Peggy Roalf
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 11, 2013
CorrectionI incorrectly listed Joshua Lutz’s exhibition of photographs
from Amsterdam and Hesitating Beauty, at ClampArt, in this week's DART Board. The exhibition has been
postponed. Apologies, and more when information becomes available Continuing in Brooklyn Through February
23: En Foco | New Works/Crossing Boundaries. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC’s Director of Contemporary Art, the exhibition highlights the
work of seven artists who have received … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday May 1, 2020
Covid-19 is reshaping photography. This week we noted that camera sales in March fell off a cliff: According to one report, cameras are the third fastest declining businesses in the country right
now, with sales dropping 64 percent. Only two categories did worse: "Luggage & Suitcases" and "Briefcases." Meanwhile, Getty Images announced a new Reportage Grant series focused on Covid-19-related
stories. This week we … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday December 28, 2017
It was an assassination, captured in real time: On Dec. 19, 2016, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrey G. Karlov, was shot to death at an Ankara art exhibit by a 22-year-old off-duty police officer.
Covering the exhibition that evening was Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici, who captured dramatic images of the assassin, holding the weapon he'd just used to shoot the envoy and shouting … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday April 29, 2016
The Spring 2016 photo-awards season is drawing to a close, with the recent announcement of the winners of this year's Sony World Photography Awards. The top prize went to Iranian photojournalist
Asghar Khamseh for his series on victims of acid attacks. We also noted that the New York Times's virtual-reality documentary "The Displaced" - about three children uprooted from their homes by war
and … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday March 29, 2016
Because there are so any stories about dog photography, PPD vowed last year to occasionally round them up in order to assess the state of the art. Today we feature nine stories that caught our
attention in recent weeks. The subjects range from a man who is trying to photograph every breed of dog in America to photographer Sophie Gamand's mythic series "Xolotl, The … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 5, 2014
How do you follow your dreams when every day is a race?—a race that goes to the fittest, the fastest and the most media savvy. When I learned that long-time DART subscriber
Persia Tatar von Huddleston had started a candy company financed by her savings and a successful Kickstarter campaign, I emailed her for this Q&A: Q: With art as your
touchstone, you have reached across … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 6, 2020
The judging is over. Today we announce the ten finalists of the American Photography Open 2020 competition. Congratulations to Dikye Ariani; Emily Bailly; Natalie Broders; Zay Yar Lin; Raquel
Natalicchio; Swee Oh; Claudio Piccoli; Azim Khan Ronnie; Julia SH; and F. Dilek Uyar. This year we received thousands of entries from all over the globe from photographers at every level, and once
again we … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday June 28, 2019
Certain photos grab a piece of our collective conscience. On Monday, reporter Julia Le Duc, who works for La Jornada in Matamoros, Mexico, shot what The New Times called a "portrait of desperation"
that soon ricocheted around the internet. The photo, which showed a father and daughter lying face down in the water along the banks of the Rio Grande river, poignantly distilled "the … Read the full Story >>
