of being spied on 24/7. Today we reflect on a few memorable projects about surveillance, including a recent photo … Read the full Story >>
