PhotoEspana Thursday June 16, 2022
Through August 28, PhotoEspaña is celebrating its 25th anniversary with 118 exhibitions in Madrid and participating cities. The centerpiece of this year’s festival is “Sculpting Reality,” a survey of photographers working in a documentary style from the 1930s to the present day. “It is an overview so vast that the exhibition is held in two locations, bookended by the work of Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and recent projects by Bleda y Rosa and Ian Wallace,” notes The Guardian.
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National Press Photographers Association Thursday June 16, 2022
The National Press Photographers Association has sent a letter to the University System of Georgia’s new Chancellor Sonny Perdue in support of the University of Georgia’s journalism faculty, staff, and students who have made clear their desire to de/rename their journalism school. The letter was supported by the National Press Club, National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists and Native American Journalists Association. The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is named after Henry W. Grady, an 1868 UGA graduate and journalist who advocated for white supremacy. Read the full Story >>
i-D Thursday June 16, 2022
We talk about coming-of-age moments, but perhaps we should think of the concept as an ongoing process that can last an entire lifetime, notes iD, which spotlights photographer Chad Moore’s new book Anybody Anyway. Moore’s work “weaves an ode to friendship, kisses, nights out and mornings spent watching sunrises from unfamiliar windows,” writes Marco Frattaruolo. Now in his mid-30s, Moore has spent years capturing a coming-of-age vision that encompasses all-American road trips, rainbow hair and bare skin. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday June 16, 2022
The New York state legislature has passed the Fair Repair Act, the first “right to repair” bill that requires all manufacturers who sell “digital electronic products” to make tools, parts, and instructions for repair available. The bill is designed to protect consumers from “the monopolistic practices of digital electronics manufacturers,” notes PetaPixel. If signed by New York’s governor, the law would require manufacturers to make non-trade secret diagnostic and repair information available for third-party repairers and general consumers. Read the full Story >>
