The New York Times Friday March 25, 2022
Annie Flanders, the founding editor of Details magazine, the chronicle of Downtown Manhattan in the 1980s, died on March 10 at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles, reports The New York Times. She was 82. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Among those who contributed to Details: Bill Cunningham, the iconoclastic fashion photographer. “During his long career — his photos could be found in The Times for more than four decades — it was Ms. Flanders who gave him the most freedom,” notes The Times. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 25, 2022
How could this be happening in 2022? That question was posed by photojournalist Heidi Levine, a 30-year veteran of war zones like Iraq and Syria, in a recent interview with CNN's John King. Levine,
who is now covering the war in Ukraine for The Washington Post, said that she and her fellow photographers in the country are in shock that "what we're seeing is … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday March 24, 2022
Sumy Sadurni, a prolific photojournalist who documented human rights struggles, political resistance and gender issues in East Africa, died on March 7 in Kampala, Uganda, notes The New York Times. She was 32. Her brother, Jorge Sadurni Carrasco, said she died in a car accident. Sadurni was best known for her work in her adopted country, Uganda. Her photographs for Agence France-Presse appeared in some of the world’s leading newspapers, notes The Times. Read the full Story >>
It’s Nice That Thursday March 24, 2022
With a background in environmental biology, photographer Dan Wilton is perfectly equipped to tackle the climate crisis, notes It’s Nice That. His series “The Very Fire They Sit Beside” shows the stark reality of living with fossil fuels. “I was keen from the outset to use a different visual palette to the norm that is used when approaching fossil fuels and the climate crisis,” Wilton says. “I think at this point people have seen so many grey, monotonic, dark brooding images of massive stacks belching smoke that we’ve become numb to them.” Read the full Story >>
