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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
